CCDT Role – Spiritual Consultant

Of all the roles in the Co-Creative Design Team the one that is obvious is the Spiritual Consultant.  That may see terribly ironic because I don’t know of any management and developmental organization that uses the direct and present services of a spiritual being to contribute to their work! 

Yet, no human/mortal organization has ever taken on a project of the magnitude of designing and then developing sustainable social institutions, societies, and a global civilization.  No human/moral organization has the altruistic AND professionally unselfless qualifications to do so.  So, it is obvious that only those who are not susceptible to selfishness, power, control, fear, and ego are the most qualified to move this gargantuan project ahead with ceaseless progress.  And those are our spiritual planetary managers, administrators, and caretakers.

One representative of that selfless administration has already been asigned to an operational Co-Creative Design Team (CCDT).  Sondjah Melchizedek was assigned to the developmental CCDT in Evergreen, Colorado, and now remains waiting and available to continue his work with that Team when its team members are ready to begin again.  Many other spiritual consultants, as Sondjah, are ready to be assigned to new teams when they form and become organized. 

The main role of the Team Spiritual Consultant is to provide overarching guidance to the Team so that the productive results of the Team are in alignment with the overall purposes of the Correcting Time Program; i.e., so that the Team does not proceed on some unproductive tangent of thought and work.   The Consultant provides an overlay and imprint of the needs of the Planetary administration for the development of the work of the Team.  Team members contribute their perspectives of the needs of humans.  Each side of this spiritual-mortal partnership brings its interests forward for discussion.  Yet, this is not a venue where compromise(s) is developed.  And it is not a venue for fixing problems, but for creating solutions that generate sustainable societies.  And that has never been done before!!!

The second role of the Consultant is to provide consultory comments and insights to the team members that fill in the blank spots of their awareness and knowledge.  By asking questions of the Spiritual Consultant, as they would with a mortal consultant, and receiving answers, team members develop awareness and knowledge of what their unseen team member knows.  How a society maintains itself so that individuals have total autonomy yet contribute to the sustainability of their society is the goal of the Team’s work, something for which we in the 21st century don’t have a clue, and those who do have a clue have great difficulty implementing. 

Guide to the Co-Creative Design Team Process …,  describes in detail the work of Sondjah Melchizedek as he led the Evergreen, Colorado CCDT forward.  His competence and patience are soon evident.  You will find this Guide… at www.starbridgetrust.org when you click on “Articles.”  It is available in English and will soon be available in German and Spanish.  //Daniel Raphael

CCDT Role – Recorder

The Co-Creative Design Team Recorder fills a very important and influential role in the Team.   The primary function of the Recorder is to have their “finger on the pulse” of the whole Team.  Doing so, this person can provide synergistic suggestions, insights, and ideas from their global observations of the Team process(es) and the workings of the sub-groups of the Team, which might not be as obvious to team members buried in their own sub-group’s work.

Secondarily, the Recorder provides a written record of notes from his/her observations, a summation at the end of the Team’s working session that is also used to begin the next session.  The Recorder will be more obviously aware than most anyone else in the Team when the progress of a line of development is not complete.  It is his/her responsibility to then ask the Team or sub-group what they want to do with that line of development.

Because the working environment of the team is highly creative, many ideas, concepts, insights, and the occasional  “ah-ha,” will probably cause the Team to get excited with a new, more fulfilling, line of development and lose track of a valuable line of development that needs completion.  There is a great deal of joy, fulfillment, and excitement in the beginning stages of  this no-holds-barred creative team process.  This is the time to keep track of good ideas that might slip through the cracks caused by so much energy.  And these may just be what is needed to complete later developments.

The person who occupies this role probably should be well adapted to tracking multiple processes without becoming frustrated; and, assertive enough to slow or stop the process of the Team in order to record important developments  that need to be captured.  What this person does not want to do is to become an impediment to the even flow of this creative working environment, or chill the fusion of ideas as invention builds on invention.

In the later stages of the CCDT, progress will become much more plodding and provide more and more specific results.  If you look at the Schematic for Sustainability (www.starbridgetrust.org , see “Articles”) you will see that the first column, Values, will change little through the design era, but the Beliefs, and then Expectations will become more and more developed and full as each column is developed.  [I will speak more about the Schematic for Sustainability in the near future.]   Finally, the column, Criteria for Fulfillment will become very, very detailed.

What does the  Recorder do to facilitate the work of the CCDT through his/her efforts?

What any role does, it must make a significant contribution to the process(es) of the Team and the final results.  Careful, thoughtful, attention to the larger aspects of what the Team is doing will help you gain a perspective that complements everyone.  Do not be afraid to ask your teammates how you are doing, and particularly what improvements they might suggest.  The role of the Recorder is one that can be very dynamic and contributory, which offers the best contribution to the Team.  Who wants to be the Recorder?  //Daniel Raphael

TR Intentions

When you become a TR, (Transmitter-Receiver), what will your intentions be?  Will you want to save the world, become a famous guru, help people, aspire to recognition by your spiritual helpers, or some other intention?

If you are a TR for a Co-Creative Design Team, the agenda (intentions) you have on your mind will surely be an additive to the workings and outcomes of the Team.  As the TR you will have an inordinate potential influence on both the process of the Team and the outcome of what is developed each time the Team meets.  The best quality of TRing occurs when you personally have NO input (influence) in the content of TRing.

As the Team TR, your first and only intention is to be totally empty to allow the questions of team members, and the responses by the Spiritual Consultant, to flow through you without thought, belief, conviction, impression, notion, conclusions, estimate, reaction, conjecture, speculation, supposition, theory, judgment, opinion, point of view, or any other form of bias.  To coin a metaphor, you are the “WiFi Router” between the Source and the audience, much like exists between your connection to the Internet and your laptop computer.  The router does not affect or influence and accuracy of the data/messages coming through it.  It simply enables the data to come through to be received in a form that your audience recognizes.

Not too ironically, the work of the TR takes the form of an active meditation.  That is, the TR must become still in body, mind, and emotions before the message can come through without “static”.  Just as a “good meditation” is one in which there is “no thought” but the sole intention of receiving a clear “down-load” from spirit in the form of insights and an occasional “ah-ha!”, a good TR session is one in which there is “no thought” but the sole intention of receiving a clear “load-through” from the spiritual being who is speaking through you.  I hope you can now see why meditation, and its deeper developed form in the Mystics Circle, is a necessary foundation for TRing.

Meditation and TRing are both immensely educational.  As you TR, the messages that come through you have a profound developmental effect upon your mind, personality, values system, beliefs, expectations, and your own personal thoughts, words, decisions, and actions in all of your life.  For myself, the last 10 years of active TRing in which perhaps over 1 million words have been TRd through me has had an immense effect in my life.  This can only occur when you hold “no thought” about what is coming through.  Having opinions, etc., about the message causes an impediment in the flow of the message coming through — it affects both your reception of the deeper aspects of the message and garbles the quality and content of the message received by listeners.

What is usually not revealed by TRs is that they have access to a tremendous amount of information from the spiritual Team Consultant that did not come through in the form of words!   Questions from team members about these “meta-messages” will give the Team valuable insights into the message that came through the TR.  For myself in my role as Team TR for the Evergreen, Colorado developmental CCDT, I “saw” many metaphors for the message that came through.  I also “saw” a great deal of the lesson plan that the Consultant was using to guide the Team.  Often that information was not revealed because the Consultant had its own agenda for the development of the team process.  Had I revealed that too early, I would have “let the cat out of the bag” and the deeper lesson(s) would have been lost to the Consultant.  So, discretion is needed/useful when deciding what to reveal about the meta-message, and when.

There is one central value that must be held as sacred to the Team TR:  HUMILITY!  Team members should use their powers of DISCERNMENT to estimate whether there has been a lack of humility, or not, in the message brought through by the TR.  (Reference, an earlier POST re Discernment.)   As a team member, you will discern the values and biases of your Team TR from observing and interacting with him/her inside and outside of the Team’s activities.  One simple truth of anyone on a spiritual quest is that they will be consistent within and outside of their spiritual practices; and, if they are not, they will readily admit their inconsistencies.  No one is perfect, no one is totally consistent in their spiritual practices in every minute of their life.  It simply takes self-revealing HONESTY to become AUTHENTIC with those discrepancies, to become a credible TR.  //Daniel Raphael

CCDT – Facilitator and “Flow”

Describing the workings of the Co-Creative Design Team is a bit dry.  It is just a little better than reading a position description in the Want Ads, or a Work Plan your boss wrote, but necessary so everyone is on the same page.

The Co-Creative Design Team Facilitator is one of the team members who has a specific function in addition to the responsibilities of other team members.  The intention of the position of Team Facilitator is to minimize ineffectiveness of the team process while maximizing the effectiveness of each team member.

The position of Team Facilitator does not have any special privileges, rights, or obligations, over those of other members.  Without special authority, the Team Facilitator must offer his/her guidance without chilling the effectiveness of the Team, yet with enough firmness to guide Team Members to make their best contributions.

One duty of the Team Facilitator is provide a monitor and to report on the progress and effectiveness of the Team by sharing his/her estimation of how the Team is doing.  Offering appraisal of what works and what does not work helps the Team improve its process.  Asking team members to offer their own appraisal of the team process and progress also helps members develop their own skills of team process facilitation.

The Team is in many ways a real-time learning environment for experiencing a real-time working relationship with an unseen spiritual being who can participate at a high level of interaction with the Team.

The CCDT does not operate by “Roberts Rules of Order,”  but rather by a “Tao-like” flow within the Team environment.  Neither the Team or members force the outcome of topics.  They let the development flow.  The work of the Facilitator is to be sensitive to this flow and to encourage the flow-experience of individual member and for the Team as a whole.

The Facilitator works more closely with team members to keep order than does the Spiritual Consultant.  You will rarely if ever hear the Consultant caution or warn a team member about unruly behavior, inappropriate language, or unproductive attitudes, which is the business of the Facilitator.  You will discover, when those behaviors occur, that the Consultant simply withdraws until the Team gets itself back on track.

You will discover, too, that time is not of the essence or even a consideration of the Team, as the Consultant will share.  Knowing this, the Facilitator is far more concerned about the development of a topic than the time it takes to do the work.  Considering that the universe operates on an infinity of time, the greatest concern is for right development of the topic that leads to completion, fulfillment, and sustainable, lasting solutions.  The primary criterion of completion is that it is sustainable, i.e., neither you, the Team, or anyone else will have to go back and re-do what has been completed.  Though this process is slow, it leads to forward movement and progress that is continuous.  “Fixing problems” is not the way of the universe, but rather “creating solutions” is.

With these simple criteria in mind, the Facilitator has a great deal of influence in the process and flow of work that the Team produces through his/her participation working with the topic along side of other team members.

The training and prior experience that the Team Facilitator brings to the Team will make a great deal of difference in his/her effectiveness.  Mediation training would be very helpful.  Mediators are particularly effective as they facilitate all interests and everyone’s interests to become shared and known.  They also ensure that the process does not get bogged down by political position-taking,  but rather by sharing their interests concerning a topic.  While mediators strive to reach consensus or agreeable compromise, the Team Facilitator has a much different goal to reach:  progressive development of the topic, and a product that is sustainable.  [NOTE:  Compromise will always be a necessary option in the early stages of developing sustainable social institutions simply because current policies for almost all contemporary social institutions are so out of sync with the primary values of sustainability:  life, equality, and growth that evolutionary steps must be taken to move ahead toward sustainable solutions.]

Finally, the Facilitator must be a person who has a good balance between their heart and head energies, and their feminine and masculine energies.  This position is all about maintaining a grounded, balanced, centered and focused capacity to engage the work at hand while interacting with 6-11 other people, including an unseen Spiritual Consultant.  //Daniel Raphael

CCDT – Team Members

The Co-Creative Design Team is composed of several elements:  General team members, TR (Transmitter-Receiver), Recorder, Facilitator, and “the unseen Spiritual Consultant.”  Today, I would like to discuss the role of the general team member.

While the general team member (GTM) may seem upon first blush to be a position without a specific role, collectively the general team members are the brains of the Team.  Their work, individually, is multi-faceted, and multi-dimensional, with one goal in mind.  That goal is to develop the topic of sustainability to where there is a finished, published summary of the Team’s work for that topic.  Developing that finalized summary, however, may take many weeks and months of regular meeting time.

All through the work of the Design Team there is a dual flow going on:  the linear procedure for developing the discussion and exploration of the topic; and, the multi-dimensional process that allows the GTM to explore the topic 1) by themselves in their own mind, 2) with other GTMs, 3) with the Spiritual Consultant as they are able to silently dialogue with it; and 4) with the Spiritual Consultant in an open discussion through the TR.  ***

***[NOTE:  You can now see how and why the Mystics Circle deep meditation groups are a very useful support for all the team members, no just the TR, novice TRs, and emerging TRs.]

The Team is a team of equals, without special rank, authority, privileges, or rights.  There is no presiding leader of the CCDT.  Each GTMs is responsible for leading the Team through the topic’s development — the reason being that each member can and does receive spontaneous “insights’  as part of the process of the Team, which need to be presented.  [The Facilitator is simply on hand to facilitate the Team process, discussion, and to ensure all options offered for discussion are not lost.  The Facilitator is not the team's leader and is not to assume that role.  The role of the Facilitator will be discussed in a separate Post.] [Further, the Spiritual Consultant acts as both a consultant and a facilitator of the overall work of the Team as it engages the topic with the intention for the work of all CCDTs from the overarching perspective of the Correcting Time Program.]

Team members are responsible for following the Schematic for Sustainability, which will be discussed in a separate Post.  This document provides the superstructure for the procedure the Team will develop as the topic is explored.

Throughout the development of the topic of sustainability, the work of the GTMs is to assume (empathize with) the position/situation of any individual globally and discuss it from that individual’s life.  No small task.  GTMs must be very much in touch with the heart-energy of life, their own life, and the lives of others to competently discuss an empathized role.  They should neither be too logical, reasoned, and linear in their work, or fanatical in their attachment to the topic or to others who are affected by the topic.  Taking and holding either position makes the team less than effective, while moving through those positions allows the Team to appreciate those positions without becoming stuck in process.

And while much work is done during sessions of the Team, a great deal more work is developed by each GTM away from the sessions.  Down time away is a time for letting the topic and process percolate in your mind during those times.  Lastly, each team will develop its own signature for team process and the linear development of topics.  You will find that your participation and contribution to the Team will help it grow, along with the esprit and camaraderie each of you will enjoy.   //Daniel Raphael

Non-Denominational and Then Some!

DISCLAIMER:      The work of “Continuity Beyond 2012,” the Co-Creation Design/Working Teams, Mystics Circles, Teaching Mission, Magisterial Mission, and all other activities of this blog and related sites (www.starbridgetrust.org, etc) are non-denominational.  That is, they are not based upon or use any authority derived from the religions or related books.  Though The URANTIA Book was mentioned as a reference for its excellent and comprehensive cosmology, it is not the ultimate authority for guiding the work of this blog or related activities.   These sources are tertiary.

The first source of our co-creative work is direct mortal-Divine contact.  The second source includes conscious contact with other beings of light in the grand hierarchy of God’s universe management, administrative organization, and ascension programs.  The difficulty with using the primary and secondary sources is that most who bring through revelations do not apply the rules of discernment for determining the validity of the source, the message, and the messenger.  Too many people who have contact with the Presence of God, angels, or other celestial and divine personalities do not take the necessary step to discern how and what they received through this mystical contact. (The art of discernment was discussed in detail in an earlier post.)

Another problem arises in the art of discernment.  When people begin to explore and progress into the realms of mystic practices, they are often unconscious of the influence of dualistic thinking.  (See Wikipedia: dualism)   For this blog, dualistic thinking refers to using two sources of authority, God and their religion, in one’s thinking.   This is no small topic, but has consumed theologians for centuries.  However, this does not cause a great deal of conflict for many people because they have not examined and carefully discerned their own thinking, or the beliefs of their church.

For traditional religionists, accepting God and their church’s authority does not cause any conflict because they almost always consider the church as the proper authority for understanding the authority of God, based upon ancient texts.   Rarely, do major churches examine contemporary revelation from their own mystic sects and rarely do they update the authority of their ancient texts or revise erroneous theological concepts. Thus, these religious authorities are caught in circular thinking that becomes even more antiquarian with time.  God-centered religions are supposed to be evolutionary religions — evolving to match the maturing development of its believers so that they may accept more advanced and evolved concepts of their Creator.

It is understandable, then, that so many thinking and believing church members have been dropping out of their religions:  Because the faith of their church is unable to grow and mature, some find themselves compromising their integrity. There is then a disconnect between church doctrine or practices and what they truly know about their relationship with God, the Creator and they must leave!  In some mysterious way, these people have already begun a personal, mystical God-relationship, and now yearn for more.  They are ready to become conscious and engaged mystics, candidates for participating in the Mystics Circle.

Further, I believe that there is a huge population of these drop-out God-believers who are yearning for more.  And, further, they would probably become some of the most eager individuals for participating in projects of sustainability guided by a spiritual consultant.  Mystic contact and a working God-mortal relationship is at the heart of the co-creative process and will provide the energy needed for designing and implementing projects of social sustainability.  Doing so, we can be assured there is a continuity beyond 2012 for our societies and civilization.

You will find a wealth of similar thoughts about traditional religions and “the church” from the writings of John Shelby Spong and other controversial thinkers.    //Daniel Raphael

The Mystics Circle: 2

Introduction

It is only natural for people of similar interests to come together in associations.  The commonality of mystics that stands out among several is that mystics often feel self-exiled from their religious group.  This almost always occurs because of the inner spiritual growth they have achieved from individual meditation and contemplative practices.  Their growth almost always has taken them far past the ritualistic rhetoric of their religious origins.

Over the years I have become acquainted with numerous mystics – those who seek to personally and intimately know the “God Presence” within them.  Each one has said how lonely they have been as a practicing mystic.  And with each new mystic I meet, their first reaction is usually of surprise and joy to have found a fellow spiritual traveler, much like a reunion of old friends long parted.

Their second reaction, not too ironically, is that they seem averse to “joining” into some association with others.  I have consistently seen with each new mystic I’ve met an inner conflict between the need for fellowship and association, and their bedrock truth that they are so complete and fulfilled in their isolation and relationship with the Divine that they couldn’t possibly find anything to help them feel more fulfilled.  That is definitely one of the products of a long conscious and intimate relationship with the Divine.

Yet, each of us is a social being.  Our social existence validates our world and universe views, though its existence is not necessary to validate the truths of our relationship with the Divine, or of that of the Divine to us.  Our social existence validates us experiencing our self with the Divine…that it is possible to do so because others are too!  Any competent mystic has already observed themselves in relationship to the Divine, and has wondered as well if that is real and not a figment of their imagination or a manifestation of some mental health issue.

As I see it, a social existence with other mystics is an essential component of my life as a member of a larger society of non-mystics.  Doing so in an association, as the Mystics Circle for example, provides the more socially inclined mystic to feel more comfortable in their immediate and larger communities.  I suspect, though, the unique individualism of mystics who have lived their beliefs in isolation for many years will assure that they probably will not join.  Younger, newer mystics, however, will find solace with others who will help them deepen their mortal-Divine relationship even more as the years pass.

One product of association is service.  It is in the name of service to budding mystics, old and young, that the Mystics Circle will be most effective.  As more and more educated people grow up in secular societies many will wonder, ponder, and contemplate the possible existence of a Creator.  And some will do so about a possible relationship with the Divine — apart from any religious form or authority.  And some few will have a “God experience” and come to experience the presence of God, as IT reaches down to make contact with that curious mortal.  Then a Mystics Circle would be of tremendous help and support.

Definition: mysticism, the belief that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is attainable through immediate intuition or insight. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).  Also, mystic – one who knows God.   // The progression to a mystic relationship usually takes this journey:  hope that there is a Creator/God;  faith that there is a Creator/God;  belief that God exists;  trust in the assurance that God exists;  and knowing God exists because that person has actually experienced the presence of God.     //Daniel Raphael

Your New Job: Earth’s Planetary Manager

If you were Earth’s Planetary Manager what would you do to move earth’s individuals, families, communities, societies, cultures, and its global civilization into a sustainable future?  Or would you take the cynical view and just let the little buggers blow themselves to smithereens, or let them slowly disappear in the dust like every other of earth’s past civilizations?  Being a mortal, the first option is surely an ennobling pursuit; and, the second option an obvious choice.

Your role would change immensely were you to take on that of Earth’s Planetary Manager.  The “shoe would be on the other foot” and you would have a totally different perspective of purpose and meaning of the mortal lives for whose watchcare and development you were responsible.  The mortal perspective broadly is that of disbelief (even among the clergy) that this life is all there is and when it is done, the party is over!

As a spiritual being, who has already lived many hundreds of thousands of years, your awareness and understanding of the creation and evolution of mortal life on material planets is vastly (VASTLY!) different from your short lived charges.

So, again, what would you do to bring Earth’s population, individually and collectively, into a more socially evolved future, beginning NOW?  Where would you begin?  Would you do it as a “go it alone” sort of enterprise, or would you seek to enlist the mortals to participate for their own good not just for this lifetime but for the remainder of their infinite afterlife?

If you can seriously wrap yourself around this question you will begin to see the complexity of what we are now experiencing via The URANTIA Book, Teaching Mission, Magisterial Mission, Co-Creative Design/Working Team Processes, and The Mystics Circle development as an emerging spiritual-social activism underway particularly in western nations, and in all parts of the world.  If you have seen posts to this blog as bouncing around many topics it is because of the vast, diverse efforts of our Spiritual Caretakers engaging us in many fronts simultaneously.  And we haven’t even begun to consider what projects the Planetary Manager has underway in religiously fundamental societies and cultures.  We have enough to think about right here.

So, please be patient as these posts cover a spectrum of topics.  All of which have a focus that begins to bring clarity to the very broad, historic and futuristic efforts of Spirit to bring us kicking and screaming into a sustainable future.  //Daniel Raphael

A Larger Cosmology

COSMOLOGY:  literally, a study of the cosmos, the universe.  I would also include the spiritual realm of the universe as a cosmology unto itself, which we are particularly interested in.   A capable cosmology should help us make sense of all new information that comes to us.

What makes the Co-Creative Design Team Process, with its active and conscious spiritual consultant so unbelievable for traditional god-centered believers is that it doesn’t fit into the simplistic cosmology given to them from their traditional texts.  What the traditional god-centered religions provide is a very limited cosmology about the management and administration of the universe.  The traditional cosmology limits itself to God the Creator, angels, archangels, Most Highs, a Melchizedek mentioned about 30 times in the Old Testament, earth as the only populated planet, — and us.

Considering that the Hubble Observatory has shown us billions upon billions of galaxies similar to our own, and given a high probability that at least one planet among billions of stars in each of those galaxies might just have sentient beings on them, as ourselves on earth, it seems more than reasonable to anticipate that the Creator would generously give other mortal beings the potential to grow into their infinite potential, just as we are given.  That would mean that there are reasonably billions upon billions of inhabited planets with people similar to us who have ascension plans to eventually join the Creator in Paradise.  Given the care with which our planet was created, I tend to think that we have many, many hundreds of orders of caregivers to assist in the completion or each individual’s ascension plan.

If we are to understand the intent of providing direct spiritual assistance to us for the co-creative healing of our planet, it is easy for me to believe that there are perhaps hundreds or orders of spiritual beings to assist us and the Creator to accomplish this task.  Considering the generous nature of the Creator to let us actively participate in our lives and that of our world, that surely seems likely.

The grand global spiritual effort to save our civilization from decline and collapse are consistent with the watchcare a loving Creator would provide.  A rational and developed cosmology helps us integrate this plan into our lives, and appreciate the compassion the Creator has for our plight.  Without a cosmology as this, the topics of this blog, the Correcting Time, Teaching Mission, Magisterial Mission, and all else that has been revealed, including The URANTIA Book, all seem unbelievable and irrational.  But with an evolved cosmology, the divine plans to bring our world into enlightenment seem almost obvious, given the grandly generous and beneficent nature of the Creator.

One source that has provided me with a believable indepth cosmology has been The URANTIA Book. It is a tome of about 2200 pages in four large sections that include a very thorough and detailed cosmology of the physical universe as well as the spiritual management of the universe, including the huge array of support to assist mortals to complete their ascension plan.  Fortunately, this book is provided online with an internal website search engine to aid curious readers to understand more about the universe in which we all live.  WEB LINKS:   www.truthbook.com    and   www.urantia.org

I have endeavored to locate shorter and succinct secondary works that describe these cosmologies, but as yet I do not have titles to provide to you.  I will do so when and if they become available.

When it comes to the Creator, think generous, grandly generous; and, when it comes to the universe, think big, really BIG.  And when you add mortals on an infinite ascension plan that taps each individual’s infinite potential, think compassion, grace, and empowerment.     //Daniel Raphael

The Mystics Circle

Sometimes I’m pretty thickheaded when it comes to noticing Spirit’s direction in my life.  About a year ago during meditation, I received the insights to begin development of a “Mystics Circle.”  But…it wasn’t until very recently that I’ve actually took steps to establish a local Mystics Circle here in the Evergreen, Colorado area.

This development, for me, comes about as a natural evolutionary development of my own spiritual growth.  As some of you know, I was raised as a Lutheran, studied for 2 quarters at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (I dropped out because it did not deepen my relationship with the Creator), then turned to Christian metaphysics in the form of Unity founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, and then after 30 years dropped out of that, too, as it could only take me so far in my quest for a conscious, personal and intimate relationship with the Creator.

What has fed my growing mystic relationship with the Divine has been an ongoing practice of meditation for the last 35 years.

So it was during my mediation last year that I received insights about the Mystics Circle that needed to be established.  These Circles would have several intentions to:

1.  Enhance and deepen the personal/intimate relationship of each individual with their God-source;

2.  Develop local communities of mystics who can enjoy the energetic support that a Circle will provide;

3.  Provide an extension to the continuum of spiritual development which god-centered religions do not address;

4.  Provide a safe and friendly environment where beginners can be trained in the mystic traditions, and to develop conscious relationships with the God-presence within themselves;

5.  Provide a safe and supportive environment for the development of a conscious working relationship with spiritual individuals in the Creator’s hierarchy of Universe Management and Administration (read:  Guardian Angels, Guides, Personal Teachers, Melchizedeks, Archangels, and many, many more orders of spiritual beings) in an inner conversational mode;

6.  Provide training to those who wish to become conscious clairaudient TRs (Transmitter-Receivers), described in a prior Post to this blog);

7.  Develop methods for validating the messages received by members of the Mystics Circles, and by conscious clairaudient TRs;

8.  Serve as an incubator for mystics who have been “talking with Spirit” and who wish to develop their skills as a TR in service to all of humankind through the Co-Creative Design Teams;

9.  Provide a model for the development of new Mystics Circles, globally and locally;

10.  And, finally to give mystics from every god-centered religion, those who have discovered the presence of the Creator in their lives without religious reference, and the curious a supportive environment where their individual concept of the Creator can evolve and grow in striving to match Its eternal eminence.

Curiously, people from around the globe have somehow discovered my insights about the Mystics Circle(s) and have asked how to start their own local Mystics Circle.

HOW TO BEGIN:  (Remember, the Mystics Circle is a meditation group of people who want to enhance and deepen their relationship and contact with the Divine.)

1.  Build a network of people you know who are mystics; make an inquiry with similarly related meditation groups, spirituality groups, and others.

2.  Discover a meeting place where the energy is inviting, supportive, friendly, and in alignment with a mystic mediation group.  I discovered that the local fire house training room does not work!  What I have discovered is that the best meeting places are already dedicated to spiritual work such as a church or some facility that has an intention that supports the work of Spirit.  //  Be totally open to any religious meeting place.  Mystics are indigenous to all god-centered religions.

3.  Set a date/day/time to meet; and, invite everyone who is interested to attend.

4.  The Mystics Circle does not have a religious function, is not an organization, does not have positions of authority, rules, or dues.  The organization and functions of the Circle flow into completion much as the Taoist way of belief.  And, the Circle is not a committee or a team.

5.  Someone will need to volunteer to facilitate the Circle to assure an opening, program, and closing.

6.  Functions:  Site coordinator, Circle facilitator, program presenter.

7.  The “program” is totally flexible to enhance the individual’s approach to the Divine.  (Seating will almost always be in a Circle — more about the energetics of the Circle and formation/dedication of a local Merkabah. )  The program will usually include a meditation practice someone wishes to present (guided or individual), perhaps music, incense, and other aspect to enhance the ambiance of the Circle.

It may be informative sometime to include an history of mystic traditions, practices, and references by famous mystics; but! present this rather linear, mind-centered activity toward the end of the Circle.

For your first Circle gathering, it will be important for each individual and the collective Circle to declare (silently or aloud) their intention for participating in the Circle.  The Mystics Circle is an conscious and active co-creative environment where individuals and the Circle will be working with the active support of their spiritual companions.  As the Circle matures, this conscious, collaborative process will become more and more open for everyone’s awareness.  Declaring your intention will help your spiritual companions fulfill your growth and practice.

The immediate energetics of the Circle are those of the mind and heart.  Mind will only be sufficient to organize what you do, but the heart will fulfill everything else.  So, rest in the river-flow of the presence of Spirit which assists you in this project.

The intentions of Spirit for establishing a global network of Mystics Circles is to feed a growing yearning and desire by individuals to know the Source more directly, clearly, and regularly.  The second intention is to develop a network of capable and competent TRs who can be called upon to populate the position of Team TR in hundreds of Co-Creative Design Teams around the world.  This last intention is in alignment with their work to develop a sustainable civilization, sustainable societies, and supportive social institutions.

Lastly, of course, deliberately ask Spirit to assist you to connect with mystics in your local area.  Angels and Midwayers are excellent networkers who bring about those wonderful synchronicities, and coincidences that are sooo enjoyable to experience.  Good luck!  //Daniel Raphael