[tmtranscripts] Elyon/Tomas Group 11/5/00

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Achievement, Questions
Teachers: Elyon, Merriam

November 5, 2000

*	Elyon (Mark):  I greet you today, this is your associate Elyon.  Today I
would speak on achievement.
	As you know, to achieve something is to master it, to attain it by your own
efforts.  It is not something granted to you as much as it is something you have
worked towards and through your efforts you have gained a control over, a
mastery
of.  Your lives are filled with all manner of achievements.  You have achieved
adulthood; you have achieved material possessions to surround you.  You have
gained these through your own efforts, and these, as well as many others, are
your tangible results of these efforts. You achieve the mountaintop through your
physical efforts, and the vista you view at the top is your achievement.  It is
your reward for having pursued this goal to its completion.  Once having
achieved
this success, you then possess this as an achievement as part of your
composition, your resume, in this life.
	We all now can agree that no achievement is made without prerequisite
effort.  I would go so far as to add that all effort meets with certain success,
certain achievement.  The end result may not be the original desire of pursuit,
but the pursuit provides you with the achievement of its own description. 
Spiritual effort when expended also meets with certain achievements once you
have
put in the required effort you then possess the achievement from that effort. 
Spiritually you build one success upon another.  Each one adds to your resume,
your foundation, upon which more achievements may be assembled.
	It is right and good for you to occasionally take stock of where you were
and where you are and even where you may be going, to see this as a progressive
movement through effort to success.
	You are also aware that larger accomplishments require larger efforts, but
the fruits may be sweeter.  Your success at long term efforts is all the more
satisfying when you reflect on all the effort that was required to arrive at
that
success point.
	 I suggest as an exercise for you to count the achievements: tally up the
efforts, the successes, the rewards; the ambitions of future undertakings, the
expectations.  Take stock of this ever-flowing pattern.  At once you are resting
on the foundations of many previous achievements while at the same instance you
are providing the required effort for future accomplishments to be yours.  In
this cyclical pattern it is helpful to step outside and view it as a pattern,
cyclical, and see where you fit in.  Note what you have accuired and the effort
you still offer.  Grow to expect that this effort now in cycle will come to
completion as will your achievements.
	I will call this good for now and withdraw to allow for others.

	Evelyn:  I would like to add the suggestion that we note others'
achievements.   
*	Elyon: Good suggestion in that support for each other is one of the most
powerful tools to provide ample arena for your fellows to feel adequate to
flower.
  
*	Merriam (Gerdean):  This is Merriam, glad to be here with you, to embrace
you, to be a part of our circle of friends.
	The idea of achievement is one which enables you to access your capacity to
consider yourself as a child or as an adult and calls to mind the need for
balance.  While you are urged to put away childish things and grow into
spiritual
adulthood, you are also encouraged to remain a child in your faith, always open
to future learning.  Adulthood is a lure, on the one hand, because of the
acknowledgment to the self that one has gained sufficient self mastery, insight,
appreciation of the fruits of the spirit, and so forth, to feel effective and a
part of a growing global community from the vantage point of the spirit and the
flesh.  You feel like a contributing member of your society whether it is a
material society or a spiritual society.  It also brings with it a sense of
responsibility, a knowledge that the courage to clarify advancing perfection is
an opportunity for you to embrace as a service or as an adventure in, not only
your career, but in the eternal career of your fellows.  Engaging in mindful
intercourse in the many arenas provided gives you an opportunity to exercise
your
skills, your accomplishments, in such a way as to prevent stagnation in yourself
and others and to enjoy the stimuli that comes through associations, a mutual
stimulation of the imagination as well as the energetic charge coming from the
exponential aspect of community.  In particular it entails a recognition of your
individual voice in matters that concern the masses, the whole of mankind, many
of whom have made great material and educational advancements but remain
spiritually unaware, ineffectual.
	So you recognize a responsibility in being that might daunt the timid soul. 
Be advised that your inspirations come from on high and your "callings" are
heard
from that still, small voice within.  Thus, when you are called to active
duty in
the arena of humanity, you are also provided the materials, the rations, the
backpack, and the uniform that will enable you to fulfill your assignment,
rendering another and mature accomplishment in the advancing tide of humanity
toward Light and Life.  That too is your reward, for that is your great
accomplishment individually and communally, that you in your recognition of our
Father have embraced Him and your fellows as brothers and sisters.  Your
individual worlds are illuminated, but this accomplishment, while being realized
for you, is still only potential for many.  As you assess your accomplishments
also look you well to our goals of introducing our Father and His ways and
mercies into the hearts of those who remain ignorant of His blessings, His
personal hand in yours.  Even while you grasp your responsibilities and
recognize
maturity and assess your accomplishments, remember your childlike nature that
allows you to err, that allows for laughter, that appreciates rejoicing, that
embraces goodness, beauty, and truth as its greatest happiness.
	Thank you.

	Jonathan:  Gloria asked me to ask:  She feels she is communicating with her
parents in some subconscious way.  She doesn't think her parents are aware
of it. 
It's helping her a lot in terms of working through issues.  She would like
confirmation or advice.
*	Merriam:  The mental construct of the human being likes to categorize these
things, you see; the nebulous "spirit" is good up to a point, but the
cooperative
effort between a material being and a spiritual reality will sooner or later
require a mental construct upon which a human can base his or her understanding
of what is going on in their own inner growth.  If in this situation the parents
are understood to be unaware of the contact, that is an indication that the
energy, the growth, is all taking place in Frosty.  However, the spirits, the
Indwelling Adjusters, of the parents are certainly at liberty to make contact
with the God Fragment of Frosty and communicate freely and openly.  Thus there
are possible exchanges, but they are going to be prompted by the yeast in
the mix
that is Frosty.  Her bread is being kneaded, and she will rise to a new level of
solid appreciation of what she has gotten from her parents because of the
interceding efforts of the Father Fragments getting the appropriate conditions
for soul growth.
	There is a tendency for you who are involved in matters of personal
correction to look upon your histories as if they were a black background upon
which a few white experiences are displayed.  In truth, if you bring an eye for
truth, you will find that much of your human experience has been a quality
experience providing a solid foundation.  However, the assaults and insults of
imperfection have bruised the perception such that it cannot be seen that
life is
essentially an experience of a light background with occasional dark spots. 
Always will you find the Father involved in creative healing, in all dimensions
of healing.  As a creator, it is my personal guarantee that He will and can
create any manner of interpretations and implements in order for you to feel His
presence and know His love.
	Are there other questions?

	Ginny:  My parents have passed on.  Can we "heal" a relationship with our
parents at some point, one on one?
*	Merriam:  Indeed.  I will recall to your minds a conversation prior to our
addressing you today having to do with time.  In Paradise there is no time.
Even
in the prepersonal Adjusters there is an ability to function on levels that cut
through time and space as you perceive your experience.  You may certainly begin
now to clarify your mind as to your human experience, all the while letting
go of
those more animalistic behaviors and responses while becoming more spiritual in
outlook.  It is your morontia career you embark upon when you allow yourself to
experience these corrective steps.  Since your parents have preceded you and
have
been ministered to by divine companions, they will also have sought greater
reality with that which they have not been able to know until now.  So, their
hearts are open as yours is becoming.   You are able to heal even as you indwell
two different worlds.  Yes.

	Mark:  I see Gloria as a spontaneous pioneer.  Was she experiencing "remote
viewing", viewing through the mind's eye?
*	Merriam:  It is almost a given in that situation in as much as our mutual
friend is "right-brained" almost exclusively.  She is very psychic and able to
envision, a courageous adventurer in realms of spirit advancement.  She no doubt
is able to envision these people, thus making the experience even more real and
more effective.  It gets into the emotional responses deeper when you feelingly
experience the exchange as compared to a mere intellectual, "left-brained"
appreciation of the circumstances and an academic understanding of what
forgiveness would be.
	Mark:  Thank you, I appreciate your responses about that.
*	Merriam:  Please understand that my putting left brain and right brain in
quotes is a gross over simplification of complex theories.

	Ginny:  On the subject of remote viewing as cited in the media, is that the
work of the Adjusters?
*	Merriam:  It is not.  It can be a situation that lends itself to
impressions by the Thought Adjuster in as much as it will work tirelessly
for its
mortal associate.  There are other aspects of divinity that may take an interest
in the advancing reality because it indicates other elements of a greater
reality
besides personality.  You are looking at, acknowledging, universe reality
outside
of the constraints of the human body.  Out-of-body experience is one which takes
place in the mind, and the mind ...(on the mansion worlds)... these kinds of
experiences are engaged in.  Much of it will depend upon the current capacity of
the participant to engage in a meaningful spiritual exchange or a meaningful
mental construct.  But the potential is certainly there for the spirit to
stimulate a greater impetus to grow beyond "the box".