Global Community Communications Alliance Member Profile
Marayeh
My journey to Global Community Communications Alliance began early in my life, although I did not know it. My spiritual search began in earnest in my teens as I started to study comparative religions and look for the similarities in them, always looking for the thread of truth. Later I received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas, then took a position at U.C. Berkeley which afforded me an opportunity to expand my knowledge of psychology in the areas of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. I spent a lot of time in metaphysical book stores and would call or meet people whose books I liked. I was invariably disappointed that they did not live up to their books.
I was part of the humanistic movement in the late 60's and early 70's in the Bay area. Practicing Gestalt therapy and teaching humanistic psychology, I always felt there was something missing in the areas of knowledge about psychology and even in all the great religions of the world. There were many truths in there, but many false teachings as well, and the process of psychotherapy seemed to depend more on the therapist than any particular approach. There was not a consistency of results. Surely someone in the world had the answer, surely someone, somewhere, knew why we were here on this planet, and where we were going, and how to get there, but all I found was a lot of confusion that seemed to lead nowhere. Oh, there were interesting side trips, but no real answers. At first I would be excited by a new path, or book, or person I had found, but shortly the shortcomings and disappointments came in terms of really finding truth.
Then in 1979 I moved to Chicago, less than a block from the Urantia Foundation, and walked by it every day. One day I went in and asked what they did and was told that they published a book. Within half an hour of starting to read The URANTIA Book I knew it was real and this was what I had been praying for. For the past three years I had been saying a mantra over and over "God grant me perfect understanding" and I realized that this was the answer to that prayer. Finally there were some answers. For the next ten years I continued to read and study The URANTIA Book alone, finding few who had even heard of it and even fewer who were willing to take a look at it. But I was relatively content knowing that few were ready for the big blue book, feeling that having access to such knowledge was more than I had really expected to ever find in this world.
In 1989 I moved to La Jolla and joined a Urantia Book study group and then in 1993 began to hear stories that someone in Sedona was claiming to be channeling continuing papers to The URANTIA Book . Although the people telling me were making fun of this and were convinced that this was not legitimate, I decided that if there was even an outside chance that this was true I wanted to check it out for myself. I have never been one to take someone else's opinion for something. My experience with The URANTIA Book had taught me that the majority are not ready for higher truth and often miss it. I contacted the group in Sedona and ordered the books that were available at the time. As I began to read The Cosmic Family, Volume I, so many things began to make sense. Among other things it talked about the fact that some people on the planet had lived before, and that certainly resonated for me. Having worked with so many different people over the years, I had become aware of a difference in soul age in people.
I attended a seminar in August
of 1993 and spent a week in the community. The more I found
out, the more I knew that it was real. In the introduction to a booklet
entitled,
Gabriel of Urantia, A Psychological Profile
, I wrote:
Nothing had prepared me for what I found there. The elders in the group seemed most sincere, intelligent, knowledgeable and humble; in fact I can honestly say I had never met a collection of individuals (and they are certainly that) quite as extraordinary as they were. Could this really be happening? I went with an open mind and sincerity of purpose, but when I realized that the First Planetary Sacred Home might really be there, I became very frightened, not of what I saw, but of the implications for me. If this were really happening, then I should be there. That would mean giving up my house in La Jolla, convincing my husband to move or leaving him, essentially leaving a very comfortable, enjoyable life behind to move to the First Planetary Sacred Home. I tried very hard that week to find evidence that it wasn't really happening, but I concluded at the end of the week that they were who they said they were, that we were truly in the final years of the adjudication of the Lucifer rebellion, and that I wanted to move to the First Planetary Sacred Home as soon as possible.
Five and a half years later, I find a depth of personality and truth that I have never seen nor felt before. My function here is as a morontia (spiritual) counselor. I am working under the guidance of Gabriel and Niánn, the highest morontia counselors on the planet. Working closely with members of the community, usually on an individual basis, I counsel with people to help them see dio-patterns (patterns that are out of divine pattern) in themselves. While traditional psychotherapy may emphasize looking at your past to see why you are behaving or feeling the way you are today (unfortunately that often relieves the "patient" of taking responsibility for their own behaviors), morontia counseling emphasizes identifying those lower (or dio) patterns that are interfering with your God-given personality manifesting in its fullest. Patterns such as anger, self-pride, jealousy, fear, envy, resentment, greed, selfishness, power-lust, self-deception, impatience, intolerance, etc. may be identified and illuminated in such a way as to make it possible to start to change them.
In studying morontia counseling, I am learning many things: a morontia counselor must first be a living example to others and then a teacher, the importance of balanced father/mother/son circuits for all ascending sons and daughters of God, the importance of our thoughts and the need to take full responsibility for them as well as our actions, the importance of right relationships, the importance of seeking God's will in all things. Morontia counseling gets to the root of the problem (being out of divine pattern) and then provides a process for correcting that. I have seen more change in the adults here, including myself, over the last five years, than I have ever seen in people before. Morontia counseling works on a consistent basis. I feel truly blessed to be here and to be privileged to learn the higher truths that I am learning and to live with the souls who are living those truths.
Marayeh,
Minister
Vicegerent Elder
to Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase and the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star