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Asheville, NC, US of A, March 13, 2022. I’m walking through an apple orchard. It is a fall day; the sky is cloudy, and the surrounding trees are lit up in bright colors — reds, yellows, and various shades of brown. I smell the decaying leaves in the air and I feel the fallen leaves crunch under my feet as I walk. I also smell the vinegar of decaying apples that have fallen to the ground — some of them I step on and feel them crush under my shoes. I look up into the apple trees to find the perfect apple — one that I imagined in my mind as large, shiny-red, no blemishes — hanging within my reach. I scan the trees and there I see it! I reach for it — pull the branch down closer to me. I feel the rough bark of the branch against my skin and pull at the apple until it breaks its stem from the branch. I hear it “snap” and feel the kinetic reaction to the stem separating from the branch through the force of my pull. I smile — examine it in my hand as I turn it around to see if there is a worm hole hidden, but find it pristine and lovely — the ideal of the perfect apple that I imagined in my mind’s eye. I rub the apple on my jeans to shine its ruby red skin, then bring it to my nose and smell its sweet familiar scent. I open my mouth and bring the skin against my teeth knowing it must be penetrated with some pressure to break into the sweet yellow juicy flesh within. I clamp down and break it open with my teeth and feel the juice squirt into my mouth with that familiar taste that I recognize from past experience. I chew the flesh and extract all the sweetness the fruit contains within. I swallow the chewed flesh and feel it going down my esophagus and then vanish into my stomach where it becomes a part of me. I feel joy in this moment — I store this memory in the folder I labeled “I love apples.”
From the Desk of Chris Maurus.
Subject: “Experiencing Conscious Contact – Part 12, 1 of 2.”
Dear Friends and Light Workers,
This continuing series will expand and explain the eleven facets identified in Part 3, “The Framework for Conscious Contact.” This message takes a deeper look at the 10th facet:
“10. Visions - Creating Light in the Field (for your future self and progress, opportunities, personal mission, abundance, family and friends, world conditions, hopes, dreams, and prayers for others.)”
We are nearly at the end of our Conscious Contact session. Having moved through the previous facets we are now at a place where we bring our co-creativity into great focus. How do we do this? With visions.
Human language is not the most efficient way to communicate with the Indwelling Presence of the Creator within. Words are used as a crude way of communicating feelings, which we all know are poor substitutes for defining our emotions and aspirations. Words are used more for our human minds to organize our thoughts of feelings — to bring them into a solidified form free from the lofty and scattered cacophony of thoughts that are unfocused. This is why you use the spoken word during your CC session — to solidify your thoughts of feelings — to bring focus.
The Thought Adjuster, however, makes greater use of our minds when we “see with the mind’s eye.” Our imagination is the canvas for painting our vision in the Creator’s everywhere presence — the Light Field — the Unified Field — the Divine Matrix. When the greater is our conviction when “seeing,” the more permanence does the vision sustain in the Light Field. Once we focus our thoughts and have a firm understanding of ourselves, we can then project these feelings into a vision on the canvas of our mind’s eye. It is here that we pass the baton to our Thought Adjuster and “see” the outcomes of our hopes and dreams manifest.
This is the most important part of your CC work, and I would encourage you to apply this visual imagery to all your thoughts. Whenever you stop to focus your feelings and ideas — see it in your mind’s eye as an image; a short film; a movie with an ending you desire. This is the language of the Creator — where the child and the Parent come together to co-create.
All of us make broad statements that contain a very detailed experiential engagement. Example: “I love apples.” OK, great, but why do you love them? That broad statement is like a file folder that has a label called “I love apples.” What is inside the folder is your experience with eating apples and it is full of rich sensory data. Let’s examine this love for apples in a vision:
You can see how limiting human language is when we make broad statements. If I say to my TA, “I love apples,” the TA is not moved to do anything with that statement, but when you say “I love apples” and then go into a little stroll down memory lane and recall the entire experience of why you love apples — the experience of not only eating apples, but the whole human experience of living life and appreciating the beauty and goodness of that moment and others like it — the TA shares in the experience and then counterparts those moments of truth, beauty, and goodness, and keeps them safe within your soul that they may become a permanent part of who you are — your experiences that led to an appreciation for life itself.
I would like for you to revisit all the previous facets of CC and bring these visions and sensory images to all the talking points of those facets. This is something that you will need to practice, but in doing so, has a greater payoff in the experience of CC. Soon you will be able to recall the rich experience of CC as something that makes life worth living — to have an experience with the Creator through a relationship that brings joy, peace, love, and understanding. It becomes a reality just as real as eating apples, but has a greater potential to advance your standing and progress your spiritual journey — a shared journey of life — a continuing answer to the primal question: “Who AM I?”
In the second part of this facet (#10), I will give examples of what I “see” and how I communicate with my TA during my CC session, so that you can adapt your own vision to the process.
Stay with me on the journey,
Chris Maurus.
© 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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Urantia, March 21, 2006.
Teacher: The Beloved.
Subject: “Value the Rungs on Heaven’s Ladder.”
Message received by Lytske
The Beloved: “The gathering of wisdom is to be enjoyed in the Silence of your heart, where I can shine heaven’s spotlight on all your experiences, and where, since you are now opening up more to My leadings, we will save those events that have eternal values as a lesson well learned, and where we contemplate others to be either repeated or discarded.
It is wonderful that I am finally getting through to you, and can tell you that only your understood experiences are of value as the rungs on heaven’s ladder that you are climbing. There is truly no need to look back at those rungs of the past.
Instead, look ahead with joyful anticipation to what I might have in store for you, and so develop expectancy and a greater zest for living.
You see, dear one, I know what I am doing, for I know what you and I are capable of, but until you completely trust Me and leave the matter of sculpting you entirely in My hands, I cannot yet show you the abundance I have in store for you.
Nonetheless, I applaud you for all your efforts as you are learning to discern My Will for you. I know that this resonates within you.
So, take heart, My dear child. The time is coming closer, steadily closer, when you shall give yourself to Me of your own free will, so that I can go ahead and fashion you according to My divine plan, making you and Me into one, with your total cooperation.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I Am the Satisfaction of Your Soul — The Beloved One.
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Oregon, USA, May 12, 2021.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “He Picks You for a Roomie.”
Message received by Anyas.
“Zaccheus: “I may be a sinner, but the great Teacher has come to abide in my house; [. . .] I am going to seek salvation with all my heart and learn to do righteousness in the sight of God.” [UB, 171:6.2]
Jesus: “And marvel not at what I say nor take offense at what we do, for I have all along declared that the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.” [UB, 171:6.3]
Thought Adjuster: “This exchange took place when Jesus chose to spend the night in the home of Zaccheus, a wealthy tax collector, held in poor esteem by local Pharisees.
Borrow Zaccheus' words, and speak them with heartfelt conviction. How does that make you feel?
Another great Teacher — a divine Fragment — selected to cohabit with you without limiting his stay to the passing of a single night. How do you acknowledge such an honor? Such a show of divine trust should fill you with boundless gratitude, as it tells you in no uncertain terms that the Father values you more than you value yourself. Reflect on it for a moment.
Jesus’ repartee to the critics of his ‘poor’ choice of sleeping arrangements summarizes the mission statement of his planetary incarnation. He came to the rescue of those in need of salvation — downtrodden and confused souls. How else could he qualify himself as the long-awaited Savior?
He keeps outpouring his saving grace to all generations. He indiscriminately anoints each receptive soul with its healing balm that triggers life-changing conversion experiences. Do treat your brothers and sisters in a similar magnanimous fashion, as is also a part of your ongoing salvation process.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
No matter what the question is, the answer is always Love.
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Alabama, US of A, December 4, 2013.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “About Abundance.”
Message received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “Many among you dream of wealth and abundance of material goods without realizing how rich they already are. This is a common attitude in the most favored countries, where ambition runs amok in the minds of their inhabitants. If those who dream of riches would stop for a moment to consider those things they already possess they would realize how misguided their material desires are.
The great majority of the population of this planet barely has enough to survive. It is rather rare to find human beings who possess everything they need, including personal freedom and education, to live a satisfactory life. The problem is that most of those who enjoy the comforts of a developed society live in the same geographic region and therefore cannot observe first-hand how the rest of their peers live.
Having a house in which to live, electronic devices for entertainment, and enough food to make obesity a real issue, all these are signs that a few have more than what they need to live. Many die every day of starvation or by violence. Those who desire riches should take an honest look at themselves and discover how rich they already are.
Ideally, all should count with everything they need to enjoy and sustain their physical life, and also to have an opportunity to cultivate their spiritual life. It is even desirable to have resources for additional things that feed their spirit and bring joy to their lives. This is real abundance, but in this world the idea of wealth has been perverted and has little to do with promoting the conditions for personal, intellectual, and spiritual growth, but instead fostering greed, selfishness, and blind ambition. Many of you have more than you need. Many have a lot of material goods that are wasted because they are never used. What is the use of having so many toys if you never play with them? Why does a man need three of four houses if he can only live in one?
All human beings have the right to opportunities for improving their situation, and through effort and intelligence acquire everything needed to live an abundant life. However, only the wise are able to realize when they have enough so that they can start paying attention to other important areas of their life, such as their relationships with their peers, the development of their family, and their role in civilization. Each one can find the guidance they need in the presence of the Father within each human being, as long as they dare to look at themselves with honesty and strive to elevate their thinking to be better every day.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Faith is just curiosity tinged with hope — Thought Adjuster.
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Urantia, March 20, 2021.
Teacher: The Beloved.
Subject: “Feel, Experience, Use This Newness.”
Message received by Lytske.
The Beloved: “The bounties of heaven are available to each sincere person who will ask for serenity and peace to pervade his or her heart, soul and mind. This literally saturates all cells in the body and brings a deep healing to the DNA structure.
Pray continually for more love and compassion toward self and others, and these gifts shall be given to you.
However, you need to ask for it, for this newness to become more real, and for you to sense and feel this ‘new energy’ course through your total being. Follow it intently with your mind and become aware of its flow.
You can tune in at any time, and therefore be refreshed in the busiest of your days. Allow this to happen more and more often, so this compassionate love can flow in abundance, healing you and others around you.
Allow old negativity to flow away as this new feeling takes a greater hold in your heart, thereby diminishing the stress of daily living.
Feel this newness, experience this newness, use this newness, and keep it replenished in your daily coming to Me it the Silence of your heart, allowing the renewal of your spirit to go on unabated.
In total love and forgiveness, see old error patterns cleansed and old forgotten issues that arise from the darkest recesses of your mind leaving you to disappear into nothingness, where everything gets recycled into a greater and more exalted usefulness to the eternal Creator.
Give praise and thanks to the Creator, and I shall reflect back, increasing joy into your being.
You shall know that you, too, are a most beloved child of the Infinite God.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I Am the Satisfaction of Your Soul — The Beloved One.