Changes

===Opening===

===Opening===

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.

I would like to be engaged with you in conversation and invite you to join me now.

I would like to be engaged with you in conversation and invite you to join me now.

 

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: 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.

===Closing===

===Closing===

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.