2004-03-18. Fear, Reincarnation, Adjuster
Lightline #12
Topic: Fear, Reincarnation, Adjuster
Group: Lightline TeaM
Teacher: Machiventa
TR: Mark Rogers
Opening
Machiventa: I would welcome the opportunity, even the privilege to be once again a part of this group that is formed in this new channel of access established. This is Machiventa Melchizedek and I delight in witnessing your discussions and would use your observations and discussions as a springboard to discuss the effects of fear as I notice in my T/R associate a trepidation, a sense of uncertainty that requires active engagement with the mortal mind to bring into control. Your fear reflex is as basic to you as your reflex to breathe.
Lesson
Fear
It has been an extremely useful reflex for your ancestors to have had as it has provided great stimulus for them to avoid unnecessary loss of life and unnecessary hardship when used to motivate an individual to avoid a harmful situation. In this example, fear has played a positive role in the preservation and prosperity of your ancestors and is deeply imbedded in your genetic code as part of your history.
As a world develops, it becomes necessary to reevaluate the function of fear in your lives. As your perspective becomes more spiritual, it becomes necessary to reevaluate whether this impulse of fear is a stimulant which serves you as beneficial or whether in fact the triggered fear response is responsible for what otherwise might be a positive and growthful experience for you. The fear of falling is what grips you when standing next to a deep abyss and what keeps you from the desire to become reckless with your life as you are balanced on the precipice.
That example of fear is the proper use of the fear response to preserve your life. The fear of not being accepted or of not being understood can lead to the stifling of an individual’s expression and the subsequent growth involved in that decision. In that example, the fear response has been automatically triggered and the individual has responded by withdrawing from the fear of the unknown and thereby has denied themselves the experience of growth involved in the expression of these mortal desires. It becomes necessary as you develop, to keep in check the unnecessary triggering of this fear response, so as to rob you of the full extent of your life experience. This is accomplished through sheer force of will, to override this inherent fear response with your mind circuit, your knowledge that the universe is a safe place, that your place in it is assured, that these conditions exist whereby your fear becomes unwarranted and you can deny yourself this response to this fear reaction.
This is an active role one plays when you recognize that fear has been triggered and this response is underway. You have the authority at any time to intervene in what is an automatic response, and override it through this force of will. This technique when applied by any individual, can override this automatic response and can supplant it with a higher objective, a more spiritual response. This is one of the largest paradigms that you grapple with on your world. This fear element has served your ancestors for a very long time and serves you well even now when appropriately applied, but as your dangers have reduced on your planet, the need for this intense fear response must diminish.
This technique I speak of is a key that can be used by you to gain access to a more spiritual platform through the denial of your fear response and the acceptance of a higher reality. These lessons that we provide for you, are a series of keys which may be used in guiding you in understanding, in gaining passage to a greater understanding, and overcoming an apparent obstacle before you, as just a guide to your understanding, a map to your development. These keys that we provide for you are yours to take with you once you have gained the understanding of the use of this tool, the use of this key, the properties of the key. These keys become yours as your tools in the toolbox to navigate through the obstacles that come before you and the art of living is learning which keys to apply to which of your life’s circumstances to most easily unlock the spirit content and pass through to the spiritual understanding.
We have provided over the years many key themes and they all may be used at different times under different circumstances to apply great leverage to the situation. Each one of you is also an individual, an individual passage to greater understanding, to the wisdom of your life experience, to the wisdom of anothers’ life experience. You can not only be a key to your own art of living, but you might also find yourself providing the key to another’s understanding to the art of living. Therefore you must see yourselves as collecting these keys, and also as being these keys, as each of you are uniquely suited to apply the exact leverage necessary to accommodate the passage of understanding necessary.
I would open up the line for any dialogue at this time as I have delivered my intended lesson for the day and would welcome any comments or questions as it helps us to determine how to proceed with future lesson plans.
Dialogue
Thought Adjusters
Question: I have been asked to help a nephew of mine that happens to be in jail at the moment. I have been using some of the methods you have stated and would like to know if my thought adjuster could be used to contact the other persons adjuster or ones of my relatives. Could you comment on that please?
Machiventa: Surely, it is an actual component of your being, this aspect of the thought adjuster, likewise it is a component of the being of every other individual you are likely to ever come in contact with. If you realize that this is a part of you and a part of them, and you attempt to share on this level, it most certainly can be accomplished, however this is greatly subject to individual levels of participation. That is to say that your thought adjuster, under no circumstances, can bridge the gap and become an uninvited guest to communicate with another’s thought adjuster. If the permission has not been granted in all directions, no such contact could occur.
If the opposite is true, and permission has been granted by both individuals and their subsequent thought adjusters, then it is entirely possible for this communication to take place and you will find that this seemingly unknown of, unheard of communication on your world will one day become the normal mode of communication between you as individuals. However those times are remote from now, and at this point you rely on the permission of your thought adjusters to have any such contact with other individuals, and if they’re not in the same mind set and acceptance level as you, there may be an incompatibility between the exchange of free thought, between two individuals.
However, I would redirect your line of thinking and would install the idea of a third party intermediary between you and another individual and that is the spirit of Michael, that can negotiate the difference between individual spiritual levels and can be used to interpret and provide insight between individuals through the circuit of the spirit of truth. This is entirely possible, this is desirable. This is the way diverse individuals may come to intimate understanding. It is not necessary for you to have complete control over access to your indwelling spirit for you to have unlimited access to Michael, Nebadonia and others who may perform this similar function for you as an extension of their spirit. This is also a component of all of your beings. This needs to be recognized as a relevant part of your lives, not an unknown and unexplored dimension of your being, but rather an accepted and accommodated aspect of your selves.
This the stage we are in. We are gaining awareness of this sense of soul within the self and we are in the phases of learning to turn to that aspect of yourselves and how to communicate through that aspect, how to function within the parameters of that, how to use the keys provided through this avenue of understanding to facilitate your life mission. I appreciate your question and encourage all to lend more validity in their expression to the reality of this spirit component and its properties in your lives. Any more questions?
Question: I appreciate what you just said. It is most helpful. Thank you very much.
Machiventa: You are most welcome and I honor each of you who are searching for these keys to unlock your spiritual expression, your dimension of spirit. I remain ever willing to assist in this advancement of using these keys to facilitate your art of living.
Reincarnation
Question: This is related to the comments on the thought adjusters in some respect. I hear people speaking often of what they call “past lives” and a form of therapy has been developed called “past life regression” and sometime I have mixed feelings about what is being talked about. I haven’t come across it yet in the Urantia book, but what they might be speaking about in what I understand is world number one, in terms of past lives. Is this something related to where the thought adjuster has been?
Machiventa: You are correct in your observation that perhaps the thought adjuster is involved in the experience of such an individual and in fact it is possible that the thought adjuster of such an individual has in his possession a store of experiences that are not part of the experiences of the individual he indwells. These experiences may at times be flashed into awareness through some consciousness techniques and on occasion individuals have had the strong sense that they have had experiences that their life clearly has not provided for them.
The far greater possibility for the experience of individuals who have quite clearly experienced something to make them feel as though they have had an experience that they were not there for. This can occur by means of the fact as I mentioned, you all have a spirit component and that when you access this spirit component, it has properties which enable you to traverse past your experience and share the experience of others, even remote to your place. This stream of cosmic consciousness and awareness is present as a component of your spiritual aspect. This stream of cosmic consciousness has as part of it, the vast amount of experiences that the mortal mind has encountered, and can be accessed by another member through this human circuit and a flash of existence can be obtained through this circuit of all experience.
All of the experiences of the human race are contained within this circuit of experience, this stream of human consciousness and you not only contribute to this stream, but from time to time you access this stream and actually are aware of the experiences of another. Because you have not had this experience yourself, because you know when you were born and how you lived your life, you attribute such a vivid experience to having obviously lived this experience at some other time when in fact you are exchanging experiences with other individuals through this spiritual dimension of yourselves.
This is a property of this spiritual dimension, and there will come a time when you will be versed in the use of this property and will be able to access this stream of consciousness at will and realize the function and properties of this consciousness clearly in your lives. At this time you only get fleeting glimpses and snatches of what is in truth, reality which has occurred to some mortal of the realm but may not have occurred to you as part of your own individual experience except through this circuit. Does provide you with any insights?
Question: Yes it does most definitely. I have one more follow up question. You’re saying that the greater possibility is that individuals are tapping into the cosmic stream however you mentioned that it is possible that the thought adjuster has lived in another’s experience. I’d like to get a little bit clearer on that. Is this a common thing that thought adjusters have lived another experience?….or
Machiventa: It is not a common thing given your span of living on your planet, to come in contact with many individuals with thought adjusters who have previously inhabited other mortals of the realm. There on rare occasions, individuals, as you know who make the choice not to sign on to the divine plan and choose not to proceed with the spiritual ascension that you are coming to understand. So on rare occasions individuals decline the invitation to finish their eternal career and their thought adjusters may be assigned to other individuals, and as you may have read in your text, the thought adjusters gain experience through this process and the more experienced thought adjusters are the ones who have gone through this cycle before and have been freed up to try again because it is the ultimate desire and destiny of the thought adjusters to unite completely and fully with a single individual who has the desire to pursue the eternal spiritual career.
Therefore if they find themselves assigned to an individual who does not choose to proceed forward, they are reassigned so that they may fulfill their ultimate destiny. This is not a common occasion, but on your world it has not been until recently, to your species, that most individuals are aware enough now to choose eternal survival. Your ancestors may have lived lives of ignorance and been unable to make proper choices about their eternal career, and this is all part of the key role that free will plays in this process. The individuals are always given every opportunity and circumstance to make their own decisions and are allowed the freedom to choose not to go. So it is possible that this occurs from time to time, but the far more likely scenario for individuals who feel that they encountered experiences that they cannot account for, is that they have exercised this spiritual circuit and have accessed this cosmic consciousness and have had a flash of experience for which they cannot account.
Thought Adjusters
Question: Is it strictly the fact that young souls or old souls or whatever, is entirely controlled by the thought adjuster?
Machiventa: In fact, very little is controlled by the thought adjuster. The thought adjuster acts in response to the decisions and motivations of the individuals they are assigned to. Very rarely are they extended the opportunity to be very effective in this decision making process of the individual. So the statement that the thought adjusters are responsible for the level of someone’s spiritual familiarity is more correctly stated as the individual in question, having provided greater access and permission to the thought adjuster to become active, and this relationship of dependency is consistent throughout the journey together that these individuals take.
It is indeed a partnership between yourself and your thought adjuster as to your rate of spiritual advancement, your level of spiritual attainment, your awareness of spiritual content. It is important to remember that this is a partnership between you and your thought adjuster and to provide your thought adjuster with permission to act on your behalf. The thought adjuster, like any other spiritualized being that you may come in contact with, is bound by this free willed choice that you must exercise in order to complete this circuit and enable the thought adjuster to become a more prominent force in your lives, in your decision making processes, even in your value structure.
I would also mention, as we do regularly, that stillness is a technique, a key, whereby you may get yourselves closer to accessing this channel of your thought adjuster, this component of yourselves…your spirit self, that stillness provides you with the necessary orientation to be able to navigate this spiritual dimension, and through stillness you will develop your keys for your art of living.
Question: How do we introduce ourselves to our thought adjusters so that we know who they are and if they have a name?
Machiventa: There is no way that you can isolate yourselves from your thought adjuster. Your thought adjuster is absolutely aware of your motivations, your intentions, your desires, your actions, and is in most scenarios, an observer who looks for the occasional opportunity to insert into your stream, the ideals which provide you with your spiritual upliftment. You can, by simply acknowledging the presence of your companion, engage a response from them because you are wielding the most mighty tool that you have, your free will choice. When you ask to be engaged with your spiritual partner, then is he free to insert more liberally the ideas of spirit and is therefore more free to act on your behalf when you have provided your consent.
He is qualified to make the judgments for you about your spiritual exposure, and when you act in consort with him it provides the necessary shift for the playing field to change, for the partner who is so ever willing, and ever patient with you, to become more active. Never doubt that your thought adjuster is always in observation of you, always awaits your signal for advancement, knows the deepest and most sincere desires of your heart. There is no misrepresenting yourself to your thought adjuster. It simply is not possible. There is no isolation of yourself from your thought adjuster. That as well is not possible. You are partners, and you will remain partners until you indeed become one.
Closing
Machiventa: I would close this with a prayer. Divine parents who reside at the center of all things, and who reside at the center of each of us, please be with us, live through us, be welcome in our lives, in our circles be welcome as we experience this life. We welcome you to share it with us. As our gift to you, we bring you our experiences, we bring you our observation, we bring you our love, the observations of our lives. Please take these as our gifts. We offer them to you as the only things we indeed have to offer. We know that is because of you that we accumulate these experiences and we live these lives. We want you to know that we cherish them, we will take care of them, we will grow them and we will return them to you to be shared by all. Thank you for this opportunity for this privilege, for this life.
