[tmtranscripts] 08-25-01.SPOKANE TEACHER BASE

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DATE:  August 25, 2001
LOCATION:  Spokane, WA
T/R:  Gerdean
TEACHER:  MULLERIN
       TOPIC:  Human Association 101, Elemental Fraternity
       Theme:  The Game's the Thing!

"Take me out to the ball game
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks
I don't care if we ever get back
    and it's 
Root, Root Root for the home team
If they don't win it's a shame
    for it's 
One, Two, Three strikes you're out
At the old ball game."

THOROAH: Harry Carey would have been proud.

MULLERIN: Is Harry Carey the author of the song?

THOROAH: No, he was a baseball announcer in Chicago who made it so popular 
because he sang it so bad.  Unabashedly he would sing the song with joy but 
it would sound awful.

MULLERIN: How many of us sing our alma mater off key?  It is a simple theme 
on a simple Saturday afternoon on a summers day in peacetime U.S.A.  The 
game's the thing!  The home team indicates the one to root for, the one which 
you are a member of, part of, belonging to.  From the owner, the coach, the 
referees, the players, the water boys and the mascot, there is a native charm 
to neighborhood loyalty.

The galactic neighborhood indeed is a serious expansion of what it means to 
be part of the neighborhood, because in the farther view you're all a part of 
the same family, and so your orientation is greater and allows a lot more of 
the sporting life to go on under the big umbrella.  But in the regional 
picture, there is character development to be found in the association of 
like-minded believers.  

The culture of religion is not unlike the culture of nations.  There are 
patterns of behavior - superstitions, belief systems, foods, costumes, rites, 
rituals, flavors - of all manner that gives variation to relationship.  There 
is comfort in kinship, but there is the adventure lure of learning about the 
ways others think, believe, work and live which opens doors and avenues of 
communication to new neighborhoods, new districts.  

These ventures can be made when you have your feet firmly planted in your 
faith field, and as your support system of spirit associations (even human 
spiritual associations) provides the essential support much as the family is 
the foundation of the young person growing up and learning how to reach 
beyond the confines of his immediate siblings.  

Of course, you play to win!  That's the point of a good game, to overcome the 
odds and be the victor through, by, coordination, skill, luck, talent, 
miracles or whatever ammunition is available, but having the perspective of 
the bigger picture makes it easier for you to be good sports, even to 
attaining the point wherein the issue is not whether you win or lose but how 
you play the game.

I'm a visiting teacher, bringing another lesson in Human Associations 101, 
Elemental Fraternity.  It has to do with sovereignty, much like teams have to 
abide by the rules, much like individuals have to abide by the rules, of the 
association and the culture and the country and mores in which they find 
themselves.  

Human Associations 101 is a study of the brotherhood of man, the gathering 
together of sons and daughters in service not only to the Supreme but to the 
Most Highs.  There are always going to be forerunners.  There must be 
leaders.  They are not excluded from the lessons in fraternity that are 
essential to the accomplishment of the divine purpose.  

I am Mullerin.  I am practicing for future greatness.  Have you got questions?

THOROAH: (Chuckling) I was reading that as you are on the same boat that the 
rest of us are on, "practicing for future greatness".

MULLERIN:  Indeed.  I appreciate your humor.  

THOROAH: I like the game and team analogies and allegories given to us.  It 
made me think that Europe is more of a phenomenon than we tend to give it 
credit. I think in this country we have a swelled head over the fact that 
we've had a united country for so long, and I look at Europe as being divided 
all up, but I look at Europe now - with what you were talking about, the 
culture, in each country - and they actually get along with everybody, being 
able to live their culture side by side.  We're having a little difficulty 
dealing with that now.  Over there, the cultures are together naturally, only 
they're in countries.  Over here, we're trying to mix all of these together 
in a porridge and we're having a little problem dealing with people when they 
are attracted to each other and grouping off.

MULLERIN:  I think it's true.  I‘d like to remark about Europe.  It is so 
much older than your country, and there is nothing quite like experience.  
The history that resounds in the countries of Europe is/are hundreds and 
hundreds and hundreds of years old.  You are rookies by comparison, and you 
have an entirely different view of your reality because, in part, it is so 
new.  The independent spirit is uppermost in your thinking.  Individuality is 
a hallmark of Americans.  

But you are so young, you are limited by the resources you bring to the 
table.  The skills are certainly as well honed as any, and technologically 
you are skimming right along, but the sense of longevity and endurance is 
missing.  It does almost seem as if a trend is underway conspiring to allow 
each individual a sense of freedom and independence whether he wants it or 
not.  

The timing is such that it's necessary for individuals to be able to think 
for themselves and make those decisions in their innermost self which impacts 
so greatly on everything and everyone, but this liberation matter (womens' 
liberation, mens' liberation, human liberation, spiritual liberation) is 
making it difficult for the little clans and clusters of yesteryear to 
continue to find favor in such a swarming humanity.  

The ideal, of course, is to lead into a trust.  If you have all your cards on 
the table, it's possible then to see how you operate.  It's the era, it would 
seem, for bringing all the dark secrets out of the closets and putting them 
on the table to be seen, revealing the inner workings of institutions of long 
standing, exposing corruption.  It's a part of the age.  No more are you 
allowed to hide behind the walls of cultural association or gender difference 
or language barriers.  

The trend is to fling open the doors and windows wide and see how the other 
guy lives.  When you see that others live in peace and you, too, can live in 
peace, with your family, your clan, your culture, when competition is 
redirected into a healthy game instead of a cut-throat occupation, areas 
enhance each other and compliment each other, even as they retain their own 
unique and individual personality or flavor.  

I'm not having much cooperation from this receiver.  We don't seem to have a 
good connection.  I'm going to send in someone else.  (There's nobody there.) 
  Okay, good-bye.


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