December 12, 2003 - Your Electro-Chemical System. Part One - The Body
December 13, 2003 - Your Electro-Chemical System. Part Two. The “Electro”
December 14, 2003 - Your Electro-Chemical System. Part Three - The “Chemical”
December 15, 2003 - Churches, Progress and Tibet

Posted December 12, 2003
New Mexico, US of A, December 2, 2003.

Cherubim “What About Bob?”
Subjects: "Your Electro-Chemical System. Part One - The Body."

Received by Gerdean.

Bob: "I understand there is a question. What is the question?"

Student: "Last week you were talking about the electrochemical system and you said, ‘…having identified it, it then behooves you to have an appreciation of it such that you know how to take it in hand, so that it stays balanced.’ The question is in response to what you said. It is: ‘I'd be very interested in the "how" of this, how can we understand our "Electro-Chemical Make-Up"?’ I think the enquirer wants to know how we can do something about it, once we know about it."

Bob: "Let’s make sure we have an understanding of what the electrochemical system is, first off. It is a type of life form. It’s a pattern that is one of the basic building blocks of existence. The electrochemical system is what your mortal life is based on. When you discount the God Fragment, the electrochemical system is life as it is inducted into you by the spirit. It is Life with its senses, and animation, and all that ‘physical’ which has and does contribute to your consciousness of being. How can you identify it?

"There was a motion picture about a group of individuals who became so tiny they were able to travel on a raft throughout the physical system of a human being. [Editor’s Note: "Fantastic Voyage"] The idea of being that intimately familiar with the inner workings of your body is a way to acknowledge and familiarize yourself with at least one large part of your electrochemical system - in particular, the way it responds to stimuli from electrical currents as well as chemical composition. Thus, there are three fields of thought we are going to braid together in response to this inquiry. Are you willing to go with me into this study?

The Body

"In your mind’s eye, go into your inner life and prepare to set sail. Put your few paltry possessions in a pack and put them and yourself on a raft and we’ll paddle downstream. You might take the route through the lungs. As you inhale, you feel yourself push off from the shore, and you gently feel yourself being whooshed down into the chest. You can feel the sides of the cavernous lungs as if they were walls on either side of you. Carlsbad Caverns, they are, you see, for they are wide, dark, and haunting, but blood red and glistening with light from hidden sources, perhaps from the Source of Life Itself.

"Breathe and see the sides of your lungs tremble as they absorb those nutrients that are inhaled, and enter into the experience. With the breath of life, enter now into the blood stream, which will take this air in and through the body, beginning from the lungs, now out into the rivers and streams of your vessels and through your muscles. Follow your muscles; go down through your muscles and feel them. Travel through them. Can you pass, or is there a knot? Is there a knot in your muscle? Is the knot from overwork? Have you been exercising? Do they feel taut to the touch? Is there elasticity there? Is the color good? Do they feel well? Can they hold you up and do what you need them to do for you? What are you doing for your muscles, so that they can in turn do for you when your mind bids them respond to your mind’s commands?

"Well, there you are; you are in your body. You can travel through it; you can visit your bowels; you can visit your gastrointestinal system; you can visit your heart; your lungs; even your head. Where am I hurting? How does that work? Why, when I pull this, does that act that way? What’s behind this door? What’s under that flap? When you are able to travel through your body without losing your way, you know it well enough to master it.

"By this method, now, you are able to go into every fiber of your body, every aspect of your physical being. You are able to go into your aching places and ask what the problem is. You are able to learn to heal your errors of a physical nature. You will be able to heal your infirmities. I have not set these words into motion for the purpose of delivering false hope. I have spoken those words to those of you who feel capable of becoming master over all you purvey, your body being a part of that domain. Giving yourself dominion over yourself gives you the credibility of your own authority, for no one can tell you what to do -- No one can tell you what to do but you. -- and allow it to be from your own personal integrity.

"But that is quite a study. This is not one of those lessons you accomplish in a 15-minute meditation session. In the meanwhile, you do not want to be without cognizance of the body, for when you lose cognizance of your body, it betrays you. Why is that? That is because it seeks self-gratification. It knows nothing of concern for others. It knows nothing of compassion. It has no concern even for hatred. It has only its own interests at heart. It does not have free will. It wants only to survive."

Student: "That sounds like a newborn baby."

Bob: "That’s a good analogy. And like an infant, the body will tell you what it needs, if you listen. It is not that difficult! Just do remember to take time for Stillness, for this is something you can do when you visit Stillness. Make it a practice to be able to move through the universe of your body without losing your way, and then you are free to lift off, to other Ports of Call." Part 1 of 3.

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Toujours au Service de Michael.

Posted December 13, 2003
New Mexico, US of A, December 2, 2003

Cherubim “What About Bob?”
Subjects: "Your Electro-Chemical System. Part Two - The "Electro."

Received by Gerdean.

Bob: "The electro part, now, that impacts your physical system, is that which comes from outward sources, just as if you were to consider yourself now this physical material thing. If you were to consider yourself a vacuum cleaner or an electric shaver, and if you were plugged in, you would be able to operate. You would find an impelling force that drove you to behave in a way that you had been trained to behave. You discover your electrical responses to the stimuli of your heritage: your cultural conditioning.

"Still from the electrical aspect, another external stimuli, there is the element of your environment, and let us say you are in a hostile environment. It may be vocal or loud; it may be suspenseful and intense; but it will have an effect on your physical being. Your body will respond to the electro energy of the atmosphere. This is animal fear: When you find yourself in a threatening situation, the body is programmed to react/respond to the threat of immanent danger in some way. The intensity with which you react to the fear stimuli is to a great extent dependent upon your self mastery, but it is inherent in the physical makeup of the electrochemical being to have an innate response to stimuli in its environment, and so that is electro.

"Also, soothing music, the sound of wind in the leaves of the trees gently rustling on a balmy summer day is a sensation that is, again, electro. Now your spirits are free to lift. Your body sinks into relaxation and your mind now is freed to operate, your imagination can wander, you are given time to daydream. You may be disciplined and programmed to study, to better apply your mind to exercises and technical work or allowing it to ascend even farther and beyond, into the mota realms, touching upon spirit. This is all electro. Coming from the outside.

Student: "When you talk about electrical currents, I understand that life is an energy, and so there are levels of electrical current. What about the physical electrical currents of such things as just regular old electricity, things that run around us, with us?"

Bob: "Yes. Oh, yes, that is certainly a factor. The hustle-bustle of city life is certainly comprised of many fuel sources as they contribute to the electro charge, but you do not feel that same charge in a cow pasture. It isn’t physically possible, even though you are the same person, on the same earth, wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts because it is another environment entirely as a result of the electrical charge of the immediate environs of your being.

This is how it is that animals adapt to habitats and people can become acclimated to certain environments. After having lived in the city, some might find country life quite dull. After having used their mind in academia, they may find rural humor disagreeable. But to find it unbearable, and if it becomes impossible for them to leave that which they have found to fulfill their litmus test of electrical survivability, they have indeed become a product of their environment: ‘city slickers’ who cannot enjoy the country, just as ‘country folk’ who cannot tolerate the extra stress of high-speed living are not amenable to adapting to a diet of adrenalin, fumes and noise. Thus there are developing cultures because of the propensity to find one environment more electrochemically satisfying than another. But you are all, even so, electrochemical beings."

Student: "Is it possible then that when we are in the position of experiencing what they call ‘vibes’ or we are also sending out ‘vibes’ that these are a product of the electro-chemical system?"

Bob: "Yes, they are, and this is why your gurus and teachers are telling you that you affect your environment, and they encourage you to have a spiritual center, for what you then emanate into the environment is sweet-smelling rather than foul. This is the effect of the electrochemical filtering system that takes the inner being out into the environment.

"‘Vibes’ are an electrochemical pattern. They may be bad vibes, may be good vibes, but they affect the physical and they alert the mental. Coming or going, they are a form of communications. The fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 created an electro-chemical reaction that was felt around the world. That was something that was felt even by those who didn’t want to feel it, because it was a hinge that opened the door of some-thing that threatened all of humanity. And the war now is yet another electrochemical response to the stimuli of the appetites of the prevailing global consciousness.

"Just as you look through your body to determine where you are well, and where you are unwell, you are able to also see the body of your world and determine where it is well and where it is unwell, but in order to appreciate it from the best vantage point, you will need to approach it from that self-same center core reality that you first faced the journey of boarding the raft with your few possessions to discern the universe of your own dominion. Part 2 of 3.

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Toujours au Service de Michael.

Posted December 14, 2003
New Mexico, US of A, December 2, 2003.

Cherubim “What About Bob?”
Subjects: “Your Electro-Chemical System.   Part Three – The “Chemical.”

Received by Gerdean.

Chemical

“What about the chemical aspect?  It is from within this philosophy that one might say, ‘you are what you eat.’  The chemical aspect is influenced by your composition, the necessary amount of minerals in your physical system for maximum performance.  If you are low on a mineral or vitamin, your body will begin to be disturbed.  If you listen to your body, your body will tell you what you need.  You will find yourself oddly drawn to certain foods that may have in it the chemical requisite you need.

“This leads me to point out that when you are engaged in your physical body, you are also able to appreciate and excuse certain indulgences as they play upon the personal chemical makeup of the self-conscious individual.  Just as there are comfort foods, there are stimulating foods, and there are varying degrees of these chemical impressions on the body including prescription drugs/medicines, illicit drugs as well, and other spirits (alcohol), sugar not excluded, and so these are chemical substances affecting your electrochemical system.

“You can see by a study of the physical creature, in terms of its electrochemical composition, that you are a sentient being, conscious of smells, sights, sounds, touch and taste.   You are vulnerable to stimuli and affected by your intake.  If you don’t think, you are really only a creature of habit, generally trained by someone else, i.e., your culture or your parents, your schoolmates, your employers, your government, and so forth, without a will of your own.  It requires will to take the material creature that you are in hand and become the boss of it -- being good to it, but in ways that it will genuinely appreciate by giving back to you that quality of care that you are giving to it.  You see?

“So, once you know yourself, in love for yourself, you will care for yourself appropriately.  I know that your culture has an unwritten law that says that those who are self-effacing are to be prized; as if to stand up for yourself was an egoistic gesture – one obviously instilled in you by that “evil” ego clamoring for attention.  That is not a threat you need to ponder.  If you are sincere in being perfect in your realm as God commanded, it will be your delight as well as your duty to uphold yourself in that context, for obviously, then, you will be all that you can be ~ and thus at your best for others.

“Are there questions?

Student:  “So we manage it by learning first how it is affected by various things.  And whether or not we care determines whether or what we do with the knowledge that we gain.  That does sound like a life-long project, like gaining wisdom.”

Bob: “Yes, but, it’s merely remedial, in that, this knowledge is built into you.  You just need to regain remembrance of it.  If you were living on a normal world you would already know this by inheritance.  You haven’t been taught this because there was no one to teach it in this way, from this perspective.  You have all had health classes in school, certainly, and yet it’s a rare individual indeed who will stick to those food groups and nutritional requirements, as well as all the other elements of maintaining good health and sane electrical currents, in a world so distraught as this one.  You had a question?”

Gerdean: “Well, I was just thinking, what happens if you get in there and you’re working with your body parts from the inside out and you get the hunch that you really ought to do something like … who knows? … like, ‘eat more pickles!’  And you find yourself eating a jar of pickles a week.  Is that silly?  I mean, I can just see that kind of thing happening and being ridiculous about it and getting certain … cravings.”

Bob: “It is entirely between you and your Physician, is it not?  Isn’t there some phrase in your culture that speaks to the doctor-patient relationship?  Is that what you are worried about, is that someone will laugh at you or that you will make yourself sick from eating too many pickles?  If you feel you need pickles, eat pickles.  And when you discover you are fooling yourself or that you are getting well, adapt accordingly.  Don’t be afraid to experiment!

“If you are floating around in your body and you discover something amiss and you attempt something, and it is not effective, are you worse off because you tried something?  Or better off because you tried something?  It’s your responsibility.

“This is the essence of my remarks about the electrochemical system, except to say there are certain realities that will be provided for you when you are given your morontia body that will provide those self-same pleasureful qualities as you know now in the material sense, without those drawbacks which serve you in this material form.

“My Lady and I are now being ‘lifted off to other Ports of Call.’  We appreciate your service, your company, and your association.  Have a good evening.”

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Toujours au Service de Michael.

Primary Midwayer Andrea.
Subject: “Churches, Progress and Tibet.”  [Part transmission only.]

Received by George Barnard.

George: “It’s what I wrote down, Andrea, and whatever reached your ears from the ongoing discussions and postings of late.”

[The question centered around individuals like Sai Baba, the Dalai Lama, their possible connection with the Reserve Corps, and essential Adjuster-to-Adjuster Information Transfer.]

Andrea: “We know how some of you like to valiantly push the boundaries, theorize and speculate, but what I have prepared for you may not altogether answer your question.  And for your benefit, and that of others, I would like to introduce a new term, and rather than us speaking on this day of the Angels of the Churches per se, let us widen the term and refer to them as ‘the Angels of all the Teachings.’

“It is so often with your human vocabulary that when a term like ‘Churches’ is spoken of, and to those of you who are ardent students of the Text (5ER) that your interpretation of the concept is narrowed rather significantly, and, at best, you see in your mind a congregation of a specific denomination, a church building even, or a number of church buildings, perhaps.

“Now I want you to visualize your angelic friends of the Churches as those who ensure that the Teachings are not lost.  Teachings, my friend, and they can be of the most exalted on your world, of Sikh, Christian, or Sufi teachings, and they may be no more than the nature worship of rocks, trees or animals.  Indeed, the Angels of the Churches and their capable midwayer associates do promote these teachings of all kinds.

“‘Churches’ are there to ensure that the books are read, the stories are told, the sermons are given, and the belief systems are not corrupted as they are passed on from mother to daughter, from father to son, from teacher to student, yet the angels will not judge the level of sophistication that they are at, only the purity of teachings, and from generation to generation, for that is their primary task.

“Just recently you enquired about your dear friend and his work with the Falun Gong, and I can assure you now that both Churches and Progress, as well as Science, Medicine and the Arts are represented (and hard at work) by the angels, artisans, specialist teachers and midwayers in the movement – the oh so promising movement that is the Falun Gong.

“Even among those of the old faith of ancestor worship, the aspects of truth, conviction, and belief traditions were promoted from one generation to the next, and from the blue sky ‘prayer houses’ of the Mongolian steppes, to those of the visionary cults who dwell in the dense-forest ‘cathedrals’ of the Amazon, we were and are there as ‘Churches’ to promote the continued acceptance of those belief systems.  As well, we were and are there as ‘Progress’ to promote the higher truths whenever they may be learned or intuited.

“And so it is with the beliefs of the Tibetan nation.  No matter the prayer wheels, the prayer flags and banners, you will find those there who are most sincere and deeply devout.  And it is not (up) to us to frown upon the idiosyncrasies of any such credos that even include some strange notions from your own Christian history.  And, yes, you will find us there, too, to promote all that is good and beautiful, and to ignore the erroneous, but to awaken to higher truths when appropriate.

“So to your question: The mention of Spirit Selves transferring great amounts of specific and often also mundane information as in the case of the Dalai Lama hierarchy is indeed along the lines of Thought Adjuster exchange as it is customary with older and younger members of the Reserve Corps.  It is up to the Thought Adjusters to indicate, and with the foreknowledge with which they arrive from Divinington, which new personality is to take over from the old and dying.

“It is up to the likes of Dr. Mendoza and the many assistants to speed up the physical, mindal and spiritual development of this preordained individual, and to re-enforce the specific aspect of knowledge and recognition of facts that are important for the human associates on their long and guided journey to receive confirmation that, indeed, this new, immature personality is in fact the destined one to take over the task.

“It behooves you to realize that in the Paradise existence the past and future merge into the ever-present, and that these things can be foreknown, even to the need for a specific new personality to turn up in time to take over the lead from the old, and to keep alive the teachings of one generation for the benefit of the next.

“It takes no great imagination to visualize the utter chaos that would ensue if the older generation neglected to pass on their spiritual heritage to the next.  No, indeed, neither you nor I could imagine the absolute bedlam that would therefrom result, but these things are foreseen and ‘Paradise-generated data’ and advice is received by our angelic associates and through them passed onto us midway creatures more often than you take a breath.

“Suffice to say that the old teachings are well guarded by ‘Churches,’ and that all further truths, as they are realized, are capitalized upon by ‘Progress.’

“Suffice to say that only the most advanced-in-experience Thought Adjusters will volunteer to indwell the minds of such exalted leaders of the minds of men.

“I thank you, my dear brother, for staying the distance with me.  We fared moderately well with this ‘new stuff,’ as you will put it.  This is Andrea, and I send my love to all who will hear our words.”

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