[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 9/8/02

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Involution, Stillness
Teachers: Lantarnek

September 8, 2002

*	Lantarnek (Jonathan TR):  I greet you, this is 
Lantarnek, happy to be visiting again, happy to be about the 
work of our Sovereign Son.
	You are quite aware of and sensitive to the effects of 
time, for you have been engaged in this unfoldment of time for 
awhile and have enough background history to look back upon 
and perceive the unfoldment that occurs as time transpires.  
You have now with this history gained a better perspective of 
what the future entails, for you have the accumulation of 
wisdom derived by witnessing patterns. These patterns are not 
perceivable to one who has no time legacy.  It is apparent 
that you grow as a result of perpetuating pattern 
establishment, not the stagnation of pattern repetition but 
the kaleidoscopic effect of pattern change.  At each point in 
your progress as an evolving soul it is revealed the matrix of 
your being, and that entails not only your accumulated 
experience, but those grace bestowed gifts, talents, and 
intelligences that are in you, upon you, and with you.  All of 
this evolutionary process entails that necessary time 
interval.
	I witness your sensitivity to your effectiveness in this 
life for the master.  You are sensitive to efficiency 
appropriateness and fully value the impact of what you do as a 
minister of light, as a child of the loving Father.  You are 
also motivated to continue to grow, and it is good to perceive 
that in yourself.  I am able to monitor your soul ascension.  
It is a quality of a melchizedek to do so, for as teachers in 
the Nebadon schools we must be capable of assessing your 
degree of ascension, not only as you stand but the rate at 
which you rise.  To perceive students like yourselves who are 
consciously applying yourselves to spiritual unfoldment is a 
delight.
	Evolution is one of the most miraculous occurrences that 
we all are witnessing and directly participating in.  But my 
point today is not to further describe this process, for we 
will continue our development of insight into Supremacy as we 
further our lessons.  Today I wish to speak instead of 
evolution upon involution.
	Evolutionarily you witness one thing rising out of 
another, be it the adaptation and adjustment of species, be it 
the development of skill, be it the refinement of invention; 
everything in life is one thing springing from another, not 
just in alteration but developmentally.  When I use the word 
involution I am speaking not of that continual springing 
forward from something prior; I am speaking of that eternal 
Divine Presence.  The “search for God” as a phrase in reality 
is the quest for the revelation of the Father through you, for 
there is no place to search.  Evolutionarily we each are in 
the process of revealing God, and that is who you know as the 
Supreme Being.  However, aside from, apart from, time 
altogether is the divine Presence.  You have that very 
Presence within.  I would break some rule here to state that, 
though we encourage stillness as a prime activity in this 
Correcting Time mission, it is better to say that  rather than 
seek the stillness it’s better to think of it as being in the 
stillness which is already present at the core of your being.
	The arrival of the divine Indwelling Spirit provided you 
with everything that can be represented in the dimensions of 
eternity and infinity and absoluteness qualified by the fact 
that your time/space constraints diminish your ability to see 
its entirety.  Yes, we will step by step evolve the Supreme, 
but we do not need to step by step discover the Father.  It’s 
instantaneous.  It already is from the divine side a meeting.  
The evolutionary mind struggles with making connection, for 
that is again time oriented.  If you can set aside the feeling 
of reaching in to the Father and more appropriately just feel 
the Father, you would be over your first hurdle, and that 
would the be the removal of the element of time which 
continually tends to cause a sense of separation.  This gives 
some explanation to your prior teachings that liberalize the 
amount of time required to practice stillness.  When you know 
deeply you are already in connection with the Divine Presence, 
stillness simply is.
	In the experience of divine contact there is to be 
discovered and withdrawn all the energy and power and 
motivation you need to be about the unfoldment of God through 
time and space.  The discovery in your personality of reality-
ness, your own discreet being, this is the greatest gift any 
one of us can make to the Father.  It is our passion as 
creatures to discover the Father.  It is the Father’s pleasure 
to discover the child and to see the replication of all that 
is God in a discreet, other-than personality.
	You are, as I note, keenly aware of your frailties and 
faults, your quirks and shortcomings, and you know with a true 
humility how foolish it would appear to state that you could 
absolutely replicate God.  That is not what the Father seeks, 
for that is not the feat He wishes to perform in this medium 
of time, for He already is Himself, and He has already 
replicated Himself in the Eternal Son.  What He desires in the 
divine passion is for your unique, discreet, and aware 
replication of Godliness defined in your being, not conformed 
to a standard.  It is difficult to present this idea, for it 
is paradoxical in nature.  How do you acquire a divinity 
status if you do not define the divine nature based on the 
qualities of God?  How do you stand discreetly divine if you 
do not in some way approximate or attain God?  My friends, the 
secret is in the divine gift that dwells within you.  The 
Father has already seen to it to bestow within you that divine 
distinction.  The Father Fragment is its own entity even 
though it is God.  Each of you has one that is other than the 
other’s.  All the while it is the Father.  You will evolve to 
be a brilliant spirit being, and it is this Divine Fragment 
that will cement all the variability, all the variety of your 
experience, into that single revelation of Creator and 
creature.  If you have God involved in your life you will be 
successful as you spiritually evolve through life.
	I have finished my remarks.  I am with you.  Others are 
also in attendance.

	Tom:  We are working with stillness which is a time 
experience of understanding the Father.  It takes a certain 
amount of time to achieve that state.  Could you give an 
example of how we might achieve that state, like in a sunset, 
or walking in the woods, or in an act of kindness.  Is this 
what you have in mind?

*	Lantarnek:  Yes, these are good examples, for they are 
illustrative of the fact that you can be engaged in any 
external activity, whether it is kneeling in prayer or jogging 
beside the road and still experience communion.  The 
discipline is the time factor; the experience of oneness with 
God is timeless.  I am aware of some of your traditions that 
speak of attainment by ceasing trying, and this is accurate as 
it addresses technique, for technique can interfere with 
simply experiencing the embrace.  However, you are, honestly 
speaking, time creatures, and time oriented techniques are 
beneficial.  But as you have noted that sunset, that ministry 
to another, can bring a connection that you recognize that 
seems to suddenly appear regardless of the context that 
stimulated it.
	I may illustrate an element of meditation that is 
helpful.  Practicing meditation can be compared to isometric 
exercise.  If you push your two palms together and with both 
arms forcefully push against each other, there is no movement; 
there is a lot of effort; energy is expended; not much appears 
to be accomplished.  Do you not feel that way in meditation?  
Lots of effort, no accomplishment.  When you release your 
hands, you feel relief.  At the release you are no stronger 
than you were when you began, but in repeated attempts 
strength is acquired.  In repeated stillness success is 
attained.  However, you acquire it not in the accumulation of 
the efforts; you already have that divine connection.  It is a 
matter of recognizing it.  When you recognize it, it will be 
much like when you discover that your exercise has brought you 
strength.  You no longer feel weak.  Your power has become 
your norm.  In stillness when you are able to experience the 
Divine presence anywhere, anywhen, that will be your norm, 
that will be your spiritual fitness.  Then you can dispense 
with your exercises to prepare, and you will commence with 
your practice of demonstration.  Your ministry will become 
more effective.  Your growth will hasten.
	Michael spoke of being reborn, and this is that rebirth.  
It was not understood by the one who asked him when he was on 
your world how to be reentered into the womb and reborn.  That 
which you seek to give birth to is the presence of the Father 
within you who is reaching oneness with you.  The birth is 
there.  You recognize it, for you have undertaken your 
spiritual journey long enough to have experienced it.  But 
this rebirth is not an event that comes and goes; this rebirth 
is always.  You are reborn continually, not over and over, but 
in a steady constancy.
	Do you wish to investigate this further?

	Tom:  Stillness is like the isometric exercises, you 
gain strength.  But that’s not the only way to gain strength.  
You can work in the fields.  It’s when you lift a wagon off 
somebody or stack the hay bales that you realize you have 
strength.  It’s not either/or but something to use in 
conjunction with stillness.

*	Lantarnek:  Yes.  It is a delight to the mind to 
discover stillness engagement even when involved in hectic 
situations, just as you discover with delight your ability to 
lift the wagon off someone during a crisis.

	Tom:  Thank you.

	Evelyn:  You started by talking about patterns changing 
like a kaleidoscope rather than just repeating.  We could 
remember that in taking on exercises to keep us disciplined to 
practice stillness.  If we vary them it might be less 
stagnating and help keep us interested.

*	Lantarnek:  Excellent point, for the practicing element 
is, as I have stated, a factor of time, and time has connected 
with it the element of monotony as well as variety.  So, by 
varying your approach you displace that monotonous element, 
and by varying your approach you soon witness that the goal, 
the end result, is identical, that is that embrace with the 
divine.
	I am moved to inject here a qualification of that word 
embrace.  It is more like an entwining, and even more like a 
blending, a co-absorbing.  I seek words that remove 
demarcation between you and the Divine Fragment.  But I am 
speaking to you, not to your Divine Fragment, so words like 
these help to indicate the experience.  But these variable 
techniques will all lead to the same experience.  As you have  
pointed out, you will discover any activity not only can lead 
to this experience but actually contains it already.
	The standardization of a stillness practice is typically 
a development by human beings in order to provide a sense of 
accomplishment through discipline and regularity.  But this 
ought not to eliminate from it creativity, artistry.  This is 
your personal reach to God.  It need not follow formula or 
textbook.  You are not prevented from a discipline, for it is 
noted that many human beings function well with a little bit 
of discipline.  Therefore do be creative and feel free to be 
inventive, unrestricted by a divine law or code that you must 
adhere to.  The Father has, if I may put it this way, 
stillness under His belt.  You do not need to mimic His 
ability at absolute oneness.  As I said in my lesson, it is 
your personal, unique, creative expression that He seeks to 
experience.  You will provide the variety; He will provide the 
same divine being to you at each time, to anyone anywhere.

	Ginny:  In stillness, should we always seek communion 
with the Father or can we commune with any other being?

*	Lantarnek:  I would qualify that slightly in degree of 
importance, for stillness, communion, is seeking a divine 
contact, Creator in nature.  Yes, you can in like manner 
through this same discipline of mind and engagement of 
attention make contact with others, but that I would call 
communication, not communion.  It is socializing rather than 
stillness.  If you were to be visiting with your human friends 
that is socializing.  Though you may visit with beings of 
celestial nature, it is nonetheless socializing.  Not to be 
frowned upon, I must add, for it is a delight to those of us 
who do make our contact with you.  But as your scriptures of 
old say, The lord is one God; He is a jealous god.  He seeks 
your attention in communion singly, one pointedly with no 
distractions.

	Ginny:  This may be a silly question, but does aging 
have any effect on our stillness contacts or transmission 
clarity?  It’s a time/space question, but as I age I feel less 
desiring of stillness.  I think of it as discipline, a little 
work.  Transmitting, I feel I’m not as clear as I used to be.

*	Lantarnek:  Many factors are involved, and aging is a 
factor both in the functioning of the mind through brain and 
in the responses due to your glandular network, for as you 
continue your life on this world, your body changes, and your 
mind must function differently through this vehicle.  Also 
your soul is evolving, and you have undergone numerous 
experiences where you have felt contact.  Your faith has 
become so strong that you know the presence of the Father, 
felt or unfelt.
	It is not an error necessarily to not want to seek that 
contact if you have experienced it, you know its presence, its 
everlastingness.  However, if it is neglected due to negative 
associations, as you have indicated the aspect of discipline 
and work, maybe then it is important to address those issues 
within oneself that are causing the disinterest.  During the 
last days of Jesus’ life he had little time for a pleasant 
communion with the Father.  It was hurried.  When he had a 
moment it was frantic in energy, but he knew that the Father 
was with him and would not forsake him.  That is the level I 
encourage you all to reach so that you could graduate from 
practicing stillness.  And that may sound like a silly answer!

	Ginny:  Does frequent stillness practice increase ones 
ability?  I’m sure it does, just like any habit.

*	Lantarnek:  Indeed, just as isometric exercise 
repeatedly increases your strength.  No one event, no one 
stillness, makes you fully capable.  Each one contributes, yet 
strength in this illustration is present, and more present, 
and even more present.  With stillness your presence of God is 
more present, and more present.  Eventually you would not need 
exercise to have this strength.  You would already have the 
sense of the divine and not need to set aside a stillness 
time, for it would always be.  But, as you know, if you cease 
exercising it is not long and you weaken.  That is why we 
encourage you even though you may be successful in this 
practice to continue.

	Evelyn:  The exercise you have chosen as an example is 
one of pressing your hands together.  Dropping to our knees on 
a regular basis may be another.

*	Lantarnek:  Thank you for that illustration, for I had 
not considered that.  I had considered the static quality.  
Yes, the association with hands that pray is indeed 
appropriate.

	Tom:  It’s not just putting the hands together as an 
exercise; you’re encouraging us to use other isometrics.

*	Lantarnek:  Yes, for the stillness practice.  To 
continue the illustration, if all exercise is for the 
development of a stronger body, then strength is the overlying 
goal of any variable approach.  Therefore, using this as 
comparison, your experience of the embrace of God is the 
overlying factor sought no matter what approach you make.  It 
could be in chorus, in congregation, and it could be in the 
quiet of your mountaintop retreat.

	Ginny:  Could you say the same thing about transmitting; 
the more often you do it the easier it becomes?

*	Lantarnek:  It is helpful, and I will return to your 
question on aging, that the transmission process between 
personality and other personalities is not in itself hindered 
by aging.  The same factors that effect mind in brain with 
stillness also contribute to the expression of the contact.  
Transmission repetition increases faith as well as clarity.  
However, I would add that it is good that you all have not 
taken this process to be extremely sacred, oracles from God, 
because it is inherently flawed, not that it is error, but as 
all human life has its accuracies and inaccuracies. 
Transmitting must be included among them.  At the same time I 
encourage you not to grow complacent with it.  So, if you were 
to take a hiatus from transmitting you may break habits that 
interfere with clarity.  But you may also break your faith 
bond which encourages contact.  It is a faith building 
process, but I caution all of you not to rely upon it solely.  
Just as you would not seek all you truth from one book, do not 
seek all your truth from transmission contacts.  When I say 
this I do not mean that you should not read and I do not mean 
that you should not seek contact.

	Ginny:   Thank you.

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