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<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>My
dear Ron,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thank
you for your thoughts. I do <STRONG>not</STRONG>, as you put it, have a
<STRONG>difficulty</STRONG> with Team's Stillness practice. I thoroughly approve
of it, and practice much the same myself. I have an explanation, which is
outside of theology, which is as follows.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>By
opening yourself to soul to soul contact, you will grow your soul. The soul is
the only part of you that is infinite, or at least capable of interacting with
the infinite. Hence it is through the soul we learn to commune with Father, or
if you like, our TA. It is also possible to expand one's mind, and to connect
with creation, through the mind. But this does not allow us to grow, as it were,
our potential to be divine. And, without growing our soul, we are frankly not
going anywhere. And, so we have been told, is the destiny of the majority of
mortals. Even those who read the Ubook, I would suggest, if they do not practice
Stillness, or something equivalent. As an aside, in Love Without End, Jesus
describes yet another approach to "Stillness" So there may be quite a few
approaches. But all require DESIRE on the part of the mortal to
grow.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So,
quite apart from the BENEFITS, that both you and Calvin (and I) have itemised,
this is to my mind absolutely critical for each of us who seek a divine path.
But, I have yet to see any such statement, or indeed any explanation from your
teachers. Padgett was certainly given a clear explanation, but I would have
liked to see your teachers do so. I think that they may in fact be constrained
by the UBook, because I don't think it says anything either, and I realise
that they find it hard to T/R material outside that reference. We have a great
deal of material about the difficulty in T/Ring advanced spiritual material, and
frankly, the only way you are going to get better material from your teachers is
by using T/R's who have practised stillness for many years. Perhaps that is the
case, I certainly do not want to suggest otherwise. But it is very hard to
receive high level spiritual material. Equally it may be that your teachers are
not meant to "add" to the UBook, merely encourage you, as they are doing. So,
that may be the cause. If they only encourage, and are not permitted further
revelation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am
very unwilling to put words in your minds. Which to some extent I have done
above.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Much
love,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=818185100-24122002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Geoff.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:owner-tmtranscripts@circuit1.teamcircuits.com]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Aronolac<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
tmtranscripts@circuit1.teamcircuits.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [tmtranscripts]
Silence and Experiential Results<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>I originally posted this to tmtalk last night forgetting each list does
not have everybody on it. So here are my views again to TML.
Thanks Calvin. Ron</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dear Geoff, Calvin, and List:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I understand some of the concept difficulty that Geoff may be
experiencing with the Team's stillness practice. Discussion between the
two of you are, however, just between theoretical concepts unless one can
access the other's experience and translate it to the language each is
comfortable with. I normally avoid discussing real results with the
stillness (or what ever else you may wish to call it), but I will make an
exception among friends. Thanks to the stillness process I do experience an
extraordinarily thorough Thought Adjuster contact. There are
nothing like results, albeit unexpected ones, to provide a third view of
the concept under consideration.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In 1985 nothing worked in the meditation department for me. Either
I just fell asleep or I lost satisfactory mind control. Seeking
relief from self doubt, I abandoned the mantras, the crystals, the soothing
music, the warm-up pictures, candles, meditation tapes, and so on.
The answer to the problem for me was to get rid of all the stage props and to
keep the purpose of Thought Adjuster contact in front of me when I sat down,
and that was once a day every day, to make the contact.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Within six months I had mind control. Within one year I had deep
and restful contact with the spiritual parts of the mind. In three years
I had robust Thought Adjuster contact (1988). From 1988 to the present
the Adjuster has a constant tone "on" with audible give and take between
us and considerable amounts of semi-conscious work which I am aware of but can
not name its content.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The point I wish to make is if anyone wishes to have contact with the
Father as a constant presence and company, there is little else to do but
learn to do the work. Still the mind and deepen mind capacity
while the Father waits beside you as you labor to hear. It must become a
habit and it has to be all the time or the toning reached for by you in
the mind and the development once done in the spiritual circuits
fades. To revitalize it by failing to practice
requires some readjustment by making the connection again and
again.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The need for the stillness WILL END. It will no longer be necessary
when the Adjuster makes his appearance in the consciousness centers with
audible circuitry as a PERMANENT member of the consciousness. It is a
permanent CO-CONSCIOUSNESS. It is no longer necessary to "listen", but
now one needs only respond to the constant flow of communication received
in the consciousness. It is thought to thought now.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is a tremendous complexity in Adjuster contact. The Urantia
Book gives us a minimum contribution in telling us about
it. It is really new-consciousness territory and mostly beyond the
bounds of revelation to this date on the planet. I say to the list, if
it is the desire of your soul and your FIRST desire, you need to follow
through completely with the full physical and mental capacity at your
disposal to do so. Use ALL of your inside resources. If
you do not know what resources you have, find them in the silence,
and then apply them in real time. Half measures
result in half results as my many years before 1985 proved for me time
and again.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Teacher contact and channeling, from what I can get from my Adjuster and
from what I learn from all of you, comes with some prerequisites of
development, but once the circle development is met and the wish to receive is
communicated, the channel or the transmission-receiving process can
unfold. In other words the Teachers can establish contact with a knock
on their door, but the Adjuster is less likely to answer the door with just a
few knocks because of the need to reinforce the mind bridge to take the weight
of the Adjuster moving in and with other needs we are not fully apprised
of.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is simply no substitute for what is being called the quiet time,
the silence, and the sincere wish behind their practice to be connected
up to the higher-self. I am walking proof that it works as advertised,
and while I do not know anything else involved with the process, I ask you if
it is not enough to just have that? Anything else less would not be
Adjuster translation to the consciousness (although you can transmit or
channel him on occasion), and anything more would result in translation
to the mansion worlds.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You who channel or transmit-receive must practice with a connection for
many reasons. It's tough to go with what words you receive mentally and
to say them out loud to a listening group or even the tape recorder. You
are allowed to do this in a conscious state (Alpha), some in semi-conscious
(Beta), and very few in Delta(complete overcontrol). Then, when you are
done, the connection evaporates until the next nudge or some other
appointed time arrives to reopen the connection. There are time
intervals in which the channeler and transmitter-receiver are not consciously
alerted to a spiritual presence and word-activity connection. In these
times you tend to forget about it and go about your business as is
necessary.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>When the Adjuster translates from the superconsciousness through the work
of the quiet-time, silence, communion, worship, or other internal spiritual
connectivity, such an action is at the discretion of the Thought
Adjuster. We may have the Supreme desire to have it, but it is the
Adjuster who has to make that decision, and he can only do it when the
mind has been prepared through practice to develop the strength to receive
this very powerful part of the self. At least that is what I have
gleaned from the Adjuster I have. This translation from the highest
spiritual levels of the mind to the material consciousness is final. It
will last until death or translation as I understand it from my
Adjuster. It does not leave you like your circuit connections to the
teachers or other channel information does. There are no intervals of
time without the Adjuster present even though he may be (rarely) "quiet"
sometimes. The Adjuster switch is never flipped "off", but
ever "on" upon completion of his status change from the super-consciousness to
the ego-area of awareness.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Those of you who have teachers or work in groups with teachers might
sometime ask them about this area of Adjuster translation to the ego-area of
awareness of consciousness, but such a development I believe must always be
preceded with the mind work done to strengthen the mind and to put into place
those robust connections that will serve as the bridge between the
pre-personal Adjuster and the material consciousness. This work is not
conscious when it begins, and in my case it was finished and then, to my
surprise, it suddenly was. I was not pre-warned. The Thought
Adjuster, I believe, uses that bridge to "cross over" to you and become the
increasingly personal Adjuster that we share partially now and fully after
fusion. At least it is my experience that the Adjuster is no longer
completely pre-personal with this development. Obviously he is not
totally personal either or I would not be writing you.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is much to explore in your own practice of the stillness.
There is much to learn from your Adjuster that has lasting import for the
future that may be understood now and experienced in the material
moment.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Because language is a problem about the necessity of these practices it
is important, whatever the language used to describe it, to TEACH YOURSELF
about this relationship. Others can not do this for you. It is not
so important to teach yourself about process, but to teach
yourself to go for results and develop your own terms about the
meaning of what you have learned.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My encouragement to you all!</DIV>
<DIV>Ron Besser</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>