[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho NM TeaM

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DATE:       March 17, 2002
LOCATION:   Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TEACHER:    TOMAS
TOPICS: Welcome, new Teacher Base
T/R:        Gerdean

This new group formed quickly upon Angus and Gerdean relocation to New 
Mexico.  TeaM Hostesses will be Dorenda, who also plays the piano for us, and 
Mary Jo.  Guests included Ann and Nina.  We captured some of the pre-session 
conversation on tape and share some Q&A as part of the introduction.  This 
first gathering, taking place on St. Patrick's Day, led to this first 
question:

Q:  Is Tomas a little bit Irish?
A:  I've looked that name up, because of the spelling of it.
Q:  Is it To-mas'?
A:  It's Tom'as.  No H.  A lot of people think that it's To-mas' because of 
the spelling but it's spelled that way in German, Spanish, Irish, and in 
Slavic languages, so it's very cosmopolitan. 

<general discussion about the personality styles of Teacher Ham and Teacher 
Abraham>

Q:  Who is this Tomas?
A:  He was an anthropologist on his planet. 
Q:  You don't know how old he is?
A:  No, but he lived his mortal life, he died, he ascended, and since part of 
the program in the universe is that you teach what you've learned, all of the 
teachers volunteered to come teach us, or edify us, or reveal to us or 
whatever, so they're on a spiritual assignment of sorts.

Q:  From God?
A:  Right.  It's all part of God's master plan.  It's through the auspices of 
Jesus, a Michael Son, and it's all part of God's family of beings.
A:  It's like a career thing. Tomas, like the other teachers, are on a 
volunteer career path.
A: When we leave here, we still continue to grow.  Tomas is in like what you 
would refer to as "heaven".  He is beyond the material realms.
A:  As the scripture says, "I go to prepare a place for you," and "In my 
father's house are many mansions" and the Teachers call it mansion world 
rather than heaven.
A:  The kingdom of heaven is within us.

Q:  How are Ham and Tomas related?
A:  They are co-workers.  
A:  Actually Ham is more of an administrative personality.  Tomas has called 
himself "a lesser prophet".  I have such esteem for him it makes me a little 
mad that he would call himself a lesser prophet, but that's not my business, 
that's Tomas' business, so .… Ham is like the Dean, sort of, of the Teachers. 
 He's got a different administrative role than Abraham.  Abraham has a 
peculiar uniqueness because he is the original Abraham who lived here before. 
 None of the other teachers have ever lived here before (not counting 
Melchizedek who was his teacher then and is our teacher now.)  Abraham has 
some fabulous perspective to offer because of having lived here.  And so, 
many of the things that we know about Abraham by the Bible, is enhanced and 
made quite real because Abraham will talk about it.  I guess his authority is 
his experience, and that, really, is what we're learning - the authority of 
our own experience -- because we can read what other people say, but it's 
only made real for us when we own it, and it has become a part of us.

A:  They are all very unique unto themselves and they all teach excellent 
stuff.  It's different things in different ways.  Tomas is kind of a 
professor type.
A:  And there are others, like Olfana, who's ebullient!  She has a big smile 
on her face.  
A:  I won't let her work through me.  I'm way too uptight for that.  
(Laughter)
A:  Susan does well with it.
A: Susan does beautifully with it.  I've let Olfana in a couple of times, but 
I'm just more comfortable with Tomas because he is professorial, even stuffy, 
but I should let Tomas talk for himself!
A: I was going to say, Tomas will probably carry this conversation on farther.

Q::  They have been listening?
A:  Oh yeah.  A lot of time they tell us that the conversation that we have 
before the meeting is important or more important because they will go from 
that.

GERDEAN:  Is everybody ready then, because it is not something we want to 
launch into until you are comfortable with it.
GUEST:  So we just listen?
GERDEAN:  Yeah.
DORENDA:  Will Tomas let us ask questions?
GERDEAN:  He will, no doubt.
MARY JO: Does he give personal messages?  You know in Nashville, Ham does.
GERDEAN:  Tomas has not, overtly.  
HOSTESS:  Does anybody need anything?
EVERYBODY:  We're fine.


TOMAS:  Such accolades!  I am charmed to be your friend.  I am heartened to 
be welcomed into your lives, your social arena, your private time with God, 
this religious moment of searching inside for what will be that great 
mainstay of our association - the First Source and Center of creation.  This 
fellowship we enjoy spawns from Eternal Parents, providing for us such 
kinship as to bridge the gap between your realm of existence and mine as I 
find it in my existence.  

You have done well, children, to ascertain who it is you are speaking to.  I 
am going to spend, in fact, today devoting our energies, such as I might, to 
an acquaintanceship.  What we will build is relationship, which will bring 
forth from each of us a degree of recognition of who we are and how we live 
our religious life.  That will enable us to socialize our beliefs, clarifying 
all the while what love is.   

What is relationship but sharing, and what is our association but sharing our 
inner life?  If we were not interested in deep mind concepts, or heart-felt 
conditions, it would suffice us to be at the mall or at the game.  But, 
inasmuch as we seek to go beyond the common perception of reality and enter 
into an arena of divinity attainment, it is pleasurable to get to know you.  

And, in fairness, I can share with you something about myself, for this 
contributes to our ability to understand each other, and in understanding 
each other, we can come to know and love each other in ways that will indeed 
be eternal.  

Even as my form alters and your form changes, we will recognize one another 
by our personality, and so let us commence to embark upon a full appreciation 
of what personality is, so that this gift of God can be revealed by and 
through each of us in an appropriate expression of praise for our Creator.  

As you have heard, I am a former mortal.  That is to say, I am an ascending 
son, a pilgrim of time.  I am not complete spirit.  I am still carrying with 
me vestiges of my animal existance.  As you review your faults in moments of 
reflection, I too look upon my shortcomings and lament the fact that I have 
yet to master certain qualities of behavior, animal vestiges.  I admit to 
prejudices and intolerance, but not often and not demonstrably, but even so, 
I am aware that the shadow of imperfection lingers within me.  

And so I, like you, have work to do in releasing to the ascension scheme all 
those qualities that will, like the sinker on a fishing pole, hold me down, 
weight me fast to the current of living water, that I might stay the course 
and fish, keeping my goal in mind of what I am fishing for.  Am I a fisher of 
men for the Master? Or, am I a fisher of flattery and vain imaginings.   We 
thus learn together.  

However, I must confess to you a certain edge, a certain experiential edge, 
which in fact is what gives me the credence I have as a Teacher.  I urge you 
to question my authority at any time.  I encourage you to find fault with my 
efforts, for in these exchanges I am not perfect.  I accept my need to know 
more, and so when you question me you stimulate me to think and ponder and 
indeed to pray for reconstructive surgery such as to heal my error.

I'll tell you my common format.  It is to enjoy your camaraderie and share in 
the concerns of your lives, and therefore we encourage your association and 
your honest portrayal of what it is in your existence that concerns you, so 
that as a community we can share these concerns and perhaps I can enhance 
your appreciation of your experience by the value of the experience I have 
had in the nature of mastering such concerns as you have voiced.  

Much like a Dutch uncle, I am a philosopher now.  For while I once was a 
Cultural Anthropologist, I can only study evolving life up to a point before 
I have to acknowledge how it is that we are the same, even while appreciating 
how it is that we differ.  Once this occurs, there is no resolution but to 
become a philosopher, and encourage the performance of those acts which will, 
in faith of their performance, bring about an actualization of a greater 
reality, and this reality will reflect in your hearts and you will know 
greater happiness.  And so I come to you, my friends, to help you become 
happy, even while I rejoice in the happiness you bring to me and to my peers 
in this Corp of Teachers, to this lovely orb of glowing light in the galaxy.  

After I give a lesson or offer a thought, I will pause and you can choose 
then to follow up with the lesson, if questions come to mind, or you may 
divert entirely to another realm and we can investigate other concerns and 
interests as if they were part of your curriculum.  I am fairly tolerant of 
curiosity questions, however, I have been admonished by my superiors to not 
expend overmuch time in trivial socializing, as we are under the influence of 
Efficiency Engineers, even in this work.   I have a smile on my face however 
as I say, "Let's not let the Efficiency Engineers create such a mechanical 
working environment that we lose our social fragrance and natural grace."  

I am so glad to meet all of you.  Let me hear from you. 

DORENDA:  I want to welcome you, Tomas.  I am so pleased that you are here.  
I am just thrilled.  Mother and I have had a long and wonderful relationship 
with Ham, and I have to tell you I cried when he handed me over to you, and 
still tears come up to my eyes, but it is with a happy heart that I welcome 
you and look forward to a "getting to know one another" period, and so thank 
you for being here.

TOMAS:  Gracious daughter, I am humbled by your words.  Most assuredly, you 
have not lost Ham.  He often attends all of our meetings and is intimately 
involved in your growth and interested in your concerns and will continue to 
nurture you even as he offers you subsistence counsel under myself.  How glad 
I am to be so welcomed by you, and assuredly together we will make our elder 
brother Ham proud of us in our ultimate ascension.

MARY JO: Tomas, it is going to be wonderful to add another Teacher to love 
and to get to know.  Ham and Abraham have been great and we are grateful to 
them. We are also very grateful that Gerdean and Angus have moved into our 
area.  We have longed for a Teacher for a long time and thank you for 
fulfilling that.  It is wonderful to have them and it is wonderful to have 
you.  We look forward to getting better and better.  Thank you.

TOMAS:  What a marvelous presentment of sentiment, Esmarelda.  The story 
behind this Teacher Base is a saga of loyalty, and I am truly glad to be well 
based, and I am as appreciative of your steadfastness and longevity.  In 
being patient, you inspire me to better myself in my impatience.  Perhaps we 
could begin having exercises in patience! (Chuckles) Everyone hates those 
unilaterally.

ANN:    I also welcome you, Tomas.  I know that when Dorenda sent me an 
e-mail and said you were here, I knew that this is where I belonged.  

TOMAS:  I embrace your heart, daughter, and welcome you home.  We are family, 
indeed.  You belong with your people.  How can I presume to make such a 
claim?  Because I am fully impressed by the community we share.  There is 
nothing greater than kinship in God's family.  With each other we are able to 
accomplish anything that He should set before us, and with each other as 
company and inspiration, our accomplishments will lead us through those 
growth experiences which will teach us how invaluable we are to one another 
as extensions of our divine Creator.  

As I grow in affection for each of you, I grow in appreciation of the 
Infinite Parent, I have a greater respect for omniscience, omnipotence, and 
omnipresence.   Listen to the trickle of the water.  These grand words are 
only reflections of the purity of the trickle of the water.  This is the same 
value lesson as we find in the Living Water of divine love.  As it flows in 
and around our hearts, we are refreshed and revivified, purely and without 
excess verbiage.  My heart goes out to you and I look forward to many romps 
in the Living Water with you, bathing beauty.  

NINA:  I guess it's my turn, Tomas.
TOMAS:  I am delighted!  Tell me about you.

NINA:  Okay.  I'm a Christian.  I'll be honest with you.  I'm a little 
sceptical about being here today.  But something has brought me here and I 
would just like to hear from you.  What can you tell me that will help me not 
to be so fearful, to feel more comfort here?

TOMAS:  You challenge me, indeed, with affection, for you present to me words 
which I can chew one at a time.  You present me with the word Christianity.  
You are Christian.  You have shared with me a chocolate, for I am also 
[Christian], in that, I am a believer in Christ.  He is my Lord.  I follow 
him as avidly as did his original apostles.  I am bent upon building his 
church.  I believe, with you, that with Christ we can bless earth with love 
and harmony.  

There are many things we share because of the word "Christian." However, I 
have in my experience also known, befriended, and come to love heathens of 
all manner, and also have lost my heart to faiths of a different 
order/nature.  There are values that rule worlds similar in divine quality 
but which have scant frame of reference for Christ, for he never appeared on 
their world; there are others, however, who are appointed the task of 
uplifting and edifying, yea even saving humanity, and so there are dimensions 
of Christ-consciousness which extend beyond the shores of the Christian 
history as it has been presented to you in your culture.  It's remarkable how 
many individuals are in step with Christ who have no knowledge of his name.  
This is because of his benificent ways and His mysteries.  

Continue to question, and think critically, for one of the greatest 
travesties of this world has been those who follow foolishly and blindly down 
some path which appears to be a solution but which  really only paints a 
pretty picture of what could otherwise be a divine reality.  Your spirit 
indwelling will help lead you.  As Jesus has admonished, the spirit of truth 
will always point the way and say, "This is the way" and when you are 
convinced, you will go the way in which the Lord has led you, content to have 
followed his voice.  

It is experience like this that creates the strong soul, that which will not 
be swayed by sophestry, but which will know because they have gone through 
the experience with Jesus, with his essence.

NINA:  Tomas, how do I hear his voice?  Is it in my conscious?  In my head?

TOMAS:  It is, yes, and the mind is the arena wherein you ponder and weigh 
intellectually these thoughts which will lead you to a superconscious 
resolution.  However, in the end it is the spirit within you which will 
ultimately clasp the truth as you have discerned it, as you have chosen it, 
in order to create that which will serve you eternally.  Therefore, ponder 
carefully and choose wisely which way you will go.  That which is built upon 
a firm foundation will endure, but that which is made of intellectual 
resolutions is vulnerable to being cast ashore, being shipwrecked by 
tumultuous storms of experiential fury.  

The faith son can stand calmly by and watch such calamities occur without 
losing ground.  Thus any time your choices have led you astray you have the 
option then to recognize that perhaps your faith was built on a lesser 
reality than what The Father would have you know.  Rather than find fault 
with your imperfect choices, you have the opportunity now to modify your 
thinking such that you will allow yourself to be led into greater awareness 
of greater reality, and this will help shore up your psyche and your soul for 
subtle new degrees of perfection-attainment.  

Ultimately, child, you will have forged the right to stand before God, a 
perfect product, a perfect entity, because of your choice to do His will.  
That is your goal and only you can attain it.  You have every right to be 
mindful of your choices, your comings and goings.  I hope only to encourage 
you, to inspire and edify you and to companion you in your efforts to become 
all that you can be, in the spirit and in the flesh.

DORENDA:  I just want us to acknowledge Willie, too, because he is really 
looking forward to being here and being a part of this group.  He is not here 
this afternoon, but he's very mindful of the meeting and very supportive and 
encouraging.  He's looking forward to being here, too.

TOMAS:  I look forward to him as well, having had the pleasure of his 
personality presence in times past.  And there will be others!  Others are en 
route even now to conjoin with you in this new configuration, this 
celebration of sonship -- the Rio Rancho Teacher Base.  Is this the official 
title?  
(Group laughter)

THOROAH:  It has a nice ring to it.
DORENDA:  Yeah, it sounds great!
MARY JO: Thanks for recognizing Rio Rancho.

TOMAS:  It's easier to spell than Albuquerque.  (Laughter)  This is one of 
the lessons we have all learned from Teacher Ham.  If we can make these 
morsels of food small enough for you to chew, you will savor their value and 
grow teeth to chew off greater concepts later on.  Perhaps later on we will 
also have an Albuquerque Teacher Base for those who have chewed the spelling. 

Now, that was a reflection of my prejudice, you see, but I don't regard it as 
a negative quality in my personality; rather, an appreciation for human 
nature.  Having been a human being, I know whereof I speak.  

Thoroah and Gerdean, it is with great joy that I embrace you in this new 
configuration.  Truly you have come into your own, as they say.  Having 
meandered, Gerdean, hither and yon, how marvelous it must feel for you to 
have lit upon the common shore that we knew so many years ago.  And how 
accommodating of the universe to provide Thoroah with the Land of Enchantment 
in the process! How are you enjoying the climate, Thoroah?

THOROAH:  All I have to do is look outside and see those golfers playing golf 
and that says it all.

TOMAS:  It would appear as though your milieu might be fellow athletes.  It's 
always helpful when attempting to make a connection with someone, that you 
have something in common. That's the way to bridge the gap of personalities.  
Perhaps in discussing golf you will be able to begin to create the 
parallels/parables necessary to bring the reality of divinity into the game 
of golf and thus praise our Creator in leisure as well as in production.  
It's the same as women with recipes, or horticultur-alists with plants.  What 
you have in common is immediate foundation for association, and the more joy 
you find in the activity, the more praise is available for your lips.  Having 
been bonded and developed a sense of kinship, it is possible to go on, then, 
to those areas which will need some work in order to meet your standards of 
attainment.  

Perhaps as we bond as kin or friends in something we have in common, it will 
be possible for us in time to address some of those concerns that will 
require a more critical eye.  Thus, we may be able to impact upon our society 
as a group of people in addition to each individually impacting upon their 
society of friends.  At any rate, I am certain we will enjoy the association 
-- providing I don't do all the talking.

We've had a delightful visit.  I am glad to have made your acquaintance.  I 
am not certain I have offered a lesson.  However, I have at least established 
myself in your consciousness.  If we can develop the same kind of 
consciousness of Our Father, it's possible we can enhance this relationship 
to another level of reality, for the same technique is used to come to know 
God as it is to know one another.

Spend time with Him and share with Him your concerns.  Listen to Him for His 
response to your cares, and in faith, give yourself up to His counsel.  In 
strength, then, of His abiding love for you and his creation, allow Him to 
lead you into ways and means of connecting and correcting a life extended 
from the life inherent in sonship.  

We have no reality without the reality of God.  It is merely illusion if we 
exclude our Source and Center, that "still, small voice" known by many 
things.  

I think one of my favorites is "the voice of the Good Shepherd" who calls his 
sheep and his sheep respond.  May your bounty this week be to hear the voice 
of the Good Shepherd and follow him where he leads, knowing you are in his 
loving care.  Until we meet again, I am your friend, teacher and companion, 
Tomas.


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