[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 1/18/04

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Importance, Leadership
Teachers: Elyon

January 18, 2004

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Friends, to you I extend my greetings.  
I am Elyon.  I relish these opportunities to commingle in mind 
and heart, to ponder the meanings derived from conversation, and 
to realize new insight that graces one another by your sharing 
and openness.
	It is inherent in personality makeup to desire to receive 
guidance and support from one another.  This allows individuals 
extra energies to pursue the unknown, to experience a greater 
sphere of functioning that is otherwise unattainable in 
isolation.  Teamwork provides such an arena wherein talents are 
overlaid one with another’s to develop a progression of 
spiritual growth.  The mass of the accumulation of the 
contributions of personalities creates a momentum that will draw 
one along who is struggling, who has doubts, who may feel 
inadequate to the task of ascension.  It infuses energy into 
each within this mass, keeping forward movement when all of 
one’s ongoing activities tend to distract from reaching ever 
higher.
	Pressure can motivate you to apply yourself diligently, 
however, pressure does not necessarily create within you an 
application discerningly.  Pressured coupled with reflection in 
your quiet time and support in your social time adds discernment 
and guides your diligence.  This mechanism, this approach, 
transforms pressure into positive momentum.
	Often there arises in the mind the ever recurring question 
of importance.  It is an element of your makeup which will 
propel you toward Paradise.  You activate this center of value 
adjustment within your mind every day.  You do so with the basic 
tasks of normal life, and you do so with the momentous choices 
of life direction.  The weight of the value of importance serves 
to organize your sense of progress.  In the minutiae of the 
mundane and the magnitude of the lofty this function of mind 
ever plays out.
	A personality at peace is one who adjusts levels of 
importance through will, through discernment, through support 
and feedback; seizes the center, recognizes the responsibility 
of self choice.  The distraught personality is one who orders 
importance solely from the buffeting actions of all activities 
surrounding one, a reactive response.  This weakens the will 
center, creates the sense of being one step behind, of chasing 
after need and accomplishment.
	Every one of you has experienced the stress of such external 
bearing upon yourself, and I have often encouraged you to engage 
in the practice of stillness, for this is a time interval 
wherein you may cease all pressure, retreat from the many 
demands.  In that chamber of silence the clutter of all activity 
settles, and, just as you experience your sun emerging as a 
cloudy day breaks, so does in simplicity the rise of that of 
highest importance emerge before your mind’s eye in quiet time.
	I will adjust this word “importance” and also remind you 
that this interval of solitude is not strictly a time of being 
alone, for you are also importing valuable spiritual energy 
which bears upon your mind and even penetrates your physical 
mechanism.  This storing up of the heavenly powers, while they 
may not solve your problems, nourishes you, invigorates you so 
that you are better capable of addressing these problems. Even 
to one who is not in stress, who has achieved relative peace and 
tranquillity and smooth operation in daily life, this importing 
of energy enhances your export as ministry, for as it has been 
said, it is he who saw Jesus who saw the Father.  While his 
actions intrigued the multitudes, his presence transformed the 
individual with the eye open and the ear to hear.  You will take 
in the divine power and express it.
	The source is the same for everyone of you.  Your 
manifestation is as varied as each of you is from each other.  
While one may express in one avenue and another in a seemingly 
contrary approach your presence, your energy field will 
demonstrate to the seeking soul the source from which you have 
derived your expression.  This will bring the recognition of 
truth to that other individual.
	It is wise for you to continue your universe education, to 
simultaneously broaden and deepen your grasp of universe 
realities.  However, your ability to engage yourself in proper 
adjustment and alignment to such realities is enhanced through 
the simple task of stillness wherein you do not acquire any 
increased knowledge, rather you acquire deeper experience of 
divine presence and your connection.  This association of God 
with the child of God creates an incredibly strong foundation 
wherein you are more greatly capable of acquiring and 
accommodating the enlightenment that comes your way through 
universe investigation and personality interrelationships.
	It is my pleasure to be enlisted with you in this 
undertaking as a group.  I repeat my dedication to the cause of 
your upliftment.  I witness your responses, and I foresee your 
maturation in your combination as the team that we are and 
expect expression from each that will assist our Michael Son in 
reaching all his children at their level of need, at their 
degree of importance.  I admonish you to be on guard in your 
discernment of another’s level of importance wrestling, to value 
their dilemma of the moment.  It may be a quandary to you far 
simple as you have grown, as you have proceeded down your 
spiritual path, but crucial to the struggling soul.
	I encourage you likewise to look about you for those who 
have adjusted their importance tiers, that you may catch a 
glimpse and be encouraged to further refine your system of 
important values, of meaningful undertakings, for it is 
individuals that you seek in this manner who function with just 
as much contribution as I give you in this manner.  Your human 
fellows are perhaps greater teachers than I due to their 
tangible, verifiable proximity.  I must function as it were on 
the other side of the veil wherein you have far less opportunity 
to sense my manifestation.  This is my handicap and creates my 
growth.
	As an ascending mortal as yourselves, I have always 
functioned with personalities within my range of contactability.  
Now at my level of ascent I am afforded the opportunity to make 
contact beyond my ranges of sensibility.  I too have some degree 
of what you might call blindness to our association as you feel 
toward myself.  I cannot describe the energy differential.  You 
will have to undergo the ascent before you comprehend that 
distinction.  It does not distance us in love; it does not 
weaken the truth we experience, but it does alter describe-
ability.  It does hinder the ease of relate-ability.  There is a 
way out of the difficulty in the differential of ascending 
beings to inter-associate on different levels of universe 
standing, and that is, I must say, stillness, for it is through 
this experience that each one of you directly contacts the 
source in each one of us.  Then, even with the handicaps of time 
and space, we sense our brotherhood and through that association 
understand each other soulfully, even if we cannot comprehend 
each other mentally.
	Again I thank you for your receptivity to my words.

	Mark:  We suffer in this realm from a planetary lack of 
authority.  We generally don’t accept authority to guide us as a 
people.  We desire to confer this authority onto personalities 
like yourselves on the other side of the veil to facilitate our 
understanding.  We become more spiritized by our relationship 
with you, and we are destined to understand your lessons.  
Perhaps authority will shift to us if we have sufficiently grown 
spiritually.  Last week the question came up of where leadership 
comes from.  At what point do we as students become authorities 
or leaders in this teaching program?

*	Elyon:  I will firstly remind you of a prior lesson on 
authority wherein it was given to you that that word also 
contains your word “author”, and it creates the perspective true 
authority is the creative initialization of an individual toward 
a particular program or activity or goal.  I will use the 
example of a school playground.
	Imagine myself as the playground monitor and you all as the 
many upon the playground seeking activities to undertake.  I 
come along to you and suggest the various games you may play 
together in teams.  I point out various playground apparatus 
that you may engage yourself with in order to act out these 
games.  Yet who must undertake the execution of these 
activities?  It is not myself, the playground monitor.  It is 
each of you who develop your teams, who establish your sets of 
rules.  It is as you have said, the authority lies with each of 
you to initiate and to undertake those endeavors which will 
result in uplifting this world.  As you continue to develop your 
projects, to pursue your dreams, you can return to teachers like 
myself, the playground monitors, for arbitration, for 
clarification on how to engage yourselves.  Myself and my 
teaching associates are not the children on the playground; we 
are the monitors.  While we may undertake preparatory activities 
such as mowing the field, preparing the apparatus, sweeping the 
tarmac, we are not the ones who play the games -- and I speak of 
games positively.
	I cannot refrain from reminding you all again that all 
authority converges from each one of you and myself and my 
associates in the Father.  Stillness is that location wherein 
you receive authority from the Author of all things.
	Today I sense you address a critical need, and that is trust 
and self worth.  This world has not had upon it headquarters of 
authority representing the worlds of the system and 
constellation.  Much abuse has gone on upon this planet wherein 
authority has been applied in terms of restriction, confinement, 
and selfishness.  So authority is often viewed with a wary eye 
or battled over so as to allow one body, be it individual or 
collective, to be the authority so as to not be threatened by 
other authorities.  This creates the confusion of where to turn, 
who to look to, and the need to seek ones like myself for the 
justification of your undertaking.
	Michael on this world spoke with authority.  He was one 
simple man from a small village in an oppressed culture run by 
an outside authority.  That did not stop him from speaking for 
the Father.  He also reminded every one of his followers to not 
be concerned for what they ought to say when they find 
themselves before the authorities of the world, but that spirit 
will speak.  This developed within yourselves creates the trust 
in what is an authority overlaid on all.
	Also, Father in heaven relishes diversity of expression as 
it accumulates in the growth of Supreme values and teaches 
through accomplishment as well as error what is important.  He 
grants you power of choice to pursue your scent.  Authority as 
it has been misused on this world attempts to restrain many to 
the agenda of few.  Even on small scales there is a tendency for 
some to corral and restrict the activities of others, claiming 
authority.  This is not the Father’s approach.  Authority is His 
granting you the power to pursue your dream, your spiritual 
ideals, not to control his other children.
	The overall perspective of what this planet needs is not 
contained within the mind of any single human.
	I hope this has contributed to your observation.

	Mark:  Indeed.  As kids fall to arguing over whose game to 
play, so we must live this life arguing.  Perhaps the bright 
spot is that individuals are allowed to express.  If this 
expression is spiritualized like Michael’s expression then it 
has a drawing force, a spiritual authority, to be a positive 
influence on the raucous playground of life.

*	Elyon:  Yes.  To further develop this playground metaphor, 
as you have indicated, while many on the playground argue over 
how the games are to be played, sight is lost of all that went 
into creating the playground to begin with, of all that goes 
into maintenance, the administration and function, all the 
support.  This is where your high planetary administrators and 
system administrators come in.  It is hoped that as this world 
develops that the overall perspective will adjust to realize 
this background support.  Then the fighting over how the games 
ought to be played will diminish as each one realizes that 
contribution positively to the engagement in these activities 
brings to fruition all the established functions, all the 
preexisting conditions, for an empty playground is useless, but 
a full playground in harmony is the flowering of Light and Life.

	Tom:  In our text it says that between two individuals 
leadership is provided.  Is that genetic endowment or a 
cultivated sensitivity to spiritual value that provides this 
leadership disparity?

*	Elyon:  Leadership will emerge given a differential between 
individuals.  It is a maturity function both in mental knowledge 
and experience and spiritual awareness and experience.  Genetic 
leadership is not, strictly speaking, leadership or rather 
function based on ability.  True leaders inspire followers to 
become as the leader.  A misguided leader suppresses to maintain 
followers.  In the realm of physical functioning such a 
constraint, while seeming to be leadership, is merely a 
functional control.
	Leadership spiritually has time and place and will shift 
depending on differential.
	You have an expression “out of the mouth of babes”, and this 
illustrates very well the two aspects of leadership: the 
external, social element that involves authority, a power over, 
an ability to convey what is known to one who does not; and the 
internal, spiritual dimension wherein leadership will change 
roles, wherein the unlearned and the simple will reveal and 
enlighten, for the role must not be confused with the flexible 
function of teaching and learning, of demonstrating and 
acquiring.
	Machiventa revealed to you years back that there is no set 
title that you each hold, be it “apostle” or “disciple”, but 
rather it is a mode of functioning for a duration of time.  Such 
is the case with leadership, with teacher and student.  Ever be 
willing to rise to the leadership occasion, and ever be ready to 
sit down and receive from another.

	Mark:  Thank you.  We appreciate the role you play, 
providing that verification you spoke of.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome.  I will leave with one more small 
metaphor.
	You have developed a media storage device, your tapes, and 
you speak of the beginning of your tapes as “the leader”.  Yet 
you fully know that that leader is not to be recorded on, that 
what is important follows the leader, is subsequent to 
leadership.  Therefore, as you function as leaders remember what 
is important, what transpires following leadership, is the true 
activity.  I may be your leader, but you are the content of the 
tape.  You make the sound.  You are what is sought after to be 
experienced by others.  Thank you.

	Evelyn:  I want to comment on your lesson on pressure and 
organizing importance, being sensitive that others are doing 
that, organizing the pressures in their lives.  One way to do 
that is by just listening to someone sharing their issues.  In 
the course of their making statements they often discover for 
themselves what is more important.  When they relate to someone 
else, they have an opportunity to sort out the importance 
levels.

*	Elyon:  This is extremely true, for the presence of the 
divine Monitor within is so close to the personality that, as 
that personality expresses, the divine Presence is the first to 
respond and to offer insight to aid in realization long before 
that expression through word reaches the ears of a fellow.  If 
you simply sit receptively you grant the opportunity for the 
divine Monitor to move within the inner places of the one who is 
seeking to organize importance.  Thank you for your comment.

	Tom:  Your illustration of a leader on a tape, was that 
similar to our discussion about principle before personality?

*	Elyon:  I would amend that metaphor to accommodate your 
question by stating that it is the type of tape you use that is 
principle.  It is what you do with the tape that is personality.  
All principles create the format wherein personalities make the 
music.
	I hope this answers your question.

	Tom:  Yes, thank you.  Personality is still number one, 
right?

*	Elyon:  Personality develops uniqueness.  Principle is given 
equally to all as would be a box of blank tapes, constrained by 
parameters that define the principle.  Each of you make each 
tape unique in the manner in which you play out the principles 
through your personalities.  The two go hand in hand.
	I withdraw, thank you.