[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 2/9/03

[RickGiles]

North idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Positive Spiritual Perspective, Spiritual Preparedness, Spirit 
Infusion
Teachers: Elyon, Machiventa, Lantarnek

February 9, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, my friends.  This is Elyon.  
You are my fellow shipmates.  As your captain I would speak today on 
thoughts, as it has been part of your discussion.  Perhaps more correctly 
I would say it is more about attitude in general than thinking specific 
thoughts.
	The captain of a vessel must of necessity ever be on the lookout for 
obstructions, objects below the surface, which may be hazardous to the 
smooth sailing of that ship.  Any good captain will avoid these danger 
points.  However it is not the goal of the captain to spend every waking 
moment looking for the dangers and avoiding them.  Rather it is the goal 
of the captain to locate the shipping channels, the deep waters, and to 
make headway within them.
	So it is with your thoughts.  Treat them not as would a sentry 
guarding a gate, ever watching for the bad ones and screening them out.  
Instead be more like a collector, one whose mind’s eye is focused towards 
a specific goal.  The goal in this case is positive spiritual perspective.  
A collector will note the uncollectible only in passing and forget it, 
strictly seeking that which is desired.  A guard may prevent the entry of 
the unwanted; a collector seeks the possession of the wanted.
	As you leverage the power of your mind with the aim of greater 
spiritualizing influence on your entire being, you will find the best 
progress as you take your mind into the deep shipping channels where there 
is good speed and safety, to mark the points of hazard but keeping ever 
clear your journey’s goal.
	Thoughts may be likened to paper airplanes, and your attitude may be 
likened to the currents of air.  If you have established an attitude 
spiritually stable, personally motivated toward truth, beauty, and 
goodness, you have created currents in your mind-state on which your 
thoughts may sail and do so favorably both for self and for others.  A 
vessel too heavy to fly will not leave the ground, and it will become 
increasingly easy for you to leave your bad thoughts grounded, for your 
attitude will be such that these heavier thoughts will not take to flight.  
I anticipate some would ask, yes, however, as much as I do seek to have a 
good attitude, these bad thoughts come my way.  To which I answer, your 
responsibility not only is to have strong attitudinal currents upon which 
your thoughts may sail but to also spend your energy constructing good 
craft with which you may sail upon these attitudinal currents.  As I 
return to the idea of the captain who does avoid the rocks, he is not 
looking for the rocks; he is looking for the open channel.  Do not look 
for your heavy planes that won’t fly.  Construct the lighter craft that 
can go aloft.
	I will add one more comparison to this idea of attitude and thoughts 
and your work with your thoughts.  When you are hungry -- let us designate 
hunger as your attitude -- at that time your thoughts may cross many 
methods, means, whereby you may alleviate that hunger. Recipes, foodstuffs 
all come to mind.  Your attitude of hunger has fostered the generation of 
thoughts.  These thoughts appear good and worthwhile.  Let us suppose you 
have finished your meal.  Your attitude has changed; you are no longer 
hungry.  You can think the very same thoughts you thought before the meal, 
but now the recipe appears too filling; the food does not draw you.  What 
happened to these thoughts?  They are the same.  I think you know the 
answer, it is in your attitude.  Therefore it is not so important to 
wrestle with and screen, evaluate, and judge the worth of every thought.  
They will follow naturally as you adjust and upgrade and spiritualize your 
attitude.
	I have finished my comments.  I am with you, and I am in the company 
of other teachers.  Thank you.

*	Machiventa (Mark):  I greet you as well.  This is Machiventa.  I want 
to bring you my thanks for gleaning my words from other sources.  They 
were addressed to a different crowd, but I was well aware they were 
available to many others including yourselves.  It is impressive for you 
to pick them out and see them as worthy of spending time on in your 
discussions, as they were meant for you as well.
	There has been a renewed restlessness among the troops for the next 
command to charge.  It is indeed an honor to see the troops so willing to 
assemble and awaiting to be given the command to move forward.  This 
picture of the assembled troops is warming to the heart of any leader, yet 
I am struck with the humor in such an image from my perspective.  Where 
you may see yourselves as poised, trained, and prepared for any upcoming 
challenge, I see you as in the trenches, foxholes, and employing every 
means at your disposal, engaged thoroughly in this excursion.  It is a 
natural human tendency to think in terms of large events, momentous 
occurrences, to rally and challenge the forces in order for you to feel as 
though you have been enlisted and are engaged in the process when in fact 
the training and the exercises you have been undergoing for some number of 
years now have also been a part of this struggle for you.  Therefore I see 
you more as gaining experience in battle rather than as waiting for the 
signal to charge.  True, that you may always consider loftier goals, 
higher ideals of accomplishment, and these are what drive you forward to 
take the next step and knock on the next door.  Meanwhile do not 
shortchange yourself that you are not involved in all that is transpiring 
around you.  While you are preparing for your next great mission you are 
becoming soiled with the experience of your maneuvers so as to provide you 
with a broader framework and a more familiar comfort zone in the arena of 
engagement with spirit.
	You can give a foot soldier a handbook and expect that, even though he 
may become entirely familiar with the material, the actual battlefield 
conditions vary greatly, and the operation will be in need of 
restructuring as conditions materialize.  This re-appropriation is what 
your base of experience is providing you the framework to do.  You are 
gaining the experience only available to you outside of the text and the 
manual and in the field.  It is this field experience which makes for good 
leaders, that they may draw on the circumstances and become flexible and 
adaptive to accommodate the conditions present in the field at the time.  
A manual might make suggestions or hint at possibilities, but in the field 
one must make these judgments, assess the situation, and make 
accommodations to their mission plan so as to accommodate this new 
reality.  Therefore is there no standard and set patterns to be practiced 
and adhered to under all conditions.  You each one are beginning to fully 
grasp this in your lives, that what might work for one will not work for 
another.  What might work at one time will not work at another time.  What 
is acceptable to some will be unacceptable to others.  What is right here 
might clearly be wrong there.  Therefore must you become seasoned at 
making these determinations based upon your past experiences, your 
successes, and your apparent failures, ever the more valuable as they 
point out more clearly to you what aspects to work on.  These sum totals 
of events in your lives represent your accumulated wisdom of a game plan 
to participate in this spirit arena.
	On the field of spirit the rules are in constant flux.  One must be 
ready to meet their partners in this field where they are, to engage with 
them at any given level yet never lose sight of the ultimate mission 
before us all, to elevate the interactions on this field to their highest 
possible spiritual element.  Many a circumstance, a name, a face, a 
situation will change, but the mission before us to raise each other up to 
the highest spiritual plane remains the same.  The game plan varies widely 
according to the field we find ourselves on, the weather conditions, the 
modes, the stance of each of the individuals involved.  Perhaps you might 
even begin to see yourselves as engaged, not awaiting in the bunkers the 
command to be given you.  Each day that passes is a new arena, a new field 
to walk upon and assess the climate, the conditions, the possibilities, 
the situation so that you may the better achieve the end goal of 
spiritualizing the outcome and the workings of what goes on on the field.  
In this way as spiritual warriors you never lose even if you see 
yourselves as having fallen short of reaching some ultimate desire or 
goal.  Nevertheless, if you have raised even by some small increment the 
amount of spirit infused onto the field, then you have succeeded.  It is 
by small degrees of success that the battle is won.  Always if you remain 
focused on the ultimate goal of infusing spirit into the equation and onto 
the field then you have succeeded in your mission.
	You must show some faith and trust that the entire situation is being 
monitored by those with greater perspective than yourselves and not burden 
yourselves with the entire outcome, rather focusing on your personal 
spheres of influence and interaction and, having infused them with spirit, 
you have indeed succeeded.  Be willing to accept that as your role to 
play.  If an opportunity arises for your sphere to grow to encompass more 
than a single individual or a small group, then your game plan must change 
to accommodate this, but your mission plan must not.  Either way one role 
is no more valuable than the other; all are necessary in this forward 
struggle.  I look down and see seasoned warriors in this struggle of 
bringing spirit to a darkened sphere, and I look forward to engaging with 
you on these fields.  We will take the next step as it is before us, be it 
small or be it large.
	Thank you for showing interest in my words and the words and messages 
of the teachers.  This is my purpose, our purpose, to you.  It is greatly 
rewarding that you are not only receptive to these messages but are 
infused with the spirit energy intended to be contained in these messages.  
Thank you for hearing my words and know that they will sink into the 
hearts of those who are ready for them.  We will have much more discussion 
on many more things as time goes on.

	Kirk:  There’s been a new energy source discovered on this planet by 
an inventor and given to Steven Greer and his organization to be tested 
and disseminated on this planet.  Is this the energy source The Urantia 
Book alludes to as having not yet been discovered? {after a long pause}  
Is this too terrestrial a question?

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  This is Elyon returning.  It is important that we 
teachers also adhere to the mandates of the Urantia Papers revelation and 
not over revealing what mankind will soon discover.  I would support your 
investigation, for you are perceiving properly the emergence of new 
technology.  This source of energy is still beyond the conceptual 
framework of the scientists.  What is uncovering for you now in the 
investigation of technology as a manifestation of the energy applied, and 
this will lead to enlarging the human scientific understanding, which will 
reveal the energy and its source, which is creating the phenomenon that is 
detectable.
	I hope this has helped.

	Kirk:  Yes, thanks.

*	Lantarnek:  This is Lantarnek.  Greetings.  I wish to follow my 
melchizedek commander with a followup comment, as he has encouraged each 
of you to infuse spirit into your lives in every way and has acknowledged 
your preparedness, not only your own understanding of willingness, but 
your teachers’ perspective of your preparedness.  You may ask, ”How may I 
infuse spirit when I do not feel spirit fused or do not feel the spirit 
inflowing that I may let the spirit flow out?”
	Elyon spoke of the collector, and this is the individual who is 
seeking to be infilled with spirit.  Machiventa asks you to be a 
contributor, one who infuses spirit into your activities.  To be filled 
with spirit, I ask, where within yourself does spirit go?  Beneath your 
skin?  Into your muscle tissues?  Within the hollows of your bones?  
Resident in your organs?  Penetrating your brain?  Is this spirit in the 
mind?  My friends, you are all filled with spirit, for did not Michael say 
that when he left this world he would pour out his spirit upon all?
	The spirit is like a reservoir deep within your personality.  Your 
mind and your body are downstream from this reservoir.  Your will opens 
the gates, and the spirit flows into the rest of your being.  This rest of 
your being is a little more external than is your personality which is 
very near to spirit presence.  To be filled with the spirit is an act of 
your own willingness, for God has already given.  You collect spirit; you 
contribute spirit, and you coordinate both as you live your life.  Each 
teacher before me today has encouraged you to strengthen your faith in 
your certain present abilities to accept the grace of spirit bestowal as a 
completed act already.  Having been given what you have asked for, freely 
give it to all you meet.
	I am done, thank you.

	Mark:  I don’t know who this is but I am getting...
*	unidentified:  As a final note, an attempt to soften the tone, that 
Machiventa has spoken of warriors and fields and commanders and missions 
and struggles and that if we are able to shift the attitude, one can see 
these fields as fields of play and fields of anticipation, even joy and 
accomplishment and grandeur, that we need not have an attitude or an 
approach of hardship but rather one of privilege to walk upon these fields 
to bring with us the joy that the engagement provides.  To spread this joy 
as part of our spirit infusement in itself is raising the entire 
interaction to a higher spiritual plane.  While this task is full of 
struggle, at times it is also a source of great joy and satisfaction and 
elevation, and that we should never lose sight of these objectives as well 
in our mission statement.
	Thank you.

	Jonathan:  I imagine this battlefield like a paintball game where the 
paint balls are spirit.  When you are hit you get spirit on you.  However, 
that falls apart since in a paintball game when you are hit you are out.  
Perhaps it’s more like the game of tag where when you are touched you are 
“it”, spirit is with you.
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