Thought Adjusters (study arc)
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Thought Adjusters was a 35-episode arc covered in 2015 and 2016 by Symmetry of Soul. It comprises six series covering six papers of The Urantia Book, from Paper 107 through Paper 112.
Some things to keep in mind
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- Studying Thought Adjusters carries danger if make the mistake of trying to grow yourself.
- We cannot cause growth. In humility, we are grown. Supply the favorable conditions for growth.
- This author confessed in 2016 how he's read these papers for years and always had wanted to do something to grow himself..
- These papers speak about apparently "actionable" steps we could take. But no!
- A "cookbook" of material steps to grow yourself? Careful! A dark, self-righteous path of thought is this.
- Don't try to wield your Adjuster. Don't try to hear the voice in your head. Patience.
- Can you trust that you are being grown toward the Thought Adjuster? Can you remain humble?
- "Whew! I am not the agent that is growing myself." This should come as a great relief to you, upon reflection.
- Character growth, not character building. See [Paper 143]
- The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed.
- The reason Jesus taught it this way is precisely because we cannot grow ourselves—cannot build a relationship with our TA. You can't. Thinking you can do so is dangerous.
- OK. I get it. But Favorable conditions: Is there something I can do? Consciously? Something simple?
- Think about the frog and the tadpole. [Paper 100]
- Loyalty is a favorable condition. You can do this in the moment, in any given situation.
- Humility is a favorable condition. Also doable in the moment.
- Sincerity is a favorable condition.
- Being just is a favorable condition. Be honest. Be law-abiding.
- Helps move you up the Levels of meaning, up to mercy and love.
- Patience is a favorable condition.
- So-called psychic circles are the closest the 5th ER comes to explaining one's growing relationship to your Thought Adjuster.
- The journey to the Thought Adjuster within is a cosmic journey—a philosophic journey—not fundamentally a religious journey.
- They are cosmic levels, not spiritual levels. So spiritual choice won't move you up through them.
- Yes, you choose to open yourself up to that growth. But your choice doesn't itself do the growth. Your free will can give permission to be grown.
- Moving upward also can be thought of as moving inward. The Thought Adjuster is at the center of those converging psychic circles.
- Still: can you be humble enough to avoid trying to figure out the inscrutable physics of the psychic circles?
- "What an adventure! What a romance!" [112:7.18] are very compelling words from a high Solitary Messenger.
- Even in the face of lofty prose, can you be patient, humble, loyal, just? Supply favorable conditions for growth? Avoid some "convulsion of fanatacism?" [110:4.5]
- Note the 5th ER's megastructure: Religious experience papers (99-103) are separated from the Thought Adjuster papers (107-112) by some very impenetrable material (104-106).
- We conclude this was by design, to impress upon us how deep Thought Adjuster concepts are.
- Even Thought Adjusters evolve.
- A Thought adjuster is still growing. "There is an -ing to a Thought Adjuster."
- Hence a Thought Adjuster can be in some senses thought of as an ascending son.
- Evolution is everywhere, even in them.
- Personality is a level of deified reality
- If there is a circuit, there must be a conductor. For personality, that conductor is deity.
- Machiventa Melchizedek received a TA [Paper 93], which later was the TA for Michael of Nebadon in his incarnation here.
- "Mentor of the flesh" used to describe the TA. Intriguing phraseology.
List of Series and Their Parts
| Series name | Episode page | Associated reading | Date of episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin and Nature | Part 1 | [107:0-2, p. 1176] | July 14, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [107:2-3, p. 1178] and [Paper 13:1, p. 144] | July 21, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [107:4-5, p. 1180] | July 28, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [107:6-7, p. 1182] | August 4, 2015 | |
| Mission and Ministry | Part 1 | [108:0-1, p. 1185] | August 11, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [108:2, p. 1186] | August 18, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [108:3, p. 1188] | September 1, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [108:4-6, p. 1190] | September 8, 2015 | |
| Relation to Universe Creatures | Part 1 | [109:0-2, p. 1195] | September 15, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [109:3, p. 1197] | September 22, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [109:4-5, p. 1198] | September 29, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [109:6-7, p. 1200] | October 6, 2015 | |
| Relation to Individual Mortals | Part 1 | [110:0-2, p. 1203] | October 13, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [110:2-3, p. 1204] | October 20, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [110:4, p. 1207] | October 27, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [110:5, p. 1207] | November 3, 2015 | |
| Part 5 | [110:6, p. 1209] | November 10, 2015 | |
| Part 6 | [110:6-7, p. 1209] | November 17, 2015 | |
| Relation to the Soul | Part 1 | [111:0-1, p. 1215] | November 24, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [111:1-2, p. 1216] | December 1, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [111:3, p. 1218] | December 8, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [111:4, p. 1219] | December 15, 2015 | |
| Part 5 | [111:5-6, p. 1221] | December 22, 2015 | |
| Part 6 | [111:6-7, p. 1221] | December 29, 2015 | |
| Selfhood, Death, and Survival | Part 1 | [112:0, p. 1225] | January 5, 2016 |
| Part 2 | [112:0, p. 1225] | January 12, 2016 | |
| Part 3 | [112:1, p. 1226] | January 19, 2016 | |
| Part 4 | [112:1, p. 1226] | January 26, 2016 | |
| Part 5 | [112:2, p. 1227] | February 2, 2016 | |
| Part 6 | [112:2, p. 1227] | February 9, 2016 | |
| Part 7 | [112:3, p. 1229] | February 16, 2016 | |
| Part 8 | [112:4-5, p. 1231] | February 23, 2016 | |
| Part 9 | [112:5, p. 1232] | March 1, 2016 | |
| Part 10 | [112:5-6, p. 1232] | March 8, 2016 | |
| Part 11 | [112:7, p. 1237] | March 15, 2016 |
