Mother Spirit Lightline – May 29, 2014
Mother Spirit—T/R-JL
(Sharing soul wealth)
(T/r-ing)
(How do you do this?)
(Stillness)
(Watching your breath)
(The nitty gritty of relationships)
(Using a recorder to t/r)
(Your Guardian Seraphim)
(To keep from drifting away)
(The need for reflection)
(To keep opening forever)
(One person’s initiation)
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, we thank the
two of you for being with us, always with us, and actually part of us. You have
taught that we can be aware of this. We can actually increase your effect in our lives by saying thank you from time to time. We
can be aware of these extra little boosts--this extra facility you give us—even though you are not supplying actual
thoughts, like our Father does. In being our spiritual parents, you two are wonderful company to keep within us and all around
us. It makes us tickled and proud to be your children. And,
like all parents of children, you assure us that we too are your greatest joy. It is
one thing we know as parents for our own, and relating to all the other youngsters around us.
What a joy it is to see them. We can look right
past what they are--what sex they are, what race--and see who they
are. For there is this really strange and wonderful facility of our personalities--being
the spiritual beings we are and they are—that we can register other personality rather directly. It’s
so wonderful we can register others within us if we are open to them, if we can get past our own pre-judging, our own prejudices. This
way we can relate more completely and wonderfully to who everyone is. For encouraging
this facility of recognition, we thank the two of you. We hope to become more and
more aware and appreciative of not only what you are as our spiritual parents,
or even of the order of being you are--a Mother Spirit Creator/Daughter of God, and a Michael Creator/Son--but who you
are. To this we always look forward. Amen.
Mother Spirit: Good
evening, my dear ones, this is your Mother Spirit, and I am definitely as much yours as you are mine. As
Michael said last time, this is what constitutes a genuine family: that we belong to each other and have each other in our
lives. Our lives are so much more greatly augmented and made more delightful by this
sharing. This is God’s essence. This
is the essence of all the spiritual community--this sharing. As Michael taught
last time, here one and one makes three. It is that third component,
our gifts of ourselves to each other and then too what we hold in common.
(Sharing soul wealth)
If you want to think about it, it is the way
our souls overlap each other and we share that component that is overlapping. Then
we all go into eternity with that shared experience, for Michael and I are as much experiential beings as you. All
personal beings are. We are experiencing out here in time and space. We
too have within us the omnipresence of our mutual, universal Father. We are on
his circuit. He is part of the mysterious presence within us that we can never
fully grasp, he is so transcendent to all of us. But just by being personal beings,
we share in his reality. It makes all of us then his sons and daughters.
Tonight I would like to extend something that
Michael taught recently, and that is how to become aware of spiritual presences within you. It’s
not only that I would like to offer this, I’ll tease you. I’ll dangle this out in front of you, if you will, like
a carrot on a stick--the notion that this transmitting/receiving--this t/r-ing--is something we encourage all of you to
try. Actually let us give voice to our presence within you, Michael’s and mine.
(T/r-ing)
How do you do this? What
is this happening right now? Obviously, because we call it t/r-ing, it is Michael, myself,
or other celestial beings--ascended mortals, angels, different kinds of beings like Melchizedeks--that are doing the transmitting. We
have our own extension through space so that we do not literally have to be sitting near you. So it is through Michael’s
and my presence around and within you. You might say we are the carrier wave that allows all the different celestial beings
to transmit to you, very much like a radio wave that extends out through space.
So while you yourselves are the receivers, like
radio receivers, we are all around you much as the radio and television, and now your cell phone waves are. Even
though you are inside your houses with all the doors and windows shut, if you are not sitting in some lead-lined room, these
frequencies are vibrating right through the walls and the windows, and you.
Yet whereas that is an electromagnetic vibration
through the space around you, think of us as spiritual vibrations. And just as
you have different stations, so each one of us, each celestial being has a slightly different frequency. Being spiritual we
are not bound as much by time and space as an electromagnetic pulse. As you said
in your introduction, it is who we are--not only what we
are as a particular order of being, but who we are. Our
personalities get to come through and reach you this way.
Consider: as you go into the future, this is one way in which more and more people will
be headed evermore towards the planetary status of Light and Life. (Ed: there was an interruption, then a re-start) As
you go towards the future and more and more people do this, this will be the introduction of the unity of the spiritual community.
This will be one way in which more and more folks--of whatever different race, or nationality, or most importantly, different
cultures--can find ever greater unity and agreement.
For this is that mysterious oneness of the spiritual community. Though
each of us too has a unique personality, we are more able to suspend ourselves and be here and now for other beings, and those
around us. This will become a wonderful thing for all our human children to be able to
do as well: to be able to suspend yourselves and take in each other more and more directly, right through all your prejudices
and conditioning. Though the various worldly cultures will always give meaning and value
to your life, you’ll be able to set these aside and be more open-minded to whatever person is coming towards you. Or
as we say: hopefully in the not too distant future, more and more folks will be open to the spiritual community and able to
transmit them as I am doing now.
(How do you do this?)
How
do you do this? How do you acquire the ability to be open and sensitive to someone
that is not you, and then not interfere with their message but let it come through you as purely as possible? Think
about this a while. Think about how your own personality, being endowed with creative
spirit, your own personality has this creative ability along with a mind and a body--especially with your mind keeping
you company. Even when you wake up in the middle of the night, you realize you
have been thinking all this time; and maybe overtly dreaming, maybe not. Your mind
is always going, but as soon as you wake up and regain consciousness, you are super-minded. It’s
the way you are hearing me, and relating to me, and responding to me within yourselves right now. Although your awareness
is based partly upon your being conscious, just being human you are super-minded. Your
personality can register and be aware of extra-personal beings. This makes this t/r-ing
possible.
So the trick becomes then: how
can you acquire this remarkable ability of, in a sense, putting yourself on hold--highly consciously?—again, whether
you are meeting another person or attempting this t/r-ing? How do you let go of
yourself? This, as the Urantia Book mentions—(Ed: page 52)--this is one of the
inevitable difficulties, yet too one of the necessary abilities: setting aside a self that is constantly clamoring for attention;
constantly, in a way, existentially fearful of ceasing to exist. How do you do this?
(Stillness)
What is this ability that you can—hopefully--now see is so
precious? Think of highly consciously setting yourself aside and being open to
others. This is why we introduce a kind of meditation practice called “stillness.” Rather
than repeating some wisdom like a mantra or exercise, in some kind of prayer--not that there is anything wrong with these;
they have their place--but take a small part of your day and set aside your other activities, this busyness you delight in
filling your life. You actively set that aside and spend some time just, as totally
as possible, being here--being here and now, moment by moment. How
do you do this? How do you not respond nor interact immediately with what is happening
inside you, and thereby change it, making it partly your personality? How
can you profoundly observe your more disturbing thoughts as they come, without trying to suppress them? It may be because
you have the notion of stillness being some kind of empty-mindedness--which it is not.
Stillness just means that you are being highly
conscious of what is happening within you. It could be, partly, genuine memories
of things you can’t ordinarily remember doing; but still you are not reacting to them. It
is a kind of a pure, active consciousness. Some people call it “not-clinging”--not
clinging to what comes through. We have even offered the tool--you
might say the technique--of when you have an idea that is so wonderful, you write it down. You won’t be afraid of losing
it. You can return to the stillness of simply being hyper-aware of what is coming into
your mind.
Once you practice this for a while,
once you have your feet on this strange kind of ground of letting yourself go and just being open for whatever happens next: then
you can take one of your neat little electronic recorders and start to transmit and receive. Practice
this t/r-ing. It will be letting someone come through you while you are setting
aside your evaluating reactions. This is why it is good to record it. You
can respond later. You can evaluate it later. But for now, for this moment, you are just
letting it come through you.
(Watching your breath)
I’ll
give you one other technique, and that is called “watching your breath.” This
too is an acquired ability. This too will take some doing because, here again,
you will become aware of something that you do have the means to control. Your breathing
is not like your heart beating--although there are disciplines by which you can take control of your heart beating. Usually
your breathing is something that, as you become aware of it, you affect it. Maybe you
hold some notion about breathing deeper, or slower, or other yoga exercises to calm yourself.
But here we are talking about just watching your
breath. See if you can be highly conscious of your breathing while letting your
autonomous nervous system control it. Again: this takes some doing. With
other kinds of meditation where there is an exercise to fill your attention, you will immediately start to control your attention
some way or another: that’s its purpose. But stillness is a certain state of consciousness. All
of a sudden your body is just breathing. You are breathing very much like
your heart is beating: all by itself. Then you realize this is happening 99% of your
waking hours, totally un-self-consciously. It is only when you are exerting yourself
physically that you notice your breathing immediately starts increasing to give you more energy.
These are techniques, my dear ones, for giving
you the ability to be highly conscious of something, yet not affect it. Because,
as we have taught so many lessons: in terms of projection, your knowledge and understanding color so deeply, so profoundly,
what you are experiencing. They form a kind of a screen. Not
only is it true that seeing is believing. This is the other way around. Believing is
seeing--controlling what you are seeing and experiencing. How do you get out of
this trap? How do you get out of your own subjectivity? How
do you let yourself go--this precious life of yours--in order to take in something new?—or someone else, right inside?
(The nitty gritty of relationships)
Yet isn’t this the nitty-gritty, the real
crux of improved relationships? It’s not only within yourself as you are
relating to yourself and all your component parts--your body, your mind, your spirit, your soul--but how you relate with others
as well. Then there’s the spiritual community surrounding you, Michael, myself,
and others. Take our word for it: this is something we delight in doing, this being able to talk to you specifically, using
your own language, to carry on conversations with you.
But how do you get this sense through--by relaxing--this
screen that is the very meaning and value that you have struggled so hard in your human life to acquire? It
does give meaning and value to your life. How do you relax that and let something
come into you and through you that you are deliberately trying, as with your breath, trying not to
anticipate or control? How do you open yourself to a realm of spontaneity and spirit
whose very value is in the fact you cannot anticipate it? How do you become more spontaneous
yourself? How do you tune into this spiritual aspect of reality, God’s reality,
that is not repeating itself?
Well: enough of my teasing. Give it a try. Try
this kind of meditation of just being aware, being aware of everything inside and out. You
are not off in some reduced, special realm. You are becoming more highly conscious of
what is in you, and all around you. Let it happen to see what it is--to see who they are,
these other personalities, human and celestial, you wish to know.
Now do you have any questions or comments this evening?
Press star-six to un-mute and join this situation we
are all enjoying now.
Questioner
#1: Hi, this is __. First of all, I want to say
this is the first time I have been at one of these calls when you were the speaker, and it is a real honor and privilege. My
concern is, I have been meditating now for little over a year and I know that recently I have started what I hope is hearing
spirit. My concern is: when that happens I don’t want to just be telling myself things I wished spirit would say to
me. It has gotten better in the last few months but, as I said, that is my concern--that
I may be just talking to myself and telling myself what I wished spirit would say to me.
(Using a recorder to t/r)
Mother Spirit: Yes, my son, this is why recording is making
an object, objectifying the reality of what is coming through you. It is different. With
almost everybody in their meditations, their mind is still active. That is why
those meditations that try to still the mind by filling it with a mantra or an exercise of some sort or another: this is still
not it. I am pleased that you feel that you are getting better at this. Now:
are you recording these thoughts?
Questioner #1: I haven’t been—no.
Mother Spirit: So you see what I mean by actually
speaking something aloud, as I am doing now? You are giving it objective reality. It
is something where you can just let go and talk for a while. This way you can let go
even further and let something come through you, because you don’t have to cling to it, or even try to understand it
as it is happening. You are letting something other than you be expressed,
and by recording it, it becomes a possession of yours to think about later. This
way you can let yourself go more deeply. You don’t have to remember all the
wonderful things that you hope will happen. You do have the wonderful orientation here. Your
orientation is rather fresh.
You want to contact that which is not you. This
is the whole purpose of it. Some people can actually type fast enough, they can do it
on their computer. But recording it is the easiest way to set yourself aside and let someone else come through. It
does take practice. You can’t automatically do this right off
the bat, but when it happens it is really marvelous. Does this seem like this might
help?
Questioner #1: Yes,
it certainly does. A couple of weeks ago someone who was on the Lightline call was telling us he had started recording. I
tried to write it down--write stuff down a few times--but my handwriting was so bad I couldn’t even read it. But
yes, I will get a recorder and try that. Thank you very much.
Mother Spirit: This is where, when you say something
or do something that affects the physical world--even if it is only an electronic thing--this is rather undeniable, objective
reality. It is one way of getting out of your own subjectivity. It
is an art, a creative art. And, like I said, it has so many fringe benefits. You
can actually affect and improve the way you relate to the world around you and the people in it. So
give it a try. We are here all the time, and we do hope you try because this is our way
of contacting you and letting you know for sure we are here. Be in my love.
Questioner #1: Thank you.
Mother Spirit: Are there any more questions or comments this
evening?
Questioner #2: Good
evening, Nebadonia. This is your daughter __. I
would like to thank you for your words this evening, and for the invitation to the intimacy that you bring to us. I
want to thank you too for the Seraphim, the Guardian Seraphim in particular. I have been
spending some focus/meditation time recently with my Guardian Seraphim, and I have found tremendous comfort in her presence--not
necessarily empowerment, but genuine comfort. Anyway, as with all your many other
gifts, thank you.
Mother
Spirit: My dear, you are definitely welcome. It
is wonderful to have that company, isn’t it?
Questioner #2: Yes, it is.
(Your Guardian Seraphim)
Mother Spirit: Again
I guess I can’t help teasing you with the idea that you are going to be meeting face-to-face sometime; yet too to have
the wonderful reality of her presence to be more real for you now. She can give
you so much of your soul, a kind of reflection back to you that is your soul--all that you have known, all you have experienced
in your life. It can be overwhelming in the most wonderful sense. Reflecting
your soul is part of her purpose, because this is what you have been giving her. Not
only is she giving you all that she does, but by sharing your life with her, this is her greatest delight, as well as Michael’s
and mine. We have our children within us, sharing their lives with us, and now
you are doing it so much more consciously. This is definitely like the frosting on a
cake, the cake being her angelic epiphany of your actual life.
But to be aware of the spiritual community--the spiritual presences--and
beyond what she is, who she is, and the fact that a lot of who she is, is what you have given her: this is the sharing, the
marvelous, marvelous aspect of deity, of what is divine.
Be in my love, dear one. I’m so happy you
are making better contact now that you are still alive in this life of yours.
Questioner #2: Thank you.
Mother Spirit: Well, my dears, if there are no more questions
or comments, I would like give you a little something to hang on to in this stillness I talked about this evening. It’s
to help you keep awake rather than drifting off into only half-conscious daydreaming, or just memories. There
is such a total difference in being consciously aware of reliving moments of your life as your soul comes forth, and memories
or daydreaming, which is falling into a kind of half-consciousness.
(To keep from drifting away)
This is by taking on an activity that will seem
a bit obtrusive at first. I am talking about counting your breaths up to ten, and
then again. What this enables you to do is, first of all, start being aware of
your breathing. Then you can achieve the marvelous consciousness of, all of a sudden,
being aware that you are fully experiencing your body. You can feel yourself breathing
in and out, and yet it is being totally controlled, not by your personality, but by your whole physiological being.
This way, if you suddenly find yourself counting
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, you know you have lapsed off a bit. Your consciousness
has relaxed into a mere habit and you are losing contact with here and now. Or if you
are suddenly not sure if this next breath is number five, or six, or seven, you simply start again. Even
this is an ability--to not get all flustered because you have been drifting off somewhere, but simply start again. Also,
as you breathe in, as you take in the oxygen for your body, is when you think, one, then two, then three; and so forth. This
way, if you find yourself counting the exhales instead, it is another little reminder to let you know when you are slipping
away and not being fully conscious. You can find it very quickly. You
can get this ability to have that counting going on, for this keeps you in touch with something that is here-and-now—your
living body-- whether your personality is drifting in and out, or not.
This meditation lets you know that. It
is paying respect to the fact that your body and this breathing of yours are in reality. Your
body is persisting by all the chemical and physics laws of life itself. Being aware
of your breathing helps you stay in touch with the God-given continuity of your physical being.
Now you will find in short order that your thoughts
will be parallel with this greater awareness, generally without forcing them, or trying to hold your mind a blank, or worrying;
because you are still thinking. As long as you are conscious you will still be
thinking; unless you are transmitting/receiving. This meditation is a way in which you can get the ability to be as detached
with your own thoughts as you are with your breathing. You become hyper-aware of them because
you are keeping this heightened continuity of thought by letting it be. Now you
can let your own greater mind suggest things to you.
(The need for reflection)
For those of you who have come to this point in your life
with little reflection--without reflecting much on what you have been doing--this may be a bit overwhelming at first. You
might spend weeks and months hyper-consciously reviewing your life, having things come up out of your soul that may or may
not be very disturbing. But this is what your body, and your mind, and your soul want
to say to you--all the things you may have been denying for years--all the pain you may have experienced before, all the uncertainties,
all the fear, and all the loss. All these things are normally considered so painful,
but they are a part of your soul. This is what you have done and what you have
experienced.
To get in touch with your own soul
while still in this life? To have a feeling of what God himself is
co-creating as you go along? This too can be a way of meeting and getting to know your
deepest self. To do this without prejudice--without pre-judging--while wading through
all the pain and uncertainty and fearfulness that have been part of your life? You
will be bringing these into the full consciousness of your now older, more mature, more aware, more highly present self so
you can finally deal with them. So now you have them rather than their continuing
to have you. So: another good reason to practice this stillness. Let
come forth whatever will, unafraid.
(To keep opening forever)
Yes, you may experience fear, pain, and sorrow, but be unafraid. This
might be a high mountain for you to climb, but then you will have earned the perspective and the view. These
are spiritual things, things not only of meaning but also of value. Practice meditating
every morning if you can, and little mini-meditations throughout the day. For this is
something, my dear ones, you will be doing forever. Forever you will be doing your
best to open yourself simply to what is next. What is happening now, not only all around
me, but right within me? What is all of me--my body, my mind and my soul: what
do they have to say to me?
This is the intermediate step if you will. You
have to wade through all of this. You may need to so intensely speak to yourself before you can begin to transmit us. So
let me close with a final tease, a final invitation, and reaffirm: you are a spiritual being. Your
personality--as your Urantia Book mentions a number of times--is able to have this direct contact. Yet
sometimes you have to kind-of get through yourself, and get beyond yourself, to open yourself to all that is not you.
Now please stay on the line after I stop. Jerry
does want to give you a few tips on how he came to be doing this.
Good evening, my dear ones. This
is your Mother Spirit bidding you to be in my love. Feel it if you can. Spread
it abroad. Good night.
(One person’s initiation)
Jerry: Hi, everybody. This
is Jerry again. I wanted to mention briefly that I sat with Donna for almost four years,
every week sitting side by side with Donna D’Angelo. She kept encouraging
us to try transmitting/receiving, but I didn’t think I could do it either. But
one thing I did do for a number of months; I sat down and started writing.
It’s funny because my terrible handwriting
started getting better. I had a wonderful teacher, not a seraphim, but another order
of being who never quite clarified the point. He was a male being whose name came to
me the next day while I was on my lunch break. He’d say, through my writing,
“Hello Jerry. This is your lesson for today about how to be receptive of another
personality.” I still have the lessons around somewhere, about a hundred
legal-size pages.
I would write two or three pages every day. I would sit
down and have another being coming through me, giving me lessons. It was nothing
I did overnight; it took me a couple of months. I’d
practice. Then it seemed all of a sudden Donna left for Oakland and I had her group
around me, five or six people. So this is another exercise you can try--journaling. Good-bye
everybody. Thank you all for being here, and being the occasion.
Questioner #2: Thank
you, Jerry.
Jerry: Remember:
you can go to Ron Besser’s TMArchives.com and click on the audio files. Hopefully
in a week or two I’ll have this out in a transcript. Is there anything else
anyone wanted to say? Thank you all. Good-Bye.
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