2004-04-01. Use Stillness to Contact Spiritual Reality
Lightline #14
Topic: Use Stillness to Contact Spiritual Reality
Group: Lightline TeaM
Teacher: Anatolia, Tomas
TR: Matthew, Gerdean
Opening
ANATOLIA: Welcome, friends, family and all who love and serve our Master and our God. I am Anatolia and I bring you good tidings from the world of love and light. There is only one purpose and one being in which we all have our place. It is this purpose and place that we all must find ourselves. Many of you have endeavored for years to find that Stillness within that has the reason for all of life and all of its purposes for which we share. I encourage each and all of you, who despite your troubles, or perhaps despite your newness to that which I and other Teachers speak, is to invite within you a whole new world which is beyond your ordinary care and beyond your ordinary experience. Let me frame this within the context of “beyond your ordinary experience” to mean that it is the extraordinary which can be ordinary, at times. I urge you to seek the extraordinary within the ordinary means that you have at your disposal.
Lesson
This is what I would stress with you, that it is the ordinary within your means, currently, that will not require any amendment, any particular need to undergo treatment, therapy, encouragement, or mental or spiritual calisthenics, for you are fully engaged, geared, automated to be a conduit between spirit and your consciousness. After all, you are spirit within consciousness. You do not need introduction to that which is. It would be [like] having to reorient you for a life or a function for which you presently have no knowledge. While it may not be workable knowledge, that you have, if this has gone unaided so far in your life experience. It is capability that you have full function of and only need to practice. Just as everyone has biceps would firm up and be a small mound upon your upper arm, given the opportunity to exercise it and to strengthen it.
This is all that is required of you to be a fully functioning communicant on the spiritual level. All you need to do is to relax and let the spirit life within to percolate to your level of consciousness so that you and Spirit are one. This will enable you to be at peace within yourself first and foremost, for not to be at peace within yourself is perhaps one of the most difficult and grievous things that you can do. I realize that this may be difficult, if not impossible, for most, if not all, to be able to do, certainly, all of the time. Nevertheless, when disruption or upset embarks upon your experience, when you have an opportunity to settle and to regroup within yourself, it is highly recommend.
Even whether it be five minutes before your going to bed at night, one to two to five minutes of relaxation and being centered within yourself, has as much meaning and value as an entire hour or more in absolute bliss, within the spheres. I know that there are all levels of consciousness active and functioning within your lives so that much of what I speak is elementary and perhaps even insulting, but let me rest assure you that my purpose in speaking of this is to reinforce that which you already know and to inaugurate that which may be new and unprecedented to others.
So for this reason, I bring you good tidings of peace within, and when you are in your states of peace and harmony — for surely you cannot rest within your being within disharmony there certainly would be no rest but, obviously, the disharmony which would result. I urge you to seek the moments within your lives at least once daily, if and when you can, to find the peace within. This is what I invite and encourage. It is yours free and without obligation. Is a desirable function and operation within individual and group lives, so to is this desirable and helpful to complete this type of worship within, as well. I encourage it highly.
In addition to the discussion of finding your peace within, I also wish to invite you to consider (which I would imagine many already are) the purpose and function of Holy Week as it will be beginning as of this Sunday. I urge you to adapt to a change of heart if there is something within your current state of being that keeps a closed door on a concept, a thought, a person, a willingness to live and live. If there is anything that you are holding onto or not letting come into your life or let go through your life, it is urged that you consider Holy Week as a way to adopt a new light into your life. This I encourage you to do in a mindful, purposeful manner, inviting Christ Michael to accompany you (or you to accompany him) in his walk down the way to the cross. As this is not meant to be mournful or tearful, it may be.
If there is room for you and need for you to make passage in your road of life, which has many times been correlated to carrying a cross, I urge you to join in the heart and spirit of your Creator/Savior to be at one with him, and all humanity, and the entire universe during this spectacular season of believers. It is in this way that you will find new relief and new opportunities for opening the doors in your life which need to be opened, or allowing that which has passed into or through your life to be accepted as the change which has occurred. Openness is the main purpose and the main message here that I wish for you to celebrate Sunday morning, Easter morning, when Christ Jesus rose triumphant over anything that anyone has ever considered “the ultimate in limitation.”
This is the good news for which we all worship and honor our Master and our Teacher and our Creator Son who graced us with his magnificent life here in this world only 2000 years a go. It would be as if, in your hourly clock, on a 12-hour day, that Jesus’ presence here in the world was approximately 4 00 A.M. of a new day. I use that figuratively, of course, but meaning that it was not all that long ago. We have more in our evolutionary record that is alive and at synch with that period of time and with human growth and development than one would ever consider, so it is truly possible to be at one with him, with the disciples, and with all who believe . .. and do not believe . .. for Christianity was not a belief pattern that required full participation, for it is a universal action, a universal love, that has no limit and no end. I encourage this for your sake and likewise in no other way is it more possible for you to join in, than to truly join in — in mind body and spirit in the reminiscence, recurrence and worship of what happened 2000 years ago.
I leave you at this point with these thoughts and in later discussion should anything else come to pass that might be able to shed further light, let us talk about that now or . .. is there anyone that has a question or a statement at this point that is in need or desirous of being stated?
Student. I had a question about the Stillness, if I could? This is new to me and I just started a few a week ago. And I experienced something that . .. I’m not quite sure what it was . .. during my stillness practice. An energy came into me, that I welcomed. It felt good. It felt warm, it felt loving. At the same time it was a physical feeling, and I was just wondering if it was something that was really spiritual in origin or was it maybe something that I was fooling myself. Is that a fair question?
Because there was a physical aspect to it, I don’t know if it was really a spiritual thing I was feeling or if I was just, you know, like fooling myself, thinking that I was experiencing something spiritual when I really wasn’t. It’s hard to explain.
ANATOLIA: I will assure you that what you experienced, if it had penetrated your consciousness to the point where it was an introduction of a thought or feeling or even sensation beyond that which you were feeling prior, it was the influence of an external presence within your experience. In this case, I would liken it to a relative or friend who feels particularly close to you that would not be considered by you or by him or her to be invading your privacy, believe it or not. This would more relate to a parent, an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent that you are particularly close to, which saw the opportunity to embrace you, which you felt in a warm and loving way.
This would not be the case with just any entity who wished to invade your space, for you are guided and protected by loved ones and spirit protectors, including angels, seraphim, and the like, who would not permit just anybody to invade your space, so I would consider it as an endearing and intimate touch from those who know you and love you. I hope this relates to the experience that you conveyed and your concern for perhaps an invasion of privacy is not relevant but I wish to reassure you of the positive nature, which simply raises a point that when you do go into silence, pray for, directly relate to whom you may wish to have protection from.
Certainly our Eternal Parents or Jesus or, if you would feel a particular affinity for one of the saints or a relative that you fully trust, ask for protection and in that way you can be assured that your space will not be invaded or sullied or adulterated, however you wish to term it. Does this help at all?
Student. Yes, very much. Thank you.
ANATOLIA: You are welcome. Anyone else? Hearing none, I wish to invite my colleague and teacher Tomas to be with us when Gerdean is ready. I will sign off and I thank you for your time, your courtesy, most of all your loving thoughts and presence. Peace be with you.
TOMAS: I greet you my cherished students and friends in this broadcast Light Line. You have been given a full repast and there is no need to overstuff yourselves with more than you are able to absorb at any one time. There are always, however, opportunities to have a taste here, a nibble there, a whetting of the appetite for further food for thought.
Therefore, perhaps this evening I could offer you a tidbit or two as pertain to the discourse above, from noble Anatolia, having to do with the practice of finding inner peace — and, to the extent possible, sustaining and maintaining that peace as you go about your day into the world which is your arena wherein the seeds are planted and the harvest is becoming ready. The truth remains that there are varying degrees of inherent capacity and developed ability within you each as to how well you can and do comport yourself in your travels and intercourse with humanity.
But all of you certainly have the ability to stop at some point and make the re-connection that will remind you why it is you sometimes get into the situations you find yourself, not necessarily of your own choosing, but because you have been sent, or led, or guided, or lured to, for some reason, and taking that moment to perhaps identify the reason, motive, intent, purpose of your being where you are, in what ever emotional or social or spiritual circumstance, grounds you as a mortal of the realm and anchors you into the well of the infinite, which is your Source. A drink from this well for only a moment will refresh the soul sufficiently that you will be able to move on through your journey with a greater understanding and resolve of your purpose, for having passed that way, and having paused to look and see what it is that God has offered to you to experience for that moment.
What an opportunity to develop a praiseworthy and praise-filled passage through even life’s vicissitudes! By maintaining an attitude of looking in to see who you are, what you are doing, for whom, and why, might put you in a position of finding your life more amusing. A lot of your difficulties are brought on by the tremendous seriousness that you both see and refuse to see, and doubt not, there are some very serious matters afoot on your world. And while many of these may be observed objectively, many of them are subjectively felt and feared, and therefore, go unaddressed.
They lend seriousness even so, to the lives you touch and to you yourself. The fact of God’s indwelling is indeed enough to give you that personal assurance of your own eternal nature and remind you of the promise of immortality as a finaliter, but the joy in living is to be shared not simply with God, but with all you meet as much and as often as is possible. And yet, with the seriousness of the situations at hand, this is difficult . .. and stressful for children who really want to laugh and be lighthearted and have fun, as the children of God have every right to anticipate and enjoy.
The season indeed is upon us that will bring about a tremendous and powerful rebirth of consciousness and super-consciousness. You will feel the Easter season — perhaps everyone will feel the Easter season more poignantly this year than ever before in your conscious lives — because of the war, yes, and because of the movie, “The Passion.” These are two pertinent and timely matters — politics and religion together — conspiring to bring a new level of meaning and value to the Easter season.
As you approach, as has been addressed by my associate, Anatolia, your friend and teacher, you will invest yourself in its trappings, including its emotional investment, and we will go through it with you. We all will relish and bow to the resurrection of the spirit which will indubitably be forthcoming many fold because of those selfsame reasons not because of anything out of the ordinary, such as a spaceship or a visitation, but simply by humbly bowing yourself before the resurrection of the spirit in the hearts and minds of the children of Urantia, including yourself, simply because of the anniversary of this incredible and impactful event on your enviable insignificant little orb in the universe of Nebadon. You will be humbled and we will rejoice.
That gives you all something to look forward to and something to work with. That being said, I think we professors have done our duty as far as our assignment is concerned. Have we now the pleasure of your company in terms of questions about your concerns and your growth and your duties as you see them in this business of being about the Father’s business?
Dialogue
Gloria. Well, thank you for the help. This is Gloria. And I noticed that we have to keep working on finding things to help — our goldfish or whatever needs help — but not to lose faith, I guess. Are you trying to help?
TOMAS: Understand that even as you falter for you will falter you will still rise up. You will not fall. You will not fail. You may stumble. No problem. You just get back up, wipe the dust off your feet, and keep going. There was a conversation recently in your social arena about how easily toddlers get up after they have fallen down. Their bottom is so much closer to the ground, you see, they don’t have far to fall. Their little bodies are so fat, you see.
Their bodies are so well padded with flesh. What a wonder of creation — wouldn’t you say? — that these little ones, who fall so often, are built for the activity. It is not as easy for you to fall. You are not as well equipped, physically. Nor is it expected of you to fall as often. But there is no one who does not stumble now and then. That’s just part of being homo sapiens. However, when all systems are going well, all the limbs are limbered up, isn’t it a wonder and a joy to feel the invigoration of physical activity?
The way the muscles operate and the sinews together with the skin and all., What a powerful creation is the human body! And what complimentary creations are the animals of the realm, the birds in the air, the fish in the sea. What a plaid blanket you are, in my observation — a quilt, if you will — with such a variegated design, I sometimes wish I could fall and land upon it, just to enjoy myself that closely with you, but I will not be falling and landing on my bottom on your quilt. I will just be reminding you how wonderful it is to behold. Don’t let the goats eat the quilt. Are there questions?
Marshall. I have a question, Tomas. What are some of the conscious recognitions or indications that we as mortals are growing in our levels of faith and reaching into actual levels of certainty and knowingness as a personal experience?
TOMAS: Are you asking me for guideposts?
Marshall. Yes. That’s a good way of putting it.
TOMAS: You will find them, my friend, in reflectivity. I don’t mean in hindsight. Hindsight is something else. Reflectivity, however, will give you the occasion to review situations that you have experienced. As a cow chews its cud at leisure, when you are at leisure, you can bring up those conversations or exchanges of energy and communication that, if offered to the Father in reflectivity, will be returned to you as an indication of value. Its value, then, is what you can use as a guidepost as to your capacity at that time to function as a self-acting, God-conscious individual.
You will be able to ascertain, from a review like this of the varying situations in your life, such that you will then be able to begin to discern through comparison, which ones give you more satisfaction than others. You will be given clues or contributions from the Divine as to how you might improve upon it. This is merely an exercise in stretching your faith and your capacity to function in the field, to be the ambassador you seek to be, to allow your will to adjust itself such that your personality is able to act on behalf of the divine will. This comes as a result of reflectivity.
There are very few people that you will be able to reflectivate with, but there are those who do understand this exercise who would be willing to garner your wisdom and share their own, for in this way your beliefs are socialized and your entire social structure will evolve. Yes, of course, that is a great expansion on the initial concept, but nonetheless it is just a bigger representation of that selfsame concept, for this is how eternity grows. You become aware of how God works in your life, the effect of His work, and then you stretch yourself to attain greater and greater heights of capacity for service, so that then your social arena will reflect the flavor of that realization of deity in its pungency, aroma, and atmosphere. And you certainly all know what that is like, and you know which ones need work and which do not. There is not much to be done with a face full of apple blossoms but to inhale and delight in the experience.
This is how I perceive of you when you are all getting along so well a face full of apple blossoms. Sweet, refreshing and worth taking in. But then there are those other areas that need dealt with and we must return to the work at hand. But when we have opportunities like this, to come together to reinforce the truth of our being, the worthy work that we are undertaking and passing on to others, we know we live a good life, noble and full, worth doing again tomorrow, worth getting up for and anticipating with a smile on our face, not merely a set jaw as to that which has to be done for survival, no, the Father’s business is a righteous and joyful cause. Let us be about the Father’s business. Are there any other questions before we retire for the evening?
Student. Tomas, can you shed any light on the challenge that many of us face in breaking old patterns. I sometimes find myself desiring to improve upon habits or patterns that I am facing, but find it difficult and challenging and it’s clear to me that I am an animal, or a creature, loyal to these patterns. Can you shed any light on those?
TOMAS: Well, yes I can, only because I have studied it. I would suggest that you identify one aspect of your nature that you are concerned about, and focus on that one — let’s call it a quality, or a characteristic, a trait, a bad habit, a flaw, a quirk — but whatever it is, put your finger on it. Don’t be afraid of it. Don’t hide from it. Don’t gloss over it. Simply identify it. If you have had the courage to finally identify it accurately, you are already half way there. As you identify it you, you have amused yourself, indulged yourself, and given it an opportunity to play games with you such that it will know it has been identified. It knows it’s in trouble. It is already preparing itself to be dealt with. It is already eyeing you up as the enemy, and you are identifying it as the foe. Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Well, rather than have such an attitude, the appropriate attitude would be to understand that the mutuality of existence is allowed in God’s universe.
It is a matter of priority, prioritizing your values. And so, find where the value is in that quality, characteristic, trait, quirk, etc., and allow it . something . and take the rest for yourself and your Higher Nature. Develop a relationship with it so you know where it is. It’s like a fish. You know you have to feed it once a day. That’s all. You don’t have to pay homage to it; you don’t have to chase it around in circles; you don’t have to make it bigger than it is. Just identify it and deal with it and move on. Easy for me to say? Well, it is, because I have. I did not deal with all my mortal foibles. I was absolved of having to deal with many of them because I left the flesh, but the weakness to succumbing to the lures of the flesh are the same frailties as I deal with today. I have studied them, you see. Is this helpful?
Student Yes. Thank you.
Marty. That’s very interesting, Teacher Tomas. I just think that when you were speaking about the apple blossoms, and now you are speaking partially about the experience you had in the flesh, and then these things in your life now . it just makes me wonder what the difference is between life as we experience it in the material living and the way you experience it there. I guess it’s not something I could understand.
TOMAS: In a part of your outpouring, my dear friend, I think I can hear the nature of your heart and your curiosity. Remember that in the Father’s house there are many mansions, and none of us are without a roof over our head. The wonders of my realm, where I live now, are as replete and divine, as your world is for you. Even on Edentia and on Salvington there are beauties of nature that are appropriate for the exalted state of those spheres. In all of creation, in all of the material worlds, are wonders for the senses, delights for the eye, soothing for the senses, and music for the soul.
There is truth to the phrase “living water” and while it may vary in the architectural sphere of our indwelling, it washes us nonetheless and we respond to its trickle and its babble and its gushing, rushing force. Just because we evolve does not mean we lose connection with those things of beauty which you are identifying now as those treasures of your existing. That which has lasting value, will last eternally. Remember that when you take the sap from the maple trees and make the syrup, the same process will occur in some form, in some way, even unto Paradise. You will be enabling the life that flows within to release itself into a sweetness to be consumed, for all, one way or another.
Marty. It’s a marvel to hear you say these things, Teacher Tomas. I am being introduced to life in your realm from here, and the marvel of it is just unspeakable, to be a part of the universe while here in the flesh, and I thank you all for reaching out to us like this.
TOMAS: As you reach for the Father, the Father reaches for you, and we begin to see the effects of this coming together and we rejoice.
Marty. The other day I said to Father, “We had a great time today, didn’t we?” and I could feel him revel in the experience we had, and it is a marvel.
Closing
TOMAS: Yes, you have good reflection, and He spoke to you. This is walking with God. Well done. Wonderful children, it has been our pleasure once again to be in your company and to share our selves with you as we know you so ably and well share your selves with those you meet, spreading good cheer as you go. Blessed be art thou, little ones, Sons of God in becoming. Amen and farewell.
