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==Heading==
===Topic: ''Change, Joining Our Identity''===
===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Monjoronson]], [[Lantarnek]], [[LIGHT]], [[Elyon]]===
===TR: [[Mark Rogers]], [[Jonathan]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Monjoronson (Mark TR): Greetings, I am
Monjoronson here to join the stream of your
conversation. I would like to play with one of
the concepts offered here today, this idea of
building a better world.
===Lesson===
It is a common desire among the brotherhood
of man right now to see some change, even to make
some change happen, and there is great
consideration given at this time as to what
exactly it is one should or could do to facilitate
this change, to promote this change, indeed to
build this change that they would see or have. I
would remind you that much of the foundation, much
of the groundwork, necessary for such change to
occur is done within, that is, you may use your
own individual intentions to build such a
foundation, to create such a framework, to prepare
the grounds, for this more material aspect of the
building of the future which surely will follow.
Before there must be this material change there
must be this individual change, this preparing of
the changers in advance, and that is purely a
personal and individual undertaking, for when you
have been transformed within it is easy to be
about the task of transforming your environment
without to reflect the changes you have already
encountered within. So there is a definite time
and place for both the inner preparatory
activities preparing the self to expand and change
and grow and as well there is certainly the
external opportunity to be in action in that form
of service that is suitable to the material realm.
So it is with your planet. These changes
you see in your ideal minds may not be outwardly
imposed upon others by virtue of mandates, rules,
or laws. They must come from within, even from
the collective within, before they will be
embraced, taken up, and made real in the lives of
the collective. So while you consider all there
is to be done in this future of making change,
creating change, building change, then consider
that there is homework to be done in advance so
that the material manifestations of change may
flow smoothly from the changes that have occurred
individually within. Oftentimes it may not appear
as though the two may be related, one appears to
be so self oriented, even self centered. But
having spent the time and discipline in the
preparation, one may transform this preparation
into the material manifestation of all that the
homework doing has made possible.
I thank you for the opportunity to join your
thought stream today once again. It is always a
pleasure to commingle our thoughts, one of the
forms of our manifestation together, just as we
mingle our energy signatures, our personal
presences together. I now step back to allow this
forum to be used by others. Thank you.
Kathy: Earlier when we were thinking about
health and healing for our world I had a picture
of our world with a small flame of light and
arrows coming from every direction toward it
bringing in spiritual pressure on our world and
this came to mind: “We are one. Health and
healing for our world.” Then the phrase came to
me, “We are the ones.”
Lantarnek (Jonathan): Lantarnek in
attendance today. I salute you all. I will speak
of joining our identity by use of the word
“belonging”.
When you are in search of the spiritual
family you are in longing to make the connection,
to join the fellowship. Once you have identified
yourself as a child of God, then you come to the
state of belonging as in a membership. However,
that word “membership” implies the ability to
withdraw, to cease belonging. Those who have
truly established their faith cross a boundary
line from which there is no return, and that
belonging is now of infinite duration. This is a
faith that is fully assured, that is settled in
its status.
But you know that while you have reached
that level, your growth has not ceased, for that
matter, it may have intensified in your grasp of
higher realities. It may even have brought you
tribulation as you wrestle with the great truths
of the spiritual kingdom. But you have with you a
persistence, for you know beyond doubt that a
regress to former states is no longer an option.
You have another word: “Beware”. It is
often used as in “be wary”, but I offer to you the
interpretation, “Be aware”. You know that to
practice swimming you must swim, that the practice
is the act itself. As you seek to become more
aware as a spiritual conscious citizen of this
planet, simply be aware. There will be no time at
which you attain awareness. As in swimming, just
swim.
Those who function on this planet with an
active spiritual consciousness are always looking
with an eye for service and the spread of love and
the elevation of other souls to that state of
belonging and being aware. Some may ask, “But how
do I attain this state of certainty and
perspective?” I will use another word, “behave”.
While the gifts of the kingdom of God are freely
given, they must also be accepted, taken in, and
owned. There is where your work upon your own
being is focused, in the having of the qualities
of a being of spiritual light, to take that which
you perceive as a character trait of value and
remove it from being an outward goal to being an
inward attainment. Just like the practice of
swimming, you will practice behaving until you be-
have. You may not know the moment when you have
switched from the effort to achieve to the
achievement, but the mere act itself will bring
about the reality.
There are many aspirants who diligently
strive for higher levels of spirit being, of
presence, of consciousness, and they work
diligently that they may attain and recognize that
goal. There comes a time when one of such
undertakings must acknowledge attainment and
accept the understanding. That is the true
belonging. There are others who are flooded with
an intense spiritual illumination and feel that
they have been propelled into the family of God
instantaneously but struggle with the change of
character and the readaptation of lifestyle. This
is the effort of behaving, not to conform but to
become.
All your religions emphasize paying
attention to your spiritual dimension, to the
universal truths revealed and reexpressed in many
forms that will assist you in your unfoldment.
This is why we emphasize intention, for it focuses
the mind with purpose and wakes you up to the
greater context of all your efforts and actions.
To bring greater peace in this world all
peoples will eventually attain the state of
belonging, and the tendency to confront and
challenge one another will cease to be warlike and
will transform itself into cooperative,
constructive solutions. Peace upon your planet is
not to be everyone just like one another and
therefore we are happy. It is a beautiful balance
of contrasts in harmony in a loving, supportive
association, as the image of the praying hands.
I make way for others. Thank you for your
attention.
Light (Mark): And I make my way into this
arena, I am Light here to work once again a little
bit more with the theme of light.
You were offered the image of seeing your
world with a small flame, a small light that has
been ignited. In this season of creating warmth
for yourselves, many of you can very well relate
to the idea and the imagery of lighting a fire and
how in the beginning stages it starts small and
then fuel is added. You have all had the
experience of expressing your intention to this
material creation of fire that it be accelerated,
and so you have used your vehicle and taken in a
deep breath and focused your mouth to blow out
this breath with your intention onto the coals
that are igniting this fire. As a result you have
witnessed the fire has been accelerated; the coals
have been fanned by this intention of your being,
and the elements necessary for this fire to burn
have been altered by your very intention to add
your own contribution to this equation of oxygen
and fuel and flame. Right before your eyes this
fire which would of its normal accord grow at its
own rate has been accelerated by your desire that
it be so and the application of your intention
through your vehicle to make it so.
The process in seeing your world accelerated
in this process of fueling these divine flames is
very similar. It is quite possible for you to fan
these flames with the very same intention and
purpose that you would use in your material
experience, to simply focus your being and channel
the energies that you have command over and direct
that each breath taken is a breath you intend to
fan the flames of spiritual growth and awareness
on your world. See this imagery in your mind’s
eye and that you do indeed have a direct impact
when you approach this situation with this
intention and with this purpose to effect change.
So it is that you may be a powerful force for the
acceleration of what is a natural process by your
very act of desiring to use yourself as a vehicle
to cause this acceleration. Rally your intention
and project it forward even with the breath even
as you would to the coals. This intention will
certainly fan the flames that you envision and
that you can even feel the warmth and the glow of
in the process.
One more chance to use light and to use the
principle that you are already keenly aware of in
the application and direction that your own
physical being is suited to direct.
I am grateful as well for this opportunity
to approach you with another image of light.
Farewell and may your week be filled with light,
love, and joy.
Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon inspired by
Light’s address to you I offer also an image. You
are aware of Jesus saying that when you light a
lamp you do not put it under a basket but set it
on a lamppost that the light may be freely spread.
I will offer another tack to this image.
You are aware that there are things about
you, so to speak, states of being, mannerisms,
traits some of which you are able to adjust and
modify or eliminate or those of which you can
adopt and become. But there are other qualities
that you will be frustrated with in not being able
to alter, for they are a strict condition of your
being on the level of life experience in which you
are on this planet or by way of the biological
configuration of your body. So you are required
to live with and adjust to these inflexible
conditions and qualities.
Let us return to the lamp underneath the
basket. May I call this stillness? While you are
under this basket, while you are feeling this
caged-in condition by some quality you wish to
remove that your light might shine, remember you
can turn up the light, increase its luminosity to
the point that its brilliance can go through every
crack, every opening, in that basket, become so
brilliant as to make the basket impossible to see.
This is how you may live with those things about
you which you may never remove: by turning up the
light and obscuring it in the brilliance.
Thank you.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: N. Idaho TeaM]]
[[Category: Monjoronson]]
[[Category: Lantarnek]]
[[Category: LIGHT]]
[[Category: Elyon]]
[[Category: Mark Rogers]]
[[Category: Jonathan]]
[[Category: Change]]
[[Category: Identity]]
[[Category: Light]]
[[Category: 2009]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Change, Joining Our Identity''===
===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Monjoronson]], [[Lantarnek]], [[LIGHT]], [[Elyon]]===
===TR: [[Mark Rogers]], [[Jonathan]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Monjoronson (Mark TR): Greetings, I am
Monjoronson here to join the stream of your
conversation. I would like to play with one of
the concepts offered here today, this idea of
building a better world.
===Lesson===
It is a common desire among the brotherhood
of man right now to see some change, even to make
some change happen, and there is great
consideration given at this time as to what
exactly it is one should or could do to facilitate
this change, to promote this change, indeed to
build this change that they would see or have. I
would remind you that much of the foundation, much
of the groundwork, necessary for such change to
occur is done within, that is, you may use your
own individual intentions to build such a
foundation, to create such a framework, to prepare
the grounds, for this more material aspect of the
building of the future which surely will follow.
Before there must be this material change there
must be this individual change, this preparing of
the changers in advance, and that is purely a
personal and individual undertaking, for when you
have been transformed within it is easy to be
about the task of transforming your environment
without to reflect the changes you have already
encountered within. So there is a definite time
and place for both the inner preparatory
activities preparing the self to expand and change
and grow and as well there is certainly the
external opportunity to be in action in that form
of service that is suitable to the material realm.
So it is with your planet. These changes
you see in your ideal minds may not be outwardly
imposed upon others by virtue of mandates, rules,
or laws. They must come from within, even from
the collective within, before they will be
embraced, taken up, and made real in the lives of
the collective. So while you consider all there
is to be done in this future of making change,
creating change, building change, then consider
that there is homework to be done in advance so
that the material manifestations of change may
flow smoothly from the changes that have occurred
individually within. Oftentimes it may not appear
as though the two may be related, one appears to
be so self oriented, even self centered. But
having spent the time and discipline in the
preparation, one may transform this preparation
into the material manifestation of all that the
homework doing has made possible.
I thank you for the opportunity to join your
thought stream today once again. It is always a
pleasure to commingle our thoughts, one of the
forms of our manifestation together, just as we
mingle our energy signatures, our personal
presences together. I now step back to allow this
forum to be used by others. Thank you.
Kathy: Earlier when we were thinking about
health and healing for our world I had a picture
of our world with a small flame of light and
arrows coming from every direction toward it
bringing in spiritual pressure on our world and
this came to mind: “We are one. Health and
healing for our world.” Then the phrase came to
me, “We are the ones.”
Lantarnek (Jonathan): Lantarnek in
attendance today. I salute you all. I will speak
of joining our identity by use of the word
“belonging”.
When you are in search of the spiritual
family you are in longing to make the connection,
to join the fellowship. Once you have identified
yourself as a child of God, then you come to the
state of belonging as in a membership. However,
that word “membership” implies the ability to
withdraw, to cease belonging. Those who have
truly established their faith cross a boundary
line from which there is no return, and that
belonging is now of infinite duration. This is a
faith that is fully assured, that is settled in
its status.
But you know that while you have reached
that level, your growth has not ceased, for that
matter, it may have intensified in your grasp of
higher realities. It may even have brought you
tribulation as you wrestle with the great truths
of the spiritual kingdom. But you have with you a
persistence, for you know beyond doubt that a
regress to former states is no longer an option.
You have another word: “Beware”. It is
often used as in “be wary”, but I offer to you the
interpretation, “Be aware”. You know that to
practice swimming you must swim, that the practice
is the act itself. As you seek to become more
aware as a spiritual conscious citizen of this
planet, simply be aware. There will be no time at
which you attain awareness. As in swimming, just
swim.
Those who function on this planet with an
active spiritual consciousness are always looking
with an eye for service and the spread of love and
the elevation of other souls to that state of
belonging and being aware. Some may ask, “But how
do I attain this state of certainty and
perspective?” I will use another word, “behave”.
While the gifts of the kingdom of God are freely
given, they must also be accepted, taken in, and
owned. There is where your work upon your own
being is focused, in the having of the qualities
of a being of spiritual light, to take that which
you perceive as a character trait of value and
remove it from being an outward goal to being an
inward attainment. Just like the practice of
swimming, you will practice behaving until you be-
have. You may not know the moment when you have
switched from the effort to achieve to the
achievement, but the mere act itself will bring
about the reality.
There are many aspirants who diligently
strive for higher levels of spirit being, of
presence, of consciousness, and they work
diligently that they may attain and recognize that
goal. There comes a time when one of such
undertakings must acknowledge attainment and
accept the understanding. That is the true
belonging. There are others who are flooded with
an intense spiritual illumination and feel that
they have been propelled into the family of God
instantaneously but struggle with the change of
character and the readaptation of lifestyle. This
is the effort of behaving, not to conform but to
become.
All your religions emphasize paying
attention to your spiritual dimension, to the
universal truths revealed and reexpressed in many
forms that will assist you in your unfoldment.
This is why we emphasize intention, for it focuses
the mind with purpose and wakes you up to the
greater context of all your efforts and actions.
To bring greater peace in this world all
peoples will eventually attain the state of
belonging, and the tendency to confront and
challenge one another will cease to be warlike and
will transform itself into cooperative,
constructive solutions. Peace upon your planet is
not to be everyone just like one another and
therefore we are happy. It is a beautiful balance
of contrasts in harmony in a loving, supportive
association, as the image of the praying hands.
I make way for others. Thank you for your
attention.
Light (Mark): And I make my way into this
arena, I am Light here to work once again a little
bit more with the theme of light.
You were offered the image of seeing your
world with a small flame, a small light that has
been ignited. In this season of creating warmth
for yourselves, many of you can very well relate
to the idea and the imagery of lighting a fire and
how in the beginning stages it starts small and
then fuel is added. You have all had the
experience of expressing your intention to this
material creation of fire that it be accelerated,
and so you have used your vehicle and taken in a
deep breath and focused your mouth to blow out
this breath with your intention onto the coals
that are igniting this fire. As a result you have
witnessed the fire has been accelerated; the coals
have been fanned by this intention of your being,
and the elements necessary for this fire to burn
have been altered by your very intention to add
your own contribution to this equation of oxygen
and fuel and flame. Right before your eyes this
fire which would of its normal accord grow at its
own rate has been accelerated by your desire that
it be so and the application of your intention
through your vehicle to make it so.
The process in seeing your world accelerated
in this process of fueling these divine flames is
very similar. It is quite possible for you to fan
these flames with the very same intention and
purpose that you would use in your material
experience, to simply focus your being and channel
the energies that you have command over and direct
that each breath taken is a breath you intend to
fan the flames of spiritual growth and awareness
on your world. See this imagery in your mind’s
eye and that you do indeed have a direct impact
when you approach this situation with this
intention and with this purpose to effect change.
So it is that you may be a powerful force for the
acceleration of what is a natural process by your
very act of desiring to use yourself as a vehicle
to cause this acceleration. Rally your intention
and project it forward even with the breath even
as you would to the coals. This intention will
certainly fan the flames that you envision and
that you can even feel the warmth and the glow of
in the process.
One more chance to use light and to use the
principle that you are already keenly aware of in
the application and direction that your own
physical being is suited to direct.
I am grateful as well for this opportunity
to approach you with another image of light.
Farewell and may your week be filled with light,
love, and joy.
Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon inspired by
Light’s address to you I offer also an image. You
are aware of Jesus saying that when you light a
lamp you do not put it under a basket but set it
on a lamppost that the light may be freely spread.
I will offer another tack to this image.
You are aware that there are things about
you, so to speak, states of being, mannerisms,
traits some of which you are able to adjust and
modify or eliminate or those of which you can
adopt and become. But there are other qualities
that you will be frustrated with in not being able
to alter, for they are a strict condition of your
being on the level of life experience in which you
are on this planet or by way of the biological
configuration of your body. So you are required
to live with and adjust to these inflexible
conditions and qualities.
Let us return to the lamp underneath the
basket. May I call this stillness? While you are
under this basket, while you are feeling this
caged-in condition by some quality you wish to
remove that your light might shine, remember you
can turn up the light, increase its luminosity to
the point that its brilliance can go through every
crack, every opening, in that basket, become so
brilliant as to make the basket impossible to see.
This is how you may live with those things about
you which you may never remove: by turning up the
light and obscuring it in the brilliance.
Thank you.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: N. Idaho TeaM]]
[[Category: Monjoronson]]
[[Category: Lantarnek]]
[[Category: LIGHT]]
[[Category: Elyon]]
[[Category: Mark Rogers]]
[[Category: Jonathan]]
[[Category: Change]]
[[Category: Identity]]
[[Category: Light]]
[[Category: 2009]]
