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Meditation

Meanings of Meditation The term "meditation" has many different meanings. The purest meaning of meditation is an effortless state of conscious awareness with no thoughts moving in the mind. Meditation can also mean a state of conscious awareness of thoughts, feelings, or actions. Any time individuals focus their awareness on the body or the mind, they are meditating. There are many meditation techniques. If the techniques are done mechanically, they are not meditation. Any activity, work or play, can become meditation if the person brings awareness of body and mind to it. Regardless of the type of meditation technique used, it should be remembered that meditation in its purity is silence. More on Meditation.

Transitioning to a New Way of Being The blogs on this site have discussed the progress of the world leading up to a transition for the individual and the world from medical and material cures for illness and disease to mental and spiritual remedies for healing undesirable or unhealthy conditions. If humans applied this understanding to their daily lives, they could literally create a new way of being. This new way of being is an awakening to joyous, loving, peaceful, free selves in harmony with all existence. This new way of being represents a radical change from the way of fear, anxiety, anger, violence, and misery. Making the transition from the old way of being to the new way is not easy. People are deeply invested in their old habits, but the new way of being is the natural state to which individuals and cultures must evolve. It is in harmony with the nature of reality. The way of living based on clockwork materialism is out of rhythm with the quantum view of reality.

Watching Expands Consciousness The secret of awakening to the new way of being is, "watching." One learns to watch the body as it moves through the day, the mind as it produces thought after thought, the gaps between the thoughts, and the feelings as they vibrate through the body/mind.. Such watching is difficult initially, but becomes easier with practice. Watching is the art of awareness of consciousness. Watching has great value because it creates a shift of consciousness. The reason watching shifts consciousness is because more energy goes into conscious awareness. Unconscious awareness is diminished.

The Term Consciousness The word consciousness has several meanings. 1. A person is considered conscious if not asleep or "knocked" into unconsciousness by a blow to the head. A person may be semi-conscious after being hit on the head, close to sleep, or drugged. One may be conscious that something happened, or become conscious of something only after it happened, or conscious of feeling an emotion. This fluctuating consciousness increases with watching. 2. Consciousness is used as a noun to describe the basic, essential, unchanging part of a person's being. For example, it is consciousness that has the realization, the awareness when reading a book and comprehending the words. Consciousness is the witness of all that happens within and externally. This second meaning of consciousness is the core of a person's being. It includes the unconscious mind. The two could never be separate. Consciousness also includes the super-conscious mind. Technically, the super-conscious is also unconscious, in that people are usually unaware of it. Watching enhances awareness on all the levels of consciousness.

Technique One: Watching the Breath Breath is the bridge between the unconscious mind, the conscious mind, and the super-conscious mind. In the present state of evolution, people breathe unconsciously, seldom aware of having taken a breath. As one becomes more conscious, awareness of breathing grows. Watching breathing, enables one to see broader panoramas of conscious being. 1. For thirty to sixty minutes a day, sit silently and comfortably. Watch the breath. Feel the breath. Relax into the breath. Watch thoughts come and go through the inner sky of consciousness. Occasionally, a person will forget breathing, forget to watch. 2. After some time of being trapped in the flow of thoughts, the watcher will again remember to feel breath. 3. Upon relaxing into watching the breath, awareness expands through the body. The watcher will be able to feel the entire body as well as watch the thoughts as they pass through the mind. By practicing watching each day for a specific period (fifteen minutes to an hour), watchfulness will expand into the rest of daily life. The purpose of setting aside time is so that watchfulness becomes stronger.

Technique Two: Mantra Meditation, Relaxation Mantra is a Sanskrit term for words that are chanted for the purpose of enhancing consciousness. There are many mantras, and each has a different level of religious association. Perhaps the most ancient and the most well-known mantra is "om," which Hindus believe is the primordial sound of the universe. 1. Sit silently and comfortably. Silently repeat a chosen mantra. Watch thoughts come and go through the inner sky of consciousness. They will pass alongside the mantra. Forgetting to repeat the mantra is not unusual. 2. After sometime of being trapped in the flow of thoughts, a person will again remember to repeat the mantra. Initially, in twenty minutes, a person may forget the mantra more than remember it. 3. Upon relaxing into watching the repetition of the mantra, one will find awareness expanding through the body. One will be able to feel the entire body and breath, while watching the thoughts passing through the mind. Research shows that practicing this method changes the physiological signs of stress and lowers blood pressure.

Technique Three: Mantra Meditation Aloud   Another version of the mantra meditation is to repeat the mantra aloud. This is very effective with the mantra "Om," especially if you draw the sound out, as in "Ooooooooooooomnmmmmmmmmmm." 1. Repeat the mantra aloud for twenty minutes to an hour. Watch the whole process from the deep breath to the outflow of the sound. 2. After a few minutes, notice the vibrations of the mantra flowing through the body. This is very enjoyable for most people, and helps to awaken the body. This awakening of the body is an important part of developing self-awareness. 3. For a variation of the mantra meditation, for the first week, chant the mantra as loudly as possible for a half hour per day. The second week, chant it at a middle volume. The third week, chant it softly. The fourth week, chant it silently.

Technique Four: Resonance Balancing Meditation Resonance Balancing meditation technique has been used for thousands of years for the purpose of enhancing inner awareness and balance. Warm-up: Step one. 1. Take a deep breath, and let it out like a sigh. Take another deep breath, again releasing it like a sigh. 2. Continue for about five minutes, practicing taking deep, full breaths, without forcing. Be aware of exhaling, without trying to control it. Step Two. 1. Take a full, deep in-breath, and then make a very long, drawn out humming sound. Normally, a full in-breath will take 3 seconds. The humming can last longer. The humming can be aloud or silent, but aloud is preferable. The longer the hum, the better. 2. Continue humming for five to fifteen minutes, preferably with eyes closed. Be aware of sensations that occur in the body. Once the meditation is learned, no warm-up is required. Instructions For The Resonance Balancing Meditation. Continue to breathe in the same rhythm of the hum (deep, fast in-breath, very long, drawn out-breath), but don't make any sound. Again, take deep breaths. Do this for ten to twenty minutes. Do the last five minutes with eyes open.

Visualization Visualization is a powerful medium. It must be utilized with great care. Atoms, when they are not being observed, exist as wave packets that have no actual form. The observation of a human, with the introduction of consciousness into the system, causes the wave packets to "collapse" into observable and measurable forms. When engaging in visualization, the consciousness is focused. The physics of the real world, the consciousness of the meditator, affects matter in powerful ways. Visualization combines the forces of personal will with those of The Thought Adjuster,1 angelic guardians and ministers beyond the veil of man's limited sensory acuity. 1 The divine spirit that indwells the mind of man--the Thought Adjuster. This immortal spirit is prepersonal--not a personality, though destined to become a part of the personality of the surviving mortal creature. The Urantia Book. Scroll to page 8.

Technique Five: Visualize Personal Peace 1. Sit comfortably or lie down. Visualize a favorite spot in nature such as a waterfall. 2. Add trees, flowers, and animals, such as a deer, walking through the scene. Enjoy the experience of nature. Smell the fragrances of the flowers. Hear the sounds. 3. Take a deep breath and feel the peace. After practicing this method, and becoming proficient, practice it for short periods to bring back the inner peace.

Technique Six: Visualizing a Cure (I) 1. Visualize being in perfect health, doing things one would do if healthy. The secret to this method is to feel happy and grateful for the return of health. 2. Hold the visualization of health for ten minutes or longer. Remember it during the day for short periods. Cultivate the happiness and gratitude for being healthy. Trust the body's natural healing process. Don't expect the healing to happen rapidly. The placebo effect in this type of visualization operates unconsciously.

Technique Seven: Visualizing a Cure (II) 1. Focus on the part of the body that requires healing. For example, for torn cartilage, visualize the tear, and see it being repaired. 2. Each person will have their own way of repairing it. The success of the visualization depends in part upon the visualizer. If one can mobilize consciousness, physiology will respond. If deep down, one really doesn't want to heal, the physical body won't respond.

Technique Eight: Create Individual Reality Physical reality can be influenced through visualization. People often do this unknowingly. When conceiving a project, one visualizes it, writes it down, draws it. Construction begins and the project evolves. The initial visualization, continued through the project, plays an important role in creation. Visualization focuses consciousness, which can magnetize the physical manifestation of the image. 1. Visualize the desired object with total clarity, using as many senses as possible. 2. Be happy and grateful that the object appears. 3. Allow this state for five to ten minutes, two or three times a day. Try for small things initially. Be careful of the choices desired. The spiritual forces behind the veil may assist bad choices to speed the individual through mistakes. "The keys of the kingdom of heaven are: sincerity, more sincerity, and more sincerity. All men have these keys. Men use them--advance in spirit status--by decisions, by more decisions, and by more decisions. The highest moral choice is the choice of the highest possible value, and always--in any sphere, in all of them--this is to choose to do the will of God. If man thus chooses, he is great, though he be the humblest citizen of Jerusem or even the least of mortals on Urantia" (Earth). See quote in The Urantia Book. Scroll to end of page 435.

Sitting quietly watching breathing or repeating a mantra is too difficult for most people. Such individuals need to bring activity to their meditation. Silence and peace are strengthened by activity. To successfully sit silently for a half hour, may require some intense activity. The following three techniques may help.  Technique Nine: Shaking into Silence 1. Shake the whole body vigorously for fifteen minutes, while breathing deeply. This shaking (also used in Tai Chi) literally shakes out energies, which are stuck/blocked/congested in the body/mind. Shaking also helps bring awareness into your body. 2. Shake the hands, legs and head. Ensure all of the body is involved in the process. After shaking, the body is ready to settle in to quiet watching for fifteen minutes to a half hour.

Technique Ten: Jog to an Energetic Silence 1. Jog for one half hour before trying to sit and watch. Be relaxed while jogging. 2. Be aware of the body. In this way, jogging becomes meditation. Run in place, if necessary being sure to lift the knees. After jogging, immediately sit. Notice that it is much easier to watch breathing. The whole body will be alive, buzzing with energy. There is no doubting the flow of energy through the body.

Technique Eleven: The Nonsense Meditation 1. Talk aloud in gibberish for ten or fifteen minutes. Say words that have no meaning. Then watch your breath for a half hour. This is a powerful technique. 2. Sit silently for fifteen minutes to a half hour, just watching the thoughts, feelings, and sensations passing through the body/mind. Watching is not something one does for only an hour a day. Watch the self from the inside out each day.

Technique Twelve: Watch While Waiting 1. Watch the self during any time spent waiting for something or somebody. When waiting in a line or traffic, watch the breath and feel the body. 2. The change in attitude from annoyance to meditation can be dramatic and significant in reaching an enhanced state of consciousness. As watching grows, greater energy and consciousness is brought to the body/mind processes. This consciousness accumulates in the body/mind as radiance and intelligence.

Individuals Are Not Their Mind There are layers of watching. Most of these layers are identified with the mind. When a layer of watching is identified with the mind, further thoughts will be triggered by what is seen. Pure watching at the deepest level triggers no thoughts. Pure watching does not even think about watching. The essential core of consciousness does not produce thoughts. The mind produces thoughts. Consciousness is aware of thoughts. In their essence, people are consciousness, not mind. The person is the awareness that perceives the body/mind, but knowing this is true comes experientially only at the deepest levels of watching. Glimpses of the deepest levels can happen at any time. Initially, watching is done with the mind. Consciousness is identified with the mind as it watches other parts of the mind. To go deeper, watch the watcher. See video, "Electromagnetic Brainwave Resonance."

The Furthest Reaches of Consciousness When going deeper into watching, the paramount question becomes, "Who am I?". Normally, people believe they know who they are, based upon family or occupation. Historically, man has been given a role, usually at birth, based upon birthplace and parentage. Formerly, life was settled. Everyone had a role to play in the society. There was no doubt as to who anyone was. More recently, there has been more freedom to choose and change roles, as long as the roles fit within society. Fortunately, the question, "'Who am I?" must go deeper than roles, family, society, and conditioning. It must go to the furthest reaches of consciousness.

Technique Thirteen: "Who Am I?" 1. One powerful method for asking the question "Who am I?" is gazing into a mirror, without distractions for a half hour, blinking as seldom as possible. Verbal answers may come to mind. 2. Continue to repeat the question. Pictures may come to your view in the mirror for this type of gazing can play unusual tricks upon the vision. Normally, the eyes need to be constantly moving to see. When the eyes are totally still, they can't work in the normal way. The center of the brain that turns the impulses from the eyes into what the consciousness sees continues working. If the eyes are not moving, the center is processing different information. What is seen may be hallucination, illusion, or inner visions. "Who am I?" falls into the class of a Zen koan for it cannot be answered in words or inner visions. The answer to the question is an inner realization. Words or pictures can not describe the deepest realizations of consciousness. In watching the Watcher, one is watching the Abba (as the disciple Paul called the Father within).1 1  See Romans 8: 9-17. Cick for Romans footnote. Read more about Zen koan.

A Natural Approach to Meditation Although anyone who first tries to meditate and to live a meditative life may say it is difficult, there is a shortcut. Osho 1 spoke of the relationship between contentment and meditation: "They are equivalent, synonymous. There exists a subtle synchronicity between them. If you are contented, there is no need to meditate at all. Contentment will become your meditation naturally and spontaneously or vice versa - if you are meditative, silent, then contentment will become a by-product. One can begin from either end. It is in fact one phenomenon, two ends of the same line. The easiest is to begin with contentment, because there is so much to be contented with. The whole universe provides millions of opportunities to be contented with. Those who cannot do it, they have to start by meditating. Meditation is an effort. You have to sit silently, watchfully, relaxedly to calm down your mind, your whole inner noise. But if one starts with contentment, it is far more simple. Looking at the sky full of stars, suddenly you feel so contented- what more can there be? It cannot be improved upon. The starry night is so breathtaking. The sunset for a moment stops your heartbeat. A bird on the wing, and suddenly your mind is not there. These are natural glimpses of meditation." 1 Click to read Osho, The Sound of One Hand Clapping." More on the controversial Osho.

Expectations Get in the Way Expectations usually have no relationship to reality, especially concerning expanded consciousness. A person who has not awakened simply cannot know it until it happens. Expectations about awakening to an expanded consciousness prevent its happening. All hopes and desires for bliss, love, and spiritual powers come from the same unconscious judging mind that has not accepted itself.

The Unchanging Essence The unchanging essence is the pure witness, the observer. It feels the same today as at any age, as it did throughout life. The unchanging essence watches the whole dance of life without ever changing, without ever feeling different. A person is never the seen. Whether one is seeing something ugly or something beautiful, something divine or something evil, the person can only see an expression of the body/mind. Each person is always the seer. Identification means people believe they are the seen. While the feelings of happiness, unhappiness, greed, generosity, anger, compassion, or irritation are happening, people believe they are the feeling. These feelings come and go, they change. The pure witness is the unchanging essence that watches all. Usually, because people don't watch themselves, they see themselves through the mirror of other eyes. Even when people watch themselves, for brief moments, they forget they are the seers. When people begin to watch themselves, they will see many things pass through the field of consciousness. They will see many reflections of reality, through many lenses. Watching the watcher becomes the deepest art.

Meditation Is Beyond Technique Meditation is concentrated prayer. No technique can create the purity of meditation. True meditation is beyond all techniques. Techniques affect the bio-energy and bio-chemistry. Many of these effects are beneficial and needed. True meditation, however, is witnessing. It is watching at deeper and deeper levels. Techniques can be done mechanically without any awareness. A technique without awareness is not meditation. This happens too often in yoga. Many people are doing yoga simply for the exercise, without bringing in awareness. It is unlikely that Patanjali (the developer of yoga) would approve of his techniques for developing "absence of mind," being used as aerobics. But, if awareness is brought to yoga or aerobics, the activity becomes meditation. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was distressed to hear that the western medical establishment wanted to use his Transcendental Meditation to go to sleep instead of to wake up. If people repeat the mantra mechanically, they will go to sleep. With the quality of awareness, it awakens a person. The quality of watching changes the quality of everything people do. The quality of watching, of meditation, changes people more surely than any technique or therapy.

Judging If one watches the mind, it will be noted that one is full of opinions and judgments. Many people's mental process consists of judgments and little else. Many of these judgments are self-criticisms. Many judgments are critical of others. Most judgments are wrong. Even judgments that are right in one context become wrong in an expanded context. Not enough of the whole story of life is known to judge any part of it.

Love Is Naturally Intelligent Judgment has a serious negative side effect. It causes the body's bio-frequencies to go out of resonance with love. Anyone who constantly judges is outside the frequency and the feeling of love. Decisions made in the state of judgment are decisions made without love. To experience real love, one cannot judge. While real love does not judge, it is quite capable of intelligent discernment. Real love is naturally intelligent. Real love can see the truth, and still love. This is unconditional love. This type of love is difficult for most people to conceive, much less practice. If one becomes aware of judgments, and they melt away, unconditional love will arise. This is a quantum leap in consciousness. This is the next evolutionary step.

Transforming Life 1. Take personal responsibility. Don't lay the responsibility for personal feelings on other people or on situations. 2. Acknowledge that feelings, emotions, and behaviors are creations of one's own being, whether they come from the unconscious or the conscious mind. People can only take responsibility when they understand not to judge. Blame is a form of judgment. Don't blame others or one's self. Blame should be treated the same as any other judgment. Watch it, don't feed it, and blame will disappear. In taking responsibility without judgment, mistakes can be seen with a new clarity and the mistake will be corrected. One's happiness does not depend upon others.

Revelation Human existence on Earth is a miniscule part of the reality that is infinite in depth and breadth, multi-dimensional, and eternal. Pure meditation is a relaxation into the harmony of that infinite, conscious, coherent whole. In that purity, all other viewpoints dissolve and disappear. This is one facet of the mystic's idea that the world is an illusion. All that exists, from the infinite viewpoint is consciousness and the qualities of consciousness, love and bliss. In pure meditation, one sees the other facet of illusion. The world humans see is nothing like what the world actually is, physically or psychophysically. When watching the world from the silence of pure meditation, mysteries once elusive become more apparent. Illusions melt. Waking dreams disappear. But as mysteries reveal themselves in their own way and timing, greater mysteries arise. All life becomes a mystery, inspiring ever greater awe.

Practice Practice the instructions for watching and awaking. In a natural progression, one's ability to watch grows. In time, watching becomes a normal state. Then, one is ready for the gift of awakening, which comes as a surprise.

The Divine Gift Osho said: "The phenomenon of awareness is paradoxical. Half of it, the first half, is human effort. The other half is a divine gift. One has to do the utmost one can do to attain it, but it is not attained only by that. It is not attained without it either The human effort prepares you to receive the gift. If you are unprepared and the gift comes, you will not even be able to recognize it. There is no question of receiving it, welcoming it. So the first part is absolutely necessary. But one should not get the idea that one attains it through effort. The effort only removes the barriers. It is negative. The moment the barriers are removed, the door is open, the heart is available, the gift comes. It is a happening, not a doing, hence, one should not get egoistic about one's efforts, because ultimately it happens effortlessly. It simply showers on you, and the moment it showers, one comes to know that whatsoever I have done has nothing to do with it. I was simply removing the stones, the rocks on the way. The guest was always ready to come. I was only opening the door The guest is not my creation. The guest was already there, just waiting at the door All that I have done is open the door which is not much, but without opening the door the guest cannot enter either. Hence it is called the effortless effort."1   1 Osho, The Sound of One Hand Clapping. Osho International Foundation, 1981.

The Temples of God The physical bodies of mortals are "the temples of God." Notwithstanding that the Sovereign Creator Sons come near the creatures of their inhabited worlds and "draw all men to themselves"; though they "stand at the door" of consciousness "and knock" and delight to come in to all who will "open the doors of their hearts"; although there does exist this intimate personal communion between the Creator Sons and their mortal creatures, nevertheless, mortal men have something from God himself which actually dwells within them; their bodies are the temples thereof. Click and scroll to page 26.

Opening the Temple Door Slowly the apostles and many of the disciples were learning the meaning of Jesus' early declaration: "Unless you are born again, born of the spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God." Nevertheless, to all who are honest of heart and sincere in faith, it remains eternally true: "Behold, I stand at the doors of men's hearts and knock, and if any man will open to me, I will come in and sup with him and will feed him with the bread of life; we shall be one in spirit and purpose, and so shall we ever be brethren in the long and fruitful service of the search for the Paradise Father." And so, whether few or many are to be saved altogether depends on whether few or many will heed the invitation: "I am the door, I am the new and living way, and whosoever wills may enter to embark upon the endless truth-search for eternal life." Click and scroll to page 1829.

Spirit of Truth Background Upon the completion of a Creator Son's final bestowal the Spirit of Truth previously sent into all Avonal-bestowal worlds of that local universe changes in nature, becoming more literally the spirit of the sovereign Michael. This phenomenon takes place concurrently with theliberation of the Spirit of Truth for service on the Michael-mortal-bestowal planet. Thereafter, each world honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive the same spirit Comforter from the sevenfold Creator Son, in association with that Magisterial Son, which it would have received had the local universe Sovereign personally incarnated as its bestowal Son. Click and scroll to page 230 to read this citation and more.

Normal Planetary Bestowals Upon the resurrection of a bestowal Son, on the third day after yielding up his incarnated life, he ascends to the right hand of the Universal Father, receives the assurance of the acceptance of the bestowal mission, and returns to the Creator Son at the headquarters. of the local universe. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Michael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the bestowal world. This is the occasion when the "spirit of the triumphant Son is poured out upon all flesh." The Universe Mother Spirit also participates in this bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, and concomitant therewith there issues the bestowal edict of the Thought Adjusters. Thereafter all normal-minded will creatures of that world will receive Adjusters as soon as they attain the age of moral responsibility, of spiritual choice. Click and scroll to page 596 to read this citation and more.

The Creator Son Personally Incarnated on Earth The public announcement that Michael had selected Urantia [Earth] as the theater for his final bestowal was made shortly after we learned about the default of Adam and Eve. And thus, for more than thirty-five thousand years, your world occupied a very conspicuous place in the councils of the entire universe. There was no secrecy (aside from the incarnation mystery) connected with any step in the Urantia bestowal. From first to last, up to the final and triumphant return of Michael to Salvington as supreme Universe Sovereign, there was the fullest universe publicity of all that transpired on your small but highly honored world.   Click and scroll to page 1316 to read this citation and more.

Relationship of Spirit of Truth to Individuals This bestowal of the Son's spirit effectively prepared all normal men's minds for the subsequent universal bestowal of the Father's spirit (the Adjuster) upon all mankind. In a certain sense, this Spirit of Truth is the spirit of both the Universal Father and the Creator Son. Do not make the mistake of expecting to become strongly intellectually conscious of the out poured Spirit of Truth. The spirit never creates a consciousness of himself, only a consciousness of Michael, the Son. From the beginning Jesus taught that the spirit would not speak of himself. The proof, therefore, of your fellowship with the Spirit of Truth is not to be found in your consciousness of this spirit but rather in your experience of enhanced fellowship with Michael. Click and scroll to page 2061 to read this citation and more.

Thought Adjuster Background If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia [Earth] mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are a part of the eternal Deity of the Paradise Father. Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him. Click to read this citation and more, page 62.

Contact with The Thought Adjuster During the earlier times of racial evolution and even at the present time, in the day-by-day experience of the average mortal, prayer is very much a phenomenon of man's intercourse with his own subconscious. But there is also a domain of prayer wherein the intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact with the super-conscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the indwelling Thought Adjuster. In addition, there is a definite spiritual phase of true prayer which concerns its reception and recognition by the spiritual forces of the universe, and which is entirely distinct from all human and intellectual association. To read this citation, click and scroll to page 996.

Dangers of Misinterpretation If one is disposed to recognize a theoretical subconscious mind as a practical working hypothesis in the otherwise unified intellectual life, then, to be consistent, one should postulate a similar and corresponding realm of ascending intellectual activity as the super-conscious level, the zone of immediate contact with the indwelling spirit entity, the Thought Adjuster. The great danger in all these psychic speculations is that visions and other so-called mystic experiences, along with extraordinary dreams, may be regarded as divine communications to the human mind. In times past, divine beings have revealed themselves to certain God-knowing persons, not because of their mystic trances or morbid visions, but in spite of all these phenomena. In contrast with conversion-seeking, the better approach to the morontia zones of possible contact with the Thought Adjuster would be through living faith and sincere worship, wholehearted and unselfish prayer. Altogether too much of the uprush of the memories of the unconscious levels of the human mind has been mistaken for divine revelations and spirit leadings. To read citation and more, click and scroll to page 1099.

Loving Care Leading to Fusion with Thought Adjuster The endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship. As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the Sons in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of an Adjuster to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Father-like. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvelous ministry of these impersonal entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets. Adjusters should not be thought of as living in the material brains of human beings. They are not organic parts of the physical creatures of the realms. The Thought Adjuster may more properly be envisaged as indwelling the mortal mind of man rather than as existing within the confines of a single physical organ. And indirectly and unrecognized the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the super-consciousness. Click to read these excerpts and more, page 1203.