This chapter continued from last week is about the students becoming integrated thinkers and thinking for themselves. They were not concerned about what other people thought about them. They were happy, productive value creators. Miss Annabelle points out just how powerful their thoughts are and how they are creating so many values for society as eight and nine year olds. She had achieved her goal and could the results in her twelve students.

I See a Universal Civilization as One of Confidence

Let me explain, I spent the day today with a young man in his early
twenties. We were talking about the appearance of confidence in
Individuals, what confidence looks like when an individual appears
confident in life.

So I asked him, “When you first met me did I appear confident to you?”
He said well, after I got to know you I realized what a strong and well rounded
Person you are. So I replied, so I didn’t appear to you as confident from
My outward appearance when we first met.

He said maybe if you dressed in a way that showed your assets more. To which
I replied, “So I need to look sexier as a woman?” Well he said, I’m just
saying that your outward appearance has a lot to do with resembling confidence.

So I said to him, confidence is an internal perception, it is expressed through a belief in oneself, a belief that they hold too and are convinced in their personal directions in life. With these convictions they move forward in life representing their personal belief regardless as to whether their ideals and beliefs conform to a perceptual social norm.

Today, people base so much on outward appearances that they conform their look, their own personal perception of who they are and what they are representing to a generalized standard of what they feel is acceptable, and they do this for acceptance so that they can feel confident – this is not the creation of real individual and personal confidence.

So I asked, “When you adorn your outward self with the decorations of worldly confidence, does that make you a confident person?”

Yes, to a degree it does in that you feel good about who you are. However, that feeling in this instance is based on something that is put on and not something that dwells within an individual.

Confidence is strength and belief in ones ability to be themselves and to see the areas of their lives that offer opportunity for betterment. To then have the courage to represent that belief through their individuality, regardless of whether they reach acceptance or not.

When this is the vision an individual holds for themselves, then they naturally are drawn by their belief in that vision of who they are, and will become. They firmly realize the confidence that builds character offers the opportunity to create a tangible reality of individual self expression in their lives through those things that they create in life as individuals.

Therefore, in a world or civilization of peoples, wherever they may be, there
is a universal understanding and appreciation of the life generating potential within all beings as individuals. With that knowledge, people are, and will become free to be themselves, to express themselves and their potentials without fear of rejection – The are living a Confident Life.

And in a civilization where all have attained this individual inner confidence, this appreciation for the individual becomes a resulting expression of love for all and between all. Love unifies all; and, respect for all tears down the outward illusions so that all dwell in the greatest confidences of all, a Loving Acceptance of All with out mandated conformity. This is a doorway to freedom and individual liberation.

The Individual is Born and Appreciated by All.

I want everyone to know that I am well aware now just how much I have grown. I now know that I can be happy. I know that the journey is the most rewarding part. Each step in the journey is one more step forward and as long as you continue to push through the obstacles even if you don’t that it is working, IT REALLY IS! I cannot emphasize enough just how valuable these mentor calls really are. All of this is well planned and well thought out. This is the COMPLETE PACKAGE! There are all kinds of programs that exist to do and help everyone to grow and create values. This is NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT! Being an active member is the best thing that I decided to do. The $30 dollars a month is nothing for what you receive, you can buy a small cup of coffee and then it’s gone. The $30 dollars a month is so reasonable and the rewards are UNLIMITED! You can only go forward and grow and grow. Thank you for everything.

Miss Annabelle listened attentively to Al Patterson’s idea for a paper and encouraged all her students to think about what they wanted to do even as children in school. She never discouraged her students’ ideas. The daughter that told her mother about how her father truly cared about his building custom houses and how much it meant to him. She encouraged her mother to show interest in his career.
As a child, she was able to see that it meant a lot to her father that his work
was his FNE. She was able to get her mother to show her father how much it meant to him that she shared his love of
his FNE was for himself, her mother, and his and daughter. This chapter has so
much information and can teach us all how it works even in the AC.

I remember growing up and constantly eating garden fresh food. We did eat some meat, but we always had a balanced diet. Having grown up on fresh food, I learned to be very careful about the food that I bought from the grocery store. We as a whole, Americans have had our daily regimen of food slowly becoming worse and worse. The FDA, of course does not care about the American people because they want to keep us sick. Having had fresh food all my childhood, I learned that all this other processed food really is awful and should not even be allowed on the store shelves. The food that is good for you costs more than the bad food which is mostly processed with preservatives and just not good for anyone. Here in the United States, obesity is a real problem for both children and adults. Another example of just how our government just does not care. We really have to be diligent about everything we eat.

In listening to tonight’s call, I saw just how destructive the behavior of Mr. Hammerschmidt is. It is very obvious to me that he has no moral compass at all. He cannot seem to stop himself in any way. It is very easy to see a very damaged person emotionally. There are two ways to be in life after bad things have happened to people. It is, however, very clear to me that the majority of people follow the wrong path. I can understand this because I have been there myself. Having to choose the right way to react is the hard road. Most people, if not all, have to really think about the past and all it entails. Being able to face that past and move forward is a lot harder than it looks. Facing the pain and learning more about another person’s past helps a person to move beyond it and to forgive in some cases, but not all cases. Tonight’s call was one of the exceptions to that rule. The desire to control another person through any means available is something that is a part of the AC. This call forces people to really think about many aspects about people good and bad and to learn from it. Hopefully, we can all learn. This call also shows how if not stopped, some people will continue down the wrong path and choose careers (especially politicans), which allow for this type of behavior to continue and get worse.

This particular chapter shows just how low people will go to get their way. The willingness to destroy another person’s life for the purpose of political gain is shameful. Taking things out of context and saying something out of suppostition just to discredit Miss Annabelle is a back-handed tactic that should have been recognized and wasn’t recognized shows me the unwillingness and\or inability to see life through honesty.

As I was listening, I realized how no one wants to think for themselves. They are not looking at the whole story. Miss Annabelle hugging her students shows a level of trust that none of the other teachers had. Their inability to be as good or as great a teacher as Miss Annabelle. I wonder if the other teachers felt towards Miss Annabelle as did Miss Minner. The fact that her students scored better than all the other students even in the sixth grade did not score as well as her students tells me that other teachers might have felt that way towards Miss Annabelle and would not say. People today are so afraid to stand up for what they believe in to the point of giving up any morals and values to simply just be accepted by everyone else. Miss Annabelle’s students were learning at an early age to do just that.

I have to say that this situation is happening all too often. People who stand out and do good for others are exposing the ones who only care about advancement of their own agendas and have to destroy anything good. What they do not understand is that they are hurting themselves as well as everyone else. The effect Miss Annabella has on her students is clear. They know the honesty of their teacher. Since Mr. Hammerschmidt has no real value in life, he has to take from others. His attempt to destroy good around him is only seen by a few people who know that the other people at the school will not be able to see it. There are value destroyers all around us and we need to be vigilant and ready to stand for what we believe in and not waiver.

I tried three different phones. I’m glad I read the chapter. I regret not being able to hear clearly Ron and Doug’s integrations. Phones were very choppy. Almost headache choppy.