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<font face="Verdana">LightLine Teleconference September 28. 2006<br>
Discussion Facilitator: Mark Rogers<br>
Subject: Discuss the Nature and Identification of the Adjuster/Voice/I
Am/Me presence<br>
<br>
Mark: This is Mark, speaking as Mark. I realize that there has been a
format established of a speaker and an audience through this process.
However, I encourage anyone who is inspired to take active part, play
an active role, to be so bold as to reach beyond their boundaries of
expectations and comfort. And I will begin.<br>
<br>
I will first attempt to put my intentions in the middle of the circle,
why I am here, what I am about in this process, what my purpose is. I
am here in this hour because I believe to the very core of my being
that I have a role to play in being in service. In this hour, I have
been fortunate enough to have the benefit of some necessary experiences
and a lot of luck, and a lot of effort, to bring me to this point,
wherever this point is. And I feel extremely, exceedingly lucky and
privileged to have made it here. I see and recognize that I desire to
reach and help any and all those in this process of discovery of self,
in this process of discovery of relationship. I feel I have stumbled
on some experiences which have brought me to a point where I can begin
to discuss wading into this arena of identification, this arena of
misidentification, and this arena of relationship. <br>
<br>
And I am completely personally uncertain as to the best approach to use
in this regard, but I need to just make a few points and then the
approach will take a life of its own, I'm sure. First point I feel
necessary to make in this process of discovery is a revelation that I
had about the distinction between the spiritual component, I call mine
The Voice, others call theirs Me, the Thought Adjuster. Whatever term
you decide to use, it will be inadequate. Terminology does not cover
it. Word symbols are signposts pointing the way, they are not the
thing. <br>
<br>
So, the very, very first challenge we face in this process is the
overwhelming tendency of our computer organ, our brain, to define,
delineate and capture in a word or a phrase something impossible to
capture in a word or a phrase. And therefore, our mind does not have
the ability to properly perceive what it is we are trying to examine,
because it only is aware of what information has been put in to this
hour, and it replays tapes of its experiences over and over again. It
actually craves finding an experience and boxing it into a category --
that's its job, identification and clarification. However, this does
not serve our purpose when we come into this arena. Rather, if we are
overly occupied in the assessment of the situation we miss observing
the very moment that we are trying to assess. You will have to settle
on a term that works for you. The little voice inside, people have
even referred to it as the gut feeling.<br>
<br>
Student: You were in the middle of a question?<br>
<br>
Mark: No, actually I was in the middle of an attempted description of
the indescribable, so I won't succeed. I will not succeed in this
process. It is not possible. I can paint visions for you, I can come
up with word symbols which most clearly point in that direction to me.
I can express my own personal circumstance and set of experiences which
has brought me to this place, but in the end, the phenomenon being
described is so inclusive that you would be surprised to realize that
you have known this presence for all of your life that you can
remember. <br>
<br>
I one day had the realization that it is impossible to differentiate my
personality, my self, my soul, from its partnership with my voice, my
divine component, because the two are in the process of linking
together, in the process of melding to be one. And in this way, I
believe we often misidentify some component of this relationship,
because we see ourselves as being involved, as being a part of it. In
fact, that is exactly what we will see in this process, because our
Thought Adjusters are not their own distinct, separate personalities,
like we might envision joining with a friend and having the recognition
that your friend is their own individual, and you are your own
individual, and having a relationship with another separate
individual. We all recognize what that is like. This process is
actually one of coming to realize that in the process of becoming who
you are, you have been in partnership with a part of you that is other
than you, is greater than you, but does not stand alone as a separate
and distinct personality. Rather, its job is to attach itself and
claim yours. In this way it becomes indistinguishable; the line cannot
cleanly be drawn from where the one stops and the other starts. This
is the basic difficulty in defining in this arena what is strictly your
individual personality, and what is your personality in combination
with your divine component. <br>
<br>
So, it must be said right up front, absolutely in the beginning to be
understood clearly and by all, that this process contains the human
element and cannot be separated from it, to stand on its own.
Therefore, what ever I say or anyone else says about this will
certainly be colored by our individual experiences of this phenomenon,
our vocabulary, our inclinations, our prejudices and our understandings
of these principles. So we must right away and immediately forgive
ourselves for our involvement in a divine process. That is an odd
concept because we somehow feel as though we are unworthy at times to
be involved in such a project of divinity. But literally, without us
this project is incomplete and does not come to fruition. <br>
<br>
So we must accept the role that we have to play in this process. And
very similarly, those of you who are familiar with the
Transmitting-Receiving process are fully aware that the transmitter is
evident in any transcript, in any teacher message, because in fact
there is a partnership. There is the human vocabulary and the human
construct of understanding, the human willingness to interact, to be
voice. Likewise, when we are talking about the voice within, we must
recognize that its voice is our voice. And that is not only okay; that
is right. That is the way it should be. That is the way we are
designed to be in this process. <br>
<br>
There is a great feeling out there that this phenomenon is not
approachable at this time by such mere mortals as ourselves. I am here
to dispel that myth and rumor. We live in miraculous times. These are
times of great change and great miracles are abounding around us. We
can now have access to things that we never could have imagined in just
short years past. One of the thrilling and exciting adventures that we
can embark on is this process of discovery, of discovery of your
relationship to your indwelling fragment. And that is what we are here
to hopefully discuss. <br>
<br>
There have been a number of people who have come forward to say that
they have had experiences like this. It will be helpful for this
information to just simply be spoken. One of the universe principles
at play in this hour, in this dynamic right here, is that we are all
connected, we are all as one. What any one of us and experiences in
this arena is a gift to the others in the web that we are involved in.
If any one of us has an experience which increases our awareness, which
expands us as spiritual beings, we give that to the thought stream of
humanity, to the collective consciousness. And once having been
ushered into the material realm through our creative prerogative, it
then becomes the property of all of us. You need not have exact
experiences or similar conditions. Now you can have, you can possess
the very experiences had by others in their spiritual development. <br>
<br>
So in this fashion, I believe it's important to simply make real, make
material what is a part of our experience collectively. So that is
what I am here to foster in this discussion. I'd like to try to not
have dominant figures, such as I am doing right this minute, as much as
I would like to have common sharing of experiences where people have
felt the brush of contact with their inner voice, experiences that
leave you with a feeling that you have been expanded, that have left
you with a sense of confirmation, a sense of knowing. Those times are
when we are closest to identifying the union, the partnership, that we
have with our indwelling voice.<br>
<br>
So, I suppose I will start with my personal story, and then maybe
others will contribute as well. Having been involved in the Teaching
Mission for 14 years, and having read Urantia book for over 20, I had
come to my construct of understanding that the Thought Adjuster was
certainly a gift from the Father, a part, although miniscule, of my
being and that at some long ranging point in the far distant future, if
I was diligent, I would enjoy partnership with this divine fragment. I
must admit that having believed that construct and accepted that box
that I was not particularly engaged in the process of discovery for
myself, thinking that this was long-term project, and certainly
couldn't come to fruition at least in this lifetime. I believe I
became complacent with the pursuit of trying to make any form of
contact because of the construct that I had that it wouldn't be
possible anytime soon. <br>
<br>
I then was, and here is the funny thing, I then was given a book, it
turns out that in this case it was Conversations with God book in which
Neale Donald Walsch channels his Adjuster. The book has now turned
into seven books, or nine books, or what ever it is. But when I read
this book, and I read his personal story of how this just happened to
him when he took a pad of paper and a pen and wrote a frustrated letter
to God, and then received an answer, and then wrote more questions and
received more answers. And he was blown away by the fact that this was
possible, but that these answers were clearly not of him. And after
reading the book, I could tell these answers were clearly not of him,
and I thought there it is, my brother out there has found a way to
contact his Adjuster, to talk to his voice. And he says all he did was
to take a pad of paper and start writing. Now I am sure his state of
mind and his state of soul were critical to this juncture. But I
thought if my brother can do it and he has given this gift to the
collective consciousness, then as well I and you can do it, any of us
could do it. <br>
<br>
So I started journaling, and I had never journaled in my life, but I
started journaling, and I started hearing, I started getting a
response. And what I couldn't believe about this that was so different
was that it was not TRing process at all, where you identify an
exterior personality and volunteer your services to communicate for
this personality, with this personality. But rather this was
personality-less. This was pervasive, this is everywhere. This is the
fish wondering how to describe the water. And I realized I had been
looking in the wrong places. I had been waiting for contact from out
there, something to tap me on the shoulder and give me some clear and
definitive communication that this was them. And not realizing that
every time I had had thoughts of spiritual conviction, or inspirations
to act in a spiritual manner, that that had been in partnership with
the Voice. <br>
<br>
And it to me established that I believe that other humans are probably
looking in the wrong place too, and I am probably not alone in thinking
that this is something that you earn over a long period of time, and
it's an external thing that's bestowed upon you, and that one day
you'll finally realize it will finally knock on your shoulder and tell
you, but you know, it has been there since your earliest memory, making
it extremely hard to distinguish. And I encourage any of you, I have
no idea where all of you are at, but I would encourage any of you to
attempt any kind of such approach your self. I never had written or
journaled anything in my life, but apparently this technique allows one
distinct avenue of approach, where in if you ask a sincere question of
your heart, you write it down as fast as you can, and then you do not
stop. You do not let your mind analyze the question. You do not
figure out what you should say. Just write the answer. And when you
do that, if you do that, you will see upon reading it later that that
clearly wasn't a construct that was coming from your mind frame, but
rather separate than you.<br>
<br>
So that is how I began to realize that I had misidentified something
for the whole of my life, and particularly the past 20 years when I had
been looking and searching and seeking to find just that. So I am
hoping that we can include in the discussion, maybe other people's
experiences, or questions, or anything to facilitate a discussion. The
brain craves to contrast and compare, and that's also one of the real
sticking points in this, because your brain can’t contrast and can’t
compare what it is unaware of. Your brain is so thoroughly deluged
with the presence that has been with it, that how can it then
distinguish itself from that. So would there be any offerings, or
questions, anything at all? I feel a little bit like I'm talking out
into space here. Hello, hello, hello...<br>
<br>
Student: Mark, this is A, and I resonate so well with everything you
shared, and I'd like to share what happened with me within the last
year. Like you, I was always thinking, although I knew my Adjuster
lived in me, but I was thinking out there. And I would thank him so
often for all the wonderful things he did to lead me in all the
directions that he did to get me where I am. But always it was out
there, and I guess from TRing I was still thinking of something hearing
outside of me. And I was sitting there in my quiet time one morning,
and all of a sudden I heard from my Adjuster, and I realized it was
coming deep from the center of me, not out there, and I was really
taken aback. I started having this conversation with him, and I said
“What should I call you?” And he said, call me ”Me.” I thought how
wonderful, it is me, the best part of me. So now I call him “Me”, and
he has gone on to explain to me, but of course we haven't fused, that's
a long way off. However, we do work as one. I can go off and do
things with my personality, but also there are times when you can't
distinguish us. He is with me all the time. But now I am much more
connected and much more conscious of Me, the full Me, just wonderful.
It's not coming from me at all, it's coming from Me. I mean it is
coming from me, it's right in the center of me when I hear from Me.<br>
<br>
Mark: Can I ask you, when this happens is this in words, is this in a
voice, is this in a vision? What form does this take most of the
time? I understand that it must vary.<br>
<br>
Student: It's mostly words. We communicate. I can ask him a question
or he can say something to me. I know lots of times he works with me
so closely I'm not even aware that he is helping me and feeding my
thoughts as I am doing something. But if I want to sit down in my
quiet time and say, “Me” and ask him something, I will get the answer.
And I feel it from deep inside. It's not something like transmitting
and hearing it from out there, it's right inside, so deep I can feel it.<br>
<br>
Mark: And this is, of course, the destiny of every one that is
listening to this in his hour. We all are growing to this point of
communion with our indwelling spirit. And once we raise our vibration
levels and get to a place of communion with this indwelling spirit, we
won't be so reliant on the external listening for the teachers as we
have been. We will have access each and individually in the moment of
need to this communication, this communion, this information that we
need.<br>
<br>
Student: This is true, and it's very interesting too, because I still
work with Michael, Mother Spirit, Monjoronson and Machiventa on their
teams and on the things that they are doing, and I talk to them. But
as far as going to a particular teacher and asking like I used to,
there is no reason, because Me is here all the time. It's a most
amazing thing to me, because I never expected this to happen in my
lifetime.<br>
<br>
Mark: No, and I believe that to be perhaps our largest challenge.<br>
<br>
Student: Well I prayed for years and years and years for oneness, but I
thought that would happen long after I graduated. But I am delighted
that it happened now.<br>
<br>
Mark: Right. Thank you for sharing that, A, that's beautiful.<br>
<br>
Students: This is R. I have learned so much just listening just now to
you two that I'll say what I need to say here. But it's now colored,
of course, by what your descriptions are, which I guess is this
collective consciousness that Mark is referring to of shared
experiences. I also have been reading the Urantia book for a good many
years, and then became involved with the Teaching Mission around 1990,
and started journaling and took off my spectacles so that I wouldn't
continue to proofread what I wrote down. Only once did I, at the end
of a journaling episode, become aware that somehow that this was my
Adjuster speaking with me, because I too have from my understanding of
the papers and the Urantia book on the Adjuster had thought that it
would be prideful or self-indulgent to think that any advancement
toward the binocular personality state, the Adjuster is pre-personal
and I am personal, and we are going to fuse. Then I sort of got a
picture of trying to look at me like the Father looks at me, who is not
the Adjuster part of me, and I see myself as distinct from the
Adjuster, but the Father sees me as fused, and he sees me binocularly.
And I speak out of one side of my mouth and the Adjuster out of the
other, but really I only speak with one voice. <br>
<br>
So I was very angry one evening and I went into my room and could still
hear music and noise and conversations from the rest of the family, and
I started having sort of give and take conversation on solving the
problem, and it evolved into a sort of a ladder conversation where I
just kept suspending judgment on the answers that I was hearing by
saying, well that doesn't sound like me, but I'll give myself the
benefit of the doubt and keep asking questions. <br>
<br>
At the point at which really realize that I was in the presence of a
much more nurturing and greater enveloping field of personality than I
was, was when I discovered that I had sort of come up through the roof
and into what appeared to be a very flat, foggy, thin layer of ice, and
I was crawling out onto this surface, and around me in the distance,
it's 50, 100, 200 feet away, there were things that looked like fir
trees coming up through this fog. I intuitively and immediately
understood them to be the actions from my more emotional life poking up
into this intersecting, or coming into this morontial sphere, or
distinct level where I was. And I realized that actions that I had
been performing, some of them were penetrating and some of them were
not, because this was an awfully bare landscape, except for these
clusters of fir tiptops, that dark, dark triangular looking things
coming up, and kept crawling out into this landscape until I thought
no, I don't want to go any further out here. I felt immediately
protected and enveloped with these friendly arms and friendly lap, and
sort of very carefully backed my way back to the open hole, and climbed
my way back down the ladder of conversation, or not even conversation,
but presence, and I could still hear all of the things that were
happening in the house. I could still hear everything, my eyes were
still closed. <br>
<br>
All of a sudden it occurred to me that I didn't need to be in a special
place to be meditating with peace and quiet and an empty mind. I just
had to change my focus of attention from paying attention to one thing
to paying attention to another. And the first thing that I asked for
was to never forget that I inhabited both those levels, and to be
brought back to that reality, that understanding, or that perception,
or whatever it was, that I was enveloped, I was protected, not
protected, I was nurtured by this feeling, this person, this goodness.
And now I've put so much attention and thought into the Teaching
Mission and the Correcting Time and the Magisterial Mission that I've
put myself out to learn many, many new things, and to learn many, many
different things than I used to know, and to put myself in a position
of physical service, and social service, through my education, and so I
really feel that the amount of time that I've put into the day-to-day
school work and internship and apprenticeship in this work has now put
me far enough along the path of social service that I have to go
forward, or I have to go inside, and with you all, and I need to hear
and learn, and listen to other ways of becoming aware of the great gift
of the Father to me that exists here within me that is its own fusion
energy light cell. I see something through my eyes, I say something
through my voice, and I need to remember myself, I need to remember
that I'm not talking out of two sides of my mouth, that I'm not seeing
out of one eye, and then the other I have a binocular voice, a
binocular set of eyes that needs to see very clearly what the morontial
aspects of my life are. And that's all I have to say.<br>
<br>
Student: I'd like to say a few words. With me, it was more of a quiet
thought process, where I would get thoughts that I could tell they were
not my thoughts. They would be like gently guiding plots, or impulses
to go help someone. And so it developed over time that I became more
sensitive to this kind of guidance from within. I also had the feeling
that I was to fuse in some future time after reading the Urantia book
for a few years. I had the picture that we were going to be together,
we were partners, and that is the way it was supposed to be.<br>
<br>
The thing that has come up recently, is a lot of the messages from the
teachers talking about how we have divinity within us, and we should
accept our divinity. I think that is key in this process to not try to
analyze it, or try to dissect it, but to just accept that you are
greater than you know you are, more is possible than you know about,
things can happen that we have never even thought of, and that we can
step forward and follow these thoughts and leadings from our Adjuster
and trust in that it's not some way out thing, it's the way it's
supposed to be. And that's all I have to say, I have to go back to
work, so goodbye everybody.<br>
<br>
Mark: Thank you, C. Well said. I think the points she makes are very,
very good ones. We definitely have a tendency to want to not accept
our role in this process. Why is that? That is something that needs
to be considered by each of us. What is it that would make us withdraw
from our basic nature and character as divine children of God? Why
wouldn't we rush to embrace the goodness that this implies? There is
some human condition imposed that one should not presume to be in a
position of divinity, of knowing divinity, of speaking for divinity, of
being in partnership with divinity. <br>
<br>
I would just encourage us all to recognize when that pattern, that tape
that the mind has plays. Recognize when we impose restrictions upon
ourselves for some cultural reason, some personal reason of inadequacy,
to recognize that we are the ones which impose such restrictions. The
Father is certainly has no idea of restrictions for us. That is in
distinct contrast to his desire for us to grow and become all that we
will become. So any restrictions that arise, we bring to the arena
with us. And I think it is very, very helpful for us to notice when
those come into play, they are an autopilot response to much of our
conditioning, and we need to be aware that that attitude is restrictive
of spirit. And be on the watch to identify that attitude, and by
identifying where that attitude is and presuming a higher attitude, we
can dispel all notions that somehow we shouldn't, or we couldn't, or we
won't, because we will, we should and we can.<br>
<br>
Student: Mark, can I add something to that? (Please.) I think part of
the problem that some of us have is a sense of self worth, and that's
something that we need to grow into as we get so supported with our
teachers. It's not something we can just turn on or off and say I
really am worthy. You have to come to this understanding however it
is, so that is not one of the things that blocks you.<br>
<br>
Mark: Yes, and the most powerful thing I remember from the teachers,
and from Michael, is if Michael has total trust in us, then wherefore
is our trust in us? He has repeatedly said, they have all repeatedly
said, that they have complete trust in us, that they in fact rest the
entire Magisterial Mission with us as human beings, they trust us so
much. And yet we come to the same arena doubting our own capabilities
and abilities to be about this process. So you are absolutely right,
it's deep-seated in the individual for the most part.<br>
<br>
Student: The teachers, you know one of the things that they are here
for is 1) the teachers from the very beginning have focused on getting
us in touch with our Adjusters, and 2) they have focused on loving us
and teaching us to love ourselves, which brings self worth way up
higher than what we had from when we started. So the teachers, I think
this has been their mission from the very beginning, so that we can all
get to the point where we really could be wonderful assistants in this
Magisterial Mission with Monjoronson.<br>
<br>
Student: And I second that wholeheartedly, that they love us and they
remind us to go within. This is R, and I have to go, and I will be
back the week after next. And I love you all, and have a good two
weeks, and we'll see you next week too. Bye-bye.<br>
<br>
Mark: I'd like to throw out one more analogy that I just personally
really like. I mentioned before that there is great difficulty in
trying to explain to the fish the presence of water, and what water is,
and how it is different than air. But here is the thing that I love so
much about this analogy -- we are tadpoles, we are not fish. We grow
up just like fish do in the beginning, we don't know any distinction
between us and the water, and we could live our whole life swimming in
the water just like the fish. But we have a destiny before us, we have
a transformation immediately ahead of us. We are destined to transform
and to lose our tail and to grow our legs, and to be able to stick our
head into a different environment above the water, and be able to live
back and forth in the water and in the air, and recognize the
difference. That is our destiny that is what we are trying to do right
here. <br>
<br>
We are trying to make this transition and leap out of the water little
by little, and experiment in the spiritual arena, and as we do this we
become more and more comfortable with the fact that this is part of who
we are. It's okay to do this, it's okay to go to the other side of
what we're used to. And pretty soon we'll crave it, just like the frog
just loves to get out and jump around and explore out in the new
environment. And we cannot stop this process, we are engaged in it.
It is our destiny. We will transform into these new beings. We cannot
stop the process. So it is just where we find ourselves in the interim
that is the most interesting component of what we are doing here. We
are destined to be these great spiritual beings, and yet we're still
uncertain that we can survive on the other side of the water in the
air, in spirit. So I like that analogy, I just thought I'd throw that
out.<br>
<br>
Student: I think a lot of it for me, in staying in spirit, is to keep
busy on the path of the good stuff, and kind of having a gate in my
mind to, you know swearing and bad thoughts and damn this and whatever,
rather take those thought impulses and turn lemons into lemonade, and
learn not to spit into the wind. I am really grateful for the Adjuster
and for the short life we have together to learn a few more things
about each other. It seems like a key in each other's Adjuster in
teaching me how to grow a little more. And so I am grateful for all of
you and all of my friends and family. I love you all.<br>
<br>
Mark: I feel there's one more concept that can be useful in this
process of approach, and that is the concept that came to our group a
few weeks back. And it really boils down simply to the question, “Have
you given your Adjuster permission and latitude today? Have you in
this hour once again reaffirmed your commitment to participate with
your Adjuster, to give your Adjuster access and latitude to you to
further your development?” There arose a discussion not too long ago in
our group that, well we shouldn't have to continually give permission
or ask for this kind of association with our Adjuster, after all they
know us, we don't need to provide them with any particular words or
symbols in order for them to understand the desire of our hearts. It
is true that they do know us, and they do know the desire of our hearts
better than any other thing we can imagine, but there is a component we
completely overlooked, and it is not that they await permission as much
as it is the orientation of ourselves in the process of providing the
petition for their assistance. By so doing, we orient ourselves to be
willing, to be open, to be active in the process, to be engaged in the
pursuit, and in this way it is not them that are awaiting our signal as
much as it is our signaling of our intention to orient ourselves to be
ready, to be willing. And that is in this hour, that's knowing what
you know in this moment. Do you recommit again? Do you commit again?
How about now? The more we know spiritually, the more aware we are in
our commitment process, so the more invaluable the commitment is. And
it does provide latitude. We have witnessed in our group that there is
an added dimension of encircuitment when we provide literal, verbal
petition to link Adjusters, that is give permission for another's
Adjuster to work with yours, and yours to work with another's, in this
hour, now.<br>
<br>
I throw that out because I think that can be a helpful element to this
process. It's not that we are waiting for some strong, foghorn signal
to be sent from our Adjuster to wake us up, as much as it is we are
desiring to position ourselves to be ready to hear this Adjuster, to be
able to hear this, feel this communion, and then have the wherewithal
to act upon what we know.<br>
<br>
Student: Mark, this is J. What you just said brings me to the question
of the levels of vibration that we hear about a lot, but never quite
sure how you get yourself to this higher level of vibration. Is there
some, I really don't know what to do, I have asked, but maybe there is
something I am either not understanding about it, or not doing, and I
don't know which?<br>
<br>
Mark: I can't speak to what you have or haven't been doing, but I am
inspired to offer you another technique. We have recently been engaged
in discovering the powerful and potent technique of ultimate focus,
that is the focus of the three components of your self: your mind, your
spirit, and finally your body. This, we have discovered, at least we
have done it in this way that I will explain, and then of course anyone
can do whatever they would like in their own process of discovery. But
if you wish to get to a place of, I won't say total focus, I don't know
if that's possible, but of maximum focus in which you cannot help but
raise your vibration level, is to offer all three of your components an
opportunity to orient themselves. <br>
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Many people think in stillness you must absolutely have no engagement
of the brain whatsoever. For many people, this is not possible to
actually stop and be silent in the brain. So if you are one of these
people who find difficulty in chiseling out a quiet spot in the
mainstream of your mind, then give it something to do worthwhile, give
it a noble petition, give it a prayerful attitude, give it an
accomplishment which serves your purpose raising your vibration level,
a mantra, a petition of your divine parents. <br>
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Likewise, you can orient your soul by engaging in the attitude of
worship. When you engage in the attitude of worship your soul is in
alignment with the First Source and Center, and therefore you are
giving your soul what it desires. It's communion is being made possible
by you granting it the space to be in worship with the Creator. <br>
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And finally, in the last step to this process which we have just
recently discovered, and which is so incredibly potent, is to engage
the body as well. And we do this through using the breath. We have
been taught that this final degree of focus aligns all of your
components of self. If you allow yourself to take in the divine energy
from on high when you take in your breath, if you allow this divine
energy to settle with you, to correct you, to heal you, to flow through
you, and then in your next breath apply your focus, to breathe out with
intent and purpose, to channel even the natural flow of your life, your
very breath, to engage in spirit. <br>
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You will find this to be a potent exercise, just centering your being.
If you allow yourself the flexibility to visualize others whom you may
be in association with and coordinate this process together, you will
be simply astounded at the results. This is a process of total
engagement. This is not the mind wandering, looking at the clock,
waiting for session to be over, thinking about a question. This is
focus: mind, spirit and body. It is being in the moment, it is being
in the presence. There is only one moment, there is only one now, and
by focusing on your very breath of life in that moment, you bring your
self to that moment, all of you. So I would recommend this as an
experiment to anybody who would like to try and see the effects. It's
quite amazing, and I encourage people to try to see for themselves what
the power of this technique might be for them.<br>
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Student: Thank you very much. It's quite a bit more than I had thought
in my mind how this actually was or should be, so it adds a lot.<br>
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Student: Well, it's another thing, I was talking to mark the other day
with Monjoronson. Our talk is about being light anchors, to breathe
in. I visualize when I breathe in all the light coming in, and then
going out to wherever it can be of most service on the planet. That
allows the light to come in through you in the process, and out while
you are breathing at the same time. I think it is a wonderful,
wonderful process to do. Thank you, Mark, for sharing that. That is
most important.<br>
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Mark: Well, strangely enough we have been engaged in this process for
15 years, and it just now comes along. But it is very, very potent, so
I do pass it along.<br>
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Student: And that raises the level of the vibration actually?<br>
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Mark: Absolutely. I encourage you to have an end to this too, whether
you are breathing with someone else, whether you are forming one of
these light anchors that we have talked about, which is a very potent
thing to do as well. It's directed intention, and when that energy is
circulating through you and out you, it is raising your vibration as
well. You cannot be not part of that process. When you are engaged in
that, you are accepting that your voltage will be raised as a result of
the general raising of voltage through this exercise of voltage coming
through you.<br>
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Student: Okay, great. I'm taking notes.<br>
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Mark: And I believe this process can be turned right around and we can
through this same process of complete focus and directing of intention,
we could turn the whole process on anything necessary: healing, self
issues, self worth, pain, whatever. I believe this process is not
restricted to having a particular format. We have been engaged in
creating light anchors, but that is simply one application of what I
believe to be the underlying process.<br>
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Student: I think you are right, Mark. I feel that very clearly.<br>
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Mark: And I should tell everybody here, before everybody, I don't know
how many are still left on the line, but Allene Vick, who is on the
line here, and myself are going to be engaged in the pursuit of
uncovering this gigantic mystery of the Mystery Monitor. And we are
about this with intent and with purpose, and you will read about this
if you are hooked up to the various lists, or get the TM newsletter, or
if you are on that Teaching Mission list, you know that this is already
leaking around all the scenes, all the teachers are talking about the
importance of us finding that individual pilot light, that individual
internal compass. I believe like Allene said, that is the ultimate
goal here. All the rest of this is a supporting cast and crew. It is
all about us finding out for ourselves that we are these divine
creatures that have access to these divine elements, and to become who
we are in this process, and not be afraid of it.<br>
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Student: Well, one other thing is this is for us to learn to empower
ourselves with the divinity that we have been given so that we can
develop our full potential to be in service to Michael, Monjoronson,
our Father, our brothers and sisters. Until we really get to
understand at least a greater portion of our potential, we are limping
around instead of walking and running and being vibrant and alive.<br>
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Mark: Right, we are only kind of partially here, aren't we?<br>
<br>
Student: Right, we are just crawling along on the ground.<br>
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Mark: Would there be any other contributors?<br>
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Student: This is H. I am moved to share a story. It was a very hot
summer day. I paused and sat on the edge of a footpath bridge, and I
was staring down into the fairly fast-moving water, and my eyes focused
on a little group of tadpoles feeding among the little roots and other
debris floating down through this streambed, little vegetation pieces.
I was seeing branches moving in the breeze, I was seeing clouds lazily
moving by and blue sky, and I hadn't done anything. My focus had
changed. I was still looking in the same place, but everything had
changed. I no longer saw the creek or the tadpoles or the bed of the
creek. I saw the whole panorama of the sky above it, and it was just
amazing to me that I hadn't done anything conscious to get this whole
new world right where I had been looking before. And I thought, well
that's what it is when you really move into the Thought Adjuster. He
is there. It's a change of focus, and it's almost an imperceptible
change of focus to move into the partnership, be active being in the
participation with your Thought Adjuster. And I'm not where I want to
be with that. But anyway I am wanting, that's why I'm here. Thank you.<br>
<br>
Student: Thank you for sharing that, H, that was beautiful.<br>
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Mark: It's almost like if you look too hard you are going to miss it.<br>
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Student: Mark, this is S. I have a question. I'm very new at this,
just not even a year into reading to The Urantia Book, although I have
heard about it from my sister and others probably for 2 1/2 years. I'm
a little confused. My thoughts in the readings I have done and in the
discussions I've had in the group I'm in, one of the greatest things
that we should do in life is to be one on one with others in sharing
the love and word of God. And I'm not understanding why I guess people
think that they need become TRs if it is not coming to them?<br>
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Student: They don't need to become TRs.<br>
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Mark: I'd like to go ahead and address that issue. We can't be
measured, no matter how much the mind wants to, by each other's
yardstick. And we all have our own path of journey of discovery, our
own contributions to make. All of them are completely valid and real.
There is no error and mistake in anybody’s approach -- it's just simply
their approach. I sure would like to dispel the notion that people
should be somehow encouraged or required or expected somehow to develop
a sense of being able to be a TR. I don't think that that is the plan
at all.<br>
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Student: Right, I don't either.<br>
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Mark: What the real plan is is what we are working on right here,
and the teachers have been an interim step for us. And a few of us who
have been lucky enough to stumble in to a connection with them have
been used by our divine parents to bring us along to this point where
we can begin this discussion. And I don't want anyone to ever think
that somehow this process somehow over emphasizes any particular
individual as TR, or anything like that. As far as I know, TRs tend to
be pretty humble about it. Nobody really is looking to make a name for
themselves. This is a service project. We view this as “To those whom
much is given, much is expected.” And we feel lucky in this life, and
so we are willing to be in service in this regard. But it is not
required that anybody do anything. It is simply a part of your destiny
that you will lose your tail and grow your legs and become a frog. And
in this process we are just trying to all figure this out, how it
happens while it's happening. The teachers are helping from their
side, and now we as individuals are gaining experience and having
something to share with each other about this process of evolution.
And once we get to this area, as I said before, the teacher thing is
just one avenue, and once we all become connected enough with our
internal voices, we simply will no longer need the teachers services.
That doesn't mean that we wouldn't maintain a friendship, much as we
could maintain any friendship, but we would no longer be dependent upon
the teachers for any clarity about spiritual issues.<br>
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Student: I see, okay. Thank you very much.<br>
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Mark: I bet that few of you could discern in tonight's conversation
just where I left off and my voice decided to contribute, or my voice
decided to contribute and I left off. That is the exact example of how
hard it is, and how unnecessary it is, to try to distinguish what was
said and by whom, because it is the goal of this process to speak as
one.<br>
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Student: Right, well said, Mark. Thank you very much, Mark. I have
enjoyed tonight.<br>
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