Lesson 22 ARTHURA MELCHIZEDEK. The State and Rest, Leisure, Humor, 07.29.22

[Dominick O]

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Lesson 22 ARTHURA MELCHIZEDEK
The State and Rest, Leisure, Humor
Fri, 7/29/2022, York, PA, United States
Transmitter Teacher(s): ARTHURA MELCHIZEDEK
Receiver(s): Dominick O
 
 
July 29, York, PA, Volume Lesson 22. Benefits of Civilization with Rest and Reversion.
 
This is Arthura Melchizedek. One of the benefits of the State is the luxury of rest and reversion. In old times lifespans were so short and so full of danger there was no time for creativity. Other than the innovation of the hunt, of the warpath, of the mating, and industry of the family. Eventually technology is one of these benefits, and with technology labor becomes more specialized and less demanding of certain parts of your primitive brains and begins to employ thinking. And thinking does not benefit you unless there is proper reflection time, and that is what rest and reversion facilitate. Thus, creative thinking or critical thinking, does not necessarily include crass leisure. While crass leisure might have its place in some aspects of rest and reversion, true creativity, rather, has some intention to it.
 
The difference is in the transcendent qualities of any thinking. In your case the animal relative to the transcendence of the spiritual. So, to put it more beautifully, rest and reversion facilitate transcendence. Otherwise take it for what it is, and that is energy replenishment; and to be careful that leisure does not further strain energy replenishment. Rest, ideally at least, does that.
 
Do you have a problem unsolved and it’s starting to frustrate you?  Walk away, take a pause, tackle it from a refreshed angle. Tell your boss in the sincerest way possible, the benefit of your work is best applied with a little will rest at the moment; that you've expended all your energy on the tasks and goals and will make up the rest if you just allot the time, currently, for revitalization.
 
In the Universe humor provides this revitalization in continual doses without the need for a serious rest. In other words, humor provides the small re-charges. It literally, in your brains for example, produces hormones and chemicals equivalent, and sometimes better than, rest and sleep. Even though they're somewhat different in their capacities.
 
Also in this sense, humor is a personality attribute that helps one personality to be known to any other. In so much as, it registers to any other personality, that the other, is also a personality. And to even see the humor in the sardonic observation that some other entities have more personality than another. And of course, that is quite unfair in the grand scheme of things, and of a lesser scale of good humor. But nonetheless, worthy of a frowning chuckle. Why? Because the truth of the matter is, you can see through wisdom, the finiteness of that observation, in and of itself, and then laugh at yourself, appropriately, in your own error.
 
This is Arthura Melchizedek, signing off on this brief lesson this morning, on the benefits of civilization and governance; and how it provides structure when there would otherwise be none to sustain you. And therefore, no leisure, and therefore, no creativity. We wish you a good day, all of you, and peace be upon us. Good day.
 
 
 
Thank you, Arthura.

[Andre_P]

Dear Dominick, could you explain in what sense the word reversion was used in your message above.

[Dominick O]

Morontia Companions > Reversion Directors
Referenced in the UB > Local Universe > Paper 48 > Section 4 > pg. 547
Because of your question, Andre, I'm glad I had to compare the transcript to some this passages.  Because some of these reversion directors potentially hail as far away as Havona, and humor would be a nice way to relate, personality to personality. -- Dom