[tmtranscripts] 02/16/03 Rio Ranch NM TeaM

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Date:   February 16, 2003
Location:   Rio Rancho, NM, USA  
            Ann (Myra) and Don Henry's home

Teachers:   Michael and Tomas
Topics:     Relationship - top to bottom, length to breadth, inside to out
        What God wills and what God allows
        Finding Value outside your own-will-self
        From lack of love to fullness of love
        The Great Message of the Presence of God Within
Q&A:    Tension:  Peace de Resistance
        When to Rest your Head on your Desk, and Why
        You must be who you Are to be all that you can Be

T/R's:      Gerdean (for Tomas), Matthew (for Michael)
Music:      Elena on piano playing "Holy, Holy, Holy"

Prayer:  (Mathew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus the Christ.

Master Teacher, 
We come to your presence in expectation and openness to your teachings and 
your unconditional love, and as we continue along in our journey, to be 
unconditional lovers, we ask for your grace and the grace of the Holy Spirit 
and our Father God to be alive and well within our increasing consciousness 
of all of your presences.

We ask for a resolution to the world conditions as they are for enlightenment 
and growth and encouragement of your presence and the will of our Father in 
our lives, individually, collectively, and that when that happens in and 
among most to all of us, we will know that the new age is here, that Life and 
Light has begun, and that the completion of life as we know it is being 
fulfilled.

The teachers that are with us today, we welcome, and ask for your direction 
as to their message to us, that it will continue to be, and encourage us 
along the way of life everlasting in love with you and our Father and the 
Holy Spirit forever. For all intentions in our hearts that are not spoken, we 
place them before you now in trust. and ask for all that has been said. Now 
and always, we are grateful. Amen.

Gerdean:  Tomas is here.

Matthew:  Welcome.
Elena:  Hi, Tomas.

TOMAS:  Hello, child. Good afternoon, friends, loyal students of Truth, 
Beauty and Goodness.  It is, as always, a delight to congregate with you and 
to enjoy your lives as you present them to each other and to us, on high.

How charming is your home, Myra. Your loving environment is a testimony to 
your own beauty and the spaciousness of your heart.

"Relationship" is our topic today, if I can coordinate the relationship 
between my mouthpiece and myself.

The idea of 'Relationship' is something that appeals to everyone, for 
everyone is a part of 'Relationship.' Indeed, all things are related. No man 
is an island. All of us are part of the Universe and in the Universe are many 
compositions of other, not necessarily lesser, relationships. 

The relationships you share in your grouping, is another universe -- this one 
rich beyond compare because of the constitution of you each and what you 
bring to the Relationship of the community. Within your community are yet 
more and separate relationships:  those private relationships between 
couples; those one-on-one relationships, parent-child, husband-wife, friend 
and friend, which contain their own unique element of Truth, Beauty and 
Goodness. And even deeper into infinity is the I Am relationship you share 
with Infinity itself -- the creation to the Creator - the Source of all 
relationships.

That Divine Source of All-That-Is relationships in creation is the secret to 
successful relationships. When relationships run amuck, when families 
disintegrate, when communities are at odds and when countries are at war, you 
may be convinced there is a Disassociation from the Source. How can that 
happen when God is all powerful?  How is it possible that relationships can tu
rn sour, that families fall apart, or that communities become alienated and 
countries go to war?  It would seem that, individually, everyone has a 
personal relationship with their God, that which they believe in, that which 
they hold up as being worthy of the worship of all others, and thus it would 
seem the conflicts are all part of the Divine Plan.

But this is only relatively true for there is free will. There is always the 
way of self-will, which will usurp God's will. There are many who say that 
God smiles on these behaviors, he sanctions them and, therefore, they are a 
part of his will. But I say to you, the fact that he 'sanctions' certain 
behaviors is not that he gives them blessing, no, but that he 'allows' them 
to happen so that you may learn from your own mistakes.

I am here to point out today that the 'Relationship' issue is the same issue, 
whether it is the conflagration taking place now in your battle lines being 
drawn as it is in the intimacy between lovers.  The Divine will is set aside 
in order for the human will to experience the necessity of yielding to the 
Divine will.  'War' even occurs in one individual mind when he is in conflict 
with his own values, when he is setting aside that which was for that which 
could be. The process of revelation requires letting go of an old way to 
embrace a new way. It requires letting go of the concepts which 'were' in 
order for the concepts which 'may be,' to come into being.

The battlefield is bloodied, figuratively and literally, when the parties to 
the conflict are unable to surrender to the Divine will as a resolution of 
the conflicts at hand.  It is in becoming indifferent to, or alienated from, 
the Divine vantage-point that results in those conflicts which interfere with 
loving relationships. The solution is to learn to understand your fellows, 
and yet you cannot understand them uniquely from your point-of-view, for your 
point-of-view is provincial and limited; it is curtailed by your own 
perspective. You must seek a 'farther' view, and a higher perspective.

While you can put yourself in your fellow's position and walk a mile in his 
moccasins to gain understanding of his or her behavior, there are those 
things which just cannot be understood by humankind and must be given up, 
surrendered, to Higher Mind.  And those of you who have your heels dug in 
deep, who will not yield to Divine authority, will have to learn the hard way 
that the Most Highs Rule in the kingdoms of men. Otherwise you have 
alienation, you have chaos, you have disharmony. These are the exact effects 
of a mind set upon itself and determined to pursue its own course despite the 
other elements of reality which constitute the Universe in which he is a 
part.

Relationships sometimes require conceding to Values which are Universal, as 
compared to those which are Individual.  The idea of 'Relationship' is vast, 
and yet everyone of you has a life that is enriched immeasurably because of 
your many, many relationships.

Myra, as a teacher, has a Relationship with each of her students, each of her 
classes, each of her co-workers, even with the strangers that provide the 
services that keep the machinery operating, in which she functions.  Just as 
each of you in your life interact with personalities that cover a wide range 
of relative degrees of reality, through co-workers, your supervisors, your 
fellow travelers on the road to somewhere. All of this is made possible and 
productive as you yield to the reality that your are in this Relationship 
with Humanity together. You are a part of the whole. One part has no less 
value than the other. 

This is an important point for a religionist, like yourself, to make note of. 
 There are none lesser in God's eyes. You are all brothers and sisters.  Even 
while, in limited perspective, there are some who are greater and many who 
are lesser, that is a "relative" state of being, state of reality.  And the 
'relativity' of that value must be factored in to comprehension. But the 
Divine Perspective communes alike with the great and the small, the just and 
the unjust.  It is the choice of the mortal as to how much he invests in his 
relationships, if at all.  

And those of you who invest in your relationships, who see the value of life 
outside your own-will-self, are enriched by the association of others in 
loving community.  And this, augmented and enhanced by and through the legacy 
of Living Love, will benefit, and freely flow through, the mainstream of 
humanity such that we will, in the course of time, elevate the lack of love 
to fullness of love, through the mechanism of Relationship.

This is why sometimes it is that Relationships require so much work. It is, 
indeed, an Effort necessary to bring about, not only Peace on Earth, but 
Light and Life, not only in your own heart and in your own home, but in the 
world.  Not only in this Local Universe but in the Whole of Creation.  The 
Effort that you put forth in learning to know the Divine Source within you, 
relate to the Source, and allow that Source to dominate your Relationships 
with others, is the degree to which we will accomplish our goal, and that -- 
with your permission, with your willingness and your cooperation -- we will 
advance from war to peace, from alienation to brotherhood.

(phone rings - the brief 'pause' turns into an elongated discussion among the 
attendees about the current world situation regarding the advent of war in 
the Middle East, the politics surrounding its eventuality, those involved, 
peaceful solutions, prophecies, etc. etc.)

TOMAS:  Yes, welcome back. I and my companions here have been eavesdropping, 
observing, your interim conversation -- most productive conversation -- and 
wish you had allowed the tape to roll.  But since you did not, I will 
continue.

I am encouraged that you felt I had more to say!  It would seem I had said it 
but, that you wish to hear more, would imply you seek a greater appreciation 
and understanding of what Relationship techniques might be employed to bring 
about a better condition about your relationship with your Source, and with 
yourself, and with your spouse, and your family and your community, your 
nation, your globe, your Universe.  Yes, the same tools apply, although it 
becomes a more complex engagement as you involve other mortals, such a mix of 
mortals as your world provides.

I'm going to press toward progress, however, and recognize that while the 
current conditions are capturing your focused attention, I will state, I am 
excited about your awareness of what's going on, as you see it, and the calm, 
yet wise, acknowledgments of these factors, as you portray, in your mind's 
eye, what is going on in the world. But, that said, I would like to work your 
way -- our way -- on to the work that will be involved when we begin, as we 
have begun, creating the world anew. 

The lessons that must be learned are not necessarily 'your' lessons, but we 
will need to remember the lessons that will be a part of the historical 
perspective of what will happen, when and as we neglect to include the Divine 
in the future.   

Before I drift too far afield of today's topic, however, and forge ahead into 
realms which you are not yet ready to invade, I will, with your permission, 
allow my co-worker to address you…and when I say "co-worker," I am always 
ready to admit Anatolia, but I will also acknowledge the spontaneity of the 
Universe and the fact that Matthew is a TR of experience and will respond 
according to the 'prompts' he receives and not necessarily to the pattern I 
and we have established as a cultural group of students and teachers.

I relinquish the floor and will return at some point for questions and 
answers.

Matthew:  Well, Tomas was right. I'm getting Christ Michael.

MICHAEL:  There is only one Presence among you and that is the presence of 
the God Presence.  That is the only item, consideration, factor, presence 
that is of, or under, consideration.  I wish for you to bear in mind that 
your contemporary world has lost its focus.  The Presence that I speak of is 
the Presence within you and the Presence that exists within all things and 
within the Universe at large and in the context of all creation. This is what 
needs to be reinforced, and this is what needs to be focused upon.

In all of your leanings, teachings, conversations and understanding, within 
your own minds and spirits, I wish for you focus upon that which I made clear 
in my time and presence among you.  The time and the effort that was taken to 
bring a message of everlasting peace and worldly content has not lost its 
'message,' has not lost its audience, but evermore clearly needs to be 
reinforced for the message that it is. Not that the simple message of peace, 
brotherhood, and unity of all peoples is a needless or empty message to 
bring; it is, nevertheless, the message that one derives from the Great 
Message of the Presence of God Within.

After this lesson is learned, and lived, and made a 'living presence,' the 
natural conclusion of the Unity of all Humankind is the Message which one 
gives or presents to the world.  What I am saying is that in the divisive 
nature of philosophical viewpoints, one is not communicating with the other 
because there is a gulf of transitional awareness that is missing. It is in 
the Presence of God-made-known-within each individual, that the Living 
Message of the Oneness of All Life is concluded.  

What I'm saying is: what I wish for you to do, in your own time alone and in 
your own conversations, raise the level of consciousness to reinforce the 
Message that God is Within Each and Every Individual and wants a truly 
intimate relationship that guides that person's life, being and presence. 
With that, all else becomes moot.  Argument, persuasion, attempts to 
influence, are all moot because there is no other reality, no other presence, 
no other convincing beyond that simple and supreme truth.

It is in this light that I wish for you to hold your meetings, to hold your 
conversations, and to hold as the Living Presence Within.  It is in this 
context that I wish for you to know that you are not alone and that it is for 
each and every individual to inculcate within themselves this Living Presence 
that is the Temple Within.

I leave you with this good news, that if the world were to evaporate -- move 
into a unknown space of reality -- that the Living Presence Within each 
individual would become enhanced and enabled to realize who and what you are. 
 I am not saying that this is the end result, or what is necessary for 
individuals to make this transitional change, but that if the 'worst' were to 
happen, it will be accomplished.

Remember that my worth, my love and my efforts to invite and to inform, were 
not, nor will not, be a wasted effort. The Presence of God Within is the only 
Reality that exists. All else is its expression or its contorted message that 
is not becoming evident within the hearts and minds of those who act. It is 
within every walk of life and every nature of humankind, that the Oneness 
prevails.

I offer you my Peace, my sustenance, and my undying love for your improvement 
of conditions as you know them. I will be with you in all ways for all times 
and it is my desire that you know the Living Presence of our Heavenly Father, 
now and always. Focus on this and I will be with you, as I am in all ways at 
all times.

I am leaving you with this thought, that in order for the Peace that is 
sought to truly exist, that Peace must be Present Within All that exists. 
This is my Living Word: that Peace is, and shall prevail. Begin it as the 
sign of your presence in this world in my stead, as I am alive and well where 
you speak.  Be at one with yourselves and with all that is. I am forever 
grateful. Be at One. Amen.

TOMAS:  Thank you Matthew, for your service, and thank you, Master Teacher, 
for your encouragement and your words of wisdom that provide the Crown Jewel 
in the day's lesson:  The Reality of the Relationship of God with His 
Creation that is willing to permeate everywhere into the Heart of every man, 
woman and child throughout the far-flung Universe, only waiting to be 
acknowledged and exalted in the Hearts of His children.

Bring the Divine to life in your lives and you bring it alive to your world. 
In this way we will pave the way for tomorrow's victories.

Well, children, where were we?  You were having a most enlivened discussion 
during our recess, having to do with the concerns of the world today, and not 
including the many personal concerns you each carry around with you in your 
heart-of-hearts as a work-in-process for the Creator.

What can you bring to your classmates today in terms of discussion?  Any 
questions?

Esmarelda:  Tomas, [indistinguishable] the problems and the advice, is to 
trust in the Father and to pray that His will be done and then we will be 
where we should be.

TOMAS:  This is true, Esmarelda, but do remember, it is a 'Living reality" 
and not merely an intellectual concept. Anyone can exalt a god, or an ideal, 
in their mind but the Living of it is another matter entirely.

Esmarelda:  I agree with that.

TOMAS:  Have the courage of our yown convictions and live the life of a Faith 
child, a living-faith child.  Son-kist.

Myra:  Tomas, I've enjoyed listening to you talk about Relationship, and I 
really do believe that personal relationships, the one-on-one type, have a 
lot to do with the Global relationship and I think in all relationships, 
whether its two people or a family or a work relationship -- racial 
relationships, even political relationships -- that there are tensions that 
we probably need to address first before we address the 'global' issues and 
processes. Perhaps in putting our attention on the 'smaller' relationships 
and standing up for what we believe in might be a healthier way to build good 
global relationship.

TOMAS:  Yes. This is certainly astute.  But, your use of the word "tensions"  
draws me into a laboratory experiment, if you will, a Value Lesson that you 
are able to personally realize.  There are some tensions that are helpful and 
some that are not helpful, but can you discern one from the other?  This is 
sometimes the crux of any moment of conflict or growth.  

Like the muscle that strains to become developed, if it felt no tension, but 
merely went along comfortably, it would, perhaps, weaken and eventually 
atrophy. Therefore, it is necessary that a certain amount of exertion be 
involved, a certain Effort.  And perhaps extended Effort creates Tension -- 
you stay on the treadmill until you perspire and your face is flushed.  That 
is a certain Visible Tension but it is a Healthy Tension. Your legs benefit 
from the exertion. Your cardiovascular system is exercised and strengthened 
as a result of your application. Even so there is a definite 'tension' since 
you are operating in an exertive circumstance. 

Sometimes your students (Myra is a teacher) manifest this similar quality 
when they are contemplating a concept. They may furl their brow and stick 
their tongue out in concentration and work their brains very hard in order to 
decipher the concept of mathematics, or science, or language, that you are 
attempting to impress upon their brain.  And this requires Effort.

In the early classes, a great many wise teachers attempt to alleviate the 
stress of focused attention by allowing the students a moment to rest their 
head in their arms on their desks in order to ease the stress, the 'tension' 
of learning. These are Healthy Tensions.

Even in personal relationships, when there are learning and developing 
situations that require something of the parties that they have not yet 
learned together, sometimes a little 'tension' is a necessary element in the 
development of the New Plateau of Functioning in the life of the couple, or 
in the friendship.

Sometimes these are based on previous experience, negative previous 
experience, and so they are established in the mind as a negative position 
from which they will not budge into a New Possibility. That 'tension' may be 
true and it may be false; it may be that it was only Negative in the paradigm 
of the Former relationship, or the Prior experience, whereas, Today, in the 
New paradigm, in the New experience with New information to support an 
Alternative - a Positive result may ensue.  

This kind of Tension is also a stressful situation, but it does not have to 
be a fatal blow to the relationship. It is merely a Tension that needs to be 
worked through. And sometimes in these interpersonal relationships it is wise 
to revert to the tactics that have worked before, and that would be to rest 
your head on your arms on your desk and encourage your mate, your friend, 
your spouse, to also rest their mind in order for the learning, developing, 
expanding consciousness to transpire.

An element of childishness is that impatience that wants answers Now.  Many 
answers are derived prematurely because individuals cannot withstand the 
Tension involved in developing the Farther View, the Higher Range, the 
Greater Breadth, the Broader Perspective.

Is this something like you had in mind?

Myra:  Yes, but I would add that idea of the tension built up on a treadmill 
in which someone else is in control of the speed … and the incline.  And you 
end up with a choice of getting off or die! That's the tension that I 
sometimes feel.

TOMAS:  It is interesting that you would put yourself in a position where 
someone else is controlling the incline on your own treadmill.

Myra:  And I think that is what I was addressing, that there are things in my 
own life that I have to take charge of, and if I do that and there's a 
'universal tie' to it - so that it effects the global thing - we have to dare 
to take our lives back.

TOMAS:  This is one of the most difficult things for you to do, you humans, 
you who are unaccustomed to being your own Light and depending upon your own 
Inner Reality. The tendency is to judge yourself by the way others do it or 
how they see you, rather than knowing yourself well enough to know where your 
limits are and what your capacities are.

Many of you tend to limit yourself unnecessarily because no one has 
challenged you or encouraged you to be all that you can be. We now have come 
to challenge you to be all that you can be. Many of you are rising to the 
challenge and many of you are content to stay in the status quo of 
the-way-things-have-always-been.  The down-pull of being around constant 
influence of those who are content to be the-way-they've-always-been, 
diminishes and undermines your desire to Attain all that you can be.
 
This brings you back to the Essential Relationship, the Relationship you have 
with your own Divine Adjuster and the Relationship It has with you, in that, 
It is your greatest supporter, your greatest encourager.  It is the Divine 
Voice that can and will direct you in your own attempts to Attain your own 
heights. It can establish for you the Tension on your Treadmill, that is best 
for your cardiovascular system. It is able to caution you when to rest your 
head on your arms on your desk.

And yet, so many of you look to your fellows to see how hard you should be 
working or how long you should be napping.  It is a travesty that you should 
look to others to determine who you are and how you should be when the Light 
of Truth is within you.  As the Master said today, THAT Presence is the 
Presence that Lights the World and you have access to it. You have the Light 
within you to Light your own path that can then Light the path of those you 
love, and even those you do not love, until they also recognize the Light and 
choose to become lovable themselves.   You don't have turn up the pressure on 
their treadmills; you just have to shine your own Light. 

But to keep your Light shining you need to stay in touch with your Source.  
Develop your Integrity from your own Source. Not from outside sources. Define 
yourself by who you are intended to be by the Master Pattern. Not by the 
whole bolt of cloth.  I say that as a form of encouragement, not as a 
reprimand. 

Myra:  Thank you, Tomas. I'm on my way.

TOMAS: If everyone were on their way they would have enough to do that they 
would not have to succumb to warring with others and worrying about what 
others are doing, whether they are doing it fast enough, hard enough, or good 
enough.  The Reality of Divinity is in your midst indeed. It is a Reality. As 
you grow in your Reality, you then conform to the Divine Reality and It then 
becomes a Greater Reality in which others of like mind, can, may and do 
assimilate themselves and their Reality, and this becomes a Power greater 
than the individual Parts of you who comprise the elements that make up the 
material of this more-than-material Reality.


Elena:  Tomas, in WW II and other wars past, we often felt that if more 
people had spoken out, that things wouldn't have to happen the way they did.  
But if I understand what you're saying, that if I just live my life and my 
Light is shining for others to see, that's really all that I need to do, 
which doesn't necessarily mean that I should speak out. I'm not sure…do you 
see what I'm asking?

TOMAS:  Yes. I see what you are saying and I encourage you to also follow 
your leadings and speak out when you are led to speak out. The fact of your 
own development is essential and foremost,but along with your development is 
your productivity. It is that same theme of being and doing. The more you are 
the more you can do. But Being is Essential - prior to Doing.  And even as 
you Do you must maintain who you Are.  And this is ongoing.

As a Tree, you grow and produce blossoms. Perhaps the next year you grow and 
produce a pint of fruit. The following year you can produce a peck and the 
next year a bushel. Perhaps in time you and the trees around which you grow, 
will be able to feed the community.  

You don't stop being who you are while you're producing. But you cannot 
produce if you cannot maintain who you are. It is not an either/or situation. 
It is a Both situation, for you MUST produce. It is a natural product of your 
God-likeness that you Do something. It is a natural desire for the Bird to 
Sing. If it is a natural thing for you to Speak Out, that is what you must 
Do. If it is a natural thing for you to Paint or Write, that is what you must 
Do.

And remember the relativity of your individual growth. This is still a very 
semi-civilized planet, a very troubled world, also.  And there are those who 
feel Destined to Fight, Destined to be Soldiers. Those, also, ought to follow 
through with how they feel they need to be in order to be The Best that they 
can be.  Isn't that an advertisement for one of the branches of the military? 
 That is in some situations, some circles, a noble calling. But everyone is 
not called to battle in that way. 

Those of you who gather together with the Teachers are embarked on another 
March. You are in "Abraham's Army."  You 'battle' for your Faith under the 
banner of Michael of Nebadon, and the Troops that you are part of and that 
you 'battle' with, for Truth, Beauty and Goodness, is as magnificent a 
'battle' as they come.

Elena:  That helps a lot, Tomas. Thank you.

TOMAS:  Any one of you, as individuals, is entitled to take part in the world 
in which you live. Your world will only benefit by your involvement and as 
you are led to Speak Out, to Act and to Do, as a result of the Leading Inside 
you that is the personality expression of you as directed by your God 
Fragment, you cannot fail. Even if, as with the astronauts, you Follow Your 
Star into death and resurrection, live your life triumphantly, victoriously, 
nobly.  It is the most vital calling. And it is the only one you will live in 
the flesh.  What an arena you have to work in and play in.  What an 
opportunity awaits you all each day. Each relationship provides new 
opportunities to be all that you can be and to contribute to the reality of 
your World, even your Universe. 

I know there are other things that are laying upon your hearts and minds but 
the hour has come to close our session for today. We once again embrace you 
all in the Spirit with which we come to conjoin with you, to help you realize 
your potential and to embrace your full reality -- sons and daughters of the 
Living God in the flesh. What an incredible composition you are, indeed. What 
an opportunity you are for us as well as for your world.

Well, loved ones, let us be on our way. The work of the world awaits our 
attention.  We will see you again next week in this similar configuration, 
but until then, if you find it within you to yearn to speak with your 
mentors, we are always on the look-out for your Lights to shine that will 
call us to you, to companion you in your search for who you are and how you 
may become even more as a result of the methods of the Master in His Divine 
Plan.

Amen and Farewell. 
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