2012-11-22-The Part and the Whole

Session

Opening

Prayer: Father/Mother God, we ask you, our Divine Parents, to connect us in the great circle of love and light yet connected to the center of the universe. We thank you for the opportunities which are bestowed upon each of us throughout the year and especially this day that we in our country offer thanks. Thanks for the country we live in, the government and our neighbors and the many opportunities that have made this country great. We open our hearts and minds to the greater understanding which you are prepared to share with us, we thank you.

Lesson

Microcosm

Machiventa: Greetings my friends, it is I, Machiventa, here on this day of your thanksgiving, not necessarily to offer words of thanks, but to welcome you into this circle of friendship and love and peace and to talk tonight a little bit about the part and the whole, in particular, how the part can actually affect the whole, sometimes transforming the whole, sometimes necessary for the functioning of the whole and how the part can add a quality to the whole.

So, we will start with something simple. For example, food, you can't get much simpler than food. One of the most important thing about food is its taste, how it is prepared and how you taste and savor the food. So let's say you cook a very large soup and it has all of these ingredients. It has carrots and potatoes and turnips and parsley and mushrooms and tomatoes and noodles and meat and you cook this soup. You go to taste it and notice it needs something to bring out the flavor of all of the parts of the soup. So you add a little salt to it and the salt immediately begins to transform the flavor of the whole soup. It is like a dimension. All of a sudden a potato tastes distinct from a carrot, it just isn't some mushy texture, it has taste and character. This is what the salt does to the whole of the soup. It transforms it and thereby bringing the individual qualities and characteristics of each thing that is in the soup.

So, in this example you can see how a part can affect the whole. Let's take plants as an example. Plants need water and you water plants and depending on what type of medium the plant is planted in, it may or may not need nutrients. But mostly, plants, especially plants that you are planting yourselves and taking care of, need to be fertilized. You notice that when you fertilize them they get leafier and more color, the food quality that a plant may produce is enhanced by the addition of fertilizer. Now this little part, this fertilizer, affect the whole plant. It affects the organisms in the soil which are breaking down the fertilizer into nutrient qualities, particles that can be absorbed through the action of osmosis into the plant through the roots right into the plant.

So these are inanimate things, inanimate in terms of things with no personalities so they are organic, they are part of the life on the planet. Let's look at the planet as a whole and what life has become on this planet. A part of the whole of life on this planet has become electricity. The planet cannot function and exist in this modern world without it. It is something that you cannot see though you can experience the effects of it. Almost every aspect of your life is affected by electricity from being able to turn on lights when the sun goes down, being able to heat yourself, being able to cook, running appliances, even in some applications it is used to store data. All of your important information is stored electronically. So this small part affects the whole.

Another example, a shepherd and his flock. The flock depends upon the shepherd to guide it, to direct where they are going to go, what and where they are going to eat and when they may return home. This is the function of the shepherd. Though he is a part of the whole flock, he can affect the whole flock in a way in which the flock by themselves could never ever be affected. Let's go a little deeper, look at your human body. On its own it totally functions fine, there is nothing wrong necessarily with its functioning but there is a part, the mind, which affects every part of the body, through the systems of the body thereby affecting the homeostasis of the body, the ability of the body to come into balance. In this part, there are tremendous amounts of variables associated with this part. On one hand, this mind can greatly enhance the functioning of the body and in other instances, this mind can become the greatest threat to the functioning of this body.

This variableness in this part is extremely interesting because you have as a person, direct control over this part. You can either let this part run rampant, kind of take over where you are not willing to take over, and it will do what it does, it will take over. It may not be the best thing for the body sometimes but here again, this notion that this part does affect the whole in its quality, in its operation, in its function, in its ability to remain in balance. You know all too well the things that you need to do to bring your body into balance. You know what foods you need to eat, you know what behavior you have to adopt, you know what decisions need to be made.

I guess the epitome of all examples of the part and the whole is the Thought Adjuster in the human mind. The Thought Adjuster is a part in the human mind, it plays a part. Yes, there are tremendous variables between individuals, between Adjusters and individuals but for the most part, the Adjusters are tremendously synchronized and they function perfectly as they should inside the human mind. Now the human mind, many a times is not aware of this Adjuster, yet the Adjuster makes itself known, is trying to make itself known invariably within the human mind. This is part of its functioning and the human mind invariably benefits tremendously from the functioning of this Adjuster, not only the functioning but the recognition of the Adjuster in the human mind is of particular importance to both the outworking of the Adjuster and the ability of the human mind to shift to the yearnings of this Adjuster.

There again is the part affecting the whole. You have seen many examples of how this is possible. Therefore let us look at the whole of humanity and a single individual as a part to the whole. You say to yourself, how could one individual affect a large mass of people such as the human race. Well, invariably, the way one individual lives his or her life is invariably affecting the whole through its interactions with others, through living your life, how your life is lived, how you hold things in your life and how you interact with others.

It may not necessarily be that one individual transforms the whole of life but one individual can transform the whole of life within him or herself. It is possible even in this short lifetime you are gifted with, that you can rise above your animal nature and begin to grow into a greater spiritual understanding, that you can actually begin to bring love into your heart, into your consciousness and into your dealings with others. Many a times, the gift to the whole comes as a very small part, yet this very small part can begin to transform the whole.

For example, bringing love into the human race may not be as effective immediately as adding salt to a soup, but eventually it will bring about the same effect. There is just a time differential when you relate things in terms of human will and human personality choice, these kinds of social conditions take time to work themselves out and to imitate. For example, in the making of synthetic crystals, all of the crystal components are ground up as raw ingredients and they are brought to a melting point, a point at which they all fuse together into a homogenous mass which is unordered and unstructured. At this point the chemist introduces an actual particle of crystal that contains the crystal pattern for that particular crystal. Almost instantaneously, adding this crystal to the melt, the whole melt begins to pattern itself into the pattern which has been introduced into the melt, thereby the whole aligns itself precisely to this part.

It is in this way that the whole of human nature will move into a space of love. For example, there is a tremendous amount of people holding love in their lives, in their consciousness, in their consciousness for the planet, the consciousness for others and externally things are bringing the raw ingredients, the needy souls, bringing them to a boiling point, a melting point at which all of this seeming confusion and chaos is ripe for something such as love which brings pattern and order with it. These are the times you are living in my friends, you are living in the times when the whole is being brought into an awareness that something is ready to happen. No one knows for certain what this may be but there is a foreboding, brewing sense amongst everyone on the planet these days that something tremendous is about to happen.

It is just this type of situation, when everything is shaken, to reveal that which is unshaken, that true peace and love can actually be born. Whether it will or not is another matter but the potential lies here within, therefore it becomes almost necessary to reach a place of understanding in which you feel the need to hold this love in your consciousness for your fellow man, for the planet, for life as you know it because life as you know it is meant to change, it is meant to grow and adapt, it moves in all directions, but that it can actually be focused and brought to assimilate a pattern, a dynamic of peace and harmony in which everyone can benefit.

This is not just some utopian fantasy. This is an ancient reality which was brought to the planet thousands of years ago. So the concept is not new but its application has never totally been allowed to come into fruition. Besides the fact that there are active forces pretending as if they are allowing this to happen makes no difference for at some point mankind will come to the threshold where he has had enough of this chaos, this confusion, this inability to live his and her life as sons of God in peace and harmony and happiness, loving life and loving your brothers and sisters, living in a fearless society.

Fear may be the one part that is still holding the pattern for the whole. In your mind you have to come to a place with no fear. This is the only place that love can rest. Love cannot rest in a nest of fear, any bird will tell you that. Love needs a safe, nurturing and neutral place to exist. So search within yourself and find if there are any parts which are detrimental to bringing this about, even in your own life and begin to understand, understand why these elements exist in your mind. What can you do to bring them to a standstill so that their impact on your life is somewhat negligible? Just because you can bring fear under control and live fearlessly does not mean you don't have some modicum of fear within you but at least you are not allowing this fear to cloak you, to corral you, to totally manipulate and control every decision that you make.

My friends, we have seen this evening how a little part can tremendously affect the whole. Mostly I have given you positive examples. There are negative ones, yes, we did discuss one or two. So even in this relationship between a part and a whole there are choices, there are ways to bring about the needed change. This will come from within. Everything on the outside is just rearranging, real change comes from within.

It has been my pleasure to be here this afternoon and to share a few thoughts with you my friends. This is always part of the ongoing understanding between the world of spirit and the mind of the human. I wish all of you peace. I wish prosperity for you and your families, especially during these times. I wish you steadfastness and know that we are with you always as your friend and as your brother. I take my leave now, go in peace.

Relationship

Michael: Greetings to you my children, it is I, Michael. Thank you for allowing me to come into your midst this afternoon to become one with you as your friend and brother, as your true shepherd, as the one who has come here to show you how to better live this life with your fellows. Greetings to all of you, it is always good to understand the relationship between things, most importantly the relationship of humans to each other and the relationship of the father to his children and the relationship that the spiritual universe has to its evolutionary counterpart, you my friends.

Relationship is the network of the universe, it is how everything is done, through relationship, the relationship functioning of personalities performing their tasks, working in concerted effort to portray the Father's will all the way down to relationship functioning on a world such as yours where people are trying to live together peacefully, happily trying to care and manage their families, their community, their town, their country. All of these relationships are going on. Relationship is one of those phenomenon which does not represent itself necessarily as some specific functioning yet it represents itself more to how people either are working with each other or they are working, consciously or not, against each other.

This is one of the primary concepts of the Father's will. The idea was to have everyone working, relating in a concerted effort towards one goal, the goal of respecting the will of the Father, that to everything which has been given to you, you would come to the greater understanding of this great responsibility to bring forth peace and love into the mix. There is of course, ample time for this to transpire. You have never been necessarily on a timetable yet what you will find is that as you grow more sophisticated in your science and technology and that you have not intelligently come to an understanding as a race of people, to live in peace, there will necessarily be tremendous friction which results from these two divergent phenomenon.

One is intellectual and one is tremendously social yet they both affect each other. The outworking of science and technology would be tremendously more desirable in a peaceful world where everyone could benefit, not just a few. But nonetheless, this is what life has to offer and in this respect, life itself will bring individuals to a greater understanding of the need for peace. So, not only is spirit working to bring mankind to an understanding of peace, but also nature through the way in which it just is and through the way in which things just are right now. There is tremendous opportunity to learn about peace and negotiation, about neutral attitudes and understanding.

These are tremendously fertile times you live in. Much can be learned about yourself, about others and about life in general because in many cases, life is becoming tremendously compromised. The natural life of the planet itself is coming at risk. There are many problems which still exist. There is a lot of work to do and a greater understanding which needs to present itself within the minds of those who elect to govern you. Nonetheless my friends, you are all held in a bond of love, in a bond of peace and friendship. You are all treated as individuals, individual sons and daughters of God by the many personalities of the spirit world who are here to attend to you, to your needs. You are always in our consciousness and we trust that at some point you will begin to reveal the pattern of living which has been designed for you.

Closing

Again, I thank you for allowing me these few words. Know that I am always near, I am always near in consciousness, I am always here in spirit, I am here in truth and understanding as love and as goodness. Go in peace my children, may you enjoy this season which is upon you, go in peace, thank you.