Topics: Extension program
Outreach
efforts and successes
In time of
national distress, plant seeds!
Bridging
the gap between Muslims and Christians
The Most
Highs—societal & civilizational guardians
Even-handed
management
Maintain &
sustain society
Foster
changes in societal arenas
Use
political cataclysms for reconstruction opportunities
The importance of
consciousness
Teacher: Rayson
(TR, Daniel)
March 23, 2003
Dirk: Our presence, gathered
by the river today, signifies our willingness to participate in
this river of communication, teaching lessons, experience,
sponsored by our Celestial Administration and facilitated by our
teachers, Michael and Nebadonia and our unseen friends. We
treasure your help and experience and guidance, and especially
the text support. We are entering through our door to
Stillness, closing down our daily lives for this experience in
immersion in the river. We establish the construction of this
merkaba, our heart line, our mind line, and connection. Thank
you Mother/Father and our unseen friends.
Daniel: Let us continue in the
silence for a few minutes to relax and become centered and open
to our Father/Brother’s guidance and presence. (Pause) Please
come to center, bring your attention to the axis of the merkaba.
RAYSON: Good afternoon, this
is Rayson. Welcome to another bright, beautiful, Sunday
afternoon. We have been observing your efforts for outreach
into the Denver area. This effort goes far beyond that, my
friends, as your friends and others hear of this educational
extension at this site. You will know that your successes are
many as you see these new anchors being formed up and down the
Front Range. You are instrumental in the outreach of the
Teaching Mission, and far more than the Teaching Mission —the
Correcting Time. And of course, the larger picture of that is a
way of life that abides by the Father’s will, that strain of
love and cooperation and coordination between each of you so
that there is the harmony and the vibration of light, which is
love, throughout your lives and the lives of others that is
typical of the universe. By your example of living and with
your relationship to your angels and Celestial Teachers, others
who are not members of the TM will know of the beneficial
effects of your association with the Teaching Mission
As you come in contact with
people who are curious about the Teaching Mission, we urge you
to offer the services of experienced TM members to them. We
suggest that you provide a referral to those who are interested
in the work that you are doing, what your group is doing, to
those who could be of assistance. This is very normal in the
larger universe; this occurs all the time in the morontial
realm. The networking on this side is intense, it is immense,
it is complex and it is complete—particularly complete. Though
there is never an obligation, there is always a willingness to
share this information with others, and so you may assume safely
that your TM mortal friends would be willing to be of assistance
to those who are curious, as they are capable of doing. As
known TRs are scarce in this region, those who are available are
willing to participate and share this aspect of the Teaching
Mission with those who have not experienced it. There will
later come those who can teach, those who are capable teachers
of this skill. Not everyone, as you know, is capable of
teaching the TR technique, which this one has himself admitted.
To demonstrate the successes
that you have generated in co-creative manner with us,
think back to six months ago, or even three months ago. There
did not exist dozens of connections that you now have with
individuals and associations up and down the Front Range. This
is very rapid progress, in our estimation, and we hope you
appreciate this degree of success, early on. It is the
springtime, and so you scatter the seeds as metaphor, and some
sprout and some do not.
These times of distress in your
nation and the world, is a time where many people become open to
new ways of thinking, as the alternative older ways are
unproductive and even in some ways, destructively unproductive.
So, be active now, my friends, as there is a time of yearning.
And though it may sound as though this is superficial on their
part, truly it is sincere; they have a concern, and though this
concern may be eroded later by happiness and prosperity and by
good circumstance and peace, now is the time to plant those
seeds, which may lay dormant in the minds of your fellow
brothers and sisters in this geographic area. And too, as this
goes forward through the Internet and those connections, those
who read this will be filled with more hope and encouragement of
the successes of the Correcting Time, through the Teaching
Mission as you have experienced it.
These individuals who are now
beginning to be connected to these efforts are feeding
themselves through these teachings, through lessons from other
groups. And though they may live in isolation where no Urantia
Book or Teaching Mission group exists, they nonetheless are
growing. Fifteen years is but a snap of the fingers, my
friends, as we see it, and in this snap of the fingers, we have
seen great progress on your world. Those individuals who
hunger, who have not been fed, have not had their thirst for
spiritual development quenched, are finding that this is a
source of much open-ended growth and potential, the potential
that they can explore from within themselves and in association
with others. You may see as metaphor, us standing around
patting each other on the back, saying congratulations, and in
many ways, that is true, that is what is occurring. You have
done a good job, and we see the fruits of our labors too. This
is only the beginning, the fifteen years, a snap of the
fingers—imagine the length of time for clapping or snapping your
fingers to a song, whose duration is for decades and for
centuries—you will find at the close of that song, that the
world will not be the same as it is now. So I enjoin you to
continue, I enjoin you to reach out in your associations and in
those who have similar thoughts, those who have similar ideas,
those holistic efforts to unite the spiritual and the emotional
and the psychical and the living practices into one practice of
living where there is a continuum.
I am going to switch subjects
now, if you don’t mind, but before that, if you have questions
concerning this extension program of outreach of the Teaching
Mission, which you are seeing in Denver and in Golden and many
other cities, and the associations that are developing, please
ask them now.
Student: There was recent
comment of the Most Highs having control of the situations of
the world and my question is, if I think of them trying to
change, or deciding to change people or leaders, then that is
probably not a good assumption since it goes against the
Father’s will of us having free will. So how do they change?
Is it a matter of throwing cataclysms in front of some of these
events, physical cataclysms—which I know they can control
through Power Centers—or by some other means? Is this something
that you can clarify a little bit more for me?
Rayson: Yes, I’d be glad to.
This really relates to the topics I will be speaking of next, so
let me hold that aside for a moment. Were there other questions
from the other members? (None)
Student: I have a second
question. It has to do with what solutions are most appropriate
for bridging the gap between the Christian and the Muslim
teachings. Is there any comment that you can make?
Rayson: I would like to
address your second question before the first, as I think that
one will lead to the other more completely and make more sense
in the end. “Is there a way of bridging the gap between the
Christian and Muslim faiths?” And the answer is, yes, there are
several. Let us begin by examining the Koran (or Quran), which
was purportedly written by Mohammed and later amended by his
followers, as were the original Christian documents. Glean from
both documents those passages as closely attributable to the
prophets, Jesus and Mohammed, as possible, dealing with peace
and acceptance of mortal brothers and sisters. You will find
that in almost any politicized religion, as these two, that
there will be internal conflicts in their own content. This is
certainly so of the conflict between the Old Testament and New
Testament, and even within the New Testament itself. The
internal conflicts within a document indicate that the content
is ambiguous, and that it is inconsistent. The truths that both
prophets taught were not conflicting but always urged their
followers to move towards commonality, that which is similar.
The kernels of their truths promote wholeness and integration,
rather than separation —there is no ambiguity. Issues of
separation find their origins in ego and in political positions
of individuals. But statements of unity, of oneness, wholeness,
congruency, and integration are those that speak from the higher
self. You know from your education from the Urantia Book, that
there are no internal inconsistencies in the statements of Jesus
in that book. Were he to be here today, and review all
of his life, and if you were to record this on a holographic
record in full, real detail of the entirety of his life,
you would find no inconsistencies. The great teachers of all
time have always taught with consistency. The followers who
sought to control, divide and conquer, embellished and revised
the origin statements to espouse division, separation, and
dominance. There are many similarities between these two
documents, if you are willing to find them.
Bridging the gap: Whom do you
know in your neighborhood, your associations outside of that,
and to the larger community who are of Muslim descent and
teachings? How have you striven to reach out to them and accept
them? Simple statements of, “I’m glad you are here,” “I would
like to understand your religion better and know your point of
view as individuals,” as they live them, are a personal
way to begin. They sleep at night, awake in the morning, bathe,
shower, eat, go to work, tend children, go to school, the same
as you do, as your children do. This heartfelt connection
between yourself and individuals of other religions is primary
to bridging this gap.
Third, on a theological basis,
you will find much dissimilarity in the theologies of these two
religions; you will see in both a lack of a holistic theology.
Each espouses that they believe in God and Allah, those two
being the same figure —the Creator. This is a point of origin
that is indisputable, and this is a point of much discussion
that can occur between the two religions, and in doing so, each
religion will grow tremendously. Were you able to project
yourselves a thousand years into the future, my dear friend, you
would see that your efforts would not have gone wasted or
ignored, but in fact you would see the amalgamation, the uniting
of the political bodies of religion. Even now this is occurring
particularly in the Christian sects. This will continue.
As you know, there is an
immense acceleration of scientific knowledge within your more
technologically advanced nations. There will come a time before
long, where there will be a renaissance of philosophical
discussion, which will herald the uncovering, the revealing of
the grains of unity that exist in each religion that has a
center of God. Even those religions that do not espouse God,
but which do not deny God, will come to this same central
point—it is indisputable, inarguable, that the Creator is the
point of origin for all that exists after creation. And each
religion must relate itself effectively to that point, as well
as the scientific and theological communities. Both scientific
and philosophical thought will expand and find union by asking
questions relating to that central point.
As far as you being a potent
force for the elimination of disunity and disharmony between
your religion and all of Islam, forget it—do not waste your
time. Apply yourself in loving ways to where you live; do not
generalize your thoughts about the people of Muslim faith, to
those individuals who live next door. Generalizations and
labeling discolor your appreciation of individuals due to bias
of the general group. Doing so is grossly unfair. You
do not accept that for yourself from others. Do not project it
to them. And when I say “you” my dear friend, I do not mean
solely yourself, but all those who read this and hear this.
There is so much libel that goes on between your religions, but
when you come face-to-face with helping your neighbor who is of
the Islamic faith, you would treat them no differently than
neighbors of your own faith. I hope you would treat them the
same as neighbors on the other side of the street, or next-door
who is of Buddhist faith, Taoist, or Christian faith. Whoever
calls in need, respond alike with compassion. You would do no
less than Jesus would do at that time, in that situation. And
even he did not try to bridge the gaps between all of the Roman
Empire and the Jewish faith, but he began where he began, with
individuals, knowing that his participation in their lives was
powerful and effective in the long term. And if he was able to
affect one individual, that was a grand victory! And
look what has happened—the young man who died before his middle
age has affected well over a third of all the population of your
world. Do not diminish or minimize your own abilities to make a
significant affect upon those who you know. You will never
know, during this mortal era, how far your influence goes
forward when you help individuals.
Now your second question, that
of the Most Highs’ influence in your lives and the lives of
others: Never will you see a crushing or powerful influence of
the Most Highs to affect a change in any one individual.
However, the Most Highs definitely are influential in the
circumstances around individuals—where they live, where they
work, those cultures around them that impinge their lives, which
affect their thinking—nowhere will you ever see any direct
influence to usurp individual will. Remember, the Most Highs
have been around a long time; their goals are long term. Their
influence upon your planet will only be slightly less long than
the Midwayers who came here in the beginning and will continue
on throughout the days of Light and Life on this planet. The
work of the Most Highs will be essentially completed, long
before then.
Think of the work of the Most
Highs as similar to making steel: How do you make steel? You
don’t go out to a hole in the ground and pull out rods of steel,
but you take the elements that will eventually be used to make
iron and then forge it into steel. Elemental iron, plus
additives, plus physical exertion upon the structure of the
metal, makes steel—fairly basic elements. And what are the
basic elements of your world? They are the land you live on,
(and yes there may be cataclysms in the land,) and there is air,
and there is fire, and there is society, associations—and even
in associations, it is not individuals who are changed, but the
slight influences around them. It is much like what happened in
your country many decades ago: Individuals crossed this
wilderness and tamed it, putting dams in front of the mighty
rivers, as they did not want the uneven influence of water to
erode their farms, flood their houses, and kill their children
and livestock, but to be used to nurture the land by making its
flow even and steady; and to use the running water to generate
power.
This is a similar influence of
the Most Highs. They are here in very general ways; their
influence is very generalized. We do not have permission to
disclose how they do influence individuals, but it is not
through direct cataclysmic personal tragedy or through
manipulating their mind mechanisms. If you were to use an
electrical grid system and the power control centers and those
individuals who control that power, you can understand the
influence of the Most Highs more completely. Now, you are
thinking to last year or the year before when your power grid
experienced many ups and downs of manipulations, which were
contrived to earn some electrical association’s huge amounts of
extra income, which was secured by unjust, unfair and unethical
means from the common electrical user. This is not how the Most
Highs work!
Even-handed management for the
greatest benefit of all exemplifies the work of the Most Highs.
That is an important, underlying principle for the
administration of the affairs of man on your world—an
even-handed application of influence for the highest and
greatest good of the greatest number of people. The Most
Highs are not interested in lining the pockets of already rich
individuals, but they are most interested in making life more
productive for all individuals. Much like the electrical grid
system, everyone enjoys electrical power, to pump water, to cool
refrigerators, freezers, to mix bread and to power batteries
that operate electric vehicles, and so on. It is even-handed.
It is much like the Most Highs being the Grand Utilities
Commission, governing the water, the electrical, the gas, the
sewer—all those aspects that underlie the maintenance of
society. Yet there is more! Not only do they maintain
and sustain your society, but also they create, and bring
about changes, which necessitate growth, education, ingenuity,
and diversity. Their influence is mighty and powerful, “even,”
and it is long term.
Now let us, in a subtopic,
associate this to the political cataclysms that are occurring in
your world right now. You despair about the difficulties that
are occurring; you despair about the potential ramifications to
your country, its economy, and its associations with its allies,
friends and neighbors in the future, and how this may affect
your life, how it may affect your children’s lives, and your
grandchildren’s, and their great-grandchildren—on for another
150 to 200 years. Your thoughts are not wasted, your concerns
are not wasted, and they are meaningful. You can see the
potential for great political disintegration and disharmony; you
see this as potentially very harmful and it threatens your life
style, your comfort level, and your way of being. And surely it
does; and surely it will. Yet it is much like the rubble that
occurred in the cities after your great wars. This rubble was
used for making new landfills, extensions into harbors and bays
where your cities can grow and extend; literally, [this rubble]
can be used to build new buildings, and so on. When there is
disarray caused by mortal mismanagement, when there is
destruction and disharmony, the Most Highs see this as a high
time of opportunity, a time for reconstruction, a time for
rebuilding, a time for implementing new plans or applying
existing plans of Michael for the Correcting Time on this
planet. Do not be glad to see this happen, however, but
participate in the rebuilding with you mind, heart, and energy.
Yes the merkaba energy, here, can be used to the betterment of
your world in ways that you cannot imagine. This power source
and its energy is multi-dimensional, it can be applied in
unlimited ways by your conscious mind where you can think
of, and in ways that you can hope for.
The Most Highs do not ever wish
for the destruction of any nation or any people or any culture.
They do not need to do this for you humans seem to be
self-destructive enough already! (Snickering from the group.)
Mortals will do this and will provide the new soil for a new
society, for new associations. When societies become “hard
baked,” such as a lake bed that is hard as concrete, there
cannot be much done about it, but when that even surface that
seems so comfortable to travel upon becomes wet, becomes broken
by a plow, then it provides a new environment for new
arrangements, new growths. Old, staid, powerful, crystallized,
politicized relationships, once broken, become new fertile
ground for aiding those who have less, those who are in the
majority, those who literally are the large part of your
populations (over 90%,) for most of you [meaning the 90%] are
powerless, and most of you do not participate in that. And were
it not for the participation of Michael’s Correcting Time, you
could easily return to feudal times once again.
So my friends, the Most Highs
are truly your friends, your societal and civilizational
guardians, the ones who see [you] through your large changes and
those ways that are destructive, and turn them into productive,
peaceful ways. The Most Highs are much like…are similar to your
societies and civilization as your Guardian angels are to your
individual lives. They do not thwart your decisions, do not
thwart your will, and do not try to bridle your ego, but gently
guide you in ways that are helpful and productive. And only
when you have totally dedicated your life to the Father’s way,
and you have actively willed to do the Father’s will
above all else, only then will your Guardian angels tie your
shoestrings together and help you fall, if that is needed, so
that you can rise again. Your societies cannot do that; they do
not have a will; they do not have spiritual sovereignty; they do
not have worth. Believe it or not, your societies do not have
the worth of one individual, because they have no will, they
have no survivability. Their worth lies in their capacity to
produce individuals of soul-growth capacity; therefore they are
worthwhile having and surely they will always be recognized,
encouraged, nurtured, by the Most Highs to grow.
So you see, my friend—all my
friends here—that your consciousness, your thoughts about this
are primary to the healing of your world. That is why, to get
back to the original question, the original statements of
today’s session, of going forward to teach others, to enlighten
them, it is all about consciousness. Even morality and ethics
are of no use without consciousness; didactic obedience to
moralities and standards of ethics, without conscious thought,
do not enhance the survivability of individuals, though it does
train the mind for a more speedy progress through the morontial
world schools. It is only through consciousness, and conscious
decisions, understanding the repercussions of your decisions in
positive and negative ways, and by applying wisdom to take the
right course of action, that you truly contribute to your
world. Now this is the influence of Michael and the Most Highs
in the most intimate and personal way. Do you see this grand
loop? There is a loop here: it affects you and you affect your
society, and vice versa.
This has been, not a
provocative session, but a thought provoking session. If you
think of yourself as alone, and you may feel very much alone,
even though you are supported by your local universe
administration down to your Thought Adjuster and Guardian
Angel. If you remember the lessons of a few weeks ago, you also
have come to understand the intimate, loving, patient,
co-creative participatory action of God, Creator, in your own
personal life, and it is immediate, it is now, it
is for you. We want you to know this, but most of all we
want you to feel this —to feel the Creator’s over-riding
love for you, and the Christ Spirit’s immediate participation in
your life as you make decisions and go about your daily lives.
We hope this gives you hope, a peace of living in a turbulent
world in a conscious awareness that your lives are worthy and
worth while, and that they are for something more than just an
economic factor in your economy. You are the primary ingredient
in the economy of a spiritual universe; you are one in mind with
the Thought Adjuster within you. The potentials of that
combination are far more immense than you can possibly imagine
today. You will not be sacrificed, for the Creator’s experience
of living in you is immensely valuable. You have an immense
contribution to make. When you become conscious of that on a
moment-to-moment basis, every day, you become an
important and powerful factor in the healing of your world and
in the fulfillment of the days of Light and Life of this
universe level of existence.
Blessings to you, my friends.
I embrace you and love you. I feel the warmth of your
companionship with me throughout the week and I enjoy that very
much. Pass it on to those above, and share that with everyone
here. You bring glad tidings to all of our efforts, and we are
very joyous with you. Good day.
Group: Thank you, Rayson. A
thought provoking lesson, yes!
