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Unbroken Communion with our Thought Adjuster
Ann Bendall, Qld., Australia
This really does not appear an overly complicated process; actually it is surprisingly simple as long as I decide right here and now to revert to about the level of a five year old child - an average, ordinary, five year old child, the perfect model for me to follow being - the child named, "Jesus." Emmanuel stated to Michael that he should only be concerned with unbroken communion between you and your Paradise Father while living as Jesus on Urantia. (1326) If it was good enough for my model of perfection it is good enough for me!
Of course the blocks to my reverting to Jesus-at-five-years-of-age will have to be removed first. For the main part these will consist of:
1. The illusions appended to my self-concept (ego) image of being an adult, intelligent woman. My birth certificate and the mirror confirm that I am decidedly adult. My mind assures me I am intelligent. It would be impossible to be so darned stupid at times if I was not intelligent; and sundry physical bits and pieces confirm my sex. So my self -concept is factually based in the material sense! But I am not discussing me-the-material at the moment. I want to be me-the-aspiring-to-be-morontial-spiritual. And so I work through my mind with an image of me (in the spiritual sense) as a little curly headed God-child playing in the sand pit with Jesus.
2. The illusions appended to my self-concept image of who I am as a person. These will be a little harder to remove because I have had much more experience than my model. He was literally five years old. He had had a decidedly healthy upbringing. Due to excellent parenting, Jesus was given the attention by his parents, such as most of us do not receive. They were dedicated and knowledgeable in their role, answering all his questions. They were actually a psychologist's delight, falling into the category of "perfect parents".
Jesus was provided with an environment to stimulate the development of his mind. He had many friends from a very early age. His play consisted of lots of time in his sand pit (wonderfully creative medium for experimentation and problem solving). He enjoyed drawing (good healthy mind stimulating stuff also), explored nature, examined flowers and star gazed at night. And all this while, in his dear little alter ego, he was creating a real as real image of God and developing a one-to-one relationship with Him.
Now, my parents did the best job they could, armed with their knowledge. I am aware that between them, me, and my life experiences to date, I have a lot of garbage to clear out before I can truly have Jesus teach me how to play in his sand pit. The Urantia Book tells me that "the fact of life comes first, its evaluation or interpretation later. In the cosmic economy insight precedes foresight". The fact of my being alive is beyond question. However the insight and therefore foresight is cluttered with lots of illusions. I must eradicate all of my interpretations of my life experiences and BE THAT LITTLE CURLY HEADED GIRL OF FIVE PLAYING IN THE SAND PIT WITH MY SAME-AGED FRIEND, JESUS.
To be true to my model I have to do one more task - I have to remove from my mind my knowledge of our Universal Dad, so Jesus can tell me what our Father is really like. And now we can play a game? He will teach me the rules.
Jesus at five was a pretty smart kid. He knew Aramaic and was starting to learn Greek. He was very much interested in religion; its customs permeated his whole life. When I was five, life was totally different from this. I put more effort into football, than learning to know God (and I was not really very interested in football). But now, with an "0" added at the end of my age I am trying to live life like him, so that I can be at the level where we can wander around looking at the flowers by day, gazing at the stars by night (1360). And he will teach me, with all of the creativity of a five year old, how to develop better communication with my Thought Adjuster. He assures me it is simple - just chat with God as I would chat with a loving father, having "a little talk with my Father in heaven" (1360).
Does this sound far fetched? Do I require a few glasses of wine before getting in the mood? I think not! How many times have I day dreamed of a true soul mate? How many times have lovely romantic songs like "Until the Twelfth of Never" stirred my emotions? How many times have I dreamed about a wonderful relationship with someone whom I could love, laugh and grow with, and never be separated from? The child, Jesus has shown me how this dream is a reality right now - for the person of my dreams is God. The relationship is with Him through my Thought Adjuster who turns my dreams of an eternal lover into a reality of my mind.
I listen to the young Jesus telling me of our Universal Dad and then he tells me something more. He reminds me that this is my personal relationship with our Father. Just as my human dad had different and unique relationships with each of my brothers and sisters, so does our Universal Father. Just as each person has a unique relationship with every other person that they know - so different that you could describe a mutual friend to me, with the utmost of honesty and that person would sound totally alien to the person I know. This is because we are interacting with that person on different levels of subjectivity (based on different degrees of illusion/honesty/reality). We are unique and hence so will our relationships with others (including God) be unique. God is the one constant. The relationship is personal
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