[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 5/23/04

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group

Topics: What comes Foremost to your Mind as the Primary Reason 
You Began Your Search for Spirit Relationship? Awakening of 
Spirit, The Language of Spirit

Teachers: Aaron, Olfana, Elyon

May 23, 2004

*	Aaron (Jonathan TR):  Hello, this is your brother Aaron.  I 
have the opportunity of visiting you today.  We have spent much 
time together, and it is my pleasure to rejoin you, having taken 
other assignments in the recent past.
	I have great admiration for you each, as you have grown much 
in the years that I have been in your company and involved in 
your leg of this mission.  You all are maturing wonderfully in 
spirit, and you have been applying yourselves to your unfoldment 
and growth for many decades.   Much of your everyday activities 
is so blended with the your awareness of spirit and the cosmic 
philosophy which you have adopted, both of which guide you, that 
you cease to perceive your spiritual dimension as separate from 
all else in your life.  You have what to many is an elusive 
acquirement, a joining with spirit in confidence,  with 
assurance.
	Your histories have proven to you that even in difficulty 
your desire to attain prevails, that you are never abandoned, 
always assisted.  Many in your lives still seek such assurance, 
still look for that confidence.  It is my desire today to ask 
you to contribute to this lesson by taking a moment to reflect 
upon a question I will ask and then to share that with each one 
here.  My question is: what comes foremost to your mind as the 
primary reason you began your search for spirit relationship, 
for contact with God?  The reason I ask this question is that 
you are so far down your journey trail that the initial draw to 
God may become a distant memory, and the motivation for such has 
faded while you deal with your current levels of growth and 
struggle.  I wish for you to share what you can recall of that 
initial impulse, please.

	Jael:  I was quite small, walking down a road, and very 
afraid.  It was in the country after dark, and I had the 
overwhelming feeling that I was being taken care of.  Celestial 
beings were very involved after that.  I felt like I was part of 
the big thing, and that God was the center of it.

	Jada:  I remember a great emptiness in my life before I 
started thinking about God and spiritual things.

	Ginny:  I don’t remember a particular moment when this 
happened.  I sense that I always was aware of God’s presence.

	Evelyn:  I read a book about Edgar Cayce and reincarnation 
when I was twelve.  I really wanted to live as good a life as I 
could so that my next life wouldn’t have a lot of burdens to 
work out.  That’s not spirit or God contact, but it got me more 
interested in spirit.  I wanted to be good.

	Tom:  In high school I was reading about an imaginary 
philosopher’s stone that had all knowledge.  I remember making a 
petition into the sky that I would really like to find that 
stone or what ever it might be.  Reflecting back it was because 
I asked that I got The Urantia Book and was led in this 
direction.

	Jonathan:  I remember at a young age playing in the yard and 
feeling the watchcare of some being.  Perhaps it was the sense 
of parental care, but it felt benevolent, caring.  It was making 
sure that I was being a kid appropriately.  I transferred that 
sense to God when I learned there was one.  That began my 
longing to know it, to understand what that presence is.

*	Aaron:  I ask this of you to illustrate that you all have 
been pursuing your answers and questions for a great time.  You 
are blessed for having begun so long ago.  There are many around 
you who have not lived as many years with such incoming support.  
One who is at such an initial state of spiritual awakening is 
confronted with a sense of aloneness, seeking the warmth of a 
divine relationship or, as you also have expressed, curious in 
mind, desiring to know more than what life seems to present 
before one and have experienced an inexplicable contact, 
creating a wonderment as to its real nature and to its 
continuing value for life.
	Each of you who continued to supplement your first 
experiences has found sources which contributed to your growth, 
be it literary or a personality.
	You each have great power within you this day to be 
teachers, to be mentors, to be revelators of truth, expressors 
of love and light.  It is a state of being you are quite 
comfortable with, for it is your very makeup, no longer an 
outside state to reach.
	As you engage in your human relationships be alert for those 
who are as you were in your forming years of spirit growth.  
Recall your feelings, your questions, that you may better 
empathize, better remember and understand their state, the sense 
of aloneness or the sense of lack of definition of what is going 
on in one’s life that is causing the rebirth.  By doing so you 
will align with the awakening souls of your fellows and bring to 
them supplement, nourishment, that is required that they may 
step with faith forward and not retreat in fear.
	Do not be afraid of mistakes and  uncertainty but grab at 
those conditions willingly, knowing that it is possible to reach 
a conclusion, to overcome an obstacle, and to come into a 
relationship with God that is profoundly real and everlasting.
	I thank you for allowing me to draw this to your minds.  
Again I assure you of your qualifications in being ministers for 
spirit upon this planet.  I have finished my remarks.

*	Olfana  (Ginny):  Good morning, this is Olfana.
	The awakening of the spirit can come in many ways.  It can 
come through music; it can come through the appreciation of 
nature; it can come from an appreciation of art.  Any upliftment 
of the spirit can draw the soul Godward.  It is not necessary to  
sit in deep meditation to contact the divine.  All appreciation 
of goodness, beauty, and truth sends the soul heavenward and 
allows the spirit to lift up from the density of your 
environment and allows the soul to communicate briefly with the 
spirit of truth, beauty, and goodness.  So, as you engage in 
your daily tasks and daily requirements of living, you can 
always at every moment lift up your spirit and the spirits of 
others by paying attention to these moments of gratitude, of 
appreciation, of thanksgiving.  It is a good way to bring a 
soul, a friend who is in confusion or doubt or sorrow or trouble 
of any kind to use those moments of natural environmental 
happenings on your planet.  You can bring another around or up 
by engaging in music, art, nature.  They have a way of bringing 
a soul around and a way out for a moment from their misery to 
appreciate the things in your environment that can be uplifting.  
A smile, offering your friendship, all of these are excellent 
ways to bring the spirit of the divine into your environment.
	It might be also time to bring souls into awareness of their 
spiritual environment, the spiritual beings who are here on the 
planet around you, around them, to bring them into the awareness 
that we are here in great numbers waiting to assist, waiting to 
be asked, waiting to help out with situations that people find 
themselves in.  It might be time now to ... to your friends so 
they can also participate in this wonderful adventure, this 
wonderful time now when we will become more felt, more 
experienced, more available in their lives.
	We do not intend to frighten or scare anyone.  We simply are 
here to assist, and we will be felt only in ways of comfort and 
love.  We do not use tactics that are common on your planet to 
make our presence known; it is soft; it is light; it is 
uplifting.
	It has been a pleasure to speak to you today.  I am always 
happy to be in your company.

	Jonathan:  Your comments cause me to reflect on several 
things.  You worked so well with Susan Kimsey.  The blending of 
energies was remarkable and noted by many in the Teaching 
Mission.  Currently there are transmissions speaking of morontia 
material blending with people experimentally; the implication is 
that humans are being trained to function that way.  Concerning 
sensitivity to others, in the universe ascent we learn from 
those above and we teach those just behind us.  That process 
better teaches us.  We are required to give what we have 
received.  You said your teaching method is soft.  Morontia 
companions are assigned to us after graduating from this world, 
we are told in The Urantia Book, not morontia teachers, morontia 
companions.  It seems that is the secret to spiritual teaching, 
through association in friendship.  Then all knowledge and 
guidance come along.  Thank you.

*	Olfana:  Yes, what you will remember when you leave this 
planet or as you progress are the friendships and relationships 
that you have experienced.  That will be uppermost in your mind 
and in your spirit as the moments of great communion.  Words and 
theories and ideas and isms are not always appropriate, 
especially when someone is suffering; in fact that is the least 
effective way.  Your offer of your friendship and your 
availability are best.  You will experience this throughout your 
ascension career, and you will be most grateful for those times 
wherever you are.
	I encourage all of you to increase your friendships, to 
increase the quality and the amount.  Believe wholeheartedly 
that this is primary in your ministry.

	Ginny:  Thank you, Olfana.  This is a good lesson for me.  I 
tend to theorize and tell people how it is.  I am getting away 
from that and simply offering my friendship.

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  This is Elyon.  I am here to conclude our 
contact by thanking my teacher friends Olfana and Aaron for 
their work with you today and to thank your for your dedication 
and determination in receiving our messages.  We reach to you 
not for our own gratification, for our sense of attention, but 
for your well-being, because you are children of our same Father 
God, and in so you are my brothers and sisters.  In this 
relationship I come to you with love.  That is the language of 
spirit, not the framework by which language is formed, but in 
content, the meaning.  Spirit language is the energy of love.  
When composed it reveals light; it reveals understanding, but 
underneath it that divine drive of love is what speaks to all 
our fellows.

	Ginny:  Thank you, Elyon, for being our friend.

*	Elyon:  It is a pleasure and a reward beyond description to 
be with you.