I did wonder for 20 or 30 years why that was so. Why don’t they just put it all in one book and say here it is? Why don’t they just teach us? I found out much later that if The Urantia Book did that then we would start another righteous religion around it and someday have the same pit falls that all religions have today, one “only” holy book that says all and does all and contains all and, of course, is God’s word. And it would be the only one that is right and all the others would be wrong.

So to prevent this from happening they first brought down The Urantia Book, then later other books by saints, then books by other masters until finally the man himself “Jesus” came back and sent down many books. And whatever it is we are searching for ,will be found, not in one but in many of these books. So there’s no “ONE” holy book but many, and “no one church” not any, but there is “one family” (the Brotherhood) you could say that the Brotherhood is the Religion of the Universe and we are the many. Seek and ye shall find.

Well, the answer comes from many sources and Jesus is one of them and I combine his teachings and beliefs and meditation with others to form a new working system. Of course, nothing is new. It’s just another way of looking at it or working with it. Now this is more for the teacher-student than the student-teacher. Get what that means? It’s going to get a little heavy or deep here, so “hold on to your hat.” This material is meant for the advanced student teacher and beginner course for the teacher student.

There seems to be basically two types of contemplative meditation. The first one sets the basis for the second. In other words it must be used first because it deals totally with the inside. The second deals with inside (inner) and outside (outer) as we know it or see it. So first we must start the day off by taking time out to reflect on the inner self. Once we are in this reflective mode, quiet and comfortable, close the eyes. We start recognizing that we are not our thoughts, but yes we are responsible for them. In other words we have all these thoughts coming in through to us.

Remember we are the “observer.” We allow them to pass. And in this contemplative form of meditation we acknowledge them and realize only some of them come from our selves. We are the center self who directs the thoughts and who then can choose to keep them or act upon them. And keeping a thought means it has some value to us, to our growth. If we don’t act upon it at that instant we can store it in our brain computer for later use.

Now where do these other thoughts come from? Many of our latter thoughts come from what we have to do in the day, who to meet, where to go, etc. These thoughts are more of reminders than anything. We let things go by us to be used later in the day. Now if we remembered to pray correctly to the God inside of us as mentioned in other chapters, then we could and should receive messages from our higher self, the God within. They must come in through the Holy Spirit who is the link and translator to the higher self, like a long and short distance operator.

When we are able to receive these thoughts which, by the way, are gentle in nature and not so loud, we should then recognize their source as coming from the higher self. These thoughts are harder to attain and to understand, so we must train ourselves to listen for them and to them when they come. It may be in a form of uplifting spiritual information or Truths that we would want to repeat and save. Don’t forget it before we store it in our memory. Or we may want to act upon the information given as soon as we finish the meditation or at some other point in the day. But it will always be useful knowledge or information and should come from the higher guide or source .

Now that we recognize these two sources we must soon recognize the third source, the lower self, the ego we talked about before. And he may not want to play our game at first because we prayed to the higher self or God within, and that’s okay because we don’t really want his input anyway. And when we tell him that, he will respond with something negative. Then when we receive negative thoughts we know where they come from, the lower self. So we have the categories. We see that we choose what or whom to listen to. We allow thoughts to travel through us and we choose to accept them or dismiss them, to act upon them or pass. The only judgment we have to discern is the source of our thoughts and if we choose to own them or not.

If it’s from the higher self we give thanks, and maybe we respond by asking further questions concerning the thoughts. If it’s the lower self, we should not own it but recognize where it comes from and let it go, disown it. But it’s important that we do this and say to our selves, “This is from the ego. I know his work. I do not want it or anything from him,” and that we only want to hear from the Holy Spirit and the higher self. We can ask the Holy Spirit to restrain the ego Now when we choose correctly the bells and sometimes chimes go off. We will feel and hear a humming or ringing in our ears, on both sides or one side or the other. As I said before, it’s a way that the Holy Spirit lets us know we have chosen correctly.

Now we know how basically the mind works, how we function within it and we understand that all and everything is within the mind. God is mind. The adjuster is within our mind. The Holy Spirit surrounds our body and mind with us as we are the mind and, for a little while longer the ego, which we created and can un-create, is in our minds as well. Our mind and self identity is the over controller, the one who chooses who to listen to or follow or create. Now everyday we make thousands of choices and/or decisions and we believe that it is our right as owner of the mind. We have the freedom of free will. So we go throughout the day judging and choosing to go right or left, up or down, in or out, etc. And sometimes we choose wrong, and hopefully most of the time we choose correctly. But when it comes to decisions we can get ourselves into big trouble, especially if we listen to the wrong ( lower self ) inner voice, the ego or anti-Christ.

So now we take our contemplative meditation with us in our daily activity. We have an understanding of how our mind works and we carry the information with us ready to be used when the time comes. It should be noted that we can write this down and carry it with us until it is memorized, because before we know it we have an encounter with someone and the ego jumps in and says to attack him or her back in words of retaliation. This is called judgment or offensiveness.

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And the ego is very loud and quick with this suggestion, but there is another voice that says, “No, do not attack.” Respond kindly with regard that the person misunderstood us. Now how are “you,” the perceiver, really going to respond? Who are we going to listen to, the higher or the lower self, the louder or the softer voice? We had our training and practice. Again I ask, “How do you respond?” We must remember, when we put ourselves above a person, we are then below them. Choose.

Now most of us many times respond in the manner, which usually gets us into some kind of trouble with the person or persons or maybe we learned to retreat or even say, “We’re sorry. You misunderstood,” if we have it right and the disagreement dissipates. The ego is happy if we loose and may even continue with his mischief. But if we stop and do what Jesus taught in the meditation, go off by ourselves and contemplate, the higher self will return and give us, directly or indirectly, the correct message, especially if we request it with sincerity by asking the Holy Spirit for help. Remember he is the long distance operator that is in direct contact with our higher self and is part of the Trinity,Spirit of Truth. Which means he can relay all our plea's to the father Michael and the Son Jesus

We don’t want to loose our energy by engaging in a conflict. No one wants a conflict. But if we don’t resolve it right then and there, in our mind at least, then it will follow us and bite at us. And the ego will bring up more things about how right we were, etc. until we have lost our peace of mind and our day is ruined. That’s why we should go off to our selves and contemplate, asking the Holy Spirit to guide us, and not making any decisions until we let the higher self make them for us. We now know the means to which to do this because we established it early in the day before we started.

This is what Jesus was trying to teach us. That’s why he went off by himself so many times during his day to contemplate and renew his energy and receive the correct decision from the one source and center, the God within him and us. When we can recognize this, proclaim and practice it, it will be of great value to us. But first we must remember who we are, as the observer with no judgment . To judge is to con-dim.

Just be in the now, and that’s hard to do. I know for it was very hard for me to do as well. It took many years of practice, but this new contemplative way is much faster. If we monitor our thoughts throughout the day in the way prescribed before and follow the ritual, we soon become aware of our thoughts and that some of them are negative. And when they come, we don’t own them but give them back to the ego or to the ethers. And when we get positive thoughts, we own them and give thanks to the higher self and the Holy Spirit for them.

The Holy Spirit will tell us by those signals I spoke of before when our thinking is not correct, or that we have a correct thought, one that will help us to grow spiritually. When we get the signal, a humming or ringing for the student teacher and a clicking sound of many variations for the advanced teacher students (I think it is some kind of language similar to dolphin’s clicking language), we need to stop what we are doing and try to remember the thoughts we had when we got the signal. And we will then own the positive thought. Then we must give thanks. In this way we will be guided during our day. And remember to stop as often as possible to pray and meditate, give thanks and then praise''

Now we are ready for the next lesson. Hold on now. This, too, is heavy. Not only do we have to stop making judgments and be in allowance and forgiving, but also eventually we have to stop making decisions. Stop making decisions? Some may say, “That will take away my free will, my freedom.”

Actually it will enhance it. How? Well, when we have an important decision to make we ask the higher self to make it for us. We turn it over to the God inside, and we can bet it’s the correct one. Same thing when we have a problem with someone or something. We turn it over to the Holy Spirit and higher self, saying, “Okay, take it from me. I can’t handle it anymore. I will follow your decision.” And we can bet the barn on it that it will be taken care of correctly and swiftly as possible. And the more we do this the more our lives will run smoothly. And eventually we want to turn over all medium and important matters to the Holy Spirit and the higher self. We will be busy enough to take care of ourselves in our daily routine of living. Also when the ego bothers us, we ask the Holy Spirit to restrain him of course we have to learn to forgive and forget as well.

Now by turning over all our major decisions to the higher self, we soon make less and less mistakes (errors) in our daily lives. And the more we do this, the more contact we make with the Holy Spirit, the quicker will be the response and louder until it’s an ongoing thing.

We create a dialogue that continues from the moment we awake to the moment we go to sleep.

He will even help us in our dream state and while we are sleeping. Sooner or later the direct messages from our inner guides will be heard in a language we can understand and someday, hopefully, we will each communicate with our eternal life partner directly, the God within, the thought adjuster. And his thoughts will some day become ours if we own them. He is our perfect guide and teacher and even he has a teacher that will teach us both when we become one.

It may take a lifetime or two or many but if we start now we can make it. With this new updated information and knowledge Jesus has brought down today, all of us can make it if we apply it. It takes some work. And what we put into it, we will get out of it. Now we have a proven method that works. “Thank you,” Jesus.

Here is a popular quote from Jesus in ACIM: “The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. Truth can only be experienced, it cannot be described and it cannot be explained. I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself”.