[tmtranscripts] Cut & Paste Snowbird (2)

[ZooidODell at aol.com]

And then Five.  The fifth phase of the kingdom as Jesus taught, "the kingdom 
in its fullness.  The future estate of light and life on earth."  And since I 
think grandly, I think about the ultimate light and life not only for our 
planet but for our system, our constellation, our local universe, our 
super-universe, and the ages beyond which we are in training for already!  
What's in store for us in terms of eternity. 

So the kingdom, "embracing spiritual reality with practical arms," really 
gives us a wonderful plethora of opportunities to do something.  Something 
practical.  In terms of building this kingdom.  Jesus said – well, not Jesus 
– whoever wrote this Paper said, "This world has never seriously or sincerely 
or honestly tried out these dynamic ideas and divine ideals of Jesus' 
doctrine of the kingdom of heaven."

We're really – you know, they talk about the animal mind, the "slothful 
animal mind".  We are [I feel myself wheezing, for crying out loud. (Water 
offered) Yeah. How tacky!  (Thank you.)] Oh, here we are.  Here's the 
Teachers.  "By the process of gradually changing mans will and thus affecting 
human decisions (Thank you, Calvin) Michael and his associates are likewise 
gradually but certainly changing the entire course of evolution, social and 
otherwise."

So right off, right off we're getting some practical knowledge from the 
Teachers.  Here's five practical keys: "The preeminence of the individual."  
I AM.  Not just me I AM, but YOU AM, too!  You are important!  I can't just 
willy-nilly be walking around without regard for you.  You count!  Jesus was 
always respectful of the personality of others, and we're very self oriented. 
 And we only think about ourselves.  Consistently!  This is the way it's 
been, and you can't blame us for our conditioning.

Here I want to jump to introduce you to one of my invisible friends.  This is 
What-About-Bob.  When he showed up we said, "What'll we call you?" and he 
said, "What-About-Bob?" so we said, "Okay, What-About-Bob is good."  So even 
today he calls himself What-About-Bob.  Not just Bob.  He's a seraphim, 
beyond midwayers, so he says, 

"I have observed and I have, along with my peers, been astounded at the many 
ways in which you divert yourself, as pleasure seekers.  Your propensity to 
enjoy pain is an immediate result of your planetary handicaps.  You have had 
to learn to enjoy yourselves in the face of discomfort.  You have had to 
learn to justify pleasure in the face of such dreadful conditions as have 
prevailed, and this is not only physical but emotional and psychic as well.  
"In order to endure the thoughtlessness of your selfish fellows, you have 
learned sardonic humor.  You have built crusts upon yourself, for without 
these crusts you would cry, and it's not manly to cry, nor is it womanly to 
cry incessantly ... (much laughter).  And so you toughen yourself up.  You 
create a bar against the pain.  But sometimes the crusts shackle you to the 
point where you are inflicting your own pain, even when the source of 
distress is absent.  You have habitually sought comfort in the distortion, 
and so when the attack is not being made upon you, you make it upon yourself 
in order to continue to feel comfortable."

I mean, is this ...?  It's true!  We do this!

"It's a serious challenge then for me and for us to assist you to learn new 
ways of responding to the vagaries of life so that you can change your 
responses, your physical reactions, your defense mechanisms, so that you are 
not buried behind your own denial of what is, in order for you to see what is 
not, and can thus can begin to build what is meant to be."

He talks about the ego here because, he says:

"It's difficult particularly in the ego area because that's the one thing you 
have determined belongs to you.  It's your body, your lungs, your feet, your 
back, your face, your presentation of who you are and you have charge of it.  
One thing you insist upon is your individuality, your freedom to be your own 
person.  Well, this is a lot of whistling in the dark, but it gives rise to a 
tremendous mental defense system that you each and all have created inside, 
which you life with – your rationale, your dreams, your ambitions, your 
guilt, your shame and your attempts to creatively present the picture of what 
you would have mankind see when they observe you.  Much of who you think you 
are is based upon what you have talked yourself into being, and how 
tenaciously you hold onto that perception of yourself.  You have created this 
in order to find a certain degree of freedom and ability to function in this 
world and as such it's not anything you are willing to relinquish lightly."

Now the thing I love about these Teacher messages is, if they're talking to 
me, they are talking to everybody.  And that means that you are also hiding.  
That you're saying "I'm fine" and it's not fine!  You know, I'll know.  I'll 
know if it's really fine.  I'll feel it!  I'll feel the presence of God in 
you because for ten years I've been practicing.  I've been sitting in 
Stillness to recognize what that feels like, and I can feel it.  I can feel 
it when I walk in a room if He's there or not, if He's trying to make a 
presentation or a point.  You can feel this kind of stuff.  
You get familiar with spiritual reality, it becomes the bigger reality, it 
becomes your life blood, and then you go, "That was not real!  That was a 
smokescreen.  That was something you've talked yourself into believing."  So 
that's part of the practical approach to the Kingdom. If you realize that if 
people aren't with the Father, they're lying to themselves, then you've got 
all kinds of opportunities to ... pull their covers, call their bluff, plant 
a different seed, tell them who they Really are.

And when I say "tell them who they really are" it's like What-About- Bob 
says, "In the alternative, if you allow yourself to feel good – not through 
your defense devices but through honesty and submission to that which is the 
Real you, the elegant and ennobled and childlike and free child of God."

Well, that simple reality is really frightening until you've practiced it 
because you have to let go of your control.  It's that thing about free fall, 
faith being the free fall, and if you're not acting in faith then you're 
acting in fear, which we've been doing for centuries, and so everybody's 
grasping really hard to who they think they are and they don't want to let go 
of that because if they let go they're out of control, and nobody wants to 
feel out of control.

("Love you!" – a friend had to leave to catch his flight)

This reminds me – this little snippet here – of what we are up against.  
Here's an example, in talking about what Bob was talking about.  This is an 
excerpt from the Urantia Book, I don't know what page.

"At the conclusion of the service Jesus looked down before him upon an 
elderly woman who wore a downcast expression and who was much bent in form.  
This woman had long been fear-ridden and all joy had passed out of her life." 
 (How many of those people do you know?)  "As Jesus stepped down from the 
pulpit he went over to her, and touching her bowed-over form on the shoulder, 
said, ‘Woman, if you would only believe, you could be wholly loosed from your 
spirit of infirmity'."  (What a great phrase!) "And this woman who had been 
bowed down and bound up by the depression of fear for more than 18 years 
believed the words of the Master and by faith straightened up immediately.  
When this woman saw that she had been made straight, she lifted up her voice 
and glorified God. Notwithstanding that this woman's affliction was wholly 
mental, her bowed-over form being the result of her depressed mind, the 
people thought that Jesus had healed a real physical disorder."

That might be where Jesus was talking about we'll be able to do even more 
interesting things than he did.  Because look at the backlog of stuff we have 
to operate with!  And we know that now everybody of healthy mind – more or 
less healthy mind – normal mind!  Is indwelt.  There are no ... no rebel 
midwayers or ... there's nothing bad out there anymore, so if there is -- 
somebody doesn't feel good, it's because they've got a bad habit, and the 
only thing that's going to break that habit is an appreciation of the fact 
that – the will!  Is the determining factor.  And you can feel good if you 
want to.  I'm not going to rub your nose in it if you don't feel good.  

As a matter of fact, that reminds me.  This phrase, "Get over it!"  Can you 
just picture Jesus walking up to somebody and saying, "Get over it!"  That 
totally lacks compassion.

I want to talk a bit about ... about forgiveness, because they're making a 
big deal about this thing about forgiveness in the Kingdom of heaven.  It 
must be that we're going to have to encounter forgiveness somehow in building 
the kingdom.  Okay.  Here we are. We know who we are, we love ourselves, we 
know what makes us feel better, and now we reach out to others, these people 
in this room, the immediate siblings and learn how to get along and, man, I 
know that it comes up and bites your butt before you know what happened.  
It's like (hiss) "What was that?  That's Caligastia in disguise.  Oh, man.  
And I thought they were my friend."  

This is a result of conditioning that goes way, way back and it's fairly 
unhealthy conditioning, in the main.  So a lot of us – I don't even want to 
say unhealthy conditioning, although certainly it would be in perspective, 
but, like – I myself have gotten really, really ticked at at least two people 
in this mission.  And I mean really ticked.  I mean fatally ticked.  And I 
have seen – I have seen it happen among other people, and the Holy Spirit in 
me just weeps when I see this happen.  I mean, not just when I see it happen 
in other – out there!  I mean ... (static on the microphone) ... I love you 
so much ... and I love YOU so much ... (loud static) and what's with this 
thing?  Am I doing that?  (Looking up) Did you want to have something to say? 
 (Microphone exchanged for a headset.) 

Oh, man, I feel like myself!  (I can't hear.)  Isn't it amazing how we love 
to hear ourselves talk.  I can't hear myself talk?  This isn't going to work. 
 It's the only way it can balance it on my head.  I have to plug ‘em in 
there.  As a transcriber, it only feels natural that I have my earphones on.  
Are you sure this okay?  Higher?  Well, I don't want you to hear me 
breathing, that's so gross!  (Laughter) 
Oh, God, where are we.  We're forgiving.  (Laughter)

(Audience input as to where we were, including "you're ticked!") Oh, no, I'm 
not ticked.  No.  I'm giving my Keynote Address.  (Laughter) I'm having fun 
now!

No, when I see my loved ones do battle, it just pains me.  It just wrenches 
my stomach, I go into a state of abject prostration because I have idea what 
to do.  And it affects me!  "This is my kingdom!  What are you doing to my 
kingdom? ‘And the lion shall lie down with the lamb.'  Which one of you guys 
are being the lion here?  Get it together!"

I feel like Nebadonia must be a little bit like my mum, and like your mum, 
too, who would walk into the room and see the kids fighting and say, "What's 
the meaning of this?"  And this is sometimes what I want to say when I see my 
siblings in the Teaching Mission at each other's throat.  "What's the meaning 
of this?"  And yet I've been there.  You know?  And so I spend all my time 
trying to figure out what's going on because I can't stand it.  I can't stand 
the fact that my kingdom is disrupted.  It takes everything I have then, to 
apply myself to bring back that harmony.  I mean, it's a job I've taken on, 
you know?  And I know that I can't do anything about your fight, but - I give 
a lot of prayer energy, that's pretty practical.

When it happens to me, though, I have to look further, and when I say I have 
to do these things, I'm implying, I'm inferring, that you have to do this, 
too.  Because as I mentioned, or somebody mentioned here, we have "not 
seriously or sincerely or honestly tried out these dynamic ideas and divine 
ideals of Jesus' doctrine of the kingdom of heaven."  We are his new 
apostles, children.  This is our job.  This is what we have commissioned and 
assigned ourselves and consecrated ourselves to do, is bring about the 
reality of the Master in our world.  How can we not approach it as 
practically and pragmatically as possible?  We don't have time to fight, and 
if we got a problem, we gotta get in there and fix it.  

It is remarkable, however, with our conditioning, how we are so accustomed to 
pain we just laugh it off and say, "I'll deal with it.  You know, in terms of 
eternity.  It's not like I have to do it tomorrow."  Yes, you do.  Yes, you 
do.  We can't afford these leftovers and hangovers.  We need to fix these 
wounds.  I mean that's what we've been given the opportunity to do.  Look at 
the tools that we've been given.  We just have all these wonderful tools and 
Teachers and forgiveness is the big one.

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