[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 03/06/05

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Landscape of the Mind, Landscape of Your Life.
Teachers: Elyon, Michael.

March 6, 2005

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, this is Elyon.  Once again 
we gather to share our common love for God and our equally 
common love for each other, knowing full well that as a family 
we will continue to support and encourage each other throughout 
eternity.  The love established today is the foundation for the 
long stretch of time wherein experience after experience will be 
shaped and supported by each other.
	When you came into function as a human being on your world 
you came with a mind.  This mind was clear; it was a field of 
consciousness upon which you had all the freedom to landscape.  
As your life unfolded you began to place in the landscape of 
your mind many objects.  These were arranged by you as you grew, 
as you became exposed to and familiar with living as a human 
being.
	In this landscape you have been growing the trees of 
knowledge, the trees of understanding.  As they have grown you 
have drawn from your memory and insight your experience of the 
past, your projections to the future, to fertilize and to prune 
these trees.  This is an important dimension or function in this 
landscape, for sometimes knowledge accumulates so quickly that 
it becomes an overbearing limb that is weak in its gangliness 
and either needs support until it becomes strong or pruning that 
it may grow at a rate at which you can accommodate.
	Another element in your landscape is the presence of what 
we could call spreading vegetation such as your common lawns.  
One would be desire. While a lawn is good, it can spread beyond 
where you wish it to be.  A desire may start out as a simple 
want for comfort and grow to lust, a simple want for possession 
and spread to greed.  So, the disciplined soul knows where to 
place borders in the landscape of the mind to restrain, to 
qualify such natural tendencies.
	Also as knowledge and understanding grow over time what has 
been useful becomes outdated, and these trees shed their leaves 
so that new knowledge and understanding may develop.  A wise 
soul may gather these leaves and mulch them in the mind that 
they may reemerge as new life and not let them sit and smother 
other aspects of your mind.  Such smothering is reflected in 
superstition, in reluctance, in fear.
	Also the mind is capable of developing patterns of action, 
of thinking, of habits.  These become pathways across the 
landscape.  Some pathways become so established that you choose 
to pave them.  These pathways may be thought of as goals and as 
habits.  You may notice some paths are habits you wish not to 
tread any longer.  So you place a boulder or a shrub in its way; 
a rule of conduct, a decision of discipline, to prevent you from 
further treading on that path that you no longer desire to go 
down.
	The mind is so flexible; it is a realm wherein great beauty 
may be crafted by an intentional personality.  The application 
of art in consciousness works with indigenous mental presences, 
some provided by your genetics, some provided by your culture.  
These things are arranged by you by choice.  You can also 
transplant foreign materials; you may learn a second language; 
you may adopt cultural behaviors from lands far away.  You may 
even plant the will of the Father in your mind.
	As you have developed this landscape you become desirous of 
sharing the beauty with others.  You open the gate to your mind 
and allow it to intermingle with your fellows, to share deeply 
of one’s being, to trade what has been done in the mind of one 
across to the mind of another.  You spread your seeds.
	Stillness is like the early morning calm wherein the dew of 
the Father’s love may refresh, where you become prepared for the 
winds of the day which may bring doubt, which may bring 
confusion, also where you may become receptive to the sunlight 
of truth, to the energizing of the presence of spirit.
	The field of your consciousness is flexible and powerful, 
and with your deliberate landscaping, you will develop a 
wonderful work of art that displays the beauty of the Infinite 
Spirit in your own being.  This is one of the many reasons I so 
enjoy being with you to share as you each cultivate and develop 
your being.  Thank you for your attention.  I remain with you.

*	Michael (Mark):  I would greet you now as a direct result 
of your efforts to establish communication and to hear my words.  
This is your brother, your father, and your master gardener at 
your service.  I come to you today to build upon the lessons of 
your faithful servant Elyon, and mine, and play with the imagery 
of the landscape of your lives.
	I say that I am the master gardener because I am an expert 
at knowing how to arrange a proper landscape and how to most 
beneficially prune the trees and fertilize the young growth to 
maximize these fruits of the spirit.  When you are uncertain as 
to how to properly arrange or care for elements of your 
landscape I bid you come to me, and I will advise you in the 
stillness about the most effective means to manipulate your 
individual landscape into gardens of great beauty. I am ever 
willing to assist you in the design, in the layout, even in the 
working of the fertile soil that is your life.  I am no stranger 
to rolling up my sleeves and becoming involved in the very 
lowest and dirtiest levels that are required in order to secure 
such glorious spiritual fruits as you all are fostering.  In 
fact I relish this invitation to work with you in your 
individual gardens, to be invited by you down your garden paths, 
through your garden gate, that I may witness, behold, and share 
with you the glory and the beauty that you are creating.
	You will witness that I send you many assistants to help 
you in staying on track with the best use of your efforts.  When 
you avail yourself of the volunteer effort of those who would 
assist you, you bring in elements of the divine with each act of 
participation you allow.
	Not only am I a willing and capable assistant who pledges 
his support to you, but I am as well your seed catalog who may 
bring the aspects of the Father’s glory available to those who 
are willing and ready to be transplanted within your landscape 
to bring the goodness and the beauty that the Father would have 
into your very midst.  All this I can do for you and with you if 
you but simply invite me in.  You will see I am a tireless 
worker in your field, in your garden.  I care deeply about every 
aspect of your development and am ever willing to make 
suggestions and even uproot unnecessary distractions to your 
overall landscape.  All this I gladly, willingly, would do for 
you if you but make me an associate, a partner, in the design, 
the layout, the pruning, and the nurturing of all that is good 
and beautiful in your individual gardens.  In fact nothing 
brings me greater joy than to work with you as we fine tune the 
glory and the beauty that the Father makes possible and that we 
make real in your lives.
	I recognize that you are the owners and that you call all 
the shots regarding your personal landscapes.  Therefore do I 
respect all of your decisions and choices.  But I would simply 
offer to help, and you could simply offer to allow me.  It is 
that simple.
	My dear ones, I see you work diligently in your gardens 
tending your landscapes with love and care and affection.  I 
would work with you to help you to unfold all that will spring 
to life and bring such beauty into your lives and into the lives 
of all those who drive by and witness the glory that you have 
built through your life’s endeavor.  This is one of our gifts to 
the Father, to beautify, to maintain, to uphold, to promote the 
growth of those things that are beautiful, truthful, and 
spiritually real.
	I look forward to working with each of you.  I will bring 
my gloves and together we will work side by side utilizing the 
soil of the material to grow the fruit of the eternal, and 
together we will stand back and behold that which our efforts 
have brought into reality.  Even now I behold your landscapes 
and very much is beautiful and right and good.  I only offer my 
services to you to further the projects that you all have begun, 
to make grand the landscapes that we may all behold.  Seek me as 
your assistant in all these matters and I pledge you my support.  
As well I pledge you my enduring love and my overall peace and 
will leave you with that at this time.

	Evelyn:  I am hearing a lot of similarities to last week’s 
truth, beauty, and goodness as methods for recognizing and doing 
God’s will.  I also want to point out -- I imagine Tom noticed 
this - a triangle of I think it was perceive, promote, and 
preserve associated with truth, beauty, and goodness.

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  This is Elyon back in the lawn chair.  
Yes, you have discerned an overall lesson, one that we teachers 
with our master teacher Michael are presenting that cannot be 
offered in one sitting.  The wonderful aspects of spiritual 
power are the tools you learn to use, many of which serve 
multiple functions.  These patterns, the triads and the 
metaphors, may apply in manifold ways in your lives.  They will 
arise repeatedly to serve you in the development of wisdom and 
the assuredness of progress.
	Thank you for attention to the content of our 
presentations.

	Jonathan:  Reflecting on this, another element of the 
landscape is the aphids of worry that suck your energy, the 
nematodes of cynicism that cut the roots of aspiration.  We 
could go on and on.

	Tom:  The knapweed of anger.
	Perceive, promote, and preserve is another way of saying 
knowledge is safeguarded by sharing.