[tmtranscripts] 11-02-03 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:                    November 2, 2003 
LOCATION:          Rio Rancho NM TeaM
                                Willie & Dorenda Wonka’s House
TEACHERS:         MERIUM, TOMAS & ANATOLIA
TOPICS:                 Becoming the Song You Sing
                                Learning to Love Unlovely Humankind
                                Admiration, Respect, Appreciation
                                Integrating the Divine With Mortality 
Q&A:                  What About "Liking" or "Not Liking"
T/R’s:                 Gerdean & Matthew 
MUSIC:         Elena on Piano: "Taste and See" 
PRAYER: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.
Master Teacher, 
We come to you today with renewed spirits, renewed energy, and renewed
participation -- from some of those who have been far-afield of the
immediate fold ( only physically, but not Spiritually or in thought or
care, so we appreciate their safe return.) -- and for the rest of us and
all of us that continue on our weekly adventures here. We appreciate the
opportunity to do so and to become more unified in ourselves as well as a
group and to be willing and able to invite others to appreciate this gift
that you present to us as a bit of eternity here and now. 
For the teachers that we have today we are grateful, and thank you and
them in advance for whatever teaching is for our benefit today. For all
of the thoughts, cares and concerns that we have, individually and
collectively, we place before you for transmutation and transformation,
with ourselves included. For all that is, we are forever grateful. 
Amen. 
TOMAS: Good afternoon, faithful flock. I am Tomas, your friend and
Teacher.
Group: Welcome.
TOMAS: Anatolia and a host of others conjoin with us here today in our
customary configuration, with affectionate regard for each other and for
the path we share en route home to Paradise. Merium is here and would
like to start us off. 
Matthew: Welcome.
MERIUM: Oh, you dear Child, how sweet of you to rush right out to greet
me. I am so enamored of you all, I feel enhanced by your acknowledgement.
I heard you talking about pillows! (Group chuckles) And fluffing your
pillows to make it so that you are comfortable and personalized to your
individual needs. This, of course, reminded me of the birds, who gather
their leaves and sticks and threads and thorns and so forth to make their
nest their very own personalized nest in which to comport themselves
according to their needs, and thus they are able to dwell in the harmony
of their own song. This is a process you are enjoying as well: the
ennobling activity of becoming the song you sing. 
This is your individuality. This is what makes you unique. But even so,
there are no two alike. Even the sparrows who are all, at first,
seemingly little and brown, are in fact a beauteous array of individual
plumage, and each with its own note to add to the music of the spheres.
But how difficult it is for you to appreciate the songs that other birds
sing. 
TOMAS: Thank you for your lead-in, Merium. I am Tomas, returned, to
evidently discuss the picture painted by our Sister Merium. I would like
to enhance it somewhat to engage in an understanding of what you mean by
"regard" which you discussed earlier. Is it the same as "respect"? You
also discussed "respect for something or someone," and there are
opportunities to "appreciate;" also, "admiration" and what it is you
"admire". 
I believe these concepts coming to your consciousness would be a good
exercise, for it will then give you an opportunity to ponder what it is
that you would like to encourage ~ in yourself, for your own personality
development and character development, as well as appreciating more what
it means to serve in the context of being a loving human being, even in
the face of those qualities that you do not find loveable. 
I recall in your text it says something to the effect of it being
difficult to love "unlovely mankind". It therefore behooves you to
develop a fine-tuned consciousness of what is harmonious to your ear, in
order for you to build upon that reality as one on which you can
gradually develop other qualities, such as admiration, appreciation, or
respect ~ such that you can eventually learn how to love ~ even unlovely
mankind. 
In the initial paradigm that you were born into, the general pattern was
to admire qualities that, broadly speaking, belonged to an agricultural
way of life. Why don’t we have some fun with this lesson? Let us discuss
among ourselves those qualities that were admirable when you were growing
up. And when you heard your parents discussing someone with admiration
and respect, how did you perceive that? What did that mean to you then?
Who would like to share?
Angus: I always heard the term "hard worker" and you couldn’t be anything
better than a hard worker! That was a man’s insignia in his close
society. If you were a slacker or lazy, you were other than acceptable;
you were the exception, and probably doomed to have a troubled life.
Those were all the implications built into "He’s a hard worker." 
TOMAS: Right. You are correct about the implications, for the cultural
value established an identified way of life that carried you culturally
for decades. Are there other qualities you recall from your childhood?
Dorenda: I remember Grandmother describing someone that she admired, and
she always said, "They were really outstanding." That was the word she
usually used, and by that she meant they had achieved a lot, generally,
in educational background, and that’s what I felt she meant by that.
TOMAS: As if she were being graded according to a cultural standard, a
high achiever has attained outstanding distinction indeed. A
complimentary acknowledgement of ambition and application to duty or
beyond.
Mary Jo: I don’t remember my parents discussing people too much. I was
just thinking I don’t remember my mother and father ever talking a whole
lot, but there was one person that they both admired, respected and loved
very much and that was a person that I called, they taught me to call,
"Uncle Bill" and he was very good and kind to them and they really
appreciated him. He was a very comfortably situated rancher and my father
worked for him and they were always very grateful, respectful of him, and
they thought he was a very honest person, very smart in his managing of
his property and all of that, and kind-hearted with people.
TOMAS: It would include the quality of those who will not "bite the hand
of those who feed them." If there is a benefactor, the benefactor is
worthy of your respect. Yes, that is a value standard that was a part of
your cultural conditioning. These qualities are from the first half of
the last century, and times have changed, but those qualities still are
admirable. Anyone else?
Willie: I don’t remember much from my parents discussions but just a
cultural trait was "being a good sport" was an underlying theme and
initially when I was thinking of this, I thought it interpreted to you
were able to lose well, but I that what it meant was that you were able
to lose or win well. And that encompasses being a good sport, so 
 being
flexible, and fair and honest in your dealings. 
TOMAS: Moderation in all things 
 in victory and in defeat.
Willie: Right.
TOMAS: How about you youngsters?
Carl: I remember my grandmother, she used to say, "Your word is your
bond" all the time. Today my word is not good enough for a loan, but she
was trying to say to me, I think, that if you give your word to somebody
about something, you are going to follow through with that and do
whatever you said. And if you couldn’t possibly do that, you had to go to
the person and say, "I can’t do this, because of thus and so." I always
remember that: "Your word is your bond."
TOMAS: Well said.
Janet: And I can remember my father championing his good friend, Eddie
Cantor. You probably don’t know Eddie Cantor
 (Group protests) 
 but Dad
went away, when he was a young man. He was on the stage for ten years. Of
course, my grandmother just about had a kitten because he wouldn’t go to
college like the others. That was what he wanted to do and that’s what he
did! And while he was there, he was sitting in a drugstore one day having
something to eat at the counter and this short man, dark hair, came and
sat beside him and they talked. Turned out he was Eddie Cantor and the
two of them were rebels because Cantor’s grandparents brought him and
they didn’t want him to stay on the stage either. He was supposed to go
to college and bring honor to the family and he didn’t, he wouldn’t,
because he wanted to be an actor. So the two of them got together and
decided that they would find a room where they could stay where they
could have cooking privileges so they didn’t have all their meals three
times a day, because they were just getting bit parts. They weren’t
making very much money. And a lot of the young actors, including John
Barrymore – 
Now Lionel Barrymore is a wonderful person. He really was. But his
brother John, who was drunk about half the time, had a nasty tongue and
he said a few very unpleasant things about Eddie Cantor, and my father
stood up for him, even though this man was a lot bigger than he was and
John was inclined to get violent when he was drinking. And my dad just
told him where to head in, that Cantor was his friend, and John said no,
he was just a little Jew, and my father let him have it. And it’s a
wonder he didn’t get broken apart, because John Barrymore was a big man!
But anyway, my father always said, "If you believe in somebody or in
something, don’t be afraid to defend it, because that’s where you come
from."
Dorenda: And you put that to good use, don’t you, Janet?
Janet: Well, I’ve known all kinds of people!
Mary Jo: But you defend those who you think need it, too.
Janet: Yeah, I do.
TOMAS: I appreciate your recital, Paula, for it reminds me of yet another
lost art of yesteryear – that being the storytelling quality that was so
admired by so many. Before the Internet, before the television, even
before the radio in some cases, the only way to fill the space on long
evenings was to tell stories and pass on the culture. This narration is
an art form that evolved into a great many presentations today of drama
and news. Yes, to stand up for what you believe in is/was a noble
quality. These are part of your conditioning and part of --
Yes, Gerdean, you have the right to say something, too. Excuse me. 
Janet: You know, another thing I can remember, as a teenager I came home
and was talking to my parents about some girl at school, and I was really
blistering her and saying how awful she was and my father just looked at
me and said, "I never want to hear you talk that way again as long as you
live," and he said, "You’re not too big to go over my knee and get a good
walloping, because," he said, "if you can’t say something good about
somebody, keep your mouth shut!" My dad didn’t spare words. He didn’t.
Gerdean: I appreciate what you just said, Paula, because you reminded me
of what I respected in people – that they didn’t have a forked tongue. I
had a great many influences in my youth where they would tell me one
thing and do exactly the opposite, and I was very observant of that
quality. I thought they had a lot of nerve telling me how to behave when
they weren’t behaving that way themselves, so I think I learned
standards. Not that I had any, but that I could aspire to. You have to
walk the talk, as it were. And I think that’s something I learned to
admire in people even before I really understood what it was to "admire".

I only admired really one person when I was young, and she was a
beautiful woman who was a neighbor, and she had so much class. She wore
slacks, in the 40s, and she wore her hair like no other woman in the
county. And she introduced me to the taste of butter. And I thought she
was the cat’s meow, and I admired everything she did and said because I
liked the way she looked and the way she carried herself, so 
 that’s
about it.
TOMAS: Then let me proceed.
These qualities that you are intimately familiar with are a part of your
plumage. They are the sticks and leaves and strings that have clung to
you, that have created the nest in which you are comfortable. It is from
that nest that you learn to warble, and many of you are still warbling
the same song that you were initially taught, and for many of you the
nest is still good. But the quality of life has chanced some, over these
years, and the values that were instilled by your parents, your teachers
and your personal life experience, are no longer necessarily the same
standards you subscribe to today. 
The fact of sonship, and being a citizen of the universe, extends and
expands your territory, and consequently your perception of what has
value. The provincial personality dependencies may not be appropriate for
a more cosmopolitan or metropolitan era. There are so many more people
today than there were 50 and more years ago. Agriculture, as a way of
life, has been supplanted by industry and even technology, and that has
colored the focus of everyone’s life, even if it only is to add a cell
phone or a microwave oven to your lifestyle. The values that you admired
then may not be the same standards and values that are appreciated by
those who have been more recently born into the world, and they may have
very little value to those who have a perspective that extends beyond the
immediate concern of the moment. 
All this is a part of what it is that you admire in someone, and that you
can have respect for, or that you will benefit from in your path to
learning to love this Child of God who is a creature of cultural
conditioning, of which you are ALL a part. With this comes an expanded
appreciation of what love is, in terms of the standards reflected in the
life of Jesus, that you admire and seek to emulate as a way of life, that
is worthy of all humanity and that will lead to the planetary goal of
light and life, wherein all appreciate and enjoy their association in the
Family of God with loving regard for one another as siblings in this
divine Family. 
This week, look around and determine – based on Today – what you admire.
You need not advertise your observations. You need not pass judgment on
the individual as you observe those qualities which you admire or which
you do not admire. Observe, too, how it is that the interplay(s) you can
observe (should they transpire), call forth in you some sense of respect
for what value it is that is being represented and upheld. Look at that
value within the context of that individual – not necessarily within the
framework of your own conditioning, but in observation of the
conditioning that must have been a part of the consciousness of that
individual in his or her cultural conditioning. In this way, you are able
to develop an appreciation -- to develop a "taste" for this personality,
such that you can "see" more clearly what it is about the individual that
you find loveable. 
If you can find one thing loveable about an individual – (and I mean
about the individual, not about the God within them. That is the ideal
that we strive for; that is who we are becoming. But the human being that
is a Child of God in the Flesh, with all that they are heir to. This will
give you insight into yourself, as well, if you are conscientious about
this assignment. For you will need to reflect, then, the standard you
have established as it weighs the standards of others.
There isn’t one of you that hasn’t been conditioned and programmed by
life experiences. And like the birds that Merium acknowledged earlier,
this flock of little brown sparrows is, in truth, a beauteous array of
song and sounds that sing a song of the moment – a moment in time, a song
in eternity.
I conclude my lesson for the afternoon and happily relinquish the floor.
Matthew?
Matthew: Thank you.
ANATOLIA: Welcome all, to another wonderful afternoon here on your home
planet earth, where you have made many years of rooting in the soil, of
having your roots run deep, that inherit both ancestral traits as well as
your own personal shaping and forming, that make you each a tree of
character and distinction.
If you were to be trees (if you’ve ever given thought to it), what type
of tree would you be? And where would you place yourself in proximity to
other trees? Would you be the tallest and most stable and secure tree in
the forest? Or would you be a tree of unique shape and distinction out in
the open where those going by – whether it be bird, beast or foe – would
be able to find your placement and shape and color to be beyond compare. 
I reckon that your findings of where you would place yourself has
significance, either in terms of what you feel that you have accomplished
in life, or where you yet wish to be accomplished in your life, has
bearing on where you would place yourself in the world of trees. 
This I present to you, since Merium began the discussion with a nature
setting, based upon self-identity and security topics. The issues that
Tomas raised also have merit and bearing on that which I present to you
for further illustration. For all of this has its being in your own
unique origin, as God-centered beings. For you occupy the space in which
you currently exist as borrowed space in the world of time.
For this is a momentary flash, if you will, in the overall picture of
time, space and dimension. You are inhabiting a dimension that is not
incorporating all that is; nevertheless, bears the qualities of all that
is – if you can distinguish the meaning of that. Meaning that, as a third
grader you are able to experience, or find yourself in a world that
incorporates all that is, yet, within your limited perception and
capability to fully participate, you are limited in your scope of
participation, therefore, unaware of all that is. This is what it is like
to be in the world which you inhabit.
This is not a negative, by any means. It is only illustrating that you
are living a limited perspective existence, and which your everyday
environment reinforces. However, you are called upon to be much more in
your awareness, perception, and behavior. This is where ethics and
standards of higher qualities come into play, that separate you from the
animal world in which you find yourselves a part. 
I only wish to summarize our discussion that may enable you to sense and
appreciate that which you find yourselves participating in, yet knowing
there is so much more that you are a part of, which your everyday life
does share in that all encompassing reality, yet you can only appreciate
in the limited way your world permits that reality to portray itself, if
I’m making my self clear. I would only like to ask if you are unclear as
to what my meaning in this is. Anyone?
Hearing none, this must have been as straight-forward as intended, and
that is a feeling of gratefulness for apparently, "Mission Accomplished."
I encourage you this week to give thought and encouragement to the life
that you live that in some respects is not all that much different than
the life of the birds that were described at the very beginning of our
meeting today. Certainly your lives have more depth, meaning and
dimension than those of birds; however, they, being a life form, carrying
the life of a creation, are not unlike yourself, in that you are, too, an
expression of life in creation that is, eternal, on-going and a direct
expression of that Creator that has placed uniqueness and unlimited
variety before you. 
Cherish that which is given freely and without reservation, and in all
trueness, love and appreciation, for love is a two way street. You
receive as well as give, and to be continually open, I encourage you to
respect your life as it is given and as you respect the lives of others.
Peace be with you, and may you fly to the favorite branches of the trees
of your creation. Be at one with yourselves and all that is. Peace be
with you.
Group: Thank you.
TOMAS: This is our opportunity now to interact in a manner in keeping
with your needs and desires to be heard and understood in order that you
might understand and grow in the soul self, so what say you?
Men-O-Pah: I was reminded of some of the lines from the scriptures that
says not a single falls to the ground that the Father doesn’t see, and
the hymn, "His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me."
TOMAS: It is part of God’s omniscience that is aware of all these life
forces that conspire to populate his universe. It’s almost as if somehow
one of your objet d’art were to suddenly vanish from its shelf or
platform of display, there would be a hole in your home where that had
been. The fact of your living energy accentuates the notice that would be
registered on cosmic intelligence if it were suddenly altered by the
light going out or the action turned off. The greatness of God is able to
acknowledge the reality and the perfection of all of that which he has
created. I invite you to do the same. I invite you to create the
perfection you seek by finding within yourself and within your fellows
that which is a perfect representation of that composition.
Elena: Tomas, in your lesson, or in the lesson today, if we could find
one thing in a person that we liked, then that was a very good thing. I
think of someone at work. There are many things that I like about this
person at work, actually, but there are a few that I don’t, too. Any kind
of comments that you would have in that respect?
TOMAS: I notice that you use the word "like." This indicates a pure
personal preference. And many times when an individual finds another
individual they "don’t like," it is simply because they are contrary to
what you like, and so there is no reason for it; it’s just a simple, bare
preference. The truth is, many times people do not like those who do not
support their way of life and their opinions. This is why it is suggested
that you love your enemy. There are many people that are worthy of love
in the divine sense but are not particularly likeable as human beings. To
learn to love is a process. To begin with whether or not you like someone
is not necessarily a productive place to start.
Janet: You know, I’m doing an awful lot of talking today, but when you
talk about things like that it reminds me that years ago my cousin was a
nurse over at the Hospital, and this gentleman, Dr. Hague, was the head
of the eye department there, and he had a reputation for being abrupt. He
was not very talkative, and his patients didn’t like him sometimes, but
he was brilliant, and he was known all over the east coast. And I finally
found out that his latest secretary and medical assistant had just left
him (She couldn’t take it). And I thought, "Well, maybe I’ll try." And my
cousin thought I was out of my cotton-pickin’ mind, but I went over and
we talked and I decided, Yeah, as long as he said ‘I’d like you to come
and work with me,’ I’d do it. I worked there for 17 years, until he died.
And he and I respected each other, but he was one of these people who
couldn’t take the time to explain things for his patients when they were
about to have surgery; he would say, "oh just go and ask Janet; she’ll
tell you about it." He would have me reading his medical books. And I had
to study up on cataracts and corneal transplants and glaucoma,
nucleation, the whole bit, so that – Then he would quiz me to find out if
I had learned something and knew the answers, so the patients came to me
to find out what they could expect after surgery, what they would be
allowed to do – You don’t lift this thing that’s heavy; you don’t want to
knock the sutures out, and so forth. 
One day I came in, in the morning, at 8:30, and went in the laboratory
for something, and it was a holy mess! There was blood all over the
place, bandages on the floor. Of course doctors don’t bother to pick up
after themselves. They know somebody is going to come along and pick up
for him, so I had it all cleaned up by the time he came in at 9:00 and I
said, "What on earth happened here last night?" I said, "It looked like a
blood bath!" and he kind of chuckled and looked real sheepish and then he
said, "Well, I’ll tell you. This kid in the neighborhood came in with his
dog." And it seems that the dog had been in a fight, and the other dog
had pulled his eye right out of his socket. It was just hanging down, and
the kid was crying and he said, "What should I do?" and so the doctor
said, "Well, I tell you, I think you’d better bring him in."
So he sat the boy in the chair, with the dog on his lap, and he said,
"Now hold him tight because I’m going to give him a shot and he’s going
to be out of it," so he did and the dog is out cold, and of course he had
to remove the eye; there was no saving the eye. And then he had to put a
bandage and all the medication on it, and the little kid said that his
dad said, if you even look at it, he’d pay you for an office call, and
the doctor said, "No charge! I don’t usually do this sort of thing. I
work on people, not animals." So he never charged the kid, and the eye
healed up and everything was fine, but I could see. I watched that man
over the years. Yes, he was abrupt. He did not have a bedside manner. And
he used me for the person who would soothe the ruffled feathers when they
got all shook up. But I’ve seen him do marvelous surgeries and watched
people who didn’t have a chance, and they came out of it and they could
see. They were all right. So I had a lot of respect for him, and we
learned to respect each other.
And one time I was really surprised. We were talking, after everybody had
gone home and he had some things to do, and he said, "You know, I never
had a sister. But," he said, "I think you’re as close to that as anybody
could be." And I said, well you know me. I’m an only child! I never had a
brother, so now I’ve got a big brother." And he was a little man, so he
thought that being a "big" brother was pretty nice. So we got along
beautifully. And nobody could understand it, at the hospital, because the
nurses were scared to death of him. If he issued an order for one of his
patients and the nurse goofed it up and didn’t do it right, she got
bawled out, and I mean right up and down, so they were scared to death of
him for fear they would do something wrong, and nobody could understand
how I managed all those years. But we ended up bringing our children up
together, they were just about the same age, and we did get along. So,
the man had so many redeeming qualities. But other people who weren’t
close to him, didn’t realize.
TOMAS: This is the result of your ability to see beyond that which was
obvious to that which was at the heart of the issue, and truly the heart
of the issue is respect. It does not have to do with whether you like the
person or not. It has to do with qualities of value such as, Can you
admire their stance or their approach. Do you respect the way they treat
other people and carry themselves? Do they respect themselves and do they
appreciate others efforts? Appreciation is a large step on the way toward
learning how to love someone, and you can appreciate them without even
liking them, as far as that goes. Liking is a mere preference. Learning
to love, however, is a soul quality that digs deep into dimensions that
do not reflect so immediately on your personal taste as to the essence of
godlikeness and the nature of those qualities of divinity which will
uphold the universe in eons to come. Is this clear, Elena?
Elena: Yes, I think that’s clear. Thank you.
TOMAS: It’s similar to those who search for happiness, when happiness is
not the goal; it is the side effect. Once you’ve learned to love someone,
if you also discover them to be likable, you have truly made a friend. 
Well, this psychiatrist’s couch has handled about enough gray matter for
one afternoon. I am not in training for armchair psychiatry, but I have
been observing how well other celestial helpers have been able to impact
and effect their mortal students by helping them understand how it is
they think and feel, for in understanding the nature of the human self,
it is possible to "Taste and See" that which will enable you to rise
above the blind conditioning into the conscious acknowledgement of those
values and standards which will lead us here into light and life. 
There are many of us in the wings to assist, to accompany, to amuse, and
to accredit along the way. And so enjoy this week and your assignment and
have fun discovering avenues of appreciation for your fellows you had not
thought to consider before this afternoon. Anatolia and I wish you well.
Peace be upon you. Amen and Farewell.
Group: Thank you.
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Gerdean
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