Teacher Ophelius:
Dear One, the question has been asked about the purpose and importance of “Stillness” meditation and how it differs from the practice of “mindfulness”—a popular method used by many in western culture to focus the mind on present awareness. There are many forms of meditation used by men and women around the world and each produces varying benefits depending on the intention used when participating in the practice. The one unifying benefit is that meditation brings the mind into a state of “true consciousness,” meaning: It has a grounding effect to release the mind from material concerns, emotional distresses, and the circumstances of time related activities, bringing awareness to the present moment—to experience a state of simply “being.” Stillness however, has an intention and goes beyond this static state of present moment awareness and brings consciousness into a more unified state with the Indwelling Spirit of the Creator.

Teacher Ophelius:
Dear One, there have been questions asked about human nature, the quality of the soul, and why it is that some people, regardless of intelligence, seem to have more of an affinity for God consciousness and God seeking than others. If we all start out at birth with personality—the gift of the Universal Father, and then receive the Indwelling Spirit—the Thought Adjuster at or near age six when humans make their first moral decision, why do we see such disparity in the path of spiritual development? Is it in the DNA or are there some other factors that determine the path of spiritual growth? To even begin to understand these complex things at the individual level, we must first zoom out to see the bigger picture—something most on your world fail to see.

Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager and Planetary Prince
Topics:

• Working through options of development
• Consciousness of participation
• The turmoil’s of the world
• The swing of the pendulum
• The purpose of the Teaching Mission
• Training individuals and groups in this work
• Many are called to begin this work
• The coordination of Thought Adjusters around the world
• “Hands-On Democracy”
• Cultural change will bring about social progress
• Reconstruct the past or evolve something better?
• “Partyism,” a political disease
• Electoral reform and public input into decision-making
• Need for greater participation by those receiving the Urantia Revelation 
• The dangers of democracy
• Attend meetings and voice your opinions
• Redesigning the democracy
• Self-determinism and political sovereignty
• Societal selfishness
• Peace and goodwill is centuries away
• Incorporating other cultures into nations
• Polarization
• What is an “energy signature?”
• Importance of media and ethics in journalism
• Social creep
• Christ Michael’s involvement in our world will succeed

Teacher Ophelius:

Today, my dear friends, we shall talk about a few of the more “generic” questions many of you have that pertain to: “What does God feel?” Because you, as humans, can only relate to how you “feel” having an electro-chemical brain that processes emotions via hormones, chemicals, and electric impulses in the nervous system, you simply cannot relate to any other “super-sensory” system or a divine infinite sensory system like that of the Creator. However, because you each have a living fragment of the Creator’s mind, living within your mind, it would seem logical that the Universal Father would feel the same emotions you feel as He experiences life through you?

Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager and Planetary Prince of Urantia

Topics:

• Tremendous frustration in self, nation, and global situations
• Seeking the pattern of Oneness
• Integrating your material life with your spiritual evolution
• Where to start in this Transition Era?
• Interactions with others in learning process
• Why did the Caligastia 100 leave their Thought Adjusters behind?
• The conditions needed for Light and Life
• Curiosity is an “inborn and divine endowment”
• Fighting terrorism
• Bigotry in politics
• Socially, are we too tolerant of intolerance?
• Effect of video games on some children
• What are the more mature cultures in the world?
• The distinction between progress and growth
• How must the global economy change for sustainable global civilization?
• Is marijuana detrimental to the health of an individual and society?
• Becoming Planetary Managers
• Understanding heritage and culture
• The climate change and its effect on society
• There is a plan and someone is in charge!

Monjoronson, Magisterial Son; 
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:

• Strategic planning report from Monjoronson
• Finding good collaborators for this work
• Initiating ideas for sharing the six core values
• When children grow up isolated because of illness
• A question on the Bahai faith
• Request for in-depth sessions on certain topics
• Questions on building an eco-village
• Global warming
• Dangers of plastics
• The Danish Island, Samsø
• Transition vs. transformation
• Collaboration vs. competition
• Question on time: past, present and future
• Perspectives on climate change
• Student report on social and material sustainability
• Machiventa’s closing words

Thought Adjuster:
Dear One, it is I AM—your Beloved Indwelling. Within the lifetime of any person there is what I call, “Destiny Points” and there are many. These are conjunctions or intersections where the life plan of the soul and the life path of the individual come together at a crossroads and at this “point” there is a decision to be made. Sometimes the individual is aware of the importance of this decision and other times the Destiny Point is subtle and may not enter into one’s consciousness, yet it must still be acted on subconsciously. The Destiny Points are opportunities for growth and for the highest good of the soul and they are afforded to you by my direction as I AM your spiritual operator.