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

(Also available in the book, Global Change Teachings for the New Millennium, Series Three)

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Teaching by Niánn Emerson Chase

In the fall of 1998 we had three teachings at three different times at a Sunday service on unity without uniformity. The URANTIA Book discusses in several places unity without uniformity. We’re in a wonderful season of the year right now, and this has been an especially beautiful spring for us here in the Sedona area. We can learn so much about unity without uniformity from the natural world. We can learn much about relativity within absolutes by observing the natural world. We can learn about commonality with diversity by communing with the natural world. So next time you get out for your walks or go to sit out in your yard or driving down the road, take note of the natural world. Forget the asphalt and concrete of the road. If you are a passenger you can notice even more. Look in the sky. What life is in the sky? Look at the rock formations. What does the natural world have to teach you? What is God saying to you through the natural world?

I love flowers and this is the season for flowers. Consider the rose. The rose comes in many sizes. It comes in many colors. But there is a uniformity with the rose. You know a rose whether it’s very large or whether it’s small, whether it’s fully opened or whether it’s a bud. You know it’s a rose because it has a blueprint, a pattern. There is some uniformity to it to make a rose a rose. Consider irises. Why do we know they are irises? There are different colors; there are different kinds, but they have uniformity to them that makes them irises. If you look closely at the iris it can teach you something. Clistine wrote a beautiful poem about the iris. The iris taught her something. It reflected divine pattern, and it reflected the beauty of the Trinity. I’d like to share that poem with you now.

IRIS or IRISE

This flower lifts from darkness to the sun,
Pure-spun pattern from the mind of God -
Iridescent purple manifesting sheen of hope,
Its triune form resurfacing a vision
Seen long ago and half-forgotten,
Or else reflected from the timeless place -
A hint of Paradise.

So I must also rise
Out of the shadows of uncertainty,
Renounce the ugliness of little self,
Reclaim in gratitude the pattern given me,
Then in new-found innocence,
Open to the Son.

Ausmaminae had drawn an iris and gifted it to me many years ago and had also written a very beautiful poem about it. Her poem honors all women who are unfolding in their unique beauty of reflectivity of the Universe Mother Spirit. I’d like to share her poem with you.

God made one in nature reflective of you,
Standing tall, so elegant,
Strikingly beautiful, timeless -
Exquisite in form.
Her colors so radiant and deep -
Hues of wisdom and truth,
She is a blessing to all.
Her fragrance subtle, ever so humble,
Silently she grows, so gracefully
Changing, surviving with poise
In the harshest of climate,
She brings joy,
Taking inside and integrating
The seasons of change -
Bursting forth ever stronger
The fruits of her labor,
Planted firmly in the ground
And her work at hand.

The iris ever reaching Godward in all her glory
Tells a story of our
“Cosmic Woman of Grace.”

Of course you can never completely capture the essence of a flower when drawing it, just a shadow or a silouhette of the real thing. But all flowers and all plants have something in common, even though they are very different. Irises look very different from roses. There is diversity there isn’t there? But yet, there is a uniformity. Remember as children studying the parts of a plant, the parts of a flower. All plants, all flowers have certain parts in common, and that is what makes them plants, makes them flowers. They have a blueprint within divine pattern. Yet there are thousands of different kinds of plants, different kinds of flowers within the blueprint, within the pattern. Much diversity and individuality is allowed within divine pattern. A great example of this in the natural world is snowflakes. Each snowflake has its own design within a certain pattern; there are no snowflakes that are identical; each one is unique. The URANTIA Book explains that each individual is unique within their God-given personality. Like snowflakes, persons have much diversity within their commonality.God has some absolute laws that are unchangeable, that are permanent. He has absolute laws that will be there for all of eternity for the entire grand universe. Yet within those absolutes of God’s laws is much diversity, much relativity. You can see the absolutes in a flower. As kids in school you also learn what makes animals mammals, what are the characteristics that comprise reptiles, birds, and amphibians. There is a pattern; there is an absolute pattern for those animals, and yet how many kinds of mammals do we have? How many types of reptiles, how many types of amphibians? And then just for example within the dog family, how many types of dogs are there? Can you understand? And on a bigger scale then, on a cosmic scale, there are certain absolute laws. There is the Universal Father, the First Source of All, whose presence is everywhere on this planet. And He manifests Himself in many ways. There is the Eternal Son, the Second Source of All, whose presence is everywhere and is manifested in many ways. And there is the Third Source and Center we often call the Mother aspect of God, whose presence is everywhere.So within the Trinity there is a family. There are the parents and there is the child, and that family is manifested throughout all of the grand universe in many ways. Unfortunately, on this planet so many human families are broken, especially in this country, and there are many reasons for that, all of which I’m not going to get into right now. In divine pattern, in divine administration, families should be together and should grow and expand. There should be unity in families though there can be diversity. There can be children that are very different from each other within a family, but they don’t need to be competitive with each other, and they don’t need to compete with their parents. They all can be individuals and complement each other. So the word “complement” is part of unity; it’s part of divine pattern.

The principle of divine administration from Paradise throughout the entire grand universe is coordination. What does coordination mean? It means unity, harmony, being aware of those others around you. To truly coordinate and be efficient in that coordination there must be love and selflessness, not self-absorption. Now all of us suffer to some extent from the disease of selfishness on this planet. It’s part of being a human being at this point and especially in America, because much of our dominant culture is encouraging materialism and selfishness. So we’re all relearning and rehabilitating here in Divine Administration. Last night, one of the Native American elders said “Many of the native people have to redefine themselves.” They have lost themselves. They have lost who they are as a Native American, as an Ojibwa, as an Apache, as a Hopi, as a Lakota. They need to find who they are first and foremost in their roots, within their point of origin. And they have to redefine themselves as do all of us in this society if we want to get back into divine pattern, which is diversity within absolutes of the law of God—unity, coordination, harmony, love, selflessness. We have to find ourselves, and we have to redefine who we are.

I’m referring to Native Americans because our week-end is very filled with that right now. We of Aquarian Concepts are doing some things to create unity between Native American peoples and non-native peoples. I grew up on Native American reservations, spending much of my childhood and youth on the San Carlos Apache reservation. After getting my degree I went back to San Carlos and lived and taught there for fifteen years. I felt very much in harmony with many Apache individuals although I come from a very different culture as a White Anglo Saxon Protestant, a WASP, though even as a child I rejected much of the WASP value system and culture. I grew up with Native Americans, going to a one room school house where there was grades four through six. For a while it was one through three and then it was four through six, in a one room school house with one teacher. For a while I was the only Anglo, white person, or WASP, in class, and struggling to find out and overcome certain prejudices that were directed towards me. I did learn from a very young age how to be unified with people who are not of my culture, of my race, of my religion, and pretty soon I felt very Apache and very much a part of their culture and religion even though I still retained some of my own foundation of my race, religion, and culture. I enjoyed many, many of the spiritual ceremonies they had. My favorite is the Sunrise Ceremony, which is the coming-out ceremony for the Apache girl when she reaches womanhood. I always wanted my daughters to have something like that. It’s a very beautiful three to four day ceremony. I felt a great unity with and love for the people there, and that’s what we in Divine Administration are working on now with Native Americans.

What I have noticed in my experiences of what creates disharmony and a lack of unity between people is that whether it’s between a man and woman who claim to love each other or whether it’s in a family or whether it’s within a tribe or a workplace or between two nations or between religions or whatever it is, that disunity is because people focus on the differences. They get too attached to an old established way of thinking about that other person or that other group or that other nation or whatever. They get too fundamentalistic, too attached even to rituals. I’ve heard people argue about a sweat lodge. “Well, I’m not going to your sweat lodge. Your door is opening to the west; it should open to the east.” With that kind of thinking, focusing on differences, division happens. When people get too attached to their ways of doing things, their ways of thinking, their ways of doing ritual, they become closed to change and growth and miss many opportunities for healing, expansion, and joy that come their way.

We who understand the purpose of ritual realize that ritual is ceremony, symbolism. Symbolism is a wonderful tool, but it too should change. because in divine pattern, in God’s absolute law, all life should be in continual motion, continual growth, continual evolvement, unfoldment, ascension, including our personal ascension, including the tools that we use, including our rituals, our language, and how we relate to each other. So, if we have a ritual that we’ve hung on to for two thousand years or five hundred years, we might have to be a little concerned about that because rituals should move as we move and change. What I have noticed in people, whether it’s in Judaism, whether it’s in native American spirituality, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism, is that the traditionalists become too attached to their rituals and they become fundamentalists. We use the word fundamentalist often concerning certain Christians. Not all Christians are fundamentalists. Fundamentalists come in all shapes, sizes, forms, and in all areas there are fundamentalists—among business people, politicians, scientists—and fundamentalism is in all religions also. There are fundamentalist husbands and wives. “This is the way I’ve always done it; I’ve always related to you this way, and I’m going to stay this way.” It goes on and on and on, and that’s what creates disunity; that is what creates barriers between people. That’s what creates disharmony. When we focus on those differences, and we want everyone to think like we do, then we can’t have unity.

We live in a global village now, and because of the television, we are so aware of the disunity, the disharmony that is happening all over the planet. We could name country after country after country after country that is in turmoil within its boundaries as well as with those outside its boundaries. There are things happening in countries we’re not even aware of because we can’t cover it all, this terrible, terrible disunity. The gravity of the problem now is that we have nuclear weapons. We have biological and chemical weapons. So if someone gets really angry, maybe they could push a button and wipe out 500,000 or 6,000,000 people just like that. And the aftermath of those weapons will stay for years and years. It’s not just a sling shot or a club or a sword anymore. So, it is very crucial that every individual work for unity in their own personal lives as well as in any other way possible.

Our responsibility as ascending sons and daughters of God is to continue to make choices to ascend; that is part of God’s absolute law. Again, the family, we are sons and daughters of God. We are loved; we are looked over; we are watched. But our responsibility as children of God is to create unity wherever we can, wherever there is disunity. It’s a heavy responsibility, because we have to look at ourselves. How do we create disunity between us and our God? How do we create it with the people we live with? With the people we work with?

Yesterday, one of the Native American speakers at Avalon Gardens said, “You can never take someone else’s language or their culture and incorporate it into your own. That will never work”. I disagree with him; his thinking is fundamentalistic. I think you can take someone else’s language and aspects of their culture and have it become part of your own life. Most languages have beauty to them—beautiful concepts, beautiful sound. Most cultures have something good, something that others can benefit from. If we are operating in God’s law, we want to ascend, we want to evolve, we want to get better. So we are going to, and we learn from other people who are very different from us. We learn something from their culture or their ways. “That would work for me. That will help me spiritually in my own personal growth.” I think it’s good to take that on and add it and incorporate it, and weed out those things that no longer work for us. English, by the way, is the language that has taken on many, many other languages. It has adopted words from many, many languages; that’s why the English language has more words than most other languages. It is on its way to becoming the language of the world. But that doesn’t mean that all these other beautiful languages should be lost, and, unfortunately they are being lost. Currently there are 6,800 languages that exist in the world, but only 600 of those languages have speaking populations robust enough to ensure their survival past the end of this century. Thousands of languages are disappearing as people don’t learn them, so I understand why indigenous people want to hang on to their language, because their language defines their culture, their point of origin. It helps define who they are. And you have to go back to the root of who you are before you can expand and grow and take on more.

Gabriel stated in his talk last evening, May 5, 2001, “Indigenous people must today use technology for their people’s advantage. Some modern inventions are needed to best serve their people’s needs, like in artistic and career choices, so that they can best serve their own people.” When he said that, I thought of the African band, Baba Mall, that incorporates technology and instruments of European and American origin with their traditional instruments. They sing in their own language, use their traditional dress and dance, but have all of this technical equipment and instrumentation in their wonderful productions. I also thought of Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, executive director of the UN’s Center for Human Settlements (Habitat). She is from Tanzania and is the first African woman to run an UN agency, something not at all traditional for the role of women in her tribe, or for most African women. But she rose out of traditions in her culture that no longer contributed to the progress of individuals and of civilization and became a powerful woman who is improving urban and rural living conditions all over the world by helping women pull their families out of poverty through access to education and control over their own lands and lives.

When Jesus walked this earth, most of his people, the Jews, were very fundamentalistic and thus closed to his progressive and expanded teachings. On pages 1339 and 1340 of The URANTIA Book we are told,

By the times of Jesus the Jews had arrived at a settled concept of their origin, history, and destiny. They had built up a rigid wall of separation between themselves and the gentile world; they looked upon all gentile ways with utter contempt. They worshipped the letter of the law and indulged a form of self-righteousness based upon the false pride of descent. They had formed preconceived notions regarding the promised Messiah, and most of these expectations envisaged a Messiah who would come as a part of their national and racial history. To the Hebrews of those days Jewish theology was irrevocably settled, forever fixed.
The teachings and practices of Jesus regarding tolerance and kindness ran counter to the long-standing attitude of the Jews toward other peoples whom they considered heathen. For generations the Jews had nourished an attitude toward the outside world which made it impossible for them to accept the Master’s teachings about the spiritual brotherhood of man. They were unwilling to share Yahweh on equal terms with the gentiles and were likewise unwilling to accept as the Son of God one who taught such new and strange doctrines.
The scribes, the Pharisees, and the priesthood held the Jews in a terrible bondage of ritualism and legalism, a bondage far more real than that of the Roman political rule. The Jews of Jesus’ time were not only held in subjugation to the law but were equally bound by the slavish demands of the traditions, which involved and invaded every domain of personal and social life. These minute regulations of conduct pursued and dominated every loyal Jew, and it is not strange that they promptly rejected one of their number who presumed to ignore their sacred traditions, and who dared to flout their long-honored regulations of social conduct. They could hardly regard with favor the teachings of one who did not hesitate to clash with dogmas which they regarded as having been ordained by Father Abraham himself. Moses had given them their law and they would not compromise.
These circumstances rendered it impossible for the Jews to fulfill their divine destiny as messengers of the new gospel of religious freedom and spiritual liberty. They could not break the fetters of tradition.. ..And so a different people were called upon to carry an advancing theology to the world, a system of teaching embodying the philosophy of the Greeks, the law of the Romans, the morality of the Hebrews, and the gospel of personality sanctity and spiritual liberty formulated by Paul and based on the teachings of Jesus.

So many individuals and groups are still making the same mistake that many of Jesus’ people did, thus creating and maintaining a form of superficial uniformity within their group but no genuine unity with each other or with those who are different. On pages 2082 to 2086 The URANTIA Book has strong words about Christianity and how it has failed so far to fulfill its destiny as messengers of a religion of Jesus. In other words, so far Christianity that professes to follow Jesus has not become Jesusonian though it does contain “enough of Jesus’ teachings to immortalize it.”

Christianity suffers under a great handicap because it has become identified in the minds of all the world as a part of the social system, the industrial life, and the moral standards of Western civilization; and thus has Christianity unwittingly seemed to sponsor a society which staggers under the guilt of tolerating science without idealism, politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without restraint, knowledge without character, power without conscience, and industry without morality. (ibid., 2086:06)Christianity is seriously confronted with the doom embodied in one of its own slogans: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The non-Christian world will hardly capitulate to a sect-divided Christendom. The living Jesus is the only hope of a possible unification of Christianity. The true church—the Jesus sister-/brotherhood is invisible, spiritual, and is characterized by unity, not necessarily by uniformity. (ibid., 2085:03)

In closing I again use words from The URANTIA Book. “The great hope of Urantia [Earth] lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of His saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of His present-day professed followers.” (2086:02) “A new and fuller revelation of the religion of Jesus is destined to conquer an empire of materialistic secularism and to overthrow a world sway of mechanistic naturalism.” (2082:06)

Religion does need new leaders, spiritual men and women who will dare to depend solely on Jesus and His incomparable teachings. If Christianity persists in neglecting its spiritual mission while it continues to busy itself with social and material problems, the spiritual renaissance must await the coming of these new teachers of Jesus’ religion who will be exclusively devoted to the spiritual regeneration of men and women. And then will these spirit-born souls quickly supply the leadership and inspiration requisite for the social, moral, economic, and political reorganization of the world.
The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness. The hour is striking for a rediscovery of the true and original foundations of present-day distorted and compromised Christianity—the real life and teachings of Jesus. (ibid., 2082:09-2083:01)

Teaching by Gabriel of Urantia

Unity is a noun which means, “the state or quality of being one, singleness, the state or quality of being in accord, harmony.” When I play music, it’s unity between the notes; it’s harmony. When you don’t have that, when you play a wrong note, you have disharmony and no unity. Unity is “the combination or arrangement of parts into a whole.” When you play a series of notes that have harmony with each other it’s called a chord.

I like the idea of “singleness or constancy of purpose or action, continuity.” When people have that together they can accomplish a lot of great and wonderful things. When you don’t have that then you are on your own trying to make your own destiny manifest. That’s the whole idea of cosmic family. We are all helping each other to manifest the beautiful destiny that God has for each and every one of us. In the dominant culture, so often you’re on your own. You grow up thinking that you want to be this and you are going to be that and you are going to be this and you’re going to do that, and then, with all those beautiful dreams, you find out very quickly that the corporate powers and mindset of the masses are trying to keep you in control. So you become an architect, and you think you’re going to do this great, wonderful, dynamic vision of a structure that God just gave you, and you get hired with a firm and they say, “Oh no, we can’t do that. We’re going to do it this way, a little box like this.” You can do a few things here and there but basically, it’s got to be in this box. Only a few Frank Lloyd Wrights can escape that system and get their stuff built. Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time because he said, “The hell with the system.” That’s why we have the Chapel on the Rocks in this area which was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. It takes that kind of character to not trust in those who are going to put you in the box and the security paycheck. Usually, once you take the paycheck and once you say, “That’s going to be my life and my career,” you’re in the box. You’re “had.”

What does that have to do with unity? That’s not unity; that’s narrow-mindedness. You’ve got to get out of the box, and you’ve got to go with the birds that want to fly higher, like the eagles. You’ve got to become like an eagle. You’ve got to learn to get out of the boxes and become one with those who want unity without uniformity.

Emily Pankhurst said, “In an army, you need unity of purpose.” I say that in any group that wants to accomplish something, unity of purpose is necessary. For example, on any world of time and space that uses divine administration principles, all of the elements in a work of art or literature combine and contribute to a unified aesthetic affect. There’s an order of all the elements of the earth in art and literature, and each contributes through a unified aesthetic field. The affect is thus produced by those persons involved tuning into God’s will. No matter how individualistic you are, you need someone to make the paint. You can make the paint yourself, but it takes time. If you have other people to tune into how to make the paint and the brushes, then all you do is go to your brother, your sister and say, “I’ll trade you this, you give me that.” It’s called bartering. It’s good. You don’t have to have any money in a situation like that. You don’t have to deal with the greedy guy who’s got the brushes and says, “You give me $150; I’ll give you this great brush,” or “You give me $3,000, I’ll give you this great rosewood guitar.” In most situations in the dominant culture, it’s all about money, and if you don’t have the money, you might not get the guitar until you are in your forties and fifties. Or, if you’re impoverished, as many people are, you’ve got to go out and rob, cheat, and steal to do to get what you want, even hurt other people. But in Divine Administration, it’s given to you when you are twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years old. That’s the difference. That’s why Aquarian Concepts Community has young people performing in Future Studios using these wonderful instruments. Aquarian Concepts supplied it for them as a unified community. That’s how it’s supposed to be. Boy, if I told you my struggles to get my first guitar in this life, you wouldn’t believe me.

I do want to point out that there are other individuals and other groups of individuals who, in spite of the dominant culture, manage to create a reality that is closer to divine administration principles. But they have to work very hard at it, and they probably run into resistance often. The groups of friends, the families, the intentional communities, the churches, the organizations that are able to rise above the greed and lack of trust usually experienced in the dominant culture, the third dimension, have to continually struggle with overcoming problems that rise, combating those who come against their endeavors of creating an alternative situation.

Here’s another one. On any world of time and space where peace needs to come, without the recognition of spiritual authority in others which leads to synchronicity of planetary purpose, a divine administration can not manifest. Everyone wants to be the elder. Do you ever hear the saying, “Everyone wants to be the chief”? We need leaders and we need chiefs and we need elders. But some of those elders have to learn to recognize who their elder is, who the older elder is. Older chronologically or older in the soul? No matter how old you are in the soul, there is a time period in maturation that you have to go through on this earth to get into your cosmic mind.

We of Global Community Communications believe and teach that unity cannot come unless we recognize each other and our spiritual ascension. That is called soul growth. Without that unity, we “shine each other on” and go our own way. Once you go your own way, that other person is not your brother or sister really, nor is he/she your elder. You’ve just diminished him/her in your mind and heart and thus don’t have to give that person your respect or compassion. That is not unity. We have to look at other people with spiritual eyes. We have to see what is truly in their hearts and minds, not what they drive, what they look like, how they dress, what neighborhood they live in, what job they have.

A divine administration cannot come to this planet until elders first begin to recognize other elders of all races, not just Native American elders, but Polish elders, Jewish elders, Chinese elders, Japanese elders. I recently told a Lakota man, “What are we going to do, are we going to have Japanese warriors speaking Lakota? Are we going to have Chinese warriors speaking Lakota? What language are we going to pick? English? Maybe for a very temporary time. But there is a universal language that has not come yet to this planet, and who is going to bring it? There are a variety of scenarios that can happen, but elders and leaders of all races and cultures, regardless of their native language and religion, need to come together in unity, speaking a common language with common goals of serving our people, no longer being warriors of the old order of violence, distrust and disunity but warriors of nonviolence, trust, and unity. And we all need to have Jesus in common, not the Christian Jesus, not the white Jesus, not the Jesus of Western civilization, but the Jesus that belongs to all peoples on this planet. We all have to discover who the real Jesus is.”

Planetary Divine Administration has a world headquarters. We believe, it’s right here in Sedona. We call it the First Planetary Sacred Home. Isn’t that beautiful? This is where the ancestors of all the star tribes are gathering together from four universes to be trained by celestial beings of the fifth dimension, (which we think is the fifth world that the Hopis refer to). Behind the scenes are personalities we can’t see, but they’re right here in this room right now, like Wallace Black Elk said last night, “They are all around us always.” Often they’re having good belly laughs because of our stupidity, because of our jealousies, because of our resentments, because we are not unified. I bet they are crying a lot of the time. They have a hard time of it too, but they’re here nonetheless. The indigenous native earth people have different kinds of communication with them in their moment-to-moment lives. Americans of the dominant culture are eating at McDonald’s and going to the films that take them away from the reality of the spirit world.

The ancestors of the star tribes are gathering here to become, within our Divine Administration here, spiritual state ministers, spiritual state representatives to lead and guide these seven cosmic families of four universes for the future of our planet. They are being trained. We need the highest leaders on this planet. Those who don’t already belong to this Divine Administration who have a feeling to come to Sedona, not knowing why, they just know they should be here—they’re part of the star tribes too. They know that they are to be here in Sedona for some; of course we believe that it’s to be with Divine Administration eventually, in the Starseed and Urantian Schools of Melchizedek under the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star.

Being a slave to the system of the dominant culture tears you down, gives you diseases, kills you very quickly, as Wallace Black Elk said in his talk last night. You can be enslaved to the agony of materialism or you can really tune into “Pakashila”—God, the Creator. Within the Native American tribes, there are many names for God, the First Source and Center, the Universal Father. The Lakota have “Wakan-Tanka;” the Crow have “Ah-badt-dadt-deah;: the Aleut have “Agudar;” the Iroquois have “Orenda;” The Algonquian have “Manitou;” the Cheyenne have “Ma’heo’o; and the Omaha have “Wako’da,” to name a few. In mathematics there is the number one, an identity number of an identity element. You can keep on adding on to one, and it will still have one foundation absolute. It’s the same with absolute truth for all human beings, the first absolute truth being the reality of a personal Great Spirit, one God. But from that one God comes many spirits or gods that minister to evolutionary mortals within Divine Administration.

We all look pretty much alike. We’ve got noses, mouths, eyes, and ears. We all look pretty much alike in a lot of ways, but yet we’re different. How is that? How does God do that? How does God give us all the same stuff, and we each look different? Billions of people, isn’t that amazing? Even if you have two people who look almost alike, there’s always something different because the soul inside talks to every particle of your body and changes it just enough to make you different. It’s your soul that commands the body; spirit commands the body. That’s how it should be, and as you ascend on other planets you get more and more beautiful. Many of those who are born beautiful on this fallen world buy all the makeup; they get all the stuff; they do all the cosmetic surgery in order to stay beautiful. But they can’t stay looking young forever. They will age and eventually die. When those who were physically beautiful but inwardly selfish and unkind go to the next world, their body is going to manifest the ugliness of their soul.

I like to look Italian sometimes. I like to look Arab sometimes. I sometimes wear a headband. I represent all of the past lives that I’ve lived. I never like to look the same twice, and I very seldom do. I will not conform to what the system says that I’m to look like to be whatever they think I should be. And you shouldn’t either. Wear different clothes, different styles, different looks. Change your look; change your mind; grow; ascend. Don’t stay stuck in one religious doctrine that never expands.

The library of Global Community Communications has about seven thousand books. Some are New Age; some are Buddhist; some are Christian, etc. Some are fiction; some are nonfiction. Some are scientific; some are poetic. Some are this; some are that. We don’t have to be afraid of truth. If it’s truth, read it. If it’s not, know what it is. We’ve got the Bible; we’ve got many of the sacred books of different religions. There’s truth in all religions, as well as superstition and falsehood. The important thing is to know the difference.

And so we can keep the best of all the cultures. I love to see native people dressed in clothing that belongs to their traditions and particular culture. I love to see Egyptians dressed in their distinctive clothing. I love to see all that, don’t you? It’s so beautiful. Isn’t it beautiful to see the Indian women wearing saris? As long as it’s not the Moslem countries where they have to cover themselves in black by decree of the macho men who rule them. That, of course, is not what I’m saying. But the diversity of the beauty in different cultures, in the clothing, food, language, and art, is magnificent. We should never lose that. We don’t have to follow the wrong philosophies and dogma of man. It just puts us in little boxes and separates us.

Solidarity “denotes the condition of accord resulting from an identity or coincidence of interest, purposes, or sympathies among the members of a group.” Unity “implies agreement and collaboration among independent, usually varied components.” We who study the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER) believe that there will be, and is now growing, seven sectors of human divine administration on this planet. God and the powers of good are now calling forth these leaders and star tribes from all over the world. They may not yet speak the same spiritual language of the Creator, but they all know that the Creator exists. Millions are stepping out of the fallen system and seeking new societies with leaders they can trust. It’s happening. It is happening.

They know that the Creator is not just a force or an energy. You don’t have to listen to, adhere to a force or an energy. You can do your own thing. “I want to do my own thing.” “I want to do this, I want to do that.” That’s not God. God doesn’t always want you to do your own thing. God wants you to do God’s thing. Just because it feels good doesn’t mean it’s right. I did a lot of things, and I’m sure in other lives too, that I didn’t want to do, but it was God’s will. And once I did it, a peace came upon me, a peace that passes all understanding. Oneness, unity—isn’t that what we’re all looking for? But the system tells you, you’ve got to be this; you’ve got to do this; you’ve got to do that. It feeds your lusts and selfish, harmful desires. That is not unity with the divine mind. It’s unity with the fallen system. You don’t have to conform to that nonsense. That is not harmony or cohesiveness. That is not individuals united in a whole.

We of Divine Administration, on the other hand, are united and have singleness of purpose. We have a divine mission. We feel that we are trying to change the world in a positive, good way. There needs to be a Divine New Order, but it certainly isn’t the one that the “new world order” is trying to put together. That’s the other guy, the bad guy, the leader of the dark spirits, referred to as the devil by many. Some Native American tribes have a name for this unseen leader of evil. The Cherokee call him “Tsv-s-gi-no;” the Abenaki refer to this evil power as “Madjahando;” the Alabama name him “Aatinloska” or “Aattobiilachi;” the Sahwnee call this bad spirit “Matchemenetoo.” The Hopi say “Masaw” was the keeper of the third world until he fell into self-importance, then “Taiowa” (God) made him ruler of the underworld. Later he got a second chance and Taiowa made him ruler of the fourth world (the present one). We readers of The URANTIA Book call him Caligastia. He’s a secondary Lanonandek Son; Lucifer was a primary Lanonandek Son, and he ruled many planets. At the time of Lucifer’s fall he ruled over 600 worlds in his system of government. The Planetary Prince of Urantia (Earth), Caligastia, is who many Christians call the devil. He is behind the scenes, but he’s not dressed in red with horns. This dude is big, mighty and good looking, if you could see him, which we humans cannot. The problem is, inside he is iniquitous, and he’s out to create disharmony and disunity.

All the Native American elders, including Wallace Black Elk, who are speaking this weekend are trying to say that you’ve got to tune into the voice of the one Creator. It’s that simple. Some of you say, “Well, I’ll just tune into my self in my higher self.” Good luck. You want to create your own pain, go ahead. Just tune into your own self. I guarantee you you’ll never manifest what you really need in your life by tuning into your own self, unless that self is in tune with God, the Creator. Sometimes the self is at one with God’s will, but at other times it’s the fallen self you’re listening to. It’s the self that’s brought into the system, the system that’s controlled by the bad guy. He makes it very attractive. Let me tell you this story. It’s so good I’ve got to tell it to you.

When I was in Los Angeles trying to produce my music, I did everything just to try and keep a roof over my head. I was a messenger boy for a time, and I drove this message to this fabulous house in Malibu, right on the ocean. I rang the bell on the big fancy doors, and a beautiful woman in her twenties opens them. She said “Hi ya.” I had my little red messenger suit on, and I was embarrassed. I tried to be as cool as I could be but there was a policy that we had to wear this outfit. After this incident, that’s when I decided to take the red shirt off. If they wanted to fire me they could fire me. I did quit a few weeks later, but before quitting I dressed the way I wanted to dress.

Anyway, this beautiful woman opens the door. She knew I was bringing a message. She said, “Would you like to come in for a minute and have a glass of tea?” I said, “Oh yeah”. Now that’s all I wanted was the tea, OK? And I was already at one time a minister, a Christian minister, and I had a relationship with God. But boy, you know, we are weak in many ways. She was absolutely gorgeous—on the outside. And us men, until we get it together, that outside in women gets us every time—until we get it together. So she goes and gets me a drink and tells me to sit down. A minute or so later a man comes out in a robe. This is the man of the house. I took one look at him, and I knew he was the man that made this house possible and this whole thing. It was obvious that the woman was his lover; he probably had several. I learned from him that he wasn’t married. I asked what he did and he asked me too. He was a famous author and was obviously successful in what he did. We got to talking, and he asked me what I did. I said, “Well, I’m a musician, and I’ve created this album here. I’m trying to produce it. I write spiritual music, but it’s commercial-sounding at the same time.” He said, “Hey, that’s great. Anybody listening?” I said, “Well, I just got here so I’m trying.” He says, “I’ll tell you what. I need someone to stay in my guest house.” He took me to the guest house. The guest house was bigger than the house I live in now. It had fabulous everything. To me it wasn’t a guest house; it was another house. He said, “You can live here. Just take care of the place. I have errands and I need messenger people all the time. I’ll pay you a few hundred dollars a week.” That was the deal. And this beautiful young lady who obviously lived there too, he made the comment very openly, “And she’ll be working with you.” In other words, he was saying it’s just part of the deal, and she was nodding her head.

At that time I was living in Venice Beach, in a very tiny efficiency apartment with roaches coming through cracks in the window and door, paying four hundred dollars a month for rent. And here I am offered this beautiful home in nice surroundings, a lively young woman, and an easy job, just because he liked the way I looked; he liked the way I talked, and he thought I was going to be famous. He said, “You’re going to make it. I’m going to help you. This is what I can offer you.” But I had to make a decision. I think he said I had a day or so to think about it. I said, “OK.” I think I walked out of there with ninety percent of myself saying, “I’m going to do it! Wow! Look at this man. I’m living like a king now. This guy is going to help me succeed. I’ve got this beautiful lady here.” I was trying to be celibate at the time. That was Caligastia’s offer. It was the bad guy’s offer. As I got a little bit away from Malibu and was driving down by the ocean. (I believe that the closer you get to the ocean, the more you can knock off the nonsense that you picked up. That’s why, when I was able to live by the ocean I was able to exist more in Los Angeles because I would go out every day and tune into God.) As soon as I got down to the beach after leaving the man who had given me this supposedly great offer, I sat there for a few minutes, and the spirit of God came upon me. I said, “Oh Father, I’m so sorry for even thinking about accepting this offer. How did that happen? How did I decide that I might possibly accept that proposition? How did I drive home for the last hour excited that this was happening? How did I think for a minute that this could be You, Lord?” So a lot of good things came from that experience.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “All your strength is in your union. All your danger is in discord.” Do you understand how I tied that together? Union with God. Union with the divine mind of each other. Within Divine Administration, that’s our connection with each other, not any other connection. Solidarity refers to the community of objectives and responsibilities that enables a group of people to think and act as one. HG Wells said that “A downtrodden class will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.” Last night I said that modernization in many areas is wise, but you cannot have materialistic conformity. Ascension often opens the mind to scientific realities when you progress spiritually. You’re interested in physics; you’re interested in astronomy, and even the anatomy of the body becomes so fantastic once you begin to ascend spiritually. You begin to look at your body and say, “Wow, how did God do that? It’s so perfect, isn’t it? So Dr. Landau here, when I talk to him and he begins to explain, because I haven’t studied a lot in this life, the names of the various organs, and when I hear him talk I’m just so thankful he’s in my life because I don’t have to go to the book to pick it up. I have my brother. God sends him my way often, and I just listen to him. I don’t have to go to the library. If it’s one of you others in another field, I don’t have to go to the library, I just listen to you. You get it? But you have to be humble to do that. If you’ve got pride then the brother or sister won’t open up because you think you know it all. And they shouldn’t open up and tell you one thing if you’ve got that kind of pride. And whenever I think I’m talking to somebody with pride, I tell them very little. Because that’s not union with the divine mind. You’re doing it for yourself. You’re not doing it for the sake of the world or for your brothers and sisters on this planet. You want to be it for the sake of yourself.

Ascension often opens the mind to scientific realities like physics, and so all of a sudden, the world is so immense. Many Christian fundamentalists think that the earth is the center of the universe. They don’t believe in life on other planets; they think that God made human beings right here on this planet and that Adam and Eve were the first man and woman. Did you hear the story Wallace Black Elk told last night about that? It was very funny. But we know that there’s a unity with millions of inhabited worlds out there that know the same Creator. If we see the extra-terrestrials when they do land one day, when that happens they might come out of their craft and actually have slanted eyes; they might have long dangling green arms, just as has been depicted in certain science fiction stories and movies. The unity we should feel with them is in God, the Source and Center of all things. It doesn’t matter what ascending mortals from other worlds look like. They shouldn’t scare you, because if they’ve got God in them they are our brothers and sisters. All humans are “mortal,” but not all mortals are human. Yes, they’re given orders right now—by Michael of Nebadon who we and others also call Jesus Christ—not to land for everyone on Urantia (Earth) right now because the circuits are cut off on this planet, and they have been for the last 200,000 years. But Michael has allowed some people of this world to see persons from other worlds, evolutionary mortals, and even to interact with them.

I have heard that the producer of Star Trek, the late Gene Roddenberry, got many of his ideas for the TV series, Star Trek and all the different stories from someone who channeled the information from an extraterrestrial of a more advanced world. Gene Roddenberry was in unity with the divine mind, and that’s why millions of people love Star Trek because there’s so many wonderful ideas presented in the stories of Star Trek that expand our minds and give us hope for a better way of relating and doing things. The Star Trek stories, the older or more recent ones, don’t have a lot of nudity, profanity, etc. in them. Instead, you get caught up into a great adventure, “going where no man has ever gone before.” Isn’t it wonderful? Don’t we need more things like that in television and movies?

So, ascension opens the mind to these scientific realities. We can fuse science with spirituality, which Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER) calls “ascension science” and “the physics of rebellion.” Learn to recognize what’s good and what isn’t. All fields of organizational construction of organic matter unifies the inquiring mind if the mind is spiritized.

Thank you very much. God bless you.