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Asheville, NC, US of A, October 18, 2015.
Teacher Ophelius.
Subject: “Living in the Flow.”
Message received by Chris Maurus.
Teacher Ophelius: “The message for today is about ‘Living in the Flow’ of the creative life force of the universe. What does this mean? Are we not all living in the flow of creativity? Yes, all are moving down the river of life, yet many are not aware they are in the water. There are far too many people who wake up to a world that is mundane, or full of struggle and hardship, where they become a part of all the negativity and drama that is broadcast to the world through others who are also not aware they are in the water. They become ‘heavy’ and find it difficult to keep their heads above the water where the breath of life is. To live in the flow is to be aware you are in it. To be aware you are in it means you are seeing through the eyes of the soul and that your life has purpose.
“Life on your world is full of contrast — more so than on most worlds in the universe, which means your immersion in it may allow you to experience the greatest moments of joy, love and peace, or the quite the opposite — hate, fear, misery and pain. Certainly most of you have, at some time in your life, ‘touched bottom’ of the river and tasted the full measure of contrast which makes the sweeter moments of life so much more appreciable. Yet, those who are not aware they are in the water and who are heavy with the drama of a confused world get pulled under and dragged to the bottom of pain, fear, and misery and find it difficult to float to the surface where joy, peace, and love is. They remain in the limited bandwidth of the lower end of the contrast scale — the murky bottom.
“Moments of peace, love, and joy with the perspective of the full measure of contrast, is the most valuable experience a human can have, which is the most beneficial to the soul and to the collective consciousness of the planet — even unto the Supreme Being — the God of experience. Does this mean you have to experience the muck on the bottom of the river to benefit the soul? No, in contrast, the benefit is in the ‘amplitude’ or the ‘delta’ of contrast. Those who are aware they are in the river, treading water and making wise choices, have never touched the murky bottom. Yet the degree of their experiences with peace, love, and joy are so much higher than those scraping bottom, that they may have greater amplitude of contrast. Wherever you are in life — the bottom, the middle or soaring through the air, amplitude is most important and the collective life experiences for all souls makes up the full spectrum of life in eternity at nearly all degrees of living all valuable — all worthy of the eternal journey toward god-likeness.
“When you find yourself in the muck of life caught up in the drama of the illusion, zoom out, my friends, and remember you are in the river — that you have a soul — that life is eternal and you are adding to the valuable measure of your soul’s experiences. You shall take that treasure with you into the hereafter and continue down the river of life with greater wisdom and with a greater appreciation for all that is true, beautiful and good.
“To you who know you are in the river, blessed are you, friends, for you have the awareness to maximize the amplitude of your life experiences and live life with your head above water where peace, love, and joy fill the senses — the sweetness of life.
“If you find yourself sinking, just ask for help — the universe is here to lift you up!
“Peace to you,
“The Circle of Seven.”
Edited by Linda Abell.
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
“The giving of self, the illumination of truth, and the relief of suffering
are the noblest paths to higher consciousness.” – Teacher Ophelius, 2009.
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Alabama, US of A, July 17, 2014.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “Meditation and Worship.”
Message received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “Many different methods of meditation have been created throughout the history of your world. From a modern perspective, meditation is a resource that allows human beings to achieve the natural mental state in which their mind functions most optimally. It is not about silencing thoughts, but is simply about being present, fully focused on the here and now, without mental or external distractions. Now, when meditation is done to listen to divine guidance and draw closer to the Father, it becomes worship.
Meditation is a path to connect with the Father and prepare yourself to receive His spiritual influence with all the resources of your mind. It is how, for a moment, you rise above your material limitations and transcend your mortal nature to connect with the eternal. Prayer is the expression of the longing of the human soul, while worshipful meditation is the fulfillment of these longings.
While meditation is a beneficial practice that should be done daily, you cannot spend the entire day meditating. Other activities are necessary so that your mind can integrate the truth received in the higher mind into your life. Notably, during sleep, your mind "digests" what it has received and prepares it to be accessible to the conscious personality. This is one of the tasks of your Thought Adjuster: to organize and spiritualize your thoughts while you sleep.
Various other activities of daily life are also very necessary. The truths revealed to each soul only become values when they are expressed in human experience. Just as one cannot truly understand parental love without being a parent to another human being, many truths and concepts that the Adjuster transmits to the human mind require real experience to become part of the personality.
Herein lies an aspect of the cooperation between God and man. God provides the guidance, the truths, and the spiritual influences that nourish human life. The human being provides the experience, the effort to live life striving to become more like God, taking the abstract truths found within and turning them into a reality manifested in creation through their decisions and actions. This is the work that the unique combination of God and man must fulfill in this world, fostering the moment when harmony is so complete and communication so direct that the two minds—the spiritual and the mortal—become one, creating a new being for eternity.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Faith is just curiosity tinged with hope — Thought Adjuster.
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Urantia, 4. 2, 2008.
Teacher: The Beloved.
Subject: “Triggers.”
Message received by Lytske.
The Beloved: “Let us be about another short foray into your thought patterns, for there is much which can stand the Light to be shone upon, and discover where there are negative weeds so deeply embedded in your psyche, that they have become habitual and are a reason for depression. You must be totally honest with yourself when you scrutinize these thoughts which give rise to gloomy feelings within you.
When you set out to master your negative habits of thought, you need to pay attention to the reason, in other words, what triggers those thoughts. Mortals often give in to the whims of their emotions, allowing themselves to be swept up into a mild hysteric anxiety. This is a well-known fact among the celestials who try to help humankind inspire better behavior patterns.
Destructive and negative self-talk diminishes self-esteem and, when persistent, can settle in the psyche, becoming most tenacious and very difficult to remove. It is normal to be gloomy occasionally when looking from an earthly perspective on all the happenings and rumors in and of the world, but these are only outward signs.
The true reason for unhappiness needs to be sought within. Outer circumstances may or may not affect you, depending on your inner strength and clarity. Needless to say, the strength of your own faith and trust ultimately shores you up to stand tall in the midst of strife and unhappiness, for you know from whence your inner strength comes.
Therefore, it follows that your time would be better spent exercising your faith and trust muscles rather than giving in to gloomy thoughts that pull you down into the doldrums from which it can be very difficult to extricate yourself. Shake your spiritual 'feathers' and breathe in the fresh air of My Divine Essence. Inhale My presence and refresh your soul, in the process, so you can meet the day's worries head-on and know that they are never as bad as they appear.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I Am the Satisfaction of Your Soul — The Beloved One.
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Oregon, USA, August 3, 2023.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “How to Keep the Flame of Love Burning.”
Message received by Anyas.
Thought Adjuster: “Many of you have experienced the sorrow that stems from love unreceived or turned down by the subject of your affection. You are then faced with a choice: Will you emotionally recoil and shut down your heart or, rather than squandering this precious love substance, will you redirect it to love-hungry souls? The best option is a no-brainer.
What would Jesus’ attitude be in such a case? He depicted it in the story of a ruler who gave a great supper but all his invitees began to make poor excuses. After dealing with his initial angry reaction of disappointment toward the ungrateful non-show guests, he decided to channel his generosity toward more worthy candidates: He asked his loyal servants to go out quickly ‘into the streets and lanes of the city, out into the highways and the byways, and bring hither the poor and the outcast, the blind and the lame, that the marriage feast may have guests.’ [UB, 167:2.2].
This parable contains various teachings. It can also pertain to ‘unreceived love’. Love is a nutritious substance when acknowledged with an open heart. Rather than withdrawing it and letting it go to waste when given a cold shoulder, it can be diverted toward receptive hearts. Do not allow your heart to turn cold when faced with rejection. Instead, keep the eternal flame of love burning. Remember that it only takes a spark to get a fire going. Use your love as a tinder to put other hearts aflame. It will sanctify your love. Give it a try and see how much better it will feel.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
No matter what the question is, the answer is always Love.
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São Carlos-SP, Brazil, May 11, 2019.
Teacher: Prolotheos.
Subject: “Questioning About God.”
Message received by Valdir Soares.
Prolotheos: “I see that you have paid much attention to certain ancient existential questions about God and His relationship with human beings, especially the ones that really know Him and call themselves children, friends and even servants of God. I do encourage you to enlist these questions in our conversation, no matter how startling they may appear at first sight. So begin. Question away!
1. Why does it Occasionally Seem that God is Indifferent?
“The impression that God is indifferent to your situation comes from your inability to see the answers God has given to your prayers and claims. If God is in fact, silent (and He might choose to be silent) it is because the right time for Him to respond has not arrived, either because the circumstances are not appropriate or because you wouldn’t, at that moment, understand His answer. You should consider that in fact, even God’s silence is an answer to you. God is never indifferent to you or your life.
2. Why does it Occasionally Seem that God is Inconsistent?
“Again, the appearance that God is inconsistent is only a limited human impression, due to a misleading conclusion. God, in His absolute perfection, cannot ever be ultimately inconsistent with Himself. Sure, facts, and even acts of God and credit to God may sometimes appear contradicting, but ultimately, they are not. God’s logic is infinite, impenetrable, and beyond the creature’s total understanding. God’s plans unveil into His Universe Ages and you may be assured that while they now may look inconsistent, at the end of this age, they will look logical to man, even infinite, because God Himself is infinite. However, God is never, in any way, inconsistent.
3. Why does it Ocasionally Seem that God is Inconsequential?
“Nothing God does is inconsequential. The actions of God concerning human beings are of two orders: justice and providence. Justice reveals the universal goodness, truth and beauty (perfection) of God to his children. Providence is God supplying everything that man really needs, once he has chosen to follow God’s path. Again, it is your human incapacity to see God’s actions that lead to the misconception that God could be inconsequential. All that pertains to you matters to God and He always acts in regard to your ultimate well-being. Rest assured, God is never inconsequential.
“Thanks, my pupil, for these important questions about commonplace misconceptions about God that have troubled human beings from Job to nowadays. Simply put, God could never be indifferent, inconsistent or inconsequential, because He is, after all, perfect! However, God understands that those are questions that human beings, His children, sometimes harbor in their thoughts and, if they are sincere and honest, God is never tired of again and again answering them and showing them that He is never any of these!
I am Prolotheos, your celestial tutor and teacher, glad that you summoned me again. Peace!”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Keep Before You the Goal of the Ages — Teacher Prolotheos.