[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 8/5/07

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Reach Beyond, Edge of Experience, Contact from the Dead, Memory Loss and the Next 
Realm, Mind and Brain, Fire the Grid.
Teachers: Michael, Elyon

August 5, 2007

*	Michael (Jonathan TR):  I am Michael.  I extend my arms around you all and share in 
the joy of our mutual recognition and the certainty of our fellowship.	 You have come to 
believe because you have experienced, and this causes you to know that you are in my 
fold.  Just as fruit that ripens on the vine becomes sweeter over time, your experience 
of our relationship does likewise.  I cherish that togetherness and will ever foster our 
relationship.
	But you know from your studies that I manage this local universe, and you will 
sometime be sent on your way to the greater circles of experience, and I, just like the 
vine-master, will send you off to be taken to new lands that you may serve and grow.  So, 
while you have come to believe, I am also keenly observant of and willing to minister to 
that which you do not believe, for this is the edge of your experience, the line of 
uncertainty, and the realm for the potential of attaining new levels of being, deeper 
insights, and broader vision.
	I often say that “peace I give you”, and I do desire that all my children have that 
sense of belonging in the Father’s house, of being cherished and loved and cared for.  
But I also seek to have you experience uncertainty, to encounter disruptive, unsettling, 
experiences -- not that you may be harmed -- but that you may refresh your perspective 
and adjust your understanding and seek that you may add new wine to your wineskins.  I 
told of the parable of the talents wherein one was too afraid to invest that he may lose 
his coin and disappoint the master.  That is residing solely in belief, where the ones 
who took to the uncertain and invested, while each reaped a differing value of reward, 
both succeeded in the eye of the master, for they pushed that boundary and they attained 
a new level.
	So, my children, when you do pursue new arenas, know that I support you.  I will 
caution you and I will be your guardian, but I encourage you to reach up and beyond, for 
it is my goal that you reach up, out, and beyond even Nebadon that you may experience our 
Father on Paradise and in Paradise.
	I am one with you always.  I will allow for my ministering associates to share with 
you.

*	Elyon:  Elyon here, greetings.  It is my desire to have dialogue with you, and so I 
seek your questions that we may pursue topics of your interest.  We have gained trust in 
one another, and you know that I never look askance at your honest petitions.  While I 
cannot reveal what you must come to experience, I can at all times assist you in the 
discovery and suggest approaches which may ease your investigation and hasten your 
attainment.  But you know that all growth is had by oneself, and there is no substitute, 
no surrogate experience that another may have for you.  I am open and receptive.

	Mark T:  How did Michael’s address to us relate to our pre-lesson discussion?

*	Elyon:  For your records, you spoke of the viewpoint of the scientific mind and the 
viewpoint of the religious mind and the nature of reality as experienced both 
subjectively and objectively.
	Michael did express in his lesson a pattern similar to your discussion.  Both 
orientations of human perspective benefit when they are willing to venture into the 
unknown, be it the theological investigations of a philosopher, be it the deepsea 
explorations of an oceanographer.  The compilation of understanding builds a legacy for 
generations, but it is the discovery at any time, in any experience that is of Supreme 
value to that individual and subsequently of  value to civilization.
	Regardless of your role as a human being in your cultures, this principle applies.  
You know that the playing of a song written by another is a wonderful experience but that 
the composition of a piece of music on your own is also extremely special.  So this 
applies to all fields.  A preacher who teaches from his word, his scripture, does well, 
but if he fails to enter that edge of experience and explore for himself, he misses the 
opportunity of an expanding spiritual experience even though he is an expert at conveying 
the truths expressed in the past.

	Evelyn:  Throughout history people have felt that they got contact from departed 
loved ones.  In the Urantia Book they say, no, you really don’t get contact from the 
dead.  Has anything changed in that?  Or is there perhaps an indirect route messages are 
sent from the departed?

*	Elyon:  First I will say to you that upon your exit from this world you have many 
tasks in which to engage, for instance, your registration on the sphere of your 
resurrection and the orientation of yourself into a world so unlike the realm from which 
you have recently left.  You are substantially overwhelmed and are greatly distracted, if 
I may say in that way.  The prior life appears faint to you because of the vividness and 
stupendous reality sense of your new realm.  It will take you some time to orient and 
begin to reflect upon your prior stage of existence.  So, even while you have the 
statement that one is not allowed to make contact to those from the world they have just 
departed, it is more correct to say one has little time and less interest because of the 
new experiences.
	The personalities who remain behind are also growing spiritual beings, and they are 
attended to by ministering spirits.  As you inquired, there are indirect methods whereby 
human beings may experience the comfort of contact and the sense of closure or a farewell 
when the departure was more sudden and unexpected.  This is for the well-being of the 
survivors for their spiritual upliftment.  On Urantia it is rare to have this occur 
unless enough spiritual development has been undertaken because your world is fraught 
with many legends of demons and ghosts and other haunting spirits that are of little 
value spiritually and are fear fostering.  So it is unwise for such a contact to occur 
under those conditions.
	The departing soul has much to do and a joyous adventure ahead.  While you know 
that the love they have for you is great and they would love to give you one more hug, 
they are off on a grand adventure.  Their angels and yours are also sensitive to your 
loss and will assist you in receiving comfort and the sense of continued contact with 
your departed beloved.
	I hope this helps.

	Evelyn:  Excellent.  Thank you.

	Mark:  In the next realm, the morontia realm, is an Alzheimer’s victim’s memory 
restored to him or her?

*	Elyon:  That which is retained upon your resurrection that may be regarded as 
memory is soul substance, the valuable experiences which cause growth.  While one may be 
tempted to think those values would be few, such as love and trust and other religiously 
thought of conceptual experiences, it is more complex, for your temporal lives have many 
interconnecting associations which contribute to soul growth.  Many details of your 
temporal experience will be retained for they are the associative artifacts which reveal 
the state of your soul being.
	If there is soul growth while the human brain is impaired by a disease, that memory 
will be retained, for it is part of the soul.  But if there is impairment to growth, then 
growth is suspended until release from the human form.  There will not be those memories, 
just as many of your earliest memories subsequent to birth are no longer because soul 
growth was not your important undertaking; physical and mental growth were your primary 
tasks at the time.  Others will retain their memories and they can be shared, but it will 
be secondary.  You will learn about yourself in this manner by the expressions of others 
who were more broadly conscious during those experiences which you did not retain in 
memory.  So again it must be stated the value of fellowship, of brotherhood, for you each 
support one another even in this way.
	I hope this assists you.

	Mark:  Yes, thank you, Elyon.

*	Elyon:  I will insert one more comment.  Brain function is a physical interface 
between your body and world and your mind, your personality, and the divine spirit.  
While one may have a disease, as you mentioned Alzheimer’s and brain functions are 
impaired, there may be direct personality and spirit fragment contact in the realm of the 
soul which does not require the function of brain.  Experiences of that level can occur 
even while, from the outer perspective, such an individual appears to be static.

	Kathy:  A recent discussion of our Urantia Book group was about the mind not being 
part of the brain, that it was operating in a greater area.  Can you address that?

*	Elyon:  Yes, your discussion does draw out a proper observation, and I will 
illustrate it by also using your nervous system, your neural network.  It too may be 
considered part of your brain, though you know it is merely extensions, feelers, from 
which your brain acquires feedback and information, sense data, and that the brain is the 
central processor for all these feelers.  You are in a sense one big anemone in a neural 
way with many tendrils extending into your environment, protected by your flesh and bones 
that you may come to know what is out there.
	The mind is the next level up, and it is using your brain as your brain uses your 
nerves that it may acquire information and feedback from the external realm.  But the 
mind can look inward as well as outward, and so it does inhabit a realm beyond your 
brain.  I would not say outside your brain but beyond the confines of organic function.  
The mysteries of creativity and the instantaneous awakenings and the intuitive 
realizations that occur in the mind can be shared in brain consciousness and expressed in 
physical actions, but their origins are above and beyond the organic link, but not 
necessarily wholly independent of those links, for it may require physical objects to 
assist you in the creative surge.
	Your mind is anchored in Mother Spirit, that is the central residence of your 
consciousness, and your next focal point is your organic brain center.  So you are two-
minded in a sense, divinely supported and physically assisted.
	I hope this addresses your inquiry.

	Kathy:  Yes, thank you, Elyon.

	Mark:  Planetarily speaking, how are things looking since the “fire the grid” 
experience?

*	Elyon:  It is thrilling to the volunteers of celestial realms resident upon your 
world now to assist this planet to have so many on your world so willing to pitch in and 
bring upliftment to the world.  One of the prime purposes of our outreach is to instill 
in you the confidence to bring change and to expand your understanding that this growth 
is orchestrated and planetary in scope; and that you do not struggle hopelessly and 
powerlessly as merely inspired individuals but that you are a powerful collective.  To 
have you do this so willingly assures us of the progress of your world and that, where 
over time in the past we fostered the growth and you would respond evolutionarily slowly, 
the turning has come where you are now fostering in sympathy with our undertakings, and 
we are one as a team.  The grid is alit and the energy is circulating and will concretize 
as time unfolds and more humans become receptive anchors and demonstrators of the reality 
of the harmony of the divine destiny of this world and the human unfolding of awareness.
	My dear friends, I am just overjoyed to be able to converse with you this way.  I 
am always willing to give you a lesson, but truly it is your own input into our 
connection that stimulates me and fulfills my goals as your instructor, for it is what 
you truly seek that I want to be an assistant toward.  While I do endeavor to stimulate 
your thinking and your reach beyond where you reside in awareness, you by asking your 
questions give me insight into that which is pertinent to you in the current moment.  It 
is delightful and enjoyable.  I will now release the classroom.  I thank you for your 
attentiveness.  As Michael says, may peace be with you.
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