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

[Tom Newbill]

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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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