North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Service, Preparedness, Stillness
Teachers: Coronas, Corlatia

June 30, 2002

* Coronas (Ginny TR): Good morning, this is Coronas. We have been standing
here waiting for this TR to choose to hear one of us.
As you ponder the plight of your planet and discuss ways of being of
service in this time of correction, we would like to remind you of our presence
and of our continuous watchcare over you and your environment. You are doing
well in choosing to be of service in your little ways, in the little events that
come your way, and this is good. You can trust us more to continue what you
cannot do at this point in time and at this point in your evolution. You are
very correct when you say that we function in different ways; sometimes as the
source at your service and sometimes as the embellishers of your service. As
agondonters it is important to develop your faith and your trust to a greater
strength so that we can, you and I and all of you, work together to accomplish
our Father's will on your planet. Your stillness time is a good time to become
acquainted with us, not only with your Adjuster but also with other beings who
are in great numbers now on your planet and who are here voluntarily to help you
through this correcting time.
I am here to give you confidence and to remind you of our support as you go
about your daily ministry. Thank you and good day.

* Corlatia (Jonathan): This is Corlatia, I also greet you today. It is a
pleasure to attend this meeting, to be inspired by your inquiries into how you
can be of service to this world which is in great need. We need more like
yourselves asking these questions and seeking the means whereby the answers may
come into being and the planet progress. I wish to dwell upon the most
important
means for preparation you have, and that is stillness.
Let us approach the subject of preparedness for crisis and for readiness
for any ordinary ministry by using a tangible form through which to illustrate
the importance of stillness, and that is your physical vehicle. A society
operates as a cohesive organism because each member contributes skill and
talent,
training, and collectively the needs that each has are filled by the
abilities of
others. The well-being of all is increased. No one individual alone is able to
fill all factors that make life better. There is not enough time, energy, or
even inherent talent in any single individual to do so. Therefore you each wear
a uniform, in a sense. To address you as a single individual, throughout your
life, even throughout a day, you will change your garment depending upon your
function. In order for you to work on your car, you would not prepare to do so
by dressing in your Sunday best. You would not attend a wedding ceremony in
your
beach outfit. The teaching corps upon this world is focusing upon providing
guidance that will help you to function more efficiently depending upon your
avenue of ministry. We are letting you know what garments are appropriate for
what function. You would have great difficulty swimming across a lake in a
football uniform. However, setting aside all that we attempt to present to you
there is a prime and central importance: your relationship with God. You might
say here is where no apparel is needed. By spending even a small interval of
time in stillness, you are experiencing your purity of being. What I mean by
"purity of being" is that you are not clouded by appearance. Your functions and
the distractions of the elements that support your functions cease. The more
deeply you experience this sense of being unencumbered by definition, the more
profoundly you will know who you are, who God is, and your relationship.
Subsequently you will be better able to don the appropriate apparel and function
for the Father, because you will better understand who is filling the shoes and
wearing the hat.
Someone who for the very first time suits up in a high pressure diving
outfit finds it awkward, needs to understand how the apparatus functions for
safety and mobility. Once the skill and the education is attained, the
individual can expertly apply the apparatus to reach the desired goal. So
training for service has two aspects: Better understanding of the needs to be
filled through outreach and ministry, service; the skills you have in order to
accomplish such. Secondly, is your relationship to God, for, though one may
understand how well to use the apparel they place upon themselves to fulfill a
function, there as an inward preparedness. Clean clothes lose their purpose
when
the body that wears them is not clean itself. By retreating to this primal
position of being before God, you reset, you cleanse yourself. You prepare
to be
able to approach the wardrobe of ministry. This time of eternal importance
reveals to you that whatever garment you wear to accomplish whatever task it
serves as you wear it, not one is of less value or importance. What is
important
is the value that God places upon you and upon the other to whom you reach.
This
is understood from stillness and then applied in service.
You can come to the realization of the value of personal relationship with
the Father by being the recipient of the outreach of another, but often the
outward appearances confuse the original revelation. The cloak of the clergy,
the coat of the surgeon, can cause you to stop short of understanding the
greatest value of all. So, I conclude by encouraging you to spend time in the
most primary of important events you could undertake, and that is in quiet time
with the Divine Presence.

Ginny: Concerning the planet in general, are the breakdowns in our society
a sign that there is more God consciousness arriving?

* Corlatia: This planet is reaching a critical point in its evolution, its
knowledge is increasing rapidly; the foundation of spiritual values has not kept
apace. Awareness is increasing. Inequalities are more broadly recognized. The
orientation of self interest, while present for centuries, is now appearing more
obviously as a detriment to all. Structures of society, your economic,
military,
political arenas have a broader impact and can have a more devastating impact.
Today the world needs to discover unity, and this unity is found on multiple
levels. One level of great aid to all cultures is the eventual realization of
your biologic similarity, your connectivity as living organisms on a planet.
All
creatures here have originated here. This is your home, and this home needs to
learn peace and to value its siblings.
Another level of this unity that needs greater realization is, as I have
spoken of in my lesson, profound relationship of creature to Creator and to
do so
without any sort of creed or doctrine or institution defining how that
relationship ought to be. When once a creature discovers that relationship,
that
life is changed. With attention to life with that inward experience,
actions and
goals alter.
Today midst the confusion with many people disconnected from the divine
source, and others confused about the nature of the divine source, and the
barriers established by many people groups between one another, there is much
that is capable of creating destruction and pain and oppression. But the world
is no longer as it was, and these conflicts do not fade from the eye of all.
Today the lessons are harsher because mankind can do more damage more quickly.
But the lessons are more likely to be retained and preserved if each of you made
of primary importance the emphasis to any other individual of their relationship
to God and your commonality as a people on one planet. You would begin to work
in the direction that would undermine the false structures of selfishness and
individual power, even corporate powers, for they would appear empty to anyone
who has truly experienced the spiritual transformation on the inside.
I hope this helps.

Tom: This stillness is couched in terms of solemnity and piety. Could it
be more attractive; is there a way to make it more fun? Or is that term
inappropriate in this context?

* Corlatia: I encourage you to pursue any method that is compatible with
your personality, for the Father has issued no formal procedures through which
you may approach Him. For that matter, the Father seeks variety. Given
that you
are each unique, that no personality is the same, it would be impossible for any
standardized approach to even be successful, for any one personality alters the
scheme. Do not obligate yourself to repeating methods others use if they do not
suit you. Hang that coat up; put away that scarf. Searching your being, it is
revealed to me that you have experienced the ecstasy of communion with God. It
is a sublime joy, profoundly jubilant.
May I offer to you an experiment? Take the Father on a guided tour.
Express to Him those things that excite you, those sites that are thrilling to
behold, the sights and sounds that are uplifting. Treat Him as if He had never
seen them before. Share. Share the importance -- and by importance I mean the
thrill -- that it gives you. I trust that you will experience the upwelling of
His joy.
Devout practices throughout the ages have been helpful to many a soul
seeking a divine encounter. These practices were initiated by individuals
with a
propensity for that method or approach. You may create your own; you may even
create a new legacy, a new manner for experiencing God in human life. I hope
this has been helpful.

Tom: It sure has. Thanks. We are such a hedonistic society. Everything
has to be fun. On other worlds there must be a wealth of different approaches
that approximate what I'm asking. The example you gave is one to start with. I
would like to check in with you from time to time and perhaps get more ideas on
the same line. Thanks very much.

* Corlatia: I will add one more comment and that is to underline your comment
of society's pleasure seeking and the discipline of stillness.
The reason the common forms of contemplation have held their value for
many, many years is because those techniques offered an escape from daily life.
Solitude was sought by those who found themselves in congested living
arrangements. If you cannot remove yourself physically from others, you remove
yourself through inward contemplation. Those sensitive to appropriateness who
were repulsed by frivolity would feel strengthened by the austerities, the
detachments, that one can acquire through a contemplative lifestyle, and today
many would benefit from this approach. But as I have said, this is not a decree
from the Father that you must be this way. There are those who, though they
appear to be enjoying the leisure, the toys, of your modern life, they are
extremely alone. They feel detached. There is an inward austerity, emptiness,
that you can offer the filling of by bringing this joy, the rejoicing, for these
individuals need to explode from the inside with the realization of their divine
Parent. Squelching, traditional forms of militaristic deprivation, as in an
order of monks, would not work for this type of individual.

Tom: I can think of nothing I would like better than to bring God a
chuckle or two in my life. To view this stillness procedure as a lighthearted
game appeals to my structure better and gives me a new outlook. Thank you for
the insights.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this feeling. I often feel like in stillness I am
going to the corner to sit still, very confining. To see it from 180 degrees is
a new light.

* Corlatia: You know the thrill of receiving a drawing from a young child.
Each child draws his own picture, and each is delightful in its own way.
This is
exactly how the Father approaches His encounter with you in stillness. So do
feel free to draw your own picture. As scribbly as you may make it, it is still
a delight to the divine Parent.
I will draw closure. You might even draw a picture of what the corner
looks like from your stool. Farewell.