[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 12/28/05

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Response to Mota, Stillness, New Planetary Cycle.
Teachers: Elyon

December 28, 2005

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, this is Elyon.  We have traveled through time many 
years.  We are expecting many more to follow in association as a nexus within this 
Teaching Mission.  It is much to my benefit our association, and I have received from you 
words of similar expression.  I know that my supervisors are quite capable of arranging 
people into groups for maximum benefit to each personality, and our group has proven 
their skill quite accurate.
	You approach another day of demarcation, your New Year.  It is a fitting custom for 
you all on your world to take stock of the close of one cycle and anticipate the 
potentials of a new cycle and to assert your will such that you may determine what 
potentials you desire to see manifest come about.  We in the realms of morontia do 
likewise respect such days wherein we can also gather our minds and project our course 
for the time ahead.  Naturally this position of reflection is healthy, but it is also 
worthwhile to undertake not only at the year but at the end and the beginning of a new 
day.
	Reflection upon the past increases insight, which is beneficial toward your future.  
As you sit in stillness and cherish the moment of divine presence your mind is 
illuminated by the light of spirit, and in such clarity you are afforded a perspective of 
your previous actions which stimulates a response to mota.  The response to mota is 
successful when you connect your actions of the past with your hopes toward the future.  
Therein you discern the connecting link, you derive the meaning and value of experience, 
and are keyed to better be able to act or react according to your higher ideals as events 
unfold before you.  Such a time of reflection and projection is always enriched when you 
welcome and reside with the Father’s spirit.  This fellowship is in the moment of present 
time.  This partnership is what makes it possible for you to see more deeply into your 
past and toward your future.
	In the presence of God you have a reflective other, an other which truly is beyond 
your greatest estimation of the best that God could be, and this, while like a standard 
yet greater, for the standard is the Father of all, overlays a higher perspective than 
would merely be held viewed by the human self alone.  In that communion you are afforded 
the power of spirit to make choices that are beneficial to your progress, choices that 
may be difficult for the human self to accept, but when hand in hand with God, the 
correct decision becomes clear.
	To become sensitive to the overlay of morontia mota upon your human condition, you 
are most successful when you are clearly situated in the present, conscious of the 
Father, and then actively seeking balance between your past and your future.  This may be 
viewed visually as a plus sign where the vertical member represents God above and the 
present below, your past and future the horizontal member.  You in awareness reside in 
the center.  There is then the possibility for multiple relationships between the four 
points and the center.  It is in this interconnection that you grasp on the level of soul 
the meaning of mota.
	It is common to consider a time of stillness as a time to withdraw from the world 
events, to regroup within oneself, to praise and worship God, to clear the mind, to 
center, to push away the distractions, to simplify the thoughts, to reorient what is 
important above that which is merely pulling and pushing at you.  All these expectations 
in stillness are worthwhile, but there is also an added benefit which is the experience 
to be had by exercising a sense of expansion, of extension, of broadening your being.  So 
stillness becomes a reaching outward, upward, and beyond oneself.  In such a state of 
mind and soul you are approaching the Creator’s perspective, that being one which views 
totality.  By extending beyond yourself you are able to see the significance of much that 
transpires not only in your life but in the lives of others and to do so without the 
colorations of your own perspective.  Stillness is powerful in bringing about this 
overview.
	This new year on your calendar approaches and so does the new cycle of planetary 
advancement for the mortals of Urantia with the arrival of our Magisterial Son and the 
staff of volunteers that accompany him.  They too are reflecting upon the events that 
have led up to this time wherein a mission of this sort is deemed appropriate, that they 
too are assessing the direction that this planet may go in that will bring enough 
transformation to establish momentum within civilization that human beings will continue 
the growth on their own, stimulated by their celestial brothers and sisters.  But your 
experience will not be substituted by the actions of your cosmic brethren.  This 
stimulation for the whole planet is in a sense a form of focus much like stillness for an 
individual.  It is a marked point in planetary progress wherein all those who are 
assigned and who have volunteered to assist this world take stock, reflect, and project.  
They do so in solemn dedication to Michael and with allegiance to the other rulers within 
the subsystems of Nebadonia.  It is a collective form of quiet time and reflection.
	In this interval many who have been eager to serve will solidify their devotion, 
their dedication.  Others, simply attracted by thrill, will lose interest and will 
continue their spiritual growth as it benefits them personally.  But those who can sit in 
waiting while the course is designed and adapted to Urantia, will find themselves 
accommodated by the Magisterial staff.  You will become laborers for the promotion of the 
program and, following this promotion, you will also become enactors of the procedures 
the program contains.  In the meantime in your daily cycles take your time for stillness.  
Do so for yourself because the love of God is ever present and ever desirous to flood 
into your soul, and do so for your brothers and sisters who are on this world endeavoring 
to take Urantia further down the path to Light and Life.  Sit and warmly feel the 
camaraderie of all the teachers, the angels, the ministering spirits who share the same 
hope that you do for this tiny world.
	I have finished expressing my thoughts, and I offer the remaining time for 
discussion or questions, if that be your desire.

	Jada:  I’m not very clear on what mota is; what I know is from The Urantia Book.  
Could you expand on that?

*	Elyon:  Mota is a depth of perspective.  It is more than simply the understanding 
of a particular meaning.  It is more than clarity of a particular insight.   It is the 
ability to associate seemingly differing events, situations, truths, meanings, and values 
into a holistic understanding.
	It is threefold in nature; if you were to plug one ear or shut one eye your senses 
are then slightly impaired.  Yet with both ears or both eyes your ability to detect your 
surroundings and to do so more accurately and with greater understanding increases.  Mota 
is the ability to associate spiritual truth with morontia realities and physical 
realities.
	While you have been taught that morontia mota is discernible only by morontia 
beings, you are able to exercise your morontia muscles by consciously in every life event 
taking stock of the physical, the morontial, and spiritual aspects.  In doing so you will 
be formulating a morontia mota viewpoint.  There will be two dimensions to this added 
understanding.  One will be less discernible for it will impact upon your soul and will 
accumulate for experiences that may unfold long into the future.  The other impact will 
be within your mind in the form of enlightenment, not merely understanding or clarity, 
but an illumination which is superimposed upon these other two.  It is in a sense a 
magnification wherein many details are viewed clearly and your understanding is 
compounded, deepened, from such magnification.  Situations are perceived multi-
dimensionally, multi-layered.
	Mota is a form within the morontia realms wherein personalities learn to detect the 
spirit realm, for it is in the spirit realm that such all encompassing wholeness of 
viewpoint will be developed.  Mota is the way to balance your earlier life in physical 
form with your future destiny as a spirit being.  It is the way to distill what is still 
beyond your experiential grasp by rising above all that which is in your immediate 
experiences and there coalescing each one together into a whole, and to do so not merely 
with the result of having a collected unity but to do so in a manner whereby an entirely 
new value emerges.  It is that new emergence which readies you one step further for the 
experience of pure spirit.
	I hope this addresses your question.

	Jada:  Thank you, Elyon.  I will have to study that.

	Evelyn:  You’ve added to the understanding of mota with your description of the 
plus sign, that cross with the self in the center.  The vertical is moving along a time 
line; there we are at that moving point with God on the vertical along with us.   What 
you have now added makes that clearer.

*	Elyon:  I appreciate each one of your efforts to expand your understanding of 
things spiritual by listening carefully to my addresses.  It illustrates precisely why I 
am joyful at having been assigned to this Melchizedek classroom.  As I speak to each of 
you I convey ideas that I hope will stir within you reflection.  In that reflection the 
true lesson is possessed, for my ideas are merely ideas, and they are meant for many 
people to receive.  But they are of no significance until following reception reflection 
occurs.  Then it is vitalized; then it has the life of spirit, for it is in your 
wrestling with a new concept, your application of that concept, that is the living 
quality.  That too is an illustration of mota, for a lesson is only an object, and your 
reception of it is only an act.  But as you reflect and apply you then draw into a 
totality, and that is a condition above and beyond each factor.
	Again I thank you all for such application, for your willingness to receive from me 
and my fellows regularly.  You know you have been rewarded, and I express that I am 
likewise rewarded.

	Evelyn:  Thank you and have a happy new year on Urantia.

*	Elyon:  I will then draw a close and thank you also and happy new era as well.

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