[tmtranscripts] 06-30-02 Rio Rancho TeaM

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DATE:                   June 30, 2002
LOCATION:    Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TOPIC:             Connecting and Correcting Time
Q & A:             The Pearl of Great Price
                         Ego and Will
                         Becoming Self-Acting
T/R:  Gerdean

TOMAS:  Good afternoon, Coconuts. (the group had been playing around with the 
song lyric, "a lovely bunch of coconuts") .

I am Tomas, your teacher, your affectionate, amused companion and occasional 
counselor.  I am delighted to be in this configuration of believers.  I am 
impressed with the circuitry which we enjoy ~ the energy that connects us, 
and the living connection that buoys us up into a realm of camaraderie, 
communication and communion ~ in which we can communicate on a compatible 
level, which includes the interests of the human and the divine.  

How marvelous to have a forum in which your divine natures are able to unfold 
and bask in the presence of itself ~ its Source and Center ~ and to do this 
bathing in the living waters in the company of others, thus socializing and 
reinforcing your faith in a divine reality which is even now revealing itself 
in your lives and in our community life we share together.  

I thought today I might speak a bit about this 'connecting and correcting 
time.'  The circuits, you see, that we enjoy here are opening ~ and they are 
opening in each of you as you allow yourself to open to the greater reality.
The universe is encouraging acceptance of your place in the universe ~ as a 
neighbor in the larger neighborhood, a citizen of the cosmos, an important 
part of the existence of all life ~ as it is ~ in its time and place in its 
universe.   And in this way you no longer languish in isolation.  

The Source of this connecting energy is in the realm universe pattern.  That 
is to say, you were created to know your place in the universe and how you  
relate to it as an entity, as a personality ~ not merely a mortal to live and 
die on this orb, but to be appropriately affiliated with life eternal.  You 
thus are connected to the Source of Life and inhabitants of infinity.  

The circumstances -- historic circumstance of your specific world, is such 
that you have been alienated from the realization that you are part of the 
greater community, a living reality in the Family of the Eternal Parents, 
offspring of the Divine. You have, as a planet, been isolated until fairly 
recently, as a result of the ignoble act of the great deceiver, that chapter 
in your history which refers to war in heaven between Gabriel and Lucifer.

But we have been summoned to re-claim your world and your consciousness from 
the separation that planetarily influenced you for centuries.  This is an 
undertaking that will take generations, but we are confident of our success, 
as we have seen the success of those who have responded at once to the spirit 
prompts which have been generated from On High to make you aware, consciously 
aware, of the greater reality ~ and your emotional response to the Love which 
is pouring forth into your vessels.  As if you were dry sponge seeking 
moisture, you have soaked up our presence and found pertinent sustenance 
therein.  In the desert now bloom flowers such as yourselves, who are being 
testimonies of the Light and the Love of Deity. 

This pattern, that we are encouraging and inviting and instilling in you, is 
contagious; and, as you absorb the sweetness of this benign virus you take it 
into your arena and spread it out as sunshine into the darkness that 
perceives that we are isolated, alone, alienated and separate, one from 
another.  

We will ~ in time, and in good faith, ~ eradicate that sense of isolation; 
and it will be done through the 'connecting' that we know here this moment, 
in this room, as we bond together in faith of our hope in a divine providence 
that will reveal Itself as the Reality that we had hoped, and in our hearts 
we knew was true.  

This connecting time thus is a reinforcing exercise that aids you in grasping 
and having faith in your own Reality, and the correcting time is the period 
of time that will be required for each individual to align him or herself 
with those integral values which are of divinity as compared to those which 
you have inherited from your lesser gods and influences.  

In due course, those of you who are in the Light ~ who are enlightened as to 
these truths ~ will foster your fellowship such that it will outweigh the old 
ways and you will embark our world on a new path, a path that will lead to an 
advanced era of Light and Truth ~ one in which you will all acknowledge your 
divine aspects and your dependence on the Greater Reality … including the 
Greater Reality resident within each other. 

It - this circumstance; this time in your planetary history - makes your 
lives most interesting;  your options and opportunities most thrilling.  You 
have the opportunity to personally grow and actually see the effects of your 
growth reflected in the world around you.   In the study of these times and 
these characteristics of the Truth, Beauty and Goodness, you can change the 
world by your faith.  This empowers each of you ~ as individuals ~ and as you 
accept and acknowledge each other in this context, your civilization is 
altered and upstepped.   

As you see the evidence of the Light of Truth revealed in your associations, 
so shall you see it spread abroad in the patient and diligent effort of those 
On High who seek your Greater Reality for the glory of those creators who 
seek to provide a realm of opportunity and advancement for All; and the 
marvelous thing, to me, about this "job opportunity" is the plethora of 
personalities which are welcomed as essential elements of reality, reflecting 
yet more of the magnitude of All That Is.  

We enjoy diverting ourselves through speculation and true philosophic 
pondering, but the real work is "an inside job," and in that work we are 
ever-mindful of the human condition and the problems inherent in change and 
growth.  Thus, we enjoy such fellowship as this, for it enables us to be 
reminded of our purpose and of our yearnings and our rejoicings.

Thank you for your focus.  

Are there questions this afternoon or matters you'd like to share in company 
with the celestial hosts who attend our meetings and with the human 
companions you have selected to share your life with today?

CARRIE:  My name is Carrie and I haven't had a question bubble up just yet, 
but I wanted to share the effect of your teaching today.  It felt like being 
this dry sponge that got softened with the moisture of the love in this room. 
 And I felt my Soul opening up - like stretching/expanding its arms to the 
cosmos.  And it was a lovely repetition of that theme throughout the 
speaking, so that  I found myself relaxing more and more deeply, and being 
able to experience the Love of God.  Yes.  Thank you for that.

TOMAS:  And I thank you expressing your sensations; your impressions.  This 
is an example of the value that we enjoy and observe in this "movement."  The 
idea of having a sense of safety for your soul.  A place where your soul is 
welcomed is something for which your world has great need.  The Soul is like 
the 'pearl of great price' that is born of a grain of sand deep within you, 
that is built up over time by the friction that it knows, but all the while 
it is protected inside the shell.  Here we hope to urge your shell to open 
naturally, in order that your hard won Pearl of Great Price may be revealed, 
to show the beauty that it is.  

This process of allowing your Soul to be revealed, is indeed a process, for 
the world at large is, at first, unwilling to see your soul ~ and is often 
destructive - or would be destructive - of your soul, for it is a threat to 
the existing paradigm … that belief in a menial and material mentality which 
denies and precludes the Substance of Value that is your greatest possession, 
that is created to be a reflection of the beauty that you are and are 
becoming.  

Welcome to this pool, this tide pool, wherein you may not only soak up the 
Living Water and soften, but may actually enjoy the sensation of spreading 
your Soul open to the etheric realm, in trust of these fellows who also cry 
to be revealed as children of God ~ as priceless and valuable jewels in the 
sunken treasure chest of heaven.

JANET:  I was just thinking - wouldn't it be a much better world if we all 
tried being kind to each other instead of nit-picking and finding all the 
differences and things to quarrel about?  If we'd just try understanding each 
other and getting along, then there wouldn't be wars and terrorists and all 
those things that are going on.

TOMAS:  Yes child, it would, indeed.  Kindness, however, is a quality that is 
overlooked, even while it is greatly needed.  Kindness requires that you slow 
down, and be aware of how your words or actions are influencing others.  
There are few who are willing to slow down enough to see how a simple act of 
kindness is a reality which has even greater influence than things.  And yet 
kindness is one of those qualities, which, like the Divine Virus, is 
contagious, and when you begin the chain of event by an act of kindness, it 
is like the ripple effect when a stone is dropped into the center of a pool 
of water.  The ripples go out toward the shore and eventually subside but you 
have a least stirred the waters.  And there are those too, who will pick up 
the ball and run with it and pass on Kindness until the body of humanity is 
like a pool in the rain with ripples connecting out from each raindrop 
dancing on the surface and refreshing and enlivening the entire body.  

The fact is, the 'random acts of kindness' movement, which was recently 
popular, was an effort of the correcting time and it, like the Angel rage, 
has had permanent effects.  Indeed, we are entering into the New Dawn.  Even 
while there are still travesties and great trauma-dramas to come, the 
essential reality of Human Kindness is intact and alive as a result of those 
efforts that have already been perpetrated by conscious and conscientious 
souls such as yourselves.  

This is the importance of encouragement, for it is so easy for humans to 
become DIS-couraged in their ways and means of revealing the Greater Reality. 
 This however is not a mere 'social' movement; it is a galactic development.  
It is enhanced not only by human will but by Divine Will.  It will not fail.

JANET:  And that's just what I meant…  It's just as easy to be kind to 
somebody and give them a little boost instead of seeing all the things that 
are wrong and criticizing and trying to make them over… 'cause you can't do 
that anyhow.  So why not just be simple and make everybody feel better by 
just being nice to them.  It doesn't hurt a bit.

TOMAS:  You are an example of child-like faith.  Indeed.  Why not?  But you 
have perhaps mellowed with age.  The young are much impressed with themselves 
and their manner of believing.  The ego is hard at work reinforcing the 
lesser reality. -- I say 'the lesser reality' not to destroy the ego but to 
reformulate the ego's purpose.

CARRIE:  I experience that conflict inside of me.  And that 'correction time' 
is a good name for what I experience.  I want to open up and want to be 
courageous and to be speaking from spirit, and I feel like a little kid who 
dashes out into the middle of the room and tells her piece and then wants to 
run and hide, ya know, and here's the voice of the ego saying "Who do you 
think you are?" and "You're getting kind of pushy!" and just lots of 
criticism, like the 'shaming' words.  So I've got that conditioned mind in me 
-- the world that's ruled by the ego -- while I attempt to listen to the 
voice of Spirit and try to follow those leadings, and it feels like I've got 
the war in the Middle East happening inside me! -- and it's … it's hard.

TOMAS:  It is the 'good fight of faith' ~ the fight of giving up that which 
is lesser for that which is greater. And that takes place in the mind, and so 
this grappling will continue.  But it will not be overbearing always.  

It is necessary for you to make these choices, but part of your choice-making 
involves what voice you choose to listen to, and you have the authority of 
your own mind and you can determine - identify and determine - which voice is 
working in your best interests.  There are times when the lesser reality 
appears to be your 'best interest' and certainly you do not want to throw 
caution to the wind and forget to count the cost of your choices.  

I'm shown a picture here of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the 
circumstances of the moment when the Apostles, having finally understood that 
the Master would be hauled away - armed themselves with swords, in order to 
'protect' him from those who would come to arrest him.  In their loyalty to 
the Master they reverted to their understanding of what was the 'smart' thing 
to do.  However, he knew this about his associates and assured them that it 
was more important for them to not get themselves arrested and killed, for he 
knew what could happen to them if they were found to be armed against the 
authorities.  And he needed them to spread the Gospel after he had gone.  In 
their minds they were doing the right thing, and yet he cautioned them about 
their actions.  And this will take place in your mind, your consciousness, as 
well.  You arm yourself against the assaults of injustice, and yet 
occasionally it is the better part of valor to stay alive and function ~ even 
in the face of the travesty of human existence ~ in faith that the 
over-control of divinity will prevail in the ultimate sense.  

And so it wise to count the cost, and yet it is for your peace of mind that 
you understand the factors involved in your choice ~ that you not succumb to 
the sense that you were not able to live up to your sense of rightness, or 
that you were a coward, no, but that  - given the circumstances - you made 
the choice that was wise for you. But many of the choices that humans make 
are made without due consideration, are made perfunctorily, or as a reaction 
to someone else's actions, and this will indeed give you a sense of 'less 
than,' of being a 'leaf in the wind' with no will of your own. 

Having free will is having the greatest gift in the universe.  Using your 
will intelligently is the most divine thrill.  And accepting responsibility 
for your free will choices involves you in the exhilarating reality of Life 
itself, and there is no greater joy.  Even defeat can be glorious if it is a 
battle that has been fought in faith for that which is essentially 
unassailable.  Has it not been said,  "What does it matter if all things 
earthly crumble to those who love the Lord?"  And many times this is the 
resolution.  What does it matter in the face of the Greater Reality?  

The ego would insist on winning at any cost, but Spirit might prevail and 
leave you feeling as if God had a bizarre sense of humor, that your will was 
not consulted.  In the balance, is the choice you make in your path of 
ascension.  In that, is where you find wisdom; in that, is where you reflect 
on your choices.  And given new opportunities, your choices will reflect that 
which you have learned from having made the previous decisions. 

This is how you help yourself to grow, how you create your own divine nature. 
 This is the friction that occurs within your shell that delivers up your own 
pearl of great price.  

The initial stages of personal correcting often involve a cleaning house.  
The mind is filled with clutter and voices of others -- your parents, your 
peers, authority figures, belief systems -- all that has gone before you to 
help you function and be functional, but they may not be in your best 
interest as a Soul-in-becoming.  It is a process, then, to identify those 
voices in the mind … and clean house.  Recognize your mother's admonitions 
and replace those with the Divine Minister.  Recognize the authority of your 
earth father and wean yourself from that counsel; replace it with the counsel 
of Christ Michael.  Exchange His mind for his or hers, and let Them help you 
discern what you want to keep in your mind and what you want to get rid of.  

It's a process.  But eventually you will find your mind standing on its own 
two feet, and making choices according to the Higher Power that You Are 
because you have corrected yourself and aligned yourself with that which you 
were Meant-to-Be and which you Will Be throughout eternity, that is so much 
greater than that small grain of sand that sifts about being blown hither and 
yon by the winds of time and whispers of humanity.  

We are growing into superhuman personalities.  That is not intended to 
distort your impression of yourself, because at the heart of superhuman 
effort is a sense of humility.  For though you may not be able to do these 
things, there is One in you who can … and will … if you give that Energy 
authority to act on your behalf.  And when you do speak on behalf of that 
Authority, comfort yourself in knowing you have a right to be there.  You 
have a divine right to speak the words that are put into your mouth, to 
generate feelings and thoughts that will lead humanity Godward.  That 
authority is vested in you, and when you attain will-choice sufficient to 
utilize that authority and wield that authority, it will be done through 
wisdom and it will be done with Love for that is the Source and Center of 
true authority as well as true character.

Be patient with yourself in growing and in the growth of others, even while 
your remain mindful in what all is involved in this correcting time.

And I've got to add, as a piece of humor, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  
Of course, whether or not something is broken, is a matter of perspective, 
isn't it?  Here is a good time to sit back and practice kindness.  For who 
gave anyone authority to author others?

ANNE:   Well, Tomas, as I listened to you, it has become very complex … 
because I -- as an individual looking for 'connectedness' and correctness 
--(rather) 'correctedness' - and yet I am part of the society! -- and 
sometimes I get caught up in whether society changes the way I think or I 
change the way society thinks.  I know society is a collection of individuals 
and you have already addressed that we are all at different levels, but what 
I find challenging in the connecting method is that, when I work on my own 
self as an individual, I always do have to look at how that impacts society 
as a whole …because you could get lost!  You think that you're doing really 
well, but … maybe that is ego and not good (for all).  If you could speak to 
that and make it more clear … I don't even know if it's a question, but it's 
a 'complexity' of thought that I'm having right now.

TOMAS:  I am glad. As a philosopher, I am eager to provoke your mind to 
thought.  Even if it is unclear, it is at least stirring up the status quo of 
your mentality, and in this, change is encouraged.  

Your various societies and cultures are realities which have been established 
over time to effect certain causes.  These are systems.  Systems are for a 
purpose.  Within the system are individuals and lesser systems.  In a large 
corporation, for example, you are a part of the system and you work as a part 
of the system.  And yet in your particular office, over your conclave of 
co-workers, you have a different paradigm which is more personal to that 
which you have some authority over.  Your ego will be naturally more inclined 
to assert itself, (as it is, in some ways, your job, your area of assignment) 
while there may be social situations between you and your coworkers which are 
totally cooperative and based outside the system wherein you may have 
fellowship and even share the Spirit.  

Thus it is indeed complex, for each configuration has its own energy, and 
each addition or subtraction effects the configuration, and you must adapt 
(in any case) to the pattern that is presented.  Sometimes you effect the 
pattern and sometimes you respond to the pattern. Sometimes you feel good 
about what you have done and your ego is appropriately stroked.  Sometimes 
your ego is outraged, overlooked, and you have to deal with that as well.  
The ego is not the enemy in these generalized situations.  Your ego is your 
identity, after all, in the reality in which you live.  It is here to help 
you function and survive and provide well for your life.  It is when it has 
gone beyond its purview, beyond its bounds of appropriate influence, that it 
becomes problematic, when it insists on running the whole show and all the 
shows.

In your spirit life you also enjoy acknowledgment and recognition.  And this 
is your ego also, but it is healthy. It is your choice, sometimes, to set 
aside your ego to enjoy the gifts of others; as in the performing arts - you 
are not activated except to enjoy the ego of others which delights in its 
performance ~ which is it's service.   No, ego is not the automatic enemy.  
It is when the ego interferes with the drive to be Godlike and grow in God's 
likeness, that the ego can be obstructionistic to growth, and it can help you 
turn a blind eye to that which is in your true best interest. 

But again, this can be found through reflection, through meditation, through 
taking these matters into stillness and working your way through the maze of 
thought processes to find out the wisdom of the moment.  If you don't have 
time to act wisely, if you have to shoot from the hip in a moment, you may 
err; you may make the right choice.  You have to let the chips fall where 
they may.  But in the end it will need to become a choice on your part and 
you may need to make that choice habitually, many times, in order for it to 
become well ingrained in your personality pattern, in order for you to have 
mastered that aspect of your character which was not serving you well.

The goal of personal correcting is Self Mastery: That you might enjoy your 
life more because you are master of it, instead of it mastering you.  And as 
you are a self-acting individual acting in accordance with your self-acting 
Adjuster, your conscious God contact, you are a formidable force, a 
superhuman personality able to impact upon many, even upon destiny. 

Life can be complicated, and thinking can be complex, but try to not spend 
over-much time in your Mind.  Spend time in your Soul with your Spirit, 
through the Heart.  Allow the Love of God to dominate as much as possible, 
for the Love of God will soften the hard edges; will soak into your dry 
pores; will sing sweet melodies in the face of harsh and garish noises.  The 
language of Love is the balm which binds us together, which connects us in 
this configuration of sons and daughters of divinity, engaged upon the 
greatest adventure of all time: The process of finding God and becoming like 
him.

I sense a point of saturation coming upon us.  I sense that you have, as 
succulents, become engorged with Spirit Reality, and lest we become victims 
of spiritual indigestion, I will withdraw ~ in order for you to exude your 
essences into the ethers of your environment and spread the benign virus of 
living love into your realm, thus, giving yet another dose of divine guidance 
to humanity as you pass by.

Blessed be art thou, one and all.  Peace be upon you.  Amen and farewell.



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