2009-10-08. Stillness as a Tool of Grace.
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Lightline – LLN#233
Contents
1Heading
1Topic: Stillness as a Tool of Grace
2Group: Lightline TeaM
2Facilitators
1Teacher: Thought Adjuster
2TR: Mark Rogers, Henry Z.
3Session
1Opening
2Lesson
3Closing
Topic: Stillness as a Tool of Grace
Group: Lightline TeaM
Facilitators
Teacher: Thought Adjuster
TR: Mark Rogers, Henry Z
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Session.
Opening.
Prayer. I will proceed forward in faith because we’re all gathered to do this and because our Divine Parents would have it so. If we would just have it so, we will receive to the best of our soul capacity that which can only be interpreted by the soul, can only be enjoyed by the part of us that is super, that is above mere listening and interpretation but can go beyond those ranges of perception into the greater range that we strive for, soul interpretation, deep and real and meaningful. Thank you Divine Parents for granting us all of these senses. We become so familiar with the day to day expression and the interpretation of the senses of the material flesh that we tend to remain confined in that arena. Tonight we come to you asking for your help as with purpose we desire to expand our capacities beyond those mere material senses and experience what you would have us experience on a deeper soul level. May it be so. Thank you.
Lesson.
The Voice. Greetings, I am here with you as well and as was just so genuinely requested, I will attempt to utilize all the senses to bring forward messages of peace and love through this instrument. It was I think rather well stated and as was confessed, partly borrowed from earlier encounters, this dynamic of being able to perceive by different means and methods. You are truly a multi-faceted being graced with many different ways to perceive your environment and the truth, beauty, and goodness contained within it.
You have many many tools at your disposal to use in this process that you may feel free to access as you so desire. You have been referred many times to the practice of routine stillness. This is perhaps your greatest gateway to be chosen and adopted as you are so willing and able. This practice of returning to this quiet sanctuary where you position yourselves to receive, conditions your environment so that you are in alignment to receive and find that which you seek through the act of the discipline of bringing yourself to this place of seeking. It is not at all a complicated issue, rather it is the simplest of all things.
By attempting to simplify your posture you let fall away all the many and varied structure that you have around yourselves of preconception and predisposition to see life as you think you may know it and as you have experienced it prior to this experience. Coming into a place of simplicity and quiet enables you to let down all this structure around you and be willing to encounter a new scaffolding of awareness and understanding because if you are so surrounded by all that you think you have assembled in this life that you call reality, then very little that is new is able to make its way through into your sphere of awareness.
But if you come to a place of humility and a place where you are prepared to drop your guard and your fences of boundaries or limitation then truly you may be in a position to directly experience reality free from your current preconception. This is how you are able to grow and change for you cannot grow much if you think you know it all. If you simply want to rest on that which you have accumulated so far to yourself, there is no room to add more.
If your cup is full, trying to add any more will simply go over the edge and be lost for you have no room to accept it. The practice of stillness is the practice of making room in your cup by expanding your capacity and growing your vessel. By so doing you are able to fit more in and all that you are able to fit in co-mingles with all that you have accumulated and acquired up to this point and what is in the cup becomes changed, flavored, and altered by the new reality that has been added.
It was true what the Master said; “Those who would come into the kingdom must come in with the faith of a child.” A child knows and is fully aware that they do not know and are not fully aware. They are willing to add to their cup eagerly. They want to fill it up and gain more and more but as adults there has been so much routine and pattern encountered in your lives that you think this is simply reality as you know it, you have it figured out, this is it, and you need not experiment with much more because you are certain you’ve got it.
But the true masters know they do not have it, it is always coming and there must be room made for more and thus this returning to the humility of stillness enables you to gain the capacity to hold more. That is but one of the tools that has been used, perhaps your most potent and powerful one but only one nevertheless, there are many. We have talked of prayer and worship as being significant in aligning your compass and pointing you in the right direction. There are a number of other disciplines you may choose to adopt, all of which are to be used as tools or stepping stones on your path. They are not the destination. You are proceeding to the destination, they are merely the bridge or the stepping stones which may aid you in your journey.
I will say just a few more words about this idea of being open to the concept. Do you have room in your cup to accept that you can hear from another part of yourself, with another part of yourself, through another part of yourself? Can this be accommodated in your structure of understanding and awareness? For it is most certainly true, it is merely whether you can adopt it and embrace it as compatible with your understanding.
There is this part of you which does have access and is aware of this connection and this circuit and perhaps in your stillness and in your prayer, in your petitions to those whom you imagine are most significant in your process, you might do well to seek directly for this greater capacity knowing that it exists, seeking it, desiring it, asking for help to explore it and expand it. In this way you are truly developing one of your senses, one of your gifts of grace from your Divine Parents.
First one must know of a skill or ability and then one may choose to augment or develop this skill or ability. You all are even now, in this moment encountering that aspect of yourself which you may very well desire to augment and enhance as you are in this process of seeking to develop this alternate sense. I invite you to do this with purpose and awareness. Petition for assistance and then assume that your putting into motion this act of your choosing will find its lesson from all those who are in a position to facilitate your purpose and then there is nothing that can prevent it from happening. Let is be so in this hour, in this day, in this week, in this month. Let it be so because it is your desire and because you will put yourself in motion to make it so. Certainly the forces of the universe may be directed to help you.
I would now step back from my customary position of a recessive aspect in deference to allowing room in this platform to be used by others. I am grateful for the opportunity you have provided this evening. Thank you very much.
Prayer. [Henry] Father, thank you so much. Mark, thank you so much also. That was such a tremendously articulate introduction and I am prompted to share a personal thing that unfolded right during this moment tonight that I am still kind of in tears about and that I am prompted to share it because it deals directly with what we are doing here this evening, getting in touch with our soul.
This afternoon a friend of mine came over to help me do some work and his son was to come over and pick him up when he was done and he was supposed to come before 6 so I could get on this call. Apparently there was no way to avoid this, me coming on to this call and Ted being here. I put my headphones on and got the phone connected, sat down, got into my quiet space. I have a piece of olivene, it’s an andara crystal, pretty incredible piece. I just hold it in my hand and in about 30 sec. it pulls me right into this state and I am prepared here and am listening to the call and am on mute, talking to my friend who is here and then Mark comes on and I actually put the speaker phone on when Mark was beginning to talk and he said, Does this have something to do with this book that you and Dennis read?” I said yes it does.
I am just sitting here quietly and he is sitting here quietly and at the end of Mark’s speech his son comes and it still is on mute, he says my son is here, I gotta go. I said I know. He got up to leave with a tear in his eye and says ” I caught all of that.” That was such a really tremendous moment for me having tried to work with this guy for four years, to make a dent in his granite bound mind and here tonight he opened up his soul for the first time and words cannot describe the depths and measure in which we qualify to become aware of reality. Thank you Father for this reality. God is so real, the soul is so real. We truly must posture in a position to give and receive to truly understand that to receive this tremendous love we must be constantly loving others. Anyway, I needed to share this this evening.
This week I had sat with my Thought Adjuster and was thinking about the creative aspects of the mind in relationship to the soul and the Adjuster and I think it is here that I will allow the Adjuster presence. Thank you.
Thought Adjuster. [Henry] Behold in your awareness a presence in reality given thought, given motivation, energy attached to a thought, a prompt, an intuitive moment. What was said about my realness can be said about the ability of the human within the mind to conceive an idea, whatever the idea may be and then willfully bring that idea into fruition. An artist sees a shape within a shadow at a certain time of the day that he had always looked at a place but that day the shadow was different and he was moved to create a piece to recall the moment he was aware of that shadow. A musician playing music, hearing words all of a sudden becomes aware of a song, a poetic moment, seeing the rain blue and sky red and he writes a song and captures that moment.
Other men see an idea for their life, see what they want to do and how they want to do it and set about to do it. To create a life with a family, become a part of something. Give me your concerted effort, your attention. Give me the muscle in your body, the thoughts in your mind, the desires in your heart, the dreams that you dream, the problems that you have. Give me everything you don’t want, empty your cup that within a moment I may come in and fill, that I may in the moment with you create. The soul is the mind of the poet for only through the soul can you see poetry in the prose of everyday life. Get in touch with your soul, that clean, clear, crystal space quiet. The mind must be quiet, must be spontaneous, the gesture of opening yourself up to the possibility.
Friendship, therefore, becomes creative, the relationship between my presence and the human mind, the human mind which is an animal mind grasping for its identity, finding a little ledge of ego and freezing itself there rather than grasping the larger part of the mind, the part of the mind that is open, the part of the mind that stretches to infinity, the part of the mind that encompasses everything imaginable, the part of the mind that holds my presence, the part of the mind that has my Paradise signature. Yes, was it not your poet that said, “You can see a universe in a grain of sand and you can see and sense eternity within a human mind.”
It is important as a human to have this sense of realness because realness continues all the way to reality, Paradise, the eternal reality. The Father, the original thought, the original pattern, the original abode, the original Deity from which I am just a chunk yet the substance of God is real. It expresses even in a mortal earthy life. Remember that I am always in the spontaneity of the moment.
So this evening we are presenting you with an aspect of the soul, the bound-ness of reality, a taste of eternity, presenting an avenue that is available to you within. In the quiet times that you spend in this stillness, there begins to develop a closer and more real awareness within the human mind of the reality of the infinite mind, the eternal and infinite mind. The presence of the Thought Adjuster is multi-dimensional. Yes, part of my functioning is to get your attention to working with your mind and adjusting your thoughts, creativity, the use of the mind circuits, the circuitry of mind are the circuits of the universe mind, these adjutant circuits, adjutant aspects of cosmic mind.
Begin to become aware of within yourself the potential of creating with spirit guidance, with spirit substance, with spirit’s ability to uphold, with spirit’s ability to meet you exactly where you are. Become creative in your relationship with your inner presence, not like a baby talks to a parent but like a young adult talks to an older adult, purposeful and meaningful. Be creative in your ability to understand and recognize. You will discover that it is not as big and grand a thing, it is so subtle, it is ever so slight that if you took your eye off of it for a second you would miss it. This is the practice, to begin to create a space within yourself that is quiet and still that echoes throughout your daily life that any moment you can return to that feeling of that stillness because it has a feeling like no other feeling, the feeling of being completely suspended, the feeling of being completely upheld like a soap bubble in the air.
Thank you for allowing my presence and my voice this evening. We will return the forum for yet another. Again, thank you.
Monjoronson. [Mark] I greet you all as well, I am Monjoronson here to honor the initial request to provide another way to look at this whole phenomenon of perception and I would choose in searching through the data bank of my liaison t/r associate to provide a brief analogy to be useful in this attempt of description. Imagine with me if you will, what it is to look into the microscope and observe what your scientists have found and declared to be the individual cell involved in the makeup of all living things. In the makeup of your living organism, you know in your mind that you are made up of billions of these tiny little pieces of yourself referred to as cells and each and every cell is separate and distinct having its own center and core, its own nucleus and its own body and its own cell walls.
Relatively recently your scientists have embraced the awareness that within the core, the very center of each one of these cells there is an intelligence they have referred to as your DNA molecule. As such they are coded and they have a pattern within each which is aware of its purpose. This is what makes certain cells become bone, other cells become tissue, other cells become skin. So within each one of these tiny little pieces of yourself there is a knowing, there is an awareness that is at the center and core surrounded by its own body and encountering its environment by way of its skin or cell wall.
Now imagine with me if you will, a few billion of these gathered together functioning in unity and this conglomeration of cells form under some magical quotient to distinguish themselves to become all the different aspects of you. You may see yourself as one large cell, you have an inner core which knows and has intelligence about its purpose and its being. It is surrounded by a body, a bunch of parts that all seem to know what they are doing. Some seem to have distinguished themselves as eyes, others as ears, others as nose, mouth, fingers, nerves, feeling, and in this process you are able to interpret your environment for everything that rubs up against you touches one of these senses and then may be interpreted by you.
But in the core, in the middle, there is your soul. It is the all-knowing part of this gigantic organism very similar to the tiniest that it is comprised of. It is the central intelligence around which all these other little central intelligences are gathered and formed. In this way you can see yourself as merely an intelligence surrounded by a body and that the real enduring permanent part of yourself is merely utilizing this differentiation of all the little cells to form its body and in this process its interpretation of your environment.
But you are not it, your sensory perceptions are merely the part of your body that helps you to define your environment while this central core is housed in this organic form. Like the very little cell, there is an intelligence in the core of your being which transcends the temporal state of the material being. Your soul is only temporarily utilizing this organism, this combined group of mini-intelligences and it will when the time comes, vacate that temporary address and take up another and you won’t have the same experience of eyes, ears, nose, mouth and fingers to interpret your environment. But the central intelligence, the core of your being, your eternal soul will inhabit another vehicle with a different set of senses with an enhanced mind to perceive all these senses and attempt to make sense out of it.
But the central part is enduring and will transcend many incarnations of different sensual capacities. This is the difference that you are trying to distinguish between ways of knowing and perceiving because your central core has this innate knowing and this eternal connection to a greater intelligence whereas your senses and your ability to reconcile what your senses tell you with your mind is only a temporal occurrence in time and space, quite finite and incapable of providing you with a grand depth of experience. It is strictly limited to experiencing and encountering what bumps up against your vehicle in this life.
But your soul can experience far far more than that. It is not limited to any of the senses that surround your vehicle. It has expanded capacity to be able to reach well out beyond your mortal address and bring back to you vast amounts of experience which may only be harvested by the use of this grand sense that is yours as well.
I hope the use of this analogy proves a positive contribution. There are many ways that one may use to attempt to describe this additional sense but this one may be serviceable enough for this evenings encounter. Thank you for the request for my presence here tonight and for your dutiful attention to the many inspiring messages that have been part of this process this evening. I am moved to offer an opportunity for anyone who would like to enter the forum and address with a question or observation before drawing this meeting to a close.
Henry. Since there are no questions Mark, I would like to say something. I would to thank Monjoronson for that tremendous description of the living energy cells within the body and consciousness within these cell, thank you.
Closing.
Monjoronson. [Mark] I join you in gratitude for the experience for I perceive we that we all have come away with something for having arrived at this banquet this evening. Therefore I would draw this meeting to a close in gratitude shared I believe by all. Enjoy your processing of the many fruits that have been brought to the table this evening. Thank you all and enjoy, farewell.
