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, Teachings on Healing, Second Edition)
Introduction by Gabriel of Urantia
Self-pity is one of the biggest blockages to healing in many people. When their expectations of how they think things should go and what God should do for them don’t pan out, they can get very caught up in feeling sorry for themselves, feeling victimized. What many individuals think God should do for Urantia (Earth) is often different than what God thinks He should do for Urantia at this moment in time and space. Often individuals think, “I’ve done all of this for You, Father; why don’t You do this?” This kind of thinking cripples people; it cripples their minds, and it cripples their spirits. “Why did you allow this, God? Why couldn’t you have done this?” Some people ask these questions often to Christ Michael (Jesus) or to God, the Father of Paradise.
Think of Jesus and our own self-pity. When He was being tried and persecuted—not only physically but emotionally—spit upon and mocked, despised by man, Jesus could have said, “Father, look at all I have done for You; why, I have created a whole universe for You. I have created the possibility of ten million inhabited worlds in Nebadon. (Right now, there are over three and a half million inhabited worlds.) Look at what I have done. And now, You’ll allow me to be mocked, despised, spit upon, and crucified by souls that I even created.” That’s what Jesus could have said. Now we know that He didn’t do that. He didn’t give Himself the luxury of complaining, which we do as humans.
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Presented by 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)
I have been recently reading about the benefits of a stream or river periodically flooding. Flooding clears out the debris that has built up on the riverbanks and in the riverbeds, thus having much cleaner water after the flood. During the flood, the water is very dirty and churned up, but afterwards, because the river bottoms and the beds have been cleaned out, the water itself is much cleaner. The fast powerful waters tear out old dead growth so that new plants have room to come up. As the flood waters slow down, new nutrient-rich soil is deposited that enhances the new growth of these plants. I read last week in the local newspaper that according to a scientist who studies riparian areas and the rivers and streams that are a part of those areas, that the Verde River is in better shape than it has been for many years before and since the last flood in 1995. He stated that the flood in ’95 had long-term benefits for the Verde River. Read the rest of this entry »
Presented by 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)
The Fourth of July is an American celebration of freedom within democracy. Some other countries have their celebrations of freedom within their form of government. I had been taught in school and instructed by my parents that the Fourth of July was a celebration of our country breaking free from England and pursuing democracy. I also learned very early that the fireworks that seemed so colorful, but noisy, represented bombs bursting in air. My family celebrated the Fourth by getting together with family and friends and picnicking and sometimes going to see the fireworks. But often we were out in the wilderness somewhere and had a quiet alcohol-free celebration under the stars, enjoying the companionship of close family and friends. I observed how many other Americans celebrated and was not at all impressed. I’m still not impressed with all of the noise, the drinking, the partying, and the “bombs bursting in air” that seem to go along with the Fourth of July. I’m also turned off to the world of advertising that takes advantage of any holiday, sacred or secular, to make more money. The Fourth of July seems to be an empty, superficial acknowledgment of America’s free way of life as a result of democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Global Change Teachings for the New Millennium: Series Two
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Presented by Gabriel of Urantia
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)
I’d like first to read excerpts from a letter that I wrote to a friend who in this life is a black man.
Last night I saw the movie, The Hurricane, about Rubin Hurricane Carter. I could not help thinking of you during the movie and many tears ran down my cheek because of your own suffering due to your wrong choices. I do not think you will continually be a victim to those wrong choices. Sooner or later, I know you will make more right choices. In all of the choices that you have had to make in life, I applaud you for those you made which you felt were the right choices based on the oppression by the white man to the black race. I am sure you always did the best with what you had to deal with except those exceptions where you really blew it. Even then, I am sure you were up against the wall that the greedy, white corporate powers put up around you and your race, not only your race in America, but in other countries as well. When I cried at the movie, I cried not only for you and Carter, but for all the oppressed people in the world. I cried because I felt so helpless to help you and them. I cried because bad things happen to good people, and I know you are a good person. I know there is no iniquity in you, maybe some sin, but mostly error. Men like Nelson Mandela, Hurricane Carter, and others who have suffered because of their righteous convictions are few. Going through so much in the face of such injustices, they have been able to become men and women to look up to—men of God, men of love. I heard today that Denzel Washington received a Golden Globe award for best actor and that he brought the real Rubin Hurricane Carter onto the stage with him to accept it. Up on the stage Denzel Washington said something like, “God is love, and this man Carter is all about love.”I have faith in you—faith that you will see through the dark void and the web that Caligastia, through the greed of those in power, has placed upon you. I have faith that you will allow God to pull you out and free you. I know you are a good person. I can understand the black race so well, not because I have lived black lives, which I have, but because in this life, I have had to take the path opposite of the status quo to follow God’s calling. This has led my enemies to define me with all sorts of negative definitions to demonize me. So, I understand what it is like to be a good person in a black skin. You are in my prayers.
You are loved,
Gabriel
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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
The December 31, 1999 issue of Time magazine shows Albert Einstein as their selected person of the century with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi as runners up. Many other individuals who had great influence in the twentieth century were considered, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler, just to name a few. The articles in Time about these individual men are how they have impacted others to move into a leadership position in their fields and how they affected the world. According to Time, Einstein’s theories not only altered the consciousness of the scientific world, they reverberated beyond science influencing modern culture. His theory of relativity indirectly paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts, and politics. And the theory of relativity had its affect on religion also. There was less faith in absolutes, not only of time and space but also of truth and morality. It allowed individuals to pull away from traditionalism and explore other ways to look at reality. Many writers, painters, scientists, mathematicians, and theologians arose with products of ideas that deviated from the status quo and thus, minds were expanded.
Time’s criteria for selecting the person of the century had to do with three great themes that the twentieth century will be remembered for. These are the three themes: Read the rest of this entry »
This teaching is currently only available in print from the book
Teachings on Healing from a Spiritual Perspective, Second Edition
Available from Global Change Tools
This teaching is currently only available in print from the book
Teachings on Healing from a Spiritual Perspective, Second Edition
Available from Global Change Tools
Presented by Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase
to members and guests of Global Community Communications Church at a World-Wide Sunday Service
Teaching by Niann Emerson Chase:
War and Conflict
How many of you become sick at heart and really discouraged you read the newspaper or different news magazines, watch the news on television or listen to it on the radio, or just in your daily travels when you look upon the world and realize the terrible dilemmas that are challenging humankind? These dilemmas are challenging humans on every level. How many of you at times become sick at heart and feel a sense of sadness and grief over the state of the world? How many of you get disgusted with yourselves when you become aware of those times when you have contributed to that dilemma?
Think of the situations where you are right now experiencing conflict and a lack of unity. Is that situation with another individual; is it with an organization; or is it with the entire world? Do you still feel like you have to take on the whole world and that you are in conflict with the entire world? Or is that conflictive situation, rather than being external, more internalized with the lack of unity being within you? Are you struggling with God? Do you feel turmoil and conflict with yourself as if you’re in battle, not with God, but with yourself? Do you experience what seems like an unending conflict between your own personal desires and what you think you should be doing? Are you confused because you don’t even know what you should be doing, but you know that what you are doing you shouldn’t be doing? That’s war. That’s war within self. Read the rest of this entry »
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)
If you would like to listen to this Global Change Teaching in streaming audio, click the play button to begin.
Teaching by Niánn Emerson Chase
Evolutionary vs Revelatory Religion
I’d like to clarify the difference between evolutionary and revelatory religion. Evolutionary religions are those religions that come from human beings who are attempting to explain what divinity is; reaching out to the supernatural, to God, to the Supreme, trying to explain reality—who we are, where we came from, cosmology, how God is a part of us or is not a part of us. Within those evolutionary religions there can be a lot of personal revelation that comes through people’s own personal, genuine, religious experiences, and so there is also much truth within those evolutionary religions. Some examples of evolutionary religions that are present on Urantia right now are all of the major world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and the Native American religions. Many of those evolutionary religions started from either an epochal revelation or a minor revelation and people have added their own interpretations and their experiences. Read the rest of this entry »