Uranda Never Minced Words

Uranda  Never  Minced  Words

Martin Cecil   April 17, 1978

We need to have a little intelligent discernment and spiritual perception with respect to our own natural rhythms, and the way our own physical bodies work and the way our minds work too. We need to be aware of these things. We need to be alert mentally speaking and alert spiritually speaking, so that we are in position to discern; and of course we need, above all, to be honest with ourselves. 

I was recalling an occasion, quite a while ago, when Uranda was still here—I think it was 1952, when the first Class was in session. I spent about a month down here in January, I think it was, of 1952. During that time I had opportunity to speak on occasion in various ways, to give a service perhaps, and afterwards Uranda and I used to discuss what had occurred, and this permitted a recognition of what needed attention in my own expression and what was present from the standpoint of the response of those who were present—and these things have a relatedness, incidentally. 

I always enjoyed—not exactly post mortems, because I don't think it was dead—but a consideration of these things; and Uranda never minced words. Everything was brought out into the open, and that's the way I would wish it to be; but sometimes there were others present who became disturbed because of the things that Uranda was saying relative to me, and I heard secondhand that someone had said that "I don't know how Martin can take it." But I wasn't taking anything! I didn't have the experience of gritting my teeth and taking anything at all. I was enjoying the experience. It was just the reaction of somebody else. This was possible in my own experience because I knew what Uranda was saying before he said it. He may have said it and brought it out in a clearer way than was yet in my own consciousness, and I delighted in that, but it was in my own consciousness already. I had been honest enough to be able to see that it was there. 

I have found over the years, in speaking with many people, that when I bring things out for them to look at they get all disturbed about it because they had not been alert themselves to what was present in themselves; they had never looked at it—not only alert enough to see but honest enough to see it. I never anticipate that someone is going to react all over the place when I bring something out. I anticipate they are sufficiently honest that they already know that it's there and that when it's brought out then here are two in agreement and it is dealt with. 

Here is something that relates to the spirit of the new earth: a conscious awareness of what is going on in the external sense, and certainly a conscious awareness of one's own limitations—here is this word again—of one's present state of consciousness. Whatever your present state is now, do you expect it to be that way forever? Of course most people expect it to get worse. If it's going to change, why should it have to change in a disintegrating fashion? It doesn't have to. It is the popular view that it will, and all who are attuned with the spirit of decay are experiencing disintegration. It is the only thing they can experience on that basis, but if we begin to be associated with the spirit of the new earth then there is a constructive, integrating element of experience.

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