[tmtranscripts] FW: TeaMWorks...phone transmission 2-26-04

[Thea Hardy]

Some great stuff here!

BTW, folks, just because I say great stuff for one transmission, 
doesn't mean the ones not commented on are not great stuff. I don't 
have time to read it all, and kind of try to vary what I do read. I 
don't doubt every transmission on here has some great stuff!

These teachers! Wow!

Love,

Thea


On Feb 28, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Tom Newbill wrote:

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> From: Tom Newbill <t.oldbill at verizon.net>
> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:45:42 -0800
> To: tml <tml at circuit1.teamcircuits.com>
> Subject: TeaMWorks...phone transmission 2-26-04
>
>
>  Topic: Mind... Stillness
>  Teacher: Elyon
>  TR..Rick Giles
>  Date: 2-26-04
>
>  Elyon: Greetings to each of you, this is Elyon. It is a pleasure to 
> interface, to fellowship with those sons and daughters of Michael. 
> Each of you are his cherished children. Each one of you has a destiny 
> that is inconceivable to you during this stage of your ascension. You 
> are beginning to glimpse the potential to construct your minds 
> reasonable framework for understanding the many levels of life 
> ascension ahead of you in the ages to come.
>
>  Many go through their initial life on an evolutionary world housed in 
> a biological form, uncertain as to the purpose of ones existense, 
> searching for answers and more deeply, seeking fulfillment. You are 
> blessed with a revelation placed in your hands in this age that has 
> greatly assisted you in soul orientation. You have welcomed this 
> information for it has brought food for the mind, it has brought water 
> for the thirsty soul. We under the charge of Michael, while dedicated 
> to the mission of transforming Urantia from a world wandering from a 
> lack of planetary administration, are ever sensitive to the most 
> important growth possible within this supreme experience; that is the 
> unfoldment of your spiritual potential as personalities, the emergence 
> of your soul, your ultimate gift to the Father. While it is important 
> that a planet reaches Light and Life, it is ever more important that 
> every being born on any world discover the Father, come to recognize 
> the truth he reveals, make  the supreme descision, and ascend into his 
> arms.
>
>  I am dedicated to both purposes, your personal growth, and your 
> planetary advancement. Bestowed upon you is a remarkable reality that 
> is your mind. You have grasped in your studies, the makeup of your 
> being, your personality, your soul, the Fathers' divine prescense... 
> the Mystery Moniter. Understanding these three elements of your being, 
> erases the confusion that is often found in the teachings of the many 
> religions existent upon this planet. The Fathers' prescense bestowed 
> upon you if perfect and pure. Your personality is changeless, it is 
> the anchor of your entire makeup. You have begun a relationship that 
> is transforming into a living reality, your soul. These three aspects 
> when fused, are eternalized. Your body and mind will not remain with 
> you as you know it today.
>
>  What makes your mind so remarkable is its' flexibility. While you may 
> have some control over your physical vehicle, much of it follows the 
> life structures established on this world. It is time bound, it is 
> time limited in duration. Mind naturally is a dimension of yourself 
> that is ever roving. This inherent tendency encourages you to ever be 
> looking, llistening, reaching out and taking in knowledge. I have 
> encouraged my students in the excercise of stillness, the precious 
> moment of communion with Holy Father and I have witnessed the 
> frustrations expressed when the earnest intention of the individual is 
> hindered by the shifting mind.  While you may struggle to fix the mind 
> attentively upon the Father, do not regard your shifting thought 
> patterns as an enemy to your worship. Recognize the beauty of the 
> minds nature to ever reach to draw towards itself, to invertigate, to 
> comprehend, to orient. It is like a spoon in the soup, ever stirring 
> things up so that your life does not settle down, so that you do not 
> grow complacent. While the mind may hinder quiet time with its' 
> incessant activity, realize that all the mind needs to do is be 
> anchored in spirit, not stilled with no thought, but anchored such 
> that when it reaches, as it naturally will do, for stimulation, it 
> will reach from an orientation that is grounded in God.
>
>  Mind is attracted to sanity. Without a bonding to spirit, it bonds 
> with your body and identifies with you wherever your terrestial 
> vehicle is located. This gives it stability, however if created on a 
> value system based upon temporal input, it creates a reality 
> incomplete, missing the eternal and the divine. Stillness is the 
> gradual practice of locking the mind to spirit. The apostles of Jesus 
> were amazed by his unshifting alligance the Father. Every activity in 
> his life, every episode of success, confrontation or failure, was 
> approached from the firm seating within the Father and his will. The 
> ever shifting mind, created within you, a questioning, which brought 
> you to God and to the comprehension of spiritual realities. This very 
> same questioning mind, when firmly seated in that soul connection with 
> spirit prescense, continues to seek not only to answer questions, but 
> to bring comfort ministry to other personalities.
>
>  While mind may be soothed through discovery, it is also inherently 
> associative, and seeks to bring all other minds a sense of purpose and 
> orientation. It has been illustrated to you, how Jesus fullfilled the 
> first phase of his life, finding the Father, answering those eternal 
> questions. That soul satisfaction did not bring complacency. He was 
> driven to reach his fellows, to quench his thirst, to alleviate soul 
> hunger. It is your mind that gives you the power to do so. It is your 
> tool for personality expression. It is the outlet for the divine 
> indwelling adjuster to bear upon this world through you. When you seek 
> to clear your mind for a retreat into communion with the Holy Parent, 
> allow yourself the freedom of movement of mind, for when you have 
> established a spiritual anchor for your roving mind, the divine 
> fragment will weave patterns upon your thoughts which will direct you, 
> which will uplift you.
>
>  You can assist the divine prescense by requiring of yourself, high 
> standards, true values, which screen the distractions of life on a 
> confused world. It protects you and strenghtens you such that no 
> longer are you buffeted about by the chaotic actions of many around 
> you. But with focus and steadfast alligiance to God, it becomes clear 
> in your awareness of how you may serve to uplift another, where your 
> expertise may be applied, and when you have recognized a shortcoming 
> of skill and understand the need for growth, the unfoldment of new 
> talents. Mind is the Mother Spirits' gift to you. treat it well. I 
> have finished my comments. I welcome your feedback.
>
>  Q: Teacher Elyon, that was just an amazing discourse on what the mind 
> faculty is all about. Thankyou very very much. I have a question about 
> the soul that is constantly under development in our being. As it 
> grows, is there a way to qualitatively know its prescense in our being 
> at some stage, what will that feel like?
>
>  Elyon: Qualitative sensibility of the souls prescense is found in a 
> profound assurance of the Fathers' love and care. This is so because 
> you chose the Father and his will. Thus your soul began, it was born, 
> perhaps more correctly it was conceived. The emergence of soul 
> prescense increasingly brings this assurance. You will fail to assess 
> quantitatively until that remarkable moment of the fusion embrace, 
> when you are truly born as a morontia soul. As the soul develops, you 
> will recognize and increase in trust even while the mind is uncertain. 
> You will deepen your love, even when all others may come at you with 
> hate. You will be unwavering, forgiving, and tolerant and kind. These 
> are not traits of mind, they are realities of soul. The fruit of the 
> spirit is in the basket of the soul. When you take the fruit from this 
> basket, you pass it through your mind, out beyond through your body in 
> ministry to others. That is how they recognize spirit prescense. I 
> hope this helps.
>
>  Q: Thankyou so much.
>
>  Q: Thankyou for your explanation of the mind wandering 'cause my mind 
> wanders a lot when I try to sit in stillness. It even wanders when I 
> listen to this conference call. Fortunately there are transcripts, but 
> it is really annoying and I lose the prescense of the moment in this 
> mind wandering. I wonder if there is something that can be done about 
> that or is it something I just have to put up with?
>
>  Elyon: The greatest thing you can do is to not fight your mind, but 
> train your mind. When you undertake a discipline you do so with the 
> intention of developing skill, or strenght, or talent and you are 
> watchful and cautious about injury, of overextending yourself until 
> your skills have developed. Battling with your mind further disrupts 
> your peace. Accepting the natural tendency of your mind to ever be at 
> work, prepares you for directing that energy into divine channels. 
> Years ago I told my students that the mind is like a little child, 
> that when you open the door it wants to run out and down the street. A 
> loving parent reaches for that child and brings it back into shelter. 
> It does not let the child run, and run into danger. But you know that 
> every child grows and must enter the world on its'own. The years you 
> have with that child are the years of training and development. All 
> children must play, and likewise must the mind play.
>
>  You are the guardians of your mind. It is your obligation to 
> safeguard the mind from dangers, from poisons, but never lose the 
> willingness to allow the mind creative freedom to reach out, to reach 
> away, to reach deeply. There are times when a child will become unruly 
> and require a time out. When you recognize your mind, overextended and 
> scattered, that is a signal that you are in need of being alone with 
> the Father. Rest is not immediate, there is an interval of settling, 
> of quieting down. You may experience deep and profound silence, but 
> never will you create a permanency  of calmness, for the mind 
> inherently will reactivate and reach again to gather more. Above this 
> tendency. train it, recognize the positive and negative aspects and 
> leverage them for your personal welfare. I hope this helps.
>
>  Q: The example was absolutely perfect. I have a two year old 
> grandaughter who fits the picture and I recognize our mind fits the 
> picture of an unruly child who has not been trained well. I truly 
> appreciate your contribution, thankyou.
>
>  Elyon: You are most welcome my friend.
>
>  Q: Elyon, it seems that I'm picking up a lot of projects in my mind 
> that I want to do, and I seem very clear about them, but they seem to 
> be very long term and don't seem to be very practical.
>
>  Elyon: I wish that I could extend to you, the vantage point from 
> which I stand, as one who holds status as a constellation ascension 
> being. Your projects appear long in this timeframe, and while you may 
> wish to see accomplishment in a shorter interval, do know that there 
> are projects you begin today in this life that will not be finished 
> until you attain paradise. This length of projects is developing in 
> you the ability to pursue goals that will stand millenia. All 
> creatures develop patience undertaking the very same activities as you 
> do. Recall the long interval of time that the life carriers on this 
> world endured before they were rewarded with the emergence of mortal 
> free will creatures. Pursue your projects each day, one step at a 
> time. Michael, when upon your world, had many opportunities presented 
> to him. He was selective about what his tasks for his short life would 
> be. Allow yourself to pare back where necessary and do so in the light 
> of your eternal goals as an ascending creature. The Father will let 
> you know of his approval of that which is of benefit to your soul 
> growth, to your personal well being, and to the upliftment of your 
> fellows.
>
>  Q: Thankyou
>
>  Q: First I would give great thanks to such a wonderful teaching this 
> evening. This  question  relates  to the practice of stillness....a 
> process...is there any validity to various techniques out there in the 
> name of meditation that have value, meditations that which use ? or ? 
> or breathing or anything of that light? I ask more generally 
> than......
>
>  Elyon: I begin my answer by first defining stillness as a personality 
> state of being. It is the staid focus on the Father. All techniques 
> that apply to attaining such a state are techniques of the mind and 
> the body to prepare for the entry into the soul sanctuary and 
> communion. No meditation technique is truly a spiritual experience. 
> They are formulations intended to increase your sensitivity to divine 
> prescense. When you have entered into fellowship, divine communion, no 
> technique is necessary, in fact can be distracting. A technique may be 
> discarded when communion is attained, for adherence to technique 
> beyond its usefulness becomes a hindrance. I urge you to find that 
> which works for your own ideosycratic approach. No technique will lead 
> you away from the Father if you understand that when its usefulness is 
> over, it may be discarded. It is not disloyal to drop a technique when 
> the goal is attained. You may draw from the wealth of your traditions, 
> but I encourage you also, to create your own private methods, and to 
> do so in alliance with the divine prescense, for Father thoroughly 
> understands you and will gently reveal to you, approaches which will 
> sit well with you, which will not be the external bearing force of 
> technique, but an internal willingness of upreach to his prescense.   
>
>  Q: Could you please close tonight with a prayer to the Father.
>
>  Elyon: O Father of absolute perfection, of divine brilliance, of 
> cosmic majesty, source of all of us, source of everything, we 
> recognize you, we honor you, we adore you , we seek you. We thank you 
> for our sovereign son Michael, for his ministry in our realm so far 
> from your paradise home. He is our contact, our passage to you. We 
> thank you, that in all your mercy and love, you have come to reside 
> within us. We accept your prescense. We recognize our eternal 
> belonging in your family because you have sought to be part of 
> ourselves. We trust that will never be taken away for you are 
> almighty, omnipresent. Thankyou.
>
>  Q: Group thanks
>
>  Elyon: My friends you are most welcome and I will withdraw. I will be 
> back at another time. 
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