[tmtranscripts] 3/24/01 - Spokane Team - Part 1

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DATE: March 24, 2001
LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
T/R: Gerdean
TEACHERS & TOPICS:
    PAULO: Confrontation & Competition
GROUP: Susan & David Butterfield, Ginny, Thoroah & Gerdean
    
PAULO: Paulo here.  Good afternoon.  I am the one designated to come out and 
be with you.  There have been many who have approached the podium.  I will 
tell you Alana has teased you about your propensity to seek out the 
definition of words and appreciate the defining aspects of your 
communications when in her mind/heart it is immaterial.  As a method of 
communication the language of love transcends boundaries, even language.  She 
blows love on you.

Legion is among us and avers the assembly is vast.  There are many who would 
pray with and for you.  The visitors are esteemed and many and how delighted 
I am to be sent into your midst as a vocal representation of our connection.  
I feel honored to be summoned all the way from Costa Rica, as you must share 
that feeling of honor being summoned from Salvington, but as we reach out 
across time and space to touch one another, we are bridging the gaps between 
the points that seem to separate us, but that connect us as we come to know 
the very real communion that we know and love in the definition of our heart, 
in the university of the spheres.

There will be ample opportunity in our session for others to be present 
should the agenda give rise to need or desirability for one other than myself 
to speak, but I have so enjoyed your many discourses - you who have become 
well bonded in your fraternity in a short period of linear time because of 
your respect for the transcendence of time.  In this freedom from restraint 
we have enjoyed a sense of knowing each other "all our lives" and have only 
eternity to get to know each other better.  It thus is a day of rejoicing and 
gladness.

While we are in the trust/faith frame of mind, we can visit some thoughts and 
topics that might be observed as confrontational without fear, for we are not 
in the mood to confront but to acknow-ledge, observe, understand, assimilate, 
and recognize.  For a portion of our wisdom intake, we were talking earlier, 
you and we, about your human participation in rebelliousness, having been 
reared on a world in which rebelliousness is part and parcel, even to the 
acknowledgment of the fun factor of a rebellious attitude which can enhance 
your ability to get in and out of situations quickly, as if you were able to 
dance in and around a topic with such agility you could not be caught up in 
any snares or traps offered.  

When you begin to learn how to preach and teach the gospel, when and as you 
begin to recognize how to plant seeds, as you develop the skills inherent in 
a teacher and preacher of truth, beauty and goodness, and measure the 
capacities of your hearers, you are in a position to manipulate the 
atmosphere; you are in an omnipotent position in some regards for you have 
eyes to see and ears to hear and perhaps your sheep do/es not.   You have 
committed yourselves to a pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness.  You have 
asked the Spirit of Truth to be a part of your engagement.  And you have 
asked the divine will to be revealed in your life such that you are busily 
engaged in going about the Father's business as you see it.  You are 
beginning to understand the meaning of Power.  You may even be attaining a 
level of capacity that gives you opportunity to entertain your position in 
terms of your perception of how others/ your peers/ your companions are able 
to perceive reality, according to your personal perceptions of reality.  

So let the mind games commence!  Because they cannot NOT commence.  How 
terrifying for you to realize that everyone else is as smart as you are.  
(Laughter)  Culturally you have been using and abusing, manipulating, 
coercing, conniving, creating, scheming, planning, hoping, dreaming, fishing 
and sniffing for a long, long time.  You might as well sit back and enjoy the 
show, and recognize that everybody else came from the same school, even 
though they profess to have had "higher education:" or "better business" 
bureaus.  

You are looking at a reflection of yourself, so how clever do you think you 
are?  (Laughter)  And do you get ticked off when you discover how clever your 
fellows are?  And kick yourself for not doing it first?  Instead of laughing 
and clapping them on the back and pointing out to them that you can see very 
clearly how they are accessing a piece of the puzzle that is important for 
them to find in order for them to secure their understanding of how it is to 
do the Father's will for them in their life.  

Having thus found the key, the realness of your fellows, you can sincerely 
commend them on their capacities to find what's necessary for them to do the 
job of doing God's will as they perceive it.  
You are also in a position to experience how that action affects you.  How 
does it reverberate or echo off of your reality?  What compatibility factor 
is there?  How conspiratorial is your identification with what their 
perceived plan of attack is as compared to yours?  And how can you augment 
that which you find good and valuable?  Or how will you, if you will, curtail 
same if it's found to be threatening or more strange than you are comfortable 
with?  

The textbook talks about Theology about being a personal religious experience 
and observing others in their personal spiritual experience as being 
Psychology, for you can only guess at, you can only surmise what others must 
be doing in their heart of hearts.  And knowing beneath all trappings how Our 
Father is and feels and operates and gives and directs and loves and upholds 
and allows and assists and activates a spark of life in order to expand and 
extend divine reality, look to discern how He is benefitted – not so much how 
your peers are benefitted.  

Haven't we all acceded God's the boss?  Let's watch Him in action.  And if 
you don't understand how God is operating in the lives of your fellows, ask 
them!  It's a law of the universe that what you know be passed on, and 
there's nothing to say you cannot ask to be the recipient of the benefit of 
your brother's knowledge.  I have a tendency to like everything being above 
board, (although I have been in committees that were rather closed,) but 
those were for a purpose, for an assignment, for a period of time, and not as 
a rule of thumb for extended behavior into all arenas, all walks of life, all 
avenues of endeavor.  Abjectly fascinated we are to see how you disclose how 
it is you feel about how you and your fellows go about performing deeds, good 
deeds, on behalf of that which you hold high.   Others would say they enjoy 
watching the children in the sandbox.  It's a matter of perspective, I guess.

Have you got something to say for yourself this afternoon?  Or questions?  
Any takers?