2007-06-10-The Part & The Whole

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Topic: The Part & The Whole

Group: N. Idaho TeaM

Facilitators

Teacher: Monjoronson, Elyon

TR: Mark Rogers

Session

Opening

Monjoronson (Mark TR): Greetings once again. I am Monjoronson, pleased to join in your circle of light, the energy field that you create with your sheer force of will. It is a pleasure not only to contribute to this circuitry of understanding but to merely witness your offerings to the pool of wisdom that you make for the benefit of yourselves and each other in this process.

Lesson

Likewise I will throw in my contribution to this pool of wisdom we are forming. I will seize upon the principle stated earlier of identification and will discuss the many levels that this may apply to you and perhaps give you something to consider as you merrily go along your way. It was mentioned the distinction between identifying yourself with the part and identifying yourself with the whole. Herein is your great opportunity. Herein is your journey of discovery.

You all begin in rather full realization that you are a fragment, a piece, a part, an individual unto yourself, and you are correct; there is no other individual exactly like you. Your journey is an individual journey. Your experience is individual specifically to you. Having experienced this being afloat in your own boat so to speak since your earliest memory, it is easy for you to assume that you will forever be steering your own little ship and be ultimately contained in your paradigm of thinking to the experiences involving you as an individual, separate from all others.

But your spiritual growth to this point has brought you into the awareness that as well you are a part of a much larger creation, that you are a fragment of something, a piece of a gigantic puzzle, a component of the whole. In your exploration to discover your relationship to the big mother ship you are confronted with this idea of separation and inclusion. Your posture in living your lives is largely geared around maintaining your individual vessel and navigating your individual journey, but you are learning that your journey is bringing you to, not only the realization, but the acceptance that are you are as well a fragment of the whole, part of the whole.

This represents a major shift in your awareness and consciousness when you can begin to let go of the concept that for eternity you are destined to go it alone in favor of the concept that you are journeying toward unification and being reunited with the great First Source and Center of all. To the degree that you can embrace this reality you can access the bigger picture; you can in fact manifest attributes of the divine if you will but allow yourselves to realize your connection to the divine.

The divine is where you came from; it is where you are returning to. You are on but a separate side journey gathering experience all the while, growing your individual souls and navigating your way back to the whole. Now, as a part of the whole, do you have connection to the whole? Do you have access to the whole? Do you have resources that are parts of the whole? These are your questions to consider. Do you allow yourselves to be in awareness that, as a part of the whole, you manifest qualities of the whole? Or do you consider that are so far apart and distinct that you cannot, by virtue of your separation, manifest attributes of the divine, of the whole?

I tell you that you will all most certainly find your connection, uncover your ties that bind you, the part to the whole, and in so doing you then may begin to manifest wherever you may find yourselves the characteristics and nature of the First Source and Center of which you are a part and to which you will return.

But this journey that you take now is one of experience to gather all the experience of what it means to be separate, inferior, incomplete; to experience the feeling of separation and aloneness so that you may choose the opposite, so that you may access of your own free will your connection to the whole, not being content with your experiences of materialism and isolation.

That is what this initial journey is designed to provide for you, the contrast, the realization that you are, yes, a part, an incomplete fragment, but that you do belong to the complete whole. You are also part of that and as such you are entitled to the manifestation of the nature and character of the divine. This plan seems simple to outline, but as you know there are many great challenges along the way, many opportunities for you to choose and re-choose your orientation, your spiritual posture, your identification of your relationship to your divine parents and the First Source and Center. Every time you make a spiritualized choice that brings you closer to the whole there is less separation; there is less distinction, there is certainly less doubt and uncertainty.

Taking these steps little by little you travel in your journey back home, and you bring with you vast contextual experiences which are treasured in the experience of the Supreme. Yes, you are a part, a piece of the puzzle, a fragment of the divine, but you are a part of the divine.

If you truly consider what this means you will realize that as a part you have access to the whole, that you are developing to be divine; you are growing in this awareness of this divine relationship, and you are coming closer by degree to your divine parents and to the First Source and Center of all. Therefore I encourage you to shift your seat of observation. What if you were not bobbing alone by yourselves? What if you were part of a great fleet, part of a gigantic undertaking? Just one of many involved in the same experiences, the same encounters with choice. More like the member of a gigantic organization where is you belong to this organization . ...

If you are a soldier your commanders know and provide you with support wherever your assignment may be. Likewise are you all members of a gigantic organization who are lovingly cared for and whose superiors know where you are and can provide you with great support from the whole. This should provide you with a sense of belonging, an attitude of inclusiveness that not only are you a member of this gigantic, loving, organization but all those around you who are navigating their vessels and perhaps bumping into each other and bumping into you along the way are also attempting this navigation back home with you, that you all have this in common even among yourselves.

There is nothing that you can conceive of which is outside of this connection, of this belonging, of this inclusiveness. We are all together in this; we are all of God. All that happens is of God. We are discovering this day by day and embracing this hour by hour as we begin to establish greater and greater connections with the mother ship, with the source of all.

We lose our fear of going it alone, of uncertainty and doubts that cannot be answered, and rather we signal to our Parents our desire to know the way, and they unerringly will provide us with direction. But there are many who do not understand this connection, who do not have this communication to establish that they are as well related to the whole and to those who have yet to discover who they are and their . .. with the Supreme.

They will feel isolated and partial and incomplete and lacking. That is their experience and a necessary aspect of their growth. It is those feelings that will drive them to seek connection, to find their relationship to the whole, that they may be secure in being a part, just as all of you are feeling more and more secure even though you are in your individual vessels. You now have the support of the mother ship, and this provides you with some sense of security and peace.

Likewise will all of your brothers and sisters who have yet to find this connection and foster it eventually come about and turn their direction towards the journey back home, the reunification of the part with the whole. So it is and so it shall be, and it is a pleasure to be along with you for the ride. I will conclude my remarks to allow space that there might be others. I leave you with my deep gratitude for this opportunity to be with you. Farewell.

Elyon: Greetings, this is Elyon. I am intrigued by the analogies of the individual vessels and the mother ship. I would steer slightly to one direction and in response to the question: Are the you the part or are you the whole? I would say, my friends, you are both. You are the whole made manifest as the part. The attributes and nature of the whole are contained within you as the part.

The part is reflective of the whole. The part has the same nature as the whole. When you consider that you are simply out there on your own, consider that you are a manifestation of the divine in that moment, in that place.

Consider that you are God incarnate as mortal of the realm. It is but a fraction but it is of the same nature and substance. The child grows up to resemble the parents; likewise does the fragment return home and reunite and become one with the whole. You are not nearly so separate as you consider yourselves to be because, as you are coming to understand the whole concept of manifestation and subsequent materialization, you are coming to understand that there is no time necessary in this equation, no particular space required; that these principles are unbound by your considerations of the when, the how, and the where.

So it is that you can be a reflection of the divine where you are at any moment, at any place. So it is that the divine can be reflected through all the many fragments. So it is the desire of the First Source and Center that you be a point of reflection of the whole out into the fragmented world of materialism and manifestation. You are each one little receiving crystals that can tune into the vibration sent out by the First Source and Center and, receiving these signals, you may then project them out into your "real" world. In this way you are reflectors of the divine. It passes through you; it is tinged with your color, your nature, your hue, and then radiates out to others as a reflection of the divine.

If you will only assume this role with more intention, more direction of your will, then you can indeed act as a lens which can focus and direct these beams which you receive from on high. Each one of you is a focal point for the divine to be infused out to all the world. And at some point in your process of realization you will assume this role with much more intention and purpose, and you will indeed shine and direct the Father's love, the Father's light, out to all the world where those who are in darkness will see it and respond to your signal. They will want to know where you get this light.

They will come and ask you, "How is it that you have this light? Where did you get it?" And you as a knowing child of God will say, "This light comes from God of which I am a piece, and you are as well. And we may direct this light out through us because we are attached, we are part of something magnificent of a great whole who provides us with this light." And you may even begin to act as if you are connected to this whole and in so acting so you shall be. There is no real distance, there is no time required, there is no place you need to be, there is no set of circumstances that needs to be just right.

All that is necessary is your willingness, your desire to identify with the whole and relinquish your idea of separatism that you are only the part. You are both, my friends, experiencing this life as the part, but as well you are comprised of the whole. You have access to the whole at any time you so choose. It is where you will decide to project yourself from. Are you projecting yourself as the fragment separate and incomplete?

Or do you choose to project yourself as part of the grandness and totality of the whole? You may do either. The choice is yours, and the experience along the way is what you are gaining; it is what is of value in this journey; it is what you will keep throughout this exercise. So navigate your individual vessels as you so choose and as you so desire. Point in whatever direction you deem fit for your journey to benefit. But realize that you are as well part of a gigantic organization, that your coordinates are known to your superiors.

You are part of a big puzzle whose pieces may be spread about, but those in charge are well aware of where they are and their significance to the whole. I so much enjoyed these images of navigation, of bobbing about pointing your vessel, of receiving your orders from the mother ship, of developing your connection to the larger project. They are interesting to consider given the implications of the vessel that you are in in this very moment. I appreciate your attention and will withdraw from this forum leaving you with my admiration for your process of discovery that I observe even in this hour. Thank you. Farewell.