Hello There – Is That Really You?
January 29th, 2010
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by admin · Filed Under: Faith · Guidance · Prayer · Spiritual Health
I remember a time when Ed Rabel, Unity Minister and a former teacher at Unity Village in the ministerial program, was teaching the students when Bill Fischer, Director of Ministerial Training, was away. Ed was taking the students for speech assignments. The top four or five students were scheduled to give their talks in front of their classes. The talk that they were to give was based upon a question: “If you had just ten minutes to speak to all the people on the earth, what would you say?”
Just think about that for a moment. What would you say if you had just ten minutes to speak to all the people on the earth? What would your message be?
Ed Rabel said the students he heard “Blew it!” Their response to the question was to try to reach out to all the people of the earth and tell them of some great and wonderful philosophical theory. In doing this they did “blow it,” because only that which you experience is true for you. You cannot take in someone else’s knowledge; you can only gain knowledge for yourself.
So if you were speaking to everyone on earth it would have to be something that people could find for themselves, work with, and experience from within their own being. You can’t really tell anyone else how things are. You can express from the depth of your own being that which is true for you, and in that way you speak with authority about your own experience. You can share that with someone else; and you can share ways for the other person to experience for themselves. But borrowed knowledge is not true knowledge. So when you speak with borrowed knowledge you don’t really come across, you don’t really reach a person.
This is what Ed Rabel was really saying, that the students blew it in regard to that. They were trying to get across a great message of God and what they believed about God, but speaking in a way that was not necessarily based upon their own experience. It was based upon knowledge that they had taken in from borrowed sources. They were not being real.
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