Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of people is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide. The depths of feelings can be buried so deeply in an individual that they may be totally unknown to that person. One important element which keeps people locked in their loneliness is the conviction that their real self—the inner self, the self that is hidden from others—is one which no one could love. It is easy enough to trace the origin of this feeling. The spontaneous feelings of a child, one’s real attitudes, have so often been disapproved of by parents and others that one has come to introject this same attitude oneself, and to feel that one’s spontaneous reactions and the self one truly is constitutes a person whom no one could love. This can lead a person to even question one’s religious faith, question some of one’s own values, and cause one to feel very uncertain as to the answers to these questions, which will lead to one experiencing a certain element of despair. Although one knows these answers must be inside of oneself, because they do not seem to be coming, it can leave one feeling frightened. #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

Many people seek the help of a psychologist, but it also leaves them wondering, “How are you going to stop the charlatans who exploit persons psychologically, often for great financial gain?” I respect this question, but I would point out that the person whose purpose is to exploit others can do so without calling oneself a psychologist. This is because few persons are sufficiently nonmaterialistic to look beyond the physical appearance for the mental reality of the person interviewed. Most come carrying a preconceived picture of some rich, perfectly wonderful, perfectly attractive, perfectly saintlike Perfect Friend. This idea is not realized. They leave the meeting disillusioned. The real teacher is hard to behold. For one can be seen partly with the heart, partly with the mind, but rarely with the eye of flesh. The duty of a leader is to attract people by example. Indeed, it can be a dilemma. Some may feel like, “I do not know if our two Worlds can ever meet—because our World has feelings in it.” I could not agree with him more. Many overstress on the conscious and the rational and the underestimation of the wisdom of our total reacting organism that prevents us from living as unified, whole human beings. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

However, it is necessary to understand that the love is really felt for the divine presence which is using the teacher. Even if the symbol were a person devoid of spiritual power and light, its effect would still appear beneficially within one’s life. This is because one has imagined it to be powerful and enlightening and the creative power of one’s own thought produces some benefit. All this time, it is your own high self which is guiding you, even when it is using the mental image of the guide you may have selected for a purpose. Your soul is your own real saviour. There are hands in every country, among every people, outstretched to God for inward help. The responsibility to answer these prayers rests therefore primarily with God. Any person who apparently gives the needed help is only an intermediary. Neither the power nor the wisdom which one manifests is one’s own. If one perceives that fact, one will be humbled by it. People generally have been led by society, including their parents, to adopt and follow one of the major prophets of their time. This is done partly in the belief that one is still in touch with them from a Heaven-World, partly out of unquestioning acceptance of one’s revelation, and partly out of the social necessity of belonging to the membership of some organized church. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

However, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth. Could we accept ourselves as total organisms, with wisdom in every pore—if we would hear and be aware of that wisdom? There is a genuine inner relationship between each and every individual and God. When one comes to that understanding, one will feel the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost never left them. People need to learn in an open environment. They learn about the excitement and important of discovery, about their capabilities, their limits, self-discipline, and responsibility. They also learn facts. How many? Who knows? I just know that they learn some facts. They know this, too. It makes me feel good to really know something and to know down deep that we are learning. Openness…You have got to experience it, live it, do it! This is how one succeeds at becoming a whole human, but more importantly, in understanding what one is. What I discovered is that a whole human is comprised of mind, heart, soul, and body. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

However, many of us have been denying a most important part of ourselves, and the awful split is one result. Another result is that the excitement has, in large measure, gone out of education—even though no one can take the excitement out of real learning. Supposed every educational institution, from kindergarten through the most prestigious Ph.D. program, were to close tomorrow. What a delightful situation that would be! Parents and children and adolescents and young people—even a few faculty members, perhaps—would begin to devise situations in which they could learn! Can you imagine anything more uplifting to the spirit of our people? It would be sad and it would be utterly marvelous at the same time. Millions of people would be asking the same question: “Is there anything I want to learn?” They would find that there are such things, and they would invent means by which they could learn them. A number of studies did show that self-learning does promote change. Youth, most people really, have a need to love people and they readily give it away and all they need is someone to be receptive to this love. And this should be one of the functions of the teacher, that is, one should be able to accept their students and show concern for them. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

A teacher cannot stand aloof from one’s students. It pays to be humane in the classroom. A humane atmosphere is not only more pleasant for all concerned; it also promotes more—and more significant—learning. When attitudes of realness respect for the individual, understanding of the student’s private World are present, exciting things happen. The payoff is not only in such things as grades and reading achievement, but also in more elusive qualities such as greater self-confidence, increased creativity, and more liking for others. In short, such a classroom leads to a more optimistic, unified learning by the whole person. However, many graduate students have failed to receive their degrees because they have refused to obey, or to conform to every wish of, their major professor. Their position is analogous to that of a slave, subject to the life-and-death power of the master. While being taught that freedom and responsibility are the glorious features of our democracy, the students are experiencing themselves as powerless, as having little freedom, and as having almost no opportunity to exercise choice or carry responsibility. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

It is believed that there is knowledge that exists separate and apart from how a person feels…and that accumulated knowledge of humankind if cognitive. It can be transmitted, it can be taught and learned, and the pursuit of that kind of knowledge is academic research. It appears that some would like to abandon cognitive learning, or at least reduce its importance to a level unacceptable to scholars. However, the affective, the emotional component is terribly important. For the greater expectations of the more favoured presumably cover the costs of training and encourage better performance thereby contributing to the general advantage. While nothing guarantees that inequalities will not be significant, there is a persistent tendency for them to be leveled down by the increasing availability of educated talent and ever widening opportunities. The conditions established by the other principles insure that the disparities likely to result will be much less than the differences that humans have often tolerated in the past. The utilitarian tends to meet objections by holding that the laws of society and of human nature rule out the cases offensive to our considered judgment. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

Justice as fairness, by contrast, embeds the ideals of justice, as ordinarily understood, more directly into its principles and atmosphere. It insures this fit over a wider range of possible cases. Now this view makes moral philosophy the study of the ethics of creation: an examination of the reflections of an omnipotent deity might entertain in determining which is the best of all possible Worlds. Yet, who is attempting to gain control over whom? The students are in the process of gaining control over the course of their own learnings and their own lives. Giving away power seems terrifying to some. One person-centered teacher in a school constitutes a threat to every other teacher. That is not surprising when one considers that utilitarianism, while it has many great aspects, may allow for slavery and serfdom, and for other infractions of liberty. Whether these institutions are justified is made to depend upon whether actuarial calculations show that they yield a higher balance of happiness. I know a teacher, a fine facilitator of learning, who was selected by the students as one of the two or three best teachers in the college. She was finally dropped from the faculty because she repeatedly and resolutely refused to agree to grade on a curve. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

In other words, she refused to promise in advance that she would fail a certain percentage of her students no matter what the quality of their work. This was taken as evidence that she did not believe in standards, since in the circuitous logic of the conventional school “standards” means, in practice, failing students. She was not only undermining “standards,” but she was undermining the punitive power of the faculty. It was such an uncomfortable threat that they had to get rid of her, although they were embarrassed to do so. This is far from being an isolated incident. It shows how even one individual can threaten a whole faculty. Nonetheless, many students who loudly demand more freedom come to a complete and confused stop when they are allowed responsible freedom. Nothing in their background has prepared them to make choices, to make mistakes and live with the consequences, to endure the chaos of uncertainty as they try to selection directions in which they wish to move. They need understanding companionship from the facilitator as they all search for new ways. They need a supporting atmosphere so they can fail and still accept themselves, and can succeed without feeling competitive. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

I hope that innovative education moves forward in learning. There is a growing body of evidence, which is hard to ignore, that shows capacities and potentials within the psyche that seem almost limitless, and that fall almost entirely outside the field of science as we have known it. The person in whom intuition is well-developed or who is able to practise prayer sufficiently to hear the voice of God, can manage without a guru. From a chaotic beginning, an order can develop; the energy of emotional expression and acceptance will find its direction, much like in the book of Genesis. The insoluble problems of our civilization, and the necessary transfiguration of human beings, their motives, and their values are necessary, if we are to survive. Very compelling is the evidence that our most serious problems are not brought about by the failures of our society, but by its success. Hence, our past and current paradigms cannot possibly deal with our present problems by extending the old principles. What is most likely to happen is called the destruction of civilization, in which our institutions will gradually collapse of their own weight and complexity. Impossible? That is what the Romans thought. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

However, even though they thought they were invincible, the structure of the Roman empire fell apart, partly from a barbarian attack, even more from the empire’s own flaws and bureaucratic overcomplexity. In similar fashion, this may happen to us. Perhaps the blackouts and riots in our great urban centers, the bankruptcy of our largest cities, the feverish panic at the time of this COVID-19 crises, are but the faintest whisperings of such a future collapse. What is needed to help us meet this new Dark Age with its turbulences, its combinations of somber and exciting possibilities? What will assist us in brining about this coming transfiguration? What characteristics will lead to survival? The inner life, a higher awareness, a recognition that enormous resources for the creation of the good life within the person, is one of the characteristics needed for this coming age. People will increasingly demand to take part in choices that affect their lives, in policy planning, in the operation of governmental and industrial organizations. These organizations are likely to become smaller as the great bureaucracies fall apart, thus making possible more and more participatory choice. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

An organization will tend to become “our organization,” in which “we” make the decisions, rather than “their organization.” There is also agreement that one of the most essential elements for survival is the development of a greater sense of cooperation, of community, of ability to work together for the common good, not simply for personal aggrandizement. Our new slogan in Western Civilization should be, “Be Yourself—Build Community.” It seems clear that is we are to live though the coming turbulence in a constructive way, the situation demands drastic changes in the purposes, values, the behaviour, the guiding principles of our lives. Perhaps most important, is to have an incredible shift away from looking for answers and values and standards outside of the self. Very perceptibly, persons must seek within for that they are experiencing as valuable, instead of looking for what they are told is valuable. Without question, we are beginning to meet the first condition for living in the new age. We are discovering the sources of the good life within ourselves, not in someone else. Large groups of people can begin to learn to live in ways more appropriate for our uncertain future. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

We can develop a participatory mode of decision making that is adaptable to almost any situation and contains its own self-correcting gyroscopic mechanism, as error free as any decision-making process known. We can develop a sense of community in which respect for others, and cooperation rather than competition, are the keynotes. We can develop a new confidence in ourselves, discovering the source of values within ourselves, coming to an awareness that the good life is within, not dependent on outside sources. These changes, so appropriate of living in a disintegrating culture, can be initiated in a short space of time and in a very large group of people, if we ourselves are able to be, in a fashion suitable to that changing World. These learnings indicate that we have the educational strategy for making these human changes possible, and this approach is feasible here and now. All in all, our experiences give a challenging hint of what an education for the next century might become. I have long had a keen interest in the future. This is a World of change, and I take pleasure in trying to discern the directions in which we are moving, or will move. I am convinced that at this point we are going through a transformational crisis, from which we are our World cannot emerge unchanged. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

Why does not God just force us to do the things He knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which He has intended in our creation: freely chosen character. The centrality of will to personhood is what makes it immediately and strongly precious and gives the person dignity. There are many people who now make it their business to try to predict our future, but all of such work is, at best, informed speculation. Scientists can predict, with almost absolute accuracy, the date and hour of arrival of a comet, but what the human World will be like on that future date, no one knows. Dignity is a worth so great that it disallows exchanging a person for anything else. The great worth of the person explains why Jesus Christ would die for the sake of individual human beings and be satisfied with the outcome. “After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquiites,” reports Isaiah 53.11. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” reports Hebrews 12.2. When we believe in Christ, the sensitive will feel that some sort of inner benefit was got by our relationship with him. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

 We treasure the will or choice in ourselves and in others spontaneously without having to learn it. Wil has obvious, intrinsic, and supreme value. The small child, without learning to do so, values its capacity to act on its own, which it quickly identifies and stubbornly defends. The sense of things flowing from itself it unmistakable and joyous and irrepressible. And adults delight to see the children’s will emerge— “Look at what she did!” and “Did you hear what he said?!” In the child and in the adult, this sense of creativity is basic to health and well-being. Choice, the exercise of will and spirit, is valued and carefully guarded throughout life; and at the end of life we want to think we uniquely have made a difference—always for good, of course. However, such an outcome is not automatically so—and certainly not so to the degree it could be and should be. For the human will in the individual is not only precious, it is a problem. From the strictly human point of view it is a devastating and unsolvable problem. Everyone has the experience of willing in a way that is contrary to other choices they have already made or ones that should be made. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

Human life in its usual forms is characterized by conflict within the will and between wills. However, such a statement does not do justice to the facts. What we call “civilization” is a smoldering heap of violence constantly on the verge of bursting into flame. That is the true picture of the fallen human will. “And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these sayings he cast his eyes round about on the multitude, and said unto them: Behold, ye have heard the things which I taught before I ascended to my Father; therefore, whoso remembered these sayings of mine and doeth them, one will I raise up at the last day. And it came to pass that when Jesus had said these words he perceived that there were some among them who marveled, and wondered what he would concerning the law of Moses; for they understood not the saying that old things had passed away, and that all things had become new. And he said unto them: Marvel not that I said unto you that old things had passed away, and that all things had become new. Behold I say unto you that the law is fulfilled that was given unto Moses. Behold, I am he that gave the law, and I am he who covenanted with my people Israel; therefore, the law in me is fulfilled, for I have come to fulfill the law; therefore it hath an end. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

“Behold, I do not destroy the prophets, for as many as have not been fulfilled in me, verily I say unto you, shall all be fulfilled. And because I said unto you that old things have passed away, I do not destroy that which hath been spoken concerning things which are to come. For behold, the covenant which I have made with my people is not all fulfilled; but the law which was given unto Moses hath an end in me. Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end and ye shall live; for unto one that endure to the end will I give eternal life. Behold, I have given unto you the commandments; therefore keep my commandments. And this the law and the prophets, for they truly testified of me. And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words, he said unto those twelve whom he had chosen: ye are my disciples; and ye are a light unto this people, who are remnant of the house of Joseph. And behold, this is the land of your inheritance; and the Father hath given it unto you. And no at any time hath the Father given me commandment that I should tell it unto your brethren at Jerusalem. Neither at any time hath the Father given men commandment that I should tell unto you them concerning the other tribes of the house of Israel, whom the Father hath led away out of the land. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

“This much the Father commanded me, that I should tell unto them: That other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. And now, because of stiffneckedness and unbelief they understood not my word; therefore I was commanded to say no more of the Father concerning this thing unto them. However, verily, I say unto you that the Father hat commanded me, and I tell it unto you, that ye were separated from among them because of their iniquity; therefore it is because of their iniquity that they know not of you. And verily, I say unto you again that the other tribes hath the Father separated from them; and it is because of their iniquity that they know not of them. And verily I say unto you, that ye are they of whom I said: Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall be one fold, and one shepherd. And they understood me not, for they supposed it had been the Gentiles; for they understood not that the Gentiles should be converted through their preaching. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

“And they understood me not that I said they shall hear my voice; and they understood me not that the Gentiles should not at any time hear my voice—that I should not manifest myself unto them save it were by the Holy Ghost. However, behold, ye have both heard my voice, and seen me; and ye are my seep, and ye are numbered among those whom the Father hath given me,” reports 3 Nephi 15.1-24. From high above, the Sun looks down, the witness of all deeds done by people. Lord of Truth, please guide me in my actions, so that all that I do might be worthy of your gaze. “The Heaven and the Earth were finished, and all their host. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because He rested thereon from all His work which God created and made,” reports Genesis 2.1-3. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God and God of our Fathers, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the great, mighty, revered and most high God, Master of Heaven and Earth. Magnified and sanctified be the name of God throughout the World which He hath created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom during the days of your life and during the life of all the house of Israel, speedily, yea, soon; and say ye, Amen. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

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Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” There have been many millions of words written about the creative process, few of them very illuminating. The reason is not hard to find. The process is intimate and personal and characteristically takes place not at the level of full consciousness but at subconscious or preconscious levels. It has been inaccessible to study largely because we have not yet found any means for controlling it. Many effective scientists and artists have learned a few techniques which may reduce interference with it, but no one to my knowledge has discovered any means by which one can set it in motion at will. It is probable that the fundamentals of the creative process are the same in all fields, but in those fields in which an advance in knowledge is sought, there is an additional requirement—or rather, one requirement receives particular emphasis. This is the need for a large store of knowledge and experience. The broader the scientist’s experience and the more extensive one’s stock of knowledge, the greater the possibility of a real breakthrough. The creative process involves a scanning or searching through stocks of stored memories. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

There seems to be a rather sharp limit to the possibility of very significant advance through voluntary, logical scanning of these stores of memories. For one thing, they vary enormously in their accessibility to conscious recall and in the specificity of their connections, so that reliance upon conscious, orderly, logical thinking is not likely to produce many results at this stage, however essential such procedures become later in verification. This scanning is typically for patterns and complex associations rather than for isolated units. It may be, however, that a small unit acts as a sort of key to a pattern. What seems to happen, in creative efforts in science as well in every other field, is that the individual enters a state in which logical thinking is submerged and in which thought is prelogical. Such thought is described as random largely because it typically tries seemingly illogical and distantly related materials, and it often makes major advances in just this way. It is not fully random, however, because it is goal-directed and because even in this preconscious work there is appropriate selection and rejection of available connections. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

This stage of the creative process is accompanied by generally confused or vague states of preoccupation of varying degrees of depth; it is well described as “stewing.” It is this stage which apparently cannot be hurried or controlled. Although termination of this stage (finding a solution, or “getting insight,” as it is often called) quite frequently occurs in a moment of dispersed attention, it apparently does not help to induce a state of dispersed attention in the hope of provoking a quicker end to the process. It should be added that, while insights do frequently occur “in a flash,” they need not do so, and that the process is the same whether or not the insight turns out to have validity. To acquire the necessary store of knowledge requires long and difficult application, and as science advances, the amount of information to be assimilated becomes greater and greater, despite increasing generalization in the organizing of the data. Obviously, as more experience is stored and as the interconnections become better established and more numerous, the scanning becomes more effective. Such interconnections develop more and more readily as the process of acquiring experience takes on significance in the light of theory. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

This process requires not only the basic capacity to assimilate experiences but very strong motivation to persist in the effort. If one is to continue with a search which may for a long time be unproductive, strong motivation is also required. Motivation of this kind and strength derives from the needs and structure of the personality. Its sources are rarely obvious, although they can sometimes be traced. They do not necessarily derive from “neurotic problems,” although they frequently do. When they do, it is no cause of dismay. They ability of the human being to find in a personal problem motivation for a search for truth is one of the major accomplishments of the species. If past experiences have brought about a compartmentalization of the storage areas, so that some portions are partially or wholly inaccessible, obviously the scientist is limited in one’s search. Compartmentalization of particular areas may even result from personal experiences of a sort that lead to neurotic structures generally, or it may result from specific cultural restrictions, such as political or religious indoctrination. The extent to which such indoctrination will inhibit creative effort, however, depend upon how close the inaccessible areas are in content to the problems at issue. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

We have fairly conclusive evidence that political indoctrination need not interfere with inquiry into mathematical and physical science. Religious indoctrination can interfere strongly at any point, as history has documented very fully for us. The conclusion is no different from the basic principle of therapy: the more areas of experience there are accessible to conscious and preconscious thought, the better are the prospects for creativity. Once an apparent answer to the scientist’s question has been found, there is still a long process of pursuing and checking to be gone through. Not every human who can produce new ideas is also good at the business of checking them, and of course the reverse is also true. It is in the utilization of such personal differences as these that a “team approach” can make sense. If independent learning is implementation of fascination with imagined possibilities, then we must be concerned with the imaginative mode of experiencing. We already know much about the perceptual mode of experiencing, but imagining the “imaginative consciousness,” is less fully understood. To imagine means to transcend the here-and-now, to shut off the perceptual mode and invent new possibilities that thus far cannot be perceived by anyone. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

The possibilities exist in the imaginative consciousness of the experiencer, and it is for one to “real-ize” these and make it possible for one and others to perceive in actuality what before existed only as one’s image. The free imagination, like freedom itself, is a threat to all status quo. The free imagination appears to make intentional learning (rather than passive, associative conditioning) possible. The learner, even in a schoolroom, is animated by an image of a future, possible being that is not yet attained. A good pedagogue will seek to vivify and intensify this image—the image of what is will be like when one can read, or count, or play the piano. “Can you see yourself as the life of the party? Would you like to be? Then enroll now.” The dull child, the one who resists teacher’s efforts to teach, is often the one whose imagination has been turned off because the possible being it could disclose is frightening. Or one’s World is so threatening one must stay in the mode of perception, lest a danger appear. Imagining is dangerous because it means a cessation of vigilant scanning. The teacher who turns on the dull pupil, the coach who elicits a magnificent performance from someone whom it could not have been expected, are people who themselves have an image of the pupil’s possibilities; and they are effective in realizing their images. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

Good leaders, who have a vivid image of possibility, produce followers in whom this image is awakened; and the followers achieve remarkable feats, on their own. The art of challenge needs to be better understood, but it does seem to entail the ability to awaken a sleeping imagination to fascinating possibility and the possibility of becoming fascinated. Good models are able to awaken the images of desirable lifestyles to make a productive attractive. Good gurus are able to awaken the imagination of possibilities in the experience of their followers. Beyond awakening the image of the possibility, the good guru is effective at challenging a person to commit oneself to realize the possibility. It is often a long and discouraging voyage, to make an envisioned possibility actual. A friend, parent, teacher, or guru may help the independent learner make one’s way by offering courage, encouragement, and support in the face f blind alleys, setbacks and failures. Many people have the capacity to imagine possibilities, even fascinating possibilities; but they stop their pursuit after a failure or two. The helper will offer the support which keeps the seeker seeking and trying. The seeking is what is applauded, not solely the successful attainment. Many people will neither imagine nor try, because they cannot be guaranteed a visible success. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

Where are the Gurus? People who relate to others in a confirming, authentic, challenging, and encouraging way seem to be agents in fostering independent learning in others. Likely, too, they are themselves independent learners, animated by imagines of possibility that they are themselves actualizing. Imitation of admired role-models (hero worship) is certainly an influential factor in everyone’s development, and we should not underrate the importance of this in our deliberations. Indeed, how admirable, heroic, growing, and seeking in fascination are the available Others in our society?  Who wants to be like one’s father? One’s mother? One’s schoolteacher? If the young people of today are any illustration, they seem to be hell-bent on pursuing an image of a possible being that is portrayed for them by the publish of GQ magazine. The human who has the latest fashions, expensive watches and cars, date exotic models seems to inspire independent learning (of how to look like one and behave like one) than do the professors of introductory psychology, or the teachers of third-grade social studies. The suave and debonair GQ model is a false messiah. He may not be an authentic guru; but he turns people on. So, of course did Billy D. Williams, Chico DeBarge, Brad Pitt, and Shawn Mendes—but Jesus awakened people too! #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

If the Establishments in society can tolerate gurus, I wonder? If schools, homes, industry, politics, and business will permit people to be turned on to projects of their choosing, I wonder? Independent learners rock the boat. True education, as opposed to training (which is essential), is by definition subversive. Education liberates individuality: it frees and strengthens autonomy. training constricts: it reduces variance; it diminished freedom and lessens autonomy. We cannot ignore the fact that education is a political act, or, better, the embodiment of the politicization of youthful minds. However, it is also a tool essential for enlightenment. Every society needs educated people, and gurus; or it will shatter from its own rigidity. Do we have any? Do we have enough? And are they honest? There are two ways whereby help is given by a master to one’s disciples. The first is a conscious one whereas the second is not. And it is the second, the apparently less important way, which is really the commonest one. Just as the Sun does not need to be aware of every individual plant upon which it sheds its beneficent life-giving growth-stimulating ways, so the master does not need to be aware of every individual disciple who uses one as an example. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

Yet each disciple will soon realize that one is receiving from such activities a vital inward stimulus, a real guidance and definite assistance. This result will develop the power unconsciously drawn from the disciple’s own higher self, which in turn will utilize the mental image of the master as a channel through which to shed its grace. What the master gives by way of personal example and verbal precept is only the beginning and not end of what one can give. The silent inward transmission is even more important. To the extent that the teacher helps in the growth of a disciple’s inner life, one shares in it. Teacher and student share each other’s World. When the impact of one’s physical presence is absent, the power of one’s spiritual presence may become plainly evident. The gracious image of the master will reappear constantly before one’s eyes. And one would rather have its magical presence, together with the rebuke that may come with it, than not have it at all. One feels vividly at some moments, but only faintly at other moments, that the master is in the background of one’s life. One will not only feel the master’s personality as if it were somewhere near or close together with one, but will also absorb inspiration from it and add some of its peace to one’s own. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

One draws into one’s very being these noble influences emanating from the master. Wherever one may be, the intelligent disciple can create inner contact with one’s master by finding the latter’s mental image within oneself as a deep vivid and actual presence. Mystic Union of Master and Pupil: The best way to follow a teacher is to possess yourself of one’s spirit. The rest will take care of itself. When the disciple’s maturity meets the teacher’s grace, the path to spiritual attainment is really opened up. The disciple is bound to the guide with a bond of inner attraction which, without the consent of destiny or the guide oneself, one cannot break! How the mind depends on the will—this is true in a special manner with the will (spirit, heart). We have already noted how the will is totally dependent in its functioning upon the contents of the mind (thoughts, feelings). It is not possible to choose, which is the function of the will or spirit, except in terms of thoughts and feelings. The will is hemmed in by what our thoughts and feelings actually are at the time of willing. However, now we need to develop further the idea that our thoughts and feelings also have a crucial dependence on our will, on out choice. The soul will lead one by stages to itself. Hence it may lead one to reverence for some scriptural personage or to a stronger devotion to God. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

The attraction to a teacher is usually someone’s yearning to meet someone who can lead the closer to God. God can be reflected in some people because the divine’s existence opens a channel to His power. The notion of pure spirit inspires people to focus their thoughts on something worth aspiring towards, something that is immediately recognizable as a path to salvation. Our yearning for God is the prime value of the human ideal. What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish to seek and feel. The condition of our minds is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set. There is a kind of back and forth here, which is very important to understand for our purposes of spiritual formation. Obviously, the thoughts and feelings that the will depends on in any given moment of choice cannot be changed in that moment. However, the will or heart can change the thoughts and feelings that are to be available to it in future choices. It is because of this tat we are responsible for our character. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Our character is that internal, overall structure of the self that is revealed by our long-run patterns of behaviour and from which our actions more or less automatically arise. It is character that explains why we use credit reports and resumes and letters of reference to make decisions about people. They do not just tell what someone did, but they reveal what kind of thoughts, feelings, and tendencies of will that person habitually acts from, and therefore how one will act in the future. However, character can be changed. And that, of course, is what spiritual formation in Christlikeness is about. It may be, for example, that in a certain situation I have injured someone (possibly a loved one) by speaking or acting in anger. Domestic violence is a sad fact of life and is found in many forms the World over. However, in a reflective moment I also may be remorseful and ask myself if I really want to be the kind of person (have the character of one) who does such things. If I do not want that, it will be necessary to change my thoughts and feelings. Just resolving “not to do it again” will be of little use. Will alone cannot carry us to change. However, will implemented through changing my thoughts and feelings can result in my becoming the kind of person who just does not do that kind of thing anymore. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

Of course we must, if we would change, be in possession of whatever those thoughts and feelings are that will enable us to choose to change precisely those thoughts and feelings that brought us to abuse our loved one in the first place. And if they are to be adequate to our spiritual needs, the former thoughts and feelings ultimately must come with repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The remedy to the human situation must come from the impact upon the human mind and will of the good news of Jesus Christ under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The human mind and will must be transformed through interaction with thoughts and feeling deriving from the Word and the Spirit. This will make it so that the Infinite Power does not seem too inaccessible nor too exalted to be mindful of human needs, and make our Lord more approachable. Focusing on the Word and Spirit of the Lord will also allow us to more quickly get help from the God within. Here will arise the need of a Symbol, to which our hearts can yield loving devotion and on which our minds can practise intense concentration. When we focus on God’s will it allows us to detect our true self, and hear its voice in conscience, sense its presence in intuition, as the infinite wisdom of God personifies it in the body for our convenience, inspiration, and assistance. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

Everyone needs affinity with God for He embodies the disciple’s conscience. Jesus is the Door to our Heavenly Father and salvation. When we focus on being more Christlike, this established a properly controlled, wisely directed imagination which is a powerful assistant in spiritual exercises. We will be determined to live as we are meant to live, and to be as we are mean to be. Truths are decayed from among the children of men. As from one man’s face many likenesses are reflected in a mirror, so many truths are reflected from the one divine truth. However, if we speak of truth as it is in things, then all things are true by one primary truth; to which each one is assimilated according to its own entity. And thus, although the essences or forms of things are many, yet the truth of the divine intellect is one, in conformity to which all things are said to be true. The soul does not judge of things according to any kind of truth, but according to the primary truth, inasmuch as it is reflected in the soul, as in a mirror, by reason of the first principles of the understanding. It follows, therefore, that the primary truth is greater than the soul. And yet, even created truth, which resides in our intellect, is greater than the soul, not simply, but in a certain degree, in so far as its perfection; even as science may be said to be greater than the soul. Yet it is true that nothing subsisting is greater than the rational soul, except God. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

“And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words unto Nephi, and to those who had been called, (now the number of them who had been called, and received power and authority to baptize, was twelve) and behold, he stretched forth his hand unto the multitude, and cried uno them saying: Blessed are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom I have chosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your servants; and unto them I have given power that they may baptize you with water; and after that ye are baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost; therefore blessed are ye if ye shall believe in me and be baptized, after that ye have seen me and know that I am. And again, more blessings are they who shall believe in your words because that ye shall testify that ye have seen me, and that ye know that I am. Yea, blessed are they who shall believe in your words, and come down into the depts of humility and be baptized, for they shall be visited with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and shall receive a remission of their sins. Yea, blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

“And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God. And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. And blessed are ye when humans shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; for ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in Heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to the salt of the Earth; but if the salt shall lose its savour wherewith shall be thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of humans. Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Behold, do humans light a candle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house; therefore, let your light so shine before the people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfil; for verily I say unto you, one jot nor one tittle hath not passed away from the law, but in me it hath all been fulfilled. And behold, I have given you the law and the commandment of my Father, that ye shall believe in me, and that ye shall repent of your sins, and come unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit. Behold, ye have the commandments before you, and the law is fulfilled. Therefore some unto me and be ye saved; for verily I say unto you, that except ye shall keep my commandments, which I have commanded you at this time, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, and it is also written before you, that thou shalt not kill, and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment of God; however, I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with one’s sibling shall be in danger of one’s judgement. And whosoever shall say to one’s brother, Raca, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if ye shall come unto me, or shall desire to come unto me, and rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee—go thy way unto thy brother, and first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I will receive you. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

“Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with one, lest at any time one shall get thee, and thou shalt be cast into prison. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence until thou hast paid the uttermost senine. And while ye are in prison can ye pay even one senine? Verily, verily, I say unto you, Nay. Behold, it is written by them of old time, that thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery already in his heart. Behold, I give unto you a commandment, that ye suffer none of these things to enter into your heart; for it is better that ye should deny yourselves of these things, wherein ye will take up your cross, than that ye should be cast into hell. It hath been written, that whosoever shall put away one’s wife, let one give her a writing of divorcement. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away one’s wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whoso shall marry her who is divorced committeth adultery. And again it is written, thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but verily, verily, I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by Heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the Earth, for it is his footstool. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

“Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair black or white; but let your communication be Yea; yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever cometh of more than these is evil. And behold, it is written, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, that ye shall not resist evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to one the other also; and if any human will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let one have thy cloak also; and whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with one twain. Give to one that asketh thee, and from one that would borrow of thee turn thou not away. And behold it is written also, that thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy; however, behold I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven; for he maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Therefore those things which were of old time, which were under the law, in me are all fulfilled. Old things are done away, and all things have become new. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

“Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in Heaven is perfect,” reports 3 Nephi 12.1-48. As the day wears on, keep before my eyes, Shower of the Way, the path of the Holy Ones, that I may not forget that it is to them that I have dedicated my life, so that every action may be an offering to them. O Lord our God, bestow upon us the blessing of Thy festivals for life and peace, for joy and gladness, even as Thou hast graciously promised to bless us. [Our God and God of our fathers, accept our rest.] Sanctify us through Thy commandments, and grant our portion in Thy Torah; please give us abundantly of Thy goodness and makes us rejoice in Thy salvation. Please purify our hearts to serve Thee in truth. In Thy loving favour, O Lord our God, let us inherit with joy and gladness Thy holy [Sabbath and] festivals; and may Israel who sanctifies Thy name, rejoice in Thee. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who hallowest [the Sabbath and] Israel and the seasons. The tears of the dawn still sparkle on the grass as I begin my day. God of beginnings, please bless my beginning. Please open paths before me, make easy the way. May I go through the day with ease and end in thankfulness. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

Mills Station at Cresleigh Ranch 

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Residence Three at Mills Station boasts 2,394 square feet in this expansive two story home. There are three bedrooms, with the option for adding one more bedroom, two and a half bathrooms, and a two car garage plus workshop! The charming front courtyard welcomes you home and the high ceilings and thoughtfully designed floor plan let you know that you’ve made the right choice with Cresleigh. You can fully embrace the indoor/outdoor lifestyle so organic to Northern California with a covered patio located right off kitchen with sliding glass doors on all three sides.

The den on the first floor provides a private office if you work from home or play room for the kids to be nearby while offering an option for a bedroom on the first floor.

The kitchen comes fully equipped with a large eat-in island, stainless steel appliances, and quartz counters. The openness in the design allows the Great Room and kitchen to interact with each other seamlessly. https://cresleigh.com/mills-station/residence-3/

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