I have been wanting to explore the advent of Jonathan, Rick Giles, to 
our 'teaching staff' here in the Teaching Mission.

The Latest transcript from North Idaho (No. Idaho Team 2013-05-19) 
contains a wonderful lesson of his
                  about the changes that we are going 
through here as Urantian participants
                  in the correcting time. He is a 
remarkable teacher as he was a remarkable
                  associate and friend here with us.

As one of us he was a man who had
                  a business and supported his family, 
was part of the North Idaho TeaM
                  as a T/R and as a student and 
participated in the Association of Light
                  and Life as an officer.

He died suddenly and unexpectedly and now has
                  joined the 'teaching 
staff' of the North Idaho TeaM seemingly at their
                  invitation. Here is a 
transcript of him addressing the North Idaho
                  TeaM 0n April 21, 2013:

"Mark: I'm inspired to invoke the presence of our friend Jonathan [Rick
Giles]. I have the lyrics to one of his songs which I would share to get
the
                  ball rolling here this morning. He wrote a song called gospel in
which he
                  distills down in four lines some of the basic tenants of the
gospel of the
                  Master. The first tenant is the description of love in
which he says love
                  is the desire to do good to others, the desire to do
good to each other.
                  These are rounds which go round and round as we have
sung at these Michael
                  birthday gatherings. The next round is I love my
God with all my heart, all
                  my mind, strength and soul. The next is I
will love my neighbor as myself,
                  I will love my neighbor as myself. The
last line is I will do for you as
                  you would do for me and you would do
for me as I would do for you and we
                  will treat each other as we will
come to see, the way God would treat each
                  of us, you and me. Thank you Rick.

"Jonathan: [Mark] Good morning this morning my friends, I am Jonathan
here willing to accept the offer made to participate with you here this
morning. I am also honored to have one of my compositions remembered and
I will weave this into the conversation, that the lyrics to such a song
as
                  this are as the pathways or the avenues you discussed earlier. Each
one is
                  a thought pattern which is distilled into its essence and when
revisited
                  repeatedly, can bring you to the essence of that thought
pattern. I take
                  for example the simple statement, the definition of
love, that it is simple,
                  it is just the desire to do good to each other.
It is not a complicated thing
                  but it is a multifaceted thing. It takes
on many many characteristics and
                  dimensions and yet in its most simple
and basic definition it all comes down
                  to the simple desire to do good
and everyone, anyone, has a relationship
                  with this; this concept resides
deep within everyone. They know it when they
                  experience it and most of
them would naturally refer to it as this sensation
                  of love.

"And so it is that you proceed to find the many pathways before
                  you in
the direction of your desires and after finding and traversing some
                  of
these pathways, you are then able to distill to the essence the meaning
and value contained in the pathway and by invoking the same symbol that
you design to stand for this avenue you are able to revisit it quickly
and easily. This is of course, one of the main values of prayer and
stillness,
                  to go revisit these spaces, to go check in again with the
stable island of
                  spirit that you find in these places. In so doing you
reinforce and re-infuse
                  this action with meaning and value and come away
from it enriched and you
                  find it even more attractive to revisit and
even easier to recreate with
                  each attempt made.

"This all hinges on your dedication of what resources
                  you have to
allocate, what energies you choose to donate because all these
                  pathways,
all these neural networks are formed as a result of your practice,
                  your
efforts, your repeated intentions. There is no substitute and so they
represent your choices, they represent your intentions, they are what
you have grown in the process by your own choosing and then they are
yours; as you are wont to say, you own them at this point and no one can
detract or take away from what you have gained and earned in the
process,
                  rather they accompany you as an aspect of your being once they
are internalized
                  and will be with you for the rest of your experience.
They will even be with
                  us all as we share these experiences into the
Supreme. They will benefit
                  us all, this learning of these pathways into
spirit, this dedication of individual
                  energies which represents such a
divine word oriented choice.

"Thank you very much for thinking of me. In this way I truly am part of
the group still and even further I thank you for inviting me to join and
making it possible by virtue of this network that we have built and
continue to support between us. It is a cherished link and so I cherish
it and I thank you. I will now open up the forum as I know there are
always
                  more participants eager to be involved. Good day to you all."

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The arrival of Jonathan as a TeaM Teacher is an event of very great 
import
                  to us here on this side of the "veil" as we have come to call the 
divide
                  between the seen material reality in which we live and the unseen 
morontia
                  reality in which we also abide. We are taught that there is no 
death
                  - which our beloved Master, Jesus, demonstrated upon His 
resurrection
                  but we have, nevertheless, continued to fear the event of 
death because
                  of our dark ignorance and our co-dependent relationships.

Jonathan's
                  return as a teacher has certainly enlarged our view of the 
afterlife
                  that was originally presented to us through the resurrection 
of Jesus.

These are all very significant teachings that are being presented to us 
by the Teaching Mission curriculum and I truly value it all.

Join me, if you will, in appreciation and thanksgiving for our Teaching 
Mission experience.