Global Change Teachings for the New Millennium

Presented by Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase

to members and guests of Global Community Communications Church at a World-Wide Sunday Service

Teaching by Niánn Emerson Chase

Pessimism, Apathy, and OptimismThere are three people who I knew many years ago when I taught in the public schools, who represent three different types of persons in the secular world. These three individuals were teachers, colleagues of mine, and they were very different from each other. What they had in common though was their chronological age and their lack of faith in God. They were not religious or spiritual people, and their values were strictly based on the materialism of the dominant culture. None of them had any vision of the future, nor did they have a sense of history. None of them really felt a sense of responsibility or genuine connection to others, except possibly a superficial relationship with their students and with some acquantances and family. Their daily goals were simply to get through the day, unaware of events happening that were not in their immediate vicinity.

One was a woman who was caustic and bitter. She made fun of everything and everyone, especially anything good and hopeful. Her philosophy was that people were not to be trusted. In fact, life was not to be trusted. From her perspective, every dream that she had had, every person that she had loved, had betrayed her. Life had doled her a raw deal. In her younger years I’m sure that she had been a beautiful woman, but in her late fifties her face had taken on her pessimism. Her eyes were cold, and her mouth had a permanent snarl. Every time she opened that mouth to spit out words, I cringed inside, dreading her gloomy judgments on situations and on persons, and I most certainly couldn’t laugh at her sharp, sarcastic dark humor. I often wondered how her fifth grade students fared with her.

Another teacher was a quiet, timid man whose body, walk, face, and voice showed tiredness. I had to strain to hear the few anemic words he would occasionally speak. His life force was barely noticeable because he had early on given up on life and on people, and now in his fifties, he merely shuffled through his days. I felt pity for this sad, lonely man who lived alone in a dark, cold house and who was barely noticed by his lively high school students, or anyone else for that matter. I often wondered why he continued to stay alive.

The third person was a round, jolly kindergarten teacher who gushed emotionally and continually over the wonderfulness of life. Her enthusiasm seemed to me childish and at times tedious. I couldn’t understand how a person who had lived for at least fifty years could be so oblivious to any suffering or evil in life. She would become very uncomfortable if anyone ever brought up issues that dealt with the darker side of life. She was extremely discomfited by me, for I was known in our school district as the activist, the one who spoke out often against things that weren’t right. Needless to say, this optimist babbled incessantly when around me or any other person who was outspoken and forthright about the imperfections and vicissitudes of life.

I label these three people “the pessimist,” “the apathetic,” and “the optimist.” Two are at extreme ends, and one is nowhere, for he has no opinions or passions. The apathetic is indifferent, spiritless, and almost emotionless. The pessimist and optimist can be lively and opinionated; they can be leaders, movers and shakers, though who they lead and what they move and shake may be cause for concern.

According to Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, pessimism means, “an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome.” Pessimism is also “a doctrine that reality is essentially evil, that evil overbalances happiness in life.” Optimism, according to the dictionary is “an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome.” Optimism is “a doctrine that this world is the best possible world.”

Obviously, none of these three individuals that I just described are balanced, psychologically healthy, or realistic. I have met many people who fit one of these three types, and even though each have their uniqueness and individuality, they fall into the category of either pessimism, apathy, or optimism.

According to The URANTIA Book, pessimism has no place in a truly spiritual person, for pessimism focuses only on the evil and the terrible with no or very little understanding of the good and the terrific. Without a spiritized mind people who rely only on their intellects and merely upon knowledge usually become pessimists or apathetic, for just looking at the facts of the state of the world and its problems without knowing the truth of the presence of the living spiritual forces that reflect the presence of God, can lead to a sense of hopelessness. On page 2076 of The URANTIA Book we’re told, “The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually leads to pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly disconcerting.”

However, neither does secular, materialistic optimism have a place in a truly spiritual person, for, according to The URANTIA Book, that kind of optimism is “blind and self-deceived.” That kind of optimism does not want to deal with the reality and ramifications of the Lucifer rebellion. That kind of optimism does not want to deal with the error, sin, or iniquity in people. That kind of optimism does not want to take responsibility for self or for others. You cannot be your brothers’ or sisters’ keeper with that kind of optimism, for when situations and people get to be challenging, messy, or problematic, and they usually do, the false optimists are out of there. When the honeymoon is over, so is the commitment.

The Greek philosopher of Jesus’ time, Rodan, says,

Never hesitate to admit failure. Make no attempt to hide failure under deceptive smiles and beaming optimism. It sounds well always to claim success, but the end results are appalling. Such a technique leads directly to the creation of a world of unreality and to the inevitable crash of ultimate disillusionment . . . . Wisdom comes only from the experiences of adjustment to the results of one’s failures. [People] who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals can achieve wisdom. Wisdom embraces both the fact and the ideal and therefore saves its devotees from both of those barren extremes of philosophy—the [person] whose idealism excludes facts and the materialist who is devoid of spiritual outlook. (ibid., 1779)

The URANTIA Book tells us that one of Jesus’ apostles was an unrealistic optimist, and one was a pessimist when they first met Jesus. Both of these men, in spite of their imbalances and self-deception, ascended into powerful spiritual leaders, who courageously carried Jesus’ teachings to others in spite of persecution and harassment from the religious and secular authorities. Because these two apostles submitted to the power of Jesus’ love and example, their pessimism and unrealistic optimism were transformed into divine optimism.

The Optimism of JesusWe’re told on page 1102 of The URANTIA Book that

Jesus was consistently cheerful, notwithstanding he sometimes drank deeply of the cup of human sorrow. He fearlessly faced the realities of existence, yet was he filled with enthusiasm for the [spiritual truths of revelation]. But he controlled his enthusiasm; it never controlled him. He was unreservedly dedicated to “the Father’s business.” This divine enthusiasm led his unspiritual brethren to think he was beside himself, but the onlooking universe appraised him as the model of sanity and the pattern of supreme mortal devotion to the high standards of spiritual living. And his controlled enthusiasm was contagious; his associates were constrained to share his divine optimism.

On that same page we are told that

Jesus was an unusually cheerful person, but he was not a blind and unreasoning optimist. His constant word of exhortation was, “Be of good cheer.” He could maintain this confident attitude because of his unswerving trust in God and his unshakable confidence in [humans]. He was always touchingly considerate of all [people] because he loved them and believed in them. Still he was always true to his convictions and magnificently firm in his devotion to the doing of his Father’s will.

Divine Optimism in Spite of the State of the WorldSome people wonder how we of Divine Administration can be of good cheer knowing how messed up our world is, and it seems to be deteriorating very quickly. How can we be optimists when the earth changes certainly are a reality? How can we be optimists when devastation and destruction of life—human and non-human—are happening at an accelerated rate all over the planet? Because we embrace divine optimism, the divine optimism of Jesus, not the childish blind optimism of the woman I referred to earlier. We are aware that there are many problems in the world. We are aware that there needs to be some tremendous shifts and changes in order for this world to survive. But we have optimism.

On page 2082 of The URANTIA Book we’re told “Secular, social and political optimism is an illusion. Without God, neither freedom and liberty, nor property and wealth will lead to peace.” Regardless of what the propagandists in politics and advertising tell us, no matter how much money, property, friends or democracy we have, we as individuals and as nations will not have inner or outer peace without God, being out of divine pattern.

On page 1954 the Fifth Epochal Revelation states,

Jesus gives peace to his fellow doers of the will of God but not on the order of the joys and satisfactions of this material world….The peace which [Christ] Michael gives his children on earth is that very peace which filled his own soul when he himself lived the mortal life in the flesh and on this very world. The peace of Jesus is the joy and satisfaction of a God-knowing individual who has achieved the triumph of learning fully how to do the will of God while living the mortal life in the flesh. The peace of Jesus’ mind was founded on an absolute human faith in the actuality of the divine Father’s wise and sympathetic overcare. Jesus had trouble on earth, he has even been falsely called the “man of sorrows,” but in and through all of these experiences he enjoyed the comfort of that confidence which ever empowered him to proceed with his life purpose in the full assurance that he was achieving the Father’s will.

We who study the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER) have been given a vision of this world being resurrected after the adjudication into a culture of light and life rather than a society of darkness and death. Even though there is error and evil in individuals and in the world, there is also beauty and goodness, the beauty and goodness of the divine in those same individuals and in this same world.

Because of the understanding of God’s overcare of this world that we get from the study of The URANTIA Book and a vision of a resurrected people and a resurrected world that we’ve been given through The Cosmic Family volumes, we can be led by Jesus today as 2,000 years ago He led people to feel at home in the world. According to page 2093 in The URANTIA Book, Jesus taught

…that the world was not fundamentally evil. He did not long to escape from his earthly life;… He attained an idealistic religious life in the very midst of a realistic world. Jesus did not share Paul’s pessimistic view of humankind. The Master looked upon men [and women] as the sons [and daughters] of God and foresaw a magnificent and eternal future for those who chose survival.

In closing, we’re told on pages 2062 and 2063 of The URANTIA Book,

Many things which happen in the course of a human life are hard to understand, difficult to reconcile with the idea that this is a universe in which truth prevails and in which righteousness triumphs. It so often appears that slander, lies, dishonesty, and unrighteousness—sin—prevail. Does faith, after all, triumph over evil, sin, and iniquity? It does. And the life and death of Jesus are the eternal proof that the truth of goodness and the faith of the spirit-led creature will always be vindicated….The religions of pessimistic despair seek to obtain release from the burdens of life; they crave extinction in endless slumber and rest. These are the religions of primitive fear and dread. The religion of Jesus is a new gospel of faith to be proclaimed to struggling humanity. This new religion is founded on faith, hope, and love.

During this season of spring, let us daily note the many signs in the natural world of renewal, rebirth, and resurrection. Healing and growth is each of our destinies if we accept it. Healing and reconstruction of our world into light and life is the future, and each of us can be a part of this future if we choose to be.
Teaching by Gabriel of Urantia

Most true spiritual seekers tune into many things when they begin their spiritual walk and realize that our planet is in trouble in many realms—political, environmental, social, and spiritual. The spiritual very much affects the physical world; our thoughts affect everything, negative or positive. Some physicists are beginning to understand that. Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER) calls it “Ascension Science” and the “physics of rebellion.” According to CFER we’ll be learning about rebellion throughout our ascension process.

I once told an environmentalist, “No matter what we do on this planet to make the environment the best that we can make it, no matter what we clean up, our thoughts can still destroy the planet.” We are in the times of tribulation, and it may be for an indefinite time. The Native Americans have prophesied for a long time about the purification that will happen to our planet. It’s happening now. It may not be a seven year period, as some Christians believe; it may be longer. Certain apocalyptic thought states that in the next seven years or so, our planet will absolutely self-destruct. Some studies see the depletion of our natural resources, at least within the next twenty years, if we’re lucky.

In the possible scenario of mass destruction, how can those of us who survive live our lives in any kind of normality? If you’re spiritually conscious you have to think of those people all over the world who are suffering from natural disasters, illness, poverty, war, injustices, and so on—tens of thousands of people. That’s tribulation, and it’s happening now on our planet. The mass destruction may not be happening yet in America, but it is happening in other countries, to our brothers and sisters, the children of this planet.

How can we live in normality? The answer is we can’t live normal lives today. We can’t. We can’t be the television families of the fifties and sixties—the Waltons or the Nelsons; that’s all long gone. And if we try to be we’re very ignorant. A lot of Americans want to remain very ignorant. That’s not good. You have to have a concern for the whole world. Your little family can’t just go on, and you can’t have your eyes centered on just your little family. No longer will that work, because if everyone does that, the world just gets worse and worse. Individuals need to take action spiritually first.

Optimism: Albert Camus, the French-Algerian philosopher and author, said to a group of monks in 1948 in France, “If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny.” Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER) says that if humanity can make a spiritual leap, all of the other realms will follow—the environmental, the social, the religious, and the political. The whole planet does indeed need a divine administration that operates under the laws of God. We need leaders we can trust to be both godly men and women who are concerned for every person in their realm of influence, not just their immediate families. That’s why there’s wealth in the hands of the few now because most are concerned only with their immediate family and friends.

Isn’t it interesting that we have the phrase on this planet that being optimistic means high spirits, get it? Higher self. Light-heartedness; light; being in the light heartedness. Sunshine in the soul. It would be nice if it was also S-o-nshine in the soul. Humankind definitely needs to walk with God, definitely needs to walk with the Father. People need to walk in their higher selves. They need to be in tune to the Thought Adjuster, the fragment of God within them. Individuals can even get something else special, the Spirit of Truth, which Jesus Christ Michael came to this planet to give upon our being willing to walk in our higher selves with God, moment to moment, having communion with the Father who made us. Yes, and Mother, but that’s another whole cosmological grand universe teaching. First and foremost, all of the planets inhabiting time and space, who come to spiritual higher reality, call the First Source and Center, the Father.

We can’t afford to go through life with rose-colored glasses. You put them on and life looks a little different because much that is not right is overlooked. We can’t afford to go through life and not realize the suffering of the other peoples of the planet. We can’t just turn on the TV and nonchalantly watch the announcers and commentators breezily talk about a hundred and sixty-seven people killed over here and then cheerfully announce in the next second, “Now let’s go to a Bud Light commercial.” I personally would never work at a job like that; I would refuse to seem so uncaring and nonchalant about the many tragedies that were being announced. Money talks doesn’t it? Fame, fortune, all of those things. If we individuals begin to think before we take positions, we wouldn’t take positions that offer prestige, fame, and lots of money but also require that we compromise our ideals and values. If the majority of individuals were thinking and living as spiritual human beings, the whole world could possibly change almost overnight.

Aldous Huxley, a British author said on the subject of free will, “A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimist believer in the will’s freedom after it.” Gabriel of Urantia says, “God is eternally optimistic about His master universe, realizing the chaos that can temporarily exist in free will-personalities, in organic and inorganic matter, in mind and nonmind.” It’s temporary chaos. He sang and whistled the central universe into creation, and so did the Creator Sons and the Universe Mother Spirits when they created the local universes, sang them into existence. The Creators are upbeat musicians. Being a musician, I understand that. Upbeat is a “now” in music, especially the last beat of a measure. What? The last beat of a measure; it’s that upbeat. In music theory, that formula is so because in the next measure of life, in existence in eternity, God has prepared a wonderful upbeat surprise for all His children who follow Him. “All things do work together for the good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose” [from the New Testament].

I know that sometimes it’s hard to comprehend and accept what’s happening in your own individual lives let alone what’s happening in the world, but it’s true nonetheless that God is first and foremost a loving Father/Mother who wants His children to have the best of eternity, and right now each of us is living in eternity. You don’t have to “die” to get to eternity. We are eternal beings in our moment in time and space. Right now, you’re in eternity; there’s no hell for you to burn in after you die. There’s enough suffering right now isn’t there? Isn’t there enough pain right now? God loves you. To relieve that suffering, all you need to do is draw closer to God. I know, there might be a transition period. It might be difficult. You can suffer for the sake of error, sin, and iniquity or you can suffer for the sake of righteousness for the good of the children of this planet. You can create your own pain and be a problem for the planet although you may think “Well, I’m a good person, I’m just OK.” So does everybody else think that. Everyone else thinks they’re a good person too, but how good can you get? Jesus said you can get “perfect as I was perfect” as He walked among us as the Son of Man and the Son of God.

How then will true peace come to our troubled planet? The URANTIA Book says on page 1490:04,

If one man craves freedom—liberty—he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW.

Divine administration exists from an evolutionary world like this one all the way up to Paradise. On higher worlds of time and space there is divine law. There are evolutionary worlds inhabited by mortals (like our world and us), and there are other worlds, some less material than others, with personalities, material and spirit, living, working, etc. It is the destiny of all of those worlds to operate under God’s divine law within circumstantial reality in eternity.

Now here on this planet law in the hands of the wrong people is bad, as you full well know. So who do you trust? Ultimately, you’re going to have to trust some spiritual leader somewhere. Ultimately, on a world of light and life there is no separation between church and state. On this planet there has to be until such a time comes when most citizens truly hear what God is saying and think and live as spiritual, godly men and women. When that time comes, God’s laws are the foundation for all laws, all procedures, all policies, all implementations, and fairness and justice is administered to all persons.

The human mind does not well stand the conflict of double allegiance. It is a severe strain on the soul to undergo the experience of an effort to serve both good and evil. The supremely happy and efficiently unified mind is the one wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven. Unresolved conflicts destroy unity and may terminate in mind disruption. But the survival character of a soul is not fostered by attempting to secure peace of mind at any price, by the surrender of noble aspirations, and by the compromise of spiritual ideals; rather is such peace attained by the stalwart assertion of the triumph of that which is true, and this victory is achieved in the overcoming of evil with the potent force of good. (ibid., 1480:04)Regardless of the drawbacks and handicaps, every new revelation of truth has given rise to a new cult, [a new truth, divine truth, continuing truth that God gives on a planet has given rise to new cults, to new alternative communities, new cultures, new religions, new societies, new persons.] and even the restatement of the religion of Jesus must develop a new and appropriate symbolism. Modern man must find some adequate symbolism for his new and expanding ideas, ideals, and loyalties. This enhanced symbol must arise out of religious living, spiritual experience. And this higher symbolism of a higher civilization must be predicated on the concept of the Fatherhood of God and be pregnant with the mighty ideal of the brotherhood [and sisterhood] of [humankind]. (ibid., 966:01)

We don’t know when Jesus Christ Michael will return. We don’t know. But He will return as He promised and we can have faith in that. We can have faith in the future because He left His Spirit of Truth that is available for each one of us if we are receptive to that gift. With that Spirit of Truth coordinating with the Spirit of God in us, we can adjust our thoughts into higher, more godly thoughts.

Are we, as Christians say, “washed in the blood?” Is that why Jesus came, so that He would die on the cross? Is that why He came? He allowed his persecution and terrible death to happen, but at any moment He could have spoken every one of His persecutors out of existence. He chose to suffer the cruelty and injustice inflicted upon Him and said, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.” He is the Father of our local universe and also a divine Paradise Son. Wow! Talk about being spiritual! He was it. There was no other real avatar who came to this planet. Jesus is it. He came to live for us, to show us a life of perfection and joy so that we could be inspired and encouraged to become the best persons possible; to live a life of service to others.

You want to be an avatar? You want to go to New Mexico or somewhere in Sedona and pay a few thousand dollars to get a certificate and be an avatar, just like Jesus? Isn’t it silly? That’s not spiritual. That’s stupidity. That’s you thinking you have the power to heal. Believe me, we don’t have one bit of healing power unless God gives it. Spiritual persons have to make certain decisions that we wouldn’t have to make if we were not spiritual. But, nonetheless, that is part of ascension. God will talk to you; He’ll talk to me. It’s part of ascension. Every American, every Chinese, every Brazilian, every African, every Canadian, everyone on this planet will eventually have to go through that ascension process.

God is a personality. God is not just a force. A lot of people want to say God is just a force because you don’t have to follow a force. You don’t have to listen to a force; the force is “Everything’s OK, and I’m OK, and you’re OK. There’s no absolute truth, and you’re right, and I’m right, and there is no wrong. You manifested all this because you wanted it before you came to this planet.” Good and evil, right and wrong—rebellion; it goes on. If you get more spiritual, you begin to see there are absolutes, though there is relativity within absoluteness. Your mind, your destiny, your eternity, your relationship with God has got to be based on absolutes. The relativity comes in the daily living within your circumstantial reality. What is right for you in one moment may be wrong for me at that same moment. God may be saying to you, “You can eat meat,” and to me, “Don’t eat meat.” He may be saying one thing to you and another thing to me. Fundamentalistic thought views spiritual reality in a very limited way and puts you in a little box that you will have to live in for the rest of your life. It could be Moslem fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Buddhist fundamentalism, Urantia Book fundamentalism, or whatever. If you get truly spiritual and not necessarily “religious,” you can see through all of that.

How can we be optimistic about the future of our planet? The URANTIA Book says on page 2084 under the title “The Future”

Christianity has indeed done a great service for this world, but what is now most needed is Jesus. The world needs to see Jesus living again on earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men. It is futile to talk about a revival of primitive Christianity; you must go forward from where you find yourselves. Modern culture must become spiritually baptized with a new revelation of Jesus’ life and illuminated with a new understanding of eternal salvation. [The word salvation is even in The URANTIA Book, but its usage is definitely different than the fundamentalists’. What Jesus taught is not the secularized or fundamentalistic Christianity of today.] And when Jesus becomes thus lifted up, he will draw all men [and women] to himself. Jesus’ disciples should be more than conquerors, even overflowing sources of inspiration and enhanced living to all mankind. Religion is only an exalted humanism until it is made divine by the discovery of the reality of the presence of God in personal experience.
The beauty and sublimity, the humanity and divinity, the simplicity and uniqueness, of Jesus’ life on earth present such a striking and appealing picture of man-saving and God-revealing that the theologians and philosophers of all time should be effectively restrained from daring to form creeds or create theological systems of spiritual bondage out of such a transcendental bestowal of God in the form of man. In Jesus the universe produced a mortal man in whom the spirit of love triumphed over the material handicaps of time and overcame the fact of physical origin.

So, you can become perfect; you can keep on ascending spiritually. The ascending son has the responsibility to be the spiritual leader in the household, though on this world often it is the women who are the true spiritual leaders because the men have failed in their responsibility. You want to have kids? Great. Isn’t that wonderful? That’s what it’s all about. A big part of reality is procreation, having children. Within divine administration, the last decision in the household if need be, should come from the spiritual father of the household, not the mother. I don’t always like having make that last decision when necessary, but I am responsible before God for that decision. If I need to intervene, if I need to correct my children, it’s my responsibility to be Father-circuited. Fathers need to discipline their children in a godly manner, as God disciplines us. We parents need to get spiritual and continue to grow spiritually. Why do some kids rebel and do all kinds of harmful and unlawful things? Many do not have true father figures any more. The fewer father figures, the more society falls apart. Single mothers have a difficult time. Any relationship that isn’t correct and spiritually based is difficult. So, getting spiritual is jumping out of the bag of mere physical origin and accepting our potentiality of becoming spiritual human beings.

Jesus jumped out of that bag as our example, right down to allowing Himself to be tortured and crucified by the very beings He created. Wow, that’s spiritual! He said in the first century, “Turn the other cheek.” It’s very difficult to live that principle. That lesson comes in ways you can hardly ever imagine, but every one of you will be tested over and over to turn the other cheek and respond in love. Love doesn’t mean being meek all of the time, letting people trample over you, but it does mean that you cannot act other than godly and spiritually. Who determines that? First of all God and His overseers who oversee us all the time, and they’re trying to tell us—me at my level, you at yours, at whatever level—they are trying to tell you how to act in a godly manner. If you listen to the Spirit of Truth inside you and to the Spirit of God (the Thought Adjuster), you will hear, “Hey, you just did the wrong thing. You shouldn’t have done it that way. You could have responded better.” Now you either listen to that voice inside you or you deny it. That’s God talking to you. When you reach the third psychic circle, not only do you have two forms of God talking to you, you have a guardian angel who attempts to enlighten just you, not overseeing a thousand people at one time. Then you have the angel right up to you, in your ear, saying “You should have been more kind when you answered that question. You should have not said that.” That angelic personality is with you all the time as long as you’re willing to grow spiritually, but if the celestial overseers think that you don’t listen enough, you’re assigned to an angel that has one thousand human beings to oversee, because the guardian angel’s time is wasted with you. They don’t give up; every so often an angel is going to connect with you and see how you are, read you, get in tune as to responsibility. You can go through your whole life and never reach the third psychic circle and get that guardian angel of enlightenment with you every moment.

How can we be optimistic about the future of our planet? The masses of our planet have to get more spiritual.

Eternity is not knowing everything. It wouldn’t be interesting. It wouldn’t be adventurous. God makes life in eternity interesting. On our level of spiritual responsibility He tells us what we need to know, not one thing more. He has His angels whisper in our ear what we need to hear, not one thing more. The Spirit of Truth tells you things about circumstantial reality. The Thought Adjuster leads you to the Father. Once you forget, the Father Fragment, the Thought Adjuster is right back in there adjusting your thoughts toward God.

We all can be more spiritual. I know it’s very hard, and sometimes you need a really great sense of humor. I guarantee you, it helps. Pray for humor. Once you have that relationship with God, pray for everything—wisdom, humor, all the little things that are going to help you in your ascension, because you’re going to need it. Make the connection and pray. Be optimistic about the future because God is a part of your future and this world’s future. You and the world can change. I’m still optimistic even though many of the terrible things that various prophecies and apocalyptic teachings prophesy could very well happen. We may have to live in that. We may have to survive in that, but God’s plan of renewal and evolution into light and life will happen. I don’t want to see all of the cataclysms happen that have been predicted by many ancient and current seers/prophets and present-day remote viewers. My hope is for a change in consciousness of the masses, a shift into a more spiritual way of thinking and living for the majority of peoples on this world without increased tribulation.

No prophecy in my book The Divine New Order has to happen, or for that matter in any book that predicts cataclysms. I certainly don’t want any of those things to happen, but the probability is that if humankind continues in its nonspiritual ways, many of those things will happen. Rebellion has to end. But there will be a new planet. Millions, even billions of people may die, but it doesn’t have to happen. If it happens, they’re not going to hell. When people die they go into a temporary sleep state and then on to the mansion worlds. They are with their loved ones who have gone on before them. There is no death, just a passing on to another world. So we have to readjust our thinking, and we have to walk in the moment without fear, but with concern and compassion. We can do that. I challenge you to do it. Change the world. We don’t want the suffering to happen. Tell your neighbors. Quit those jobs that you don’t belong in and that contribute in some way to the suffering of others. That’s a biggie. Don’t belong to Caligastia’s system in any manner—in your job, in what you buy, in your lifestyle, in your consciousness, etc. Trust God; He’ll lead you to another good job to where He thinks you will serve humanity best. If everyone did that all over the world at the same time, guess what? Tomorrow morning the first stage of light and life would be here.