[tmtranscripts] Pocatello Transcript 6-23-00

[Bill Kelly]

Pocatello TeaM
6-23-00



Michael(Bill/Isaac): Greetings my children, I am your father/brother Michael.

Ken: Greetings!

Michael: I am here in my Spirit of Truth which is accessible to all of you
at any time.  You are precious to me as are all of my children, each one
unique, totally irreplaceable in my universe.  

Your stance with your culture is a trial for you at times inasmuch as you
have advanced past the average level of your fellows because of your
willingness to take my yoke upon you, learn of me, and follow in my
footsteps.  This presents you with the dilemma of having greater knowledge,
greater appreciation, greater perspective than many whom you encounter.
This also carries with it the temptation to be judgmental inasmuch as there
is a part of you which disdains your earlier developmental levels and when
these are presented to you in the guise of another's behavior, statements
and actions, you are in danger of becoming blinded and not seeing through
the facade to the true worth and value of this other person.  In time and
over time you will transcend this limited tendency to be judgmental for you
will become aware of the necessity of the step wise character of ascension.
 At that point you will understand that one should not be faulted for the
level of development they have attained and that these levels cannot fairly
be compared the one with the other.  You have only reached the levels you
are on as a result of the stepping stones of the previous ones.  You are
children of evolution, not Creator Sons.  Your job is to live loyally as a
tadpole so that you may evolve into the frog.  You are much more patient
with your own mortal children because it is obvious that their
developmental levels are not matters of judgment or condemnation; but when
it comes to adults it is easier to restrict your vision and to become
tangled in the facade that is presented  until you know someone well enough
to understand and therefor develop true tolerance.  

Your world is evolving and struggling with issues which have not been
resolved over centuries: issues of personal worth regardless of cultural
norms, cultural mores, the religions of authority, racial prejudice, and a
host of other holdovers from your evolutionary past.  But your time in
history is the most exciting time in Urantia's long struggle forward!  This
is the Time of Correction, dear children.  This is the time of
transformation.  It is happening everywhere.  The old dysfunctional
Luciferian legacy is crumbling.  The perpetrators are no more and their
legacy is under revision.  I am the Planetary Prince of this sphere while
Machiventa is the Acting Planetary Prince under my assignment.  This you
know.  So I take the reins of leadership to do all that I can to foster
this planet and the other rebellion spheres to come quickly out of the
shadows of sin and despair and enter the brightness of the heavenly
community. 

I urge you, when you encounter within yourself a judgmental attitude, to
stop your thinking and connect with your Indweller.  Turn over the urge to
be critical, the urge to find fault, the urge to feel superior.  Let it go,
for it is an illusion.  You are all evolving sons and daughters of God.
What I do wish you to do is to take this divine attitude with you
consciously as you interact with other people so that you can see clearly
your common siblinghood, your brotherhood and your sisterhood.  

Each person has unique things to contribute to the Supreme.  No one can be
replaced   Everyone is important who has survival potential so that the
Universe of Nebadon can make its fullest contribution to the Superuniverse
of Orvonton, while that superuniverse will make its contribution to the
Master Universe and the eventual completion of the Supreme Being.  The work
that you do, you do for the Supreme; you do for me, for our Father, but
finally for the Supreme.  One day you will be connected, as I am, into the
Whole.  You will participate in the great moment of culmination Supremacy.
In the mean time strive to be united with your Indwelling Fragment, so
perfectly united that you shall become one.  This is your destiny even as I
am the Son of God and the Son of Man.

And now, my dear friends, it has been a while since I have been with you in
this manner.  I will allow you to interact with me.  Do you have questions
or comments, concerns.  Please feel free to share them at this time.

Gwen: I have a question.

Michael: Yes, Gwen.

Gwen: I have been having a hard time not judging those who judge others.  I
was wondering if you can give me any insight.  For some reason I feel a
pain inside when I am in contact with those who judge others and it hurts
me very deeply.  I was wondering if there is a way to be less judgmental
toward those who judge others?

Michael: My dear, your sensitivity is wonderful to behold.  

When I incarnated on this planet I experienced pain observing the
shortsightedness of men and women.  My pain was for the lack of
understanding that I saw manifested in others.  As I grew older I realized
that most intolerance is based on ignorance, lack of knowledge; and that
even what manifests as hatred is based n fear, a fear of the unknown.  Most
people will change their view points when they have new information.  

Part of your anxiety over other people's narrow mindedness, as you see it,
touches that vulnerability in yourself of which you are aware, though at
times only dimly... that vulnerability to fear itself; for it is normal for
all humans to be fearful.  It is an animal legacy which is only gradually
transcended by spiritual progress. 

There is no quick solution to your question, but as you grow older in
years, assuming that you will make spiritual progress as well, you will
discover that you understand more and you can even tolerate the intolerant.
 You will begin to understand, that with some exceptions, this is a
manifestation of lack of knowledge and of fear.  

When you find yourself judging others remember you really are judging
yourself.  That is the core of it and then you need to ask yourself, "Why
am I so hard on myself?"  "Would Father regard me as deserving of
criticism?"  "Would Michael become angry with my limitations?"  No!  "Then
who am I to with hold a generous attitude toward myself, which my superiors
and spiritual Parents do not have?"  Have I given you some assistance with
these words, my dear

Gwen: Yes, thank you.

Michael: Do you have other things to say?

Gwen: No, I really heard the answer to my question, that their judgment is
based on ignorance.  I understand that and helps me to be less judgmental
and more sorry for them, to feel sympathy.  But, sometimes it is just
overwhelming and I just get so angry and it is very hard to keep from being
judgmental.  I am sure, as you said, as I grow older I will be able to
learn how to be less judgmental toward those people and less frustrated
with society in what I observe there...ignorance toward certain issues.

Michael: You see, in the evolution of a world, such as Urantia, worldwide
understanding grows out of certain facts of existence.  One is a universal
language, another is a universal religion, another is cultural exchange,
and another is economic interdependence.  It is impossible for people who
are different from each other to meet for the first time without
preconceived attitudes throwing up barriers and walls.  I had the great
advantage as a child to visit in my father's carpenter shop with travelers
from all over the Near East, Far East, and the Mediterranean, for we lived
very close to the crossroads.  This gave me opportunity to meet all sorts
of different people and this definitely assisted me in my human progress
long before I knew that I was Michael of Nebadon.  I was able to become
comfortable with great diversity.  

When I mentioned to you to look within and see if you are being judgmental
toward yourself, Gwen, I really am inviting you to explore this as one of
the mechanisms of the human mind, the tendency to express outwardly
criticism and anger that is really self directed.  

Gwen: Are you saying that because I judge those who judge, I am really
angry at myself for having judgment within myself?  I really don't
understand that.  I am afraid of being judgmental?

Michael: Yes, possibly in different ways and in a different manner.
Perhaps being self judgmental for having human frailties which are yours
uniquely.  Perhaps being hard on yourself for not living up to all your
ideals.  I am not going to diagnose you, as such, but say that when, as a
general rule, mortals are critical of others you need to see that this is a
way of avoiding internally directed criticism by throwing it outside on to
others.  It keeps you from looking at your inadequacies.  I am not
recommending that you become bogged down in self criticism.  What I am
saying is, that in order to get rid of criticism toward others, one must
learn to accept oneself, including all limitations and all past errors and
even past sins, accept these and understand that they are forgiven, that
they are understood by a wiser and higher Source, who dwells, as I do,
within your mind and within your soul.

Self love is the response to the understanding and the feel of love from
your true Parents, myself and Nebadonia, and our common God and Father of
all.  Well, my dear, I am not asking you to figure this all out at the
moment but to consider this as an aspect of your question.

Gwen: Thank you very much.

Michael: You are welcome.

Virginia: Michael, first of all, thank you so much for coming tonight.  I
really appreciate hearing from you.  Michael, as I heard the answer you
gave Gwen...I am older already and I still have that same issue.  I know
that it is an issue of shortsightedness when we can look at people and not
understand where they come from or why they think that way.  I realize that
their position is certainly one of fear.  The unknown to them is a real
threat.  I do believe that and I hear that.  But I also find it very
difficult to understand in our world today where diversity is becoming more
commonplace, every culture, every country, every group of people.  Some
people open their arms and say, "What can I learn from this diversity?"
while another individual would close it off.  I know that is short sided
and I will get to the point...I read recently that understanding is for
eternity and forgiveness is for time.  So my question is, "Can we fully
understand and accept and not judge or can we just try to forgive this
person and move on with our life?"  To understand, I don't think, is within
my ability at this time.

Michael.  Yes.  It is not within your ability at this time or perhaps
within any time prior to the completion of the Supreme.  At that time you
will understand.  We will all know even as we are known.  Therefor judgment
is the province of groups, never individuals and varies in degree of
accuracy, from the least accurate at the evolutionary mortal stage through
the supremacy of perfection at the level of the Ancients of Days.  They are
Sons of God from Paradise, as I am.  They judge in perfection.  So, no, you
will not have full understanding and therefor it is not really your job, or
any of your jobs, to be passing judgment on either yourself or others.
That is not your job.  You do not have the qualifications.  You cannot do
it. (Giggle from group)

So in response to both of your questions I add,  then, this thought.  One
way to let go of being judgmental is to realize that you are trying to do
the impossible.  Forgiveness is a word that has more personal connotations
toward the interaction between two people where one has been wronged by the
other.  Tolerance is an understanding that you are all limited in
understanding, even as I prayed to my Father on the cross, "Father, forgive
them for they know not what they are doing."  My Father didn't need to be
entreated to forgive.  Our Father understands fully.  

I became angry, and still become angry with iniquity, with persistent
rebellion against God, for this is different.  I do not tolerate iniquity.
I do not condone it.  I seek with love to transform it, to turn the
iniquitous one toward the light.  But my son, Lucifer, would not accept my
mercy.  He persisted until he ceased to exist by his own choice.  But this
is not your concern, to make judgments upon iniquity.  I counsel you all to
be merciful.  Having received mercy freely, freely give it.  With hold
judgment, for it is not your job.  You do not have the ability.  Let those
who are responsible for judgment shoulder that job.  If you become angry
then go inward.  Seek my presence.  Talk to me within and I shall hold your
hands I shall sooth your tempers and I shall share my wounded hands, not
now wounded, but wounded by the intolerance of the very thing you are
talking about.  Then you shall know that you are really all brothers and
sisters and all infinitely loved.

My friends, is there one more question?

Ken: Thank you, Michael.  You addressed my question on tolerance.  I was
putting tolerance as a form of judgment for somebody else.

Michael: Thank you, Ken, for your words.  Ah, my friends, it is like the
old days around the campfire.  You are my new apostles, you who have self
consciously chosen to follow me.  We shall preach the gospel, the Good
News, that we are all sons and daughters of God.  And now please stand and
join hands.

My Father, these little ones are ours.  You have given them to me and I
rejoice to be in their presence.  May our Spirit so fill them with love and
with that peace that passes understanding that their minds will transcend
all the petty and merely materialistic concerns and rise like cream to the
surface of their souls, filled with joy, forgiveness, tolerance, patience
and desire above all things to do Your Will.  Even so, my Father, your
universe will be completed.  Your glory will be manifested.

Go with these now as they go their separate ways.  Help them to accept
their humanity, to rejoice in their indwelling divinity and to learn to
love each other as I have loved them.  Amen.