[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 9/7/03

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Material Manifestations of Spiritual Realm, Love/Fear, 
Courage/Hatred.
Teachers: Olfana, Evanson

September 7, 2003

*	Olfana (Ginny TR):  Good morning, this is Olfana.
	As you gather during these times of spiritual searching 
desiring improvement and growth, it is good to see you reaching 
for the sky, so to speak, but, as you realize, you are bounded 
in physical reality.  It would behoove you to apply these 
physical manifestations to your spiritual realm.  They are all 
around you, especially as the seasons change:  The blue skies, 
the clouds, the wind, the harvest, the green and the brown, the 
cleanup of things that are finished, putting them aside not 
because they are no longer useful but because they have another 
cycle, the cycle of becoming something else.  Relish the colors, 
the smells, the movement, the changing of the light; all these 
things can be applied very easily to your spiritual natures.
	All of you have your hands in the dirt now and then, so you 
know whereof I speak.  These material manifestations are gifts 
to you if you contemplate them as you work with them.  As you 
realize by the cycle of the seasons, all things change, all 
things grow.  All things have their season from the first poke 
of the crocus under the snow to the harvesting of the last 
zucchini, or squash, or potato only to begin again the following 
spring, to repeat the cycle.
	Your times of light are wonderful indeed and are to be 
enjoyed.  Your times of inspiration, your times of spiritual joy 
are certainly easy and delightful times to be in, but not to 
lose heart when times are rather dark, confused, and you feel 
like you may not be accomplishing much.  Those are all human 
thoughts and human emotions which are valuable because they lead 
you to a time when things again will be clear, will be 
enjoyable, will be delightfully uplifting.  Your spiritual 
nature, your spiritual standing never goes backward if you keep 
your eye on the prize, when you understand that these passing 
moments of confusion and doubt will turn soon into flowering 
growth and improvement.
	As you progress along this path and as you become more and 
more familiar and as you live more and more in the light of your 
divine inheritance, you will more easily be able to weather the 
storms of insecurity and doubt.  You will more and more realize 
that these things are but passing shadows and that they will 
lead you to stay firm and to stay focused on your eternal 
values.
	Indeed a great day is coming when you will all be bathed in 
the light.  There will be less fear, less hatred, less 
animosity, and more joy and trust and love.  It is inevitable; 
it is far superior to the trials and setbacks of your human 
nature.  Be kind.  Be tolerant and be loving.  Use all the 
colors of your spiritual accumulation just as it takes all 
colors to make your flowers beautiful.
	I too rejoice at your progress and am delighted to partake 
of witnessing this fantastic event that is occurring on your 
planet.  I wish you all steadfastness in your pursuits, joy on 
your countenances, and cheerfulness in your words.  I leave you 
with great hope for the future and a great certainty for the 
light.  Good day.

*	Evanson (Jonathan):  I too greet you.  This is Evanson.  I 
take delight in visiting, undertaking this format of contact and 
share with you reflections upon a teaching brought by another 
teacher in this mission.
	It has been said that the opposite of love is not hatred but 
rather fear.  Love may be called an aggressive act, though I 
qualify it to be a kind, soft, act of aggression, perhaps more 
appropriately called assertion; and fear is a recoil, a 
retraction.  It is one that avoids risk; love is willing to 
risk.  Hatred, on the other hand, is aggressive; it is willing 
to risk.  These two qualities alone disqualify it as an opposite 
to love.  It is rather a distorted application of love in all 
its reverses but is not its opposite.
	If fear is the opposite of love and not hatred, then what is 
the opposite of hatred?  It is courage.  You might think of 
courage as the opposite of fear.  Let us look at courage and 
hatred.
	Hatred is projected toward another person or thing, an 
external situation that is disliked.  Courage, on the other 
hand, is an acceptance of your own values, your own worth, a 
trust in your own wisdom.  It is like love in that both love and 
courage assert your value and the value of what you believe in, 
where fear and hatred are a recognition of a power outside 
oneself and an unwillingness to accommodate or reckon with it.
	Jesus taught that it is better to amplify the light rather 
than to advertise negativity; to search out, to comprehend, and 
to be transformed into goodness rather than discover, 
categorize, and condemn all evil, for in the end what is it that 
you wish to possess but truth and goodness?  And what is it that 
you leave behind but error and evil?  Therefore it is beneficial 
to the growth of the soul to put away fear, to abandon hatred, 
to develop courage, and to augment love, for these two are an 
investment in your own personal wealth.  It is an acknowledgment 
of your own abilities, your own powers.  It also allows you 
freedom, for both fear and hatred imprison you to either the 
values or the powers of someone other than yourself, and 
conditions your actions and limits your freedom.
	Courage may and often is seen as an aggression, and it has 
been used wrongly in the forcing of beliefs upon others.  But it 
is really passive, for it is willing to disregard the influence 
of others and to merely reside within the values held dear.  
Courage need not act, for many a courageous soul has gone to 
death simply standing for one’s belief.  Hatred, on the other 
hand, is the aggressive force which seeks to suppress the 
orientation of another.
	When faced with feelings of hatred, or any other synonym 
that you may choose to describe that feeling -- more correctly, 
a temporary orientation -- do not be concerned with replacing it 
with love but rather adopt courage, return to your home values, 
your personal beliefs, and stand by your orientation.  Trust in 
the wisdom bestowed upon you through experience and the guidance 
of God that your position and your orientation are valuable.  
Leave the condemnation of another to the trials of time and the 
guidance of God that they may gain in wisdom and change their 
ways.  Be courageous.
	When faced with fear, it is not a time to muster courage; it 
is a time to amplify love.  Fear is a distrust in your own 
ability to stand for who you are, whether it is in physical 
strength or in your personal beliefs or in your eternal welfare.  
Love, on the other hand, values your abilities, values your 
standing, and values all others likewise, and is willing not 
only to die for friends but to die for enemies.  That love takes 
courage.
	All we teachers enjoy canvassing the many lessons presented 
to you by our fellows.  We reflect upon the insights of each 
within our teaching corps.  We each develop our own perspectives 
and wish to share those with you, and so I do today give you my 
perspective on what is the opposite of love.  If it is not what 
it was thought to have been, and what are the opposites for 
those.  Thank you.

	Ginny:  When there are changes in our spiritual growth on 
this, or any, planet will there be a change in teachers, like a 
changing of the guard?

*	Evanson:  There is a turnover of instructors that does 
depend upon the progress of the human beings who are involved in 
the teaching outreach.  This is not however a complete turnover 
of all involved.  It is a reassigning of those who have 
volunteered to undertake certain aspects of the teaching program 
that they are best equipped to lend their services to, while 
others are retained as their roles are more comprehensive, more 
administrative, involved in oversight.  This is also true of 
personal teacher assignments as it is with the progress of a 
planet.
	It may be likened to your grade school instructors and then 
your higher educational instructors, for in your early years you 
have a single instructor and numerous topics.  You do receive a 
change of instructor in a period of time, a school year, but as 
you advance and the specifics of your knowledge increase and the 
breadth of your knowledge expands, there come into your life 
many teachers given to one subject more specific and expert in 
that field, and you change your classroom hourly.  This is the 
same pattern for your spiritual growth and for the growth of the 
planet, for as human civilization grows more interconnected, 
more globally expanded and complex in cultural interweaving, far 
more specifically trained instructors are required, and they 
will shift to the hot spots, those areas in need of that 
revelational touch, that input of celestial perspective.
	When a milestone in planetary advancement is attained, when 
goals are reached that are held by many volunteers such as those 
in this Teaching Mission/Correcting Time, an announcement is put 
forth by the melchizedeks that any volunteer who has reached a 
point of fulfillment may retire from the program and do so with 
honor, with having succeeded in fulfilling that personal mission 
to which they volunteered, for at these crossroads it is 
recognized that human civilization has entered into -- if I may 
use my school analogy -- a new academic program.  The grade 
school instructors are praised for their efforts, and the higher 
educational professors are installed to continue.  This reflects 
not upon their worth but acknowledges the value of every 
celestial minister at every step in the planet’s progress.  
Therefore you will see a change as the need arises, but it will 
not be a complete clearing of the staff and the installation of 
an entirely new set of beings.
	I hope this has helped.

	Ginny: Yes, thank you.
	This is not a totally spiritual question so maybe I 
shouldn’t ask, but I have been reading about the “bilderbergers” 
in our government.  Is that anything that is going to effect our 
world either governmentally or spiritually?

*	Evanson:  I am not aware of this terminology you speak of.  
Bilderbergers?  I assume it has nothing to do with high protein 
hamburgers!

	Ginny:  Hardly.

*	Evanson:  The midwayers hinted that there is a great 
ideological struggle on this world, and that struggle is not 
with one governmental power and another as was witnessed so 
strongly in your era titled “The Cold War”.  It is rather with 
selfishness with superiority sensibility coupled with the wrong 
intention to implant one’s values aggressively into another 
culture.  That applies to opposite parties, polar governmental 
configurations, and trickles down to individual and personal 
relationships.
	There are bodies of beings on this world, human beings, who 
assert that they have the “right” perspective on how the world 
ought to be run.  It is driven most often from a narrow 
viewpoint, one of personal or small group interest and not 
taking into account the benefit of the largest, greatest amount 
of people.  These pockets, these power bases, do not know when 
to relinquish their control, to turn over to more qualified 
leaders, as the celestial ministers know to do when their time 
has run its course.  It may have been important at one time to 
stand for some values, to fight against oppression, but that 
very stance becomes oppressive itself when one fails to see that 
the time has arrived for a shift into a new paradigm to install 
matters of functioning that will promote higher values without 
oppression, without eliminating all from belonging rightfully to 
those higher standards of life.
	Much tolerance and allowance and resolve are given over to 
governmental bodies for correcting the wrongs of societies, for 
upholding values of society.  These institutions are not the 
leaders in world advancement.  They are an inevitable outworking 
of the effort of a world to advance.  Those who bring change 
within humanity are those who work within the many ranks of 
human society.  These are the ones who apply themselves in a 
township, who apply themselves in a rural area, and some have 
the calling to a larger body.  Some are within areas of human 
accomplishment such as literature, art, and science.  These are 
the people who create the destiny of the world, and the many 
follow willingly because of its attractiveness.  No military, no 
dictator, can hold the masses when these individuals are 
planting the seeds of light and of truth.
	Does this address your question?

	Ginny:  Yes, thank you.

	Evelyn:  We trust our teachers, the melchizedeks, and the 
various program overseers that whoever they assign to us is who 
we need.  If others move on that we have come to know and love, 
well, our friendship lives on, and we will have opportunities to 
get reacquainted at another time.

	Ginny:  It’s one of the things I’m looking forward to when I 
get on the other side, seeing and re-meeting all the teachers we 
have become acquainted with here.

*	Evanson:  Such reunions take place, and you will be involved 
in a gathering of that sort.  You will do so many times 
throughout your ascent, for while this world may have billions 
of people upon it, imagine the system, the local universe, and 
the worlds in spheres beyond.  You will meet many of the 
brothers and sisters who inhabit these worlds.  You will cherish 
those relationships forever, even while you may be light years 
distant from one another.  But you are coming to know of forms 
of communication as your technology advances on this world which 
will give you a hint of your ability to stay in touch heart to 
heart with one another even across the galaxies.
	I will release Jonathan.  I give you my love.  All the 
teachers care deeply for every one of you, even if their 
assignments are in other areas and on other tasks.  So long.