[Rayson082904UnityPeace&Harmony]
Northern Colorado TeaM Group,
#54
Loveland, Colorado
Teacher: Rayson (TR,
Daniel)
Topics: Boise Conference
comments
Unity, peace,
harmony & openness
Attuning to the
higher good
Potential for
healing the world
Fundamental rule
of inclusion
Being an integral
part of the universe
Accepting
responsibility
The “next new
thing”
Being patient for
seeds to grow
Another day in
paradise
Living with
stability
Building a future
pattern with intent
Mortal interest in
phenomena
Q & A Intentional
communities
Outsourcing &
NAFTA
Monjoronson’s
headquarters
August 29, 2004
RAYSON: Good afternoon, this
is Rayson. It is good to be here with you. As you are aware,
we have been traveling about, in many places on your earth, not
only the conference in Boise, but many other places around the
world. These are times of great changes for you. We wish to
take note and comment upon the conference. The theme was
“Unity,” a variation of unity, and you saw the political
positions within this small community of the Teaching Mission,
Foundation, Fellowship, and other related organizations were
there at one time —a situation that was not heard of before.
How did this occur? And why did it occur? Your politicized
groups have discerned quickly, as compared to other religions,
that you have so much more in common than you have in
differences. There is more to be gained by oneness of effort,
than there is by division, contest, and competition. And so,
this unity was truly a co-creative development that occurred for
you, and for us.
Changes as this can and will
occur when individuals attune themselves to the higher good of
Michael’s work. When you forget yourself, forget your
selfishness, forget your positions and find your common
interests, you will find that Michael and Nebadonia’s interests
are there in the forefront for each of you and all of you. You
should be pleasantly surprised and pleased with yourself that
this has occurred, after only 20 or so years of division. This
is really quite a short period of time, whereas it has been
centuries for some religions that are separate sects of the same
belief system, and millennia for larger factions in religion.
Twenty years or so is a brief period of time, a “sneeze” to be
excused, where you pat each other on the back and begin again.
The “how” is that you are open
to a larger perspective. The “how” is that you were receptive
to higher guidance. The “how” was fulfilled by your willingness
to incorporate the teachings of Michael and of Jesus’ life into
your operational lives, into your organizations. “Why” it
occurred is another facet that you also, perhaps, are aware of
—the circuits have been opened to this planet, the quarantine
has been lifted, circuits have been reinstituted, augmented,
developed, and are even now continuing to be more fully
developed. And further, there is within each of you an openness
to receive that which you have asked for, to become one with the
mind of Christ, one with the mind of Michael, one in the spirit
of Nebadonia. You are open to peace, rather than competition.
And so you have received the vibrations of peace, and all that
which goes along with peace.
The co-creative part was your
decision, selection of a choice, making a decision and then
taking action. Other organizations, individuals, may not have
attended, had they chosen otherwise, but they chose and they
took action, and they followed through with that action. The
options, the energy was made available initially through the
increased vibration of your planet. We have been teaching you
about energy and vibrations for many weeks —even months, some
for years —and this is a real manifestation, a demonstration, a
workable solution that you can see and have experienced. It is
real.
Now, if you think this is an
exception, then you have limited the vibration of peace,
harmony, and unity. But if you think this is a beginning, a bud
that has opened, the leaves are forthcoming, and the flowers
will appear, then you realize this is just the first of many
wonderful developments that will occur in your world. It is not
that it takes more energy to effect larger numbers of people, or
larger organizations—certainly not—it only requires a
willingness for larger numbers of people in larger organizations
to be opened, to be receptive to the possibility for the
potential of good, for unity, for union—not uniformity, not
mediocrity—but for unity with others with similar perspectives,
similar interests.
It requires a humility that
augments this potential that does not say, “Me! This is mine.
This is my turf. I will control this,” but humility to say,
“This is yours too. There is room for you and for us, and for
all others who wish to join in the central position.” And when
you find that, you find that this position is neutral. It is
not energized by selfishness. It is not a scenario or a venue
for manipulation, but simply a place, a platform, another
horizon—the now of the platform to express, to deal with
and work with other individuals, to be at peace with them, and
to visualize your self working peacefully with them, and they
with you. You are visualizing a peaceful future. To visualize
in the mind is an extremely powerful operation. You are in
effect setting up the best that the universe has to offer to
you. When you align your self, your individuality with the
larger whole for the benefit of everyone, you have begun to
become part of the larger whole of the universe, the larger part
of a larger organization.
Now my discussion today, to
you, has been seemingly quite remote from you, but the emphasis
is, these things could not occur without you,
individually, wishing them to occur. Your lack of
participation, or your unwillingness to participate or even your
visualization of thwarting union and harmony and unity, works
against the good of your whole. But your agreement, your
compatible agreement and energy and enthusiasm and encouragement
go far to enhance and develop potential for everyone. We are
not saying that your world is “on a roll,” that all will be rosy
in a week or two. No my friends, there are still many tough
times ahead—but what I would wish you to see, through this small
beginning, is the potential you have for healing your world.
One of the fundamental rules
you will learn early on in your morontial experience is one of
the fundamental rules of the universe, and that is the rule
of inclusion. The universe is inclusive. You are included
in it. You are part of it —you are not excluded.
Exclusiveness and exclusion are anathema for growth and social
development, moral development. Separation is an aberrant way
of living. It does not encourage the socialization of a
universal mind, of which you have immense potential. Think what
will occur when your scientists discover that there are truly
other organisms, even microscopic ones, on another world. This
will change your whole universe view.
You are not exclusive —your
world is not one that exists as an anomaly in the universe as
the only planet with living beings. Such isolationist,
exclusive, withdrawn perspectives are antiquarian and retard
your growth to become a citizen of the universe. With that
perspective, think how retarded many of your social policies
are—your foreign policies, your domestic policies. Think how
slowly they let your world progress. You, my friends, are
important to your world. That is why, behind each of your
chairs stands so many others, who are supporting you, assisting
you, even though they may be here simply in training. Your
world will not be healed by us alone, but with you in concert
with each other and with the spiritual administration of the
planet and your local universe.
No, there will not be some
shiny knight in a flying saucer who will come down and save
you. That is your job! Each of you must become an empowered,
individual of the universe. If you take that myth of being
saved by the great prince or some great hero of the universe,
then you must apply that to yourself. And if you point the
finger back at yourself and say, “Who am I?” you had better take
another look, because you have the potential to be that hero or
that heroine. You have within you the capacity to heal your
life, and you can be of great assistance to those around you.
You are first, energetic beings. You are not separate from the
energy flow of the universe. Now that the circuits are
connected, you are truly an incredibly integral part of this
grand universe.
I will give you a metaphor:
Now imagine pi [p]…you
know what “pi” is… now imagine that taken out to a million
decimals, or a billion, or a trillion. Now, one day a scientist
goes through this number and finds—right there—at the
580,000,000,000th position, an integer is missing;
there is a gap, there is a comma, an integer, a space, another
integer and then a comma. Now, that would be quite startling,
would it not? How could that be? Where did it go? It seems
impossible, does it not? But everywhere through the universe
after that day, people would take pi out to that position and
farther and find that, yes, that position has no integer. Now
back to the reality of your world and the universe, you are each
that integer! And pi would not work without you, being a part
of it. You can opt out, you can play dead, you can stay on
drugs all your life, you can forget about the universe and your
part in it, but you will always be here—you are in that
position—you are needed. You are what help make this universe
work. You are essential.
Now let us take this silly
metaphor a bit further. Let us say in this comic situation that
every one was scurrying around the world looking for that
missing integer, and someone knocks at your door and you open
the door, and they realize that you are the missing integer.
And they tell the world, and the world is so happy and pleased
to have found the missing integer, and now pi will work once
more! Yes, you chuckle—this is silly in some ways—but the point
is that you are essential. You are what make the world go
around. You help make the universe complete. You are a
powerful individual. It is up to you to appreciate how powerful
you are, just as individuals made decisions to build the unity
and fulfill the unity that existed at the conference in Boise,
that unity still exists—it did not evaporate, did not go away,
was not dispelled by anything that happened—it still exists.
And so, once begun, these processes of unity can expand. All it
takes is a change of attitude, a willingness to think in
harmony, to get off of your position, to accept other interests,
broader interests than your own.
Are there any questions
concerning this aspect of today’s lesson? (None.) It is a
lesson that is self-evident, is it not? It is “in your face.”
It is to be accepted or rejected, and even if you do nothing
with it, you have let it be, it is another way of turning away
from it. The flip side of this is the responsibilities of
healing your world, and that is your responsibility. It is
unavoidable.
The reference book you use,
The Urantia Book,
speaks of immense potentials and immense developments and
processes in the universe, and it speaks also lightly but
consistently to your responsibilities as a part in the
universe. And it speaks this way, that you can augment your
growth, you can move ahead quickly by accepting and initiating
your energy to incorporate the lessons. You can reject it, you
can stand still and say you are not going forward—and you can do
that for eons—but you are responsible for your position. It is
an unavoidable aspect of your life. Your world often does not
hold you responsible for your actions or inactions. You are
based—your existence and performances—are based primarily on the
commission of things, rather than the omission, but in the
afterlife, in your morontial existence, you will become aware of
both sides equally. You will need to commit to your program of
training and education, and when you are remiss to move forward,
you will be counseled, talked to, guided, educated—and you will
be not disregarded in any way, at any time—your position of why
you do not want to move forward will be addressed. You will
always be encouraged to develop the best that is within you. So
we urge you to accept this minor responsibility of pulling the
rope with others to build unity in your world. And when I say,
“you,” it is not this small group right here, but all who read
these transcripts, all who are aware of these thoughts, to pull
together.
(Pause.) [This is Daniel. It
looks like we’ve got a little break here.]
RAYSON: Today we will continue
a bit of your cultural review. The first part of today’s lesson
was in the main about that. It had to do with finding unity,
experiencing that, when you really have not known much of that
in your lifetime, and how to hold this as an attitude, something
to anticipate, something that you really expect to occur, rather
than not occur. To change your attitude from a cynical
position, “Oh yeah, that was just once and it will probably
never happen in my lifetime,” to the point where you say, “Yes,
this is a beginning. I see it beginning and there is no reason
why we cannot continue this in other areas — why there could not
be unanticipated, sudden changes of unity, of harmony, in
agreement, moving together forward, rather than apart.”
This next part has to do with a
cultural development in your nation—in western nations—where
there is an intense desire by companies, corporations to
maintain earnings at high levels, and that has to do with the
phenomena of “the next big thing,” the next new thing to occur
in your life. What is the next new thing? How would you handle
two hundred years of peace? Will you anticipate that the next
new thing would be that war would break out, and you would be
happy about that? Or would you be willing to set that aside and
say, “I’m glad those days are over!” and the next new thing is
another day of unity and harmony and peace?
We know that these new
developments in the Correcting Time, Teaching Mission on your
planet, oftentimes brings with it, another great new thing to
you, that you had not anticipated or had hoped to hear, and
there it is—you hear it. And you begin to see small openings of
these developments. You are beginning to see through this
process, how long it takes, how much great patience it takes for
mortals to see that the seeds of celestial, angelic and divine
guidance on your planet bear fruit, that are manifested as
events, situations and developments that you can actually
experience. That which occurred at the conference was no
accident. Just as the disintegration of a single movement a
couple decades ago was not willed or wished or desired by anyone
in the administration and management of this planet or Nebadon,
the situation came into existence through the development of the
human minds, and through the outworking and in-working of many
mortals. But through in their prayers and desires and yearnings
and through the celestial and divine and angelic—not only
cooperation, but initiation of healing processes have come into
existence. It has taken so many years to heal this, and yet
there are still many who are reserved in their opinions about
this.
The next new thing on your
planet may be just another day in paradise—could you stand
that? You in Colorado have a saying about that, do you not? Go
outside and the air is cool and the sun is warm and the sky is
blue, the mountains are beautiful—you see glaciers and you see
snow peaks here and there—and you say to yourself, “Oh, another
day in paradise! Thank you!” Now expand that further. I know
that some of you are addicted to the next new thing, the next
big thing to occur in your life. You have become acculturated
to the marketing hype that is pandemic in your nation—how would
you handle, how would your nation live and exist if there was
economic stability? Do you think that there will always be an
inflationary factor? That more and greater profit is the way to
stability?
Expansionary economics feeds on
itself, as you have seen in past years, and in moderation over
long periods of time, can mean immense growth and
stability—social, economic and cultural—for everyone —for those
who are uneducated, receive education; for those who live below
the poverty line, rise above it, through cooperation and through
their own efforts. Yet, the next new thing oftentimes in those
situations is not an explosion of growth, but a recession or
depression. Your world is past its maximum, stabilized
population. If it were half its level now, it could stabilize
at that and continue on well into the future, but its situation
is precarious.
These philosophies and
policies, growth, expansion, whether by political organizations
or religious organizations, are self-defeating. They may serve
the larger organization and political institutions, but that is
self-serving on their part. How are individuals to live,
stably, peacefully, productively? Do some live well, while
others live less well? That is not stability. Remember, my
friends, all of you will arrive in the future—ten years, fifty
years from now—there will be more of you, perhaps—and more who
have less, and fewer who have more. This, which I am speaking
about, is new to you, is new to your nation, new to its
policies, and new to almost every nation on the world.
Stabilization, normalization and balance, where the flow of
goods and services and monies throughout the world creates on
the whole a level playing field. It is such an out of orbit
paradigm for you to perceive that it is inconceivable for some
of you—truly inconceivable even for great economists and great
philosophical minds. At this point, it is just so much spinning
of philosophical words, a wonderful intent, but with no means of
instituting this for everyone, and that truly is the situation
at this point. It is something for you to hold in mind,
however. It is a part of your world, eventually. And even if
you never voiced this, but hold it in mind as intent, you hold a
future pattern that will exist in your world.
Those participants of this
movement, some of you are excited by new developments. Some of
you are phenomenologists—you are interested in the phenomenology
of the process. How is this possible? And in some ways it is
impossible to describe, trying to explain—it just is. It is
more understandable when you are a part of it. Some of you are
immersed in the culture of the next new thing, the next piece of
news, kind of as a tabloid headline, waiting for the Magisterial
Son to appear in one group. And as we shared at the conference,
and has been shared before, Monjoronson, the Magisterial Son is
here, is not in person, is not corporeal, and we do not
anticipate that development, that phenomena until much progress
has passed in the world to support his presence. There must be
a culture that will do that.
For those of you who are
patient, where you wait two or three years for a new
development, your appetites will be satisfied and even whetted,
as you see the larger scale of developments on your world begin
to unfold. And is it not an interesting situation, where you
see the unfoldment, of the saving of your world, simultaneously
as you see the devolution of your world occur around you, the
destruction of your world is occurring around you. There is
hope in the midst of even the greatest hurricane. There is hope
even in the midst of great destruction. These developments that
you have seen are the seeds of the future good, of harmony, of
balance, of sharing.
Examining today’s lessons, I
suppose you may think that this is the end of summer, and it is
back to school again. In some ways that is true. There have
been many wonderful developments this past summer. Now we begin
fall, which for most in this country means back to school, to
going to work every day, anticipating that vacation next year.
Yet in other countries, it is school all year round. Before
closing today, I ask if anyone has any questions, and if there
are individuals who wish to…who feel the nudge from their
teachers, if they wish to TR, they are most welcome to initiate
that. We will now receive your questions, if you have any.
Student: Rayson, since you
gave us those lessons on intentional community, have there been
any attempted or started throughout the Teaching Mission groups
worldwide?
Rayson: Yes. This is a
thought that is held by a number of individuals. As far as
breaking ground and pouring concrete and foundations, writing
charters for communities, no, this is still in a beginning
position, through there are communities around the world that
are doing those very things. Intentional communities as we
envision them, have a beginning in the minds of many, and this
is where all good things start.
Student: Rayson, we have at
the present time an election coming and we’ve got two schools of
political thought. (Rayson: Only two?) At least! One is to
keep all the jobs here at home and not to outsource, and the
other is to build the world economy through such agreements such
as NAFTA. Is this the right time to encourage NAFTA type of
arrangements?
RAYSON: You have a question?
Student: That was the
question.
RAYSON: Would you please
restate that then?
Student: The question is, we
have two political schools of thought going on now that it’s
election time, one is that we should discourage outsourcing of
jobs to other countries, and the other one is that we need to
have a free economy and outsource jobs where economics dictate
the jobs to go. I think that that latter one tends to build
more unity. We have agreements on the books now of NAFTA, which
encourages building world unity. I just wondered if this is the
right time for that, and would like your comments on the way we
should be proceeding at this time?
RAYSON: (Pause.) [Daniel:
He’s got his tongue in his cheek.] The currents of your nation
and the nations of your world are moving forward into oneness
—it is unavoidable. There is a natural dependency that develops
in a world that has experienced separation. These processes,
these institutions, these policies that you mention are only
miniscule blips in the screen on your world concerning these
developments. Whether they are right or wrong depends on the
very circumstances at the time. These policies may be totally
right in future years and totally wrong in future years.
Certainly you as a world are going in a direction where you have
not gone before. It requires the interests of all to see a
commonality, to project one party or one position, and not
another, to support one and not another—it is not our “cup of
tea,” not our desire to state our preference, as we have no
preference—these are the affairs of man. You would be wiser to
seek council of the Most Highs, who are involved in these
processes. I do not deflect your question by saying that, but
they have a larger interest in this question and the resolution
to the problems of your nation, and not just of this nation.
Student: You didn’t really
answer the question. I’m not asking you to take sides of the
political debate, because each party has strengths and pluses
and minuses, but I’m concerned about at this time for our
country, on that issue.
RAYSON: Our concern is not
just this country. Our concern is your world, which efforts and
which interests and which powers and processes augment the
development of a common world, where there is the support of
peace and the development of individuals.
Student: That answers my
question.
Student: Is there any
particular region or location of our planet where Monjoronson
would need to have an intentional community to support his work
and his staff. Is it possible for us to know where it would be
likely for him to set up his headquarters so that we could
assist him?
RAYSON: Yes, certainly, I can
give you the exact location. It is the location where there is
an interest by mortals to have an intentional community to begin
with, that would support his presence. It is not a geographic
location, but it is the intention of the individuals.
Monjoronson, the Magisterial Son, is not looking for a group of
followers, but a group of leaders, where he will be accepted as
a leader among leaders, where there is initiation for harmony
and unity. This could be any place in the world where there is
support for his presence, support for the policies of Michael,
and support for the growth of these ideals, these economies.
There is no specific location assigned at this time.
Are there any individuals now
who are feeling a nudge from their celestial teacher or guardian
angel, or some other being of light? Who feels a nudge from
them who wishes to speak? If there are, we would appreciate if
you would say as much, and we will wait. (Pause.)
We appreciate your presence
here today, through what you may call a tedious session, one
that is necessary on occasion. We thank you for being here, for
holding this in thought, and we ask you to continue to hold
these efforts of Michael and the Magisterial Son, your guardian
angel and your Thought Adjuster and your celestial teacher in
mind. You are an important part of this equation. We would not
be here if you were not. Good day.
