*            Lynda: Greetings friends, there is power in collective quiet and collectively looking inward, seeking stillness, allowing the hustle and bustle, the anxieties and fears, the stresses and concerns of the day to fall away, that you may experience the presence of the personal Father, the Mother, and our Father/Brother Michael. 

I am Lynda.  I would like to lead you in opening prayer of adoration and gratitude for the beauty of existence.  Please experience yourselves taking the hand of each around the circle, thumbs left, as you used to say. 

Mother, Father, Spirit God, we collectively, our students and this teaching mission staff here so gathered, wish to honor you and thank you for the stupendous opportunity to grow from a mortal babe, through childhood, young adulthood, maturity, into senior ages and then on to the mansion worlds where we continue to deepen our knowledge of you.  Our awe and gratitude grows ever larger as we come to know you better.  The worlds you have formed are awe-inspiring, from the intense material beauty that these our students know - rugged mountain peaks, beaches, verdant forests - to the morontia realms whose glory they have yet to witness.  We thank you.

And now, our students, we ask that you allow yourselves to slip deeper into the peace of the loving presence of our parents and that you attune your inner hearing that you may listen with full awareness.  These are my words for tonight.  I am your friend Lynda, pleased to have had this opportunity to share with you.  Good evening.

*            My friends, I am Aaron, here tonight to share with you regarding your forays into spiritual awareness.  We perceive the various efforts you make with an eye toward progress and the establishment of patterns that help you to slowly move away from circular efforts toward a more spiraling effect.  One stays largely on the same level, while the other ascends.  Each of you have witnessed in your lives those times when you have been, or feel you have been, going around in circles, not seeing much progress, and while it is true there are periods of stagnation, or paralysis, in your ascension patterns, generally you still are spiraling  upward, albeit  sometimes at a slower pace than others.  Remember that the recognition of growth is generally after it has occurred. 

As you look at the various elements of your day, your week, or whatever period of time you choose to perceive from, it may seem that your application ability to translate our words and encouragements is not as great as you would like to see from an ideal state.  Generally, this is okay.  Often dissatisfaction is the precursor to progress and progress takes time, particularly when encumbered by the distortions of a wayward planet that has wayward patterns of behavior manifesting.  The fact that you find the awareness dawning again about some place or area you would like to explore that you feel you have not satisfactorily done, is another signal that you are ready to ascend a little more.  So the dissatisfaction, or the acknowledgment of weakness, we actually see as a positive, for it is a signal that you are growing. 

It does not matter your age, your station in life, your ability to be highly active physically, mentally, or spiritually.  Progress is progress regardless of how slow or stunted you may feel it is in comparison to where you may have been at another point in your life, in your journey.  Ask yourselves the question as often as you can remember to ask it, “What can I do today that will put me on the path toward enlightenment, toward an understanding, toward expanding your mind, challenging your body.”  The Spirit Within is sure to answer and provide a cooperative exploration with you about what things you can do, large or small, to bring about movement on a spiritual level, helping you to continue the spiral effect. 

I hope these ideas tonight can provide you some thought toward recognizing the reality that the ascension plan never ends, and although you may find yourselves in different places of ability to explore at different stages of your journey, there is always something you can do to engage, to be part of the progressive push toward expanding the Supreme.

How are you each doing tonight?  Are there any questions or thoughts you would like to share?

Q1: Aaron, I was driving through the wheat fields with my grandchildren just recently, and they’re always asking me about my childhood.  When you said spiral - so as we’re driving through the wheat fields I said I used to drive the truck and we would empty it, and then we came upon an auger, a stack of augers and they’d just go up and up continually bringing the grain up and that’s the vision I had.  Thank you for that image of the spiraling tonight.

*            Aaron: Thank you.  And I must say it is a pleasure to witness you interact with your grandchildren.  It is a special relationship that they will utilize in the future, or fall back on, to help them explore beyond what you can understand or perceive at this time.

Q2: So Aaron, your talk brought up some questions for me because I’m not feeling dissatisfied, so I guess my question is whether my contentment is stagnation or if it’s okay to be kind of aware that you’re growing and doing and are content with it?  Is contentment a bad thing?

*            Aaron: There is a turn of the phrase I might use here, that “it is not an either/or but a both/and,” for although part of the dialogue this evening refers to the awareness of dissatisfaction as being a sign of the beginning steps toward growth, this in no way precludes that growth can happen in other ways.  The understanding, for instance, that you may not have pursued something you would like to have done, may be an isolated factor in a varied life, where the general pattern Is happiness and enjoyment of different activities and understandings that you have, while still acknowledging where you might want to be more diligent in other areas.  I know that none of you here are so dissatisfied with life that everything is a negative realization.  I am referring to the isolated awareness of some growth point rather than an existence of complete dissatisfaction if this makes sense to you.

Q2: Very helpful.  Thank you for the clarification.  I do have dissatisfaction, for example, in my inability to make stillness practice a regular activity.  So I’m on board now with what you are saying.