CENTER FOR CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS
Larkspur, CA

Series on Mother Spirit
#3 of 3

ANATOLIA - MOTHER SPIRIT
March 27, 2003

Good evening. This is Anatolia. I greet you this evening with the love
and the devotion that our Mother is enmeshing this entire room within. As
you sense this presence, let your hearts be light. Let your soul be
uplifted in the security of the environment that you can live and breathe
and move in that is our Mother. Her actions qualify your capacity to
receive the divine information from which to lead a spirit-led life, and
renders you more socially fragrant to your brothers and sisters.

As you anticipate the gifts our Mother shares with you, you will come to
appreciate Her action within your mind, thereby making you more amenable
to allowing Her ministrations within you to change your actions and to
lift you into that realm where you begin to be more actively doing God's
will throughout your day. Hers is the action in your mind that changes
your comportment. Hers is the action of loveliness in helping you to
transform yourself from that ugly duckling that you sometimes feel, into
the beautiful swan that glides through life with effortlessness and grace
and beauty that captivates all who see it.

In presenting yourself before your Mother, she cleans you.  Just as your
human Mother delights in cleaning Her children, so does our Mother
delight in cleansing all of the hurts and wounds and dark places within
your mind that you dare not even go. But she likes to give Her children a
good scrubbing when they present themselves. And so all of your desires
to be made more beautiful in spirit are by Her action within Her mind.

Think now of those places within you that you feel still harbor specks of
dirt, or shadows of darkness. Do not be ashamed of them. Do not hide from
them. This is all a part of your pre-existing human nature, and it is in
there for a reason.  But you no longer have to be dominated or influenced
by these ill effects. So in your mind, find where that place is. Invite
Her presence in as the purifying energy of holiness and righteousness,
and ask Her and Her love for you to cleanse with light and love that
which is unlovely to you, and to make that beautiful in spirit. We will
spend a few moments in doing this. (Pause)

Mother, your children have presented you with themselves this evening.
They know that there are places within them that they still want to be
hidden. But you see beyond that. And it does not matter to you. So as
their willingness yields the opening and invites your presence into their
minds, so does your actions of holiness rain down upon them, cleansing
away all that is impure and unrighteous. And we ask for your grace now
upon these your children in the flesh. (Pause)

Let Her wash over your mind, like the Mother bathing Her child who has
spent the day playing in the dirt. Let Her wash over every place seared
by error, tinged by darkness. (Pause)

Your minds are gradually being purified of the erroneous thought forms
and ideations that have been distorted by the evolutionary process that
went awry on Urantia. No longer are these distortions welcome on this
planet. But it is only through the minds of spiritized men and women will
the distortions be expunged, for the identification of these false
precepts will no longer hold any influence over the thoughts or the
feelings of such highly Father-identified individuals.

Know that your mind is growing in the capacity to absorb spiritual
influence, and to be more fully dominated by the benign energies of love
and truth and goodness and beauty. I encourage you to never hesitate to
present yourself to your Mother in this fashion as you have done this
evening. For more and more will she cleanse you of the thoughts and the
feelings that have plagued you. And more and more will you find yourself
more desirous of thinking the way in which the Father would wish you to
think, and speaking the words of the Spirit of Truth, the words of
Michael. And behaving in the way Father would have you behave through the
influence of the Holy Spirit.

I will pause now and seek your comments and questions to further help you
appreciate Her devoted ministry in your minds. And if you feel so
inclined to share with me what you experienced during this exercise, I
would be most happy to hear what you have to say. Who would like to
begin?

Student referred to sadness and pain in his life, then finished with the
comment: I really enjoy having your gifts presented to us.

Anatolia: You have a devoted Mother, R. She has never left your side. And
although the abandonment that you have felt in your life has been genuine
in the human terms, there always has been something within you craving
for that spiritual connection that is a quality of the Mother Spirit
down-grasped within your mind. And now that you know that you have a
Spirit Mother who loves you, what do you find is the significance this
means for your life at the present moment?

Student expressed an awareness of greater connection with the helping
powers in the universe.

Anatolia: You will find in the days to come a greater impetus in you to
purge the destructive feelings that you have had within you more
fervently. Know that your Mother will purify of all of these feelings
that have plagued you. You only need to call on Her and ask for your
bath. She will bring the soap and Her wonderful tender but efficient
scrubbing hands. (Thank you.) You are also to be thanked for your gifts
of faith and for your efforts at perseverance. Never lose hope and faith,
my friend. They are serving you very well. Indeed, they are transforming
you even as we speak.

Student: Anatolia, I've been working recently on improving things on the
material plane, such as physical health, financial health and an improved
residential situation. I realized tonight that the practical balance
needed to succeed in this material realm is largely a result of the
Mother's efforts. Although the Father's will and design of the
individual's destiny path and personality are present, and Michael guides
us through this process and is an inspiring example, it is the Mother who
clears away the blocks that create all kinds of aggravation.

I can now appreciate the greater reality and significance of the role our
Mother plays in our lives. I am grateful to Her, and ask Her for whatever
she wants to accomplish in my life.  I thank you for your communication
that allowed me to put that piece togetHer tonight.

Anatolia: Can you sense now within you a swelling of efficiency of life?
Do you understand what I mean by that terminology?

Student: At least partly. What I was focusing on during the silence was
the clearing away of obstacles keeping all of those realms of practical
materials from functioning efficiently and being fully effective. So
perhaps you were referring to that?

Anatolia: It is. Once those obstacles are removed, your life proceeds
forward with more buoyancy and energy and a greater capacity to do things
productively. Those goals you set for yourself can proceed apace, because
your mindal environment has been adapted more according to God's laws and
to God's plans.

There is a marvelous compactness to this energy that helps you stay
focused on what you must do to achieve that which is part of the plan for
your growth.  It is, as you say, keeping you on the straight and narrow;
and you find more enjoyment in leading a life that has this definition to
it. I am presenting this to you as an idea that I know you will grow into
in time, as you are already beginning to glimpse the marvelous level of
coordination progress that underscores her efficiency in bringing the
universe into a state of being that is in accordance with the Father's
plan.

More and more you will come to identify with this. And as you identify,
pray to live in this way, and you will find a life that is highly
productive and highly enjoyable. Has this stimulated an interest in you?

Student: Most definitely. I think I had a preview of that earlier this
week when there was a possibility of getting a little sailboat that I
would live on in a very compact manner that was completely set up for
cooking, eating, sleeping, and so forth. It didn't happen, but I smile
because I sense that the experience was a gift from Michael, based upon
his having been Jesus, a master ship designer and builder. The boat that
someone was thinking of offering me may have been one of his designs. I
link all of that to the Mother, because this particular opportunity was
of the material plane.

Anatolia: Rest easy in Her embrace. Ask for your life to become more
effective and efficient, and She will create that environment within you
for this to occur. You have Her assurance on this.

Student: Anatolia, what came to me was a problem I've been having the
last couple of weeks. One of the benefits, is getting in touch with
emotions again and not being afraid of them, and trusting that this is a
good thing. And recently I've been very uncharacteristically kind of
short-tempered. I yelled at someone in traffic the other day, which I
usually don't do.

As I become more emotional, anger and some other things are much closer
to the surface. At first I thought it was just going to take a lot more
of rigid self-control. But this evening I got a notion of an even better
and more efficient way of doing this. It's just through a generosity of
spirit. When rushed in traffic and someone cuts you off, the best way to
get rid of that anger is to go way out of your way to be generous with
the next person who wants to go in front of you, or whatever. Just ground
the anger and evaporate it through generosity. Just give it away. So I'd
like your comment on that. It seems to me this is a better way to go
about handling this excess emotion that won't just be stifled again.

Anatolia: You have made a significant advancement in your understanding
of how to deal with problems of life as they come your way. There is an
idea in your culture of self-control that when a situation occurs and it
makes you angry or frustrated that you do not register the emotion. You
try to control it, as you say, by not letting it affect you. This, my
friend, is somewhat of a counter-productive move on your part. For you
are not expressing this emotion genuinely. But yet the idea of
self-control is valid, and we cannot have a world where people simply
react out of their angry emotions, now can we?

So then, what becomes the stimulus for self-control, if you are then to
acknowledge what you feel as genuine? It is to go into a still state of
mind and ask for that which the Father has to give you and wants you to
react, to replace what you are feeling. You will always be given
something of patience and understanding, and something of a more positive
nature that has the capacity to absorb what you are feeling as the
negative emotion.

Thereby you are expanding your capacity to feel greater empathy and
compassion for the individual who angered you in the first place. You are
gaining greater mental and spiritual habits to handle the situation in
the future. By just trying to exercise self-control on your own will not
afford you the level of skill and advancement you need that would put you
in the place of a very negative situation and let you handle it with
great poise and spiritual grace that was so exemplified by our Master.

And so what you are experiencing now is the capacity to genuinely feel.
But the question then becomes: How will you manage this emotion? Do you
try to control it on your own, or go into your spirit and say: 'This is
what I feel. What is it that You want me to experience now?' And thereby
you are increasing your capacity to act in a God-like manner. Does this
help clarify your awareness now?

Student: Yes. It strikes me as the way out of so many problems and
stressful situations. I think a lot of them happen to let it help us to
accept the notion that a good part of this problem is that we are
somewhat asleep, when the way out of this problem is just action and
reaction on a physical level. The way to get out of that is to wake up
and create. This is what you are saying, Anatolia, I think. This puts you
in this increased capacity where you've got to grow, you've got to wake
up, you've got to create a way out of this. You are using your God-like
personality, which is enjoying the Father's power of creativity and make
something new happen.

Anatolia: The Father has the plan, the Mother brings forth the creative
process. And so what you are implying in this is that you must awaken to
the joy of living in the ways of Spirit. And this is so. But how do you
awaken, if you do not even know there is something to embrace as you rise
from your slumber? What is the alarm that awakens you to this
possibility?

Student: To me it's twofold. Part of it, I think a critical part, is
accepting the responsibility, the ability to respond. If you are in a
negative situation you are co-creating it. It breaks the projection that
it is always someone else's fault. Then, Anatolia, you were pointing out
something that I forget, which is to call upon this other power of
Michael or Mother or the Father to help.

Anatolia: Why would you want to do this on your own, when the help is so
readily available and so lovingly rendered to you? Why would anyone wish
to deprive themselves of this wonderful assistance. It is because they do
not know it is there, or they are only trusting it at very rudimentary
levels. So what you are learning, my friends here is all the process of
growing your faith. And the more you present yourselves to your [end of
side one of tape] so must you, too, start out as spiritual infants and
learn and grow under the watchcare and gentle impressions that your
parents in spirit make upon your mind. And this is so, this is what
occurs each time you present yourself to them.

More and more the world is growing hungry for these experiences. Share
your experiences with your friends, for they, too, are hungry for this.
And even though they may not truly appreciate the words you say, the seed
of truth that you planted could be the actual alarm bell that awakens
them from their spiritual slumber, to seek this more actively in their
lives.  Do not hold back sharing these experiences, my friends. Ask for
the opportunity for this to happen, and let the Spirit of Truth sing
through your soul the joy of the love of being a child of these wonderful
parents who love you so exquisitely and perfectly.

Student: Thank you again, Anatolia. It is always delightful.

Anatolia: You are most welcome. (Pause)

Student: Anatolia, I would like to ask you a question about the realm of
Mother Spirit. It has to do with the process I've heard about that is
referred to as 'kything' where one individual contacts another individual
in a faraway place, for the purpose of sharing their love and their life
with that one. I never heard of this before. Is this a process that is
made available to us now through the Mother Spirit?

Anatolia: As you know from your text, the mind operates outside of the
conditions of time and space. Do you think then this could be possible
under those circumstances?

Student: My faith tells me and my understanding now tells me that it
certainly is possible. And I hope to attempt this experience. I'm just
trying to understand if the Mother Spirit is part of this process, which
I would have to presume she would be.

Anatolia: Is this not an exchange from mind to mind?

Student: Yes it is. It is an exchange of motivation and loving another.

Anatolia: And is not the Mother Spirit the universe mind? (Yes, she is.)
Then what do you think my answer would be to you?

Student: You know how us mortals are. We always need a little
reassurance. These wonderful gifts are now becoming open to us-open to
me-the beauty and wonder that is possible.

Anatolia: But my friend, you have a mind and you have the capacity to
think and to correlate ideas. And this is a wondrous gift that you have
been given by our Mother to take these thoughts and to find the
correlation and the coordination within them that is the domain of the
Mother:  to help you take facts that you perceive, and to associate new
meanings, and thereby assess and see deeper into the values of them. And
so you see the fact that a thought is a component within the
consciousness, and it is 'minded'. And when you bring intention to
sharing love with another person, is that not then, adding meaning to the
fact of mindal association?  And then, if you sense that in sharing this
communication with another person that you would feel love and tenderness
and a bond that was very satisfying in your soul, would that not add more
value and depth to your life?  And so, when you approach an idea in this
way, I encourage you to begin to engage your spiritized intellect in
going deeper into the associated meanings and to have an experience that
will add the value to what have identified through the correlation of the
facts.  Do you understand what I am suggesting to you?  (Student:  Yes, I
do.) 

In this way you will gain more confidence in your capacity to use your
mind in a productive and highly unified way that is the antecedent for
true wisdom to prevail; the wisdom that comes through your mind at its
apex of spiritized thinking.  And you are growing a capacity to do this
now.  I encourage you to step out onto that realm where you render
yourself less desirous for corroboration from an external source, whether
it is human or celestial, and coming into that place within that teaches
you how to use your wisdom circuitry that is an endowment of the Mother
Spirit, and to gain more of the effectiveness in your own capacity to
think at the highest levels.  Has this stimulated something within you
this evening?

Student:  Well, I think you know it has.  Yes, I hear you very loud and
clear. I appreciate your words of wisdom.  It is good to hear these
things again and again and to take the next step.  I would also like to
share with you my feelings on tonight's lesson.  I will call on my Mother
for a good scrubbing at least once a day to clean out those areas.  A lot
of sadness and pain seems to prevail at least deep down in my heart.  I
need Her to remove the shackles of the lack of self-confidence so I have
the lightness of being my mind is capable of.  That's what my experience
has been this evening.

Anatolia:  Each day let her bathe you in Her light.  And let the waters
of Her love remove all of the grime that you still feel within you.  And
each day as you present yourself to Her, the water that receives the dirt
of error, shame, anger will become less polluted, until one day when she
bathes you, the only water that you will be in continually is clean and
clear, reflecting and receiving light, and you feel clean and clear
inside, and you know no more of those scars nor any emotion that you
would consider detrimental to your spirit.  This will happen, my friend,
and you only have to present yourself, as you say, once a day for your
scrubbing, and She will make you clean and smell so sweet, just as that
newborn baby smells after she has been bathed. 

Are there any more comments before we conclude this evening? 

Student:  Anatolia, Welmek spoke to me about meditation and keeping a
spiritual diary which I find useful.  How can I get deeper into my
meditation? I've been unable to fight off some of the restlessness; how
can I control this more?  I would like my meditation to stay with me more
of the day.

Anatolia:  What you are experiencing is quite normal and part of the
growing interest in continuing to be on the path of spiritual living.
There is a distinct imbalance at this time between the ability to stay
connected to Spirit after your stillness is over, and your desire to live
in this state, is this not so? 

Student: Yes, I do get caught up in the busyness of the day.

Anatolia:  This is an important consideration for this imbalance does
serve the purpose of acting as the stimulus for you to continue to seek
out times of quiet meditative communion with your Spirit Source.  If you
lived in this state all of the time, you may not have the necessary
desire to continue to grow.  And so there are lessons that you must learn
that are underscoring this imbalance, so that you will continue to seek
out times of meditative reflection.  You will find that as you spend more
time in this state of stillness, more of the imbalance growing within you
as you seek to prolong these phases of connection.  But this is not
something you can arbitrarily control on your own.  You must allow the
necessary time to evolve and the necessary conditions within your mind in
the various levels of your consciousness to reconfigure around this idea
of being connected to Spirit throughout the day.  You cannot control
this-it must happen naturally and gradually over time.  The question now
to ask yourself is 'can I be comfortable with this process and trust that
it is working on my behalf, and to stay the course and now lose patience
because I am not feeling all of the connection that I want at this time?'
 This is the pivotal question now to ask. 

Student:  I feel committed to growing spiritually and staying on a path
and knowing that the difficulties will make me more determined to try
doing better.

Anatolia:  I would only suggest that when you feel this frustration swell
within you, take a good five minutes, if you can, to breathe deeply and
to tell your mind to be still and to open your heart in finding this
desire to be with your Spirit Source and to ask that to open and feed you
now.  Say to your Mother and Father in Spirit, "I am ready to receive
your love and guidance."  You will find that once you begin to do this
for these short breaks throughout the day, your capacity to receive this
will increase dramatically because you will have begun to train your mind
to respond.  And this is a spirit habit that you are now cultivating that
will move you from moment to moment in between those times from your
major or prolonged meditative states of mind.  Practice these short
intervals for three to five minutes as much as you can through the course
of the day.  Then I would like to hear your feedback, or you may present
that to Welmek, on how you feel this is facilitating your overall
capacity to receive the blessings Spirit has in store for you.  Does this
help you?

Student:  It sounds like very valuable and prudent advice that is also
very doable.  I will definitely try it.  Thank you for answering my
question so completely.

Anatolia:  You are very welcome.  My friends, pray that the bath of light
that Mother washes this world in to continue to find those places of
darkness and to wash all of the evil, poverty, depravity completely
away-expunging every shadow of darkness, every echo of sin.  Let us join
hands as we pray and ask for Her encircuitment of this world in Her
light.  Hold now before you in the center of the room the planet that we
call Urantia, Mother Earth.  See how fragile, how beautiful is this
world.  See now the impressions of wounding and scarring as we call forth
from the very center of Nebadon the Spirit of our Mother. 

Mother, may your holiness pour forth on all the places we see that are
scarred or openly seeping the blood of war, the woundedness of soul.
Pour down upon this world your love, your healing balm.  Bathe each soul
with your light.  (Pause)  Instill the peace of Michael upon this planet
as you weave your love around all of the minds and hearts, trees, rocks,
animals, flowers, vegetation, all life forms, all inanimate objects
receive your embrace.  This is Michael's world.  Make this world a fit
place for Him to be received in holiness and purity, preparing the way
for your children to come into a deeper relationship with you and Michael
and in knowing the Father in Paradise in bringing His will to this world.
 

In closing may Her blessings be upon you this evening.  As you go to your
homes, think of Her this evening.  Ask to be knit within Her being as you
fall asleep.  Ask Her to knit you deeply, firmly, safely within Her
being.  You are well loved, my friends.  Rest easy in this assurance and
wake renewed and refreshed as begin your day consecrating your life to
doing the will of those who love you in perfection and divinity.  Good
evening.