[tmtranscripts] 2/24/01 Spokane Teacher Base (2)

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GINNY: Is the parenting in the morontia realm harder or easier, and I assume 
it is just as valuable as it is here.

AARON: It's different, and obviously it's different because of the physical 
factor, but it's also different because the children you will be parenting in 
the Adam and Eve schools and the nurseries on high are fraught with their own 
voids that must be compensated for, but you see, you too have certain voids, 
and so the complimenting nature of your future experience with parenting 
children who need parents, is going to provide those unique problems and 
challenges in lieu of, let's say, immaturity in perhaps a girl getting 
pregnant or a boy selling drugs.  

There will be different problems to deal with but you will be eager to fit 
yourself to your challenges because the experience of parenting, even in 
mansonia, are as enriching and valuable as they are here – for you and for 
your children.

THOROAH: I would think that might be something along the line of what we go 
through here when we adopt children.  I've had the experience of adopting a 
child and I didn't love it or didn't parent the child any different than I 
would have with my genetic child, so perhaps there's some analogy there.  And 
then again we look at our brotherhood and sisterhood situation here, that 
family thing, we can get some of that family aspect in our brotherhood and 
sisterhood, too.

GINNY: Well, I guess I connect the physical act of being pregnant and 
delivering and taking care of the child as so much a part of parenting, that 
is such a bonding part, thatI wonder if that same bonding is possible.

THOROAH: It would be different, probably, for females from males.

GINNY: Uh-huh.  It's a bond between mother and child – that's so strong that 
I connect a lot of that with the physicalness of it.  And on the morontia 
worlds, that physicalness is not quite so strong, I assume, that this ... the 
bond isn't ...

PAULO: Paulo here.  I guess it's my turn and I was reluctant to come in when 
you were talking about childbirth, but they pushed me through the door.  
(Giggles) The experience of physical birthing is a fascinating observation 
shared by all of the animal kingdom and it is very much like those hormones 
that were discussed earlier.  The birthing experience is far more 
physiologically important than emotionally, and almost has no bearing on 
spiritual connection.

The misfortunes of Urantia are myriad and not the least of its problems are 
in this very heart-wrenching topic: that of family life and the ideals of 
family life which were intended to be far more elevated than the 
circumstances you find surrounding you on Urantia today.  The neighboring 
planet chapter does give you an inkling of how important adoption is toward 
having meaningful parenting experiences.  And yet neither you nor your 
neighbors are recipients of the pattern established by Nebadonia's insights 
inherent in the Infinite Spirit that would be passed along to the daughters 
of the universe.  

(Yes, Gerdean, I am aware that the Material Son and Daughter are the – [Don't 
be afraid.] –  the progeny of Michael and the Melchizedeks, but the pattern 
was established by and through the union of the Creator Son and his consort 
well before the coming into being of the Order of Melchizedek.  No way is 
your Mother Nebadonia going to be overlooked or discounted in her creations, 
her contributions to life on Urantia.)

Alright, where were we?  I had mental block there to work through.  Many of 
you have mental blocks that need to be worked through, that would not be a 
problem had you not been involved in so many set-backs.  I don't mean "you" 
in your few decades' existence, but "you" in your planetary existence.  You 
will not be called upon to parent by yourself when you arrive in the mansion 
worlds.  You will first need to be taught what it is to come from a real 
family, a family before default, a family before rebellion.  You will all 
need to "pass by" that hall before you proceed. 

Many of you will proceed past the nurseries but many of you will not, and 
those of you who are given the go-ahead to pass by the nurseries because you 
have adequate parenting experience here will opt to tarry behind to observe 
and awaken in yourself a whole new frame of reference for the parenting 
experience based on what you have learned by getting your feet wet in the 
Adam and Eve Schools.  Marriage itself constitutes another realm of reality 
than that which is visited by most of you in your mortal associations here.  

Oh, I just can't begin to tell you how many things you have to make up for.

GINNY: Are you saying that if we have entered into the marriage or the 
parenting experience here and not done such a good job of it, we can relearn 
it there?  Choose to relearn it there?  Or is the mere fact of parenting and 
marriage mean that you have the experience therefor you go on, past the 
nurseries.

PAULO: Doing it is not knowing.  This is why anyone can physiologically give 
birth, but does that mean you have any idea of how to parent? Or what it 
means to observe your child unfold like a rose? Or a cactus flower? And then 
how to preserve its beauty while exposing it to truth?  And retaining its 
goodness in the face of the inevitabilities of the creature existence?  There 
are so many of you who are in such a hurry to get on with it and jump right 
up and meet Michael, shake hands and take off for Havona.

GINNY: And fuse somewhere along the line.  Well that was very helpful 
information.  I had not realized that, number one, the fact that you have had 
children and entered marriage that you're done with it, and secondly, that we 
each have to learn what a true family is like before we can be really good 
parents.  

PAULO:  Yes.  Tomas has something he would like to say.  (Long pause) We have 
resolved that.  Never mind.

You will realize, I am sure, that while it may seem as though everyone from a 
material world will have to pass through the Adam and Eve schools and 
nursery, you would do well to have in mind that this is a decimal planet, and 
many of the normal worlds that have progressed naturally have met the 
requisite requirements; thus will not need to tarry.  

And there are even some of you who have been born on a decimal world who will 
be allowed to advance because of your applications to furtherance of your 
morontial reality such that the quality of your life experience has met the 
requirements as set forth.   But there are very few from Urantia who will be 
free to pass over the detention halls that will enable you to make up for 
some of the inherent deficits - inherent in having been on a world of 
rebellion and default wherein the ideal of marriage, family, home life, have 
been markedly altered from the original plan.  

Also, in the past you have been counseled that you are in many ways an oddity 
in the universe and you will be as a sore thumb when you reach the mansion 
worlds for your roots will show.  (I'm not talking about hair dressing.)  
Your idiosyncracies are going to set you apart from your neighbors, as it has 
been inferred that it could be construed as an embarrassment that you are so 
retarded.

THOROAH: There goes the neighborhood!

PAULO: But you are not the only planet who has experienced default and you 
are not the only decimal planet by a long shot, so you will find yourself 
with compatible peers all along.  Just don't feel sorry for yourselves, and 
hold your head up! 

 There's one last thing that we'd like to point out before we close today.  
One moment please.

TOMAS: This point is one you've been recently reminded of, you in this base 
of operations by and through your studies.  You must remember the conspiracy 
afoot to bring to the minds of mortals on Urantia the revelation of truth as 
is set forth in Urantia Papers, as was brought to you by and through the 
auspices of the Revelatory Commission, from instructions On High, and that is 
that within the mind of your mortal associates there resides the faithful 
Adjuster who will work ceaselessly to bring the mind of its indwelling into a 
cosmic awareness of its place in Our Father's universe.  

Therefore when you ponder and approach how best to teach and preach, how best 
to set forth that which you have come to know, believe in, and adore – to 
others, rely upon their Adjuster to take what you say and use it in the 
advancement of the souls of those you touch as you pass by.  Don't rely on 
your creativity or your understanding or your intelligence or your instincts 
or your perceptions, but go beyond that to divinity itself.  Just as we've 
discussed today the relative levels of love, be bold enough to take the 
Kingdom by spiritual assault and lay seige to the indwelling Adjuster, 
by-passing completely the mortal you choose to serve, in trust of the 
Adjuster who will harken to that man's soul needs.

Trust Our Father to help you as you choose to serve His children as you pass 
by.  Amen and Farewell.