[tmtranscripts] Pocatello Transcript 9-29-00

[Bill Kelly]

Pocatello TeaM

9-29-00

Opening prayer by Daniel(Bill): O great and marvelous Paradise Trinity,
present within us through your gracious ministries, we are still in our
minds and our souls to experience the wonder, grandeur and majesty of
reality infinity.  As we commune with each other in Spirit and touch the
soul of our brother and sister, may we rejoice in the immense beauty of
your plan to create all this diversity of personality that we may share.
Tonight, I pray, that all of us present may earnestly drink from the wells
of truth, beauty, and goodness, and in so doing follow closely in the steps
of Michael of Nebadon.  Amen.

Machiventa(Bill): Greetings, friends, this is Machiventa, your friend and
companion, as well as your Planetary Prince.  Many are the jobs which are
mine to do these days, for the Father has given me great latitude and joy
in my ministry here on this planet, this time around.  

Having lived in the flesh during my emergency mission I have a particular
advantage over the average, nay, practically all Planetary Princes who do
not understand mortality from an experiential base, as is true for any
experience, however studied or researched it may be.  Therefore I truly
enjoy getting down from my planetary headquarters in order to be with you
and the other groups on a regular basis.  I also believe that it does
facilitate the value of any schooling when the head master, principal,
curriculum director, whatever term you use, associates at the level of
classroom instruction, for not only is supervision improved but the "rubber
meets the road" value of the curriculum is more evident.  

You have many eager visitors and regular attenders in this session this
evening, who desire to have a moment or two to interact with you.  My
taking first place in this opening was not to foist my seniority upon the
others but was the result of our group consensus.  I will remain here for
the duration of this interaction, should there be any questions which you
wish to direct toward me.  Now, I present you with Larenzo.  One moment
please. [Ed. Note: Larenzo is Ken's personal teacher]

Larenzo(Bill): Hello my Dear friends, and Ken.  I am honored to be asked,
well, let us say to be allowed to take this spot on the docket.  I desired
to speak because of the nature of this foursome, two couples, where we are
more intimate and personal this evening.  I wish to be light, not heavy, to
convey profound respect  to my charge and the rest of you.  I wish to tell
you most sincerely that I love you like you were my little brothers and
sisters, for, indeed, you are on the spiritual level.  We, teachers, find
infinite pleasure in our assignments with you for even as you enjoy playing
with little children because of their sincere and diligent appreciation, so
do we derive much pleasure from your sincere efforts and willingness to let
us assist you with this mortal career.  I wish to briefly talk about
"spiritual listening".

Just as the hardening of the arteries in the nerve endings of the ear
produce a loss of hearing receptivity there is a similar mechanism in
spiritual hearing; but unlike physical hearing which cannot be improved
upon, except for artificial means, spiritual hearing is subject to
improvement.  Much of Urantia has been spiritually deaf.  This deafness
extends over the millenniums due to hardening of spiritual arteries as a
result of the original Liar, Lucifer and his cohorts.  You, however, have
all experienced the rejuvenation of the hearing which listens to the voice
which speaks within your soul, the voice of God.

The nourishment which you provide yourself by stillness, by reading
uplifting materials including the text itself, by prayer for your brothers
and sisters, by service, culminating in worship, has produced this
improvement and this ability which you all have to hear the Spirit.  The
Spirit speaks softly, not in thunder, not in earthquake, not in forest
fire, but in the deepest recesses of your souls, in the quiet humility or
adoration toward God, in the willingness to serve another person, at the
time when you deliberately turn away from self interest and concern to
another personality to give love and service.  You all hear the Spirit
whether you hear audible words.  The Spirit speaks at subliminal levels, in
feelings, in hunches, in urges, in nudges.  The Spirit sometimes speaks
audibly and desires to make that connection more and more often.

Therefor, my friends, continue to nourish the sources of your spiritual
hearing so that knowing what God desires, you can then make that choice,
which you even now make, to let that guidance take precedence over your own
wisdom.  I thank you for your attention, my friends, and that you all have
no need of a spiritual hearing aid.  Good evening.  (Laughter)

Alkon(Bill): I am Alkon! Good evening.  It has been a while since I have
communicated with this group although I somewhat regularly break through
Isaac's consciousness in order to assist him when he is struggling.  We
have this relationship, he and I, will his full consent.  I find it most
workable, for his Thought Adjuster and angels seek my assistance on
occasion when my words seem somehow to have more force in his mind than
others. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I have been whispering and
jabbering subliminally in his mind for many, many years.  

As Larenzo expressed, so I fully concur, that being a personal teacher to
several individuals is, indeed, my greatest pleasure these days.  I wish to
stress one point only and that is the reciprocal effect of being a personal
teacher in that I, also, learn as much as I teach.  You understand this, I
know, that any good teacher learns twice.  This is a Urantian saying which
is totally accurate.  

As you think about us, your teachers, and our relationships to you, don't
forget that we benefit also, just as much if not more, than you do.  The
lessons that we seek to express in words require us to search our own
experience in order to find examples to tie in connections with what we
teach.  The preparation of formal teaching to another individual, is, in
itself, a learning experience.  Well, none of this is new, I am sure, but I
wanted to bring it out one more time so that you would also be reminded of
this when you, as teachers, assist others in their learning.  

Yes, you are teachers.  We have talked about this more and more frequently.
 You are being given opportunities to make contact with interested persons
who really desire new information and opportunities for spiritual growth.
Our next speaker is Cora.  Just a moment.

Cora(Bill): I am Cora.  My greetings to you all, especially to my charge.
I have the deepest fondness and feelings of love right now as I reach my
morontia arms out to all of you.  I would pick you up, as you would pick up
a toddler, and place you on my knee, each of you, and let you know that you
are so beloved, you are so loved, not just but by me and other teachers,
but by the very essence and vibration of the Universe in its totality, for
the Universe in its totality is not merely material, but is ultimately
spiritual, is ultimately made up and derived from love.  

I wish to dwell for a moment on the importance of fellowship one with
another.  Every time you meet another person or persons that interaction is
absolutely unique, the content, the feeling tone, the level of truth that
is shared, the love that is passed back and forth, the growth that occurs
from that intimacy of personal interaction.  You need human spiritual
fellowship; you need human physical contact, even as you need human
emotional reciprocity and even as you need intellectual stimulation from
each other.  You need it and I say it is not optional!

I commend you on, once again, taking the time and driving the distances to
meet with each other as frequently as you do.  This is a world where people
live intensely close to each other physically and yet are isolated from
each other emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually.  You, in this
world, have to choose your friends not based on physical proximity any
longer as it was in more primitive times but you have to choose your
friends based on your common interests and values.  As your values
eternalize and universalize, as they more and more approach the divinity of
Deity, your friendships will change and grow.  This life is just barely the
beginning, but even here you learn the value of embracing the diversity of
all personalities in the unity of  that wonderful mix.  My time has been
awarded me and I have completed my thoughts.  I thank you for your faith in
our personal reality and your trust in our wisdom as well as your
willingness to join us in the transformation of this planet.  Until I speak
with you again, good evening.

Loretta(Bill): Yes, this is Loretta and there is quite a crowd of us.  We
are not exactly pushing and shoving each other, but it is somewhat
difficult to sort out our individual vibrations and Isaac was feeling
confused.  Nevertheless, his words were faithfully transmitted and Cora
thanks him.  Now it is my turn [TR note: Isaac had expected Pat's personal
teacher to speak next  but went ahead with what he thought was an error in
TRing the name Cora anyway.  Cora is Marty's personal teacher and Marty was
not present]

I also want to express my real pleasure at having a chance to be here with
you four in this intimate setting.  I wish to deal with the subject of
"doubt and fear"...  (Loud comments, laughter, and agreement from Pat that
this is her "main subject".Another comment that it is going to be Bill's
main subject tonight as well.)...for this is a major problem for all of you
including the TR I am speaking through.

Without going into great lengths of elaborated commentary I will simply say
that both doubt and fear have an upside and a downside.  The upside is that
both serve as reality checks, they serve as filters for the incoming
information that enters your sensory and nervous systems.  Fear alerts you
to danger and doubt helps you to challenge falsehood and sophistries,
testing things with the proper instruments of veracity.  

The downside of fear is that it can become overly stimulated by
associations which are not in themselves dangerous so that a person over
appraises the danger of some situation, event, personal interaction,
thought, or even feeling and closes themselves off from the possibility of
the learning that embracing that event, situation, interaction, thought, or
feeling might give them.  The downside of doubt is similar for it also
closes off the possibility of growth by shutting the door on truth.  A
mutual downside of both fear and doubt together is the emotional drain on
one's energy system.  Fear is very demanding of energy and doubt drains
away the upliftment of faith and trust.  Both fear and doubt can also be
construed as defense mechanisms defending the ego from surrendering its
assumed sovereignty in the personality.  It can be a deception of the mind
to be locked into fear and doubt so that the mind does not understand that
the ego wants to take undue precedence over Spirit.  Always does the Spirit
within you bring forth and urge you toward faith and trust, love and hope,
joy and peace.

When you lie down on your beds of rest, when you go to sleep you
instinctively relax.  You do not think, "What if this bed were to collapse;
what if the floor gives way and the bed goes crashing down to the basement;
what if the springs break and puncture through the surface of the mattress
impaling me in the back?"  None of these kinds of thoughts go through your
mind, although one could make a case for the possibility of such improbable
events occurring.  No, instead, you all lie down securely, trusting that
the bed will hold you up, that the floor will withstand the ravages of time
and not collapse and that your rest will be satisfying.  What I suggest is
that in like manner rest your soul in the loving arms of God, the Father
within you, the Mother around you and all of the agencies that the universe
gives you that demonstrate and effect God's care and love.  When you thus
respond to the clamoring of fear and the shuddering of doubt with a
determination to turn to God within, you will gain the balance that will
make it possible for you to dethrone the ego and put it in its proper
place, not as an enemy, but as an ally under the guidance of Spirit.  

My time also is over for we want to allow one more speaker and then some
time for you to respond.  Our next speaker is Klarixiska.  One moment please.

Klarixiska(Bill): I am Klarixiska.  Oh, faithful friend, you wanted to hear
me through the mind of another.

Virginia: You are correct.

Klarixiska: I have granted your request with Isaac's willingness.  My words
are to you all, however, for I get plenty of time with Virginia to give her
my daily instruction, my two cents worth.  I wish to talk just very briefly
on "spiritual vision".

As well as listening for the voice of the Spirit it is important to see the
beauty which is inherent in all creation.  This beauty sometimes is in form
and function, the very makeup of nature itself in the grandeur of the
mountains, the intricate delicacy of the plant life of flowers, trees; the
grace and strength of animals; the blending together of all of this into
the mosaic of praise to the Creator Son and Creative Daughter for bringing
into existence such masterful attempts at reproducing Paradise beauty and
Havona grandeur.

But the spiritual vision of beauty is not limited to nature.  There is
beauty that approaches the morontia realm which is in art, music, poetry
and oratory, but most of all in your interpersonal relationships with each
other.  To reach out to another without judgment but in full appreciation
of your kinship and of the uniqueness and creativity of each individual is,
indeed, to celebrate the highest kind of beauty. It is because the First
Source and Center desired to share with others that He and His Cohorts
decided to create the experiential realms so that what They have done
perfectly from eternity could be experienced in time and shared in
co-creativity with every other personality.  This amazing love, this
amazing experience is ours and these kinds of gatherings are times when the
intensity and power of this sharing becomes more tangible.

The less the barriers that protect you from others, the more the
interaction can occur.  That is why, on a physical level, a hug is as
intense an interaction as you can have between two personalities.  But this
sharing can be just as intense emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually
as is a physical expression through a hug.  In this experience of sharing
with another there is also at the same time a spiritual seeing of the
beauty of the other person and the beauty of the group as a configuration
of four unique creative personalities.  

If you could see what you can only dimly sense now, you would realize that
you are like the center of a flower and around you on all sides are more
and more petals.  You are the center of this and we are surrounding you,
many, many celestials.  Beyond our borders is the whole vast universe of
created and creative beings.  Hold this reality in your minds as you go
forth from this meeting this evening.

My time is also completed.  One moment please.

Virginia: Thank you, Klarixiska.  Thank you, Bill.

Daniel(Bill): I am Daniel.  Yes, our teachers have been most profound, most
joyful to speak so long and consequently we are past our usual time frame.
However, having promised you that you could ask questions and having
Machiventa present, I will request that Isaac allow us to continue this
meeting.  I will give him a few extra bucks for the effort. (Laughter)

My friends, we will not take a long period, but I will open this floor to
any burning questions or comments.

Ken: Comment.

Thank you for all those present that spoke this evening and all those in
attendance, the love that they shower upon us.  Thank you, Machiventa, for
that lesson as Head Master coming down and touching and showing us a
relationship.  Thank you very much for that love.

Daniel: In behalf of everyone else I, Daniel, will say your appreciation,
Ken, is noted and we also thank you for your willingness to, week after
week, come to these session, host them as you need to, do your recording
part and make your thoughtful comments.  

Ken: Well, I'm retired now and I have nothing else to do. It is my pleasure.

Virginia: Daniel, I do want to just say that I appreciate so much the
visual pictures that Klarixiska gives and the picture of the celestial
petals surrounding us was just so very beautiful.  I appreciate so much her
topic.  She often talks on that, and I do thank you.

Daniel: You are welcome, Virginia.  Klarixiska wishes to convey to you her
thanks for your willingness to spend so much time with her and share that
time also with Isaac.  It has a significant impact on the quality of your
lives together.

Virginia: Thank you, Daniel.  I know it does.  It has been improved since
the Teaching Mission.  Thank you.

Daniel: Are there other questions or comments?

Very well, my friends, once again my personal thanks as your long time
teacher, that you have found this of such benefit that you prioritize this
time.  You are fortunate that your lives have reached that degree of
maturity where much of the busyness of younger years is behind you.
However, there is lots of work for us all to do so know that retirement, as
such, is really a change of venue.  As you will discover, we will have
plenty of things which we will request of you, if you are willing to take
on more assignments.

Ken: I'm willing.  Fire away.

Daniel: Very well, Ken.  Keep your ears open.  I predict you will find our
friend, George Barnard, to be most stimulating.

Ken: Thank you.

Daniel: And now, let us all stand and join hands once again.  Klarixiska
wishes you, Virginia, to TR her prayer, if you are so willing.

Virginia: Yes, I will try to do that.

Klarixiska(Virginia): Father, Creator of all that is, Source of all beauty,
truth, and goodness, we would ask that our eyes might be opened for those
three things this week as we walk, as we relate, as we do that which has to
be done, both in the visible world and in the unseen word.  May the petals
that I described tonight be felt as their support as they go about to serve
their brothers and sisters and serve our Creator Mother/Father of Nebadon.
May truth be expressed through their lips, may beauty be seen by their
eyes, and may goodness be behind the motives of their hearts.  We pray this
in the name of all that is, a universe of love.  Amen.