[tmtranscripts] Welmek, August 9, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – INSPIRED LIVING
AUGUST 1, 2002

Greeting to all!  This is your friend and teacher Welmek.  I am pleased
to see you on this Friday evening, for in your culture this has been an
evening of play; and I am honored that you have come here to spend your
recreational time with me.  

Spiritual living has its moments of challenge, especially when you are
confronted with a task you have not faced before and applied certain
spiritual principles and skills you have learned.  But life in the spirit
is also playful and refreshing.  It enlivens the soul.  It brings new
depth of meaning and value to your life.  And are not all of these
elating to the spirit?  So it is in this light I wish to continue our
topic tonight on Inspired Living.  

It is this sense of joy and lightheartedness that I wish for you to
experience; wish for you to incorporate more fully.  The drudgery and
monotony of living on this planet can sometimes dull or dim the senses. 
It casts a pall upon the spirit, and further distances you between your
relationship with the Father, and diminishes a certain willingness to
live.  This is a spirit poison.

And so tonight I wish to encourage the idea of inspired living as a sense
of playfulness, even in the midst of your day-to-day routine.  Even in
the midst of what you might consider to be mundane and repetitious tasks.
 Even in the midst of doing things that you find distasteful and
disheartening.  This is the secret to finding happiness in life – to make
joy out of something where you see or sense a lack of energy and life and
vitality.  

So, my friends are you interested experiencing this tonight? (All say yes
or lead on.) I thought you would enjoy this one.  I did understand that
you would all identify with what I was speaking of in this drudgery of
life. 

So let us take this idea into the stillness.  Find the one thing in your
life that you dread to do.  I’m sure it will not be difficult to recall
this.  But allow yourself to sense this now.  And again, it is not so
much the task or idea that I am interested in; it is what the feeling
that that evokes in you is.  So let yourself experience this, and when
you have had enough of it, please share that feeling with me.  (Pause.)

Student:  What I would like to do is to organize my apartment.  I have
many books and magazines and articles.  And what comes up for me is it’s
an impossible task.  I have no system devised.  So it comes up for me,
that when I contemplate doing that, I either don’t have the energy or the
method.  

Welmek:  And would you say you sense mental inertia?  (Yes.)  And would
you also sense a physical inertia as well?  (Yes.)  Thank you.

Student:  Welmek, for me it’s the last several months have been in a kind
of classical situation of one foot in the boat and one foot on the dock. 
Being caught in transition, and not knowing, not having the ability to
assess sometimes, where I am.  Feeling tired or with a certain mental
inertia, and not knowing whether it’s a kind of laziness or actually a
need for rest, because I am deeply involved in some very interesting but
very exhausting work.  It’s that not knowingness leads me from a sense of
guilt of just being lazy, clear to the other extreme of thinking I’m
getting a lot done and I just need to rest.  So this kind of dread has
been in my life lately.  And I don’t even know but what it’s because I’ve
been praying for more perfection hunger.  And maybe that’s just really
kicking in?

Welmek:  I would say that you are experiencing a good dose of perfection
hunger.  But I will address everyone’s comments in a few moments, after
everyone who wishes to, has shared.  

Student:  Welmek, I’ve been experiencing dread and inertia and being
uninspired, and maybe even a little depressed.  I’m getting a little of
that lately.  And the feelings, the sources are many, like fear, and it
feels uninspired, and lazy and stagnant.  And I’m not sure how to pull
myself up by my bootstraps as they say.  It’s hard to shake it off right
now, so I’m looking forward to becoming inspired.  

Welmek:  And I hope that if you bear with this exercise, you will find
that which you seek at the end.  

Student:  Welmek, I couldn’t actually think of something that I dreaded. 
So I thought that, I was thinking of how I detested doing my laundry. 
But that didn’t seem to be deep enough for this exercise, but then I
realized there is something that I dread; and that is, I dread preaching
in church.  And I have considerable anxiety about that.  So I think
that’s a good one for this exercise.  

Welmek:  I was referring to some of the more physical tasks at hand, but
for this purpose of this exercise, we can address both levels.  For what
it is that is preventing you from sensing this inspiration whether it is
occurring for something that has spiritual significance, or is only a
passing task of material maintenance, does not really matter.  It is the
way you feel; it is the way you respond to it – whether you have a sense
of vitality, or whether you have a sense of avoidance.  So we will
address this later in our discussion.  Are there other comments?  

Student:  Yes Welmek, I feel that I tend to – as I get older, it seems as
the testosterone level goes down, my gregarious instinct goes up, and I
dread separation more.  So I notice that more - leaving work crews at the
railroad, and with my kids and my older daughter.  Although I can see it
as an inspiration in long-suffering or something like that, but still I
think that feeling of dread or a lessening is difficult.  (Thank you.)

Student:  Yes, Welmek, the only time I feel any sense of dread, as you
put it, is if I overwork myself.  If I overextend myself and don’t take
care of my other needs – spiritual and emotional and physical.  And then
sometimes in the morning – so I’ve got to go back to work after working a
ten-hour day, the day before.  So, but if I do stillness beforehand, then
the dread seems to go away.  But I do notice I do get a sense of
frustration if I overextend, especially like today, if I set myself out
to only work a certain amount of hours so that I may have some time
before coming here – this is the way I’m going to do other things for me,
and I find myself not obliging myself, and I’m rushing around to get
here, then that’s when I feel a sense of frustration.  

Welmek:  Thank you.  Thank you all for your honesty in sharing something
that has been rather unsavory in your lives.  For as I said, there are
many things in life that leave a bad taste in your mouth, and what I
would like to do is to whet your appetite for continuous life in tasting
the beauty and the joy that is yours when you live in alignment with the
spirit in the Father’s love and in the Father’s will for you.  It is a
quite distinct differentiation, and I wish now to focus on this
distinction with you.  

There are times in life when you must do things for your material
maintenance – managing your needs – maintaining a balance in your
physical body, in your outer life, in the setting you live in,
maintaining certain tasks.  There is a balance between your mental
activity and mental relaxation.  There is a balance between spiritual
exertion and spiritual replenishment.  And all of these are done in an
environment of your inner life as juxtaposed with your outer life – the
life you live and interact with others. So there is this constant
interplay at these various levels and you can see that maintaining
balance is quite an exquisite art.  

And as you know from reading your Urantia text, there is one person who
was able to deftly balance this at all times, for He achieved that
symmetry and harmony of His personality attributes, that afforded Him
this juxtaposition between spiritual intake and outtake, physical intake
and out-take, and mental intake and out-take.  And He did this in an
attitude of love and joy – for were not His words, “Be of good cheer”,
the motto he would most share with his friends and apostles? These were
His words – to look on the bright side; to be hopeful and optimistic. 
And I wish you now to take this idea be of good cheer into the stillness;
and make your appeal directly to the human Jesus now – the one who
understands this delicate balance of maintaining the inspiration of
living in the Father’s love while living a very mundane and routine and
uncertain physical life. 

Take this idea of the activity that you shared with me and ask Jesus now
to shine His light on this – to take your hand and to show you how to
relate to this that will turn the dread to an opportunity to experience
joy, and a greater level of forward motion to move you out of your
spiritual and mental inertia into a place of rigorous faith growth and
soul achievement.  And when you feel that you have received instruction
from the Master, please share that with me. (Pause.)

Student:  I’m not clear on the instructions.  Are we supposed focus on
the issue we have or on how Jesus helps us to be of good cheer?  

Welmek:  The instruction is to ask Jesus now to show you how to look at
this situation that will give you the attitude of cheerful or joyful
while you are doing it.  (Thank you.)

Student:  Welmek, I think I have the answer to this.  I’ve been working
on this lately, and at church it has opened us up more to Jesus’ heart
warmth.  And it seems that the solution for me, and I realize I’ve done
it in the past – when I have a dread of separation and consequently or
possibly along with it a dread of rejection, I can use that as a
catalyst, as you’ve said in other sessions, for my missionary zeal which
is a big thrill for me, and aggressive outreach.  And I know that formula
works; it’s just a matter of making it more of a habit.  

And also possibly from doing autopsies, realize it’s not to the death –
this rejection may hurt, or this threat of separation, but it’s not to
the death, and it whets the appetite for service.  I’m thankful for this
session tonight to make that more clear in my own mind.

Welmek:  So would you say that you have in your own experience turned to
the Master in an attempt to ameliorate the feelings of separation you
experience when you in the midst of this longing to be reconnected?  

Student: Yes, and I think it brought out early, a prayer from childhood –
a Catholic prayer, “I offer up my works, joys, and sufferings of the
day”.  It’s one of the good things about Catholic methodology in that you
dare to offer up your sufferings and mistakes as well to Jesus; and that
brings out the warmth of Jesus, and the even the humanness.

Welmek:  And what would you say in your experience is a trigger for you
to remember to turn to Jesus in the midst of this anxious feeling of
separation?

Student: Well, it’s that feeling right in the heart that gee, there’s
nothing more I can do here to bring spiritual joy.  It’s almost – the
pain is almost the solution.

Welmek:  So the pain is for you a trigger to remember to appeal to the
Master?  (Yes, I think so.)

Welmek:  This is a significant insight.  For all of you will experience
some kind of discomfort at times, whether it is emotional or actually
physical.  But there is a trigger in the pain response that indicates in
your mind and in your brain that something is out of alignment with that
of the Father’s will for me.  Pain is not a punishment, much as your
psychological therapies of punishment and reward have been depicted, but
it is a reminder to you that you have stepped out of the alignment with
God’s wish for your life.  

I would like you to think about this for a moment:  Pain is a reminder
that I have stepped out of God’s wish for my life.  (Pause.)  While this
answer is directed to V., it applies to all of you.  When you are in the
stillness time, ask now for a deeper conscious awareness now to be
impressed upon your mind of this statement.  That the discomfort is only
a reminder that you have stepped out of the Father’s will, and for you to
return to the embrace of Jesus, so that you can feel His response, His
warmth, His Love, and He will then be able to connect that which is His
to give and yours to receive within you.  Use this now as a deeper
understanding and enriched tool so that you can overcome these pangs of
separation, and even isolation that you may feel at times.  Do you
understand?  (All say yes.)  And do you need any further clarification or
elaboration on this point tonight? 

Student:  Welmek, do we find this in stillness or in exploring
interactions with the outside world?

Welmek:  I would say that it is both.  For it will be your experiences
that will trigger certain responses within you; either that of discomfort
or that of alignment, and you will develop your sensing abilities to the
point where you can tell one from the other quite readily.  

However, in the stillness, while the mind is generally relaxed and
receptive your spirit has a great sense and opportunity to impress upon
your mind that which it can bring to help you remedy the situation.  And
that, being the conscious reminder to ask to receive from Michael, from
Jesus, what it is that will move you forward will change your attitude
and perspective while you are living through the experience.  Do you see
the distinction I am making here?  (I think so?  It’s sinking in.)  How
may I further clarify this for you this evening? 

Student: Well, if I’m experiencing inertia, for instance, and a lack of
interest in moving forward in any way, I guess that I can receive
inspiration through silence, and instructions during silence on how to
manifest in the world more progressive behaviors?

Welmek:  A few moments ago when I instructed all of you to ask Michael to
help you through this experience of inertia and drudgery, did you
experience an alleviation of this unpleasant feeling?  

Student:  Well in my case, I felt a certain motivation to try to find
love in my life, and to create it by serving others in some sense and
thereby creating an energy flow that was beneficial to both the other
being and myself.   

Welmek:  So you did get a sense of what it is you could be doing to move
you forward?  And so you were in stillness for a moment, and you received
an insight and guidance, and now it will be your decision whether or not
to act upon that and to see what fruits it bears in your outer
experience.  So I would suggest that you put this to the test now, and
you see what this does for you.  How does it make you feel while you are
interacting with this person as you create this love and service?  What
does it do to your attitude?  What does it do to your sense of being in a
fog of spiritual inertia?  Does the fog lift, and do you receive more
inspiration and motivation?  

These are the kinds of ideas and feelings to sense while you are living
through them.  And then when you have a moment to reflect upon this, take
this into the stillness and ask for your spirit to integrate this
experience into you more fully, and allow the deeper and enriched
meanings of what you have witnessed to in your life to take over and
blend into your soul more harmoniously.  

I want you to think about this this week as you re-read this transcript
and this response to you.  This is a challenge of daily living – to
continually strive to do this in your habits of thinking.  And as we
spoke last week, you are exchanging the old habits for the new.  You are
asking for the habits that God wants you to have now to be more prevalent
in your life.  And you are allowing the new habits to take root in you so
that they eventually become as effortless as breathing.  Do you
understand my meaning?  

Student:  Yes, I thing so, and I see that there’s at least a brief period
of feeling kind of guilty about where I have been, and a little bit of
unpleasant feeling looking back on that.  And so it’s a minor challenge,
but I think it even helps to serve to establish a new reality, even more.
 Perhaps that’s the value of guilt, a form of looking in the past, and
helping the change.  

Welmek:  I would caution you on the use of the word guilt, for it has a
somewhat devaluing notion in the human psyche.  It is good to reflect
upon past behavior and to evaluate it.  But if you judge yourself, which
is part of the makeup of guilt, then you will diminish your sense of
self-respect.  And while it is always good to be objective about your
shortcomings, the best way for you to re-evaluate and re-establish your
sense of self-respect is to ask to see yourself from the Father’s eyes. 
For He does not judge you, and He in His Love understands the
difficulties that you face.  And when you see yourself from this
perspective, you will realize that your mistakes are understandable and
correctable.  And there is no reason to assess yourself so harshly as to
produce those guilt feelings that so demean you.  Do you understand? 
(Yes, thank you.  It’s very illuminating!)

Student:  Welmek this is J.  Thank you so much, for what you mentioned to
C. addresses my situation.  Everybody here is mirrored with certain kinds
of optical illusions – checkered patterns of light and shade, which could
be seen in two different ways, but not at the same time.  And I have the
same problem of focusing sometimes on the cutting edge of evolution;
trying to evolve and grow, focusing on that cutting edge and loosing
sight and feeling of all – and appreciation especially – that I have
done, and all the distance I have come.  So I’m not sure quite how to do
them both at the same time.  Even my dancing instructor was saying, you
have to be careful, because ambition is good, it keeps moving you ahead,
but you can get so ambitious that it takes all the fun out of it.  You
get so concentrated on being the better dancer that you loose ability
just to enjoy what you’ve already figured out.  

Welmek:  And there’s a rhythm, is there not, in this dancing?  And there
is a time to learn new steps, and to fumble over your feet for a time
while you are allowing the circuits of your memory to intersect in your
mental corridors.  And there will be a time of mastery, when your body
responds to your commands and you move with grace and ease across the
floor.  

And always will there be in your life, this rhythm of learning and
mastering.  And so you will not look at the situation from quite the same
perspective, will you?  For you do not see yourself in the same way when
you are learning, as when you are mastering at this point-in-time.  But
in adopting a more fluid and more bird’s-eye vantage point view of your
life; that to know that this is part of the learning process: this time
of stumbling and bumbling, and the time of effortless mastery and grace. 


So in your own mind’s-eye, begin to see the two levels of achievement,
and to look upon them with equal pleasure, and to know this is how you
learn; this is how you grow.  And so you must never evaluate your sense
of self because you have not mastered anything right at that moment. 
Allow yourself the time you need to grow into the experience in this
natural way.  And I think, if you can begin to see yourself from this
higher perspective, you will be able to see how you can achieve, one with
the other, in this one fluid motion.  Do you understand?  

Student:  I think so, Welmek, because my feeling during the exercise, was
a greater flexibility to not get stuck in this analytical mode and be so
analytical.  It’s just like a surgeon who’s knife can only cut, can’t
heal.  I have to be flexible somehow or other to go from this analytical.
 

It’s also like this inner perfection-hunger.  As soon as you get hit with
a dose of perfection-hunger, you notice all your imperfections.  And
there is a big wart on the end of your nose.  And what do you do about
it?  It’s like C. said, it’s hard not to get a guilt then, because all of
a sudden all of your imperfections are manifest.  But I think with this
bird’s-eye view you mentioned, Welmek, you can see that, first of all,
accept and actually embrace with joy the perception, because now you can
actually do something about it; you can move ahead.  Your not caught in
an unconscious (Tape ends.) 

Welmek:  My friend, in the perfecting process, there is beauty in the
imperfect being, for is this not a part of God’s plan, to be a creature
of evolutionary status - to be moving forward in greater harmonization of
all that the Father is?  And so while you identify with those warts and
bumps as you say you see, the Father sees this also, but He sees what the
warts and the bumps produce, and there is great, great beauty in the
becoming; great beauty in the striving; great beauty in being just as you
are now, because each day you grow more beautiful.  See the beauty where
you are each moment, and appreciate that as part of the Father’s plan for
you as well.  

You will only be able to see this, if you see yourself from the Father’s
perspective.  The materialistic influences of your life and your culture
have cast, I would say, a negative look on anything that is not perfect
or right.  But the Father in His wisdom, knows that evolutionary
creatures only reach perfection through a long and dedicated process of
refinement and striving.  And since He sees you as beautiful in the
becoming, He asks of this for you too to adopt His perspective.  I hope
you will consider this very deeply this week as you go about your daily
activities.  For I do believe that it will help you diminish some of
these feelings of unworthiness or guilt that you may still harbor within
you.  For it is not God’s plan for you to continually to feel like this,
for this is not how He sees you at all.  Does this help?  (Yes! Thank you
Welmek.  Yes, it does!)   

Are there any other experiences that you wish to share with me in this
exercise of asking Jesus to help you be cheerful as you go about your
tasks?

Student:  Yes, I must say, I have a method, all I need to do is take a
very small bit that I can organize every day.  I’ve had that in my head
for years and years and years, but it’s very, very simple – a little bit,
no matter how small it is, until I will have this place organized.  It
will also give me a lot of satisfaction, because I have a lot of energy
committed into those books and articles.  He’s basically saying, it’s not
complicated, just do a little bit each day.  And that rings true to me.  

Welmek:  When you attempt any task, and you are not sure how to
accomplish this, you can always go directly to Jesus and ask Him to
assist you.  You have the dual benefit of divine-human experience that
will give you a twofold understanding of the best way to do things.  The
human Jesus was very adept at organizing and executing his work.  He was
a highly disciplined and skilled craftsman, and so he well understood the
demands of big projects and how to complete them in a timely fashion.  

And then, of course, you have the perspective of the Divine Michael, who
is the Creator of the universe, and is very well equipped to handle all
of the problems inherent in running a large organization.  So with all of
this assistance at hand, you only need to go within and ask Him, “Will
you give me a hand with this?  I do not know how to tackle this project”,
and He will gladly show you.  He will hold your hand, guide your hand,
and give you the stamina and the fortitude you need to move through the
project with ease and good cheer.  You will find that the task is
completed quite within an efficient time frame.  And you might find
yourself even enjoying yourself immensely while you are doing it.  

What will serve in your mind as an effective reminder for you to turn to
Jesus to ask Him to assist you in this capacity?  Do you have an idea
what you would use?

Student:  Yes, I think I could just have a 2 by 5 card on my desk, which
says, “Just ask Jesus”.  

Welmek:  He is the universe efficiency expert.  So you do not need to go
very far to get the perfect and the best way to handle your task.  Let
Him lovingly guide your hand and embrace you while you are engaged in
your work.  Does this help? (Thanks)  

Student:  Welmek, I remember in a previous discussion, you mentioned how
stress and anxiety are also indicators of not being in alignment with the
Father.  And that really stayed with me.  And so no matter how rushed I
am in the morning to get to work, I always put aside five minutes to a
half-hour or how long it takes to commune with the Father, and to be in
stillness or to pray, or even to worship as whatever moves me.  And it
seems to set me right in going and meeting the day.  And I always tell my
roommate when we climb into the truck, “another day in Paradise”, and he
laughs.  But when I do feel those moments like as the day drags on, I do
stop for a moment, and Jesus mentioned this to me again, just to go into
the stillness, and just to stop and look around me, and take in the
beauty that is around me in nature.  

And also I use humor a lot to kind of get me through that frustration or
dread, as you call it; and it seems to lift me up into a greater, “this
recharges me”, so-to-speak. And I know this job will get done, and I will
get my needs met in time.  So that’s it. 

Welmek:  You are very blessed, my friend, to have your work in a
beautiful environment with the flowers and plants and the vegetables you
so lovingly tend. 

As you minister to these glorious manifestations of the universe, allow
the essence of the beauty to echo in your soul the patterns of the
plant’s energy and information.  For you will find there is great
intelligence that is a reflection of higher spiritual laws and
representations of the Father’s personality.  And you will find a great
refreshment in this as you touch, smell, see, and ask for this
information reflecting of the Father’s love and the Father’s goodness and
the Father’s truth in these plants come more deeply into your being, so
you will grow more unified in being a child of the planet, and a child of
the universe.  This will give you great enjoyment throughout your day,
for it will stimulate your intellect as well as refresh your soul.  And
when you do this, all of the problems will begin to align, and you will
find that gravity of spirit to propel you to new understanding on how to
handle the balance of life.  For you will see it in the actual depiction
of how this delicate balance between nature and the Father’s reflection
in it co-mingles together.  And you have access and are just as much a
part of this as the flowers and plants that you tend.  Do you understand
my meaning?  

Student:  Yes I do.  I had a couple of experiences today where we were at
this one house – it was real warm today – and we walked into this one
house and there is three peach trees that are growing, and you can just
smell the peaches as they are on the tree, and the taste of them was so
delicious.  And this brings you into a kind of oneness at that moment. 
And then another time I was cutting back this stem of geraniums, and just
the aroma was so intoxicating that it was enjoyable to work even in this
heat.  And it was the aroma that stayed with me.  So I do see what you
are saying, and the deeper meaning beyond that.

Welmek:  Ask the flowers and the plants and the vegetables to teach you
what is it of the Father’s plan that you can share with me that I need to
learn.  And let that essence permeate into your cells and eventually into
the very pores of the beauty you are becoming, as not only a child of the
Father, but as a cosmic citizen of this immense and wonderful and
glorious divine plan. 

And while I address this to D., it still applies to each of you.  For you
have the benefit of living in a climate where you can be outdoors and be
in nature, and to enjoy the beauty and the wonder that is always
available to you by being outside.  And so let this be a teacher to each
and everyone of you, so that you never need to be bored while you are in
your activities.  There are always lessons to learn.  There is always a
deeper manifestation of the Father to understand no matter what it is you
are doing and no matter where you are.  

When you adopt this attitude, you are effectively creating that mental
stimulation that is the harbinger of deeper mental activity – cultivating
the environment within your conscious mind to permeate to the level of
spirit so that your Thought Adjuster has more opportunity to inlay that
which the Father wishes you to understand as you live your life.  In this
way, even the most simple and mundane task can have rich spiritual value.
 And you are all now growing into the spiritual habits that allow this
deeper awareness to become more incorporated into your very cells, and to
overtake some of the natural biological processes; to make this an
automatic response in not only your thinking but your feeling and being,
and total enjoyment for your life.  

And so, I would call on the one who has not shared at this very end of
the evening.  Are there any comments you wish to make at this time?

Student:  I shared a little, Welmek.  Well I really enjoyed what you had
to say tonight.  As far as adopting the Father’s perspective of us, I’m
still processing it.  

But I have another question if you have time to answer another question
that isn’t about your lesson tonight?

Welmek:  I will answer that after I have shared something I wish to with
you, if I have your permission to do so?  (Please.)

I sense within you, if I may be so bold as to say this, a sense of
tension in your effectiveness to convey the Father’s loving message
through you.  And so I encourage you to find that place within you that
is a striving to know God - that is the center of your heart’s desire to
love and know the Father.  Center yourself in this place.  And when you
are doing this, and I encourage you to feel this with me at this moment. 
You might want to use an opening remark something to the effect of,
“Father, we all have innate longing to know You, to also love You, and
even thought it may be buried and masked, place this within us until it
is real and it is a treasure.  And I now ask You to begin to reveal that
treasure for me, and for each of us here tonight.”  

And if you use this as a springboard or as a possible way of opening, you
do not worry about what words will come forth. Stay in this place and
know that what the spirit will move you to say will be what is right for
the audience to hear.  Take this idea now into the stillness, in your
daily activities of communing with the Father.  Ask for a deeper
anchoring in your desire to love and know the Father.  And believe me my
friend, you will never run out of anything to say!  Does this help. 
(Yes, Welmek.  Thank you.)  

Do you have any needs for further elaboration on this?  (No.)  So you may
now ask the question.  

Student:  While I was reading one of Abraham’s transcripts today, and he
characterized personality as a verb and our soul as a noun.  And I was
wondering if you would care to elaborate?

Welmek:  One moment please. While personality is, from your reading in
the text, a changeless attribute that is bestowed by the Father, it
nevertheless has the capacity to harmonize and coordinate, and that is an
action.  It is doing something.  The idea of the soul as, how you say, a
noun is that the soul is the actual entity, and it is being acted upon by
the Father’s personality circuit.  It is your true self; it is the body,
the substance for the morontia energy-form to be constructed around.  And
the personality is ever the integrator.  Do you understand?  (Somewhat.) 
How may I further clarify this for you?  (I have to think about that.)

What was the idea of personality and soul that you had that triggered
this question when you read Abraham’s words?  

Student:  Well, I think you started by addressing that right away. 
Because of course, as you pointed out, we’re familiar with the
personality being unchangeable, so that when I read about it as a verb, I
began to wonder what that meant.  And I can see how you’re using it –
that coordinating is a verb.  But yet somehow I don’t get an in-depth
connection with that.

Welmek:  Personality is more than the sum characteristics of your being;
it is an actuality of the Father that defines who you are.  And so while
the vehicle of your personality is fixed, you are an evolving creature,
are you not?  And so there must be a component of the personality that
acts to integrate all of your experiences into this magnificent and
harmonious creature that you are becoming.  And it is within the Father’s
personality circuit that this is allowed to happen.  

Think of the growth of a flower. A rose is a rose; it changes as it grows
from seed to shoot to stem, bud and blossom, but it is still a rose, is
it not?  There is something within it that allows it to become more
beautiful.  This is the action of the personality circuit.  And I believe
that this is what was being referred to in the lesson.  Do you see the
distinction I am making here?  (I’m trying!)  

This would be an excellent opportunity for you to take this idea into the
stillness, and ask the Father to help you see more clearly in your own
mind’s-eye the distinction when personality is being used in the
changeless fixed sense, and when it is more active and dynamic.  And
perhaps you will be able to see a deeper understanding in the
illustrations I was sharing with you this evening.  (Thank you.)  

Are there any more comments or questions before we conclude this evening?
 

Student:  Yes Welmek, I have been wondering about this ever since we
discovered the Urantia Book.  It mentions that we’ve inherited from Adam
and Eve more of a sense of humor than of music.  Yet I find in my
funniest, drollest New England humor, that it doesn’t even touch the
Moonlight Sonata or Russian choral music, so I wonder how do you see the
fact that we’ve inherited humor to an inspiring degree to somebody on
your level, but very hard for us to put that into perspective –
especially with our crude television humor?  

Welmek:  To me, what you have described is not humorous or humorful.  It
is a glorification of the baser functionings of human nature that have
been popularized and appeal to an immature and degraded mockery.  It is
unfortunate that you classify this as humor.  

Humor from our perspective is the relaxation of spirit – the release of
tension from the evolutionary struggle – to make light of that which we
have experienced and to appreciate that which we have gained in learning,
and to understand the juxtaposition between the struggle and the
achievement.  You have a tendency to appreciate this, but you have not
developed this to the degree that you would immerse yourself in gleeful
remembrance of your evolutionary struggles.  You still mire yourself in
dreamy escapism.

And so part of this evening was to help you to see that there is joy and
mirth in your day-to-day activity; and to see the value and the beauty in
that which you do and that which you have come to find distasteful. 
Because there is such a paucity of spiritual perspective on your planet,
you have not cultivated this tendency to its full realization.  I would
encourage your humorists to look at this idea, because it can be used in
a higher sense and be more of a catalyst for spiritual growth.  

The base mockery of human biological functions, and the degradation of
the human spirit does nothing to inspire you to those higher achievements
which can be found in spiritual growth in seeking to know the will and
the ways of the Father – seeking to align the human condition to that of
the Divine Plan.  So from that standpoint, you have great potential.  And
you did receive a great gift from the Adamic pair.  But like so many
things that have occurred on Urantia, it has not yet lived its fullest
expression.  

Student: I really appreciate the frank comments about our humor.  And the
genetic component, I’m glad to hear that it is undeveloped because I
really worried about that. 

Welmek:  Think about this the next time you wish to crack a joke.  It
will take some practice, I daresay.  And so on this note of levity; let
us conclude this evening’s lesson.  

Life and laughter are all here to help you alleviate the burdens of daily
living.  You have someone who understands what you are going through each
moment of every day, and He always had a cheerful disposition as He went
about doing good.  And so I encourage you, my friends, to adopt this
motto of the Master:  Be of good cheer, and let Him show you how light
and joyful are the ways of living in the spirit of the Father. Good
evening!