[tmtranscripts] 10-28-00. Spokane TeaM (2)

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STUDENT: That's very thought provoking, what you said.  It made me think that 
rebellion is as natural as two electrons, and that rebellion might represent 
that resistence that gives us our spark to live and we go in current flows, 
hither and thither as we progress.  But what is the control of that hither 
and thither is what we're talking about.

PAULO: What is the effect of your rebellion.

STUDENT: Yes.  There's two effects in my mind.  There's the effect that is 
seen and felt by my actions and that rebellion that made me think that way in 
the first place.  There's an internal rebellious reaction and there's an 
outward perception of that rebellion, and they're not necessarily the same 
thing.

PAULO: Correct.  There are inherent deception possibilities.  It's why I ask 
you to be honest about yourself, in order for you to recognize truth when you 
see it in others.  

STUDENT: That calls for a very keen sense of awareness.  

PAULO: You who choose to remain blind may continue to follow the status quo 
and contribute to mediocrity through standardization.  But if you're going to 
be enlightened, if you're going to ask for guidance and counsel, then open 
yourself to all that you can be, and that is not simply . . . artificial.   

I am finding a lot of resistence in the mind of the T/R.  I can feel her 
resistence based upon her experience, the experience she has encountered in 
choosing certain words, and so she "takes them away from me" as I take them 
out of her brain.  Is she rebelling against my use of those words?  Or is she 
trying to save me the trouble of discovering for myself how those words are 
received by you?  "Am I my brother's keeper?"  Am I to protect him from his 
own experiential opportunity?

But this is another interpretation of perception of another that is based 
upon what you know because of what you see, and when I say "what you see" I 
am speaking about your spiritual eye, not physical eye, for there is a great 
deal of difference.  

When I talk to you next about rebellion, I will talk to you about rebellion 
insofar as Our Father is concerned, as if I had my own authority to speak for 
Our Father, and I tell you I do.  I have the authority of my own perspective, 
just as you have the authority of your perspective.  But "How does it benefit 
Our Father?" is the question.  "If you are not for me, you are against me."  

STUDENT: Before you explained that the T/R was having a hard time with your 
selection of words, it seemed you struggled to find the word "artificial."  
What did you mean by that?

PAULO: "Open yourself to all that you can be, and that is not simply 
artificial, as in artifical sweetener.  Your society, your culture, your 
Christian back-ground, something in you presents yourselves as turning the 
other cheek and behaving in such a way that would deny very real elements of 
your composition.  The seven deadly sins have given the human condition a bad 
reputation.  As a race, there was a time indeed when you behaved more 
barbarically, but now you've become more sophisticated and thus more 
insidious, but that does not mean you have acquired any virtue.  

I am hoping to be able to help you cut to the core of what is real.  If you 
are afraid of what is real, you will continue to ingest artificial sweeteners 
instead of genuine milk and honey, as it were.  Be aware of artificial 
sweeteners, and see if they are covering a rebellion, and if so, what is it a 
rebellion against, and if you are going to observe this in another, also 
observe it in yourself.  You are no less interesting a test case and no less 
important in this study than those with whom you have dealings.

One day soon we will be able to discuss these things.  It is necessary that 
we learn to be able to discuss these things.  I say "we" and I mean "you" but 
I will help you.   If we are to advance into a new social paradigm, we need 
to develop new and greater foundations upon which to build this social order, 
greater than the ones that went before in earlier times, in different days, 
with different values.  Or you can ignore my lessons and remain standardized; 
I don't care.  

As for me and my students, we will advance.  Into truth.  Beauty.   And 
goodness. In the individual.  In the interpersonal relationships and into the 
culture that we are hoping to develop as this mission proceeds.   If there 
are 20 on the planet, that's a good start.  If there are a hundred of you who 
are willing to investigate the reality of who you are – not just your 
spiritual reality but your material/emotional reality also – not even in 
terms of correcting, but in understanding, and knowing that in you which is 
good and true and beautiful, even while it is not in conformity with your 
nearest and dearest friends.  Being original and unique involves being able 
to rebel against conformity.  Against acquiescing.  Against artificial 
sweeteners.  

I will not carry on more today; I have already said enough, more than enough, 
about the topic for now, but I am willing to engage in conversation if you 
have questions or commentary about the topic or any other.  You are in charge 
now.

STUDENT: Thank you, Paulo.  That was excellent.  It was really profound.  I 
guess I just have to say that the more we can get into the truth of our 
behaviors, it's like being offered a quick course in self-understanding and I 
think I like that quick course.  I might have to take it two or three times, 
but . . . 

PAULO: Life is very vital.  But it takes a courageous individual to live life 
to the fullest.  I'm not talking about an Evil Knievel kind of personality 
who takes that kind of risks.  I'm talking about an ordinary person, a 
regular person, who has the courage to look within and see in there all there 
is to see, even that which is not innately of the Indwelling Adjuster.  There 
are heroic elements in the human, the animal, who is the repository of the 
ages in terms of culture and contribution to evolution.  All of that is in 
there, is a part of you.  

Are you going to deny what hundreds and thousands of years of development has 
provided and say the only value, the Only value is that which came from 
Divinington?  What does that make you, then?  That makes you nothing!  How 
good is That for self-esteem?  Not very good.  And you need to have 
self-respect for your Self.  Tomas has talked about self respect as a result 
of having an Adjuster indwell you, and this is virtual reality, because the 
subject would not even appeal to you if you were not interested in looking at 
your very real self.  You can't look at your very real self until such time 
as you yourself are very real.  And the spirit is the most real part of you, 
but it's not ALL of you.  The rest of you is real also; very real.  

Your human experience counts.  That which you inherited from your parents, 
your grandparents, your great grandparents, from Adam and Eve, from Andon and 
Fonta, also is a part of you and counts very much, as to who you are, how you 
perceive yourself, where your strengths are, where you're lazy, all of that.  
All of that is part of your originality, your uniqueness, human and divine.

When Jesus gave it up he said, "Father, unto you I commend my spirit." What 
about the human spirit?  The human spirit that wants to live, even though the 
Adjuster knows that it will survive death.  The human wants to live.  The 
human has integrity.  The human has ambitions.  That which is not merged yet 
with the Indwelling Adjuster has identity and purpose and will and integrity. 
 The human animal is not a lesser being. It's a noble being.  Set aside the 
idea that being human or being material is somehow insignificant or 
redundant.  It's essential.  If we didn't have YOU to make the decisions, the 
Adjuster wouldn't have a chance!   It is YOUR will that His will be done.  
It's that one we're going to study and discuss and get to know.  Not the part 
that came from Divinington, but the part that starts out here, that has 
collected thousands and thousands of years of consciousness by being part of 
the material existence.  This is the creature we're studying.  This is the 
one we will live with throughout eternity if your rebellious nature rebels 
against the right stuff.

You are not confused by that, are you?

STUDENT: No.  It just makes one think a little bit more about it.  Well said.

PAULO: I will ask my comrades, Tomas and Aaron, if I am doing the right 
thing.  (Pause)  We would be delighted to take questions from the community 
at large.  In fact, I anticipate we will be able to do that here in Spokane 
as you develop the outreach into your community, in the New Thought 
community.  And insofar as that's concerned, the Teaching Mission proponents 
may also have questions that have not been presented to Teachers for one 
reason or another and I am offering myself as a respondent.  In fact, Aaron 
and Tomas and I are all available and willing to assist in your questions.  

As you say, there's much to this "conversations with celestials" that needs 
to be socialized in the greater community so that the world at large begins 
to understand that we are here to stay and that having conversations with God 
or angels or whomever in the spirit realm is not weird anymore but a part of 
the growing reality.  If you can't ask God, who can you ask?  Thank you Mr. 
Welsh for opening the door to "Conversations with God."  Any time God is on 
the best seller list, it's a good sign, wouldn't you say?

I can see that this teaching business is stimulating, invigorating and habit 
forming.  I will relinquish the podium, and relinquish you as well for the 
afternoon, with thanks to Machiventa, Abraham, Ham and all the other teachers 
in this Mission for paving the way and opening the avenues for further 
learning, teaching and disseminating the New Thought, the new Social Order, 
the new way of Life and Light.  Good afternoon.