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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

 

===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===

 

 

 

* Jessona (Jonathan TR): Salutations! Jessona with you today. I greet you warmly. I embrace you with the love of our Father. I encircuit you as a fellow ho cares as deeply for your welfare and your advancement as I do for my own. Today I have witnessed your discussion of stillness and would like to address that as a topic.

Jessona (Jonathan TR): Salutations! Jessona with you today. I greet you warmly. I embrace you with the love of our Father. I encircuit you as a fellow ho cares as deeply for your welfare and your advancement as I do for my own. Today I have witnessed your discussion of stillness and would like to address that as a topic.

It is perhaps the most challenging and difficult discipline for an evolutionary creature to practice stilling the mind and reaching to the superconscious level of thought activity wherein the Father's gift, your Thought Adjuster, is most efficient in preparing those patterns necessary for your growth as you engage in your daily lives. However, it is also one of, in a paradoxical sense, the easiest activities you could undertake. The difficulty and the ease are intertwined. We have chosen to accommodate the terms 'stillness' and 'quiet time' that are used in your religious disciplines, for they indicate attitudes of body and mind that are conducive to spirit engagement.

It is perhaps the most challenging and difficult discipline for an evolutionary creature to practice stilling the mind and reaching to the superconscious level of thought activity wherein the Father's gift, your Thought Adjuster, is most efficient in preparing those patterns necessary for your growth as you engage in your daily lives. However, it is also one of, in a paradoxical sense, the easiest activities you could undertake. The difficulty and the ease are intertwined. We have chosen to accommodate the terms 'stillness' and 'quiet time' that are used in your religious disciplines, for they indicate attitudes of body and mind that are conducive to spirit engagement.

Tom: As we get older at least some of our minds seem to diminish like our bodies whether through improper diet or lack of use of the mind or overuse of it or substance abuse. Our text in the Rodan papers says the master's worshipful practice brings relaxation that renews the mind. Does the mind need renewing? I thought the mind was a circuit from the Mother Spirit that's perfect. It's the brain that's not functioning. Is stillness able to renew the mind to overcome deterioration?

Tom: As we get older at least some of our minds seem to diminish like our bodies whether through improper diet or lack of use of the mind or overuse of it or substance abuse. Our text in the Rodan papers says the master's worshipful practice brings relaxation that renews the mind. Does the mind need renewing? I thought the mind was a circuit from the Mother Spirit that's perfect. It's the brain that's not functioning. Is stillness able to renew the mind to overcome deterioration?

* Jessona: It is helpful. I must place it in context in that your mind has a physical receptive mechanism that is your brain which is intimately associated with all else that is your body, and it is the body which is first to run out of its energy, its life force, to deteriorate. Since the mind must use this receptive organ to engage into your physical form and enact events initiated by your will in this world, it becomes hampered as the physical dimension of your mental, mindal, makeup declines. Relaxation renews the mind because it refreshes the brain. When the neural circuits are able to reset themselves through passivity, through the release of the tension of grappling with thought and method and events and their coordination, the mind is able to turn away from the outward focus and to be attracted to the inner impulses of the Divine Monitor. Relaxation in a sense closes the door on the noise of the outer world so that you can hear the subtle sounds of the spirit dimension.

Jessona: It is helpful. I must place it in context in that your mind has a physical receptive mechanism that is your brain which is intimately associated with all else that is your body, and it is the body which is first to run out of its energy, its life force, to deteriorate. Since the mind must use this receptive organ to engage into your physical form and enact events initiated by your will in this world, it becomes hampered as the physical dimension of your mental, mindal, makeup declines. Relaxation renews the mind because it refreshes the brain. When the neural circuits are able to reset themselves through passivity, through the release of the tension of grappling with thought and method and events and their coordination, the mind is able to turn away from the outward focus and to be attracted to the inner impulses of the Divine Monitor. Relaxation in a sense closes the door on the noise of the outer world so that you can hear the subtle sounds of the spirit dimension.

The mind itself does not degenerate; the platform upon which the mind rests undergoes deterioration. Your mind is circuit-like, and as you age your patterns of thinking will remain, though your effectiveness at thinking may slip away. I will return to my lesson and point out that the effort to be still and know that I am God is a knowledge that is grounded in awareness and not grounded in thinking, that stream of constructed expression of awareness. The knowledge or perhaps better the awareness of God subsequently is developed into a stream of thought often aided by a stream of words that express that knowledge. The awareness is in the mind; the expression is composed in the craft-room of the brain. You may encounter difficulty as your biologic form -- I search for a word that would not bring undue concern -- but it will deteriorate, for physical life is of a finite duration.

The mind itself does not degenerate; the platform upon which the mind rests undergoes deterioration. Your mind is circuit-like, and as you age your patterns of thinking will remain, though your effectiveness at thinking may slip away. I will return to my lesson and point out that the effort to be still and know that I am God is a knowledge that is grounded in awareness and not grounded in thinking, that stream of constructed expression of awareness. The knowledge or perhaps better the awareness of God subsequently is developed into a stream of thought often aided by a stream of words that express that knowledge. The awareness is in the mind; the expression is composed in the craft-room of the brain. You may encounter difficulty as your biologic form -- I search for a word that would not bring undue concern -- but it will deteriorate, for physical life is of a finite duration.

Tom: Yes, I sure think so.

Tom: Yes, I sure think so.

* Jessona: That which you can remember?

Jessona: That which you can remember?

Tom: You're stealing my lines!

Tom: You're stealing my lines!

I'd like to leave my thought patterns here. Does stillness have anything to do with refining the thought patterns?

I'd like to leave my thought patterns here. Does stillness have anything to do with refining the thought patterns?

* Jessona: It does. Patterns, thought patterns, are a framework through which your thoughts flow. It isn't so much that one thought causes another thought, causing another thought thereby revealing pattern. It is more rather that pattern exists and your thoughts tend to conform to the framework. The goal of the Thought Adjuster is the transformation of your pattern into the soul pattern, the morontia pattern of thought. Then your thinking will flow into that framework in a new and fresh way compared to today. Stillness allows you to break not thought pattern but thought habits, repetitious forms and reflexive forms of thought that fixate and inhibit creative bursts of thinking. It allows you to break the confines, to sit for one moment free of the habitual stream and to allow the pattern to mold your thoughts into that frame that has been developed by the Father's continual compassionate and merciful care of your life experiences.

Jessona: It does. Patterns, thought patterns, are a framework through which your thoughts flow. It isn't so much that one thought causes another thought, causing another thought thereby revealing pattern. It is more rather that pattern exists and your thoughts tend to conform to the framework. The goal of the Thought Adjuster is the transformation of your pattern into the soul pattern, the morontia pattern of thought. Then your thinking will flow into that framework in a new and fresh way compared to today. Stillness allows you to break not thought pattern but thought habits, repetitious forms and reflexive forms of thought that fixate and inhibit creative bursts of thinking. It allows you to break the confines, to sit for one moment free of the habitual stream and to allow the pattern to mold your thoughts into that frame that has been developed by the Father's continual compassionate and merciful care of your life experiences.

There is a gradation. The mind is a beautiful manifestation of divinity. You have at the lowest level of gradation simple physical responses such as reflex, that you even breathe while you pay no attention. It continues on up through many levels of your psychology to that which we are speaking of now, of pattern that is superconscious. Then mind blurs and bleeds over into the morontia state, and that is the pattern of your pattern that is your soul. This is mind at its highest in physical form, for the soul is your new vehicle for morontia life, and it is your new mind for morontia thought.

There is a gradation. The mind is a beautiful manifestation of divinity. You have at the lowest level of gradation simple physical responses such as reflex, that you even breathe while you pay no attention. It continues on up through many levels of your psychology to that which we are speaking of now, of pattern that is superconscious. Then mind blurs and bleeds over into the morontia state, and that is the pattern of your pattern that is your soul. This is mind at its highest in physical form, for the soul is your new vehicle for morontia life, and it is your new mind for morontia thought.

Evelyn: You mentioned practicing stillness in motion. Can you say a little bit more about that?

Evelyn: You mentioned practicing stillness in motion. Can you say a little bit more about that?

* Jessona: I will draw from the expression of experience of the humans who have said that sitting to practice stillness only amplifies how much the mind is racing. It is much like pausing for a moment to notice how much wind is in the air. But when you are active is the wind noticed? The day can appear calm until you stop and notice the wind. In effect I am encouraging you to do precisely the opposite. If calming yourself physically only amplifies the internal activity, try external activity to mark the calmness that does exist within.

Jessona: I will draw from the expression of experience of the humans who have said that sitting to practice stillness only amplifies how much the mind is racing. It is much like pausing for a moment to notice how much wind is in the air. But when you are active is the wind noticed? The day can appear calm until you stop and notice the wind. In effect I am encouraging you to do precisely the opposite. If calming yourself physically only amplifies the internal activity, try external activity to mark the calmness that does exist within.

As an extreme let us illustrate: Yelling at the top of your lungs for five minutes everything that could possibly cross your mind, stomping, flailing, agitating, and then pause. The inrush of the silence is quite noticeable. Of course this is an extreme method of meditation, but it may illustrate how you can use rather than fight the natural tendencies of the body and the mind to be active. Does this help?

As an extreme let us illustrate: Yelling at the top of your lungs for five minutes everything that could possibly cross your mind, stomping, flailing, agitating, and then pause. The inrush of the silence is quite noticeable. Of course this is an extreme method of meditation, but it may illustrate how you can use rather than fight the natural tendencies of the body and the mind to be active. Does this help?

Evelyn: Some of us have experienced this with monotonous activity, with something reasonably energetic there is a quiet mental space you can get into. Large amounts of time can go by without noticing the vigor of it all. I experience that more than I do stillness while trying to be still.

Evelyn: Some of us have experienced this with monotonous activity, with something reasonably energetic there is a quiet mental space you can get into. Large amounts of time can go by without noticing the vigor of it all. I experience that more than I do stillness while trying to be still.

* Jessona: I extracted a key word, "monotonous" and also add to it "repetitive" and call to mind how effective the lullaby is to bring an infant to sleep. The silent room may not encourage that sleep state, but the lullaby is so soothing that the child falls off to sleep. Of course, I do not encourage sleeping in stillness. But the effect is the same. A little bit of calming dynamics can encourage the development of stillness, especially if the tendency is to be agitated when attempting stillness of body and mind.

Jessona: I extracted a key word, "monotonous" and also add to it "repetitive" and call to mind how effective the lullaby is to bring an infant to sleep. The silent room may not encourage that sleep state, but the lullaby is so soothing that the child falls off to sleep. Of course, I do not encourage sleeping in stillness. But the effect is the same. A little bit of calming dynamics can encourage the development of stillness, especially if the tendency is to be agitated when attempting stillness of body and mind.

 

I have greatly enjoyed my visit with you today. Elyon sends his regards; he is about other business. All your teachers are happy to have you engaged consciously in working with celestial associates and your divine helpers. All beings in the superuniverses of time and space are naturally desiring to find the Father and to associate with all the children of God. It is perhaps a little more perilous on your level as to whether beings naturally do such activities as these, but we note that you are undertaking what all do throughout these great universes; you are seeking the Father and you are reaching out to one another in love and fellowship. Do not ever let yourself feel alone in this activity, for though Urantia has missed many vital lessons that would have helped the cultures of this world, they will come. Those lessons will be attained. But you are in the company of billions upon billions of beings who engage in that very goal of life that you are engaged in.

I have greatly enjoyed my visit with you today. Elyon sends his regards; he is about other business. All your teachers are happy to have you engaged consciously in working with celestial associates and your divine helpers. All beings in the superuniverses of time and space are naturally desiring to find the Father and to associate with all the children of God. It is perhaps a little more perilous on your level as to whether beings naturally do such activities as these, but we note that you are undertaking what all do throughout these great universes; you are seeking the Father and you are reaching out to one another in love and fellowship. Do not ever let yourself feel alone in this activity, for though Urantia has missed many vital lessons that would have helped the cultures of this world, they will come. Those lessons will be attained. But you are in the company of billions upon billions of beings who engage in that very goal of life that you are engaged in.

I will be with you again.

I will be with you again.