Topics: Additional image
of the merkaba
Double helix
Significance of the heart and mind lines
Outreach/extension services
Ethics
Purpose of
decision-making
Future
lessons desired
Discerning
communications from your Thought Adjuster
Role of ego
Teacher: Rayson
(TR, Daniel)
April 6, 2003
RAYSON: Good afternoon, this
is Rayson. (Group welcome.) Thank you very much; it is good to
be here. It is good to be welcomed by you and to be in dialog
with you. During the meditation that was given, you connected
to the merkaba, that shaft of energy. And then you connected
through the heart line and the mind line in this group. I wish
to develop that further, so that you see the flow of the merkaba
and the mind lines and the heart lines. You recall that the
merkaba shaft of energy connects universe center to earth
center, and back again. And you recall that the grid of the
merkaba, the shell, the sphere—is like a wire mesh of gold
threads around the equator line, while the lines of longitude
consists of each of your own shafts of energy connecting to top
and bottom. And your heart and mind lines, energy lines, being
that of the lines of parallel. But in more accurate detail the
mind line and heart line revolve counter to each other; one is
clockwise and one is counter-clockwise.
And were you to see these
energies, you would see them going in opposite directions and
they work their way up the sphere of the merkaba globe, and as
they wrap themselves around the merkaba shaft, they become a
double helix of two lines as they travel up the merkaba shaft of
energy, and also through the southern end of the axis in the
other direction. So what you see is a shaft of light, with a
double helix of electric pink and of electric blue/green,
wrapping itself around the shaft of energy as it traverses to
universe center. This completes the visual picture that I hope
you can see in your minds. So the parallel lines are not
actually parallel, but they circle the globe of the merkaba,
spiraling upwards and downward to the northern and southern
axes, and you are the connecting points of those along the way,
around the equator.
And the significance is this,
whereas the merkaba shaft of universe energy connects universe
center, you are connected through the heart energy and the mind
energy of the Son line and the Mother Spirit line. Thus, you
are in full co-creative command of universe energy, and when you
connect to universe mind through the Mother Spirit and through
the heart energy of the Father/Son line, you are in full
contact, and able to qualify the energy that comes to you. Are
you able to see this, or have I made this simple concept too
complex for you? (Student: I can see it.) Perhaps you would
draw this out for the group, after this session, please.
Now let us shift our focus to
another area of discussion. What we have been doing in this
group and the group in Denver, is to walk you through, 1)
through this group, which is older and more established, and is
more developed in its curriculum of topics, as compared to the
Denver group, 2) which is a beginning group, even though there
are members in that group who are well acquainted with Teaching
Mission concepts. Nonetheless, the lessons that are coming
through the Teacher, Bob, are very fundamental and very basic.
We are using these two groups as examples for the development of
outreach or extension efforts of the Teaching Mission into new
regions. One factor, which is not apparent at this time, is that
of the TR training, which is an integral part of this process.
It is not that this group is
perfect, or that the Denver group is a perfect starter group, as
there are deficiencies in both, but they each exemplify the
characteristics we feel are typical of established groups and a
beginning group. As was mentioned many sessions ago, we of the
Teaching Mission have determined it is time in some locales to
develop outreach. Much as a college system may have extension
offices out in the hinterlands, to teach those who are too far
away from campuses, to come to the campus, then the educational
process goes out to the outreaches, and so we are using this
time to develop this.
We do not wish to have
established groups become crystallized and social in nature, but
educational in nature, so that it whets their appetite for
growth of a spiritual nature, the inner development of each
individual who participates. Not all groups are willing to
experiment with this, as it does take a certain amount of
“chutzpah” to step out of your standard roles that are
comfortable. And as new beginning groups of the Teaching
Mission, you have learned your roles and you are comfortable
with them; you feel safe, you are validated, the teachers
validate you, the lessons are validated from other groups across
the world, and so you remain as you are. That is fine, but how
do you reach new people? Answer: is through and outreach
program. And through outreach, you will begin to enter into new
areas, whether it is geographic or through a bookstore in
another locale, where you attract individuals who perhaps know
nothing of the Urantia Book, or the Teaching Mission, but
who have a yearning curiosity to be assured that “someone” is in
charge of the universe, that this world is guided, that there is
a plan for its development and for its healing—and there is. So
hone your marketing, outreach services and products to that
vision. There are individuals who have hope—perhaps they have
no faith yet—but they have hope that the world is being
guided from the outside, from the Creator, from a higher Source,
with a positive, constructive inclination towards this world,
and towards its individuals.
And so you will step out in
faith and go into new areas and not proselytize, but you will
advertise. Let each individual come to this as they wish, and
yes, there will be a sorting and sifting of individuals, who
will determine that they wish to be a part of it, and those who
opt out, who wish not to be a part of it. You need not feel
embarrassed by presenting these wonderful truths to people who
are ignorant of the knowledges that you have. Whereas they may
ask very fundamental questions that you may feel some
embarrassment about, but you need not feel that way, as you are
emissaries of Christ Michael, through his program of the
Correcting Time and in the Teaching Mission. You are our
emissaries; we cannot reach everyone in your world, through mind
contact, as we have with some of you, but you must aid us in
helping them become aware that there is this influence, that
they can meditate, go to the silence and tune in to higher
guidance. Yes, you also must teach the aspects of discernment,
for many of your kind believe that there are wild hoards of
negative and evil influences in your world. Surely they are
abundant in human form—that is for sure—and there are enough
influences through your degenerative media to indicate that
there is no need for spiritual evil influences.
Thus, we have sought to
exercise this outreach, and the one that has begun is in Denver,
from this group. We are pleased with your courage to foster
this, to
support it, to engage this. We
have yet to receive new individuals who are “green,” and “wet
behind the ears,” so to speak, who are unaware of the Teaching
Mission or the Correcting Time in that Denver group. However,
we know that they will be forthcoming when these tools are
honed, to attract them. And then we wish you to share that with
other groups in other parts of this nation and elsewhere.
I feel that there has been some
business unattended to, for some time. Do you wish to engage
these now through questions? (Pause) You are peaceful today!
Student: I am not sure what
you meant by that question.
Rayson: Were their issues from
past lessons that were incomplete, which you would like to
finish at this time?
Student: At one time, I
proposed researching eventually toward writing about ethics, and
have failed to find my motivation, so far. Perhaps under the
influence of chemotherapy, I faltered. I was wondering if you
had anything about ethics at this particular time, or is that in
line with what we are doing today?
Rayson: Yes, to both
questions. The ethics of the Teaching Mission and your new
found outreach extensions is fundamentally that this does not
violate anyone’s current religious practices, it does not
proselytize, but is in many ways informational and also
motivational. Informational for you, the larger audience, to
become aware of a larger universe that you are a part of;
motivational, that there is meaning in your life, and there is
meaning in the afterlife, that there is a purpose to your life,
and a plan, as there is to this world. The ethics are that this
has no organizational motivation, no organizational interest,
other than the necessity to afford the members to continue, to
assist others as they assist themselves through this program.
The ethics are not through politicizing issues, but of gaining
the interest of each individual in the larger universe, so that
through this new way of living and learning and thinking about
the universe, it affects their lives, your lives and how you
live them, day-to-day, from one decision to the next. This is
not solely a philosophical expansion of issues, but the
philosophical-spiritual expansion of living in a larger
universe. You call this spiritual, because your ethics, your
way of living, separates you from the larger universe and this
is a part of your material existence, separation. And yes, you
are “too dangerous” as you are to live with the flexibility, the
control and manipulation of power that you could have, that you
will have as morontial and as spiritual beings. You do
not have the ethical standards of conduct, of thinking, speaking
and “doing” yet, to manage your affairs in the larger universe;
therefore, you are captives of a material world.
The ethics of your lives
dictates your ability to survive in the afterlife. It is
determined by your expression of ethics, your decisions,
decisions that take in larger parameters of the universe. Not
just yourself, or your family or your community, but your whole
world and your participation in the universe, as you will exist
in the morontial state. I know this is difficult for you to
appreciate; one’s life is challenged by earning a living,
providing for children at home, and thinking about, perhaps,
assisting them in going to college, to assist them in purchasing
their first home. You have many obligations that grab your
attention and keep you from the thoughtful attention as required
of each decision. The ethics of this program are meant to
assist you, to be mindful of this, to live consciously in
self-awareness from moment-to-moment. This is no easy chore for
you, we know.
Even when you are fully
conscious of yourselves as citizens of the universe, responsible
participants in a larger universe than what this world presents,
we know that even with this mindfulness, your attention span is
very short, as there are so many needs that call to you from
moment-to-moment. It is hard to even remember sometimes when
you put that figurative string that is tied in a bow, around
your finger to remind yourself, to remember to be conscious, in
the moment. Sometimes I know that you look at this metaphorical
bow on your finger and say, “What is that for? I forgot.” Life
is so distracting to you.
And so the attention that you
give to this program and to these lessons, are all ethical in
nature, and the ethics are intended to help you grow, to help
you pay attention to these issues, to choose in each moment, the
higher way. And sometimes it is the more difficult way, is it
not? But in the end, it all flows together, whether it is on
this world of materiality, or whether it is in the morontial —
they are all connected —there is no separation. So your
question concerning ethics is at the heart of all of this. It
is a matter of attention to detail of living, giving attention
to the minute aspects, which weave a wonderfully rich tapestry
of living that gives your soul texture and richness and depth,
which you would not have if you were not mindful of it. As we
stated last time, an ethical and moral way of living without
conscious knowledge and awareness of outcomes for higher
decisions and higher outcomes is fine, but the rewards are far
fewer. They may contribute to your morontial development, but
they will not reap you the soul-growth rewards that you seek
through these decisions.
We could go into the minutia of
self-interests of ethical living and moral living, but truly,
this is the interest of your Divine Fragment, your Thought
Adjuster within you. There is a higher interest, and yes, it is
Self-interest with a capital S, the interest of soul
survivorship. This is the beginning; these ethical standards of
conscious decision-making are the points of early engagement
with your Divine Fragment. Through your cooperation in making
conscious decisions of a higher nature, you pave the way for
Thought Adjuster fusion with you. I know many of you have read
the Urantia Book and you have reveled in the aspect and
the thought that someday, sometime, “somewhen,” of being fused
with your Thought Adjuster that all the doubts of future
eternity would be removed by your survival, yet it is in this
moment, each moment that you live, today and every day of
your mortal life, and in your morontial life, that will affect
that fusion.
So your question is rich in
many ways. The answers are many for you. Thoughtful living;
this is all that is required, all that is desired; the outcomes
from that lead in many directions that are rich, wonderful,
filled with joy and fulfillment. This is how individuals in
other nations, who have less material comforts than you, can
live joyously, with so much less, for they know that they live
in the moment and this moment affects all of the rest of the
infinite ends of their lives. Yes, you see one aspect of that
is great joy, as you see humble, impoverished individuals doing
menial work, living happily—perhaps not comfortably or
easily—but contentedly as they are. And then you see the same
kind of dedication in the furor of political martyrs. The
intentions are very similar; the outcomes are far different due
to the decisions made as they affect others. Making decisions
in your lives affects yourself and it affects others. Are you
at peace with this? [No response, as everyone is deep in
thought.]
Student: Rayson, when you talk
about the necessity of making decisions, decisions and more
decisions, you are not talking about the minor things of life,
are you—just the ones that have more meaning and value and
spiritual content?
Rayson: No, I am speaking of
all of them, and it is the level of awareness involved in each
minute decision that affects how you live, for if you make
decisions—some times without this awareness or consciousness—it
becomes difficult to make decisions in important areas with
consciousness. We hope you maintain an aura of consciousness at
all times, and then your decisions, no matter how minute, will
then fall into alignment and be consistent with those intentions
of your consciousness. It is not the other before the first,
but consciousness first, consciousness of an infinite
relationship with all that exists around you, and all that
exists in the infinity of time. You need not have that awesome
projection in front of your face all the time, just the
conscious awareness that you are living moment-by-moment in
intimate relationship with the Creator. I am not talking about
choosing between the 85 cent can of tomato soup or the 95 cent
can of tomato soup, but perhaps you may wonder where this came
from, how it was produced; were the shoes that you wear, were
they produced in a sweatshop in a foreign country? Yes, even
these minor decisions are meaningful. This is how you begin to
transform your world. Yes, economic boycott may seem
antiquarian, but making higher-minded choices about being a
responsible participant economically, financially, with your
partners unseen, other mortals across the world, is a meaningful
place to start. You are all connected; you would want to have
the same respect for them, as you buy their products, as you
would expect of them. (Thank you.) You are welcome.
Student: Years ago there was a
saying, “Be Here Now,” which this reminds me so deeply of.
Rayson: We have come to a
middle space in this group, and we would like you to speak among
yourselves after our session today, about what you would like to
know more about in your relationship with Christ Michael and
Nebadonia, the Teaching Mission, the Correcting Time, the
teachers and this Teaching Mission outreach group. You will
have no limits to what you may discuss with us. This is a
co-creative process, and eventually, as you work with
professors, you are as determinative of your class schedule and
the classes you take as the professors who teach you. You begin
to determine what you want to learn and how you move ahead. You
are responsible enough to make decisions about whether we talk
about curiosity subjects, or whether we do more meaningful
discussions that we have striven to seed you with already. It
is not that you are in post-doctoral studies, but that you are
in graduate studies; you have moved on, you are now becoming
more responsible for what you are taught. You become
responsible for what is taught to you; you have this flexibility
here during this experimental time of the Teaching Mission as it
grows and evolves.
We, too, seek to fulfill your
spiritual educational needs. Yes, we have many ideas about what
you perhaps should learn, what you must learn,
what you need to learn to progress, but there are times
for academic recess, so to speak, where there is a freedom to
choose classes, to experiment, to cast about into new areas, to
fill yourselves with new wonder about an enlarging universe that
you are beginning to perceive. We hope you think about this,
contemplate it, sit in reverie, speak with your Thought
Adjusters, be in dialog, even if you cannot hear your Thought
Adjuster; seek out guidance from this Master Source of wisdom,
who holds the template for the development of your life. You
can co-creatively engage that and speak for yourselves, with
that cooperative effort. [NOTE: during the editing/correction
process Rayson advised that this question was not raised solely
for the attendant mortals, but for anyone in the readership of
these transcripts, whether in the immediate future or in the
developing future.]
Student: That brings a
question to mind, that in the Urantia Book we are
cautioned that it is better to assume that some thoughts have
welled up from our unconscious, rather than attributing too much
to communication with our Thought Adjuster, I guess so that we
are not likely to get fanatical or go into something that is
more extreme, but yet it feels to me like it is very
worthwhile…I’m having a stronger and stronger intention to want
to communicate more directly with my Thought Adjuster, and I
would like not to feel inhibited too much by that caution.
Rayson: this is an excellent
topic to engage at this time. Thank you for raising this
question. We would assist you this way, and you are wise enough
to have gotten the sagacity from others around you who have
taken these “spiritual spasms,” as we might call them, where
they engage their ego in spiritual inclinations simultaneously,
and attribute it to spirit. We know that you have the capacity
to discern that, that leads you away from the Source and that
which leads you to the Source.
If you examine the development
of religious history, especially the beginnings of religions
beginning in the Seventeenth Century and moving forward, you
will see the rise of many individuals who had these epiphanies,
these God contacts, and they did not know what that was. They
did not know how to discern what was of themselves and what was
of their Thought Adjusters. They did not really know the
Thought Adjuster as the Divine influence within themselves; they
knew that there was something in themselves other than
themselves, but they were unable to discern this. And, so, you
have numerous individuals who were prophets in this new era, who
have said, “God spoke to me. Follow me, let us go in this
direction.” [Ed. ref.: Mary Baker Eddy, Joseph Smith, Charles
Fillmore, and others.]
I would be remiss if I told you
to not examine those inclinations in yourselves, but I would be
even more remiss if I did not encourage you to engage in
communication with your Thought Adjuster. And after these
attempts, you must discern the intent of those contacts, the
meaning of them, and the possible source of them. We are
encouraging you to not withdraw from these contacts, but to
engage them! We know that you will not drive down the highway,
screaming out the window, “I am God! Follow me! I know the
Truth,” but that you will thoughtfully sit in reverie, in awe of
this contact, and that rather than it stopping you from moving
ahead, you will discern about this and strive again to contact
your Thought Adjuster. We encourage you to; and if you are in
doubt about that contact, about what you hear, the guidance you
receive, we encourage you to discuss it with those around you,
your fellow brothers and sisters of this belief, to examine that
contact and its meaning.
We are encouraging you to
engage in the transmission/receiving, the TR process. There is
an infinite well of wisdom that is within you, and when it
becomes conscious, it becomes extremely powerful to motivate you
in your everyday life in your consciousness, that
moment-to-moment living with the Divine. You are a
well-balanced student, and you will examine this. Do not
withdraw from this, but engage it. Not zealously, but
cautiously, earnestly, sincerely, knowing that you are on
threshold of opening the door of awareness between yourself and
the Eternal. We know that you will not be frivolous,
superficial, or flippant about this. When this occurs—and it
already has occurred—we know that you will appreciate this and
be endeared to it. (Thank you, very much!) You are welcome.
Rayson: Let me continue a bit;
the cautionary note in those pages of the Urantia Book
were necessary to thwart those individuals who would aggrandize
their significance among their peers, due to this contact. You
see, these contacts are only an initial part, an initial
beginning; they are spectacular sometimes, splendiferous, and
exciting. What you once were excited with at the Calliope
Carrousel in the carnival became much more comfortable to be
around when you grew older and were much more familiar with it.
This too, develops in a similar manner; your familiarization of
contact with the Divine becomes more comfortable with each new
contact. Thank you for your question. (Thank you for your
answer.)
Student: I have another
question. We are active within a group, within an organization
of spiritual seekers and it is such a strong temptation to want
to share more of the Urantia Teachings with them, and I wonder
if you can provide us with some suggestions or guidelines as to
when or how it is appropriate to introduce some new ideas?
Rayson: Yes, I would be glad
to. As you know, we do not proselytize; we do not go out and
knock on peoples’ doors to sell the book, or even to present it,
but to present its wisdoms in passing. You may wish to record
the issues that come up in your discussions in that group, and
upon returning to the group, having referenced these issues in
the Urantia Book, bring a larger wisdom to the group next
time. I know you have the technology to research this knowledge
on the spot, through a laptop computer and a CD, with the book
recorded on the compact disc, but that might be an affront to
your group. But that is in essence the process —to give them a
larger perspective of the issues they are engaging from a larger
source, a larger body of wisdom that has greater insights.
Their curiosity about how you became so wise and how you
acquired these larger perspectives is a curiosity that will feed
their growth and help them ask questions about where you
received that material. Then, you could present the source to
them. If you, first, boldly present the book to these people
and say it is the source of all wise information, they may be
skeptical and turn away from it. But hearing the wisdom, that
comes out of it through you about issues that are of concern to
them, would engage their curiosity in a much more immediate
way. Does that help? (Yes, it does. Thank you.) You are
welcome.
[Daniel: Looks like he’s about
ready to roll up the scroll.]
Rayson: Any last questions:
Student: I have one that I
will try to get out here real quick. As we become closer to
becoming cosmic citizens, and we understand some of the finer
details of our existence, we come across our relationship to our
ego and we struggle with the question, “Who are we?” and when we
do come up with the answers that we believe are true, how is it
and what is a reasonable goal that we can attain and the steps
to get there, to understanding what our ego’s role is, its
true role, as sons of god?
Rayson: And is your question
based on the last clause of your sentence?
Student: The question is based
on my own understanding and discovery of what the ego is, but I
am more curious about what is the role of the ego in a truly
enlightened son of god? So that we can understand when we’ve
got that “down,” in other words, when we’ve mastered this ego?
Rayson: And I will ask you a
question in return. (Okay.) What is at issue for you?
Student: At issue is as it
concerns the TRing process. Daniel mentioned that he has to set
the ego aside, and I am very curious as to how that relates to
that process, but not only that process, but actually “doing the
work” of God, of Jesus, and following in his footsteps to
minister to the passers-by when things are presented to us—I
should say, “opportunities” for us to share our knowledge with
others. I’ve noticed that this is something of a challenge.
Rayson: And a perennial
issue! I will put this very simply to you, that when you have a
perceived value [for yourself] of being less than or more than
others, concerning any issue involving your relationship with
others, then you are in a state of ego. When you value yourself
more than others, or think that an activity will give you
greater value than others, or more meaning, or more preciousness
in the eyes of God, then you are in a state of ego. And if you
perceive yourself as less than others, for what you do or do not
do, then you are in a state of ego. That is why the humble
state, which is non-egoistic, as we examine it here today, is a
state that will always serve you well.
When one is TRing, and does it
for self-embellishment in the eyes of their peers, or others who
read transcripts across the world, then they are in a state of
ego and do not serve this function well at all. If, on the other
hand, they are a TR, and their social friends do know about the
Teaching Mission, but would look down upon them for doing this
so they hide their involvement, then this too is a state of ego
and does not serve them well, for they cannot come into their
true empowerment through this diminished ego state.
Neither embellishing or minimizing their value in the
face and eyes of others serves them well, but the humble
state-of-presence, as an equal to others, being of no
greater or no lesser value than others, is the state that will
serve you best.
When you present your teachings
to others, if you do it out of superiority or you present it out
of inferiority, you do not serve your cause well at all. That
is why we do not encourage proselyting the teachings, but to
share them openly with others, making them available to others
as they wish to take them in or reject them. Simply by
presenting your position and proselyting puts you in a position
of superiority —you have the truth and they do not. This does
not serve you well, or the cause of the Teaching Mission or the
Correcting time; it does not serve Michael’s interests of all
his people well at all. Does that help?
Student: It helps, but I need
a little more refinement. To add to that, is there any way you
can do without the ego? That’s more of what my question was
geared toward, now that I have had time to examine it.
Rayson: Oh certainly not! You
cannot do without the ego—it is instrumental in your growth.
You must determine who is in charge of your life. If you have
this wild ego, out of balance, extremely inferior or extremely
superior to others, then you learn nothing. But when you become
aware of the necessity of humility, then you become aware of
struggling to grow in right ways, rather than embellishing your
life, or minimizing it, or depreciating it. It is in you as an
instrument of growth; it is yours to hone and to control, just
as your will is a commander in the pilot of your mind. You are
also aware —must be aware —of your decisions to embellish your
life, yourself, your identity, or to minimize it. Your choices,
your decisions about your presentation, of how you present
yourself to others in the issues that you present, determine
your position of your ego. The ego is not a flaw of your being.
The ego is a very necessary instrument of your spiritual
growth; it is the unruly child that must be…not reined in…or
chastised or broken…but taught, guided, appreciated, raised and
educated in a civilized manner. Doing that, you will become
balanced between your intellectual and spiritual natures. Does
that help? (That’s it!)
Student: I am so glad you
asked that question! I am thinking where I tend to err is in
the area of self-righteousness. I have had a sneaking suspicion
all my life that I get into that trap—probably where my ego goes
awry. (Group snickering as that comment hits close to home.)
Rayson: No comment! (Belly
laughs take over.)
Blessings to you my friends;
enjoy this day and think about your topics, your curriculum for
the future. Good day. (Group thanks Rayson for the lesson.)
