[tmtranscripts] 09-22-02 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

[ZooidODell at aol.com]

Date:          September 22, 2002
Location:   Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Teachers:   Tomas and Anatolia
Topics:       The Power of God
                 Conscious of Consciousness
                 World Peace Day
                 Universal Human Bonds 
T/R's:  Gerdean (Tomas) Matthew (Anatolia)
Music:  Pianist, Dorenda
Selection:  "Ah Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended"

Prayer:  Matthew
Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.

"Master Teacher, we come to you with light in our beings, hope in our hearts, 
and vision in our future to what you portray in your being, before us, and 
before our heavenly Father. We know we have a model and we know we have a 
script and we know we have a future that is unbridled and without description 
in our minds ~ as we understand them to be ~ that what you have offered us 
(and we offer you) is becoming. 

As for the teacher that you make known to us today, with the appreciation for 
this gift that you make possible for us and with us, and because of all that 
you are with us now ~ and always ~ we are forever grateful.  And for what you 
know to be the needs and desires of our hearts and our minds, now and always, 
we place these with you before our heavenly Father and ask for all of our 
intentions to be expedited within your care. Amen."

TOMAS:  Tomas here.  Good afternoon, my loyal friends and companions in the 
quest.  How glad I am, and we are, to gather and commune with you this 
afternoon, for it confirms our connection to you who reach above the fetters 
of time and space to the thought of eternity.



The thought of eternity is, indeed, in your future. The future will evolve as 
our vision is the steadfast method of advancement, and yet the thrill of 
discovery, of co-creation, in conforming your will to the divine will, will 
eventuate in the light and life we seek for Urantia.



There are many matters on your menu today … many morsels worthy of savoring. 
My immediate impulse is to reach for the concept of the power of God:  that 
which protects you.  You are his own. 

Think about responsibility as a human, as a developing value-laden soul. 
Consider your sense of noble devotion to care-taking those who are in your 
charge, the inestimable privilege of serving your families, your children, 
mates, even your neighbors, employers and community interests. The sense of 
pride, healthy pride, enabling you to do a job well done, in order to 
represent that which you uphold as value-worthy of upholding.  Recognize that 
heartfelt longing to do the right thing, to do the responsible thing, the 
noble thing, as well as the practical thing.

There are so many who avoid having any sense of responsibility at all, for 
the weight of responsibility is regarded as impossible. It would be 
impossible, it would be a distortion of reality, indeed, if it were 
undertaken  without a respect for, and appreciation of, yea, even a need for, 
the indefinable essence of ability that issues forth from beneath your ego 
into the ethereal and eternal realm of personality expression.

They speak of the golden rule.  The concept of "doing unto others" is an 
ideal that is only available to those who also understand a value 
acknowledged as brotherhood, spiritual brotherhood in the highest. And on 
every rung of such a depiction, is the inherent bias of that person's 
perception of brotherhood. 

Ponder now, Fatherhood.  The power of God.  The power of God is not a loud 
noise.  As depicted in the music, 'Sweet Jesus, how could you have offended?' 
God is not capable of offending his creations. He gives birth to life. He is 
love. Thus, the power of God is represented in the issuing forth of that God 
Who indwells You, and which embellishes your personality expression to reveal 
His greatness as goodness. And yet, in understanding the power of God, which 
is a part of you, a part of your ability to understand your own capacities, 
you must not confuse this meekness with ineffectiveness, for meekness is the 
offspring of this divine power.

Thus, in knowing who you are, in embracing your submission to divine will, 
you are given true power, power which can, and will, prepare the way toward 
light and life.

Let me subside my remarks and perhaps we can resume our discourse in 
questions which may rise up.  In the interim I give you my companion.

ANATOLIA:   Good wishes, and greetings, my friends and compatriots.  I'm 
happy to be with you this Sunday afternoon, your time, USA, and world time, 
Universe Central. This is a wonderful time in which to be alive, now, in the 
future, in the past, and in the yet to be considered.  Now, in the eternal 
term of that phrase, is a wonderful time to be alive.  



Let it be known that whenever one is of a conscious mind to recognize that he 
(or she) exists, as a plant has a place within the soil as it stands proudly 
among other foliage, (or perhaps not at all among other guests within this 
sphere), if the plant, which is a hypothetical, has a consciousness to know 
it exists, it realizes that its presence there and in the atmosphere of its 
being is truly a gift and a blessing, an honor and an opportunity to be 
served by the nutrients that surround it, that it may serve to improve the 
conditions for which it was placed, this, too, is what it is like to be in 
the Father's service, wherever one may be placed.



I urge you to consider, from a new way of viewing, or a new vantage point, 
what it would be like to not have your consciousness, to not be aware of who 
you are and where you are to serve. The inverse of this question, that is, to 
wonder what it would be like to not have consciousness, is the positive way 
of viewing what your value and what your being is and has to offer. 



I encourage you to consider this for the moment that we are speaking, but 
also in a longer term perspective when you have opportunity, without 
interruption and without trying to do others things at the same time,… to 
consider what it is, even if you need to consider the proposition of 
"consciousness awareness", to consider it from the inverse of that 
proposition. If you need to investigate what non-consciousness would be, I 
urge you to consider the whereabouts and whys of your being in as positive 
way as possible.



This is my way, again, of inviting you to consider the universality of our 
being and the all-purpose nature in which we each serve, even down to the 
most finite of organisms.  Those which are present to perform a gifted 
service, are each and all immeasurably valuable in the service of our 
heavenly Father. What more then, could your service be if each and all 
organisms in creation are of value?  

One may consider an organism, of whatever function, to be as valuable as you 
may be. In one measure of consideration anything which is created, given 
presence and identity is of importance to our heavenly Father. In such, I 
contend, that with our purposes as spirit beings, what more could be your 
value to the Father by your mere presence within creation, let alone what you 
may do to render up true service and true accumulated value and purpose 
before our Father's throne. 

Be mindful, then, of our value as you contemplate your consciousness, to 
appreciate that which our Father values, for in so doing, you will begin to 
know the heart and mind of our eternal Creator and all that was made known 
and present because of his love with you and for you.

Be gracious unto one another and to yourselves, for knowing that in your 
growth and appreciation for who you are, therein lies the greater extension 
and expansion of that God-presence by the collective nature of all of your 
representative presences made known to each other and to your heavenly 
Father.  Peace be with you and among you as you go into the new week of 
loving service, and knowing that your consciousness and awareness of who and 
what you are about, before your heavenly Father's throne, is what I ask you 
to consider.

In the conclusion, if there are questions that you may have, I will be happy 
to address them.  In the meantime we happily return to Tomas and his 
concluding comments.

TOMAS:  And speaking of Peace, it is brought to my attention, the World Day 
of Peace is being celebrated in your collective superconscious realms, or 
perhaps it is more accurate to say, in the consciousness of those who are 
striving for morontial realities.  When you look forward to the future that 
you will help create, look to your impression of peace as a gauge, for if all 
the effort is instilled in the project and there is no peace in the end 
result, then you have merely created a shell, another shadow.

Let's open the windows and let the sun shine in. Aloha! Myra. And, we miss 
you Wayawahili.  Gather in the energy of the Indianapolis environs, and seek 
comfort and companionship, too, in the midwayers who abound, who teem with 
life in that vicinity.

Well, now that we are all present and accounted for, how have you been?  Have 
you any questions or stories to tell?

Esmarelda:  Tomas, I have been listening to several speakers this week who 
said that every nation that became a super-power, they have always become an 
aggressor.  Is our country becoming that?

TOMAS:  Is that a rhetorical question?

(Spontaneous group reactions indicated they thought it was)

Esmarelda:  …. involving Saddam Hussein and Iraq ...



TOMAS:  It's involving youth.

Esmarelda:  Pardon?

TOMAS.  It's involving "youth" … (You are such a young civilization, 
generally speaking.)  … at least the reputation they have been given for 
becoming cocky if and when they have found a certain degree of manhood and a 
set of wheels.  You have attained that point, but your parents have had 
little influence on your development.  Thus you have become young punks. 

I don't speak to the American people here as individuals, I'm speaking to the 
natural development of any youth who aspires to power, who seeks to see and 
be seen, to wield its influence and sense of purpose over those whom it has 
even no authority. The fortunate part of such a scenario is that if it has 
value, any country (which this one does!) has the profound possibility that 
it will get its comeuppance quickly and relatively painlessly, for it can 
have learned the lesson that is necessary, here in this global picture you 
pose. 

You must remember that you are America. When you think about national 
politics, when you think about patriotism, you must put your values into your 
egg basket.  Since your country is based on the concept "of the people, by 
the people, for the people", you must interject what kind of person you are 
as you represent the people. If your civilization is acting immature, it is 
your responsibility to inform your country it is behaving in a manner that is 
inimical to the welfare of its people.  This is a part of your 
responsibility, and while many people are content to allow others to make 
their decisions for them, it is not in your best interests to allow anyone do 
your thinking for you, for you are thinking with the mind of Christ, with the 
intelligence of your consciousness, and  ~ with those together ~ the soul of 
humanity.



You can tout patriotism, but you must recognize that in terms of global 
development, you must learn to live as a family. When one is pressing for 
power over others, it is oppression. And if we have two oppressors, we have 
"West Side Story" all over again. Or we have two bucks in the forest fighting 
for the herd.



How difficult it is for you here. How difficult it has been for you all. Even 
your leaders have been put upon and made to be who they are by the error and 
influence of their forebears. But inasmuch as each of you are capable of 
conscious acceptance of sonship … and I mean this in the aesthetic sense and 
not in the doctrine sense … it is a natural result of your religious life 
that will give rise to the morals and ethics and principles that will guide 
humanity through your example, into stable, well-governed, industrial peace.



How difficult it is, even for me, to convey to you my meaning, when it my 
meaning is colored by the words that I am choosing to use. The words 
themselves distort the picture I intend to paint. I must rely upon your 
perceptions through the mind of Christ, through the indwelling Spirit, 
through the Christ-consciousness of the Correcting Time as compared to the 
definitions and dreary diatribes of yesteryear.



You influence greatly the outcome of the current situation, yes. And yet even 
if the circumstances of cause and effect are so firmly set in place only a 
deviation from the natural course of events would allow for a reprieve, you 
will still need to be called upon to maintain the voice of sanity, the 
posture of the meek, with the power of God around you, in order for you to be 
able to shine your light and lead the victims of this folly into higher 
reality, the farther view.  You need not dwell on what is being done wrong, 
so much as you need to take stock and put your power in what is being done 
right. That will be a challenge because the overwhelming … almost 
overwhelming   tendency is to drift downstream and through passive 
acquiescence allow those who are louder to do your thinking for you.

I have, perhaps, not brought you peace by my response, but I have brought you 
truth.

Esmarelda:  Thank you, Tomas.

Thoroah:  That also reflects on what you said earlier about meekness. Can you 
put together not being passive acquiescent and meekness for us?

TOMAS:  I can try.  I appreciate your yearning to discern the difference so 
as to understand your options better.  "Passive acquiescence" is giving away 
your power; It is yielding to authority less than the Authority you resonate 
to. It is a way of saying, "Oh big deal, who cares?"



Meekness, however, is like the 'pearl of great price.' It is secure in its 
sanctuary, its confinement, its clam shell. It has no care as to the waves 
which wash over it or the crabs who scamper around it. It has the assurance 
that things are as they should be … at least in its own existence … having  
the understanding that no matter what happens, the power of God prevails --  
is the difference.

I'm not encouraging an isolationist tactic.  I am simply saying that for 
those of you who are secure in your 'knowing,' you will have the strength 
that will enable you to uphold who are, how you feel, and what you represent, 
even in the face of tremendous odds and outside influences.

Janet:  Well, Tomas, wouldn't it be wonderful if different countries of this 
world would just adopt the tactics that I was fortunate enough to grow up 
with?  Because I had such wonderful parents! And they both always said, 
"Instead of trying to accumulate things for yourself, give of yourself in any 
way that you possibly can." It was something that was instilled in me as a 
child and I watched my parents give of themselves, always, in volunteer work 
or anything that they could.  And if the countries of the world could look 
toward each other in a friendly way, that way, we wouldn't have all these 
wars that have gone on and probably will continue because people can't seem 
to bring themselves to realize that each one of us has a life to live and we 
want to live it to the fullest, and we can't if somebody else is trying to 
take away what little we have.

When I came out here I thought, 'What can I do as a volunteer?  Where can I 
help out?' And I found the answer there in the hospital.  What with a 
back-ground in medicine for so many years, it seemed like the logical place. 
And for instance, a lady, last week, had to bring all five of her children 
because the 4-year-old had to have surgery and she didn't have any other 
place to put 'em, so she brought them.  And the 2-year-old was crying up a 
storm and she had to nurse the baby, so I took the-2 year-old and he had a 
ball riding around on my hip all over the hospital while I was doing errands 
and he was bringing sunshine to everybody else, so he didn't remember to cry 
and be nasty like a 2-year-old can be because he was interested in what was 
going on and I was getting a lot of satisfaction having a baby in my arms 
again, and the mother could relax.

And if that same thing could only apply to the countries of the world. But 
then, a lot of people aren't fortunate enough to be brought up by parents who 
were just wonderful, the way my parents were. I was very, very lucky.

TOMAS:  Yes.  And you do well to acknowledge your good fortune and to 
appreciate that there are those who have not had such good parenting 
back-grounds. It makes a difference.  The development of character is 
involved in home life and you have, through your merciful ministry, depicted 
the parental attitude through your caring for others. The natural tendency to 
minister to those in need is based on a healthy foundation. However, there 
are those whose foundation is not so healthy, whose "dysfunctional" 
circumstances give rise to lesser loves, such as the theory of 'tit for tat,' 
'I'll love you if you love me,' 'I'll give you this if you'll do that,' and 
this kind of conditional love is a potential blessing or evil and one which 
is at the heart of the problems your world is experiencing today.

Taking care of that which needs to be cared for, that which is in your 
purview, need not be as difficult as your leaders make it. It is convoluted 
by extraneous matters and overmuch sentiment as well as aggressive attitudes 
adopted to overcome a sense of impotence.  Impotence is not such a terrible 
thing if it is construed as meekness.

I do not object to digressing into these fields of interest for they are the 
arena in which you work.  These are the concerns you have in your life. These 
are the matters that take up residence in your minds and they need to be 
processed so that you can have peace of mind and can be about the Father's 
business wisely.  They (cosmic problem solving) are our grist. If there were 
not adverse situations to work with, we would all become complacent and soft. 
 Rigorous exercise is valuable to the evolving soul as well as body, and 
exercise for the mind is important as well for it keeps you from stagnating 
in that critical arena wherein your decisions are made which enhance your 
soul growth or deny its essential sustenance.

I think there is a waning of energy. I understand a human capacity to endure 
such focus of attention and yet it is such a reward to savor this space 
wherein we are jointly connected to the energy of the divine.  This 
communion, this worshipful state, is good for your soul. It is food for your 
inner being and it will confirm your reality so that you will be more readily 
available to the influence of the divine as you go about your daily duties in 
the life you live here in this most precious orb.

Willie/Matthew: Thank you Tomas. That helps me realize that writing a letter 
to the president, or whomever else, is at least something I can do and to at 
least express myself, and there's a lot to be said for that, despite the 
outcome. I just get the feeling that if God Himself told them not to do it, 
they are going to do it anyway. So I can at least do whatever I can to take 
my role and say 'wrong is wrong.' So I appreciate the call to responsibility 
for that.

TOMAS:  You can also reiterate universal family values.  The people all over 
the world with whom you are not acquainted are, even so, a part of you. Those 
who go hungry are known in your heart.  Those who are estranged from their 
loved ones, you have empathy for.  You have the same feelings, the same 
emotions, as everyone on the planet. The stronger your human bond with others 
in other countries, other cultures, other languages, other races, the 
stronger your loyalty to the humanity of man, the more strength you have in 
numbers. 



You will do well to transcend political purpose and go direct to the heart of 
world peace and remind everyone that all men are your brothers … and mean it! 
 No amount of lip service will make up for the essence of passion, 
passionately held convictions.  Yes, write your letters and speak your 
speeches. Let your voice be heard.  "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord" and 
let all nations rejoice in His being. God is our Father, our Creator, our 
Source, even the source of governments and principalities, and on His 
shoulders rests All-that-is.  Align yourself, thus, with that power … and 
represent that meekness as you pass by.



I look forward to engaging with you again next week and observing your path 
as you wind your way through the human experience throughout the week. Our 
love and devotion is upon you and the love the Master is always ever with 
you.  Amen and Farewell.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://circuit1.teamcircuits.com/pipermail/tmtranscripts/attachments/20020926/4b0261f1/attachment.html>