[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 5/30/04

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Spiritual Experience is like Weaving Fabric
Teachers: Darid

May 30, 2004

*	Darid (Jonathan TR):  I greet you today.  I reach to you in 
contact with joy that it is welcomed by you, that we touch your 
lives and bring an infusion of our perspective that you may be 
uplifted by our presence.  We will always be active assisting 
our mortal brothers and sisters, even should you turn away your 
attention in the manner by which you receive today this contact, 
for it is our mission to help you regardless of your conscious 
receptivity.  Naturally we welcome your direct attention, but it 
is ultimately your spiritual welfare, your advancement in this 
system of Satania, that is the goal.  You benefit whether or not 
we are recognized.  I am Darid.
	I will draw from Evelyn’s discussion of quality of fabric to 
give my lesson today.  She pointed out that the finer the 
thread, the tightness of its spin, the quantity of threads per 
inch increases the durability of the fabric.  This is true with 
spiritual experience.  I will broaden that term “spiritual 
experience” to mean more than simply an experience with religion 
or even religiously recognized contexts.  You all have worked in 
the realm of soul growth long enough to understand that many 
experiences contribute to you in a spiritual manner, even though 
they are not cloaked in that context.  Jesus served in small 
ways and in so doing transformed the world.
	Every experience in your life is much like the weaving of 
thread through fabric.  The apparently insignificant events of 
your day are much like tightly spun thread.  Singly it appears 
so frail.  Could a fine filament contribute substantially to 
your spiritual stature when a braided rope appears so much 
stronger?  Yet in the course of time you weave a fine linen, 
very strong, very durable.  Every event you undertake is like 
the passing of the shuttle again.  Never discount the quality of 
the experience because of its apparent insignificance standing 
on its own.  You are creating a masterpiece with the compilation 
of experiences and their coordination through your attention and 
willingness to creatively interweave your multiple experiences 
into a comprehensive reality that is your soul.
	Of course, experiences filled with truth and beauty and 
goodness provide a finer quality to the accumulation to all the 
experiences that make up your being.  However, as you mortals 
have come to appreciate, multi-colored thread creates another 
level of appreciation of a fine fabric in its pattern, in its 
artistry.  Not only does the fabric function for what it’s 
created to do, but it brings into its function an appreciative 
level that is independent of its intended purpose.  This 
relative independence is variable; it can be altered depending 
on your artistic orientation.  All of you are colorizing your 
soul experiences through your decisions.  You engage in an 
activity or refrain by freewill choice coupled with natural and 
social and moral requirements and guidance.  Such choice creates 
the variability that emerges as your tapestry, that displays in 
wholeness what you are becoming in spiritual status, in 
spiritual nature.  It is one thing to be merely finely woven; it 
is another to display a uniqueness that is the expression of 
your creative self and to display a reflection of divine pattern 
as it has become intermixed with your seemingly endless mundane 
episodes of life.
	Those little events weave back and forth and up and down 
constantly.  You are the one who choose the colorization, who 
establishes the patterns.  These are the “as you pass by” 
experiences; few are the ones who provide great quakes of change 
in life.  Far more numerous are those humble and quiet workers 
in Michael’s universe.  These tireless laborers create in 
Nebadon a tightly woven fabric that represents Michael and 
Mother Spirit.  It is not done with one or two great 
individuals; it is done through the compilation of all the soul 
experiences of every creature throughout this universe.  You do 
it in your daily life with your soul.  We all do it with our 
daily lives for Michael and Mother Spirit in the Supreme.
	There are times when your intermixing with other beings of 
freewill nature cause you to feel stretched or wrinkled, to be 
distorted, to be folded, altering your well pressed soul fabric.  
Thus enters the important requirement or need for stillness to 
smooth out those wrinkles to put you back in peace, to stretch 
the mind long enough to appreciate all that you have undergone, 
to step above the daily weave to appreciate what is emerging in 
your life as your life.  This is your demonstration to the world 
of your relationship with God and, in that partnership, your 
creative expression of a living reality.
	I hold hands with you today in honor of our great Creator 
and in the joy of our association in our mutual recognition of 
our purpose for Michael and Mother Spirit.  It is indeed 
delightful to have ones like yourselves in company who 
understand that there is more to life than simply advancing 
yourself in fame or fortune.  Accumulation of things is merely 
external placement of objects which are not you.  It is the 
accumulation of experience that is you and will go with you as 
you ascend.  All that about you that is around you will stay, 
fade into the distant past.
	Guard your experiences, they are the quality of what you are 
becoming.  Worry not over any given experience being more 
valuable or less valuable.  The beauty of soul growth is in the 
interweaving, for a given experience may seem to be a crushing 
blow to your ideals and to your hopes, but it is supported by 
the adjacent experiences that have given you strength, that have 
lifted you up.
	Be artful, be creative, in looking for coloration.  Be 
willing to undergo an unusual experience.  Choose wisely that it 
does not tear and rend your soul project, but look for the 
opportunity to embellish your experiences.
	I am content with what I wish to express today, and I would 
be more than happy to be the one to receive your questions.

	Evelyn:  That was beautiful.  Sometimes the unpleasant 
things we go through eventually work out.  I think of the 
imagery of a slub in thread, a thick spot or irregularity.  Once 
the fabric is woven slubs can add character and texture even 
though technically they are imperfections.

*	Darid:  This is true and emphasizes my desired expression 
that you be not concerned over those experiences that appear 
faulty, that they will embellish.
	I will add a third element to this metaphor of fabric.  As 
you know, the weave can be even more embellished through 
embroidery, an additional weaving of thread throughout an 
already established pattern.  This is what happens when you 
consciously manage and monitor your daily experiences in the 
light of spirit, for your weaving of life is supplemented by the 
divine presence of the Father within you.  It becomes three 
fold, the warp, the woof, and the embroidery.

	Evelyn:  I suppose the fabric could also be double faced, 
like a reversible fabric.  What’s seen above is seen below, as 
inside is seen outside.  Maybe that’s taking it too far!

*	Darid:  Indeed, no.  I will spring from that observation.  
You are also very sensitive to front side and back side of 
fabric.  You all have experienced a time when you feel you have 
faced truth; it is clear and obvious and welcome.  But then in 
your presentation of such clarity and welcomed reality, others 
seem not to appreciate it or even turn from it.  This is much 
like their having looked at the wrong side of the fabric where 
they do not understand what you have experienced.  Herein is the 
reason why arguing fails to convince, and the efficient approach 
is to discover ways in which the fabric can be turned around 
that they may see it face on for themselves, for it is more 
likely to be understood than passing through you and seen from 
the reverse side.

	Tom:  You might consider stillness as a form of Scotchguard 
which could make the fabric more serviceable and protect it from 
stains.

*	Darid:  I am delighted that you have made that observation.  
You must practice Scotchguard!
	While we continue with this, I encourage you not hastily to 
hem your fabric.  Allow it to expand.  You have eternity and all 
of infinity to continue weaving.  Do not allow yourself to be 
hemmed in by narrow constructs of thinking and behavior.  That 
will come in the fullness of time; that will be realized in the 
celebration of the emergence of the completion of the Supreme.  
Then we will want to hem the edges, for time and space 
experience will be a precious attainment that will never unravel 
ever again, a unique treasure we all share in and will present 
to levels of reality experience that other creatures will 
undergo.  That we have time in our fabric of the Supreme is 
unique and will be of great curiosity to the creations beyond 
time that we are all becoming prepared to engage in and with.
	In an attempt at humor, all us creatures from time and space 
will be Handiwipes for putting that final polish on the 
revelation of God throughout all of the universe.

	Tom:  I want to cover God’s sofa.

	Evelyn:  This week I’ve been thinking about the imagery of 
weeding.  Some weeds are easily removed under certain 
conditions.  You can remove something unwanted with one yank.  
With others it’s discouraging looking at thousands of tiny 
weeds.  With a timely approach, when pulling one sometimes the 
others just fly away with it.  If those weeds are habits, 
behaviors, attitudes we can easily be overwhelmed contemplating 
becoming a perfect garden and mostly focus on the weeds.  I’m 
trying to encourage myself that some things will be gone with 
one good yank.  Others I will probably be fussing over for all 
time. I need to remember trees who are here for a long time.  
Weeds come and go and don’t bother them at all.

*	Darid:  Yes, and you can also appreciate that the 
flourishing of those weeds is due to your great labors at 
creating such nutritious soil wherein life may flourish.  I 
realize you have chosen which plants you wish to grow in this 
nurtured soil, but it is an indication of health and vitality.  
Such is the case of goodness spread throughout the universe that 
evil does like to grow within that rich environment, as well.  
It has taught all many lessons in the comparison of the wanted 
and the hindering elements of life.

	Evelyn:  It’s always good to hear from you, Darid.  Is there 
anything you can tell us about what you have been up to?

*	Darid:  My primary project is contributing to this planet’s 
continuing reintegration in this wonderful system that we are 
all in and to do so in association with you as your personal 
teacher, for you and your fellows you are the fabric, and we can 
weave, but we are not as integrated into the transformation of 
the planet as you are, for this is your world.  I am a citizen 
of this system, and my contribution is in that level of 
activity.  I and my fellows always hope to have good impact upon 
your choices and activities, but the real burden of advancement 
is upon you all.  We all function like an orchestra.  Each one 
is an instrument on its own, and all become a symphony as we 
harmonize.  I will continue this focus and mission as long as I 
am needed and as long as we are short of the attainment of our 
goal.
	I will give you my parting love as I withdraw from this 
point of contact.  I have enjoyed our visit and again I repeat 
my delight at your conscious application of your spiritual 
knowledge and ideals upon your life and your willingness to have 
that be revealed that others may also see and become inspired to 
likewise function as a true planetary citizen, above the goals 
of selfish pursuits and within a context of the family of God, 
for the glory of God.  You know through experience that this is 
the most uplifting to the self above and beyond any sort of 
selfish pursuits.  Thank you.