[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho, NM, TeaM 7-14-02

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DATE:                   July 14, 2002
LOCATION:           Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TEACHER:            TOMAS and ANATOLIA
TOPICS:             Language and Stillness
T/R's:          Gerdean and Matthew

Matthew:  Let's place ourselves in the presence of Jesus the Christ.  

Master Teacher, we come to you with happy hearts, placed in loving care and 
appreciation for that which you present to us as custodians of Love and Light 
in this world.  If it were up to us, we'd have nothing but Light, but we're 
born in conditions that has darkness creep in, and where we are enlightened 
we can help maintain the Light factor and increase it. It's that, that we 
attach ourselves to you, as a Teacher of the Way to the Father. And then, 
that we ask whatever teachers you make known to us today as a way to 
enlighten and enliven our hearts to be even more a part of your life, that it 
is not just a promise but a reality that we can experience here as well as 
hereafter and with knowledge to be alive and well and yet with need in our 
heart.  We are forever grateful.  Amen.


TOMAS:  Good afternoon, my loyal friends.  I am Tomas your teacher, guide and 
companion.  I have enjoyed your laughter, your childlike play, your community 
of spirit.  And, as often is the case as we await your focused attention in 
earnest, we enjoy your depictions of reality and often find those 
portraitures worthy of edification, in terms of our curriculum.  

It is with interest that we observe your appreciation of language and I will 
focus somewhat on 'language' as a phrase (term) loosely used to portray a 
vast realm of communication efforts which result in greater understanding, 
greater effectiveness, and eventually greater perfection.  And so to whatever 
extent it is that you enjoy and appreciate language, you are embarked on the 
journey of comprehension. 
 
The method involved in these processes of communicating between the mortal 
mind and the local universe consciousness, entails an interpretation of 
language, for we teachers have realized a new level of communication while 
your level of comprehension is one that we must make the effort to bridge in 
order to make our messages meaningful to you. In much the same way you will 
learn, as you learn how to be teachers yourself, to put your comprehension 
into words - put your concepts into symbols that will convey the idea and be 
receptive to the hearer.

Having a hearer is the initial point of departure from isolation.  Having a 
hearer implies two, and therefor conversation. Thus the need for some form of 
language.  The idea of language is exciting, not only in terms of your 
planetary understanding/ historic appreciation of Latin, English, German, 
French and so forth, but also the language of the Emotions, the language of 
Gesture, the language of Implication and Innuendo, and the language of Love, 
and that language leads/ becomes high art, even abutting worship.

Let's get down to the nitty-gritty of language and introduce the a priori of 
your communication with your reality, that being the indwelling aspect of 
divinity that is your attendant and constant companion, in your mind, in your 
being, in which you come to recognize your own potential immorality.  What, 
Tomas, are you saying?  What is all that?  Speak simply to me.

The Still Small Voice Inside is a piece of perfection, a piece of potential 
perfection and the partner of your will en route to your eternal life.  You, 
as mortal creatures, and your families and  your institutions, will one day 
end.  And yet you as a personality are able to enjoy eternal life in the 
development of the soul that is built by your decisions which are in 
collaboration with the Divine Guide who resides deep within you.  This is 
reference to a practice we call 'stillness' -- you have come to call it 
'stillness' -- and indeed it is a way of stilling yourself such that your 
external reality -- and that which you have known all along, from being a 
material creature -- is set aside in order for you to find, recognize and 
commune with that Still Small Voice which resides within you, which is a 
fragment of divinity.  God himself is magnanimous enough to share himself 
with all his creation and thus he shares himself with you and affords you the 
opportunity to become one with him; a worker in his conscription to extend 
life into the far reaches of infinity.

Anatolia has brought it to the fore that it would behoove each of you to 
begin to value this personal practice of reaching for contact with divinity, 
and I return to the discussion of language, for the language that you rely 
upon for your communication with divinity will stretch your customary 
understanding of communication.  It will involve learning to reach up as 
deity reaches down so that you may meet on common ground.

There are reams of material that have already been presented about the 
practice of quiet time.  Many meditation techniques are in vogue and are 
beginning to impact the energy fields of your world.  You, in your own 
development, are invited to participate in the advancement of your world by 
the subtle interjection of the GreaterReality that is to be had in the 
knowledge of the divine, as well as the personal communication that exists 
between you and your Creator God.  And for many other reasons this practice 
is encouraged.  

I realize the 'telling' of the practice is far removed from the experience.  
There are, again,  many techniques taught and each technique will lead to an 
expanded awareness of your reality and it will depend entirely upon your 
ability to be a 'hearer'.  As you hear God speak to you in the quiet of your 
mind, you will know that there is an unbreakable connection between you and 
the God of All-That-Is.  In this way your understanding of yourself will be 
enhanced and your greater reality will be realized.  While it is understood 
that this process is a process as any relationship development is a process, 
it is essential to your happiness and ultimately to your growth, not 
excluding the growth of the world you effect.

I'd like to set myself aside in order for Anatolia to also approach you about 
this subject for two heads are better than one in these contexts, and indeed, 
as the concept is made clear to you, you will appreciate that we return again 
and again to the practice which has come to be called 'stillness,' and you 
will recognize it as a divine place that you are able to attend and inhabit 
at will.

I will return.

ANATOLIA:   Good afternoon, my children. I am Anatolia, and I am happy to be 
with you this afternoon, as I always am.

On this day of the continued meeting/session that we have inaugurated, I'm 
happy to be among you for the second time -- not that I haven't been prior.  
Let it be known that given the opportunity for a new oracle, if you will, 
that is, a mouthpiece that I'm able to speak through, I'm able to be here 
more visually and audibly than in times past.
  
But let's not confuse the difference between 'being here' in presence - that 
is, through someone speaking with me and for me - and 'being here' when you 
would otherwise not be aware.  For example, there are many who are with us as 
we speak right now that are not audible nor visual to you yet truly are 
present.  It could be seen as in the movie that you're probably aware of, 
"Field of Dreams" toward the very end. Through the entire production it was 
said, "if you build it they will come."  Then at the very end, with all the 
cars that were lined up for miles and all you saw were those headlights. It's 
much the same as we speak right now. If you could only imagine, if you could 
only see, all of those who are here to witness and to behold and to 
participate in this intermingling of heaven and earth.

Now, it is not to say that this voice from afar, so to speak, is from the 
'heavenly gates', but there are many mansions in our Father's house, as you 
well know.  This is one of them. This is one of the places from which I am 
speaking to you.  And the places from which you speak to your Heavenly 
Presence is what we're speaking of today.  So, as there are many mansions in 
our Father's house, you too currently preside within, as well as house, your 
Heavenly Presence.

There many ways to look at this, many ways to think of it, many ways to 
experience it.   And one of the points is that regardless of one's outward 
expression and outward experience of the myriad and almost countless ways in 
which to experience a religious belief and religious practice, there are many 
ways in which this is demonstrated, as you well know.  Christianity itself 
houses many -- and almost countless expressions of organized religion -- that 
expresses itself in commonly held belief patterns that are what one would 
call a religious belief system.

This is just a formalized way of expressing that which is ineffable, that 
which is unspeakable, that which is beyond all group practice and beyond all 
group relationship.  What we are speaking is your inherent, your birthright, 
your God-given presence within and for your ability, and again birthright, 
that that Presence is with you at all times.

What I wish to try to speak today as, Tomas has indicated, is that this is 
not just a 'promise' that has been held like a carrot before a horse that you 
are to strive endlessly in a beast-of-burden type manner to try to reach that 
which is unattainable. It is to tell you that you are already at the Wedding 
Feast. The Feast is already being held, and you are being celebrated at the 
feast.  It has always been such, as it always will.  The greatest part of 
this is that in your development you will become aware of your presence at 
the feast,  but do not hesitate for a moment to realize that the feast is 
already being held.  

As you become more aware of the relationship that the Living Force of all 
Beingness has within your presence - that you become aware of that presence 
as yourself - you're aware that you have no being without this presence 
within.  As you pull back the layers of onion, so to speak, that cover your 
conscious awareness of who you really are, as you peel back those layers that 
keep you disguised to yourself as well as to all else, you'll become aware 
that that Light, that Energy, that Pulsing Beam that is beyond human 
description, that has no place in or origin in matter as you know it to be; 
it is a light that was burning and flickering long before you were aware that 
there was even light made known in just this sphere alone.  But the 
primordial, preexistent, all existent Light that precedes all matter, is 
alive and well within.  This may yet be theoretical to you.  It may not be 
practical. However, I wish to ask now for any question along this line.  Is 
what I'm speaking of unattainable to you?  Is it purely theoretical or 
etheric in nature for you to have a practical handle what it is of what I'm 
speaking of?  I'm opening to any question at this moment.

Gerdean:  I have a picture in my mind Anatolia, and I'll present it to you.  
It's rather a comparison or symbol of how it was when it was said that people 
would go to church on Sunday and behave on Sunday in a certain way and the 
rest of the week they engaged in human behaviors.  I think that my concern 
about stillness is that it's easy to be God-like when you're in stillness and 
when you're in the company of those who encourage those values, but it's 
difficult to carry on that reality when you return to the field where people 
are not particularly focused on being God-like or God-conscious.  

There's the business of life to get down to and take care of.  It invokes 
energy that you have to "get the job done," and it may be difficult and it 
may be painful but just "get over it" and "we don't have time for all of the 
'sweet stuff' - that God-stuff".  And this is pretty much how life appears 
here.  I don't think that was a question Anatolia, but it was what was 
happening in my mind about the subject: I guess, the difficulty of carrying 
through with it, into all our affairs, into everything.  I mean not just in 
that 'private spot.'  Does that make sense?  Can you respond to that?

ANATOLIA:  You know, I'm very willing and able to speak to that, although I 
believe it's been mentioned that I am not of your world, per se.  I've not 
had the pleasure, nor the difficulty, of your world.  Although a physical 
world is not beyond my experience, it has not been this world in particular 
that I have had the aforementioned pleasure and difficulty of living in.  
Because you find yourself in an essentially dualistic nature and everything 
else is consequently a world of dualism. 

It's a world of contraction and a world of contradiction.  So what you're 
basically called to -- and not just in the Christian tradition, but in the 
tradition we know of -- is to bring to your awareness as a physical and 
spiritual expression, that of primarily Judeo-Christianity, primarily because 
of that being the tradition your Master chose to carry forth his mission to 
your world in terms of the relationship you have with your Father and your 
Father with you. So that one of the first, foremost and primary principles 
is, that you and your Father are one, as the Master had so well taught.  

If, in your prayerfulness, in your state of mind/ of being that you can 
consider or call stillness (and parenthetically, stillness is a just a 
discipline to bring you into a new form of thinking, feeling, and a new 
reality of experiencing that which in your dualism, or dualistic world, which 
continually contradicts and counteracts.) --so that what I'm saying is that I 
 have no difficulty understanding what you're saying.  In fact, I can 
appreciate that.  However the secret, if it is a secret -- the nature of what 
it is we are speaking of, is that all you truly need to do, -- there is no 
magic, there is no formula, there is no particular level of success that can 
be prescribed for you here, although there are many schools in which valid 
presentation of mediation in its various functional forms can be undertaken 
and followed successfully. 

What we are saying is not meant to be a laborious, tedious and unrewarding 
task. It's simply to bring you into the light of your own beingness; the 
beingness that is there with you as your Tabernacle of Presence.  

In the Catholic tradition it is taught that the tabernacle houses the body of 
Christ.  Your 'tabernacle,' houses the body of Christ, if you will, but the 
eternal Father which is present with you, not just as a light presence, 
although your 'lightness' of being has its origin in the Father, but the 
presence that is with you as a personality, a representative presence of the 
divine presence within you, that you can commune with and share with and be 
at one with at all times.  So consequently you do not have to live and be in 
a dualistic nature any longer.  It is truly the principle and the practice of 
what Jesus came to indoctrinate.  He intended to indoctrinate the 
universality, the brotherhood, the All-encompassing Oneness or All-ness of 
God and Man made present.  This in reality is what he did and what he 
accomplished.  It is now up to humanity to recognize that -- the blessing, 
the sacrifice, the sacrament, per se, that was accomplished and is made known 
and present, is alive and well and among you.  However, humanity must begin 
to realize this by going within to worship and recognize that which IS.  

It is very difficult in a sense to speak to this topic but it is very simple 
also as a presentation of reality.  I find it difficult to express, and one 
need only to go within to begin to hear only that which is alive and well 
within you.  Many can experience in their silence or stillness either a state 
of mind or being -- it is not a thought process; it is not taking a thought 
to its Nth degree. It's basically voiding yourself of thought and simply 
being.  

In that, I wish you and invite you to speak to your … however you would 
consider it:  your higher self, your higher being, your God presence, your 
Oneness in presence with the Divine Allness of being, and speak as one in the 
presence, as a child to a Father, in relationship of created to Creator.  And 
in that presence, that place, that state of mind/ being -- because truly it 
is a state of being as secondarily as a state of mind -- that you can adore 
and share your living and loving presence with, he (that is not masculine but 
"he" in the general sense) of creator presence, shares with you as a loving 
and living space.  It is this awareness and this presence that can be made 
known and part of you at all times.  So it need not be dualistic.  Does this 
adequately address your question?

Gerdean:  Yes.  The dualistic part enhances my thinking.  I'm getting more 
information here as we speak.

ANATOLIA:  Let it be known that any enhancement along this line - whether it 
be baby steps or walking at a fast pace - each and every individual is 
walking their path at their own pace and will be held accountable in terms of 
the parable of the talents in that respect.  It is as if you were a canyon in 
a landscape and upon your full awareness of acceptability and acceptance of 
who you are as a divine presence - in that moment when you can fully be 
accountable and accept what role you had to play in this life, and you are 
then accounting for what you had accomplished; it will be as if you are of 
the presence of mind; it's as if you were a mountain canyon, and the question 
will be how did you reflect and to what degree did you reflect that which was 
made known to you?  What shades of darkness kept the light from coming to 
completion?  At what times in the day, at what times during the year, at what 
portion of your presence to accept and to receive the light, were there 
shades and protections that did not let the light in?  

So you are simply being invited to reflect all the light that is made known 
to you.  Because it is not that upon your completion of this course of 
existence that you will only be light. You will be more aware of your light.  
But friends, be fully aware that that lightness is within you right now.  And 
before you have to be made aware of what you were accountable for, that you 
may not be aware of accountability right now, it is not a heavy burden, but 
simply an invitation for you to be a vastly, wonderful receptacle and 
reflector of light.

This is what I invite you to consider and this is what I invite you to warmly 
welcome within your divine presence, because among the many and varied ways 
you can make this communal commitment with your divine presence, if nothing 
else, you can go within and picture yourself as a light flicker; a flickering 
candle before a vast and star sparkled cosmos and say, "Father I'm here. 
Where are you?" and wait and watch and receive the warm welcome that you'll 
receive. It's as if that flicker will light the path to total brilliance and 
total knowledge of who you are.  It's this knowing and this lightness of 
being that we invite you to experience and to know as a reality as surely as 
you know yourselves to be physical beings here and now.  Your physicality is 
a secondary condition to your actual state of being.  It is this that we 
invite you to know and experience here, now and always.

And with that if there are no other questions I wish to leave you with those 
pearls that will be wonders to behold, much as the grain of sand was prior to 
the pearl's countenance.  Are there any questions at this point?

Hearing none, I wish you well and lightness and brightness within your beings 
and know that it is with this that we are forever grateful and forever with 
you.  It is going through your tunnel of earthly existence that we will 
always be near and will always be care-full to be with you all steps along 
the way.  You will never fail and never falter; that spiritual guidance and 
spiritual support will always be with you, internally and externally as well.

So peace be with you, and may you always be in the light of the knowledge of 
who you are.  Peace be with you.


Janet:  Well, I can't put it as eloquently as you do, but what I try to do in 
my volunteer work at the hospital is to lighten the burden for all those who 
are waiting for someone to take them to surgery, and they're all shook up and 
excited and unhappy, and so we try to keep it lighter, and we talk and we 
laugh and we do other things to off the strain they're under, and it seems to 
help.  At least it has so far in my experience.  They seem to appreciate it.

TOMAS:  This that you describe Janet, is the natural response to knowing God. 
 It is a desire to serve in his vineyards. It is the desire to do something 
that helps create the Supreme God and so you contribute to destiny.  That 
which you suggest - service -- is indeed the natural result of knowing God. 
And when you enjoy quiet contemplation, such as we've discussed this 
afternoon, this practice of listening to divinity and knowing your connection 
to it, you are enjoined to give freely of that which you have received.  Here 
is the natural process of service done in Love and not out a sense of 
obligation.

Whenever you falter in your path, whenever grow weary, and before you reach 
that point, spend time alone with God in order to revivify your flagging 
spirit, in order to inject your soul with that life-giving Force which will 
enable you to walk the second mile and be about the Father's business as you 
pass by.

Janet:  Well my contributions are just a little pebble in a great big sea but 
it does help to watch people relax and have other interests so they aren't 
sitting there all tense and nervous.

TOMAS:  Yes, this is natural ministry.  

We have brought our formal lesson to you and yet there are, indeed, 
challenges and opportunities in your individual  lives and your life as a 
group that we are interested in and wish to share with you.  This, too, is 
part of relationship, that you exchange values and interests in order to 
become better acquainted.  In this way you help others to let down their 
barriers and expose their pearl within and reveal their light, thus fostering 
light and life for this world which has such need for such divine reality as 
is reflected in ministry such as you all do in your daily lives.

I will testify to the ambiance and commend your taste in furniture.  (group 
laughter and a question from one "Who is he talking to?" Tomas was talking to 
and about Esmarelda's newly refurbished from stem to stern living and dining 
area where we are gathered)

Esmarelda:   It's wonderful that you know what's going on.  And next week 
I'll be a little more alert. Today I'm exhausted, and if I sit still, I'll go 
to sleep.  But I won't be this sleepy all the time.

TOMAS: Thank you for being aware. It is comforting indeed.  It would be 
frustrating to attempt to reach those had no ears to hear. 

Esmarelda:  I wanted to let you know that we have a new person with us today, 
Bonita, whom we're very excited to have, and I know that you're aware of her.

TOMAS:  Yes, I have been aware of her and am most pleased to make your 
acquaintance, Bonita. With my interpreter here, who speaks human language, I 
am given to understand the name means "pretty" and how we love pretty 
children.  They are easy to behold, easy to sit with.  No doubt you are a 
pretty-spirited child who enjoys the comfort our Father's lap and the 
ministry of our universe Mother.  Welcome, child.  Return as you like.  The 
doors of these classrooms are ever open and ever present.  We encourage your 
attendance and involvement to the extent that your soul is fed and becomes 
fattened upon the fruit of the spirit of the love that saturates these souls 
as they sit in desire of filling themselves with the Living Water of love 
that is our Source and our Destiny.

Dorenda:  I have something to add about Bonita, too, that is compared to the 
lesson.  You were talking about language and you were also talking about 
displaying light - or Anatolia was - and Bonita shows a lot of light just 
walking around the golf course.  As an example, Willie and I were walking 
around the golf course this last week and somebody came up and said, "Well, 
welcome to the golf course. You're lucky there weren't any golfers there or 
they'd be hitting you," assuming (evidently) that we did not belong to the 
Country Club or that we didn't belong there (the golf course has been closed 
all year), and that kind insinuation.  Little light that we saw, actually 
(from that stranger). But Bonita, on the other hand, I can see her from clear 
across the way.  She's a light giver! At least I've seen a lot of light from 
her. And I'm grateful that she's here and thankful that she's 'here.'

Bonita:   Thank you.  Thank you, Dorenda, and thank you, Tomas.  Thank you 
for the attitude, thank you for the welcome, thank you for the invitation and 
the kind words.

TOMAS:  Neighbors are life, indeed.  The idea of the Cosmic Neighborhood is 
enhanced when you begin to find the light that shines in your own community, 
giving off that illumination that is the product of the divine. The poor soul 
who was more critical of your presence is perhaps one of those who retains a 
fear of God as compared to those who appreciate a love of God.  And the light 
that dwells within him is, even so, no doubt, cheered by your presence as you 
pass by.  Keep your chin up.

We are fortunate to have teachers in the community here.  I feel the teachers 
who attend my classes are mindful of more than those who are merely students, 
for those who teach are often inclined to discern teaching techniques and 
incorporate those techniques into their own pattern of teaching.  In this way 
they are students as well as teachers.  And this is the ideal.  I enjoy 
learning from you.  And you teach me as I offer you my concepts and language.

It is to the Source of light and love that we look for direction and counsel 
in our studies. All of us are learning the lessons of life in the universe 
that are appropriate for us at the time.  In this way, the gears of the 
super-universes continue to mesh and we continue to be mobile en route to our 
goals.  

I feel a sense of pending in this room.  Is there something scheduled that 
I'm unmindful of?  Perhaps it is the wedding.  (Group response and 
acknowledgement in recognition of the upcoming wedding of Janet and Carl and 
conversation between the group and the 'love-birds')

TOMAS:  This is an interesting assemblage indeed.  It might as well be called 
the Love Boat.  What a joy for me to be assigned here and to enjoy also the 
association of Anatolia.  You may appreciate the heart-throb that passes 
between she and I as we enjoy getting to know each other in this new 
configuration and giving to you, our children, the culture that we have to 
pass on to you as you pass on your values to those you impress.

In joy of knowing you and in appreciation of your efforts to attend to your 
own spiritual awakening and development, I promise to stay in touch with you 
throughout the week and visit with you as you aspire to embrace the Father 
and enjoy his embrace of you, my dear friends.

Is there anything else before we go?

Myra:  Well, Tomas, I'm writing a language paper tomorrow so I'm inviting 
both you and Anatolia to be in that chair with me.  Please.

TOMAS:  I will pull strings to get you some assistance.  The midwayers are 
often ascribed the task of interpreting the local universe language into the 
human language form, but the artisans are perhaps as qualified to assist for 
they can help provide visions, pictures that present concepts.  Be thus 
mindful of concepts and have faith the midwayers will help put those concepts 
into words that will convey the message that will benefit those who hear with 
ears to hear what your words have to say.   Let us know how the paper turns 
out.

All efforts at joyous language exchange enter into the field of communication 
and ultimately the purpose of communication is communion, and thus I leave 
you in faith of your communion with All That Is.

Peace be upon you.  Farewell.

Group:  Thank you


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