[tmtranscripts] Aaron 9/8/21 Spiritual Contact Group

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9/8/2021  -- Zoom Spiritual Contact Group

Topics: Stillness, the terminology we use, maturing in our presentation of
the gospel, the light in our eyes, new abortion law and forgiveness, the
spiritual life and rehabilitation, egalitarian justice, live
conversationally with God.


*             Aaron: We invite you into the stillness with us.  Enjoy that
presence as we seek to deepen the connection and share in the camaraderie
of our familial relations with one another in the presence of our Father
and all the attendant hosts.  Recognize again, that sometimes in the quiet,
what is unsaid can be as important as what is said.  The practice of
feelingly experiencing your connection with God can be deeply personal and
heartfelt.  Know that as we approach you there is no sidestepping of this
presence, for you can rest assured that anywhere in the universe where
spiritual contact is being made, the spirit of our Father is present and
engaged.



I am Aaron, it is good to be present here with you tonight.  I am the
spokesperson this evening for our band of siblings, to play upon your
recent resonance to this term.  As you seek to share your experiences with
others, recognize that the terminology you use can be adapted to the
situation as needed, as long as the intention is pure.  Requiring you to
slavishly use words like Father or brother or fellow or any other term,
would only place needless inhibitors to the spreading of the true message
of your universal relationship to God and all the creaturedom that stems
from that source.



Learn to be intuitive in how you speak with others so that you may know or
better feel what another may resonate to and find attractive and
alluring.  Maturing
in the proclamation of the gospel is necessary in the times you live, for
the explosion of information is at hand and no crystallized method will be
satisfactory at this time to large groups of people.  But one thing
transcends all the barriers of language and it is the purity of your
intention, the goodwill you exude, the light in your eyes, so that what
might be considered offensive when dryly expressed, suddenly becomes
acceptable as they recognize the essence of your spirit.



And all of this comes back to the beginning of our conversation this
evening.  To rest easy in the presence of God, to allow that connection to
deepen, so that you might, from there, express who you are and what you are
about at a higher level of purity.  Thank you for allowing me this
introduction tonight and we are certainly open to your questions, my
friends.



L:  Thank you Aaron.  I love the word “intent.”  If only we could wear a
sign across our forehead showing our intent, it would save a lot of pain
and trouble.  I just love that word “intent.”



M:  We kind of wear a sign… Aaron referred to the light in our eyes.



*             Aaron: Yes, your intention is made known at any time, for
when you are distracted, that is part of what you are expressing, and if
you are focused and pure, in touch with your essence, it can be as if you
had a sign on your forehead.  Learning to find that place is the challenge,
not to be so distracted or unfocused or disconnected from your presence
within.



S:  The sign on my forehead today was absolute frustration and anger,
relating to the law regarding abortion in Texas and the Supreme Court
ruling.  I lost two relatives to back yard abortions who died, one who had
been raped and another who had been forced to have sex with her boss to
keep her job.  So when this came down it was really hard on me.  I don’t
expect a lot of change here anytime soon, but what about the afterlife?  We
have people who have stolen and taken from others and hurt others.  What
happens to them on the other side?  I know there have been transmissions
about forgiveness, but in my human body right now I just don’t have it.  Can
you give me any kind of solace, understanding or perspective?



*             Aaron: Thank you for your willingness to express something
that is on the minds of many people in your country, on your world.  There
are two sides of this, the here and now, and the later.



It may be difficult from a human conception to understand the approach on
the spiritual side, for it is true that any who desire connection with God
and to endeavor along the paths of progress and ascension, will have that
opportunity regardless of what they have done in their human life.  But you
have also heard it said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven, so to
speak.  This is not because something is being denied to them, but because
they chose to focus their development in areas that stifled the development
of their soul, and without a survivable soul, one cannot exist past the
mortal life.  And so some degree of spiritual development is necessary to
progress forward.



The question is, what is the degree of your sincerity and your honest
exploration of questions of moral choice?  These are the things that you
grapple with that help develop your soul.  It doesn’t mean you must always
make the right choice, but that you are exploring the value in the
questions at hand each day.  If one spends their entire life immersing
themselves in the physical animalistic pleasures, ignoring the effect on
others, seeking wealth for themselves and power over others, then those are
the choices these persons have made which bring them to the place where
they will either survive or not in the ascending life.



But recognize that you will be surprised at who survives and moves on.  There
are people who have not always done the highest choice, the best actions,
but who ultimately choose to accept the ascension plan and to adjust to the
reality when it is placed before them, and yes they will rehabilitate to
the degree that is necessary for them to progress.  So this is the after.



The here and now:  Recognize that forgiveness generally is for the forgiver
rather than the forgiven.  Your ability to let things go and not bear
grudges and hold on to them so that they eat at you, is what I am alluding
to here, for one can forgive a predator whose weakness caused them to act
out against another and still not…  I am challenged with how to phrase this
through the receiver’s mind. Forgiveness does not mean overlooking the
problems or ignoring that they exist, but that you place both yourself and
the one you are challenged with in the presence of God or the highest
conception you have of that, and see them from their potential.



But most importantly, recognize that how you will move forward is more
important to understand and to come to grips with.  It also does not mean
that you do not have to stand up for yourself and for what you believe is
true and right and express that to the degree that you are able.  Sometimes
poor decisions, terrible laws, can be a catalyst for those who feel the
injustice, to rise up and make sure the injustice does not stand in the
long term.



Unfortunately on Urantia, everything that happens will not always be to
your liking or even our liking, for choices are being made in many areas,
but also recognize that there is an effort building toward an eventual
expression of  egalitarian justice and the desire for community within the
expressions of individualism.  Not all expressions of freedom are equal.  I
hope this answers some of what you are asking this evening.



S.:  Thank you.  It did calm me down a bit.  You brought up a point I
wanted to follow up on.  My challenge is this idea of inequity.  Some
people toil and barely eke out a living.  So it’s hard for me to accept
that a billionaire, because of some donation, qualifies him to be eligible
for further spiritual development.  It bothers me, the idea that someone
has an easy life and at the last moment sees the light, and then is
welcomed with open arms into the fold.  My thought is he should come back
and struggle and come to grips with how he hampered people by his behavior.
That, to me, is the moral struggle that sticks in my craw.  The idea of
rehabilitation is a good idea.  What can you say about what types of
rehabilitation would have to be experienced?



*             Aaron: Rest assured that the administration of justice
throughout the universes is fair at its very essence.  To use the human
phrase, “no crime goes unpunished,” if you look at this in a spiritual
sense, this is not because there is a desire for punishment but that there
is a natural response to one’s actions - cause and effect.  What you do has
ramifications and those ramifications will be explored in your spiritual
journey, allowing you to come to a place where you can forgive yourself for
what you have done prior so you might move on into a higher level of
expression.  For unless this forgiveness can happen, it is not possible to
fully experience the spiritual life.



S:  It’s absolutely true. In my work as a therapist, I don’t see people who
have an easy life having compassion or understanding or sensitivity,
gentleness, or kindness to the same degree as someone who has made
conscious decisions to push themselves to do good.  I guess that’s the key
that I’m struggling to understand.



*             Aaron: Yes, all these things you mentioned are true.  The
lack of empathy is a barrier and the question is whether it is an
impenetrable barrier or one that can be traversed.  As one moves into their
morontia life, these questions will be thoroughly ironed out and some will
choose not to continue, and some will choose unreality over reality.



S:  That brings me to a great question because I deal with denial all the
time, minimization of behavior and how it impacts others.  I’m curious,
once they leave the human body is there a different process they go through
to make that decision?



*             Aaron: Although we cannot explain too much of what will
happen when you move beyond the human experience, there is a thorough
immersion into all of the various aspects of development in the mansion
world experience.  Those who did not raise children will raise children.  Those
who lacked empathy will have sensitivity training.



D:  What about those of us who want revenge?



*             Aaron: You will have the opportunity to lose that part of
yourself.



D:  Can’t he just stand there and we get to walk by and kick him in the ass?
Maybe the masses he affected negatively have the opportunity to pinch him
or talk to him and say this is what happened because of what you did?  The
human wants some kind of justice and recognition of the wrong.  There are
prison worlds right?



*             Aaron: Thank you for your added insight, with a lacing of
humor.  Of course, these feelings of vengeance or revenge are things you
must iron out, just as they have things they must iron out.  You will all
have the opportunity to reflect upon your actions or inaction and to
explore the value or lack thereof.  You all will have the opportunity to
explore the weaknesses, because hopefully by now you recognize that
weaknesses are just an opportunity to become strengths in the spirit if one
is sincere and purely looking to grow.  But no, there are no lineups and
taunting or pinching or kicking allowed.



L:  I used to get on my soapbox and I got to the point where I had to tell
myself time and time again, that I’m not responsible for their actions, but
for my reactions.  This last new law is like a piercing in my heart and I
feel we’ve gone back more than 50 years.  To me, the law is surreal.  I
don’t see how I can handle it.  This is cruelty and trying to own another
person’s body.  I don’t understand it.



*             Aaron: Thank you.  Yes, this is a challenging decision and
the times are challenging that you face in the near future, but I think we
are pretty confident that you are able to rise to this challenge, to speak
up, to speak out.  Ultimately, injustice will occur at times, on a planet
that is still struggling to find its center, to find its connection to the
core principles of spiritual progress that would lead to a more egalitarian
future.  How you respond to this and to most things in your life is what we
are concerned with.  You each have developed a strong sense of right and
wrong.  What would it be like if a collective uprising of strong people
with this sense emerged and demanded justice?



You know you have seen it before in your country and on your world, with
Ghandi, with Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Joan of Arc.  There are
questions to be answered for each of you, personally, how you will respond
when you feel an injustice has occurred.  Know that you are capable of
turning the other cheek, to return a positive for the negative, to find a
way to utilize the opportunity to express a higher truth.



We would love to sit you down now and tell you exactly what you must say,
but this is not allowed, but we can try to inspire you to be that
expression where you are for your world.  When you are enraged, I suggest
the beginning, where you go back into the calm, turn it over to God,
explore it with that presence and allow yourself to be infused before you
respond.



L:  That helps a lot.  I have a curiosity question.  Will the perpetrators
be able to feel the pain they inflicted?  Like a life review?  That’s a
curiosity question, isn’t it?



*             Aaron: Yes it is.



L:  Okay.  (Laughing)



*             Aaron: And let me just say that the opportunity to experience
the result of your actions will be there for everyone and how they receive
it is up to them.



L:  Thank you.



E:  I think I’d like to say, historically, our society is influenced by the
global situation and the ugliness human beings are capable of doing, but I
think from what I’ve heard you say, is that we have to continue to do good,
and last time we talked about extinguishing the darkness and that’s not
going to happen unless we do the best we can with the good we can do.  We
have probably all unintentionally hurt other people and we, too, need
forgiveness, and sometimes that’s rather hard to receive.  But I think if
we let go and let God take care of it, it takes a lot of the burden off of
us to correct these wrongs and that we would be freer to go about doing
goodness.  Can you elaborate on that idea?



*             Aaron: At times, your expressions in response to our answers,
enlighten as much as our answers can, so thank you for your great summary
of our intent to express regarding your ability to go about doing good, and
how it is a higher reality than feeling a sense of hurt and pain.  This is
not always easy to do, but if you can rally yourselves in the spirit of
God, then it allows you to be, in a sense, a point of goodness on the map,
where those you come in contact with have the opportunity to witness
expressions at a higher degree than railing against the darkness.



E:  Would you expand on how each one of us can implement a process where we
can further along our own abilities to reconcile within ourselves these
pains we experience, not only personally, but with others?  How do you help
us improve on our abilities to deal with these issues?  We have stillness,
but if you have other techniques you could give us?



*             Aaron: Honestly, the best guidance we can offer you is to get
in touch with your core, allow that presence into your lives more
frequently, in a conversational manner, not in the sense that “God’s over
there and I can only access him once in a while when I get in the right
space,” but that “God’s right here with me, and if I’m hurting I can just
tell him that I’m hurting.  If I’m joyous I can share the joy.”



So to the degree that you can see that as an ongoing relationship rather
than a segmented, once in a while connection, to that degree you are able
to see from a higher place, ask for clarity or understanding in the moment,
and make better decisions, because you know the presence is with you now in
this moment as you are feeling whatever it is you are feeling.  This
practice will help you more than any other in being able to know when to
forgive, know when to speak out, know when to hold your tongue, etc.



And so are there other stop gap techniques you can use?  Perhaps, but none
will be as effective as the core integral relationship with spirit you can
develop, such that it is there when you need it and not waiting for a long
period of silence to access it.



E:  Thank you so much.



*             Aaron: My friends, thank you for your presence this evening.  I
will withdraw at this time and let you all reflect upon what we have
discussed this evening.  Feel free to inquire within with your questions.  I
am fairly certain that our Father will answer you.  Of course, your
recognition of it may vary, but know this is the supreme challenge you face
to develop this experience individually.  But yes, we enjoy it when you can
come together collectively, as well, and share your thoughts and concerns.
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