Host RevSusanne whispers to RevNoel:
Thank you for joining us today.  This chatroom is provided by onlinechurches for United Church of Religious Science and is dedicated to discussion, teaching and the spiritual practices of Science of Mind.

Linda says:
Nan is having problems.  Trying to direct her here.

Host RevSusanne says:
She needs to leave the rooms she is in.

Linda says:
She should be here about now.

Nan has joined the conversation.

RevNoel says:
You made it!!!

Linda says:
There you are Nan!

Host RevSusanne says:
Hey nan did you get an invitation?

Nan says:
Was getting worried!

RevNoel says:
O.K.  We have a full house.

Linda says:
Were supposed to get an invitation?  I just joined.

Host RevSusanne says:
You were so fast that you beat me to it Linda!

Linda says:
LOL

Linda says:
My excitement, I guess <s>

Host RevSusanne says:
I just set the room as private.  I hope that works.

Linda says:
Did you set to invite only?  That always works too.

Host RevSusanne says:
Go ahead O faithful leader RevNoel

RevNoel says:
I intend to set up a totally private chat room in the hear future.

RevNoel says:
Only for pre-scheduled events.

RevNoel says:
And closed classes.

RevNoel says:
Wil;l require password, perhaps.

Host RevSusanne says:
The reading materials were wonderful!

RevNoel says:
That was my first question . . .

Sherry says:
All I got were garbled icons

RevNoel says:
What wewre your impressions of the "Real Christ"?

Nan says:
Mine were fine and read thoroughly.

Linda says:
Somewhat changes the concept of "Christ".

Host RevSusanne says:
Sherry were you unable to read it entirely?

RevNoel says:
How did it change for you, Linda.

Sherry says:
There was one  line only of garbled letters in caps.

Host RevSusanne says:
Did anyone else notice a change in their concept of Christ?

Linda says:
Joke:  Once heard a minister say "Christ wasn't Jesus' last name."  Well, I don't know that I ever really gave much thought to what it meant.  Once heard it said that it meant "anointed one."  But, as "universal Sonship", it changes and suddenly I feel included.

Host RevSusanne says:
Wonderful Linda!

Nan says:
It broadened my concept of God within me.  Made it more easily understood.

RevNoel says:
Does the word Sonship sound sexist to you?

Sherry says:
No, it is just a convenient inclusive word

Host RevSusanne says:
I was planning a editing job myself Noel, but I can read through and around that.

RevNoel says:
Nan and Linda?

Linda says:
I don't really relate it to gender...sort of like saying "him" when including both male and female.

Linda says:
Didn't really bother me.

Host RevSusanne says:
Because the piece is written in such an inclusive way, it doesn't seem to exclude the way use of masculine pronouns sometimes does...

Nan says:
I had never thought of it in that way.  same interpretation as Linda

RevNoel says:
I Once had a radical feminist in an ecology class who objected to my reference to an insects mandibles . . .

RevNoel says:
said it should be personbibles.

Host RevSusanne says:
Yikes!

Sherry says:
Tee Hee

RevNoel says:
persondibles

RevNoel says:
AND SHE MEANT IT!!!

Linda says:
That's funny.

Nan says:
They go a bit too far with that stuff, IMO

RevNoel says:
Not so much anymore, actually.

Host RevSusanne says:
I do think that it is important that we say what we mean in an inclusive way.  In this article Holmes did that in the language of his time.

RevNoel says:
Precisely.

Linda says:
I agree Susanne.

Nan says:
Yes.

RevNoel says:
BTW, there is a degendered version of the 1926 SOM textbook on line.

Linda says:
Really?  Where?

RevNoel says:
And the "What We Believe" statement has also been neutered.

Host RevSusanne says:
neutered?

RevNoel says:
I'll send y'all the URL on the new Philosophy of Jesus listserv that I am creating just for us.

Linda says:
wonderful

Sherry says:
Thank You

Nan says:
Great!

RevNoel says:
Also . . .

Host RevSusanne says:
We read the What We Believe at the beginning of each and every Practitioner Class.

RevNoel says:
I am going to put the materials for this class on a website that is ezxclusively for us as well.

Sherry says:
Now you're talking!!

Host RevSusanne says:
Isn't that great!

RevNoel says:
Then there won't be any more problems like Sherry's

Host RevSusanne says:
Sometimes e-mail gets the life squeezed out of it.

Sherry says:
Much Appreciated!!

Linda says:
Wow!  Wonderful!  Thanks Noel!

RevNoel says:
My objective is that by the time we have finished with our work, the class will be ready to go for everyone else.

RevNoel says:
I'm doing it on the QT for now.

Sherry says:
Ah...

Host RevSusanne says:
This is such a wonderful shhhh... conspiracy for good!

RevNoel says:
Will present my Powers that Be with a demonstration rather than a request, i.e.,

RevNoel says:
"Look at what is possible!"

Nan says:
Much more effective.

Host RevSusanne says:
And I will be able to do the same with my Powers That Be at ANTN!

RevNoel says:
Hopefully Rev. Ruth is among the Powers that Be by now.  She was a candidate for President.

Host RevSusanne says:
She is.  There is no hope needed!

RevNoel says:
Our Home Office stacks the deck for their choice, however.

RevNoel says:
Let's the candoidate of choice know the interview questions in advance.

Host RevSusanne says:
Enough of the conspiracy theory, meanwhile back on KGOD we were just beginning to discuss Oneness...

RevNoel says:
Ruth didn't get them in advance . . .

Host RevSusanne says:
LOL

Host RevSusanne says:
Well she will succeed no matter what!

RevNoel says:
In any event, Rev. Ruth is on the UCRS online curriculum decvelopment teraam

RevNoel says:
Heidy's computer is difficult - likes to add lotsofetters

Sherry says:
I just taught Oneness in my study group tonight

RevNoel says:
How did you do that, ZSHerry?

Linda says:
I have a question that may or may not be related to "The Real Christ".

Sherry says:
I am teaching out of Unlimited Visibility by Spephanie....?  It is an excellent study group book.

Sherry says:
Stephanie Sorensen...mind flight.

Host RevSusanne says:
Go ahead Linda...

Linda says:
It may be something that will have to be pondered and discussed later.

Sherry says:
She is a Holmes purist!!

RevNoel says:
So I've heard.

RevNoel says:
We are not without our dogmatics.

RevNoel says:
It's justnot generic to the movement.

Linda says:
Well, I was thinking about "Christ in me" and remembered a verse in the Bible that talks about the mystery that had been hidden..."Christ in you, the hpe of glory."  Does anyone have any insight there?

RevNoel says:
That was one of Paul's most "right on" insights.

Host RevSusanne says:
Noel do you want to address that?

RevNoel says:
There is a story about God pondering where to hide the secret of his existence . . .

Host RevSusanne says:
"The mystery that has been hidden" is within each and every one of us...

RevNoel says:
God finally decided to hide it in the last place peopleouldook . . .

RevNoel says:
within tghemselves.

Host RevSusanne says:
because it is the place  that we would look last...

Linda says:
I recall Ruth sharing a story like that on her last tape she sent.

RevNoel says:
How are her tapes, by the way?

Nan says:
Excellent!

Host RevSusanne says:
Thereby making the search one of depth and duration, giving deep meaning to our lives.

Linda says:
They are wonderful!  Food for the hungry!!!!

RevNoel says:
Would they be useful as part of an online class, downloadable from a website?

Sherry says:
Life is easier and more loving when we stay in the Christ Within mode.

Host RevSusanne says:
True Sherry

Host RevSusanne says:
The way to accomplish that is ______________________?

Linda says:
Referring to the tapes, I would think so.  Everyone needs to learn who they are, to love themselves, etc. that Ruth presents.

Linda says:
Good Sherry.

Sherry says:
Accomplish it by going within on a a very regular basis.  I like to talk to God alot...about everything.

Host RevSusanne says:
Meditation?  Treatment?  Study?  Reading?  Discussion?

Sherry says:
It all works!!!

RevNoel says:
AOTA?

Host RevSusanne says:
All of these are important.  The point is to engage in relationship with God as much as possible.

Host RevSusanne says:
AOTA?

RevNoel says:
All of the above

Sherry says:
AOTA?

Host RevSusanne says:
All of these apply!

Linda says:
Now that I know where God is, I am enjoying talking to God a lot.  

Linda says:
Before, God was so far away it seemed pointless.

RevNoel says:
He's not a fiddler on the roof . . .

Host RevSusanne says:
It's like when a baby realized that those feet down their are their feet!

RevNoel says:
And gets on h.is toes.

Linda will be right back.

Host RevSusanne says:
Puts them in their mouth, tries to fit them in their ears, plays with them in every way and begins to know that they are really useful.

Sherry says:
Great analogy, Rev. Susanne!

Host RevSusanne says:
I love my feet, I love my feet!

RevNoel will be right back

Host RevSusanne says:
Wow, my feet must be smelly!

Sherry says:
Whys that?

Host RevSusanne says:
See all the folks taking a break?

Sherry says:
Oh...I get it!

Nan says:
We can't smell 'em!

Host RevSusanne says:
Noel is closer by, maybe he can!

Nan says:
LOL

Linda back

Host RevSusanne says:
I have to leave a bit early tonight because I am having a final class.  After this I will not be away on Wed, again.

Sherry says:
I have learned to talk to God when I am angry now.  Used to just when I was feeling sweet.

Nan says:
Please excuse my quietness tonight and having a bout of MS fatigue.

RevNoel says:
Just checked my e-mail to see if there was a message from Ruth

Host RevSusanne says:
Let's do a treatment when Noel returns!

Nan says:
I'd appreciate that very much.

Host RevSusanne says:
Noel nan is having a bout of MS fatigue.

Host RevSusanne says:
Let's treat for her.

Host RevSusanne says:
Then I have to go.

RevNoel says:
O.K.  Lead the way.

Host RevSusanne says:
Let us all go within, riding the breath to the place we know as our heart, the place within us where we know that there is only One, One perfect One, the All in All, The Alpha and Omega

Host RevSusanne says:
The One that is being each and every one of us now.  The One that is being our beloved Nan

Host RevSusanne says:
This treatment is for Nan, who is all that God is right where she sits...

RevNoel says:
All of God's energy and power is at that point/

Host RevSusanne says:
Nan is powerful, beautiful, energetic and delighted to be the expression of God's wisdom and beauty that she is

Host RevSusanne says:
right where she is

Host RevSusanne says:
Any and all blocks to her experience of herself are banished

Host RevSusanne says:
she knows only the light being that she is, where she is.  She is perfect love, perfect energy, perfect strength and there is nothing that she has to do about this, she jsut is this.

RevNoel says:
All obstacles are seen as "road signs" pointing to her good.

Host RevSusanne says:
Nothing can escape her brilliance and no mistakes are possible, all actions lead to the perfect being that is being Nan now.

Host RevSusanne says:
And because there is nothing left that need be done, nan is available to the Love, the energy pouring through her being and she is released from all misconceptions and false ideas standing in her path.  Free to be Nan.

Host RevSusanne says:
We release this Treatment to the Law knowing that it is done as we speak, that this or something better comes as a result of our complete release of this Treatment.  And so it is!

Linda says:
And so it is!

RevNoel says:
And so NAn IS!

Sherry says:
amen

Nan says:
And so it is!

Host RevSusanne says:
It was lovely to be here with you all tonight.  I must fly off to my next class!  Peace!

Sherry says:
Peace to you@!

RevNoel says:
That was a great finale, Susanne.

Nan says:
Thank you so much.  My eyes are brimming.  I intend to use this treatment over and over changing the pronoun.

Linda says:
Goodnight Susanne.

Nan says:
Good night, Susanne.

Host RevSusanne says:
It was my extreme and complete pleasure.  Good night all!

RevNoel says:
Good life!!!

Host RevSusanne has left the conversation.

RevNoel says:
Time for onemore question or comment . . .

Sherry says:
Do you think Jesus will return?

Sherry says:
In another body...another incarnation?

RevNoel says:
In what sense do you mean that question?

Linda says:
Comment:  The reading that I have received already has opened up the Bible more and some of Jesus' teachings.

RevNoel says:
As the individual namedJesus?

Sherry says:
No, as yet another Master to help us.

RevNoel says:
As I understand the "second coming" . . .

Nan says:
I was wondering the same thing as I passed a quote on a church.  

RevNoel says:
it is the realization in a critical mass of human beings

RevNoel says:
of the mind the was in Christ . . .

RevNoel says:
which shifts the consciousness of the enitre planet.

Sherry says:
Yes, and in a physical body he taught us the consciousness we now live and teach to others.

RevNoel says:
We are on the way to being our own MAsters.

Sherry says:
Two steps forward, one step back!!

RevNoel says:
Before we leave, a housekeeping matter . . .

RevNoel says:
ARe you all willing to be on a Philosophy of Jesus listserv?

Linda says:
Absolutely, Noel!

Sherry says:
What does that mean?

RevNoel says:
It's the e-mail analogue of a chat room.

Sherry says:
Sure

Nan says:
Fine with me, Noel.

RevNoel says:
Whatever anyone of usends on the listserv, everybody else will get a coopy of.

RevNoel says:
It will be linmited to the five of us who were here this evening.

RevNoel says:
If anyone else is added, it will be with the consent of the original fuve.

Nan says:
Then when questions pop up we can ask them right then?

RevNoel says:
Precisely.

RevNoel says:
It's a never-ending conversation.

Linda says:
And get input from everyone....I like that.

Nan says:
Sounds wonderful!

Sherry says:
It gets my vote!!

RevNoel says:
It is accomplished!  I'll set it up tromorrow.

RevNoel says:
The one person I would consider adding at some point is Dr. Ruth.

Nan says:
I agree heartily!

Sherry says:
Sorry, I don't know about Dr. Ruth.

Linda says:
Most definitely!

RevNoel says:
She and are intend to co-develop a lot ofnline curriculum.

RevNoel says:
When we leave this room, Sherry, we will be in Dr. Ruth's chat.

Sherry says:
I'm sure she would be an asset.

RevNoel says:
I suggest you stay fora while and get a sense of who she is.

Sherry says:
OK

RevNoel says:
And with that, it is time for us to go back to the main room and joint her.

RevNoel says:
join

RevNoel says:
She isn't into joints

Sherry has left the conversation.

RevNoel says:
<LOL>

Nan says:
See you all there .

Nan has left the conversation.

Linda says:
Thanks so much Noel.  I didn't have as many questions with this section but I'm sure others will come.

RevNoel says:
Quite all right!!!