[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 01/12/03

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics:Changing World, Individual Significance
Teachers: Machiventa

January 12, 2003

*	Machiventa (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this 
is Machiventa.  I salute you all in your efforts to 
foster the method and messages of our Michael Son.  He 
who came to this world does give light, does reveal 
the love of the heavenly and most high and holy 
Father.
	It has been one short decade that you have been 
engaged in our Correcting Time mission.  Though the 
years have passed you are only beginning to come into 
the realization of the significance of your 
engagement.  You know from your studies that I 
significantly altered the course of my future when I 
became as you, embodied, and walked upon this planet 
of yours.  Now 4000 years later I am thoroughly 
involved in the affairs of this planet, acting in the 
role of Planetary Prince.  I now realize how much 
significance lay in store for me those many years back 
when I accepted the assignment to dwell on earth.  You 
too are making decisions each day, and these decisions 
trim your course, adjust your position.  Today we 
begin another cycle of insight training and soul 
motivation.  What you encounter as these experiences 
unfold for you, each one in its own way specific to 
your needs, will have an impact of eternal 
significance to each personality.
	I am honored to have you as my friends and fellow 
light workers in the advancement of this planet.  It 
is an honor because it requires the actions of 
humanity to advance this world, and you are willing, 
and I accept your volunteering.  But I am also honored 
to have the privilege of having an impact on your 
eternal destiny.  You with but a few short years of 
life have not the legacy of time behind you to clarify 
the impact of events upon your future.  Today I dwell 
with you.  Today we hold the concerns of a world that 
is, though slowly, definitely progressing toward Light 
and Life.  One time you will be in sectors of the 
universe that will take you far from my company.  
Michael will ever dwell with me and you.  Your spirit 
and family  bonding with him and Nebadonia will go on 
for eternity.  I know our love, mine with yours, will 
also linger.  But I will become to you as one of your 
early grade school teachers who you remember fondly, 
who taught you much, yet you have not the opportunity 
to revisit.  That is why it is an honor to me to have 
a hand in the course of your ascension.  These are the 
founding days of your soul unfoldment.  Just as a  
child significantly establishes his character patterns 
in the first several years, likewise are you doing so 
in the full spectrum of time.  Heed well those lessons 
given you by your teachers.  Study and assimilate.  
Apply, practice, and even fail, for every effort 
cements within your determination the desire to attain 
God, the impulse it improve your personality 
manifestation.  It nourishes the unfoldment and growth 
of your soul.
	Change is coming upon this world, change that is 
not to be read in the headlines.  It is a change that 
is emerging from within many alert individuals.  
Celestial troops have been amassed and distributed 
around this globe.  They are equipped to address, to 
remedy or prevent dangerous decisions by governments 
upon your world in order to preserve the future of 
this planetary project Urantia.  I assure you you are 
in good hands.  There appears to be a nearness of a 
time of tantrum-throwing by a few who hold power on 
this world.  I assure you it will not leave the 
nursery.  All efforts will be taken to further 
enlighten the minds of the willing toward the 
fostering of peace, honest facing of truth, and the 
realization of the significance of the genuine 
spiritual brotherhood.  You are enlisted in this 
campaign of the promotion of light.  Friends, you may, 
as did Abraham millennia ago, wonder, “how may I have 
any significance in helping this world?”.  Realize at 
this hour, at each hour, your contribution is the 
broadening of your grasp of universe reality, your 
comprehension of your individual significance in this 
totality of Supremacy, and your faith understanding 
that each individual experiential lesson you acquire 
is part of the mosaic that you are building now that 
you will not see until then when you are a full 
stature finaliter.  This attention to your personal 
growth leaves upon Urantia an impact, and this impact 
is significant, for it adds to the accumulation of 
wisdom shared by many over the centuries.  We who 
govern this planet are very patient.  We do not count 
our progress in lifetimes; we count our progress in 
universe cycles.  Be assured that you do leave your 
fingerprint, that you are illuminating the lives of 
those you come in contact with.  I am confident that 
your reflection upon this past decade will reveal to 
you how you have improved your skills, how you have 
broadened your understanding, how you have deepened 
your faith.  With this I declare you prepared, but I 
also tell you that this preparation will continue to 
mature, to cure, to ripen as we proceed.  Again I 
salute you and I withdraw.

	Mark:  I’ve been grappling recently with how to 
implement this training process you speak of.  I find 
myself contrasted with those alarmed by current social 
examples.  I seek ideals over current principles and 
to align on the side of spiritual idealism for our 
world.  My conflict is that in manifesting these 
higher properties I may be seen as disconnected from 
my surroundings, in a world of my own, sticking my 
head in the sand.  To ponder excessively and 
emotionally about apparent error breathes life into 
that error I want to be removed from.  I want to stake 
new ground, often alone in my perspective of these 
events.  Please shed some light on my removing myself 
from the details of the political and social structure 
and attaching to the spiritual ideals.

*	Machiventa:  I will first address your comment 
regarding the metaphorical image of sticking your head 
in the sand.  Let me assure you that the terrestrially 
bound, spiritually detached, materially oriented 
ideologies of this world are the ones with the heads 
in the sand.  You, my fellow servant of Michael, are 
amphibious, if I may shift our orientation.  You are 
developing the ability to change mediums, to fly in 
the air, to swim in the sea.  It is as you transition 
from fins to feet, from feet to wings that you will 
feel uncertainty regarding how well you are going 
about this process and whether or not you are taking 
the proper direction.  Every fish will tell you that 
to stick your head above the water is certain 
suffocation.  Every land mammal will also tell you the 
sea is a certain drowning experience.  But as you grow 
more comfortable with traversing each level you will 
be better assured of the appropriateness of your 
actions and the loftiness of your ideal.
	The commonplace problems of this world are not 
solved with commonplace solutions.  They are solved 
with the overlay of cosmic understanding.  This is not 
found by only running in the marketplace.  You do have 
to pause; you do have to remove yourself to the 
mountain top so you may see the entire marketplace and 
gain an overview.  But I admonish you not to leave 
your fellows behind.  Do take that mountain back down 
to the marketplace; do jump into that stream; swim 
with the others; you will affect them.  It may not 
cause a change in behavior regarding the structures of 
society that you speak of, but it will begin the 
transformation of that individual.  This is the 
increment of progress only that I care about, for it 
is cumulative.  Soon many more will pull their heads 
out of the sand and reach for that higher view.  They 
too will actually question whether they are putting 
their heads in the sand and hiding from their worldly 
problems.  Assure them this is not the case, that it 
is true in reverse.  At no time does the expansion of 
soul awareness limit you or inhibit you.
	Structures require support, and when these 
structures are invested in by individuals, there is a 
great desire to maintain support.  You have been told 
that a house built upon sand cannot stand.  It is an 
act of compassion for you to point out to any builder 
the frailty of that soil so that they may not waste 
their time building and supporting a structure that 
will fail.  To those who are so deeply entrenched that 
they cannot see you need not spend your time.  Find 
those who are breaking ground.  Reveal to them the 
ideal foundations upon which the new structures may be 
built.  It is only through example and illustration 
that another may break free from a narrow focus.  It 
is difficult when attention is keen upon events and 
processes immediately before one.  When you step back, 
when you rise from the table and look about the room, 
you better understand the work you are undertaking and 
its significance to a greater whole.  If you receive a 
criticism that you are apparently attempting to 
withdraw and are therefore part of the problem, not 
the solution, make every effort to assure one that 
your withdrawal is not a removal but an elevation to a 
higher vantage, and it’s not exclusively yours, that 
it is to be had by all, freely received when 
rigorously sought.
	Does this help your orientation?

	Mark:  Immensely.  I am eternally grateful that we 
may share these words and to consider you my friend in 
this journey.  I thank you deeply.

*	Machiventa:	 You are welcome and the affection 
is mutual.

	Harold:  Is it a common trait among all mortals to 
seek the path of least resistance? Or is that 
something characteristic of this, a decimal planet?  
It seems a design flaw that people want to take the 
easy way out.

*	Machiventa:  This tendency, while it does have an 
adverse effect of ease seeking, also is significant in 
contributing to development on this world.  Every 
innovation, every new application of knowledge, is 
often motivated by the desire to make things easier.  
Once you dug for roots with your fingers, then with 
shovels, and soon with giant machinery.  The ease of 
the harvest increased.  Yet in the interim vast 
amounts of energy, capital, and thinking were applied 
to attain the new ease.  This propels mankind forward.  
It is good for the whole.  Therefore it is a tendency 
within all the races.
	I will speak now to the individual, for herein is 
where the difficulty lies that you address.  Rather 
than applying the desire for ease in the form of 
improving one’s quality of life, the mistake is made 
that draws stagnation, and that is the desire to not 
make effort at all.  Unfortunately this impulse 
remains to improve, and when there is no ideal to lure 
the individual to improvement, substitutes are adopted 
which thwart the desire to grow.  Herein enters 
substance abuse problems, family conflicts, even wars.  
So I conclude by saying that the desire for an easier 
life is good if it is coupled with the desire to 
improve and advance upon the way of life and not 
destroyed through impulse gratification and not numbed 
by ignoring lofty goals and ideals.
	Has this helped?

	Harold:  Yes.  Could you comment on the 
relationship to spiritual growth?  People are inclined 
to follow someone because it is easier.  They don’t 
have to think about what they believe; it’s handed to 
them on a platter.  What would motivate people to take 
a harder path, their own path in spiritual progress?

*	Machiventa:  You mention this being a decimal 
world.  While this has significance upon the manner of 
life forms, their behavior and tendencies, what you 
speak of now points more to the absence of a planetary 
headquarters and the Adamic regime wherein 
representatives of high spiritual standing dwell upon 
a world.  These representatives of spirit on high 
fulfill that function of providing on a platter the 
nourishment that the races seek.  This world does not 
have these functions in place physically and tangibly 
to human beings.  So, you as a whole have compensated; 
you have substituted canon and doctrine and 
ecclesiastical hierarchy to provide that need, the 
need being the desire for assurance that what you 
grasp for spiritually is true and valid.  Adam and Eve 
and the planetary staff would not make it easier for 
you; they would provide continual challenges to your 
experiential unfoldment, and this does lack in your 
religious traditions, but for a few.
	What will motivate individuals to take the 
uncharted course of personal attainment of God may 
require a disillusionment with those traditional 
authorities.  Some abandon these structures; others 
take it upon themselves to transform themselves within 
the structure in hopes of elevating that structure to 
a new level of presentation.  The apostles early on  
attempted this in their own native religion.
	What the world needs now are brave souls, people 
who will stand and say, “I am a child of the Father of 
All.  My doctrine is truth,” not that my truth is 
doctrine; that “my divine Parent is good”, and that “I 
am assured  of my sonship, daughtership”, and that “I 
am willing to adopt wholesome religious concepts if 
they provide a stepping stone towards closer 
association with the Father.  I am willing to discard 
those that will retard my progress or stall me.”  This 
will be unnerving to many who do wish for a say-all 
and end-all for their conflicts of life.  Your example 
will be encouraging even if unnerving.  It is the very 
trait that is admired in the master.  While he worked 
within a social, religious, paradigm his message broke 
through to effect an entire world.  What needs to be 
done is the redefinition of faith from one that 
passively accepts the guidance of another to one that 
depends solely on the presence of the divine within 
and the recognition of the divine in others.  This is 
the certainty one seeks by the adoption of a religious 
teaching.
	I might caution each of you here and those who 
will read the transcript of this session not to rely 
upon myself or any of your other teachers for any ease 
in your spiritual life.  We endeavor to be kind and 
compassionate, but we will not allow you to flounder 
or stagnate.  That is, unless you demand that.  But we 
will be creative in unsettling such demands and 
rekindling your desire to progress.  I wish your 
response.

	Harold:  Very eloquently put.

	Mark:  The ease that you bring us I perceive is in 
an enlarged perspective of where we are and where we 
are going.  The tribulations we encounter we now see 
as stepping stones, which brings peace and ease into 
the equation.  Thank you for that.

*	Machiventa:  Well said, friend.  Let me remind you 
of your past lesson of the jigsaw puzzle.  Putting 
together the puzzle without the box cover picture to 
help you is difficult.  What you speak of is having 
that broader perspective wherein you actually do view 
the box cover and understand the picture that will 
result from all your struggle and effort.  What you 
have today inquired about regarding seeking of ease 
through religious authority is the attempt to have 
someone else put that puzzle together for you.  As you 
reflect that is not the most enjoyable way to put 
together a puzzle.  Therefore struggle brings pleasure 
and accomplishment and attainment, not in adoption and 
adapting to another’s actions.

	Mark:  You mentioned that at some far distant 
point we will barely remember this encounter with you.  
I can’t imagine such a time because I cherish these 
relationships and these lessons so much.  I appreciate 
your words and thank you for them.

*	Machiventa:  I assure you that we, being 
personalities, will never forget one another.  We who 
acquire spiritual wisdom will never forget our 
lessons.  But the events that provided the context 
will become less significant than the acquirements of 
friendship and enlightenment.  So, yes, our love will 
remain forever.  The Father being one of mercy and 
love has actually bestowed upon you a narrow timeframe 
in which to function.  So, within this small context 
you this day may cherish forever these engagements of 
ours.  When that time spectrum enlarges, you will gain 
a different perspective.  Our love remains, our 
learning remains, but the incident will shrink in 
proportion to the vastness of the new view.
	I will make my second attempt to withdraw.  Elyon 
is still on winter break and will be back with you at 
a subsequent time.  Let love be your guiding force.  
Be assured of Michael’s approval of your efforts.  Be 
ever willing to receive his guidance and correction.  
Farewell.