Podcasts about human will

Welcome to the Main Thing Podcast, your wisdom podcast. I'm Skip Lineberg and I'll be your host.   Twice each month, we bring you a concise, high impact wisdom lesson. Fresh insights and unique perspectives from the wisest people around.   Studying their wisdom and learning together, we all get a little better at life.   From Combat to Creativity - Rob Akers' Journey  In this episode, you hear from my good friend, Rob Akers. Rob is a professional pilot, a father, a husband, creative writer and combat veteran.   In this wide-ranging, intimate wisdom conversation, you'll hear about: What it feels like to be shot at while flying an airplane; How this brave man deals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and How the creative writing process looks from within the creative mind.   More About Our Wise Guest - Rob Akers Rob Akers is not a speaker, thinker, teacher, philosopher, intellectual psychologist, preacher or entrepreneur. Rob is just a regular guy who is trying to get through life by making his world a little better every day.   Rob and I recorded inside Parkwood Studios in Charleston, West Virginia.   Resources Rob's published story in Spurs & Six Shooters: Tales of the Old West on Amazon. Connect with Rob on Facebook   Credits Editor + Technical Advisor Bob Hotchkiss Brand + Strategy Advisor Andy Malinoski PR + Partnerships Advisor Rachel Bell Marketing, Social Media and Graphic Design Chloe Lineberg   Stay Connected with Us on Social YouTube @themainthingpod Twitter @themainthingpod Instagram @themainthingpod Facebook  @TheMainThingPod LinkedIn   Help Support and Sustain This Podcast Become a subscriber. Share the podcast with one or two friends. Follow us on social media @TheMainThingPod Buy some Main Thing Merch from our Merchandise Store. Buy a book from our curated wisdom collection on bookshop.org. Become a patron and support us on Patreon with funding.   Episode Chapters [0:03:02] - Being shot at while flying an airplane [0:06:07] - How Skip and Rob are connected  [0:06:40] - Rob's career in aviation; military service [0:09:56] - Rob shares his Main Thing wisdom [0:13:24] - Survival, love and the will to live [0:15:46] - PTSD, forgiveness and healing [0:18:19] - Importance of having a counterbalance on the aircraft and in life [0:19:14] - Rob pulls back the curtain on his creative writing practice         

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #123 -  Dune by Frank Herbert w/Daniel A. Bentle & Ryan J. Stout---00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Dune by Frank Herbert 00:20 Extracting Leadership Lessons from Dune.05:26 Dune and the Achetype of the Messiah Leader.12:01 The Leadership Training of Paul Atredies.18:08 Dan Bentle and Recognizing Leadership Lessons in Dune.25:19 The Literary Life of Frank Herbert.29:50 Dune and T.E. Lawrence. 34:07 Humility and Self-Examination. 40:54 The Way of the Gun in Dune. 43:28 Spice, Arraks, and Leadership Lessons from the Harkonnens. 51:07  Balancing Leadership, Distance, and Authority.55:48 Leadership Tension: Familiarity vs. Distance in Leadership Relationships.01:03:46 Duke Leo and Personal Leadership Failures.01:06:45 The Challenge of Finding and Being a Strong "Number Two."01:13:09 Interstellar Colonization and Human Will.01:15:45 The Value of Good Advisors.01:25:05 Defining Leadership Success.01:27:47 Book vs. Film - Dune, Part One vs. Dune, Part Two.01:32:29 Solutions to Problems at the End of the Fourth Turning. 01:37:51 Think for Yourself, Challenge Norms, and Seek Knowledge.01:43:05 Staying on the Leadership Path with Dune by Frank Herbert. ---Opening and closing themes composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.---Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON!Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list!---Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www.hsctpublishing.com/.Check out LeadingKeys at: https://www.leadingkeys.com/Check out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/Contact HSCT for more information at 1-833-216-8296 to schedule a full DEMO of LeadingKeys with one of our team members.---Leadership ToolBox website: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/.Leadership ToolBox LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ldrshptlbx/.Leadership ToolBox YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leadershiptoolbox/videos.Leadership ToolBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/ldrshptlbx.Leadership ToolBox IG: https://www.instagram.com/leadershiptoolboxus/.Leadership ToolBox FB: https://www.facebook.com/LdrshpTlbx.

In celebration of the recent Marian Festival of The Assumption, this week's episode will explore Our Lady of Marsat. She is a 12th century Black Madonna of the Church of the Assumption in Marsat France. This Madonna has always epitomized the main messages of Black Madonnas: Divine Will being transformed into Human Will. The episode explores the creation of the Marian Cult in France through a relic of the Assumption of Mary. Itinerary for The Black Madonna Tour of Northern Spain, October 3 - 17 2025  Transformative Darkness with The Black Madonna 2025 To receive updates on The Transformative Darkness with the Black Madonna 2025 Tour 2025 Tour Update Form To make a one time donation of any amount to support the podcast,  please donate to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BlackMadonnaHeart Become a Patron for the channel at https://www.patreon.com/TheBlackMadonnaSpeaks To purchase Black Madonna Speaks extra content, please visit https://www.patreon.com/theblackmadonnaspeaks/shop #divinefeminine #sacredfeminine #virginmary #ourlady  #blackmadonna  #anthroposophy #spiritualjourney  #camino  #pilgrimage #mothermary #spirituality #OurLadyofMarsat #Marsat #TheHolyGirdle #TheHolyBelt #SaintMartial #Gaul #France #PuydeDome #DormitionofMary #AssumptionofMary --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stephanie-georgieff/support

A new MP3 sermon from Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Prophecy Never an Act by Human Will Speaker: J. Robert Thompson, Jr. Broadcaster: Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/12/2024 Length: 51 min.

Michael Ruskin, was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the beautiful city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.  But that is not where is full story begins.  Michael is the youngest son of David and Dora Ruskin.  Michael is the last surviving member of his immediate family.  He spent most of his 40 year career in corporate Human Resources and private consulting and now is on a mission to share his parents' story to inspire others to live a life of love and courage through any difficulty they may face.  The Vow, A Love Story and the Holocaust is Mr. Ruskin's first book, but not his last.  Connect with Michael:thevowalovestory.comGet The Vow, A Love Story and the Holocaust Instagram: thevowalovestoryFacebook: thevowalovestory THANK YOU so much for listening!Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Instagram, and like us on Facebook!Shop LivGreater Tees, Hoodies, Crew Sweatshirts, and More!

FireproofSurviving the FlamesFireproof Your FaithPart 2Hebrews 11:1-       Faith is an Affirmation-       Faith is an Attitude-       Faith is an Act‘An Active Life of Obedience'1.    On Going Interaction with GodHebrews 12:2Psalm 78:32·      Human Wisdom·      Human Ways·      Human Will           Philippians 4:62.    On Going Investigation with GodRomans 10:17Psalm 119:18 3.    On Going being In-Step with GodLuke 6:46II Corinthians 10:5 Support the show

In 2014, while teaching a physical education class in Germany, a baseball hit Jill in the side of her head, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that took 70% of her vision and nearly her life. Before the accident, she was an athlete, teacher and coach who ran on trails, cycled and competed in duathlons. “After 26 months in hospitals, I felt lost,” “I emerged from the hospital a completely different person from how I arrived. I lost my eyesight, autonomy, car, apartment, work and residency permit. But one aspect of my life that remained the same was my passion and desire to be outside with Mother Nature.” During her recovery in Denver, she could glimpse Colorado's mountains from her hospital room, and knew she wanted to be able to escape into them. This injury left the fiercely independent and athletic Jill, forced to relearn many of life's tasks on her own, with impaired vision. Jill's long road to recovery and adventure spirit has miraculously brought her to peaks like K2 and she is the only Canadian female to summit 6 mountains above 8,000 meters. She aims to break down the stigma associated with traumatic brain injury, vision loss, and eating disorders. We continue to witness Jill's embracing the Human Will, the Passion that drives us, and the ability to live the life you want, even with excruciating obstacles. Sara and Jill talk about Jill's journey and her incredible courage. They talk about the Adventurous Spirit and the power of Mother Nature. You will hear about lessons learned and that Grief and Gratitude can walk hand in hand. Website: www.saraschultingkranz.com Social Media: IG: https://www.instagram.com/saraschultingkranz/               YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraschultingkranz./about Sponsor: Go to www.saraschultingkranz.com and use the code Live Boldly at checkout to get the special price of $39 for programs offered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the greatest challenges to God's total sovereignty over all things is the problem of evil. Is God sovereign over evil, and if so, doesn't that then make Him responsible for evil? In this last episode of this series, we'll consider this conundrum through the lens of Scripture itself to see what God's Word has to say on the topic. We'll also consider some important implications of this doctrine, and answer a few objections which were raised. Lastly, we'll also give you some recommended resources for further study. Recommended Resources: What about Free Will?: Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty by Scott Christensen Willing to Believe: Understanding the Role of the Human Will in Salvation by R.C. Sproul Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer What About Evil?: A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen The Potter's Freedom: A Defense of the Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler's Chosen But Free by James R. White The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Loraine Boettner (available for FREE as an eBook) Articles in this series: GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY | What About Free Will? BIBLICAL COMPATIBILISM | How Does Human Freedom & God's Sovereignty Fit Together? GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY IN SALVATION - An Exposition of Romans 8-10 GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY | Over Who Comes to Faith and Over Evil GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY | Implications, Objections & Resources ----------------- Consider DONATING to support the work of THEOTIVITY. Visit theotivity.com for more content. Sign up for our monthly email Newsletter to stay updated on all the latest content. Please consider sharing this episode and leaving a 5-star review on your podcast app to help us grow. Follow us at @theotivity on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Rumble).

Who's choice is ultimate in salvation? God's or man's? This is the question we'll be tackling in the second episode of this series. We'll be taking a look, especially at Paul's teaching on the topic in Romans 8-10 and also from the lips of Jesus in John 6. We'll also consider what other relevant passages of Scripture have to say on God's and our roles in salvation. We'll then contemplate what this means for us today as we reflect on our salvation. These are important truths for us to not just know, but also to love and to hold dear in our hearts. They are core to our assurance and comfort as believers. Recommended Resources: What about Free Will?: Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty by Scott Christensen Willing to Believe: Understanding the Role of the Human Will in Salvation by R.C. Sproul Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer What About Evil?: A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen Articles in this series: GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY | What About Free Will? BIBLICAL COMPATIBILISM | How Does Human Freedom & God's Sovereignty Fit Together? GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY IN SALVATION - An Exposition of Romans 8-10 GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY | Over Who Comes to Faith and Over Evil GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY | Implications, Objections & Resources ----------------- Consider DONATING to support the work of THEOTIVITY. Visit theotivity.com for more content. Sign up for our monthly email Newsletter to stay updated on all the latest content. Please consider sharing this episode and leaving a 5-star review on your podcast app to help us grow. Follow us at @theotivity on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Rumble).

If God is sovereign, then how can we have free will? This is a question that has puzzled Christians and kept theologians debating for centuries now. On the surface, it seems like a conundrum. Some argue that we must be totally free otherwise we would be like robots. Others have argued for a type of hard determinism that resembles pagan fatalism and fate. Many just throw up their hands in frustration. Is there any way we can know for sure? In this episode, we start a series where we'll be taking a deep dive into the mysteries of God's sovereignty and human responsibility. In this first episode, we'll start by clearly defining our terms and looking at what is meant by Libertarian Free Will and Biblical Compatibilism - two important phrases in this discussion. From there, we'll continue by looking at some important Biblical texts and what they clearly teach. We'll end off this series by contemplating what this means about the fact that evil exists, some pastoral implications and answer some objections. Recommended Resources: What about Free Will?: Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty by Scott Christensen Willing to Believe: Understanding the Role of the Human Will in Salvation by R.C. Sproul Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer What About Evil?: A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen Articles in this series: GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY | What About Free Will? BIBLICAL COMPATIBILISM | How Does Human Freedom & God's Sovereignty Fit Together? GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY IN SALVATION - An Exposition of Romans 8-10 GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY | Over Who Comes to Faith and Over Evil GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY & MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY | Implications, Objections & Resources ----------------- Consider supporting at THEOTIVITY.COM/DONATE Visit theotivity.com for more content. Sign up for our monthly email Newsletter to stay updated on all the latest content. Please consider sharing this episode and leaving a 5-star review on your podcast app to help us grow. Follow us at @theotivity on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Rumble).

Paul does his best Howard Cosell impersonation in “announcing” Richard Murray's “Cosmic Boxing Match” between “the Human Will” and “Jesus Christ” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 2 - Frances McAda x Shontae ScottOn today's episode, Brandon Rizzo and Dimari Swanagain talk to Frances McAda and Shontae Scott about growing up in the South, dating in Austin, TX, cultural appropriation vs appreciation, and more! Sponsors:Black Swan Financial Group - www.BlackSwanFinancialGroup.comJennifer Catherine Photography - www.jennifercatherinephotography.comCopyright Eleusis Media Group, LLC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2022 | www.eleusismediagroup.com | www.sidexsidepodcast.com @EleusisMediaGrp @RIZZOfeels & @JudahClan on socialTag #SidexSidePodcast to join in on the conversation! Theme Music by: Brandon RizzoChaptersTechnical Difficulties ForewarningIntroduction to the Show, What are we excited about?| 0:34Introduction of Frances McAda, Background, Work,  and Being Sober | 3:43Introduction of Shontae Scott, Background, Work, Passions, Growing up in Gautier, MS | 8:03Growing up in Slidell, LA and Gaultier, MS | 11:01What Brought Frances to Austin, TX | 13:48Relationships, Dating and Hookups in Austin, TX | 15:25What Brought Shontae to Austin, TX | 18:00Hanging out with the Girls and Astrology | 21:21Do Black People want to be in Relationships? | 25: 25Cultural Appropriation vs Cultural Appreciation , Hairstyles | 30:50White Privilege, Racism, and Slavery | 38:05White Privilege vs White Supremacy | 48:04Confidence or Privilege or Elitism? | 52:08Frances' Upbringing, Family Structure, Mental Health, and Childhood Trauma| 1:01:30Shontae's Upbringing, Family Structure, Step Dad, Self Determination | 1:05:01Shontae's Religion and Spirituality | 1:09:01Frances' Religion, Spirituality, No Connection to God, Manifestations, Satanic Church | 1:15:02Question Religion, Human Will, Faith, and God's Plan | 1:20:02Andy Weir (The Egg), Reincarnation, at Peace with Dying | 1:26:13Acid Trip, Universal Patterns, Marijuana vs. Psychedelics  | 1:32:13Will Smith Slap, Will Smith Trauma, Closing Remarks  | 1:37:08

What you'll learn:- How evolution plays a role in our current survival- Stories of survival from a shark attack survivor, a Mt. Everest Yak attack survivor, and a professional survivalist who willingly enters extreme situations... because he loves it.- How does fear play a role?On this episode, you'll hear from:Mikael Strandberg, Explorer, Documentary Film Maker And Motivational SpeakerLearn more about Mikael:  www.mikaelstrandberg.comFor daily updated news, go to:www.facebook.com/explorerglobal https://www.instagram.com/explorerglobal/Belinda Jane Dolan,  CEO Quantum Leaps, Survived a yak attack and clung to life on the side of Mt. EverestQUANTUM WELLNESS CEO, WORLDWIDEBelinda is the Happiness @ Work and Human Performance Expert, She is the Author of the Chief Happiness Officer Book. She has lived, worked and presented in 10 countries, advising, consulting and coaching some of the leading companies around the world over the last 23 years. Her PhD is in the Science of Happiness. She sits as a Board Director for four companies. Her nick name is Wonder Woman due to her Extreme Adventures to climb the 7 Summits and skiing to the North and South Pole to raise awareness for various charities. She leads our partnerships with a number of NGO's around the world to give the gift of education to children, women into business and fund mental wellness programs for youth.Follow her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindajanedolanShannon Ainslee, Shark Attack Survivor, Surf CoachFollow Shannon: https://www.instagram.com/shannonainslie/Dr. Ryan D'arcy Co-Founder of HealthTech Connex.Trained in neuroscience, neurotechnology, and medical imaging, Dr. D'Arcy also holds a BC Leadership Chair in Medical Technology, is a full Professor at Simon Fraser University, and a member of the DM Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. He has published more than 260 academic works, attracted more than $85 Million in competitive research and innovation funding, and been recognized through numerous awards and distinctions. Dr. D'Arcy is a 3X TEDx speaker, who speaks frequently on brain health innovations around the world.Dr. D'Arcy is widely recognized for co-founding the Health Sciences and Innovation initiative at Fraser Health's Surrey Memorial Hospital, which led to co-founding Innovation Boulevard along with the Health and Technology District (the District). In addition to his role as President and Chief Scientific Officer at HealthTech Connex, he also leads the District's BrainNET initiative to connect advances in neuroscience research to innovations in brain health.Learn More: http://www.healthtechconnex.com/

To Do List, Jesus Storytelling, Gail.com, Regrets, What To Do In The Morning, Politics, People Of Peace, Masterclass, Human Will, Social Tip, BONUS CONTENT: Dilemma Street…Confidence; Quotes: “It's not a revelation.” “God doesn't cringe when He sees us.” “There's so much beauty in the world to see.” “Everyday you should write down something you're grateful for.”

Iva Nasr grew up against the backdrop of wartime Beirut. Her childhood is weaved with stories of being nurtured by a loving family - buoyed by a supportive international community and exceptional education - and also contending with the very real, ever-present threat of violence as battles from the war erupted regularly around her. She shares the remarkable stories of experiencing the oneness of Creation, not only in spite of such a dramatic childhood, but perhaps even (at least partially) because of it.  In this beautiful episode, Iva generously shares inspiring stories of mystical experiences close to her heart. We explore many topics in our time together: The profound mystical experience in early childhood in a bomb sheltering wartime Beirut.  Finding her voice as she integrated into living in the US. Her work in North Carolina with Eustace Conway of Elizabeth Gilbert's book, The Last American Man, and the friendship which developed with Elizabeth through that. The roles of Surrender and the Human Will, and how these work together and against each other in the path of destiny. Creating your reality based on your choices. Check out Iva's work here: https://www.ivanasr.com and read her beautifully inspiring book, From Rifles to Roses.

Offering of the Human Will to the Celestial Queen Prayer"The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will" by Luisa PiccarretaLuisa Piccarreta Official Websitehttps://en.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/Buddy Comfort - vocals and guitar from the album, "Brother Sun, Sister Moon", http://www.buddycomfort.com, words and music by Donovan Leitch.For more information: drussell777@icloud.com Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/magi777)

Jason Ellis is one of my closest friends. He is also one of the greatest radio performers ever. With that in mind, It's strange that Sirius Xm would cancel his show unexpectedly. Being a special and resilient fellow, Jason is ready to grow bigger and stronger in the face of this challenge. This is a man who has beaten the odds with courage, grit and a shit load of crazy. Please listen to our conversation about dealing with trauma, insecurity, faking it till you make, and recognizing love. This is a truly special episode.

Listen In: This podcast is about Change leading to the pivot in life All human beings are no matter how much the change or how small the change. Life is a journey, and we are ever evolving in this journey. I refer to change as becoming. Your affirmation, your realization, your confirmation, the unspoken unrecognized commitment until human will kicks in and affirmation meets unbending will any you are unapologetically you in the best way possible. You are not accepting failure and making excuses. You are in pursuit of your belief system. unbending will in the pursuit of your new belief system, your new dream, your new goal, your new reality. Everything in life has a process and we as human being have always been and always will be a work in progress. It only takes one person to believe in this and that one person is you. Change comes slowly until one day it catches up to you, it catches up to your new reality you are changing. Now how we change is up to us. Positive change or negative change. Which way are you going, better yet which way do you wish to go Do you want to sink or swim? You Swim, You Survive, Human Will, change leading to Pivoting into your new normal life so remember everything has a process in life, and change is no different. Let Dive into the principals of change. Disclaimer: The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Listen to all episodes in season 1 here https://auspiciouswellness.com/pages/auspicious-wellness-podcast-evolution-from-ordinary-to-extraordinaryIf you would like to opt-in and stay connected to the Auspicious Wellness Coaching Circle, feel free to click the link below and signup. Sign up and stay up today as we release new coaching products, freebies, recipe demonstrations, announcements, and more. Click the link and submit the signup form. Let's stay motivated together. See you then https://forms.aweber.com/form/33/5949233.htm #podcaster #podcaster #DebraSmithTorrence #AuspiciousWelnessPodcast #BestPodcastonSpotify #WellnessPodcast #WomensHealthPodcast #SelfImprovementPodcast #wellness #Mindfullfess #anxiety #Stress #MotivationalPodcast Contact: 833-287-7424 Ext 700 Debbie Smith-Torrence​to

Human will has always been with us. It cannot perish, yet it has been suppressed over the years. What is this force that can lead you to your highest potential? If you want to be more driven and alive, you might enjoy this episode. (00:00) The Concept of Human Will (04:16) It's Very Hard to Deliver Powerful Material That is Almost Impossible to Misinterpret (06:40) If You Want to Enslave a Lot of People, You Might Want to Make the Concept of Will Unpopular Part 1 (10:25) If You Want to Enslave a Lot of People, You Might Want to Make the Concept of Will Unpopular Part 2 (13:50) Apathy, Indifference and Irony Instead of Will and Individualism (19:26) Shamelessness is Not Good Also (24:24) We're Losing Our Social Contracts Now (30:17) Goodbye

Does Jesus' Saving Work Violate the Human Will? Answered by Justin Perdue The post Does Jesus’ Saving Work Violate the Human Will? appeared first on Theocast - Reformed Theology.

Does Jesus' Saving Work Violate the Human Will? Answered by Justin Perdue The post Does Jesus’ Saving Work Violate the Human Will? appeared first on Theocast - Reformed Theology.

(Episode 3) JC Santana & Adam Brush (IHP Coach) Kicking it IHP StyleTalking about the Human Will

In today's Episode coached by Debra Smith Torrence, Charles A Thomas a personal trainer helping others to realize their physical potential, along with Irwin Harris a master of helping other understand the principles of discipline along with Many times we want to be more active and energetic but our mindset is not there to motivate us to move. Movement is one of the most important benefits you could have in terms of the longevity of the human body. Listen in and discover the bank of bones, yes the bank of bones.What do we need to deposit do we need to make to keep our bodies from becoming NSF N – is for No MovementS – is for StiffnessF – is for FractureWhat is the currency - nutrients. Understand the process of Human Will, Discipline, Movement, and Mobility. You never miss it until you lose it. Skeletal muscles contribute to maintaining temperature homeostasis in the body by generating heat. Muscle contraction requires energy and produces heat as a byproduct of metabolism.The muscular system of the human body is indispensable for homeostasis. Specialized muscle types evolved over millions of years form the foundation of systems that monitor, detect, communicate, and react to keep the body healthy and in equilibrium.Join in as we explain the Bones of the Body and Osteoporosis in Women and how to combat this afflicting disease,Click the link below to listen. https://auspiciouswellness.com/pages/auspicious-wellness-podcast-evolution-from-ordinary-to-extraordinaryDisclaimer: The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Listen to all episodes in season 1 here https://auspiciouswellness.com/pages/auspicious-wellness-podcast-evolution-from-ordinary-to-extraordinaryIf you would like to opt-in and stay connected to the Auspicious Wellness Coaching Circle, feel free to click the link below and signup. Sign up and stay up today as we release new coaching products, freebies, recipe demonstrations, announcements, and more. Click the link and submit the signup form. Let's stay motivated together. See you then https://forms.aweber.com/form/33/5949233.htm #podcaster #podcaster #DebraSmithTorrence #AuspiciousWelnessPodcast #BestPodcastonSpotify #WellnessPodcast #WomensHealthPodcast #SelfImprovementPodcast #wellness #Mindfullfess #anxiety #Stress #MotivationalPodcast Contact: 833-287-7424 Ext 700 Debbie Smith-Torrence​to

It Depends Not on Human Will or Exertion

The Interface between the Sovereignty of God and the Will of Man. https://www.anushjohn.com/post/the-second-stomachPhoto by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash

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Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals (1203.1) 110:0.1 THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship. (1203.2) 110:0.2 As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the Sons in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of an Adjuster to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Fatherlike. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvelous ministry of these impersonal entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets. 1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind (1203.3) 110:1.1 Adjusters should not be thought of as living in the material brains of human beings. They are not organic parts of the physical creatures of the realms. The Thought Adjuster may more properly be envisaged as indwelling the mortal mind of man rather than as existing within the confines of a single physical organ. And indirectly and unrecognized the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the superconsciousness. (1203.4) 110:1.2 I wish it were possible for me to help evolving mortals to achieve a better understanding and attain a fuller appreciation of the unselfish and superb work of the Adjusters living within them, who are so devoutly faithful to the task of fostering man’s spiritual welfare. These Monitors are efficient ministers to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and experienced manipulators of the spiritual potential of the human intellect. These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding you safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in your life everlasting. They are the watchful workers who pilot the God-conscious human mind away from the shoals of evil while expertly guiding the evolving soul of man toward the divine harbors of perfection on far-distant and eternal shores. The Adjusters are loving leaders, your safe and sure guides through the dark and uncertain mazes of your short earthly career; they are the patient teachers who so constantly urge their subjects forward in the paths of progressive perfection. They are the careful custodians of the sublime values of creature character. I wish you could love them more, co-operate with them more fully, and cherish them more affectionately. (1204.1) 110:1.3 Although the divine indwellers are chiefly concerned with your spiritual preparation for the next stage of the never-ending existence, they are also deeply interested in your temporal welfare and in your real achievements on earth. They are delighted to contribute to your health, happiness, and true prosperity. They are not indifferent to your success in all matters of planetary advancement which are not inimical to your future life of eternal progress. (1204.2) 110:1.4 Adjusters are interested in, and concerned with, your daily doings and the manifold details of your life just to the extent that these are influential in the determination of your significant temporal choices and vital spiritual decisions and, hence, are factors in the solution of your problem of soul survival and eternal progress. The Adjuster, while passive regarding purely temporal welfare, is divinely active concerning all the affairs of your eternal future. (1204.3) 110:1.5 The Adjuster remains with you in all disaster and through every sickness which does not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this marvelous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul. (1204.4) 110:1.6 Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners — mortal man and divine Adjuster. 2. Adjusters and Human Will (1204.5) 110:2.1 When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them the model careers, the ideal lives, as determined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, which have been certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Thus they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. You are all subjects of predestination, but it is not foreordained that you must accept this divine predestination; you are at full liberty to reject any part or all of the Thought Adjusters’ program. It is their mission to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will. (1204.6) 110:2.2 They are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence to the volitional selfhood of their hosts. No human being will ever be spiritualized by a divine Monitor against his will; survival is a gift of the Gods which must be desired by the creatures of time. In the final analysis, whatever the Adjuster has succeeded in doing for you, the records will show that the transformation has been accomplished with your co-operative consent; you will have been a willing partner with the Adjuster in the attainment of every step of the tremendous transformation of the ascension career. (1205.1) 110:2.3 The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it. Neither angels nor Adjusters are devoted directly to influencing human thought; that is your exclusive personality prerogative. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and co-ordinating your thinking processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes. (1205.2) 110:2.4 Adjusters work in the spheres of the higher levels of the human mind, unceasingly seeking to produce morontia duplicates of every concept of the mortal intellect. There are, therefore, two realities which impinge upon, and are centered in, the human mind circuits: one, a mortal self evolved from the original plans of the Life Carriers, the other, an immortal entity from the high spheres of Divinington, an indwelling gift from God. But the mortal self is also a personal self; it has personality. (1205.3) 110:2.5 You as a personal creature have mind and will. The Adjuster as a prepersonal creature has premind and prewill. If you so fully conform to the Adjuster’s mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds become one, and you receive the reinforcement of the Adjuster’s mind. Subsequently, if your will orders and enforces the execution of the decisions of this new or combined mind, the Adjuster’s prepersonal will attains to personality expression through your decision, and as far as that particular project is concerned, you and the Adjuster are one. Your mind has attained to divinity attunement, and the Adjuster’s will has achieved personality expression. (1205.4) 110:2.6 To the extent that this identity is realized, you are mentally approaching the morontia order of existence. Morontia mind is a term signifying the substance and sum total of the co-operating minds of diversely material and spiritual natures. Morontia intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local universe dominated by one will. And with mortals this is a will, human in origin, which is becoming divine through man’s identification of the human mind with the mindedness of God. 3. Co-operation with the Adjuster (1205.5) 110:3.1 Adjusters are playing the sacred and superb game of the ages; they are engaged in one of the supreme adventures of time in space. And how happy they are when your co-operation permits them to lend assistance in your short struggles of time as they continue to prosecute their larger tasks of eternity. But usually, when your Adjuster attempts to communicate with you, the message is lost in the material currents of the energy streams of human mind; only occasionally do you catch an echo, a faint and distant echo, of the divine voice. (1205.6) 110:3.2 The success of your Adjuster in the enterprise of piloting you through the mortal life and bringing about your survival depends not so much on the theories of your beliefs as upon your decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith. All these movements of personality growth become powerful influences aiding in your advancement because they help you to co-operate with the Adjuster; they assist you in ceasing to resist. Thought Adjusters succeed or apparently fail in their terrestrial undertakings just in so far as mortals succeed or fail to co-operate with the scheme whereby they are to be advanced along the ascending path of perfection attainment. The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be Godlike and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that overmastering desire. (1206.1) 110:3.3 When we speak of an Adjuster’s success or failure, we are speaking in terms of human survival. Adjusters never fail; they are of the divine essence, and they always emerge triumphant in each of their undertakings. (1206.2) 110:3.4 I cannot but observe that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more essential realities of everlasting import, those very accomplishments which are concerned with the development of a more harmonious working agreement between you and your Adjusters. The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a lighthearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth. Co-operation with the Thought Adjuster does not entail self-torture, mock piety, or hypocritical and ostentatious self-abasement; the ideal life is one of loving service rather than an existence of fearful apprehension.* (1206.3) 110:3.5 Confusion, being puzzled, even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the indwelling Adjuster. Such attitudes may sometimes connote lack of active co-operation with the divine Monitor and may, therefore, somewhat delay spiritual progress, but such intellectual emotional difficulties do not in the least interfere with the certain survival of the God-knowing soul. Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious resistance to the Adjuster’s leading can prevent the survival of the evolving immortal soul. (1206.4) 110:3.6 You must not regard co-operation with your Adjuster as a particularly conscious process, for it is not; but your motives and your decisions, your faithful determinations and your supreme desires, do constitute real and effective co-operation. You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by: (1206.5) 110:3.7 1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love. (1206.6) 110:3.8 2. Loving God and desiring to be like him — genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving worship of the heavenly Parent. (1206.7) 110:3.9 3. Loving man and sincerely desiring to serve him — wholehearted recognition of the brotherhood of man coupled with an intelligent and wise affection for each of your fellow mortals. (1206.8) 110:3.10 4. Joyful acceptance of cosmic citizenship — honest recognition of your progressive obligations to the Supreme Being, awareness of the interdependence of evolutionary man and evolving Deity. This is the birth of cosmic morality and the dawning realization of universal duty. 4. The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind (1207.1) 110:4.1 Adjusters are able to receive the continuous stream of cosmic intelligence coming in over the master circuits of time and space; they are in full touch with the spirit intelligence and energy of the universes. But these mighty indwellers are unable to transmit very much of this wealth of wisdom and truth to the minds of their mortal subjects because of the lack of commonness of nature and the absence of responsive recognition. (1207.2) 110:4.2 The Thought Adjuster is engaged in a constant effort so to spiritualize your mind as to evolve your morontia soul; but you yourself are mostly unconscious of this inner ministry. You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and the Adjuster. (1207.3) 110:4.3 Certain abrupt presentations of thoughts, conclusions, and other pictures of mind are sometimes the direct or indirect work of the Adjuster; but far more often they are the sudden emergence into consciousness of ideas which have been grouping themselves together in the submerged mental levels, natural and everyday occurrences of normal and ordinary psychic function inherent in the circuits of the evolving animal mind. (In contrast with these subconscious emanations, the revelations of the Adjuster appear through the realms of the superconscious.) (1207.4) 110:4.4 Trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. In due time, if not in this world then on the mansion worlds, they will give good account of their stewardship, and eventually will they bring forth those meanings and values intrusted to their care and keeping. They will resurrect every worthy treasure of the mortal mind if you survive. (1207.5) 110:4.5 There exists a vast gulf between the human and the divine, between man and God. The Urantia races are so largely electrically and chemically controlled, so highly animallike in their common behavior, so emotional in their ordinary reactions, that it becomes exceedingly difficult for the Monitors to guide and direct them. You are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co-operation that your indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. Even when they do find it possible to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolving mortal soul, this spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. Many a new religion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, imperfect, misunderstood, and garbled communications of the Thought Adjusters. (1207.6) 110:4.6 For many thousands of years, so the records of Jerusem show, in each generation there have lived fewer and fewer beings who could function safely with self-acting Adjusters. This is an alarming picture, and the supervising personalities of Satania look with favor upon the proposals of some of your more immediate planetary supervisors who advocate the inauguration of measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types of the Urantia races. 5. Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance (1207.7) 110:5.1 Do not confuse and confound the mission and influence of the Adjuster with what is commonly called conscience; they are not directly related. Conscience is a human and purely psychic reaction. It is not to be despised, but it is hardly the voice of God to the soul, which indeed the Adjuster’s would be if such a voice could be heard. Conscience, rightly, admonishes you to do right; but the Adjuster, in addition, endeavors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to perceive the Monitor’s leading. (1208.1) 110:5.2 Man’s dream experiences, that disordered and disconnected parade of the un-co-ordinated sleeping mind, present adequate proof of the failure of the Adjusters to harmonize and associate the divergent factors of the mind of man. The Adjusters simply cannot, in a single lifetime, arbitrarily co-ordinate and synchronize two such unlike and diverse types of thinking as the human and the divine. When they do, as they sometimes have, such souls are translated directly to the mansion worlds without the necessity of passing through the experience of death. (1208.2) 110:5.3 During the slumber season the Adjuster attempts to achieve only that which the will of the indwelt personality has previously fully approved by the decisions and choosings which were made during times of fully wakeful consciousness, and which have thereby become lodged in the realms of the supermind, the liaison domain of human and divine interrelationship. (1208.3) 110:5.4 While their mortal hosts are asleep, the Adjusters try to register their creations in the higher levels of the material mind, and some of your grotesque dreams indicate their failure to make efficient contact. The absurdities of dream life not only testify to pressure of unexpressed emotions but also bear witness to the horrible distortion of the representations of the spiritual concepts presented by the Adjusters. Your own passions, urges, and other innate tendencies translate themselves into the picture and substitute their unexpressed desires for the divine messages which the indwellers are endeavoring to put into the psychic records during unconscious sleep. (1208.4) 110:5.5 It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life. The Adjusters do work during sleep, but your ordinary dream experiences are purely physiologic and psychologic phenomena. Likewise, it is hazardous to attempt the differentiation of the Adjusters’ concept registry from the more or less continuous and conscious reception of the dictations of mortal conscience. These are problems which will have to be solved through individual discrimination and personal decision. But a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster’s expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity. Remember, the influence of a Thought Adjuster is for the most part, though not wholly, a superconscious experience. (1208.5) 110:5.6 In varying degrees and increasingly as you ascend the psychic circles, sometimes directly, but more often indirectly, you do communicate with your Adjusters. But it is dangerous to entertain the idea that every new concept originating in the human mind is the dictation of the Adjuster. More often, in beings of your order, that which you accept as the Adjuster’s voice is in reality the emanation of your own intellect. This is dangerous ground, and every human being must settle these problems for himself in accordance with his natural human wisdom and superhuman insight. (1208.6) 110:5.7 The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human’s almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster’s inner presence; it is indeed fortunate that he remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He holds one of the highly experienced Adjusters of his day and generation, and yet his passive reaction to, and inactive concern toward, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind of this versatile Adjuster is pronounced by the guardian of destiny to be a rare and fortuitous reaction. And all this constitutes a favorable co-ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquillity. 6. The Seven Psychic Circles (1209.1) 110:6.1 The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion. (1209.2) 110:6.2 The Adjuster is your equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles — the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first but progresses to the status of supremacy and self-activity quite independent of the active co-operation of the mortal mind. (1209.3) 110:6.3 The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self — the whole self — material, intellectual, and spiritual. (1209.4) 110:6.4 When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, such a situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leadings of the divine indweller. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function — when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development — that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first. (1209.5) 110:6.5 The Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being, to you. Circle by circle your intellectual decisions, moral choosings, and spiritual development add to the ability of the Adjuster to function in your mind; circle by circle you thereby ascend from the lower stages of Adjuster association and mind attunement, so that the Adjuster is increasingly enabled to register his picturizations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction upon the evolving consciousness of this God-seeking mind-soul. (1210.1) 110:6.6 Every decision you make either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster; likewise do these very decisions determine your advancement in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the supremacy of a decision, its crisis relationship, has a great deal to do with its circle-making influence; nevertheless, numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions, persistent repetitions, are also essential to the habit-forming certainty of such reactions. (1210.2) 110:6.7 It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression, for the reason that these levels are personal; they are variable for each individual and are apparently determined by the growth capacity of each human being. The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways: (1210.3) 110:6.8 1. Adjuster attunement. The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence proportional to circle attainment. (1210.4) 110:6.9 2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of circle mastery. (1210.5) 110:6.10 3. Personality reality. The degree of selfhood reality is directly determined by circle conquest. Persons become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence. (1210.6) 110:6.11 As the circles are traversed, the child of material evolution is growing into the mature human of immortal potentiality. The shadowy reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circler is giving way to the clearer manifestation of the emerging morontia nature of a local universe citizen. (1210.7) 110:6.12 While it is impossible precisely to define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of human growth, it is permissible to suggest the minimum and maximum limits of these stages of maturity realization: (1210.8) 110:6.13 The seventh circle. This level is entered when human beings develop the powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality. This signifies the united function of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal creature in the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Urantia, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth, together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind. Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature a truly potential citizen of the local universe. (1210.9) 110:6.14 The third circle. The Adjuster’s work is much more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle and receives a personal seraphic guardian of destiny. While there is no apparent concert of effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic guardian, nonetheless there is to be observed an unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development subsequent to the assignment of the personal seraphic attendant. When the third circle is attained, the Adjuster endeavors to morontiaize the mind of man during the remainder of the mortal life span, to make the remaining circles, and achieve the final stage of the divine-human association before natural death dissolves the unique partnership. (1210.10) 110:6.15 The first circle. The Adjuster cannot, ordinarily, speak directly and immediately with you until you attain the first and final circle of progressive mortal achievement. This level represents the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship in the human experience prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from the habiliments of the material body. Concerning mind, emotions, and cosmic insight, this achievement of the first psychic circle is the nearest possible approach of material mind and spirit Adjuster in human experience. (1211.1) 110:6.16 Perhaps these psychic circles of mortal progression would be better denominated cosmic levels — actual meaning grasps and value realizations of progressive approach to the morontia consciousness of initial relationship of the evolutionary soul with the emerging Supreme Being. And it is this very relationship that makes it forever impossible fully to explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the material mind. These circle attainments are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be almost as truly God-knowing — sonship conscious — as a second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme Being, universe citizenship. The attainment of these cosmic circles will become a part of the ascenders’ experience on the mansion worlds if they fail of such achievement before natural death. (1211.2) 110:6.17 The motivation of faith makes experiential the full realization of man’s sonship with God, but action, completion of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of progressive kinship with the cosmic actuality of the Supreme Being. Faith transmutes potentials to actuals in the spiritual world, but potentials become actuals in the finite realms of the Supreme only by and through the realization of choice-experience. But choosing to do the will of God joins spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action and thus supplies a divine and spiritual fulcrum for the more effective functioning of the human and material leverage of God-hunger. Such a wise co-ordination of material and spiritual forces greatly augments both cosmic realization of the Supreme and morontia comprehension of the Paradise Deities. (1211.3) 110:6.18 The mastery of the cosmic circles is related to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul, the comprehension of supreme meanings. But the qualitative status of this immortal soul is wholly dependent on the grasp of living faith upon the Paradise-potential fact-value that mortal man is a son of the eternal God. Therefore does a seventh circler go on to the mansion worlds to attain further quantitative realization of cosmic growth just as does a second or even a first circler. (1211.4) 110:6.19 There is only an indirect relation between cosmic-circle attainment and actual spiritual religious experience; such attainments are reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely spiritual development may have little to do with planetary material prosperity, but circle attainment always augments the potential of human success and mortal achievement. (1211.5) 110:6.20 From the seventh to the third circle there occurs increased and unified action of the seven adjutant mind-spirits in the task of weaning the mortal mind from its dependence on the realities of the material life mechanisms preparatory to increased introduction to morontia levels of experience. From the third circle onward the adjutant influence progressively diminishes. (1211.6) 110:6.21 The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level to the lowest actual contactual morontia level of self-consciousness as a personality experience. The mastery of the first cosmic circle signalizes the attainment of premorontia mortal maturity and marks the termination of the conjoint ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits as an exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes increasingly akin to the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe. (1212.1) 110:6.22 The great days in the individual careers of Adjusters are: first, when the human subject breaks through into the third psychic circle, thus insuring the Monitor’s self-activity and increased range of function (provided the indweller was not already self-acting); then, when the human partner attains the first psychic circle, and they are thereby enabled to intercommunicate, at least to some degree; and last, when they are finally and eternally fused. 7. The Attainment of Immortality (1212.2) 110:7.1 The achievement of the seven cosmic circles does not equal Adjuster fusion. There are many mortals living on Urantia who have attained their circles; but fusion depends on yet other greater and more sublime spiritual achievements, upon the attainment of a final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God as it is resident in the Thought Adjuster. (1212.3) 110:7.2 When a human being has completed the circles of cosmic achievement, and further, when the final choosing of the mortal will permits the Adjuster to complete the association of human identity with the morontial soul during evolutionary and physical life, then do such consummated liaisons of soul and Adjuster go on independently to the mansion worlds, and there is issued the mandate from Uversa which provides for the immediate fusion of the Adjuster and the morontial soul. This fusion during physical life instantly consumes the material body; the human beings who might witness such a spectacle would only observe the translating mortal disappear “in chariots of fire.” (1212.4) 110:7.3 Most Adjusters who have translated their subjects from Urantia were highly experienced and of record as previous indwellers of numerous mortals on other spheres. Remember, Adjusters gain valuable indwelling experience on planets of the loan order; it does not follow that Adjusters only gain experience for advanced work in those mortal subjects who fail to survive. (1212.5) 110:7.4 Subsequent to mortal fusion the Adjusters share your destiny and experience; they are you. After the fusion of the immortal morontia soul and the associated Adjuster, all of the experience and all of the values of the one eventually become the possession of the other, so that the two are actually one entity. In a certain sense, this new being is of the eternal past as well as for the eternal future. All that was once human in the surviving soul and all that is experientially divine in the Adjuster now become the actual possession of the new and ever-ascending universe personality. But on each universe level the Adjuster can endow the new creature only with those attributes which are meaningful and of value on that level. An absolute oneness with the divine Monitor, a complete exhaustion of the endowment of an Adjuster, can only be achieved in eternity subsequent to the final attainment of the Universal Father, the Father of spirits, ever the source of these divine gifts. (1212.6) 110:7.5 When the evolving soul and the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each gains all of the experiencible qualities of the other. This co-ordinate personality possesses all of the experiential memory of survival once held by the ancestral mortal mind and then resident in the morontia soul, and in addition thereto this potential finaliter embraces all the experiential memory of the Adjuster throughout the mortal indwellings of all time. But it will require an eternity of the future for an Adjuster ever completely to endow the personality partnership with the meanings and values which the divine Monitor carries forward from the eternity of the past. (1213.1) 110:7.6 But with the vast majority of Urantians the Adjuster must patiently await the arrival of death deliverance; must await the liberation of the emerging soul from the well-nigh complete domination of the energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent material nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters. The ear of the human mind is almost deaf to the spiritual pleas which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal broadcasts of love proceeding from the Father of mercies. The Adjuster finds it almost impossible to register these inspiring spirit leadings in an animal mind so completely dominated by the chemical and electrical forces inherent in your physical natures. (1213.2) 110:7.7 Adjusters rejoice to make contact with the mortal mind; but they must be patient through the long years of silent sojourn during which they are unable to break through animal resistance and directly communicate with you. The higher the Thought Adjusters ascend in the scale of service, the more efficient they become. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sympathetic, and expressionful affection as they will when you discern them mind to mind on the mansion worlds. (1213.3) 110:7.8 During mortal life the material body and mind separate you from your Adjuster and prevent free communication; subsequent to death, after the eternal fusion, you and the Adjuster are one — you are not distinguishable as separate beings — and thus there exists no need for communication as you would understand it. (1213.4) 110:7.9 While the voice of the Adjuster is ever within you, most of you will hear it seldom during a lifetime. Human beings below the third and second circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire, in a supreme situation, and consequent upon a supreme decision. (1213.5) 110:7.10 During the making and breaking of a contact between the mortal mind of a destiny reservist and the planetary supervisors, sometimes the indwelling Adjuster is so situated that it becomes possible to transmit a message to the mortal partner. Not long since, on Urantia, such a message was transmitted by a self-acting Adjuster to the human associate, a member of the reserve corps of destiny. This message was introduced by these words: “And now, without injury or jeopardy to the subject of my solicitous devotion and without intent to overchastise or discourage, for me, make record of this my plea to him.” Then followed a beautifully touching and appealing admonition. Among other things, the Adjuster pleaded “that he more faithfully give me his sincere co-operation, more cheerfully endure the tasks of my emplacement, more faithfully carry out the program of my arrangement, more patiently go through the trials of my selection, more persistently and cheerfully tread the path of my choosing, more humbly receive credit that may accrue as a result of my ceaseless endeavors — thus transmit my admonition to the man of my indwelling. Upon him I bestow the supreme devotion and affection of a divine spirit. And say further to my beloved subject that I will function with wisdom and power until the very end, until the last earth struggle is over; I will be true to my personality trust. And I exhort him to survival, not to disappoint me, not to deprive me of the reward of my patient and intense struggle. On the human will our achievement of personality depends. Circle by circle I have patiently ascended this human mind, and I have testimony that I am meeting the approval of the chief of my kind. Circle by circle I am passing on to judgment. I await with pleasure and without apprehension the roll call of destiny; I am prepared to submit all to the tribunals of the Ancients of Days.” (1214.1) 110:7.11 [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]

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