[tmtranscripts] Cut & Paste Snowbird (3)

[ZooidODell at aol.com]

But what happens with our conditioning  ... I've got a note here that tells 
me what we do.  What we do is we ... This is why spiritual reality is 
important here.  "Sin is the offspring of a knowing mind dominated by an 
unsubmissive will."  So we have this terrible conflict, you know?  "I know I 
should do the right thing, but damn it, it's not my fault.  It's not my 
fault, it's his fault.  See what he said?  See what he did?  See what he made 
me do?  Look at how he thinks!  He thinks like my enemy!  How can I love this 
guy?  He's my enemy.  Look what he did to me."

Look what he did to the image that I spent so much time building up so that 
you would know who I am and that guy came along and pulled the slats out from 
under me and now I'm embarrassed and I'm mad at him and it's HIS fault!  Oh?  
This is where forgiveness is really important.  And this is kinda sorta where 
the Course in Miracles thing comes out.  Anytime there's something bothering 
me about you, I'm looking at a reflection of myself, and man we don't want to 
go there.  We don' want to go there.  We want to feel like we're in control.

I was really mad at Daniel Megow.  I was really mad at Daniel, and you know 
what?  Like months after we moved on and got our own place, I realized that 
he reminded me of my dad.  Not all of him, just a little piece of 
conditioning there.  But it was so deep seated and I was so mad at my dad, 
that I kept confusing my dad and Daniel.  I was mad a Daniel.  That wasn't 
right.  Why would I be mad at my brother?  Because I was mad at my dad and 
Daniel looks like my dad.  So I had to forgive my dad!  Again!  (Laughter) 
You know?  Ah...

Am I out of time yet?  (Laughter) Oh...  Let's see.

I've got all these little pieces of paper here and they're all just wonderful 
things because they all contain spiritual reality and there's just nothing 
better.  Nothing better than spiritual reality, even when it's really 
difficult.

This is ... oh.  "Even if" or "even when".  This is one of my favorite 
things, and this is another practical thing that we can do.  This might be 
the prodigal son story, I'm not sure.  I just clipped it out of the Book 
because I really love, again, another phrase here.

"Now this father had grieved much for his son.  He had missed the cheerful 
though thoughtless lad.  This father loved his son and was always on the 
lookout for his return so that on the day he approached his home (the lad), 
even while he was yet afar off, the father saw him and, being moved with 
loving compassion, ran out to meet him."  I mean, get off your butts.  Let's 
go get those guys!  Jesus talked about it in "Why do the heathen rage?"  
Well, because their goals are short-sighted.  They can go get what they want. 
 And we are guilty of pining for spiritual reality when we need to learn to 
take it by spiritual assault.  Spiritual assault!  

And this, again, goes back to one of those things.  A cardinal feature of the 
gospel which we are commissioned and consecrated to doing.  "The 
transcendency of the spiritual over the material in the human personality," 
so even the human will – which is certainly preeminent – may not realize it 
yet, the spirit within that person wants to come home to Father, so go out 
and get him.  Go out and get him!  Have faith in that brat.  Have faith in 
that child, that thoughtless child, that we miss.

Oh, here's another phrase.  I love this phrase, talking about that kind of 
thing.  Here.  Jesus.  He first talked about those who were poor in spirit, 
hungered after righteousness, endured meekness, and who were pure in heart.  
"Such spirit discerning mortals (that's us!) ... such spirit discerning 
mortals could be expected to attain such levels of divine selflessness as to 
be able to attempt the amazing exercise of fatherly affection.  (And so we 
can do that; we can go and get ‘em.) ... That even as mourners they would be 
empowered to show mercy, promote peace and endure persecution, and throughout 
all of these trying situations to love even unlovely mankind with a fatherly 
love."  

This is talking more and more about the Golden Rule, the brotherly love 
versus the fatherly love, which, if we'd get out of the brotherly love, which 
is fine up to a point, but with so much work to do, we can't afford to sit 
around and bicker in sibling rivalry!  We've got to get the mantle of the 
Father on our shoulders and get out there and start doing something!  And the 
midwayers – love the midwayers; boy, they're doers, they're workers, they're, 
you know, none of this exalted stuff, you know, ‘get off the cloud, roll up 
your sleeves, there's people over there committing suicide, shooting up, 
falling down drunk', I mean there's terrible, terrible despair out there!  Go 
get them!  Go get them.  Don't wait for them to come into our little happy 
kingdom and sit around with our smiles going, "Hi!  Get over it!"

But the phrase I like here is "even as mourners".  This reminds me of how 
they said – it was about Jesus' countenance, you know.  They say he didn't 
laugh very often.  But he said that in future times they would be aware that 
we really are a mirthful lot, that we do have a sense of humor, and we do 
find joy in the kingdom, but "even as mourners."  Well, when I look at the 
potential, and I see how unhappy people can be without our Father, without 
this that we've got.  I mean, how lucky are we?  Sure we've made the right 
decisions and we continue to work hard toward the goal of the kingdom - in 
all five of its phases - but ... sometimes it's really ... (long pause) – 
"even as mourners, they can be empowered to show mercy, promote peace, and 
endure persecutions."  And if you're prepared to do this, then you're 
prepared to ... forgive.  Like a father.  Your little brats.  And those who 
have distorted reality so as to find some kind of satisfaction in living when 
Caligastia did such a good job of making such a mess of our whole basket.

So, there's a lot of work to do.  I mean, smiling is good.  You know.  But 
there is a lot of deep psychic surgery that's required, being aware of how 
the other person feels, not shaming but elevating, helping people see the 
brighter way, that there is hope, offering hope.  And, hey, you know, there's 
mopping the floor for somebody or washing their car.  But don't just wash 
their car and wash their dishes without giving yourself an opportunity to 
plug the Master and to plug spiritual reality because it's like miracles.  
It's not going to do any good if they don't learn anything from it.  You're 
just wearing yourself out doing scrub work!  Get to the substance of this, 
where the joy is.

"The Golden Rule, when divested of the superhuman insight of the spirit of 
truth, becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct, and that, 
when literally interpreted may because the instrument of great offense to 
one's fellows."  Because we all have different conditioning.  What's 
appropriate for me may not be appropriate for you, so I can't look at your 
life completely based on what my values are.  I have to look at the bigger 
picture and ask God to counsel me.  Take the Spirit of Truth.  "Michael, 
what'll I do here?"  And set aside my own ego and my own understanding of 
things and ask for guidance and counsel from Higher Power.

I feel myself subsiding.  I feel my energies changing. I have a hunch my hour 
is almost up.  (Audience: "I think your hour has come!") My hour has come?  
Good!  I'm going to take advantage, then.  (Displaying the cover art for TZM) 
You're going to see this in print pretty soon.  The Zooid Mission.  This is 
what it is.  The Zooid Mission is the kingdom.  Yeah, really it is.  I'll 
just take a moment and give this plug because, see, I'm not up here 
transmitting.  I'm just up here talking as myself.

There's another excerpt here.  Let me find it.  It's really good.  I think I 
got it.  "The realities and values of spiritual progress is not a psychologic 
projection, a mere glorified daydream of the material mind.  Such things are 
the spiritual forecasts of the indwelling Adjuster, the spirit of God living 
in the mind of man and let not your dabblings with the faintly glimpsed 
findings of relativity disturb your concepts of the eternity and infinity of 
God.  And, in all your solicitations concerning the necessity for 
self-expression, do not make the mistake of failing to provide for Adjuster 
expression, the manifestation of your real and better self."

Well, I've spent ... I've been reading the Urantia Book for over thirty years 
so, you know, I've been chewing on these morsels of morontia mota and 
psychologic upliftment for a long, long time, and many, many times I have set 
aside  my self expression for adjuster expression.  Boy, do I get a chance to 
do that as a transmitter, because I don't feel it's my expression, and I've 
really pumped iron for the Teachers and for the Teaching Mission and I love 
it, but I'm turning this around now here, and saying "concerning the 
necessity for self-expression," I'm going to not make the mistake of failing 
to provide for personal expression, as I'm doing a lot of this transmitting 
and work in the kingdom spirit expression.

Because really and truly and frankly, I feel like I have reached the point 
where my will and His will are one, and I'm not in this for me, except as far 
as the preeminence of the individual I AM, but I am ONLY insofar as I am a 
son of I am.  I'm nothing without the breath of life that comes from God.  
And so I can advertise this in good faith.

This is a novel, and when I started writing it, we were under the injunction 
to be really, really – almost secretive regarding the Urantia Book.  It was 
just on such a high pedestal.  It was intended for future generations, it was 
to be done one-on-one.  It was so sacred, it was such a gift.  We just almost 
didn't talk about it.  So I didn't use any of the words.  And since our 
world, our planet, was such a mess just before Correcting Time opened up and 
I got to see some of this real cake and ice cream of spirituality, we didn't 
even dare use the word Jesus or God or religion or kingdom or any of these 
words because mankind was turned off completely.  I'm happy to say that 
advertisements for God, conversations with God – God's making a come-back and 
I'm real happy about that. [Applause] 

But when I wrote my novel it was "under cloak" and so it's completely 
fictional, but interwoven through it is everything I could garner out of the 
Urantia Book and spiritual reality to plug into the mind of the readership 
which might be a "cosmic soap opera" kind of thing.  But it was, like, okay.  
Man. Here we are in this really dark hole, mess.  Urantia just really needs a 
major scrubbing from the inside out, and our goal is light and life, and 
we're 5/7th of the way there, supposedly.  That means we've got a lot of work 
to do in the next two epochal revelations to come, so how do I get from here, 
where we are, to where we want to go?  Practically speaking.  So I spent 
twenty years in my mind, in my creative imagination, and with ... with help 
(gesturing up), setting out what my ideals were and what we could do and 
letting them take my ideas and throw them out one after the other and plug in 
a better paradigm, a better ideology, so I have grown so much in the writing 
of my novel that I like to think that somebody else might have a chance to 
grow a little bit, too, with some of the concepts that are implanted there.  
That's my personality expression, so I just would give it a little pitch.  

And any pitch that I have is for the kingdom.  "And a little child shall lead 
them."  And I'm going to lead myself off the stage now.  We all have lots to 
do, lots to celebrate, lots to be humbly grateful for.

I'm not going to get into that part in there where it talks about the church. 
 I get in trouble when I get into talking about the church, and I have so 
much forgiveness to do it wears me out.

Thank you.


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