[tmtranscripts] Serenia 011305 on Scarcity

Thea Hardy thea at pathworks.net
Mon Jan 17 17:12:55 PST 2005


Serenia 011305-Scarcity
Corvallis LinEL Group
Corvallis, Oregon
 

Teacher:  Serenia (TR, Thea)

 

Topics:           Urantian culture operation on scarcity model
Roots of Scarcity Model as response to Rebellion/Default
Early teaching concepts of mission
Difficulty truly possessing abundance
Diversity - unity/uniformity - and selfhood difficulties
Defensiveness requires compassion and self-compassion
Planetary development and loss of celestial administration
Understanding self and other in forward growth
Scarcity model as reactions to abundance
Partial restatements of Michael's gospel
Learning the triune functioning of love
That lesson as our universe adventure
The truth that we are loved and secure

 Q&A:  To come

Greetings dear friends, this is Serenia - I am happy to be with you
again as always. We enjoy being in your presence and relating to you
with heartfelt tenderness and pride in your willingness to continue
week after week on this journey towards reclaiming yourselves and your
world.

Tonight I wish to pull together some of our recent lessons into a more
unified expression. I wish to talk about an over-riding model of
planetary culture that is a result of the rebellion and default and a
great impediment to your forward movement. Naturally, in our language,
we have a single word for this that reveals in its very being the
multi-faceted nature of the problem. But in your language, we will have
to pull together various terms to weave into a whole. The single word
most critical to this discussion, however, is scarcity. Your planet as
a whole tends to operate on a model of scarcity and deprivation. This
is an utterly natural response to a world that lost its celestial
administration, first that of your Planetary Prince and then of your
Garden of Eden and your celestial parent models, Adam and Eve. For you
have been literally deprived, like orphaned children left to roam the
streets grabbing scraps wherever you can and in order to survive,
dashing with the meager bits to hide in the corners in the dark. The
loss of the steadying influence of that cultural legacy is
unfathomable. So much so, that you cannot grasp what you have lost
without viewing it by understanding the echoes of the planetary
dysfunction that reveals it to you as a response to those terrible
circumstances. One of the scarcity responses is fundamentalism.
Fundamentalism is always a scarcity model. Within the fundamentalist
mind set, there is never enough to go around, and only if you obey
certain strict rules will you survive. Always there is the threat of
disaster and the often grim hope of a miraculous salvation. This
constitutes a natural response of any child thrust into the orphanhood
and forced to survive without being helped to grow up into the adult
status that was your natural birthright. Harshness, or its
concommitent, victim mentality, are expected responses to such
situations. So in order to address the loss of the teachings of these
administrations, you must understand what it is that you have lost. And
in order to understand that loss, you must see the ways in which your
distorted unfoldment of culture reveals that which you lack. You are so
close to it, that it is often times difficult of assessment with any
degree of realism.

One of the most clear-cut manifestations of this scarcity is your
poverty of spirit, your difficulty in attaining any true and lasting
sense of self-worth. And this must be addressed. The degree of guilt
that many of you experience, the degree of self-flagellation for
largely understandable errors and missteps, is profound, and to us,
tragic and heart-rending. For you to stand tall as beloved children of
a loving father and mother is still very difficult for most on your
world, even many of you who have worked with us now for so many years.
All too often, you seek to gain self-esteem by inappropriate sacrifice
of self - not the sacrifices of service, but the literal sacrifices of
your own wants and needs that as healthy children would propel you to
self-respect, and thus to far more capacity for true service than you
can now manage. Without permitting love to fill you, serve as you like,
effectiveness will often escape you.

When we came to this group, our first words to you were instructions to
seek the father in stillness, to learn to allow him to love you, and to
embrace abundance. You sought to understand our words and concepts, yet
you remained baffled and confused by them. So much of your cultural
history was not in support of these concepts. You understood them
intellectually, at least in part, but you could not put them into true
and lasting practice. You could not allow real experience with these
concepts to truly take hold and transform you in the spirit. You have
made progress, certainly in intellectual understanding, and in baby
steps of experiential understanding. But you are only beginners yet.
Still, your grasp of these problems is now at a place where we can
begin teaching you on these essential topics more in earnest, so that
you may understand the vast planetary problem this poses, and can begin
the personal transformations that will enlarge your hearts enough that
you may be filled with what is to come.

Your Urantia Book says that a pint cannot hold a quart. Without this
enlargement, try as you may, comprehend intellectually as you may, the
joy and abundance of a full spiritual life as a true son or daughter of
the Father's universe simply cannot be yours. You have often put this
in terms of your inability to "have" the good things of life, the
difficulty in "having" love and joy and all manner of truth, beauty and
goodness. You have felt keenly the sense of unworthiness,
undeservingness attached to this inability to "have". You can see it,
sometimes want and yearn for it, but it seems to remain beyond your
actual grasp. For evolving beings, conceptual knowledge is only had
upon the experientialization of that knowledge - it is in the moments
of experiencing that it is truly becomes yours to keep. This is a
primary utility in experience. And a personality cannot have full
experience alone. Sharing is essential to full experientiality -
whether with spirit sources or human companions. And as knowledge is
only truly possessed by sharing, not merely in comprehension, so also
truth, beauty and goodness - special coordinating forms of knowledge -
cannot be possessed without sharing.

But without a sense of your true personality selfhood, you cannot
actually share experientially. Many of you have noted that however much
you talk and seem to understand one another in mind, it is difficult to
put things into action together. You can take your understandings to
your spiritual sources, but without a true sense of self, it is
difficult to reach a point of genuine contact. In addition, part of
your difficulty with diversity is that without a well-developed sense
of personality-selfhood, the diversity is perceived as a threat to your
developing self. And this is not even inaccurate. In the developmental
sense of the human race, the self-hood of the tribe is itself hard-won,
and then hard-defended for protection of that still fragile self-hood.
A distorted sense of selflessness leads to a need to defend ones
viewpoints in a way that a clearer self-respect through personality
development does not require. In order to share well with one another,
you must have self-respect - healthy self-love - and you must have a
grasp of true diversity.

Sadly although understandably for young evolutionary beings, there is
much finger-pointing by those whose senses of selfhood are slightly
superior, towards those whose defensiveness is more noticeable. Instead
of enlarging the picture on your brothers and sisters when they are
defensive, you judge them as inferior, as engaged in wrong-doing, and
sometimes make such judgments all too plain. You do not stop to think
of your advantage, and their disadvantage. You do not first seek to
understand them. And so all of the various reactions of distortion -
for you are all yet more or less distorted on this topic - mill about
and cause disunity where you most need and seek unity. But unity
without uniformity is still very difficult for you to grasp and live.

In the normally developing tribe, uniformity is highly prized, and in a
developmental sense, necessary. Without the guidance of celestial
oversight in full planetary administrative function, this tribalism
finds its way into the narrowing streams of nationalism and
fundamentalism lacking in upliftment capacity. Had you retained the
administrations of celestial oversight, you would have been able to
experience a degree of refreshing diversity and originality the likes
of which you have little ability to perceive as you are and as you have
developed. And those witnessing such diversity would have gone back
inspired to teach others with compelling examples of truth, beauty and
goodness that such an administration lastingly represents on a
developing world. By the loss of your celestial administration, you are
still far more largely in a tribal state - struggling as you do to move
through more advanced social development yet dragging the unresolved
evolutionary struggles along with you - than would even begin to be
ideal. This is a terrible devolutionary momentum in the midst of your
true desires to move forward.

It will be necessary for you to manifest ever increasing compassion
with one another as you tease apart what happened to you as a world, as
a culture, as families, and as individuals. At this point in time, that
compassion is hard won, and not yet operant to the degree necessary for
a truly forward-looking world. We would ask you to ever remain mindful
of this need to understand your planetary siblings and equally to
understand yourselves, yet also to cease in castigating yourselves when
you find that your behavior has not been what you would prefer, either
in lack of compassion, or failures of defensiveness. It is asked of you
simply that you note that you have erred, resolve to try harder, then
do try harder, and forgive yourselves when you fail again, moving
forward step by step through recognition of the problem and
determination towards progress, but not being deterred, or distorted by
overmuch self-blame. Your world is not an easy one on which to exhibit
any degree of perfection of behavior, nor is your developmental stage
likely to produce such results readily. Self-respect in this stage of
your existence does not consist in perfected behavior, but
ever-perfecting motivation. Your sincerity is all that is needed to
move you forward. Sincere mistakes are merely your learning experiences
as you move through your unfolding lives. Self-deprecation readily
turns into false humility.

Scarcity still runs planetary affairs. And you have often seen how the
outbursts of abundance are greeted with all manner of negative
responses from suspicion to downright disdain. Your world, for all the
lip-service given, still does not at large welcome notions of
abundance. They seem to many to range from laughable and childish
reactions to delusions to dangerous decadence. It is a sad world where
abundance is perceived as decadence, but then this is indeed a sad
planet. Those who refuse to recognize this difficulty and who believe,
understandably, that full joy for the world (which would equate to life
and light) is just around the corner are impeded in their effectiveness
by their unwillingness to see the seriousness of the problem for
exactly what it is, not what they would wish it to be. To live with the
frustration of the reality of the situation while putting out endless
energies on behalf of the positive is not an easy task. And by and
large, most of you make this attempt valiantly and we are impressed and
heartened by your courageous dedication. But there is much yet for you
to know and understand to make you more effective in the work that lies
ahead.

Over the coming weeks, we will seek to address in more detail this
problem and what you can do to more effectively deal with it.

For the moment, I will say that the critical day to day things we
recommend are as they have always been - Seeking the Father in
stillness - knowing that the kingdom of heaven is within - not merely
in the adjuster's magnificent indwelling but in your increasing
personal relationship with that indwelling spirit. Remember that the
Spirit of Truth uplifts you through the agencies of our beloved Michael
and Mother Spirit, and in the middle of challenge, if you cry out to
them, you will always be heard and help will ever be yours. Knowing
that you are beloved, and worthy of that love - this is still a great
challenge for most of you. Letting the love in is essential in order
for it to ever go on through you to others. But in order to truly
perform that service, you must be willing to take that love purely for
yourselves as well. There is no escaping this requirement. Without it,
your service can never attain the levels of genuineness necessary to
truly inspire. And you must recognize that the Father's will for you
and all of his children will ever and always be abundance of every good
thing possible. All truth, and beauty, and goodness is yours and
surrounds you and fills you and entices you to the Source and Center of
all things. Your unworthiness prevents this, but when told this, most
of you jump to self-judgment for your unworthiness, instantly
performing the act of disrespect of self that causes the problems in
the first place.

You simply must begin to love and forgive yourselves. As you forgive
others you will know forgiveness, but as you forgive yourselves, you
will better understand others to forgive them. These things - loving
self and other, with the ever surrounding and uplifting love from the
father and you to the father form a trinity web, a set of thought,
feeling and action that cannot ever be fully separated. No one aspect
is the most important one, even as the Trinity Deity of all is truly
three in one. You will find many such associative functional
combinations on your journey to Paradise - and for some time yet you
will misunderstand, trying to make one aspect more important than the
others. Our beloved Michael said to Love the Father with all your heart
and your neighbors as yourselves. You cannot love your neighbors, nor
God, if you do not love yourself. The key to self love is permitting
God's love for you, and specifically you, to be had within yourself.
Not to immediately give it away because the touch of joy is so
frightening and painful, so out of tune with the notions of scarcity
which have become false values to you. No. To receive it and glory in
it and be transformed by the joy of it. And to respond back with the
joyous gratitude - not humble as a small, worthless being, but boldly
grateful and encouraged to stand tall and strong as the beloved child
you are - this is something that will spring forth from your permitting
God's love to truly be yours. Likewise, loving and seeing your brothers
and sisters and taking the joy of the awareness of their individual
personalities and true selfhood - knowing them, understanding them,
loving them - this is a Supreme love, and your natural development
towards that evolving Supreme. In the moments of loving others, you
will find God the Supreme and be satisfied and spurred on in the same
moment. Through this trinity of beingness, you can find the entire
experiential purposes of the evolutionary journey in your hearts. These
are the simple truths to hold fast to as you journey to understand more
thoroughly your work of this world. But their simplicity holds the
whole of the evolving universe, and your experience with the truth,
beauty and goodness of this will never end.

Hold fast, dear ones. For each of you, the true hour of your
deliverance is in your own hands. Nothing that has happened to your
world or to you can separate you forever from this fount of love.
Discouragement is understandable, but build your faith in the ultimate
outcomes, not the momentary ebbs and flows of time. You are safe in the
hands of loving Parents. Your world has been orphaned, yes, but no
longer, and you as personalities have never been orphaned, despite
appearances. It is harder as agondonters to know this truth, but you
have bravely continued - and we ask you to continue yet further down
this road. Trust the truth of your existence, that you are beloved
children of a loving father and brothers and sisters together in the
Journey of all Time. We love you beyond our ability to express it in
your language, and yet, that is itself contained within the vastly
greater love that the Father has for you in every smallest second of
your existence. In love, we are all together, diversity in unity.

Know that you are loved and abundance is truly there for you. Farewell
until our next meeting.

--Serenia
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