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==Heading==
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
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===Topic: ''Thought As Collectors Not Guards''===
 
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===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
Teachers: Elyon, Machiventa, Lantarnek
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==Facilitators==
 
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===Teacher: [[Elyon]], [[Machiventa]], [[Lantarnek]]===
Topics:
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===TR: [[Jonathan]], [[Mark Rogers]]===
 
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==Session==
Positive Spiritual Perspective,
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===Opening===
 
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Elyon (Jonathan TR): Greetings to you, my friends. This is Elyon. You are my fellow shipmates. As your captain I would speak today on thoughts, as it has been part of your discussion. Perhaps more correctly I would say it is more about attitude in general than thinking specific thoughts.
Spiritual Preparedness,
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===Lesson===
 
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Spirit Infusion
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February 9, 2003
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* Elyon (Jonathan TR): Greetings to you, my friends. This is Elyon. You are my fellow shipmates. As your captain I would speak today on thoughts, as it has been part of your discussion. Perhaps more correctly I would say it is more about attitude in general than thinking specific thoughts.
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The captain of a vessel must of necessity ever be on the lookout for obstructions, objects below the surface, which may be hazardous to the smooth sailing of that ship. Any good captain will avoid these danger points. However it is not the goal of the captain to spend every waking moment looking for the dangers and avoiding them. Rather it is the goal of the captain to locate the shipping channels, the deep waters, and to make headway within them.
 
The captain of a vessel must of necessity ever be on the lookout for obstructions, objects below the surface, which may be hazardous to the smooth sailing of that ship. Any good captain will avoid these danger points. However it is not the goal of the captain to spend every waking moment looking for the dangers and avoiding them. Rather it is the goal of the captain to locate the shipping channels, the deep waters, and to make headway within them.
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I have finished my comments. I am with you, and I am in the company of other teachers. Thank you.
 
I have finished my comments. I am with you, and I am in the company of other teachers. Thank you.
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* Machiventa (Mark): I greet you as well. This is Machiventa. I want to bring you my thanks for gleaning my words from other sources. They were addressed to a different crowd, but I was well aware they were available to many others including yourselves. It is impressive for you to pick them out and see them as worthy of spending time on in your discussions, as they were meant for you as well.
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Machiventa (Mark): I greet you as well. This is Machiventa. I want to bring you my thanks for gleaning my words from other sources. They were addressed to a different crowd, but I was well aware they were available to many others including yourselves. It is impressive for you to pick them out and see them as worthy of spending time on in your discussions, as they were meant for you as well.
    
There has been a renewed restlessness among the troops for the next command to charge. It is indeed an honor to see the troops so willing to assemble and awaiting to be given the command to move forward. This picture of the assembled troops is warming to the heart of any leader, yet I am struck with the humor in such an image from my perspective. Where you may see yourselves as poised, trained, and prepared for any upcoming challenge, I see you as in the trenches, foxholes, and employing every means at your disposal, engaged thoroughly in this excursion. It is a natural human tendency to think in terms of large events, momentous occurrences, to rally and challenge the forces in order for you to feel as though you have been enlisted and are engaged in the process when in fact the training and the exercises you have been undergoing for some number of years now have also been a part of this struggle for you. Therefore I see you more as gaining experience in battle rather than as waiting for the signal to charge. True, that you may always consider loftier goals, higher ideals of accomplishment, and these are what drive you forward to take the next step and knock on the next door. Meanwhile do not shortchange yourself that you are not involved in all that is transpiring around you. While you are preparing for your next great mission you are becoming soiled with the experience of your maneuvers so as to provide you with a broader framework and a more familiar comfort zone in the arena of engagement with spirit.
 
There has been a renewed restlessness among the troops for the next command to charge. It is indeed an honor to see the troops so willing to assemble and awaiting to be given the command to move forward. This picture of the assembled troops is warming to the heart of any leader, yet I am struck with the humor in such an image from my perspective. Where you may see yourselves as poised, trained, and prepared for any upcoming challenge, I see you as in the trenches, foxholes, and employing every means at your disposal, engaged thoroughly in this excursion. It is a natural human tendency to think in terms of large events, momentous occurrences, to rally and challenge the forces in order for you to feel as though you have been enlisted and are engaged in the process when in fact the training and the exercises you have been undergoing for some number of years now have also been a part of this struggle for you. Therefore I see you more as gaining experience in battle rather than as waiting for the signal to charge. True, that you may always consider loftier goals, higher ideals of accomplishment, and these are what drive you forward to take the next step and knock on the next door. Meanwhile do not shortchange yourself that you are not involved in all that is transpiring around you. While you are preparing for your next great mission you are becoming soiled with the experience of your maneuvers so as to provide you with a broader framework and a more familiar comfort zone in the arena of engagement with spirit.
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Kirk: There’s been a new energy source discovered on this planet by an inventor and given to Steven Greer and his organization to be tested and disseminated on this planet. Is this the energy source The Urantia Book alludes to as having not yet been discovered? {after a long pause} Is this too terrestrial a question?
 
Kirk: There’s been a new energy source discovered on this planet by an inventor and given to Steven Greer and his organization to be tested and disseminated on this planet. Is this the energy source The Urantia Book alludes to as having not yet been discovered? {after a long pause} Is this too terrestrial a question?
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* Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon returning. It is important that we teachers also adhere to the mandates of the Urantia Papers revelation and not over revealing what mankind will soon discover. I would support your investigation, for you are perceiving properly the emergence of new technology. This source of energy is still beyond the conceptual framework of the scientists. What is uncovering for you now in the investigation of technology as a manifestation of the energy applied, and this will lead to enlarging the human scientific understanding, which will reveal the energy and its source, which is creating the phenomenon that is detectable.
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Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon returning. It is important that we teachers also adhere to the mandates of the Urantia Papers revelation and not over revealing what mankind will soon discover. I would support your investigation, for you are perceiving properly the emergence of new technology. This source of energy is still beyond the conceptual framework of the scientists. What is uncovering for you now in the investigation of technology as a manifestation of the energy applied, and this will lead to enlarging the human scientific understanding, which will reveal the energy and its source, which is creating the phenomenon that is detectable.
    
I hope this has helped.
 
I hope this has helped.
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Kirk: Yes, thanks.
 
Kirk: Yes, thanks.
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* Lantarnek: This is Lantarnek. Greetings. I wish to follow my Melchizedek commander with a followup comment, as he has encouraged each of you to infuse spirit into your lives in every way and has acknowledged your preparedness, not only your own understanding of willingness, but your teachers’ perspective of your preparedness. You may ask, ”How may I infuse spirit when I do not feel spirit fused or do not feel the spirit inflowing that I may let the spirit flow out?”
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Lantarnek: This is Lantarnek. Greetings. I wish to follow my Melchizedek commander with a followup comment, as he has encouraged each of you to infuse spirit into your lives in every way and has acknowledged your preparedness, not only your own understanding of willingness, but your teachers’ perspective of your preparedness. You may ask, ”How may I infuse spirit when I do not feel spirit fused or do not feel the spirit inflowing that I may let the spirit flow out?”
    
Elyon spoke of the collector, and this is the individual who is seeking to be infilled with spirit. Machiventa asks you to be a contributor, one who infuses spirit into your activities. To be filled with spirit, I ask, where within yourself does spirit go? Beneath your skin? Into your muscle tissues? Within the hollows of your bones? Resident in your organs? Penetrating your brain? Is this spirit in the mind? My friends, you are all filled with spirit, for did not Michael say that when he left this world he would pour out his spirit upon all?
 
Elyon spoke of the collector, and this is the individual who is seeking to be infilled with spirit. Machiventa asks you to be a contributor, one who infuses spirit into your activities. To be filled with spirit, I ask, where within yourself does spirit go? Beneath your skin? Into your muscle tissues? Within the hollows of your bones? Resident in your organs? Penetrating your brain? Is this spirit in the mind? My friends, you are all filled with spirit, for did not Michael say that when he left this world he would pour out his spirit upon all?
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Mark: I don’t know who this is but I am getting...
 
Mark: I don’t know who this is but I am getting...
 
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===Closing===
* unidentified: As a final note, an attempt to soften the tone, that Machiventa has spoken of warriors and fields and commanders and missions and struggles and that if we are able to shift the attitude, one can see these fields as fields of play and fields of anticipation, even joy and accomplishment and grandeur, that we need not have an attitude or an approach of hardship but rather one of privilege to walk upon these fields to bring with us the joy that the engagement provides. To spread this joy as part of our spirit infusement in itself is raising the entire interaction to a higher spiritual plane. While this task is full of struggle, at times it is also a source of great joy and satisfaction and elevation, and that we should never lose sight of these objectives as well in our mission statement.
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unidentified: As a final note, an attempt to soften the tone, that Machiventa has spoken of warriors and fields and commanders and missions and struggles and that if we are able to shift the attitude, one can see these fields as fields of play and fields of anticipation, even joy and accomplishment and grandeur, that we need not have an attitude or an approach of hardship but rather one of privilege to walk upon these fields to bring with us the joy that the engagement provides. To spread this joy as part of our spirit infusement in itself is raising the entire interaction to a higher spiritual plane. While this task is full of struggle, at times it is also a source of great joy and satisfaction and elevation, and that we should never lose sight of these objectives as well in our mission statement.
    
Thank you.
 
Thank you.
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Jonathan: I imagine this battlefield like a paintball game where the paint balls are spirit. When you are hit you get spirit on you. However, that falls apart since in a paintball game when you are hit you are out. Perhaps it’s more like the game of tag where when you are touched you are “it”, spirit is with you.
 
Jonathan: I imagine this battlefield like a paintball game where the paint balls are spirit. When you are hit you get spirit on you. However, that falls apart since in a paintball game when you are hit you are out. Perhaps it’s more like the game of tag where when you are touched you are “it”, spirit is with you.
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: 2003]]