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Tell me more about highly evolved civilizations and highly evolved beings. Outside of the fact that they don’t kill each other for any reason, what else makes them different from us?

 

They share.

 

Hey, we share!

 

No, they share everything. With everyone. Not a be-ing goes without. All the natural resources of their world, of their environment, are divided equally, and distributed to everyone.

A nation or a group or a culture isn’t thought to “own” a natural resource simply because it happens to

occupy the physical location where that resource is found.

The planet (or planets) which a group of species calls “home” is understood to belong to everyone—to all the species in that system. Indeed, the planet or group of planets itself is understood to be a “system.” It is viewed as a whole system, not as a bunch of little parts or ele-ments, anyone of which can be eliminated, decimated, or eradicated1 without damage to the system itself.

 

The ecosystem2, as we call it.

 

Well, it’s larger than that. It’s not just the ecol-ogy—which is the relationship of the planet’s natural resources to the planet’s inhabitants. It’s also the rela-tionship of the inhabitants to themselves, to each other, and to the environment.

It’s the interrelationship of all the species of life.

 

The “speciesystem”!

 

Yes! I like that word! It’s a good word! Because what we’re talking about is larger than the ecosystem. It’s truly the speciesystem. Or what your Buckminster Fuller called the noosphere.

 

I like speciesystem better. It’s easier to understand. I always wondered what in blazes the noosphere was!

 

“Bucky” likes your word, too. He’s not attached. He always liked whatever made things simpler or easier.

 

You’re talking to Buckminster Fuller now? You’ve turned this dialogue into a séance?

 

Let’s just say I have reason to know that the essence which identified itself as Buckminster Fuller is delighted with your new word.

 

Wow, that’s great. I mean, that’s so cool—to just be able to know that.

 

It is “cool.” I agree.

 

So in highly evolved cultures it’s the speciesystem that mat-ters.

 

Yes, but it isn’t that individual beings don’t matter. Quite to the contrary. The fact that individual beings do matter is reflected in the fact that effect on the spe-ciesystem is uppermost when considering any deci-sion.

It is understood that the speciesystem supports all life, and every being, at the optimum level. Doing noth-ing that would harm the speciesystem is therefore a statement that each individual being is important.

Not only the individual beings with status or influ-ence or money. Not only the individual beings with power or size or the presumption3 of greater self-awareness. All beings, and all species, in the system.

 

How can that work? How can that be possible? On our planet, the wants and needs of some species have to be subordi-nated to the wants and needs of others, or we couldn’t experi-ence life as we know it.

 

You are moving dangerously close to the time when you will not be able to experience “life as you know it” precisely4 because you have insisted on subordinating the needs of most species to the desires of only one.

 

The human species.

 

Yes-and not even all members of that species, but only a few. Not even the largest number (which might have some logic5 to it), but by far the smallest.

 

The richest and the most powerful.

 

You’ve called it.

 

Here we go. Another tirade6 against the rich and the accom-plished.

 

Far from it. Your civilization does not deserve a ti-rade; any more than a roomful of small children de-serves one. Human beings will do what they are doing—to themselves and to each other—until they re-alize that it is no longer in their best interests. No amount of tirades7 will change that.

If tirades changed things, your religions would have been far more effective long before now.

 

Whoa! Zip! Zing! You’re getting everyone today, aren’t You?

 

I’m doing nothing of the sort. Are these simple obser-vations stinging you? Look, then, to see why. This much we both know. The truth is often uncomfortable. Yet this book has come to bring the truth. As have others which I have inspired. And movies. And television programs.

 

I’m not sure I want to encourage people to watch television.

 

For better or worse, television is now the campfire of your society. It is not the medium that is taking you in directions you say you do not wish to go, it is the mes-sages you allow to be placed there. Do not denounce the medium. You may use it one day yourself, to send a different message...

 

Let me get back, if I can. . . can I get back to my original question here? I’m still wanting to know how a speciesystem can work with the needs of all species in the system treated equally.

 

The needs are all treated equally, but the needs themselves are not all equal. It is a question of propor-tion, and of balance.

Highly evolved beings deeply understand that all living things within what we have chosen here to call the speciesystem have needs which must be met if the physical forms that both create and sustain the system are to survive. They also understand that not all these needs are the same, or equal, in terms of the demands they place on the system itself.

Let’s use your own speciesystem as an example.

 

Okay...

 

Let’s use the two living species you call “‘trees” and “humans.”

 

I’m with You.

 

Obviously, trees do not require as much daily “main-tenance” as humans. So their needs are not equal. Yet they are interrelated. That is, one species depends on the other. You must pay as much attention to the needs of trees asto the needs of humans, but the needs themselves are not as great. Yet if you ignore the needs of one species of living thing, you do so at your peril9.

The book I mentioned earlier as being of critical im-portance—The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight—de-scribes all of this magnificently. It says that trees take carbon dioxide out of your atmosphere, using the car-bon portion of this atmospheric10 gas to make carbohy-drates—that is, to grow.

(Nearly everything of which a plant is made, includ-ing roots, stems, leaves—even the nuts and fruits which the tree bears—are carbohydrates11.)

Meanwhile, the oxygen portion of this gas is re-leased by the tree. It is the tree’s “waste matter.”

Human beings, on the other hand, need oxygen to survive. Without trees to convert the carbon dioxide, which is plentiful12 in your atmosphere, into oxy-gen—which is not—you as a species cannot survive.

You, in turn release (breathe out) carbon dioxide, which the tree needs to survive.

Do you see the balance?

 

Of course. It is ingenious.

 

Thank you. Now please quit destroying it.

 

Oh, come on. We plant two trees for every one we cut down.

 

Yes, and it will take only 300 years for those trees to grow to the strength and size which will allow them to produce as much oxygen as many of the old-growth trees you are chopping down.

The oxygen manufacturing plant which you call the Amazon rain forest can be replaced in its capacity to balance your planet’s atmosphere in, say, two or three thousand years. Not to worry. You’re clearing thou-sands of acres every year, but not to worry.

 

Why? Why are we doing that?

 

You clear the land so that you can raise cattle to slaughter13 and eat. Raising cattle is said to provide more income for the indigenous14 peoples of the rain forest country. So all this is proclaimed to be about making the land productive.

In highly evolved civilizations, however, eroding15 the speciesystem is not looked at as productive, but rather, destructive. So HEBs have found a way to balance the total needs of the speciesystem. They choose to do this, rather than serve the desires of one small portion of the system, for they realize that no species within the sys-tem can survive if the system itself is destroyed.

 

Man, that seems so obvious. That seems so painfully obvious.

 

The “obviousness” of it may be even more painful on Earth in the years ahead if your so-called dominant16 species doesn’t wake up.

 

I get that. I get it big. And I want to do something about it. But I feel so helpless. I sometimes feel so helpless. What can I do to bring about change?

 

There’s nothing you have to do, but there’s a great deal you can be.

 

Help me with that.

 

Human beings have been trying to solve problems at the “doingness” level for a longtime, without much success. That’s because true change is always made at the level of “being,” not “doing.”

Oh, you’ve made certain discoveries, all right, and you’ve advanced your technologies, and so, in some ways, you’ve made your lives easier—but it’s not clear whether you’ve made them better. And on the larger is-sues of principle, you have made very slow progress. You are facing many of the same problems of principle that you’ve faced for centuries on your planet.

Your idea that Earth exists for the exploitation of the dominant species is a good example.

You clearly will not change what you are doing around that until you change how you are being.

You have to change your idea about who you are in relationship to your environment and everything in it before you will ever act differently.

It is a matter of consciousness. And you have to raise consciousness before you can change consciousness.

 

How can we do that?

 

Stop being quiet about all this. Speak up. Raise a ruckus. Raise the issues. You might even raise some col-lective consciousness.

On just one issue, for instance. Why not grow hemp17 and use it to make paper? Do you have any idea how many trees it takes just to supply your world with daily newspapers? To say nothing of paper cups, carry-out cartons, and paper towels?

Hemp can be grown inexpensively, and harvested easily, and used not only for making paper, but the strongest rope, and the longest-lasting clothing, and even some of the most effective medicines your planet can provide. In fact, cannabis can be planted so inexpen-sively, and harvested so easily, and has so many wonder-ful uses, that there is a huge lobby working against it.

Too many would lose too much to allow the world to turn to this simple plant which can be grown almost anywhere.

This is just one example of how greed replaces com-mon sense in the conduct of human affairs.

So give this book to everyone you know. Not only so that they get this, but so that they get everything else the book has to say. And there’s still a great deal more.

Just turn the page...

 

Yeah, but I’m starting to feel depressed18, like a lot of people said they felt after Book 2. Is this going to be more and more talk about how we’re destroying things here, and really blow-ing it? ‘Cause I’m not sure I’m up for this . . .

 

Are you up for being inspired? Are you up for being excited? Because learning about and exploring what other civilizations—advanced civilizations-are doing should both inspire and excite you!

Think of the possibilities! Think of the opportunities! Think of the golden tomorrows just around the corner!

 

If we wake up.

 

You will wake up! You are waking up! The paradigm19 is shifting. The world is changing. It’s happening right in front of your eyes.

This book is part of it. You are part of it. Remember, you are in the room to heal the room. You are in the space to heal the space. There is no other reason for you to be here.

Don’t give up! Don’t give up! The grandest adven-ture has just begun!

 

All right. I choose to be inspired by the example and wis-dom of highly evolved beings, not discouraged by it.

 

Good. That is a wise choice, given where you say you want to go as a species. You have much you can re-member from observing these beings.

HEBs live in unity20, and with a deep sense of interre-latedness. Their behaviors are created by their Sponsor-ing Thoughts—what you might call the basic guiding principles of their society. Your behaviors, too, are cre-ated by your Sponsoring Thoughts—or, the basic guid-ing principles of your society.

 

What are the basic guiding principles of a HEB Society?

 

Their First Guiding Principle is: We Are All One.

 

Every decision, every choice, all of what you would call “morals” and “ethics,” is based upon this principle.

The Second Guiding Principle is: Everything in the One Interrelates.

Under this principle, no one member of a species could, or would, keep something from another simply because “he had it first,” or it’s his “possession,” or it’s in “short supply.” The mutual21 dependency of all living things in the speciesystem is recognized and honored. The relative needs of every species of living organism within the system are always kept in balance—because they are always kept in mind.

 

Does this Second Guiding Principle mean there is no such thing as personal ownership?

 

Not as you understand it.

A HEB experiences “personal ownership” in the sense of holding personal responsibility for every good thing in his care. The closest word in your language to describe what a highly evolved being feels about what you would call a “prized possession” is stewardship24. A HEB is a steward23, not an owner.

The word “own,” and your concept behind it, are not part of the culture of HEBs. There is no such thing as “possession” in the sense of something being a “per-sonal belonging.” HEBs do not possess, HEBs caress25. That is, they hold, embrace, love, and care for things, but they do not own them.

Humans possess, H EBs caress. In your language, this is how the difference could be described.

Earlier in your history humans felt they had the right to personally possess everything they laid their hands on. This included wives and children, land, and the riches of the land. “Stuff,” and whatever other “stuff” their “stuff” could get them, was also theirs. Much of this belief is still held as truth today in human society.

Humans became obsessed26 with this concept of “ownership.” HEBs who watched this from a distance called this your “possession obsession27.”

 

Now, as you have evolved, you understand more and more that you can really, truly, possess noth-ing—least of all your spouses28 and children. Many of you, though, still cling to the notion that you can possess land, and everything on it, under it, and over it. (Yes, you even talk about “air rights”!)

The HEBs of the universe, by contrast, deeply un-derstand that the physical planet beneath their feet is not something that can be possessed29 by any single one of them—although an individual HEB may be granted, through the mechanisms30 of his or her society, a parcel of land for which to care. If she is a good steward of the land, she may be allowed (asked) to pass stewardship on to her offspring, and they to theirs. Yet if at any time either he or his offspring prove to be poor stewards22 of the land, the land is no longer kept in their care.

 

Wow! If that were the guiding principle here, half the in-dustries in the world would have to give up their property!

 

And the world’s ecosystem would dramatically im-prove overnight.

You see, in a highly evolved culture, a “corpora-tion,” as you call it, would never be allowed to despoil31 the land in order to make a profit, for it would be clearly seen that the quality of the lives of the very people who own or work for the corporation are being irrevocably damaged. What profit is there in that?

 

Well, the damage might not be felt for many years, whereas the benefits are realized right here, right now. So that would be called Short-Term Profit/Long-Term Loss. But who cares about Long-Term Loss if you’re not going to be there to experience it?

 

Highly evolved beings do. But then, they live a lot longer.

 

How much longer?

 

Many times longer. In some HEB societies, beings live forever—or as long as they choose to remain in cor-poral form. So in HEB societies, individual beings are usually around to experience the long-term conse-quences of their actions.

 

How do they manage to stay alive so long?

 

Of course they are never not alive, any more than you are, but I know what you mean. You mean “with the body.”

 

Yes. How do they manage to stay with their bodies for so long? Why is this possible?

 

Well first, because they don’t pollute their air, their water, and their land. They do not put chemicals into the ground, for instance, which are then taken up by plants and animals, and brought into the body upon consumption of those plants and animals.

A HEB, in fact, would never consume an animal, much less fill the ground, and the plants which the ani-mal eats, with chemicals, then fill the animal itself with chemicals, and then consume it. A HEB would correctly assess such a practice to be suicidal.

So HEBs do not pollute their environment, their at-mosphere, and their own corporal bodies, as humans do. Your bodies are magnificent creations, made to “last” infinitely32 longer than you allow them to.

HEBs also exhibit different psychological behaviors that equally prolong life.

 

Such as?

 

A HEB never worries—and wouldn’t even under-stand the human concept of “worry” or “stress.” Neither would a HEB “hate,” or feel “rage,” or “jealousy,” or panic. Therefore, the HEB does not produce biochemical reactions within her own body that eat away at it and destroy it. A HEB would call this “eating itself,” and a HEB would no sooner consume itself than it would con-sume another corporal being.

 

How does a HEB manage this? Are humans capable of such control over emotions?

 

First, a HEB understands that all things are perfect, that there is a process in the universe that is working itself out, and that all they have to do is not interfere33 with it. So a HEB never worries, because a HEB understands the process.

And, to answer your second question: Yes, humans have this control, although some don’t believe they have it, and others simply don’t choose to exercise it. The few who do make an effort live a great deal longer—assuming chemicals and atmospheric poisons haven’t killed them, and also assuming they haven’t voluntarily poisoned themselves in other ways.

 

Wait a minute. We “voluntarily poison ourselves”?

 

Some of you do, yes.

 

How?

 

As I said, you eat poisons. Some of you drink poi-sons. Some of you even smoke poisons.

A highly evolved being finds such behaviors incom-prehensible. He can’t imagine why you would deliber-ately take into your bodies substances that you know can’t be doing you any good.

 

Well, we find eating, drinking, and smoking certain things enjoyable.

 

A HEB finds life in the body enjoyable, and can’t imagine doing anything that she knows ahead of time could limit or terminate that, or make it painful.

 

Some of us don’t believe that eating red meat plentifully34, drinking alcohol, or smoking plants will limit or terminate our lives, or make them painful.

 

Then your observational skills are very dull. They need sharpening. A HEB would suggest that you simply look around you.

 

Yes, well . . .  what else can You tell me about what life is like in the highly evolved societies of the universe?

 

There is no shame.

 

No shame?

 

Nor any such thing as guilt35.

 

How about when a being proves to be a bad “steward” of the land? You just said they take the land away from him! Doesn’t that mean he’s been judged and found guilty?

 

No. It means he’s been observed and found unable.

In highly evolved cultures, beings would never be asked to do something they’ve demonstrated an inabil-ity to do.

 

What if they still wanted to do it?

 

They would not “want” to.

 

Why not?

 

Their own demonstrated inability would eliminate their desire. This is a natural outcome of their understanding that their inability to do a particular thing could potentially damage another. This they would never do, for to dam-age the Other is to damage the Self, and they know this.

 

So it is still “self-preservation” that drives the experience! Just like on Earth!

 

Certainly! The only thing that’s different is their defi-nition of “Self.” A human defines Self very narrowly. You speak of your Self, your family, your community. A HEB defines Self quite differently. She speaks of the Self, the family, the community.

 

As if there were only one.

 

There is only one. That’s the whole point.

 

I understand.

 

And so, in a highly evolved culture, a being would never, for instance, insist on raising offspring if that be-ing consistently demonstrated to itself its own inability to do so.

This is why, in highly evolved cultures, children don’t raise children. Offspring are given to elders to raise. This doesn’t mean that new offspring are torn from those who gave them life, taken from their arms and given to virtual strangers to raise. It is nothing like that.

In these cultures, elders live closely with the young ones. They are not shuffled36 off to live by themselves. They are not ignored, and left to work out their own fi-nal destinies. They are honored, revered37, and held close, as part of a loving, caring, vibrant38 community.

When a new offspring arrives, the elders are right there, deep within the heart of that community and that family, and their raising of the offspring is as organically correct as it feels in your society to have the parents do this.

The difference is that, though they always know who their “parents” are-the closest term in their lan-guage would be “life-givers”—these offspring are not asked to learn about the basics of life from beings who are still learning about the basics of life themselves.

In HEB societies, the elders organize and supervise the learning process, as well as housing, feeding, and

caring for the children. Offspring are raised in an envi-ronment of wisdom and love, great, great patience, and deep understanding.

The young ones who gave them life are usually off somewhere, meeting the challenges and experienc-ing the joys of their own young lives. They may spend as much time with their offspring as they choose. They may even live in the Dwelling39 of the Elders with the children, to be right there with them in a “home” en-vironment, and to be experienced by them as part of it.

It is all a very unified40, integrated experience. But it is the elders who do the raising, who take the responsibil-ity. And it is an honor, for upon the elders is placed the responsibility for the future of the entire species. And in HEB societies, it is recognized that this is more than should be asked of young ones.

I touched on this earlier, when we talked about how you raise offspring on your planet, and how you might change that.

 

Yes. And thank You for further explaining this, and how it could work. So, getting back, a HEB does not feel guilt or shame, no matter what he does?

 

No. Because guilt and shame is something which is imposed on a being from outside of itself. It can then be internalized, no question about that, but it is initially41 imposed from the outside. Always. No divine being (and all beings are divine) ever knows itself or anything it is doing to be “shameful42” or “guilty” until someone out-side of Itself labels it that way.

In your culture, is a baby ashamed of its “bath-room habits”? Of course not. Not until you tell it to be. Does a child feel “guilty” for pleasuring itself with its genitals? Of course not. Not until you tell it to feel guilty.

The degree to which a culture is evolved is demon-strated by the degree to which it labels a being or an ac-tion “shameful” or “guilty.”

 

Are no actions to be called shameful? Is a person never guilty, no matter what he does?

 

As I have already told you, there is no such thing as right and wrong.

 

There are some people who still don’t understand that.

 

To understand what is being said here, this dialogue must be read in its entirety. Taking any statement out of context could make it not understandable. Books 1 and 2 contain detailed43 explanations of the wisdom above. You are asking Me here to describe the highly evolved cultures of the universe. They already understand this wisdom.

 

Okay. How else are these cultures different from our own?

 

In many other ways. They do not compete.

They realize that when one loses, everyone loses. They therefore do not create sports and games which teach children (and perpetuate44 in adults) the extraordi-nary thought that someone “winning” while another is “losing” is entertainment.

Also, as I said, they share everything. When another is in need, they would never dream of keeping or hoarding45 something they had, simply because it was in scarce supply. On the contrary, that would be their very reason for sharing it.

In your society, the price goes up for that which is rare, if you share it at all. In this way you ensure that, if you are going to share something which you “possess,” at least you’ll be enriched doing it.

Highly evolved beings are also enriched by sharing rare things. The only thing that is different between HEBs and humans is how HEBs define “being en-riched.” A HEB feels “enriched” by sharing everything freely, without needing to “profit.” Indeed, this feeling is the profit.

There are several guiding principles of your culture, which produce your behaviors. As I said earlier, one of your most basic ones is: Survival of the Fittest.

This might be called your Second Guiding Principle. It underlies46 everything your society has created. Its eco-nomics. Its politics. Its religions. Its education. Its social structures.

Yet, to a highly evolved being, the principle itself is an oxymoron. It is self-contradicting. Since the First Guiding Principle of a HEB is We Are All One, the “One” is not “fit” until the “All” is “fit.” Survival of the “fittest” is, therefore, impossible—or the only thing that is possible (therefore a contradiction)—since the “fit-test” is not “fit” until it is.

Are you following this?

 

Yes. We call it communism.

 

On your planet you have rejected out-of-hand any system which does not allow for the advancement47 of one being at the expense of another.

If a system of governance or economics requires an attempt at equitable48 distribution, to “all,” of the bene-fits created by “all,” with the resources belonging to “all,” you have said that system of governance violates the natural order. Yet in highly evolved cultures, the natural order IS equitable sharing.

 

Even if a person or group has done nothing to deserve it? Even if there has been no contribution to the common good? Even if they are evil?

 

The common good is life. If you are alive, you are con-tributing to the common good. It is very difficult for a spirit to be in physical form. To agree to take such a form is, in one sense, a great sacrifice-yet one that is necessary, and even enjoyed, if the All is to know itself experientially, and to re-create Itself anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision it ever held about Who It Is.

 

It is important to understand why we came here.

 

We?

 

The souls which make up the collective.

 

You’re losing me.

 

As I have already explained, there is only One Soul, One Being, One Essence. Some of you call this “God.” This Single Essence “individuates” Itself as Everything In The Universe-in other words, All That Is. This includes all the sentient49 beings, or what you have chosen to call souls.

 

So “God” is every soul that “is”?

 

Every soul that is now, ever was, and ever will be.

 

So God is a “collective?”

 

That’s the word I chose, because it comes closest in your language to describing how things are.

 

Not a single awesome50 being, but a collective?

 

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Think “out-side the box”!

 

God is both? A single Awesome Being which is a collective of individualized parts?

 

Good! Very good!

 

And why did the collective come to Earth?

 

To express itself in physicality. To know itself in its own experience. To be God. As I’ve already explained in detail in Book 1.

 

You created us to be You?

 

We did, indeed. That is exactly why you were cre-ated.

 

And humans were created by a collective?

 

Your own Bible said, “Let Us create man in Our im-age, and after Our likeness” before the translation was changed.

Life is the process through which God creates Itself, and then experiences the creation. This process of crea-tion is ongoing51 and eternal. It is happening all the “time.” Relativity and physicality are the tools with which God works. Pure energy (what you call spirit) is What God Is. This Essence is truly the Holy Spirit.

By a process through which energy becomes mat-ter, spirit is embodied52 in physicality. This is done by the energy literally53 slowing itself down—changing its oscil-lation, or what you would call vibration54.

That Which Is All does this in parts. That is, parts of the whole do this. These individuations of spirit are what you have chosen to call souls.

In truth, there is only One Soul, reshaping and re-forming Itself. This might be called The Reformation. You are all Gods In Formation. (God’s information!)

That is your contribution, and it is sufficient unto it-self.

To put this simply, by taking physical form you have already done enough. I want, I need, nothing more. You have contributed to the common good. You have made it possible for that which is common—the One Common Element—to experience that which is good. Even you have written that God created the heavens and the Earth, and the animals who walk upon the land, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and it was very good.

“Good” does not—cannot——exist experientially without its opposite. Therefore have you also created evil, which is the backward motion, or opposite direction, of good. It is the opposite of life—and so have you cre-ated what you call death.

Yet death does not exist in ultimate reality, but is merely a concoction55, an invention, an imagined experi-ence, through which life becomes more valued by you. Thus, “evil” is “live” spelled backward! So clever you are with language. You fold into it secret wisdoms that you do not even know are there.

Now when you understand this entire cosmology, you comprehend the great truth. You could then never demand of another being that it give you something in return for your sharing the resources and necessities of physical life.

 

As beautiful as that is, there are still some people who would call it communism.

 

If they wish to do so, then so be it. Yet I tell you this:

Until your community of beings knows about being in community, you will never experience Holy Commun-ion, and cannot know Who I Am.

The highly evolved cultures of the universe under-stand deeply all that I have explained here. In those cultures it would not be possible to fail to share. Nor would it be possible to think of “charging” increasingly exorbitant56 “prices” the more rare a necessity became. Only extremely primitive57 societies would do this. Only very primitive beings would see scarcity58 of that which is commonly needed as an opportunity for greater profits. “Supply and demand” does not drive the HEB system.

This is part of a system that humans claim contrib-utes to their quality of life and to the common good. Yet, from the vantage point of a highly evolved being, your system violates the common good, for it does not allow that which is good to be experienced in common.

Another distinguishing and fascinating feature of highly evolved cultures is that within them there is no word or sound for, nor any way to communicate the meaning of, the concept of “yours” and “mine.” Per-sonal possessives do not exist in their language, and, if one were to speak in earthly tongues, one could only use articles to describe things. Employing that conven-tion, “my car” becomes “the car I am now with.” “My partner” or “my children” becomes “the partner” or “the children I am now with.”

The term “now with,” or “in the presence of,” is as close as your languages can come to describing what you would call “ownership,” or “possession.”

That which you are “in the presence of” becomes the Gift. These are the true “presents” of life.

Thus, in the language of highly evolved cultures, one could not even speak in terms of “my life,” but could only communicate “the life I am in the presence of.”

This is something akin8 to your speaking of being “in the presence of God.”

When you are in the presence of God (which you are, any time you are in the presence of each other), you would never think of keeping from God that which is God’s-meaning, any part of That Which Is. You would naturally share, and share equally, that which is God’s with any part of that which is God.

This is the spiritual understanding which undergirds the entire social, political, economic, and religious structures of all highly evolved cultures. This is the cos-mology of all of life, and it is merely failure to observe this cosmology, to understand it and to live within it, which creates all of the discord59 of your experience on Earth.


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1 eradicated 527fe74fc13c68501cfd202231063f4a     
画着根的
参考例句:
  • Polio has been virtually eradicated in Brazil. 在巴西脊髓灰质炎实际上已经根除。
  • The disease has been eradicated from the world. 这种疾病已在全世界得到根除。
2 ecosystem Wq4xz     
n.生态系统
参考例句:
  • This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
  • We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。
3 presumption XQcxl     
n.推测,可能性,冒昧,放肆,[法律]推定
参考例句:
  • Please pardon my presumption in writing to you.请原谅我很冒昧地写信给你。
  • I don't think that's a false presumption.我认为那并不是错误的推测。
4 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
5 logic j0HxI     
n.逻辑(学);逻辑性
参考例句:
  • What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑?
  • I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
6 tirade TJKzt     
n.冗长的攻击性演说
参考例句:
  • Her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.她的长篇大论激起了她丈夫的强烈反对。
  • He delivered a long tirade against the government.他发表了反政府的长篇演说。
7 tirades ca7b20b5f92c65765962d21cc5a816d4     
激烈的长篇指责或演说( tirade的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • What's the matter with Levin today?Why doesn't he launch into one of his tirades? 你所说得话我全记录下来列文今天怎么啦?没有反唇相讥?
8 akin uxbz2     
adj.同族的,类似的
参考例句:
  • She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
  • Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。
9 peril l3Dz6     
n.(严重的)危险;危险的事物
参考例句:
  • The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
  • The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。
10 atmospheric 6eayR     
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的
参考例句:
  • Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
  • Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
11 carbohydrates 001f0186d1ea717492c413ca718f2635     
n.碳水化合物,糖类( carbohydrate的名词复数 );淀粉质或糖类食物
参考例句:
  • The plant uses the carbohydrates to make cellulose. 植物用碳水化合物制造纤维素。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All carbohydrates originate from plants. 所有的碳水化合物均来自植物。 来自辞典例句
12 plentiful r2izH     
adj.富裕的,丰富的
参考例句:
  • Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
  • Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。
13 slaughter 8Tpz1     
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
参考例句:
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
14 indigenous YbBzt     
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
参考例句:
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
15 eroding c892257232bdd413a7900bdce96d217e     
侵蚀,腐蚀( erode的现在分词 ); 逐渐毁坏,削弱,损害
参考例句:
  • The coast is slowly eroding. 海岸正慢慢地被侵蚀。
  • Another new development is eroding the age-old stereotype of the male warrior. 另一个新现象是,久已形成的男人皆武士的形象正逐渐消失。
16 dominant usAxG     
adj.支配的,统治的;占优势的;显性的;n.主因,要素,主要的人(或物);显性基因
参考例句:
  • The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
  • She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
17 hemp 5rvzFn     
n.大麻;纤维
参考例句:
  • The early Chinese built suspension bridges of hemp rope.古代的中国人建造过麻绳悬索桥。
  • The blanket was woven from hemp and embroidered with wool.毯子是由亚麻编织,羊毛镶边的。
18 depressed xu8zp9     
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
参考例句:
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
19 paradigm c48zJ     
n.例子,模范,词形变化表
参考例句:
  • He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
  • Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外,本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。
20 unity 4kQwT     
n.团结,联合,统一;和睦,协调
参考例句:
  • When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结,并非一团和气。
  • We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前,我们必须加强团结。
21 mutual eFOxC     
adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的
参考例句:
  • We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
  • Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
22 stewards 5967fcba18eb6c2dacaa4540a2a7c61f     
(轮船、飞机等的)乘务员( steward的名词复数 ); (俱乐部、旅馆、工会等的)管理员; (大型活动的)组织者; (私人家中的)管家
参考例句:
  • The stewards all wore armbands. 乘务员都戴了臂章。
  • The stewards will inspect the course to see if racing is possible. 那些干事将检视赛马场看是否适宜比赛。
23 steward uUtzw     
n.乘务员,服务员;看管人;膳食管理员
参考例句:
  • He's the steward of the club.他是这家俱乐部的管理员。
  • He went around the world as a ship's steward.他当客船服务员,到过世界各地。
24 stewardship 67597d4670d772414c8766d094e5851d     
n. n. 管理工作;管事人的职位及职责
参考例句:
  • The organization certainly prospered under his stewardship. 不可否认,这个组织在他的管理下兴旺了起来。
  • Last, but certainly not least, are the issues of stewardship and ethics. 最后,但当然不是微不足道的,是工作和道德规范的问题。
25 caress crczs     
vt./n.爱抚,抚摸
参考例句:
  • She gave the child a loving caress.她疼爱地抚摸着孩子。
  • She feasted on the caress of the hot spring.她尽情享受着温泉的抚爱。
26 obsessed 66a4be1417f7cf074208a6d81c8f3384     
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
参考例句:
  • He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
  • The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
27 obsession eIdxt     
n.困扰,无法摆脱的思想(或情感)
参考例句:
  • I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
  • She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
28 spouses 3fbe4097e124d44af1bc18e63e898b65     
n.配偶,夫或妻( spouse的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
  • An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句
29 possessed xuyyQ     
adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
参考例句:
  • He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
  • He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
30 mechanisms d0db71d70348ef1c49f05f59097917b8     
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 );机械装置;[生物学] 机制;机械作用
参考例句:
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
31 despoil 49Iy2     
v.夺取,抢夺
参考例句:
  • The victorious army despoil the city of all its treasure.得胜的军队把城里的财宝劫掠一空。
  • He used his ruthless and destructive armies despoil everybody who lived within reach of his realm.他动用其破坏性的军队残暴地掠夺国内的人民。
32 infinitely 0qhz2I     
adv.无限地,无穷地
参考例句:
  • There is an infinitely bright future ahead of us.我们有无限光明的前途。
  • The universe is infinitely large.宇宙是无限大的。
33 interfere b5lx0     
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
参考例句:
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
34 plentifully f6b211d13287486e1bf5cd496d4f9f39     
adv. 许多地,丰饶地
参考例句:
  • The visitors were plentifully supplied with food and drink. 给来宾准备了丰富的食物和饮料。
  • The oil flowed plentifully at first, but soon ran out. 起初石油大量涌出,但很快就枯竭了。
35 guilt 9e6xr     
n.犯罪;内疚;过失,罪责
参考例句:
  • She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
  • Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。
36 shuffled cee46c30b0d1f2d0c136c830230fe75a     
v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼
参考例句:
  • He shuffled across the room to the window. 他拖着脚走到房间那头的窗户跟前。
  • Simon shuffled awkwardly towards them. 西蒙笨拙地拖着脚朝他们走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
37 revered 1d4a411490949024694bf40d95a0d35f     
v.崇敬,尊崇,敬畏( revere的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. 一些早年受到尊崇的惯例,现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven. 中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。 来自辞典例句
38 vibrant CL5zc     
adj.震颤的,响亮的,充满活力的,精力充沛的,(色彩)鲜明的
参考例句:
  • He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
  • She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。
39 dwelling auzzQk     
n.住宅,住所,寓所
参考例句:
  • Those two men are dwelling with us.那两个人跟我们住在一起。
  • He occupies a three-story dwelling place on the Park Street.他在派克街上有一幢3层楼的寓所。
40 unified 40b03ccf3c2da88cc503272d1de3441c     
(unify 的过去式和过去分词); 统一的; 统一标准的; 一元化的
参考例句:
  • The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
  • The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。
41 initially 273xZ     
adv.最初,开始
参考例句:
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
42 shameful DzzwR     
adj.可耻的,不道德的
参考例句:
  • It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己,真不害臊。
  • We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
43 detailed xuNzms     
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
参考例句:
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
44 perpetuate Q3Cz2     
v.使永存,使永记不忘
参考例句:
  • This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of the national hero.这个纪念碑建造的意义在于纪念民族英雄永垂不朽。
  • We must perpetuate the system.我们必须将此制度永久保持。
45 hoarding wdwzA     
n.贮藏;积蓄;临时围墙;囤积v.积蓄并储藏(某物)( hoard的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • After the war, they were shot for hoarding. 战后他们因囤积而被枪决。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Actually he had two unused ones which he was hoarding up. 其实他还藏了两片没有用呢。 来自英汉文学
46 underlies d9c77c83f8c2ab289262fec743f08dd0     
v.位于或存在于(某物)之下( underlie的第三人称单数 );构成…的基础(或起因),引起
参考例句:
  • I think a lack of confidence underlies his manner. 我认为他表现出的态度是因为他缺乏信心。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Try to figure out what feeling underlies your anger. 努力找出你的愤怒之下潜藏的情感。 来自辞典例句
47 advancement tzgziL     
n.前进,促进,提升
参考例句:
  • His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
  • The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
48 equitable JobxJ     
adj.公平的;公正的
参考例句:
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
49 sentient ahIyc     
adj.有知觉的,知悉的;adv.有感觉能力地
参考例句:
  • The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage.生还者认识到,他们不过是上帝的舞台上有知觉的木偶而已。
  • It teaches us to love all sentient beings equally.它教导我们应该平等爱护一切众生。
50 awesome CyCzdV     
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
参考例句:
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
51 ongoing 6RvzT     
adj.进行中的,前进的
参考例句:
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
52 embodied 12aaccf12ed540b26a8c02d23d463865     
v.表现( embody的过去式和过去分词 );象征;包括;包含
参考例句:
  • a politician who embodied the hopes of black youth 代表黑人青年希望的政治家
  • The heroic deeds of him embodied the glorious tradition of the troops. 他的英雄事迹体现了军队的光荣传统。 来自《简明英汉词典》
53 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
54 vibration nLDza     
n.颤动,振动;摆动
参考例句:
  • There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震动大得使人无法书写。
  • The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震动把我惊醒了。
55 concoction 8Ytyv     
n.调配(物);谎言
参考例句:
  • She enjoyed the concoction of foreign dishes.她喜欢调制外国菜。
  • His story was a sheer concoction.他的故事实在是一纯属捏造之事。
56 exorbitant G7iyh     
adj.过分的;过度的
参考例句:
  • More competition should help to drive down exorbitant phone charges.更多的竞争有助于降低目前畸高的电话收费。
  • The price of food here is exorbitant. 这儿的食物价格太高。
57 primitive vSwz0     
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物
参考例句:
  • It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
  • His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
58 scarcity jZVxq     
n.缺乏,不足,萧条
参考例句:
  • The scarcity of skilled workers is worrying the government.熟练工人的缺乏困扰着政府。
  • The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的。
59 discord iPmzl     
n.不和,意见不合,争论,(音乐)不和谐
参考例句:
  • These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
  • The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。


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