[tmtranscripts] Elyon Group 3/28/99

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics:Re-direction of Values, Re-sStructuring Ideals
Teachers:Elyon, Machiventa

March 28, 1999
*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Hello, my friends.  It is truly gratifying and
rewarding to witness your pursuit of your homework this week and to see yielded
therefrom much insight on your part.  These perceptions that you made during
your
reflections create inroads, little openings into great avenues through which you
may better develop the perfected creature you seek to be.  I assure you that as
you inspire myself to generate further activities of this nature for you to
undertake you also inspire each other, for you reveal to one another how similar
your different lives actually are.
	In a way, to redirect values is to discover that ultimately all values
converge at the Supreme value of love, that by turning your awareness in that
direction, the many values that impact your life take on a clearer focus in
importance and usefulness.  Values only come into conflict when your position in
which you view them is turned away from the focal point of love.  Visually you
may think of it this way:  Imagine on the end of a pole many long streamers.  If
you were to look at these streamers blowing in turbulent air, from the point of
the pole these streamers would appear chaotic, fluttering around wildly in
disarray and even entanglement.  But when you look from away, you can see their
connection to the pole and that they often are blowing in the same direction;
they have a cohesive quality from an overview, from a stand back view.
	By reflecting as you have this week upon your assignment, you stood back
and looked upon your situations and perceived coherency, connectivity, with
various events.  They all had a meaningful involvement with the assignment. 
Again I restate that this is a morontia approach.  This is that extra vision
that
morontia awareness provides as you live even through seemingly mundane
events.  I
acknowledge your efforts and give you all good grades.
	Sarah:  Can you tell us where to even start on this?  It's such a large
introspection.  Frankly, I would try to do the whole thing at once.  I need some
steps to begin to learn all this.  A lot of lessons came today just from our
conversation.  I'd like your input.  Should we go on with this next week?
*	Elyon:  You may be assured that our guidance will be available.   However,
I would also make it plain that our guidance is not manipulative.  We use
flexible training procedures.  By this I mean that your responses and your
contributions to our lessons create the following lessons.  Therefore, I have
really no outline, no fixed series of steps that we will undertake, for your
part
will uncover the methods for continuing.
	As you go through an assignment as last week's there are some applications
that may help you.  Your writing down what you perceive captures an impression
before its worth fades, before the mind discounts its value.  I would encourage
you to do this for the subsequent assignments.  Although I would discourage you
from becoming overly preoccupied with the significance of any event throughout
your days and becoming burdened with, in a sense, managing millions grains of
sand, all these activities of every second that transpires throughout your
day; I
also request that you do not discount prior to reflection an event with the
value
judgment of insignificance.  What I encourage is balance.  Let those insights
spring up before you; embrace them and reflect upon them without either becoming
overly obsessed with dredging them up or discounting them as insignificant.
	The practice of sharing them as you have today is where the results of
these assignments become implaced within you and create the changes.
Throughout
the week you are discovering; in your meeting you are realizing.  And the third
element of this process, the week that follows you will discover that you are
applying.
	Perhaps this has helped you, though I would enjoy your feedback.
	Sarah:  You have made it perfectly clear to me.  Maybe someone else has
questions.
	Tom:  I was reading in the UB where it says that "Fear is a master
intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving immortal soul."   What do they
mean by practice, and who is doing the practicing?
*	Elyon:  The practitioner is the mind of the individual.  We spoke of levels
of being a few weeks back.  This practice is inflicted by the lower dimension. 
It is intellectual, for it is contrived; it is constructed by the mind in order
to build a defense or a case meant to uphold a bias, a prejudice, or a
judgment. 
It is an attempt to give soundness to an unfounded reality, to provide substance
where there is none.
	Fear precedes experience, or perhaps better said it is a reflection of lack
of experience.  The evolving morontia soul is experience.  When the intellect
does not understand, has no experience to draw from, it uses fear to create its
own sense of ability, giving it an empty sense of assurance that it is
capable of
grappling with the problem, often leading to avoidance or a disastrous
solution. 
The evolving soul then must await another experience potential and must at times
endure this fraudulent value derived from the fear that restrains the process of
growth.
	Does this provide insights?
	Tom:  I'll have to review that, but there were spots of that that made
sense to me.  How does love fit in?  Is the object for love to replace fear?
*	Elyon:  Yes, for as our greatest teacher Michael has taught us all that we
ought to trust like a child the guidance of the Father, love is the fatherly
quality of soul experience.  Trusting love propels the soul into the arms of the
divine Parent, where fear will cause a cowering and distrust.
	To return a moment to the question about this lesson plan, your
assignments, this early stage can be thought of as like pouring out the many
pieces to a building block set and rolling them around, observing each one
without yet attempting to construct an edifice, being playful with the parts
that
make up an object, becoming familiar with their anatomy to better understand how
they may be interlocked and assembled.  You may approach your lessons this way,
and the question of fear as an intellectual fraud, the evolving soul becomes
exposed to life in this same manner.  It undergoes experience through
discovering
the building block pieces and creating an integrated, complete item from the
elements.
	Fear can intercede and cause feelings that it is impossible to construct
the edifice; it is not worthwhile to construct it, or the one you are
building is
the wrong one to be building in the first place.  The soul is an emerging
reality
that is meant to be unique, and no one soul can be constructed wrongly.  It is
the result of successful spiritual attainment.
	Tom:  Thank you.
*	Elyon (Sarah):  This is Elyon.
	Your assignment this week gave each of you insights to be reckoned with or
to say they are just okay the way they are.  This is meant to be a light, happy
experience.  The way the lesson was done with you today was perfect.  You
learned
a lot; you shared a lot.
	Let me say that you can't bring up old feelings all at once.  I don't mean
to send you into depressions because you have too much to work with.  There
is no
one way, "why did I do that?" or why anything.  Just tiptoe into it, and
remember
that you are your own person, and you can do it or not do it as you please.  One
reason we are doing this now is because we have a small group.  [There were four
of us.]  It wouldn't be too easy for you to talk about self if there were eight
or ten people there.  I think you need to do this, and your life will be much
happier when you know why you feel and do the things you do.  It looks really
good to me.  Do you mind if I take the assignment every week, too?
	[Group laughs]
	We've been talking of the evolving of the soul.  To strengthen the soul in
life brings it much stronger.  Therefore, the strong personality will
evolve.  It
is really hard for you to understand.  We are always saying you cannot see the
big picture.  It would be fun to take you on a field trip.  However, my
associates say that wouldn't be a good thing for me to do.  They would call it
malpractice.  Do the lessons or don't do the lessons, whatever makes you feel
best.  If it is okay you can take a few more steps this week and share next
weekend. 
	I am real proud of you.  You are my students and I love you always. 
	Group:  Thank you.
*	Machiventa (Jonathan):  This is Machiventa.  I want you to continue with
this current focus, but I would like to add one element to enhance your
pursuit. 
That is, seek to discover or to place, if it is absent, structure to your
ideals. 
Just as values may be redirected -- and you have witnessed in your week and in
your discussion how events take on new meanings when the values are
reassessed --
ideals are a source of great hope, but they likewise can be a source of great
frustration.  The defeated idealist is a sad example of that frustration.  By
structuring, in a way categorizing, an ideal, some of this frustration and
disappointment or disillusionment can be avoided.  For instance, your lives have
multiple arenas: the workplace, the home, your recreational life, your social
life.  Each compartment holds a series of ideals and values.  When engaged
in one
arena pursue those values and those ideals of that arena.  Greater contentment
will be experienced.
	How many times have you felt, as you head off to work, that the ideal event
of the day would be to undertake something completely unrelated to work?  You
then show up to work already unhappy.  Instead, focus toward the project that is
in your sequence of time and bring forward to your mind the ideals and the
values
that are involved in that arena.  You will then enjoy  your process without the
conflict of other equally worthwhile values or ideals.
	We greatly look forward to your feedback next meeting.  Thank you.
	Tom:  When you speak of adding structure to an ideal, say honesty, and we
choose the work arena.  Is that what you are talking about?  How you can apply
that one ideal in that specific situation, for example?
*	Machiventa:  Yes.  Also, in the overall of your life you seek perfection,
but you also realize in the material world many things will not ever become
perfected because the planet itself is not in the condition where that
perfection
can become realized.  So you need to establish an ideal which is practically
adapted to the conditions.
	Let us look at honesty.  This is an ideal.  Now if you were an undercover
agent that ideal would take on different shading than would that same honesty if
you were clergy.  Does this illustrate how one ideal can be differentially
applied?
	Tom:  We're not to take all the ideals we know but just a couple and focus.
*	Machiventa:  This would be more manageable.  Seven days is rather short.
	One last note:  Differentiate between an ideal that is philosophical in
nature and ideal as it is often considered in the realm of desire and want.
	I take my leave.