P403:1, 36:5.13 The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal. They evolve in function, and the function of the first five in the animal orders is to a certain extent essential to the function of all seven as human intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more practically effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's intellectual as well as to his physical evolution.

.....intelligence, if it’s measured by behavioural repertoire, innovativeness or sociality. In any of those examples, a honeybee will come out as more intelligent than a human or a whale.

always found this bit about humans needing animals interesting:



certainly the spirit of intuition functions way better in insects than us...and the spirit of counsel in dogs.

article on insect intelligence has some interesting facts and points like this:



source: Insect Brains and Animal Intelligence

Nigel,

Thank you for your response. I do appreciate the gracious manner of your opposition to my method.

I am both restrained and deliberate in my apparent excess. I have realized for many years I was much like the proverbial bull in a china shop, knowing full well my expressions were seen as disruptive. Also, for years, others have repeatedly told me to stand down, to quit trying to make such a big deal of all this Urantia Book and God stuff. They repeatedly have told me to just let things be. Well my response has always been to attempt to temper my enthusiasm. That tempering is going away of late. I do what I do because for nearly 50 years now I have attempted to follow God, as completely as I can find to do. So, it is God who has fully supplied my enthusiasm coffer. I am not merely trying to be disruptive, always challenging others as I do, but my consciousness and appreciation of God’s reality are what they are and that seems to be an interference to many here on 606 even among Urantia Book readers. Nevertheless, adequately or inadequately, I share what I know, what I have experienced. I will not stop merely because others find my way discomforting. I am not the first individual driven with such a purpose to endure chastisement from the troops, loyal or otherwise.

As you have described, but in my own words, the Urantia Book reveals that the playing field of life in the 4th Epoch is hypothetically measured as X meters by X meters square. The Urantia Book reveals a hypothetical concept of the playing field of life in the 5th Epoch, as X to the X power meters by X to the X power meters. This difference is a major disruption to the consciousness cognizable by humans whether it is identified as such or not. Now, for the first time, humanity has the opportunity to realize that the dimensional end of our earthly consciousness is an order of magnitude farther away in every direction than we were previously aware, and our available sense of space and time are proportionately altered. Additionally, there are newly revealed cognitive opportunities for humankind which push our boundaries even further out. The pursuit of all this awareness is less potentially an accumulation factual knowledge and understanding and more a realization of human spiritual potential. And all of this has been suddenly offered to us without our permission. Simply put, God has changed the game and we haven’t caught up to it yet. Revelation does that. Once we come to terms with the new dimensions offered, we can begin the orderly attainment of growth, but we must accept the reality of what we have been given so we may begin.

So, while I appreciate that I perpetually challenge all on this board, sometimes annoyingly so, I am only sharing the vision God gave me of these things. I see mankind as I have said in my posts on the essays page and elsewhere. We who read the Fifth Epochal Revelation are pleased to accept the enlightenment we receive, but what a selfish pursuit that is if all we obtain from it is personal enlightenment. We must exhaust the potential it reveals as our destiny. God has challenged us to play on a field 10 times larger than we are used to and it is our responsibility to live up to his offer. Spiritual growth is not such a commonplace practice on our planet as God has designed for us. The earnest pursuit of even the knowledge of him and his universe is no less selfish if it is purely for personal gain. We have been asked to be spiritually transformed and to transform the earth in doing so. The term “spirit born mortals” is not synonymous with “Urantia Book readers”, “Bible believers”, “devout Muslims”, or adherents of any other belief system including atheists. Yes, we must offer our minds to this effort, but we mustn’t stop there. We must offer all our personal capacities; all of them, even the ones newly revealed in the Fifth Epochal Revelation. This effort will not succeed until we do. God isn’t simply trying to attain an adequate number of humans reading the pages of the Urantia Book and meeting as study groups while trying to decide to believe if this is real. God will reveal himself to each of us personally if we will so allow. To those who experience this, understanding is easy. Those who read the Urantia Book or any other book or practice, so they can attempt to understand the God first, the path is hard. God, according to Jesus and the book, must be believed to be known. Personal experience precedes proper knowledge.

This whole thing isn’t merely the addition of new information, it is a new way of living for all mankind, even if that means allowing God to expand our comfort zone in more directions and farther than we have previously been aware.

Jim

Anyone else speaking for God here?

"Jesus spread good cheer everywhere he went. He was full of grace and truth. His associates never ceased to wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul."(1874.4, 171:7.1)

Thanks Jim -- I appreciate the refreshing depth of perspective. (X^X) by (X^X) indeed

PS: Relativistically contracted (X^X) by (X^X) <==> (finite as supreme projection of absonite pre-echo) ?

PPS: to those following along, I sense nothing self-serving in Jim's reply, just zeal straining at the bit. Which makes me glad we still have the peace of this pre-public phase, in which we all have time and opportunity to develop the graciousness and gracefulness necessary to help ease many beyond the current "quivering on the brink" stage.

When one is likewise "love-saturated", half-measures seem so... pale.

Nigel

You're not, that's for sure.

By the way...Jim has been using TB as a pulpit for his church a long time. He and his preaching partner Robert have been long time critics of UB organizations and students who refuse to support and join them in church building...Robert plays bad cop and Jim plays good cop in this endless attempt at evangelism. They have long accused students who are not evagelistic soul savers as having inferior spiritual lives or none at all, merely intellectualizing knowledge. Recently, for some reason, he has been emboldened to declare his visions, disappointments, impatience, and demands more frequently...and yes zealously ...despite his own claim that God told him to keep his opinions to himself...yet so many opinionated claims and so many contradictions keep coming.