[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 12/02/01

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Fear, Morontia and Spiritual Senses
Teachers: Elyon

December 2, 2001

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you.  This is Elyon, your friend.  It
has been delightful to be in attendance.  The many of us who are here today to
experience this conclave have enjoyed a form of laughter as we have watched you
discuss in depth many topics.  How much we hope that all the world would find
such support in this form of sharing; it is one of the greatest experiences
personalities can have.  It also delights any teacher to be witness to such
activities of students engaged as you have been on your own without our
immediate
input, though naturally we are, like your angels, always hovering, and
hoping and
helping you to realize more profoundly the meanings of your conversations.  You
have discussed Lantarnek's lesson on growth.  I wish to speak of a primary
inhibitor to growth, that being fear.
	With reflection it is observable that fear has two basic forms: one is of
the unknown; the other is from experience.  That of the unknown is a difficult
fear to overcome, for it offers little information which may be collated to
establish understanding which would displace the fear with more helpful
reactions
such as keen discernment, cautionary observance, that would encourage and
strengthen you to proceed into the unknown to make those discoveries and grow. 
This can take away from the energy needed to grow.  When encountering this fear
of that which you do not sense enough to grapple with the growth, be not
concerned, for, if your motive is growth, you can transform the fear rather than
fight it.  It is unnecessary to fight fear to make way for growth.  In this case
fear is your signal for the acquirement of data that will encourage your
development.  So, never mind growing.  Begin accumulating the required
experiences or knowledge so that you will have the tools on hand to undergo the
growth.
	The fear from experience is easy to overcome as long as you have held in
your experiential background the realization that growth is always rewarding,
though it was attained through hard fought battles, difficult or painful
experiences.  Experience always deepens the qualities of soul;  the more
experience you have the more substance of a morontia quality you are.  On a
world
like Urantia where lessons are not forthcoming in a tidy, well thought out
manner
as they would have been, given the proper institutions of planetary assistance
that are established on normal worlds;  you have oftentimes had to gain
experience through disasters, conflicts of greater intensity than is necessary
for lessons to be learned.  Thus arises the fear from experience, and
unfortunately following comes reluctance and avoidance or denial.  But those of
you who have pursued through such pains are aware of the delight of overcoming,
of breaking through; the joy that follows, that coming through to clear air,
in a
sense, that breaking of the sun through the clouds.  This is the reminder to
give
yourself in those times of hesitation, knowing that you will experience some
pain
making the transition.  An athlete encounters this very mechanism of growth when
training.  Experience has revealed the aches and pains, the injuries, the sweat,
the heavy breathing only to discover strength and endurance and stamina as the
reward and willingly undergoes this pain for the benefits involved.
	As I am often oriented to say, fear is good for you, for it is a signal
that your growth opportunity is ahead, and it is the door that may be opened by
placing your keys in the locks of denial and reluctance that keep the fear door
shut.  This key is one of many that have been given to you by the teachers. 
Several are from the chain that Lantarnek presented last week.
	I have said my two cents in this meeting full of things to ponder.  I toss
it in with your well-stated comments of this day.  I detect a question is at
hand, and I am willing to accept it.

	Tom:  In keeping with our roles as morontia representatives and  spiritual
warriors and that you wouldn't send us out unarmed, we know there are seventy
morontia senses.  Are your lessons really on making these latent senses bloom on
this plane?  On our plane we have body, mind, and spirit with five senses of the
body.   I read recently that mind was a sense.  Is the mind not only the mother
sense but has some sub-senses like intuition, insight, instincts, dreaming,
telepathy?  Are there even more spiritual senses like praying, worship?  If love
is all there is, it would have to be sensed, too.  Does this make sense?
*	Elyon:  Indeed it does.  It is difficult to describe the morontia senses,
for they are numerous.  It is better to use the five you are familiar with to
draw comparison, but I caution that the further away from the physical one goes,
the less accurately these bodily senses you have will describe the morontia
counterparts.
	You are correct in observing the sensibilities of the mind such as insight
and intuition which do take in data for processing just as your eyes and
ears do. 
The internal environment of the personality is a realm of its own and does have
the ability to touch and to hear.  Of course I must also get in another plug for
stillness, for this is the means whereby you may sharpen these senses. 
Obviously, to use the physical forms, there is touching and the sense of
feeling,
of seeing and the sense of looking, of hearing and listening.  One is physical;
the other is the meaningful side on the level of mind.  As you have asked, are
there spirit senses? that is the value level.  So you have been encouraged
by our
lessons to sharpen the meaningful and the valuable, that when you are clamoring
about in the world, your grosser -- in the sense of coarser -- senses of your
body will also be working in concert with the refined senses of mind and those
deeper senses of spirit.  The morontia senses do function in this pattern.
	You are aware of the confusion that can follow extremely intense and
multitudinous sensory input.  It can be disorienting.  When the mind is
uncentered, rather than being the director and compiler of the input, it feels
tossed about by the incoming stream of information and recoils.  Imagine seventy
morontia senses all bombarding the personality at once.  This is not
entirely the
case, though I must speak to you who are currently more familiar with the
physical framework of sensory input.  The morontia realm draws from the
physical,
but it also draws from the higher spiritual realms in its pattern of
manifestation.  Some of these senses are superimpositions, higher levels,
octaves, if you will.  They are reflective upward and downward.  They are detail
contributors to one event.  I can coordinate all seventy at one time, for they
are compounding.  The appearance of one enfolds into another ... combined,
compounded, give result. Just as in your geometry two angles compound into a
resulting angle, this happens with all seventy.
	Back to the import of your question, you are training to manifest the
sensibilities of the higher realms here on earth.  It is those values and
meanings I spoke of that will be the fields from which you will sharpen those
senses just as your environment is the field from which your physical senses
draw
information.
	Have I been helpful?
	Tom:  Yes, you have.  We have our five basic senses.  They reflect upwards
into five counterparts of mind, and they reflect up into five counterparts of
spirit.  Fifteen senses?  I'm not trying to put a number on it, because
there are
probably branches off each one.  I'm not content that we have five senses.  I'm
intrigued with the idea of mind as a sixth sense, but we're still dealing with
just five senses?
*	Elyon:  Before I continue I will remind you of my disclaimer of comparison
of morontia to physical, for the inaccuracies inherent in the comparison
make for
difficulty of understanding.  We could approach this topic as you have just done
with six senses: the five that feed in through your neural and glandular network
to the mind, the mind being, as you say, the mother sense, the sixth.  Then
mirror those into the morontia form and you would have twelve.  You would have
the same five that give input to the mother sense.  It is fitting for me to say
at this time that this mirroring, when considering the mother sense of mind and
the mother sense of its morontia counterpart, is the mechanism whereby you may
exchange the mind you have for the mind of Christ.  So, whether we speak of
fifteen or twelve the truth of this discussion is that there is a reflective
quality, a replicating pattern inherent in sensibilities.
	Tom:  Thank you, that was excellent.

*	Elyon:  If you are content with our contact today, I will, on behalf of all
who have accompanied me, give you our best for your week ahead.  We are always
busying ourselves with assisting you in your ascension to the Father.
Though you
will traverse many worlds and cross light years of space, there is a great
amount
of ascension to be done while domiciled on this planet.  The going to
Paradise is
as much of an inward journey as it is a traversal of space.  So, no matter where
you are, on a mansion world, on any architectural sphere, or here on
Urantia, you
can proceed as fast and as soulfully as you are willing to go.
	I take my leave.