[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 02/24/08

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Growing In Awareness, Be Active And Know 
We Are, Intention, Change On Urantia, Questions.
Teachers: Elyon, Machiventa, Serena, Margul.

February 24, 2008

*	Elyon (Mark TR):  Good morning, my friends, 
this is Elyon, ... a group where so many spiritual 
ideas and spiritual ideals abound to be used and 
woven together into the tapestry of a greater 
understanding.  In my observation of your various 
observations, I would pull out one thread that 
runs through most of what was discussed here this 
morning and will play for a moment with the 
concept of your relative positioning to all that 
is and all that goes on around you.
	As you have discussed, most circumstances 
you encounter are external to your individual 
environment and therefore must be interpreted by 
you and assimilated by you into your context of 
awareness and understanding.   It is at this point 
that you make your determination as to your point 
of reference in your observation and subsequent 
analysis of that which you perceive in the moment.  
You are growing in awareness that your position in 
relationship to all that you observe is determined 
by your degree of spiritual awareness.  What may 
at one point in your spiritual evolution appear to 
you one way will at another juncture in your 
spiritual awareness appear to you quite 
differently, even though the event or circumstance 
in question could very well be exactly the same.
	You are growing in awareness that all that 
is outside of you is just as it is, and what 
changes throughout your ascension is your 
perspective and your awareness on what is out 
there and all around you.  Seeing through one lens 
it appears to be crystal clear in your assessment 
of what it is you are currently viewing, but seen 
through a different lens that has been achieved 
through more polishing or greater awareness, this 
same event holds more value and different content.  
It is not necessarily that the event has changed, 
rather has your capacity to assess the event using 
more enhanced tools, perhaps the finer lens.
	As well your context of any individual event 
changes in relationship to your exposure and 
experience surrounding any perceived event.  When 
you have more experience with it you will see it 
in a different light, and it will have a different 
meaning to you than it did when you first had 
contact with it.
	These factors are constantly in flux and 
change, and so it is quite possible that you will 
look out from your internal domain and never see 
the same thing twice if you allow for the changes 
in perspective and awareness.  These are all your 
internal changes and your internal growth and have 
little or nothing to do with the circumstances 
that you are observing.
	You also are aware that you are the creator 
of your perspective; you are the polisher of your 
lens, and as such you can tint your perspective 
with preconceptions, prejudices, doubts, 
uncertainties and, worst of all, fears.  If these 
characteristics are incorporated in your 
observation of any external phenomenon, they may 
well color your accurate perception by virtue of 
having clouded your lens.  Therefore, as you are 
becoming aware, it is increasingly important to 
free yourselves of such obstacles to your accurate 
perception and allow yourselves to see out through 
the most clear lens that you can create.  Anyone 
who has observed objects through a telescope knows 
the importance of having clean surfaces to observe 
through or else your vision will be obscured, and 
the result will not be accurate.
	Likewise as you go through life you find 
yourselves needing to clear off the debris of 
life’s circumstance, the dust of experience, so 
that you may get an accurate view of that which 
you are attempting to assess and interpret.  This 
of course is an ongoing process, as the simple 
living of life and encountering of experience 
create this dust of your journey.  You must be 
ever mindful that, while it is good and proper to 
build an experiential base from which to make your 
assessment of that which you are experiencing, 
likewise it is important to ever make sure that 
your lens is free of unnecessary obstruction and 
polished to the highest degree that you are aware 
in order to afford yourselves the most accurate 
observation of that which you are focused on in 
the moment.
	It is true, as was stated, that in order to 
change what the world looks like it is also as 
simple as changing your mind, changing your 
awareness to a different state.  The one who looks 
through the telescope in ignorance does not 
understand that which they view; they are simply 
in awe of the sight before them.  The astronomer 
who looks through the telescope with greater 
awareness has greater appreciation and 
understanding for that which is reflected through 
the lens and into the consciousness.  So there is 
both the instrument to be kept polished and free 
of obstruction, and as well there is the awareness 
of how the relationship plays out between the 
observer and the instrument and the object being 
observed.
	I will draw my remarks to a close with this 
imagery and allow this forum to be used by others.  
Thank you once again for your invitation to come 
and join this group of friends.  Farewell.

*	Machiventa (Jonathan):  Machiventa here, 
greetings.  You know well the phrase, “be still 
and know I am God”.  As it is translated from the 
original language it is appropriate to express it 
as, “Be still and know I am”, for being originates 
in God, and to know that presence removes the need 
to indicate who that is.  This is a profound 
experience the individual soul undergoes and 
transforms the life of that individual.  But there 
is a corollary and that is, “Be active and know we 
are”, and herein is the entire socialization 
experience of Supremacy.
	Any one of us is not dominant; we are 
collective.  I would illustrate such 
interconnectivity by pointing to the design of 
your drum.  If that skin is properly tensioned 
equally all around the rim, then the tone is 
pleasant and stable and equal wherever you strike 
that skin.  That is the “we are”, the value of 
each individual in harmony.  But that illustration 
is not the “be active”, the dynamics of your 
interrelations.  So, yes, I would in effect 
contradict myself by saying there will be times 
when one or another is dominant and others are 
lesser, but it must be understood that it is 
dynamic and the roles change.  Error occurs when 
one attempts to maintain a leading role and 
suppress others into subservience.
	We in the melchizedek universities teach the 
value of give and take.  You know of our teaching 
approach of passing on to those who seek what you 
have gained as you look up to others who have 
gained what you seek.  But there are valuable 
situations wherein you learn from those who know 
less, who have experienced less than you.  It’s an 
inverse reflection which can teach you much which 
can render from your already attained experiences 
new truths.
	When you go to stillness, you can say, “be 
still and know I am God” to know Him, the Cause of 
all.  But when you get up and enter your day, tell 
yourself to “be active and know we are” and accept 
the expressions of one another and give equal 
honor to your own expressions as one in the 
family.  You will teach and you will learn and 
others likewise.
	I will also let others address you at this 
time.

*	Serena (Mark):  Greetings, I am Serena.  I 
join you on this fine day as any day that you have 
is fine when you are gathered together and 
creating such beautiful circuitry as I observe.  
As you know I am keenly involved in the creation 
and establishment of levels of circuitry, and so 
once again I arrive today with the intention of 
further upgrading what I observe to be a beautiful 
and serviceable circuitry.
	It has been discussed that it is largely a 
matter of choice as to your position and 
relationship regarding everything you observe.  I 
would promote this ideal now in this moment and 
request that you with active intention choose to 
become closer, as you would view it, to each other 
through the mechanism of this circuitry.  By 
simply so desiring this and choosing it you are in 
effect flipping a switch and sanctioning the 
efforts of a personality such as myself and each 
of your individual personalities to support and 
uphold this ideal.  By doing so with your 
sincerity and intention you literally activate 
these potentials.  You create the avenues whereby 
these may be brought to life.  So by now having 
spoken of these intentions and having each one 
individually internally made a choice to support 
such an activity, we have all individually flipped 
the switches to enable this to be.  When our 
individual switches are all in alignment, then 
automatically the master switch is thrown; the 
circuit is activated and charged by virtue of our 
intent to make it so in this moment.  I invite you 
to pause briefly in this moment to make it so with 
me.
	These intentions and the subsequent actions 
are your calling into existence and putting into 
play your creative prerogatives, and there is no 
more potent force in all the universe than for you 
to choose and decide and act in accordance with 
your desires.  Then literally does the universe 
await your decision so that it may activate your 
choice of course.  When you function in this 
capacity collectively there is even greater powers 
to be harnessed.
	Thank you for your gift to the Creator, your 
act of creation.  Your act of choosing and then of 
making it so are all a reflection back to the 
Creator of divine pattern.  This is your purpose; 
this is your privilege; this is your gift that you 
bestow upon the First Source and Center who has 
created the pattern.
	Thank you for your energies and your 
attention at this time.  I will allow space for 
others as well.  Thank you.

*	Margul (Jonathan):  This is Margul.  I have 
a few words.
	Once upon a time a beautiful tree of life 
flourished which is Urantia.  And then the 
chilling frost of rebellion swept through and 
turned the leaves of vitality brown, and Urantia 
began to enter a cycle of winter.  This time has 
not been a time of death, for Michael has sent his 
administrators and ministers to prepare for the 
next bursting forth of vibrant life.  At this 
point much of the leaves that have fallen have 
been raked up, and they are in the compost of 
rejuvenation, and your Magisterial Son is here 
assisting in the pruning of the branches and even 
of grafting into that tree morontia elements that 
would have been attained had not the chill which 
diminished the light of spirit come across your 
world.  It is the hope that these grafts will take 
and you will be able to grow into these 
attainments and not lose them.  The ground is 
being cultivated, and the  tree is being 
fertilized, for that springtime of a new 
dispensation is here.
	But I address all of you who are part of 
this Teaching Mission, Correcting Time.  Be 
patient.  Look not now for the fruit.  Look for 
the buds and the flowers, for that is your task; 
to bring about the warmth of love and care for one 
another that Urantia may once again draw the vital 
fluids of spirit into its being and burst forth in 
new growth.  The tree of life that is Urantia is 
emerging once again in all its beauty and 
splendor.
	I take my leave.

	Tom:  It was mentioned, “Be still and know 
that I am”.  There was “be active and know we 
are”.  Is this part of a triangle?  What is the 
third leg?  If this is the service triangle of 
God, self, and others, could “be still and know I 
am” be the self?  And perhaps the third one would 
be “He is”?  Am I off base here?

*	Machiventa:  Machiventa returning to address 
you.  I am pleased to witness your endeavor to 
find the third element to my expression today, and 
I must leave that to you, as my intention of my 
presentation was more of a dual nature, a 
restatement of the gospel of the Fatherhood of God 
and the brotherhood of man.  But I know how 
flexible truth is and how it will coordinate with 
my expression and your pursuit of insight to 
derive a third element, for we know our universe 
is projected by Trinity.  While much of your world 
is dualistic in nature, that triune element does 
underlie all of what you experience.
	I will then, as a good instructor, allow the 
classroom to discuss the ramifications.

	Tom:  If the Fatherhood of God were the 
“God” element and the “we are” is the “others”, 
that by practicing the gospel I would empower 
myself to be a serviceable aspect of this 
triangle.  As with any triangle, when two corners 
are known the third one can be studied.

	Mark: I was reflecting if “I” and “we” don’t 
correspond to “you” somehow.  Know that I am God, 
know that you are God, and then know that we are 
God.

	Paul:  There’s the great mystery.  You can 
see the picture through a telescope, huge bands of 
vision.

*	Machiventa:  I accept all your expressions 
and find them beautiful and thrilling.  I will 
acknowledge your insights.  Both phrases I gave 
used the verb “be”.  You are the conjoining 
element of the Father and all the other children 
in the family of God.  You are the pivotal point 
for the recognition and realization of the 
presence of God and of your interconnectivity with 
all the other children of God.  By you being still 
and you being active, you allow for both those 
experiences of God and others.
	Truly it is a joy to experience your 
investigations, and I encourage you to continue 
with such reflections.

	Mary:  Referring to Elyon’s talk about 
looking through lenses and polishing them, ... 
others and unification of all by polishing your 
lens with virtues such as tolerance and honesty 
and service.  In The Urantia Book when they talk 
about the fruits of the spirit it is not just 
service, it’s loving service, not just tolerance, 
it’s forgiving tolerance.  As we grow in spiritual 
awareness we can apply a finer grit to our 
polishing cloth and grow from service as a duty to 
a loving service, from practical tolerance to a 
true forgiving tolerance based in love.

	Paul:  Concerning the observer and the 
observed, there is the “you” that you see, the 
“you” that I see, and then the “you” that truly is 
which encompasses that which you will be.  It’s 
the same for the individual: the “me” that I am, 
the “me” that others perceive, and the “me” I am 
becoming.  Somewhere in the past and present and 
future the duality becomes a triangle.  How that 
works is a mystery.  We are like children 
beginning to see.  Some mysteries will become 
clear with experience, like the astronomer.

	Jonathan:  There’s the thing observed and 
one who does the observing.  But those two are 
packaged into an observation which acknowledges 
both.  Observation then implies what else that is 
not being observed.  What am I missing around me?  
Be still and know, be active and know, I think of 
the “know”, extending yourself to know more, 
seeing beyond the observation episode.