[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 4/23/06

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Spiritual Field, Volunteers, Group 
Dynamics, Children of God
Teachers: Evanson, Machiventa, Elyon.

April 23, 2006

*	Evanson (Jonathan TR):  Hello, Evanson 
speaking.  You are all such forward looking 
individuals, and I am grateful to be in your 
company.  You hardly realize the benefit your 
efforts to grow have brought you.  I did not 
pursue such activities while in human flesh.  You 
have made your lives simple in comparison because 
of the peace and surety it has brought you.  You 
have discovered that the striving is not painful 
but rewarding, and that change is like exercise; 
it may feel strenuous but it increases strength.
	I wish to encourage you to become more 
sensitive to your spiritual field that surrounds 
you.  Each of you has recognized your field of 
energy of love and light.  I encourage you to 
determinedly work with that energy in social 
situations and in your working arrangements.  The 
power of positive energy overrides negative 
energy.  It is more easily identified with by 
another, and you draw allies by projecting such 
uplifting vibration.  Your stature as an ascending 
being, your presence of mind and heart, penetrates 
into the soul of another, and it draws forth an 
encouraging impulse whereby another finds their 
own presence and connection.  It is so subtle that 
no word you say or touch pinpoints what is felt 
but it is recognized.
	Try in the day or two ahead of you to be, as 
you might say, in the driver’s seat and work with 
this understanding, for your society is entering 
into difficult times, and it will be important for 
the workers of divine light to project with power.
	I have finished my words.  Thank you.

*	Machiventa (Mark):  Greetings, I am 
Machiventa.  I would spend a few moments in 
discussion of the paradigm  you encounter that you 
refer to as being volunteers.
	On your world it is unusual and rare for 
volunteers, individuals whose desire it is to work 
toward common goals for no compensation in a time 
when you have the term “time is money”, and 
therefore you are choosing to allocate your 
resources, and volunteering represents your 
choosing to spend some of your resources, your 
time, in pursuit of goals or ideals that will 
bring you no direct monetary compensation.  In 
that sense volunteering represents a very noble 
and divine trait of looking to allocate your 
resources toward avenues of service and not toward 
avenues of self advancement.
	Just as in this circuit we form at this very 
moment that we all have chosen, we all have 
volunteered our time to come together in this 
forum and, having come to this of our own freewill 
choice, this offering that we have made represents 
our higher selves, our more divine motivation in 
that we are allocating the resource of our time 
toward those pursuits not of this material world 
but rather for idealistic, spiritual gains 
instead.
	This phenomenon of coming together in groups 
of peers is one of the opportunities to negotiate 
while you are in the mortal flesh.  It is 
important to realize that when individuals choose 
to donate of themselves towards any common goal 
that they are in a vulnerable state of bringing 
their resources to that forum, and they should at 
all times be encouraged that to donate in such a 
fashion is indeed a noble trait and to be 
commended.  However, there does arise in this 
paradigm the opportunity for those of strong will 
to commandeer the efforts of a group of investors 
in the process and take control of the pool that 
is generated of those giving individuals.
	The best tack for keeping the contribution 
on an equal playing field is to strive to make all 
the participants aware of the nature of the format 
and to provide for opportunities for all 
contributors to feel as though they are an equal 
and valid part of the circuit that has been 
formed.  This requires skill of individuals to 
monitor the ebb and flow of this pool of combined 
resources and to be where the contributions are 
flowing in and the resources are flowing out and, 
through monitoring this, to strive to strike a 
balance between all the individuals involved.  
This process can lead to delicate interpersonal 
interactions in which the dynamic of the 
individual and the group may be illustrated to 
refer to the original intent of the forum, and it 
may become useful for one among this group to be 
appointed chairperson or facilitator with the 
obligation of monitoring to insure that all 
individuals feel included and that no single 
individuals are over-impacting this given circuit.
	One suggestion might be to offer any 
individuals who feel the need to delve deeply into 
particular subject matters the option of 
formulating a new circuit with the goal to 
facilitate such in-depth desires while freeing up 
the general format to be more applicable to a 
wider variety of participants.  You have witnessed 
in the past how the teaching is conducted, and you 
have observed that we make every attempt to leave 
no one behind in our teaching program while still, 
you have observed, providing for those with more 
experience to still find something of substance 
and value.  The orchestration of such volunteer 
meetings will fall to you as participants to 
conduct and regulate.  We will make no imposition 
or mandates  regarding how your individual forums 
should work but rather, as you have also observed, 
we will work with whatever forum, with whatever 
format, we find ourselves.
	You are beginning to see the value of 
providing for the various levels of understanding 
that you are beginning to encounter in this 
process.  For some time we have enjoyed working in 
close groups together and advancing as a class 
toward common understanding.  Now we will 
encounter new waves of seekers.  Your Light Line 
has reflected that these waves are finding our 
classrooms, and therefore we may find it quite 
appropriate to divide out at times into more 
beginner oriented classes and yet still maintain 
some classes of higher education.  This will be 
largely up to you to determine as you perceive the 
needs of those who join and wish to pool their 
efforts as well.  Every effort should be made to 
accommodate people in their seeking at whatever 
levels they may be found.
	Trust your analysis of the needs of your 
fellows and meet their needs where you find them.  
If this means speaking to their level of 
understanding then so be it.  Much can still be 
gained to those who feel as though they have been 
exposed to these left before.  If you encounter 
the need to form a group for advanced study, so be 
it.  We will meet you on whatever terms you 
request.  But there will arise this question of 
suitability for greater audiences, and it will be 
up to you to formulate your response as to how to 
deal with various levels of understanding.  You 
have my commitment to work with you in whatever 
format you see as proper at the time.  No doubt it 
will be proper if it is your will and in alignment 
with the will of the Father.
	These are my words, even my suggestions, for 
this hour.  Thank you for hearing them.  I open 
the floor.

*	Veronica (Jonathan):  Children of God, I 
greet you.  This is Veronica.
	You are the luminaries of the great and vast 
truth that appears to be obscure in the minds of 
your fellows.  You are repositories for the ocean 
of love that pours itself upon the rocky shores.  
You are the goodness of God enlivened, animated.  
Behold yourselves, for you once sought to 
penetrate the veil of the wholly beyond, and now 
you are the very indication of its reality.  You 
are great in your humbleness, but you are also the 
greatness.  Settle yourself ever deeper into the 
conviction of your universal position.  Though the 
reflective surfaces of your physical world show 
you a form of animal origin, deep within you is 
your lastingness, your divinity.  Let it erupt 
forth; be blinding.  It is time for Urantia to 
explode in light, to be set afire in love.  It is 
time.  As you accept yourself you accept the 
purpose of God for you.  The revelation to this 
world comes by way of your action.  Go forward.  
Be He who resides inside.

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