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---------- From: "rickgiles" <rickgiles@abcinet.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 <BR>
22:53:40 -0800 To: rickgiles@abcinet.net Bcc: (Suppressed) Subject: N. Idaho <BR>
TeaM 01/18/09<BR>
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N</B>orth Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Change, Joining Our Identity, <BR>
Light. Teachers: Monjoronson, Lantarnek, Light, Elyon.<BR>
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January 18, 2009<BR>
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* Monjoronson (Mark TR): Greetings, I am Monjoronson here to join the <BR>
stream of your conversation. I would like to play with one of the concepts <BR>
offered here today, this idea of building a better world.<BR>
<BR>
It is a common desire among the brotherhood of man right now to see some <BR>
change, even to make some change happen, and there is great consideration <BR>
given at this time as to what exactly it is one should or could do to <BR>
facilitate this change, to promote this change, indeed to build this change <BR>
that they would see or have. I would remind you that much of the <BR>
foundation, much of the groundwork, necessary for such change to occur is <BR>
done within, that is, you may use your own individual intentions to build <BR>
such a foundation, to create such a framework, to prepare the grounds, for <BR>
this more material aspect of the building of the future which surely will <BR>
follow.<BR>
<BR>
Before there must be this material change there must be this individual <BR>
change, this preparing of the changers in advance, and that is purely a <BR>
personal and individual undertaking, for when you have been transformed <BR>
within it is easy to be about the task of transforming your environment <BR>
without to reflect the changes you have already encountered within. So <BR>
there is a definite time and place for both the inner preparatory activities <BR>
preparing the self to expand and change and grow and as well there is <BR>
certainly the external opportunity to be in action in that form of service <BR>
that is suitable to the material realm.<BR>
<BR>
So it is with your planet. These changes you see in your ideal minds may <BR>
not be outwardly imposed upon others by virtue of mandates, rules, or laws. <BR>
They must come from within, even from the collective within, before they <BR>
will be embraced, taken up, and made real in the lives of the collective. <BR>
So while you consider all there is to be done in this future of making <BR>
change, creating change, building change, then consider that there is <BR>
homework to be done in advance so that the material manifestations of change <BR>
may flow smoothly from the changes that have occurred individually within. <BR>
Oftentimes it may not appear as though the two may be related, one appears <BR>
to be so self oriented, even self centered. But having spent the time and <BR>
discipline in the preparation, one may transform this preparation into the <BR>
material manifestation of all that the homework doing has made possible.<BR>
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I thank you for the opportunity to join your thought stream today once <BR>
again. It is always a pleasure to commingle our thoughts, one of the forms <BR>
of our manifestation together, just as we mingle our energy signatures, our <BR>
personal presences together. I now step back to allow this forum to be used <BR>
by others. Thank you.<BR>
<BR>
Kathy: Earlier when we were thinking about health and healing for our world <BR>
I had a picture of our world with a small flame of light and arrows coming <BR>
from every direction toward it bringing in spiritual pressure on our world <BR>
and this came to mind: “We are one. Health and healing for our world.” <BR>
Then the phrase came to me, “We are the ones.”<BR>
<BR>
* Lantarnek (Jonathan): Lantarnek in attendance today. I salute you all. <BR>
I will speak of joining our identity by use of the word “belonging”.<BR>
<BR>
When you are in search of the spiritual family you are in longing to make <BR>
the connection, to join the fellowship. Once you have identified yourself <BR>
as a child of God, then you come to the state of belonging as in a <BR>
membership. However, that word “membership” implies the ability to <BR>
withdraw, to cease belonging. Those who have truly established their faith <BR>
cross a boundary line from which there is no return, and that belonging is <BR>
now of infinite duration. This is a faith that is fully assured, that is <BR>
settled in its status.<BR>
<BR>
But you know that while you have reached that level, your growth has not <BR>
ceased, for that matter, it may have intensified in your grasp of higher <BR>
realities. It may even have brought you tribulation as you wrestle with the <BR>
great truths of the spiritual kingdom. But you have with you a persistence, <BR>
for you know beyond doubt that a regress to former states is no longer an <BR>
option.<BR>
<BR>
You have another word: “Beware”. It is often used as in “be wary”, but I <BR>
offer to you the interpretation, “Be aware”. You know that to practice <BR>
swimming you must swim, that the practice is the act itself. As you seek to <BR>
become more aware as a spiritual conscious citizen of this planet, simply be <BR>
aware. There will be no time at which you attain awareness. As in <BR>
swimming, just swim.<BR>
<BR>
Those who function on this planet with an active spiritual consciousness <BR>
are always looking with an eye for service and the spread of love and the <BR>
elevation of other souls to that state of belonging and being aware. Some <BR>
may ask, “But how do I attain this state of certainty and perspective?” I <BR>
will use another word, “behave”. While the gifts of the kingdom of God are <BR>
freely given, they must also be accepted, taken in, and owned. There is <BR>
where your work upon your own being is focused, in the having of the <BR>
qualities of a being of spiritual light, to take that which you perceive as <BR>
a character trait of value and remove it from being an outward goal to being <BR>
an inward attainment. Just like the practice of swimming, you will practice <BR>
behaving until you be- have. You may not know the moment when you have <BR>
switched from the effort to achieve to the achievement, but the mere act <BR>
itself will bring about the reality.<BR>
<BR>
There are many aspirants who diligently strive for higher levels of spirit <BR>
being, of presence, of consciousness, and they work diligently that they may <BR>
attain and recognize that goal. There comes a time when one of such <BR>
undertakings must acknowledge attainment and accept the understanding. That <BR>
is the true belonging. There are others who are flooded with an intense <BR>
spiritual illumination and feel that they have been propelled into the <BR>
family of God instantaneously but struggle with the change of character and <BR>
the readaptation of lifestyle. This is the effort of behaving, not to <BR>
conform but to become.<BR>
<BR>
All your religions emphasize paying attention to your spiritual dimension, <BR>
to the universal truths revealed and reexpressed in many forms that will <BR>
assist you in your unfoldment. This is why we emphasize intention, for it <BR>
focuses the mind with purpose and wakes you up to the greater context of all <BR>
your efforts and actions.<BR>
<BR>
To bring greater peace in this world all peoples will eventually attain the <BR>
state of belonging, and the tendency to confront and challenge one another <BR>
will cease to be warlike and will transform itself into cooperative, <BR>
constructive solutions. Peace upon your planet is not to be everyone just <BR>
like one another and therefore we are happy. It is a beautiful balance of <BR>
contrasts in harmony in a loving, supportive association, as the image of <BR>
the praying hands.<BR>
<BR>
I make way for others. Thank you for your attention.<BR>
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* Light (Mark): And I make my way into this arena, I am Light here to work <BR>
once again a little bit more with the theme of light.<BR>
<BR>
You were offered the image of seeing your world with a small flame, a small <BR>
light that has been ignited. In this season of creating warmth for <BR>
yourselves, many of you can very well relate to the idea and the imagery of <BR>
lighting a fire and how in the beginning stages it starts small and then <BR>
fuel is added. You have all had the experience of expressing your intention <BR>
to this material creation of fire that it be accelerated, and so you have <BR>
used your vehicle and taken in a deep breath and focused your mouth to blow <BR>
out this breath with your intention onto the coals that are igniting this <BR>
fire. <BR>
<BR>
As a result you have witnessed the fire has been accelerated; the <BR>
coals have been fanned by this intention of your being, and the elements <BR>
necessary for this fire to burn have been altered by your very intention to <BR>
add your own contribution to this equation of oxygen and fuel and flame. <BR>
Right before your eyes this fire which would of its normal accord grow at <BR>
its own rate has been accelerated by your desire that it be so and the <BR>
application of your intention through your vehicle to make it so.<BR>
<BR>
The process in seeing your world accelerated in this process of fueling <BR>
these divine flames is very similar. It is quite possible for you to fan <BR>
these flames with the very same intention and purpose that you would use in <BR>
your material experience, to simply focus your being and channel the <BR>
energies that you have command over and direct that each breath taken is a <BR>
breath you intend to fan the flames of spiritual growth and awareness on <BR>
your world. See this imagery in your mind’s eye and that you do indeed have <BR>
a direct impact when you approach this situation with this intention and <BR>
with this purpose to effect change.<BR>
<BR>
So it is that you may be a powerful force for the acceleration of what is a <BR>
natural process by your very act of desiring to use yourself as a vehicle to <BR>
cause this acceleration. Rally your intention and project it forward even <BR>
with the breath even as you would to the coals. This intention will <BR>
certainly fan the flames that you envision and that you can even feel the <BR>
warmth and the glow of in the process.<BR>
<BR>
One more chance to use light and to use the principle that you are already <BR>
keenly aware of in the application and direction that your own physical <BR>
being is suited to direct. I am grateful as well for this opportunity to <BR>
approach you with another image of light. Farewell and may your week be <BR>
filled with light, love, and joy.<BR>
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* Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon inspired by Light’s address to you I <BR>
offer also an image. You are aware of Jesus saying that when you light a <BR>
lamp you do not put it under a basket but set it on a lamppost that the <BR>
light may be freely spread. I will offer another tack to this image.<BR>
<BR>
You are aware that there are things about you, so to speak, states of being, <BR>
mannerisms, traits some of which you are able to adjust and modify or <BR>
eliminate or those of which you can adopt and become. But there are other <BR>
qualities that you will be frustrated with in not being able to alter, for <BR>
they are a strict condition of your being on the level of life experience in <BR>
which you are on this planet or by way of the biological configuration of <BR>
your body. So you are required to live with and adjust to these inflexible <BR>
conditions and qualities.<BR>
<BR>
Let us return to the lamp underneath the basket. May I call this stillness? <BR>
While you are under this basket, while you are feeling this caged-in <BR>
condition by some quality you wish to remove that your light might shine, <BR>
remember you can turn up the light, increase its luminosity to the point <BR>
that its brilliance can go through every crack, every opening, in that <BR>
basket, become so brilliant as to make the basket impossible to see. This is <BR>
how you may live with those things about you which you may never remove: by <BR>
turning up the light and obscuring it in the brilliance. Thank you.<BR>
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