Andrius Kulikauskas, Director of the Minciu Sodas laboratory, considers:

What can we do for God?

I pursue the mission of our laboratory, caring about thinking, comprehensively.  Therefore I try to devote my best energy so that our laboratory serves as a forum for public work that addresses questions that God cares about.  We pursue such questions through material loss.  What are they, though?  Here is my own understanding of what our laboratory can do for God, and what progress we are making.  Please note our disclaimers! .  Andrius Kulikauskas

These notes will be quite rough - I'm thinking out loud.
I am trying to focus on the work by which I have a good working relationship with God.

Current Priorities
Goals for Working with God
Objectives that Foster Caring
      Loving God | Embracing God | Embracing Others | Loving Others
Clarify Overall Picture
Questions that Interest God
Questions that Interest Me

Current priorities 2001.5.28

Reflect on my prayers and responses to God.  How to apply our thoughts?  Try to understand God's point of view, investigate Kokios Dievui kertines savokos?  (What concepts are key for God?)  What structures are frameworks for these concepts?
Relate the various structures that describe caring about everything and anything.  (I am pursuing this in Lithuanian).  Develop a summary as I reorganize the material.  What is the purpose of each structure?  How do the various structures relate to love?  Where do they appear in God's responses to my prayers?
Consider the knowledge activity map for Minciu Sodas.  Engage God as a participant in the laboratory.  How might God undertake each activity through our lab?
Consider God as my thinking coach.  What is he coaching me?
Offer free work space to volunteer groups with endeavors.  Where can they be found?  Focus on Tijuana.
For my investigation What is the unifying perspective that makes a workspace coherent?, write down examples where there is a problem between manipulating and engaging.  Make a list of opinions/principles to consider.  Consider the way in which they offer choice.  Consider the map of activities in terms of offering choice.

Goals for Working with God

Create workspace for God.
Join: Have tight feedback between structure of laboratory, and practical endeavors.
Members:  Be open to what interests other people.
Services: Support those demonstrating leadership within the laboratory.
Results: Accumulate theory based on, and serving, practice.
Goals: Sketch out investigations that God is interested in.
Staff: Clarify what interests me.
Endeavors: Be flexible and extremely responsive to synergy.
Welcome: Have laboratory that is full of life.

Objectives that Foster Caring

We have four objectives that foster caring, namely caring about: God, relationship with God, relationship with others, and others.  We pursue these through material loss.  I am focusing my efforts now on caring about relationship with others, in other words, embracing others.

Loving God

Love More than Think
Pray in twos or threes.  Try this out with other people.

Embracing God

Make All Truth Available
Define What We Mean by Thinking

Embracing Others

Start a Heart-to-Heart Support Network.  Write to Demetrius.
What are the ways of caring about anything and everything?

Loving others

Follow the Heart. From Listening to Following the Heart.  Write to Marius Narvilas.

Clarify Overall Picture

Wrirte overview of all of the concepts. Write a glossary, draw a picture.
I want to clarify the structure of our laboratory's ten objectives, how they fit from God's point of view, and thereby better understand God's point of view.  I can do this by:

Questions that Interest God

When I pray, I sometimes ask God, what interests him?  I'm writing down these questions and responses, mostly in Lithuanian: Kas domina Dieva? but also in English, What interests God?

Currently, I'm focusing on the following:

Why provide you with a workspace?  Your hearts desire me and my truth, and want to be closer to me.  How do we provide a workspace for you?  Let every heart flame separately and I will connect them together.

So I think God is interested in how we might support the independent thinker. I think he is interested that each person have their own separate relationship with God, that each person stand before him on their own.

Questions that Interest Me

I found Natalie d'Arbeloff's questionnaire What do you really care about? very helpful.  My answers are that I want to be a truth engager and I care about loving directly.

Truth Engager

In being a truth engager, I want to make all truth available, for myself and all.  I think that "engaging truth" has to do with embracing God, caring about my relationship with God. I want to "make all truth available".  Those are the terms under which I feel that I can relate to God, and we all can.  I could be wrong, but I think that the Truth is the way by which we can get to God.  Or perhaps, as Christ says, the Truth AND the Life, which is the Way, which is Christ.  I suppose this means that he's not the Truth, he's the Truth AND the Life, what it takes for life to yield truth.  Anyways, I think that "engaging truth" isn't caring about God directly, it's just caring about our relationship with him.  So that's something to discuss in EmbracingGod@yahoogroups.com

Andrius Kulikauskas, January 13, Make All Truth Available:  My project in life, as best as I know, above and beyond my basic duty as a human, is to make tangible, with a system of truths, that spiritual flutter, that Holy Spirit.  As I wrote above, we can talk with a system of Truth, we can step in and step out, just as we do with other people. The system of Truth is always open to us, unlike people, who may be closed.  In every day words, the Truth is open to us, but people may be closed.  "The truth will set you free".  If the Truth is just a spiritual flutter, then even an honest person might dismiss it, as not quite real enough.  But suppose the Truth is tangible, if it is a system of truths that we can apply wonderfully to all of life.  Suppose that we can turn to it at any step.  After a while, we probably wouldn't turn to it all that often, but we'd know it's always there.  Annette asked me, what is my key concept, and here it is, what I meant by "all knowledge is available".  Maybe simpler is to say, "the Truth is open to us, but people may be closed".

I am interested in the Holy Spirit being tangible.  I imagine this as the presence, in all areas of life, of the truths that are relevant to life.  I think of the Holy Spirit as flickering from person to person, and I think it jumps across the unexpected channels between people, catches us where our guard is down, follows that direction of the good.  How do I start with myself?  How do I let my own guard down?  How do I help others let their guard down?

Loving Directly

I want to love directly.  Perhaps I am afraid of pain, of loss of control, so I let various things get in the way, such as my own mind.  I want to love more than I can think.  I think that "loving more than I can think" has to do with loving God, directly caring about God.  The only way that I can "love more than I can think" is if God loves through me.  I wish this to be, so I should structure myself accordingly.  So that's something to discuss through LovingGod@yahoogroups.com