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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">North Idaho Teaching
Mission Group</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">Topics: New Spiritual
Institutions, Individual Empowerment</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">Teachers: Elyon</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">June 12, 2005</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon
(Mark TR):  Greetings, this is Elyon.  ... into our
conversation I would seize on the comments made in regards those
youth who are seeking direction in their lives.  The example
that they provide for us is of great significance, for it
portrays the desire of all human beings to identify a direction
and to possess a purpose.  The human soul and mind desire to
have certainty about what direction to proceed and are willing
to readily adopt the direction provided by others, particularly
in larger institutions whose formulas are tried and proven, and
therefore the direction and purpose are well provided.  This
illustrates the need on this world for those to provide
alternative methods and directions and objectives to be
available and to be stirred into the mix so that there will be
options and choices provided where now there appear to be very
few.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Those
of us dealing in spiritual truths and universal
perspectives find it difficult at times to offer food for those
who are seeking new direction because many of the methods
currently employed by the existing religious frameworks are
proving to be unsatisfactory to this new generation of seekers.
We must formulate new patterns and approaches designed around
new ideals and our new universal perspective and provide these
alternatives to those who hunger for direction.  Our competition
of the established institutions is formidable because these
familiar institutions have as part of their attraction long
track records and cultural acceptance on their side, but they
are vastly becoming outmoded and are in need of replacement by
new institutions of even higher learning.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    While
we for a long time have been resistant to the idea of
becoming akin to the institutions we are familiar with,
nevertheless we must formulate a new ideal institution, one
which provides the same elements that individuals are seeking of
support and networking and methodology to aid all those who
would seek the new alternative institution of faith and spirit.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    The
desire of humans to be a part of a club or a clan or an
organization is great, albeit there is some mass discontent at
the current state of these fraternal organizations with their
exploitative natures, profit motives, and stifling agendas.  Our
new spiritual institutions will promote the individual seeker’s
identity within the context of universal acceptance and cosmic
principles.  When these other institutions no longer are seen to
provide for the needs of the masses they will turn away as they
have begun already to do from the churches and military, and
they will still be searching for the fraternity of belonging to
a group of individuals who will accept them, love them, support
them, and help them in their growth processes.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    We
are currently engaged in the formation of such schools
of thought, schools of behavior, schools of attitude.  Without
having set out to form such institutions they are being built as
a result of the collection of those individuals involved.  I
point to the formation of your Teaching Mission lists and
circles of your Urantia Book lists and circles.  These are
institutions of their own with their own sense of conditions,
and they attract to them those individuals seeking that set of
conditions that they feel meets their needs.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    So,
as we proceed in our efforts together among the many
circuits that we build together, I encourage you to hold some
perspective to the idea that we are creating a network, indeed,
an institution wherein others may find what we have found; we
are providing certain frameworks wherein we engage in this
pursuit, and we are accumulating our own track record of
success.  At some point we will begin to recognize the value of
the institution that we have built from the grassroots to where
we have arrived today and be willing to offer that which we have
come to build and come to know to others who will find it a
useful format for their spiritual growth and development as
well.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    These
conclude my remarks.  I welcome your comments and
interactions.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Evelyn: 
It is formidable to imagine creating an
organization on a par with the military, but I appreciate the
big picture.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Tom: 
The kids today who are getting out of school are
looking for ways to make a living right now.  Contrasted to
these large organizations, we are creating a series of small
organizations.  It’s right under our noses rather than so far
away.  Still, what do you do now to put bread in your mouth?
I’m sure kids in foreign countries with ailing economies have it
even tougher.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon: 
There has been a great shift on your world in
recent times wherein the population has determined that they
would rather give over their options and choices to another, be
it a corporation or an employer, rather than to take their own
personal responsibility for their welfare and their living, as
you call it.  Only a relatively short time ago when your young
country was in its infancy nearly all of the people were
employed by themselves and thereby took their own responsibility
for earning their livings.  While it is true that this approach
is often more difficult, it is also true for those individuals,
their destiny is in their own hands and under their own control.
A short time later we observe that this generation simply
desires to be employed, simply desires to let others make the
decisions for them, let others take the responsibility for their
livelihoods and then when those others betray this trust and
shut down the factories or modernize the equipment those who
have entrusted their livelihood to others feel helpless and
betrayed.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    This
is a recent phenomenon on this planet, this idea of
relinquishing responsibility for your livelihood to a select few
set of employers and then trusting that these employers will
have your best interests at heart.  It is a pendulum swinging to
the opposite extreme, and we are beginning to see the breakdown
of this extreme when the employers are few and the employees are
many.  This relinquishing of personal responsibility for your
livelihood must swing back in the other direction, and
individuals must be given more control over their own destinies,
must seize back the reins of control from those powerful
individuals who hold the destinies of others in their hands.  It
is putting too many eggs in one basket to assume that large
scale employers will take care of vast numbers of employees with
proper stewardship.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    This
scenario will further break down as the scope of the
picture is enlarged to include the massive numbers who would be
employed around the world.  No longer will there be enough jobs
to go around handled by few large conglomerates of employers.
We must encourage individuals to take control of their own
destinies and do what appears to be the harder job of taking
personal responsibility.  This shift will not be an easy one, as
generations have now gone since the days when your grandparents
knew this lifestyle and were familiar with this sense of
personal responsibility.  There is great danger in allowing your
livelihood to be entrusted to others that they will not fulfill
this trust either by choice or by factors outside of their
control.  Then we see large numbers of people’s lives disrupted
when the large employers break down.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Tom: 
Even in our text it warns of economic downsizing that
floods the market with workers.  It encourages to have more than
one pursuit, to arm yourself with a number of blue collar trades
to fall back on in times of crisis.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon: 
The issue really speaks to empowerment because this
generation feels as though their lives are determined by what
employers they may seek, and find that their very livelihoods
and existences would become governed by others who will dictate
to them what they will do, where they will do it, and for how
much they will do it.  This generation has lost sight of
individual empowerment, of the fact that each man was to work,
each man would eat.  Rather do they feel, “what do I have to do
to comply with my employer’s wishes so that I may eat?”</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    This
sense of empowerment can be helped and portrayed
through this avenue of spiritual institution we discussed
wherein individuals may find comfort and reassurance and indeed
empowerment in the realization that they are a cosmic citizen, a
son or daughter of God, and that as part of their birthright
they should be able to expect that if they work hard they should
be provided for.  These are basic tenets of cosmic citizenship
which has been overshadowed by corporate domination and
institutional guidelines.  These are the challenges of the times
we are in.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    If
there would be no further comments I would allow for the
consideration of the statements made herein today.  I know you
all consider the lessons and that they do impact your lives, and
this is a wonderful thing to perceive.  No teacher could ask for
anything more than such eager students as yourselves.  I
complement you on your growth processes.  I would take my leave.
Have a good week.  Farewell.</span></font></div>
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