Olfana discusses Teacher & Thought Adjuster Guidance

[Susan Kimsey]

Hi everyone!

Here is the first transcript I've had a chance to type up from SpiritFest
98.
Olfana discusses aspects of Teacher and Thought Adjuster guidance.

Love, Susan

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Half Moon Bay, CA       June 19, 1998       Group Session:  SpiritFest 98
10:30 PM

Olfana:  There is much energy in this room for such a late hour, and I am
elated to be with you all this evening.  (Smiling)  I am the Teacher,
Olfana, and emotions flow through me strongly, as you can probably surmise.
I encourage all of you to “experiment” with yourselves this weekend.  Let
this be a moment in your life when you release yourself from any planned
expectations of how this event will play itself out.  Let there be an ease
in your emotional response to all possibilities that arise.  There are
benefits to allowing yourselves to be “in the moment” with others, and then
let the energies that exist around you enter into the equation.

(Smiling)  You can find yourself moved on the currents of this spiritual
guidance so much more easily, if you will stop paddling, my dear ones.  Let
us move you down the “river of life,’’ every now and then.  You are so busy
paddling through most of your days that it is quite understandable that,
even in a moment of recreation and camaraderie in these gatherings, you
still find the need to “slap the water” [with your paddles]--take control of
what you will do with your time.  But, I am encouraging you now to just
float, just lie back on this beautiful, fluid, support provided by the
Father, and see where the currents carry you.

We are never at a loss as to the possibilities of growth which we can
encourage within you, in these moments when you come together and allow us
to be the “propeller.”  We have many possible choices, in fact, as to what
may occur in any one conversation you may have, or the episode that may
occur, if you do, indeed, choose to walk outside and enjoy the view.  This
is not an abandonment of your own free will.  This is allowing us to
orchestrate --with you-- the choices that you will make.

Rest assured that this is, indeed, a powerful model of growth within your
life.  I cite, for instance, the prophets of this planet, those who have
been deeply inspired by God’s Knowledge, God’s Word, and God’s Gift of
Guidance.  And they, most certainly, learned to float with this current.
They gave up this sense of self-determination that would guide their life.
They often said, “My life, Father, is now yours.  Make of it what you will.”
What a beautiful gift to offer to God, my children--“Take my life, Father,
and make of it what you will.”

So, if you can, indeed, take this that I offer as inspiration, and just for
this weekend, let yourself open up to many new possibilities.  I believe you
will find yourself both surprised and intrigued at what may occur, what may
present itself in the way of new understanding, new relationships, new
possibilities, that will bear fruit in your lives.

I have held the floor long enough, now.  Are there any questions that you
might like to ask, perhaps just one or two?  And then I will most certainly
yield this focal point upon S for others in this room who also have much to
offer in the way of their TRing skills. [Long pause]  Is your silence
indicative of the fact that there are no questions, now?  This is perfectly
fine if this is the case.

Student:  (Smiling) I’m just trying to think of a question, Olfana.

Olfana:  (Smiling)  Very well.  I am merely checking my audience to make
sure that I am “in synch” with your energy.  (Group laughter)

Student:  I’d like to thank you for your river imagery and your suggestion
to “be in the flow.”

Olfana:  I tend to choose images from nature in my discussions of spiritual
truth because I feel they carry a powerful impact, and deeply affect your
ability to grasp the integrity of the truth I attempt to offer.  Thank you
very much for your compliment.  I am encouraged to hear what works well with
my students.  It helps me to clearly refine my own abilities in this
Teaching Mission, and my own role as an instructor.

Student:  I have a question, Olfana.

Olfana:  Yes.

Student:  It’s very difficult for most of us to tell the difference between
inner guidance from the Father and our own intuition.  Is there any means or
mechanism that you understand that would help us to better know the
difference between the two?

Olfana:  This is a most challenging and important question to be asking
yourself.  And I appreciate your raising it as a point of discussion.  We
grow in understanding through a process of stages.  (Smiling)  There is very
little in life where we move from point A to point Z with immediacy.  There
is always the sense of “one step at a time” as we move into a new zone,
whether it is of our understanding, of our experience, of our physical
capabilities, of our social expertise.  We learn through process.

Therefore, I would encourage you to see this, again, as a scale, stages of
understanding, where intuition
I would call forth the image, again, of the
Adjutant Mind Spirits.  There are always ways in which you are being
impressed by God, impressed by the spiritual level of your creation.  And
therefore, where we begin in our development, perhaps, feels much more
within an inner monologue.  And then, perhaps, this monologue develops into
what we might see as dialogue.  You have this stylized comedic image of the
good angel speaking into one ear and the little cute devil with a spiked
tail speaking into the other ear.  And definitely there is this “back and
forth” that, occurs within one’s mind as we face the more challenging, I
would say, “adult level” choices that we make.  And, more and more this
develops into the dialogue of “the self with the self” and can become,
indeed, most complex, most sophisticated, while still truly remaining within
the confines of one’s own mind.

But, in, I would call it, this mid-stage transition, as one is acquiring
what would be, indeed, a more adult level of experience and understanding,
there begins to develop this infusion of “something more.”  There are those
moments when suddenly the thought within our mind causes us to stop short--
“Hummm, Where did that come from?  That’s not the way I normally see things.
That doesn’t feel like ‘me.’  What is that?”  And for those who do not
choose a spiritually marked path, perhaps, there is no way to define what is
this “other thing.”  They lack the belief system, the terminology, the
reference points, to begin to say, “The Divine, now, speaks to me.”  But,
for those of you, clearly, in this room, you have reached for this further
ability to incorporate this into your understanding.  And, I would say to
you, that there is something truly experiential about this moment when The
Divine begins to speak-- with some level of clarity, some level of
authenticity and uniqueness--that you know, somehow, when you have been
given an understanding that was more than your own mind possessed.

As those moments occur, then comes the free will choice--Will you develop
this communication?  Will you honor with integrity and respect what you know
you hear within your mind and heart, or will you pass on, and leave it as
the echo that dies within your mind?  This will never be forced upon a
person.  But, as we, again, know in this room, each of our Adjusters longs
for this communication, longs for the sense of connection.  And I strain to
express the way in which you are embraced, reached toward, yearned for, by
this beloved Breath of God which also breathes within you.

Student:  May I play out a scenario, and then ask for your input?

Olfana:  Most certainly.  I would merely interject that I had a further
comment to make, beyond the Adjuster, on this other question of further
celestial guidance, but please speak now.

Student:  There are times when I’m absolutely positive that I am receiving
guidance because, in those times, it’s in the form of words that I
understand, and there’s no question in my mind where that’s coming from.
There’s a qualitative difference in what He says, and the way He says it,
and words from my Teacher.  There’s always a dramatic difference.  And for
me, experientially speaking, I know that that was my Thought Adjuster.

But, there are other times when, if I’m struggling with a problem, and I
suddenly get the answer, kind of like a light that goes on, that’s one level
that I’m thinking is intuition.  There are other times when I don’t have a
problem, but someone else has a problem, and I feel guided or nudged to do
or say a particular thing.  When I’m not cognizant enough of the Father, to
question, “Is this what you want me to do?” And I just let that be, and I
back off and go on about my day or whatever, within an hour or so I get that
nudge again to go in that direction, make that phone call, make that
contact, or whatever the case may be.  And if I continue to ignore it,
always through hindsight, I’m shown that, “I should have done that, it
needed to be done.”  I’m always disappointed in myself for not having asked
the question or just gone ahead and done the thing.  And that to me feels
like Adjuster-leading because it does come back and gives me another
opportunity to either go or reject.  It’s not the same as the second
scenario where I suddenly just get this intuition, or whatever--the answer
to my problem or whatever.  Or, could they all be Adjuster guidance?

Olfana:  (Smiling)  I would say that, although we never can match the
infinite patience of the Thought Adjusters, that those of us who attempt to
offer guidance to all of you, also will “repeat ourselves,” if necessary.
There is certainly this sense that you will be nudged, time and again, on
many levels of guidance and direction.  And, I would say that, perhaps, you
would do better to simply respond, trust in the integrity of what you are
experiencing and sensing here and, perhaps, analyze it less.

If there is integrity to your effort, to your reaching out, perhaps to
another person, with this sense you have of something to be said, then, this
integrity will hold.  This --integrity-- is the focal point here, and there
will be results based on God’s Justice and Mercy.  “The action is ours.  The
consequence is God’s.”  We must always hold to this in our efforts.

Therefore, I would encourage you to simply allow this process more and more
in your life, if you are comfortable with it, because you will find yourself
greatly inspired and feeling empowered and increasing in your own potentials
as you again “ride this current.”  Do not, for the moment, worry too much
about “who is at the helm,”--which level of this integrity is now asking
something of you.  You will do much better with your energy placed upon the
follow through, and leave the analysis to either a different stage of your
own growth here on this planet, or, trust me, you will have ample
opportunities to analyze later in your eternal career, all of the choices
that you have made, now, here on this planet.

Student:  Thank you, Olfana.

Olfana:  You are welcome.  I have very much enjoyed this opportunity to join
with you, and I will certainly be here participating in this event
(SpiritFest) all weekend.  (Smiling)  And you may, indeed, feel me nudging
you, now that you have had a chance to experience my personality.  With
that, I bid you all “good evening,” and offer to you the opportunity to
speak with some of my dear companions.

Students:  Thank you again.  Thank you, Olfana.

Olfana:  You are most welcome, my dear ones.

Half Moon Bay, CA Teaching Mission Group