[tmtranscripts] Elyon Group 10/10/99

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Stillness, Toning Your Spiritual Muscles, Take Joy in Your Spiritual
Journey
Teachers: Aaron, Elyon, Lester


October 10, 1999
*	Aaron (Jonathan):  Hello to you all, I am Aaron visiting on this momentous
occasion.  I use the word
momentous not in its usual sense of being an event worthy of erecting a
monument, rather I use it in a twist like
your swimmer who, in laps, reaches a wall and springs back from that wall
into the next leg.  These meetings of
yours are momentous in that way, for you retreat momentarily from the
activities of your life to coil up and
recoil, to propel yourselves back into your daily events with new
enthusiasm, new momentum.
	Watching you discuss stillness I am moved to make some comment.  There is a
great task before all of
us ascending mortals, that is, to reach the Father on Paradise.  I know you
are fully aware of this call from God
to be with Him at some time at His universe presence.  Stillness is one of
the most important methods for
reaching Paradise.
	In the course of ascension your first and exceedingly important attainment
will be the fusion with the
Father's Fragment.  You have been instructed that this indwelling gift from
the Father resides at the center of
your being and to seek communion using the stillness practice in order to
better associate with the Father and to
better be capable of reflecting the Father to your fellows around you.
Stillness today for a physically embodied
mortal such as yourselves is replicating for a few simple minutes what is
your entire ascension career.
	All the worlds of space whirl on in great dynamics fostering manifold
activities, bringing about new
accomplishments in all its energy.  But when you are at the Father's house,
you sit at the center of universe
stillness.  There is no time, and space becomes a concept of dimension
rather than a reality itself as you know it
so concretely here on this world.  In miniature your communion with the
Thought Adjuster is identical to your
Paradise communion with the Father.
	As we make our upward climb to His house, we must use stillness to have
access to God.  But when
that eventful day arrives for each of us and when that eventful day arrives
for all of us, the moment of the
maximum attainment of the Supreme, our stillness will shift.  It will not be
so much access to God; it will be
access with God to great regions of universe potential that are, even at
this hour, inaccessible to many beings
far greater in stature and standing than ourselves.  It is out of the
stillness of Paradise that you will be propelled
into these regions to explore and to discover and to reveal more of the
Father.  What you practice today for a
few minutes of time is a reflection of a grand scheme for all creatures
throughout all the universes.
	You have all undergone occasional process where, as you began, you
assimilated the early lessons so
that you could build enough background to understand in greater scope as
time unfolds.  You are willing to
suffer confusion as you gain your information, knowing clarity will result.
Practice the stillness now with this
same approach.  Be not so concerned about full comprehension of its import.
Practice.  It will unfold the
meaning and depth and the reason for such an undertaking as you repeatedly
enter into this relationship with the
Father.
	I will now give over to your usual teachers here today.  I am glad to be
back among you again.
	Elyon (Mark):  I would once again join your group; this is your friend and
associate Elyon.  I would
carry on a bit further with this most important topic of stillness with a
characteristic metaphor.
	You all are engaged in the building up and the toning of your spiritual
muscles.  To do this you seek
out these classrooms and similar ones as you would go to a gym to work out
your physical muscles.  In order to
enter this spiritual gym, you must already have gained the strength and the
ability and the willingness to first
open the door to this gym.  You arrive at this facility with your own free
will as your guide to prepare for
something, you know not what.  Upon entering this gym you realize that
whenever you are in this class and for
sometime thereafter you derive a pleasurable feeling of accomplishment after
each and every workout.
	There are a variety of instruments available to you in this workout realm,
and each of you filters in and
assumes your workout schedule with the implement of your choice.  In so
doing, through the act of repetition,
you are building mass to your spiritual muscle; you are increasing your
capacity to use this muscle.  At times
you may not realize that you are actually in training for anything but
involved in the activity of the moment
because it feels good.  But I tell you that every trip to this spiritual gym
that you make and participate in you
build strength, spiritual strength.
	Now it is that you would gaze over and see one of your fellows engaged in
skillfully executing an iron
cross, seemingly effortlessly.  You know logically that, to execute a move
so demanding as this requires great
skill and great strength, and yet you perceive another successfully execute
this move with beauty and with
grace.  It does not appear to be a great struggle, for this individual has
been training for quite some time.  But
this feat that he is accomplishing is impossible without the time he has
spent in training and in building up his
muscles to accommodate such demands.  So, on the outside it may seem as
though it does not require the great
deal of effort that you know that it does, rather it comes with ease to the
one who has practiced for this
purpose.
	This is the analogy to use with yourselves when you are in doubt as to your
ability to triumph over the
exercise of stillness.  It is exceedingly difficult for one who has not
entered the gym, who has not prepared in
advance to execute a move so demanding.  But you, my friends, are regulars
to your workout and cannot help
but see the rewards of your labor and the toning of your spirit muscles to
the point that you should be able to
execute these moves of your choosing with far greater ease than one who has
not prepared.  This does not imply
that performing a difficult move such as an iron cross is not difficult, for
it is.  It will always be difficult.  What
makes the difference is your preparation and your familiarity with the
technique that enables you to perform
such a move.
	It is sometimes difficult to see over the short term or at any one glance
just how your spirit muscles
have been affected by this routine workout.  But given a longer perspective
and a more challenging routine, it is
obvious to you that you have done some preparation, that you have
strengthened your stance so as to be able to
grasp fully the undertaking before you and execute these moves, even with grace.
	It is also quite possible that in being disciplined about your exercise
routine you can lose sight of
training for anything in particular.  The routine itself is fulfilling and
rewarding, and many times that is enough. 
But we must all realize that we are in training constantly for our growth,
for our future potential, and we must
look towards our training as preparation for the actualization of these
potentials and discern where our training
might help us master the skills before us.  I say that each one of you here
is capable of performing a demanding
exercise if even for a brief moment.  You may not be able to sustain an iron
cross indefinitely, but each of you
has developed your strength to the point of being able to attempt such a
maneuver. Through your future
diligence you will indeed gain the strength and ability to master the most
complex maneuvers.
	So, it may take great amounts of rehearsal before the maneuver of stillness
may seem to come with
great ease and great comfort.  But you may be assured that with each
attempt, with each practice, with each
workout, you will come closer to that goal.  You will learn the routine so
well that you will be able to forget it
and focus then on the communion with the Father in this time as well as the
discipline of focus during stillness.
	We are aware that this practice of stillness asks a great deal of you in
mortal form.  Indeed, you, as
animal descendants, respond unconditionally to the stimulus around you.  We
are in a sense asking for some
mastery over these innate tendencies in favor of responding to the stimulus
of the Father.  Physical stimulants
can be overwhelming to you in this phase and dominate your entire being.  It
is a great effort for you to
subjugate these effects to the higher inspiration of your Indwelling Spirit
and the Father's presence.  But you
will find and have already tasted that the rewards and fruits for
subjugating the one to the other are vast and
great.  So, I would say to each of you to continue to attempt, to try again
and again, simply to exercise this
muscle, simply to identify this muscle and use it, and it will grow strong;
it will grow faithful, and you will
come to rely on this skill more than any other skill you are likely to
develop at this time.
	In a sense it is seen as a mystery to you how this transpires, and that is
largely because for each
individual it transpires differently.  Yet the result of the accomplishment
of this practice is all the same.  It is
merely the direction and with what influences you proceed toward the stillness.
	As a rule I would encourage you to not be hard on yourselves for falling
short of your goals or
expectations in this realm, for you are not.  You are in an evolutionary
process which only begins here.  It does
not end.  It will take you many chances and tries before this becomes a
dominant part of your being, and that is
as it should be.  So, when you fall short now in this life, be easy with
yourself.  Be kind with yourself.  Don't
create yet another obstacle for yourselves in attempting to find the stillness.
	I thank you for your time and remain in attendance as do others.
*	Lester (Ginnie):  Good morning, this is Lester.  As you mortals struggle
with your animal nature, it is
amusing for us to watch this --and by amusing I do not mean anything
derogatory -- but it is truly a delight to
see you striving to attain something that is truly astounding.  As you begin
your journey with the mortal nature,
you do have many obstacles to overcome in the material world and especially
in yours where material things
occupy so much of your time and attention.  It is indeed a feat to even
breathe properly, to remain relaxed, or
even to enjoy yourselves.  We do not mean to make this spiritual journey
such a chore.  It is a chore only
because of all the distractions you have.  We are indeed delighted that you
have agreed to take this on, but we
do encourage you to be a little bit lighthearted about it rather than beat
yourself up for not attaining it
immediately.  Stillness is lightness, and the more you can unburden yourself
of heavy feelings, the more you
will accommodate yourself to sharing and communing with our Father, who is
lightness itself.
	Take joy in your spiritual journey.  When you feel things becoming more
like a chore than a fun thing
to do, then that is a sign that you are probably trying too hard or making
it something that it isn't.  Anyhow, I
encourage you to pay attention to the light side of you and to try to bring
the stillness into your everyday
activities, your music, your art, your playfulness, your cooking, your
parenting.  Yes, your children will teach
you.  You want to learn something, watch your children.
	So, I encourage you today to approach this idea of stillness as lightness
and ease which comes with
practice, but it also comes with letting go of the heaviness.  That can be
done in many ways.
	It has been fun to be with you today.  I will make sure you don't turn this
thing into a chore, too.  Good
day.
	Jonathan:  Thank you.  First I would like to repeat two lines you were
giving me before you connected
with Ginnie:  Not to let stillness become staleness and, rather than being
apathetic in practice, be pathetic.  I
know you meant that to be path-oriented, motivated and directed as we
approach stillness.
	Since there are many ways to approach meditation: breathing, muscle
relaxing, mantra, etc, what are
some techniques that morontia beings use to go into stillness?  Is there
something we can apply to our physical
station?
*	Lester:  As you know, morontia beings do not have the difficulty that you
do because of your
physicality, and, of course, the farther you proceed on your journey, the
lighter you become so the easier it is to
be there, to be still and centered and focused almost all the time.  You
have a great task here.  You already have
accepted the Father into your hearts.  You have already begun the journey.
	Jonathan:  Lightness is key to help us physically-bound beings to
experience stillness.
*	Lester:  The lighter you are, the easier it is to commune with the Father.
	Jonathan:  In The Urantia Book it says the more spiritual we become, the
less responsive we are to
linear gravity, the gravity that holds us to a planet and the planets to
each other.  That is very physical.  You
have added to the mystery of that phrase.
*	Lester:  Yes, you are correct.  Physicality is indeed a great hindrance to
being light.  However, you can
transcend the physicality with your mind with the assistance of your
Indwelling Adjuster who is always present
with you with all the teachers that surround you everyday.  All of you have
already begun this journey of
connecting with the Father.  You all are already very well advanced in this
method even though you think you
are not.  You are a very small percent of the general population who can
master this technique, many of whom
have no clue as to what stillness is and who,  frankly, are afraid of it.
You are all quite comfortable with being
in our Father's presence.
	So, I encourage you to simply lighten up in whatever way you can find.  A
light heart, a light spirit will
always clear the way for our Father to commune with you.
	Kirk:  I like the analogy that instead of "see the light", "feel the light".
*	Lester:  Yes.  Many of you think that being light is not being serious
enough.  I assure you it is the
other way around.
	Jonathan:  We first heard of you through Jared, who is famous for
encouraging us to seek stillness and
practice random acts of kindness.  I would append that we should engage in
incredible lightness of being.
*	Lester:  You stole my words. "The unbearable lightness of being" is what I
was thinking of.
	Mark:  I get this image that we are in this class and, as mortals, we have
some capability to rise beyond
our class to reach the Father.  We are nevertheless subject to our physical
being and our maturity.  I get the
feeling that maybe as first graders we have showed up and done as well as
expected.  The teachers may find it
hard to present us materials much above what we are familiar with because we
are immature, still in first grade. 
Can we continue to operate at or slightly above grade level but we never can
go to the next level up, maybe a
morontia experience, because we are still here in this class?
*	Lester:  I have one comment.  I heard you this morning mention how moved
you were at the wisdom of
your child.  Need I say more?
*	Elyon (Jonathan):  This is Elyon.  I would add a comment too, that is,
that your schooling on this world
for young children entails a lot of recess and a lot of physical activities,
movement oriented activities.  Then, as
age increases and maturity ensues, by the time you have reached your college
levels, there is no recess interval. 
It is all academic.  Let me now invert that, turn it inside out, for the
stillness is your recess time for your
activities.  In order for a young first grader to sit long enough to absorb
a lesson, that individual needs to run
around on the playground.  With stillness you do your spiritual running
around so that in your day-by-day
events you can learn your lessons.
	I hope this helps.  Thank you.
	Ginnie:  We have the capacity to expand our abilities.  There's a limit
because of our mortality.
*	Elyon:  Thank you for your input today, all of you.  It is enjoyable to be
in dialogue.  I will now take
my leave.