[tmtranscripts] Welmek, June 20, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – RECOURSING YOUR LIFE
JUNE 20, 2002

Good evening.  This is your friend and teacher, Welmek.  I am very happy
to be again here with you this evening, and I welcome R to the group.  I
am continuing the theme of our discussion on re-coursing your life.  The
emphasis of this theme is to encourage you to envision your spiritual
journey in what you would like your life to become as you grow more
God-conscious.  

Last week we began our adventure.  You were introduced to your pilot,
your inner spirit, and you began to take your ship out onto the high seas
for your experiences.  I wish to continue this exercise if you are all so
willing. For it is fundamental now, as you plot your course in this
direction of finding God to, work hand-in-hand cooperatively with your
pilot, who knows how to take you there, who will know how to navigate you
through all of the waters – all of the experiences – that you will
encounter on your journey.   

So please let us go into the stillness again; and as we use the imagery
of being the captain of your ship, I would like you to envision yourself
on this ship as the captain at the helm, standing next to your pilot, and
you are now out on the seas.  Spend a few moments in stillness and
envision yourself in this scenario.  (Pause.)  See if you can sense the
pilot’s presence next to you.  (Pause.)  Feel if you can sense the
pilot’s command of the current of the water your ship is navigating in. 
(Pause.)  Notice if there is a commandeering that feels secure to you; or
does your ship feel like the rudder is unhinged?  (Pause.)  Sense if you
can, the pace, and the hand of the pilot working in propelling your ship
forward.  (Pause.)  

Now I invite your comments on what you are experiencing, as you stay in
this stillness state, being on your ship, working in conjunction with
your pilot.  Please share your impressions with me now.  (Pause.)

Student:  Welmek, there seems to be a large storm that has come up, and
as the waves crash over the bow, and as the howl of the wind is quite
loud, I’m having trouble hearing the pilot’s command.  And because of
this I made a little bit of an error, caused some damage to the ship, and
I feel a little disappointed that I wasn’t able to hear his commands. 
What do you say about this?  

Welmek:  Actually, I am glad that this scenario was raised, for I had
hoped to address this idea of being in turbulent seas this evening.  This
is a very common situation in human life, is it not?  To be cast adrift
on tempestuous seas.  I would ask you, in this exercise would you say
that the undercurrent you felt was directionless, or was there a sensing
in your mind’s eye of a deeper current, an undercurrent?  

Student:  There was definitely a direction, and I very much wanted to go
with that direction, but the wind was just too loud for me to hear my
pilot.  

Welmek:  And so the wind could represent the environment within your mind
that still prevents you from hearing the leadings of your inner spirit in
a clear fashion.  And so it is up to you to spent time in the stillness,
and listening for the voice of the Adjuster within you.  As you know, it
is faint, and the detection of the spirit-voice comes with practice, and
learning to attenuate in a very subtle fashion how it influences your
day-to-day activities.  

I would suggest in this scenario that your pilot was trying to guide you,
but because you could not hear what he was trying to convey to you, that
you lost your way and mis-communicated information.  And so it becomes
then a matter of allowing your inner pilot to guide you; and to be
trusting that it knows the way, and can steer you out of the rough
waters.  In those times, it is important to relax in the midst of the
turbulence and to allow your pilot to steer you in the proper course; for
your pilot knows the undercurrent and how to find that undercurrent which
will keep you in the proper direction.  

In time, as this relationship and trust grows, there will more of that
subtle communication where you will not need to shout to your spirit
about what it is that you want to do or where you should go.  You will
trust that where you are being led – even through the turbulent waters –
will steer you and keep you on the course that you have charted, so that
you will not wreck your ship, as you said, and then have to fix the
damage that has been caused.  Do you understand this metaphor?  

Student:  Yes.  Thank you very much!  It’s very, very helpful.  

Welmek:  Do you need further clarification or elaboration on this?  (Not
at this time.  Thank you.)  You are welcome.

Student:  Welmek, this is J.  My pilot seems to be almost like stillness
itself, a compass, a kind of compass that’s so still it tells me where
I’m moving, mainly in terms of a kind of moral sense of – it points
towards more – life – more experience – more growth – more people.  And
in this it seems that’s just the general trend that life wants to go in
itself, and it points that way.  That I really have to consult it; it
doesn't demand or require anything, it’s self-sufficient.  I have to take
the initiative to look at the, remember I have this compass, and consult
it.  But it lets me know how I am moving because in these turbulent seas
being buffeted every-which-way in many dimensions, psychological, and
physical, and all kinds of ways, it lets me know how I’m moving, so I can
tell whether I am growing or regressing.  

Welmek:  I would add that the pilot serves a function that is beyond just
a compass.  That it is a partnership; for it represents an aspect of the
Father with whom you have an intimate, loving relationship, whom you can
come to know and love and trust.  The idea of the compass is a component
of the function of the pilot, for the pilot does know the course, but it
is also in having this bonded relationship, that you come to appreciate
the depth and the breadth of the pilot’s skills and personality in and of
itself.  And in that relationship, you have a true union, to the ultimate
goal where you and the pilot will one day become as one.  And this
internal compass and the loving and steadfast nature of the pilot will be
yours, a part of who you are, a part of the individual that you were
created in the image of the Father.  

So I encourage you to think about this relationship, and add this into
your knowledge and experience base; and sense that loving presence, the
love that the pilot has for you.  You can be assured more fully than you
are even now that you will reach your ultimate destination.  Do you
understand?  

Student:  I think so Welmek.  It’s the same - not difficulty, but the
same task I have with God, as that is to experience a personality there
that I don’t at the present time.  And, even you seem to be suggesting I
should sense in the pilot a purpose for me, other than just general
growing, that I don’t yet sense.  

Welmek:  Your purpose is to experience life in the fullness – the depth
and the breadth that life has to offer.  What I am mostly suggesting this
evening is to sense within your pilot the love that your pilot has for
you, and come to know this pilot as a trusted friend, as a companion that
you cannot live without.  For this is your dearest companion, counselor,
advisor, and the one in whom you can have complete trust at all times. 
Everything else will come in time, in sensing who this wonderful being in
your life is.  Does this clarify the idea for you?

Student:  Yes, Welmek, thank you.  It’s just a paradox, it seems to me,
and yet it is “the other.”  But thank you, I will ponder this.  

Student:  Welmek, my experience was that as captain, my duty is to be
steadfast and to reflect the strength of the ship and to instill
confidence.  And I felt feelings of doubt and fear trying to creep in. 
And I felt that I could not allow myself to embody those feelings, as
captain.  And I felt that my pilot was very treasured and important, and
that my relationship with him or her should be immaculate; and I should
instill confidence in them and they should instill it in me.  I found it
a useful exercise.  I wonder if you have a comment?   

Welmek:  In the previous week, the scenario that was presented was that
you were a young captain, and you had an experienced pilot, and you had a
new ship.  And in this exercise, I do not know if you were able to factor
this into your experience, but I would add that the captain gains the
confidence and the composure through many voyages on the high seas, will
he not?  (Yes.)  And the more you trust your pilot to guide you and to
navigate you through those rough waters – especially the turbulent seas,
will you gain a sense of how He stays composed and confident, while
maneuvering you through those times.  And when you sense that you are in
good hands, then you will gain the experience required to give those
commands and to navigate more in conjunction with your pilot. 

You are greatly loved.  You are steadfastly guided.  The more you allow
yourself to feel this, the more you will gain confidence in your own
ability, and in time your pilot will know that the relationship that
exists between you will be more on equal footing.  Does this help?

Student:  I’m not sure what you mean by equal footing?  I feel, as
captain, even if I don’t feel completely confident, its important to at
least behave with balance and calmness, and not reflect any fears or
doubts or negativity.  As I grow in giving substance to those - to my
confidence, to at least project it, I’m not sure how that fits with what
you’re saying?  I can’t hand over control to the pilot entirely?  What
are the captain’s duties, I guess is my question then?  If the pilot is
so important then, and really in control of the ship, then what is the
duty of the captain?   

Welmek:  In the example that we are using, I would suggest that the
captain is the one who makes the decision to take a certain course, and
that the pilot knows whether or not that will be safe, or whether it will
be headed for turbulent seas.  And so the pilot must follow your
commands.  But if the pilot were to suggest another course of action, or
another channel, as it were, because the course that you have selected or
projected is turbulent, which one would you rather undergo?  (The pilot’s
advice.) 

So in this exercise, you are coming to know what the pilot can do for
you, and how you can relate to the pilot in trust.  And even though you
do not know the water that you are sailing on, your pilot does.  And so,
if in your inner leadings, you hear or sense another direction and yet
follow your own voice, and you come upon a difficult situation, would it
have not been advisable to listen to the internal, yet subtle voice of
your inner spirit?  (If I can learn to do this, yes.)  And so you are. 
The more time you spend in stillness, the more you spend quieting the
mental chatter within you mind, and asking to be led, and trusting that
the pilot will always lead you to that place where you will learn the
lessons to develop your confidence, courage, faith, hope, patience, and
all of the tools you need to be a successful captain of your ship.  Do
you understand?  (Yes, thank you.)  Do you need further clarification? 
(I don’t think so, thank you.)  You are very welcome!  

Welmek:  Did the rest of you have smooth sailing? 

Student:  About our destinations; if we choose a goal or a place to go
that’s not going to further us, and will cause us to enter difficult
waters, how shall we seek to correct or how do we find guidance for
destinations and for our goals?  It seems like the pilot isn’t really in
charge of setting the destination, only in achieving it once it’s been
set.  So how shall we find guidance for direction toward proper ports?  

Welmek:  That is an excellent question.  And I am very glad you raised
that this evening!  

Your ultimate destination is to the Father.  What you experience along
the way will be primarily up to your choosing at these, as you say,
ports-of-call.  You cannot always know when you sail up to a port what
you will encounter, is this not true?  And so, you do not know whether
this will be a safe port or one that will be potentially harmful.  I
would say there will be those times when you are put into a situation
where you might have the limits of your comfortableness stretched for a
time, but no real harm would come to you because there would be
experience that will grow certain qualities in you that will be for your
highest good.   

And then there will be those times when you are in a port-of-call that
makes you feel alive and joyful and happy, and you wish to stay there
forever, but you must journey onward.  And then there are those ports
where it would be quite harmful for you to be there, and so your pilot
would try to steer you clear of that.  However, if you insist, and resist
the leadings of the pilot and steer yourself into that port, then you
must experience the consequences of that decision.  

It is helpful; it is advisable to spend time in stillness, for this is
where you gain more confidence in the undercurrent of where your life is
taking you.  And this is the steadfast direction of your Thought Adjuster
leading to those experiences that will add to your God-awareness.  When
you align yourself in this channel, this undercurrent, you can rest
assured that everything is working to your highest good.  But if you
encounter a place that looked interesting to you, and then felt like the
channel you were going in was bearing you in a different direction, then
would it not be advisable to follow the leading of your pilot at that
time?  (Yes.)  Does this help?  (Yes!  I will think about it.)  

Spend some time meditating upon this and allowing the idea of having many
experiences that will add to your personality to grow within you.  Life
is fully encompassing of wonders and joys and new people to meet and new
places to discover.  There is so much to see and taste and experience, my
friends.  Do not allow yourself to stay too long in one port, but stay
there for a time, and when your pilot calls, get back on your ship and
sail again, and experience everything that awaits you in this wonderful
universe that has been created for us.  

It is true, life can be very turbulent at times, but in this idea of
re-coursing your life – know that this relationship you share with your
pilot, is one that will always lead you safely, even through the most
turbulent of waters, the most troubling of times.  You have Divine
guidance.  The hand that steers you is strong and true, and knows the way
(Tape ends.)….    Would anyone else be willing to share with me what is
on your mind this evening?  

Student:  Welmek, there is a question that I have that’s a little bit
different than what we’ve been talking about, but its come to my
attention that yourself and other teachers are always available at any
particular instant.  I don’t quite understand this.  Can you be in more
than one place at a time or the other teachers that seem to be available?
 Can you speak on this now?    

Welmek:  We do not employ the same communication methods as you, and
while it is not possible for me to be in two places at one time, the
range at which we can communicate is vast.  And we use different circuits
of communication.  Think of a very long phone line, a circuit as it were,
where we are able to transmit messages over long distances, and what you
would consider to be an instantaneous manner.  

And as you have been given celestial support to accompany you, you have
everything you need within your sphere of operation to assist you.  And
if it is one of the teachers with whom you are more familiar, you wish to
communicate, you only need to ask and it will be possible to communicate
with us, if we are available.  We do not have to be in your immediate
presence, to do so.  Does this explain this for you?  

Student:  Yes, it does, and it helps.  Thank you.  Thank you very much!  

Welmek:  You are all rather quite this evening?

Student:  I had something Welmek.  This is D.  Getting back to the topic,
I guess?  As you were speaking, I guess to all of us, but directed toward
C., I felt these like spasms in my middle area on my right side.  And in
my visualization, Jesus was my pilot and we were going towards the sun,
the big sun, the light.  And the water was calm, and my first experience
was extensiveness.  And then I decided to jump into the water – swimming
towards the horizon, and I was swimming at a vigorous pace.  And then
when I experienced these kind of cramps in my middle section, I started
to remember to breathe, but then I realized I was working too hard, and
so I just let the current take me, and to wherever the current is going. 
And now my body feels still, and it feels different as I allow myself to
take the current, to be immersed in the current.  Because this past week
I have felt out of the current, and I didn’t like that place.  I felt,
for lack of a better word, unspiritual.  I felt really, I didn’t want to
be in this body; I felt so limited.  But now I feel more connected again.
 

Welmek:  That you feel this undercurrent is significant, for when you
sense that you are out of alignment, you know what it is that you need
that will remedy that unspiritual feeling that you articulated.  

I would only add that there will be those times when you will be out of
alignment, and there will be those times when you are in the current; and
the flow of life becomes easier.  And it is only a matter of refocusing
when you are out of alignment, and asking for yourself to be placed back
in the current.  And you will be so guided.  

The importance of recognizing this in the human life cannot be
overemphasized.  The unspiritual feeling is not there as a reminder of
how unspiritual you are, it is only a reminder to help you get back into
the flow of spirit.  And that is your true home, the true flow, the true
place where you belong.  And it is that simple.  

I encourage you in the coming week to see and sense within your mind if
you can find deeper pockets of this current, to go deeper into the waters
and to find those places where the current becomes stronger, so you will
be so fully immersed in this current, that it would be inconceivable to
you to ever leave it.  And so this is the challenge in human life.  

The water metaphor is not that you will drown in this current, but you
will be taken in this flow to your home, to your destination, that place
of rest, the stillness, the peace, the place – being with your Divine
Source, the Father who loves you and gave you life.  This is your
current.  This is your destiny.  Immerse yourself in it, and see where it
takes you.  

Welmek:  Are there any other questions?  

Student:  I have trouble distinguishing between the pilot and the
captain.  In fact I haven’t really heard the pilot, so I’m usually
confused about the direction I should take.  

Welmek:  Every example that we are working with for the idea of
re-coursing your life, the captain is the part of you that makes your
decisions and acts upon your choices.  And the pilot represents the
spirit of God within, who has your divine life plan and is charting your
course in life to your ultimate destination.  And as a young captain, the
opportunity now comes to you to come to know who this pilot is, and to
sail your ship, your life vehicle, on the waters of life’s experiences. 
And coming to trust that the pilot within is guiding you on a particular
course.  And in this exercise, it was designed to help you see this
relationship between you and the pilot in coming to know the nature and
function of who you are and what your spirit is, and how it relates to
you.  

The pilot has your life’s course.  The pilot knows how to propel you
forward.  It is the captain’s decision whether or not to trust the
pilot’s judgement, and to allow yourself to come to know in a personal
relationship the love and the guidance the pilot has for you.  And the
practice of stillness allows this relationship to grow and build in time.
 

It may be that you do not always consciously sense where it is that you
are being led.  But there is an undercurrent that can happen in the
higher levels of the mind that will eventually present ideas and concepts
to you and move you into experiences where you are given opportunities to
learn the ways of spirit, thereby adding to your overall spiritual
enhancement and enjoyment of life.  Does this help?  (Thank you.)  Do you
need any further clarification on this?  

Student:  I see that I must spend more and more time in this stillness.  

Welmek:  This is where your pilot has more of an opportunity to present
those ideas to you, to your conscious mind, that will eventually open the
way within you to know and to believe in what it is that your spirit is
trying to convey.  This takes time.  We ask that you adopt an attitude of
patience and persistence, and be very loving and compassionate towards
yourself as you spend time in coming to sense and know who your pilot,
your advisor, your counselor – who your spirit is within you.  Does this
help?  

Student:  I hope to use stillness to help calm the rough seas and rogue
winds.  And I look forward to being able to unfurl my sails and say full
speed ahead toward clear skies and calm seas and helpful winds, because I
often feel buffeted by influences and events that are disturbing and
don’t seem to get me anywhere.  

Welmek:  There will be those times in life when you cannot avoid the
turbulent waters and the high winds.  And this is the time to rely more
on your pilot, and to spend that time in stillness in coming to sense the
undercurrent that is moving you through those waters, so that you can
emerge on the other side into the calm seas and into the sun.  

There is always quiet beyond the storm; and if you can ride through those
times with composure, peace, and most of all trust to where you are being
led, then you will always be successful, and always further your skills
and the enrichment of your personality.

Are there any other questions before we conclude; questions or other
comments?  

Student:  Welmek, this is S. and I’ve been quiet tonight because when I
came in tonight I was exhausted from my day, and I’m having trouble
settling down enough to really fully immerse myself in the exercise.  I
haven’t a sense of it.  I couldn’t fully immerse myself.  And so, what
I’m wondering is that in these times when we’re so busy doing, and we’re
busy in the events of our lives and our responsibilities, which I am
often. When I’m in the exercise, I love the metaphor of it, and I have a
feeling of being in the flow and in the current.  And it’s just a
feeling.  And then when I’m in my life and I’m busy, and I’m going from
activity to activity, and I don’t have the time often to slow down and
sense that flow.  I’m trying to look at how I know that I am in the flow.
 And what I sometimes notice is just an ease in the way things are
happening, even if I am busy and I have a lot to manage.  An ease of the
events – that the next door opens very easily, and it seems to be leading
me where I’m suppose to be going – towards my destination.  And just in a
practical sense, in terms of managing all that I have to manage, I’m just
wondering if you could comment on translating the feeling and the
metaphor into the activity and the doing?  

Welmek:  Sometimes in human experience you are on, as you say, automatic
pilot.  And this is an idea of the captain giving total control over to
the pilot so that you are not even aware of what it is that is happening
to you at some level.  You may not always sense this deeper connection,
as you do when you are in a more relaxed and meditative state.  But you
find a certain channel, a certain current that does seem to move you in
the right direction.  And all this is a more superficial channel of the
deeper current of being in alignment with the Father.  There are depths;
and when you are in stillness, you are sensing new depths, so that
eventually when you are on automatic pilot but in one of the deeper
currents, you will be in that flow and sense that deep peace.  This will
come in time, but now that if you are in one of these more superficial
currents, then you are in the right place, and you are moving in the
right direction.  And in time, you will gain a deeper sensing of that
channel.  Does this help?  

Student:  It does help!  So would it be correct to say that, just to
trust that the automatic pilot that is there, and operating – I guess to
just have faith and trust that even if I don’t feel the deeper current
that I can still be in the current?  

Welmek:  I am suggesting that you are in the current, and that in time
you will go deeper, and as I said to D., that you will be so deep that it
will be unthinkable to be otherwise.  This will grow.  Be patient.  Allow
yourself to experience fully where you are, for you will sink, as you
say, deeper into the current, the more familiar you are with where you
are.  And if the superficial level is where you can experience this
mostly in your conscious mind, then allow yourself to fully be immersed
in this, and in time, you will carve within your mind’s experience that
deeper channel and sink even deeper into the current.  Do you understand?
 (Yes I do.  Thank you.)  Do you need any further clarification?  (No. 
Not right now.)

Welmek:  My friends, I encourage you to read this transcript several
times, for all of you have experiences and personalities and ideas that
are all cross-pollinating.  And so it is important to allow one-another’s
experiences to add to your richness, and to your own knowledge.  So spend
the time in reading these transcripts with a meditative eye, and know
that your channels will be carved even deeper, the more you spend in the
stillness and allowing your pilot to carve these words deep within you.  

On behalf of all of the celestial friends present tonight, we wish to
acknowledge each captain here, and to say that we will be very glad to be
passengers aboard your ship.  Good evening!