[tmtranscripts] 2/1/00 TOMAS - His World

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Transmission Date:  2/1/00
Location:  Butler, PA
Teacher:  Tomas
T/R:  Gerdean

TOMAS:  Good evening, children.  I am Tomas, your companion and teacher, glad 
to be with you to share this quiet evening in repose with one another, in 
company also with the many visitors who always enjoy our gatherings.  We have 
with us this evening a group of Morontia Companions and they have suggested 
that we entertain one another with stories about our experience so as to give 
your sense of spiritual striving a respite in accordance with the more 
passive energies of your environment.

My story, if you will, about my experience has to do with my native world, 
wherein I experienced the mortal life as a man of the realm.  We on our 
world, my native sphere, had what you would call severe climate,  sometimes 
similar to what you are experiencing.  Our temperature range was rather 
extreme, and we were able to establish ourselves and develop ourselves as a 
group of people, as pioneers, by intelligently learning how to control our 
environment.  In this way it was possible to apply ourselves in our 
advancement even though the climatic conditions may have been inhospitable, 
even uninhabitable.

Those of you who know me have some idea that I was a Cultural Anthropoligist, 
and I went into the realms of the world at large in order to observe the 
behaviors of the peoples inhabiting the realms outside of our structured and 
controlled civilization.  In many ways it was similar to those of you in your 
culture who enjoy the risk of the conflict of man against nature, for whereas 
I did not hang glide or mountain climb, I did run the risk of disease and any 
number of other dangers, by entering into the uncontrolled environment of the 
rest of the world where I studied and where I would stay but where I did not 
live.

The conditions in these unregulated realms were, for many of us, quite an 
adventure, like a safari into an entirely different culture.  And for good 
reason!  Whereas we lived almost entirely enclosed in our - what you might 
call "artifical environment", we derived great satisfaction from our soirees 
into the outside kingdoms.  The peoples out there would not have been content 
in our structured civilization.  They were very unruly and were disinclined 
to function as a team.  They chose the more primitive level of tribe and clan 
behavior, but we were always made welcome as a curiosity and tolerated in our 
research, while we were careful not to wear out our welcome and we always 
brought gifts.

Without going into my work experience, I would like to tell you a bit about 
my homelife and the homelife of those of us who had learned how to master our 
environment so that no matter what conditions were outdoors, we were 
protected from the severe cold of winter, the severe heat of summer, the 
torrential rains of spring, and the dry blasting heat of Autumn.  When we set 
ourselves behind superimposed walls, we created our own environment and 
discovered leisure time to begin to pursue our more spiritual interests and 
the art of living, including culture and scholastic studies and art.

Your contemporaries and you have been sampling the subject of retreat centers 
and getaway places or community environments in which your mutual interests 
can be promoted and extended.  We are interested in this trend for many 
reasons but I am personally interested in it because I can see, in many ways, 
that the lure of a controlled environment is what was necessary for us to 
launch our advanced civilization also.  It was not so much that we chose to 
isolate ourselves from our peers, no, for we were much like them, but for the 
fact that we opted to commingle with kindred spirits, adventurous and 
striving, very much like yourselves.

We are so adaptable, we who have been fostered from the material worlds.  We 
have made our way in, under and through such diverse environments and 
experiences, it is not hard for those of us who will, to find something in 
common with each other upon which we can continue to build and develop our 
options for a greater reality than the one which will give rise eventually to 
complacency and boredom.  The adventure lure is inherent in you for a reason. 
 It will advance you and your civilization into light and life very much as 
have those worlds which have already evolved to such a plateau of realization.

I have been aware that while I have been speaking, the mind of Gerdean has 
flashed on various movies she has seen, adventure movies involving jungles 
and bugs and crocodiles, and yes, Gerdean, it is as colorful as that, those 
areas I visited and in which I worked, but I was not the hero as depicted by 
your notable actor [Harrison Ford]. I was not nearly as debonair.  It is 
possible, in fact, that those of us who were less adventurous in the flesh 
were rather more adventurous in the soul, and that allowed for our great 
expansion, while some of us were also afforded an opportunity to revisit 
where we came from.  

And I tell you, I always marveled at the big difference between these two 
aspects of my native world, and I would not have changed it.  It always 
seemed appropriate for me that I would live in the more controlled atmosphere 
than in the more enigmatic existence of the natives.  And again, much of it 
was because of the climate.  The idea of spending six weeks in a cave or in 
an igloo does nothing for me, but I can be very happy enclosed in an 
environment of my own creation which includes all the technology and creature 
comforts that I am able to acquire by my resistance to the lure of the mortal 
adventure as it is lived by the evolving races in these early times of 
development, such as you know first hand.

Getting to know each other is always an interesting part of the relationship 
phenomena.  The saying is that "you cannot tell a book by its cover" and 
although there may be certain clues that give you a certain perception, it is 
also true that within each individual is a universe of uniqueness unlike any 
other, and inasmuch as it is the experience that we live for, the 
kaleidoscope of potential personality development and expression within each 
individual is truly incredible.

We are looking forward to your developing your communication skills such that 
you are able to stimulate each other's minds and hearts beyond your 
conditioning and beyond your correcting and into a new range of being.

I need to learn for myself a skill or two in the art of communication with 
mortals, for I have been your teacher for so long, in your time frame, that 
our relationship is fixed, if you will, in terms of mentor and student.  But 
there are many things to be learned in the social arena, and all of them are 
not administrative or exploitive.  I thus can ask you to tell me about what 
your understanding and perception is as far as adventure is concerned, and 
how do you find adventure in your human experience, in your realm today?

THOROAH:    Are you looking for an answer, an opinion, an expression from 
ourselves here?  Or was that rhetorical?

TOMAS:  Indeed.  No, I am attempting to engage with you in an art of 
conversation.

THOROAH:    Okay.

TOMAS:  I can elaborate to say that inasmuch as I have been your teacher and 
you have been the student, I can perceive that you would almost automatically 
ply me with further questions as to my environment and since I am not 
encouraging a teacher/student rapport but an art of conversation format, I am 
asking for your input and suggest that you might like to think about 
adventure, but you are certainly free to remark about anything you like, or 
nothing at all.

THOROAH:    Alright.  I think for myself there's a sense of adventure all the 
time.  I think I try to control my own environment, to a large degree.  I 
could be accused of being anal sometimes because of that, but it's almost as 
if I put myself in a state of comfort so that I can then get itchy and 
recognize adventure.  I must do this subconsciously because I have a history 
of being on the move.  There are various mitigating factors in being on the 
move, but that is my history.  I find adventure in a lot of things.  Engaging 
somebody in a conversation, a stranger, is an adventure.  Taking off in your 
car to go drop videos back at the video store in the middle of a snow storm 
is an adventure.

I've always been one to find romance, if you will - I don't mean Valentine's 
Day romance, I mean I find romance in a lot of things that people might not 
all find romance in.  It's probably part of my own self-entertainment system. 
 But I was curious as to why you studied, by the way, those outside of your 
society, if there was in your attempts to study them, ways to help them grow 
or improve their lives.  Was that part of your civilizations efforts? To 
civilize the rest of the globe?

TOMAS:  My work was through the auspices of our government. Everyone was not 
sent out.  I enjoyed the adventure, and even though I was not the romantic 
hero of your adventure stories of the day, I was at least enough interested 
in the cultural differences that I found the work fascinating.  No, we did 
not have an overt program of uplifting or enlightening, educating or 
furthering, those who were not within our walls.  

THOROAH:  Would your planet, in that status, qualify for the age of light and 
life?

To be continued.