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.
