[tmtranscripts] 02-29-04 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:                 Leap Year Day
                             Sunday, February 29, 2004
LOCATION:      The Bowen Townhouse
                             Rio Rancho, NM TeaM
TEACHERS:         TOMAS & ANATOLIA
TOPICS:                 "The Passion"
                                The Atonement Doctrine
Q & A:                 Learning to T/R Concepts
                             T/R’ing Healing Energies
                             New Format – Logistics
T/R’s:                 Gerdean and Matthew
PRAYER:
Matthew:         Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ

Master Teacher,

We come to You again today, as we do every Sunday that our group meets,
to call upon You to be with us as we continue with the lessons that are
so kindly and ably given from our Spirit Friends. It is an instrumental
part of our development, which will lead to the building up of the
Kingdom, both within each of us as well as without, that which we can
touch and effect. We are grateful for the opportunity, through You and
the Teaching Mission and the designated Teachers to our group, and for
our on-going development, that we may be able to fulfill our destinies,
whatever they may be, and in appreciation for the film which Mel Gibson
has produced, which there are some positives which will come from this as
well, and we trust that it will be the positives that outlive any
negatives, but all are growth opportunities from the infinitesimal to the
sublime.

For the lessons today we are grateful and are grateful for the
opportunity for this group, for the accompanying growth afforded. 

For all of those cares and concerns within our hearts, we place before
You now. Amen

TOMAS: Good afternoon, my friends. I am Tomas, your friend and companion
and occasional teacher in these processes of expansion of your own
actualizing from the potential that lies inherent within. We rejoice in
your stance of coming forward to embrace those of us who, in our way,
advance as well in our reach for you, for this ongoing experience of
adjusting the finite to the infinite will be with you eternally. 

Even though, in time, as you ascend, this adjustment will be made less
prevalent, even so, your origin, as animal-origin beings of the worlds of
time and space, always will influence or color your personality
perspective. Only upon arriving at the portals of Paradise will you be
able to lay down your remembrance of what was, in order for you to fully
give yourself up to what is in the presence of perfection. 

But in the process of attaining such perfection in the presence of the
Universal Father Himself, there are many, many stopping places along the
way in which you are enjoined to connect with that sacred sphere of
divinity which suffices to serve your hunger for divinity attainment at
that point in time. 

This is made experientially true for you in these sessions we enjoy
together and in those moments when you, by yourselves, are inclined to
take the time to set aside the concerns of your world and your place
within it, to recharge your batteries and replenish the soul by regaining
your strength through the power that comes from On High. 

The God Within each of you is essentially God Himself, inasmuch all you
need is provided for you in that Divine Fragment which you hold within
your own soul. When you find that "the world is too much with us," will
yourself to step aside from that quicksand which, without regard for your
soul, will take delight in consuming you for its own purpose and not for
the purpose of becoming more like God, which is your eternal purpose. 

The idea of sacrifice, being a very prominent theme in the wake of the
film you are talking about, ("The Passion") calls to our attention how
steeped in this mentality your culture is -- and I speak particularly to
the Christian culture, which worships Jesus as he was and is depicted,
albeit incorrectly, by his supposed sacrificial act of dying as an
atonement for the sins of Adam. 

The error of this thinking is shot through your entire unconsciousness,
as if to die for the cause is somehow exalted 
 that if you sacrifice
yourself to some greater purpose, your reward will be felt in Heaven 

that there is something noble about sacrificing yourself and all that you
are for some real or imagined value. 

This is the problem with the atonement doctrine, for all of you are
conditioned now to this sense of sacrifice, and when you, through your
own sense of self -- (healthy self. God-conscious self) -- rise up to
reflect the truth of what Jesus taught and represented in the exemplary
and sterling life experience he lived here, you are made to feel as if
you are out of line, as if you were attempting to become assertive and,
as you understand, assertiveness is regarded as the sin of Lucifer. And
so you find yourself trapped in this position of either being the devil
or dying. What kind of choice is that? That is no choice to be
forthcoming from a loving God. 

Those of you who say you have not been subjected to the theory/the
doctrine of atonement are nonetheless quite affected by it. If you could
but understand that much of your response to life itself is based upon
that cultural conditioning. If you could examine your behavior in this
regard and place responsibility for such behaviors on the external
pressure that not only invites it but demands it, it will help you
clarify how you may be of better service to your world and to your fellow
man.

But it is a tremendous, almost overwhelming, project for it is so
insidious, and it is so closely tied in with your own reverence for your
Creator who incarnated here as a mortal, like you. It is as if you cannot
see the forest for the trees. Your empathy for him and compassion for the
experience is so emotionally overwhelming, you cannot see how it is that
you are being duped.

Just as Jesus was misunderstood, so are you. But I ask you not to
sacrifice yourself on that cross, willingly. You are not criminals. You
are not living 2,000 years ago. You are not subjected to the same rules,
even though they are in many ways the same. You must gather from Jesus’
experience that which you need to take with you – away from that scene at
Golgotha - and remember what he came to do and what he did deliver to you
through his accomplishment – not dying on the cross for you or for the
sins of your forefathers, but for bringing to you the glorious news of
the loving Father in heaven 
 who was not the God of the Hebrews. 

Jesus’ God was not a terrible and jealous God. He was not vindictive and
destructive. He was not bringing plagues of locusts or famine. He was not
smiting races of people, women and children. He was not leading man to
war against each other. These are remnants of the animal ascent from the
nature of the beast up Jacob’s ladder to the noble estate of Sons and
Daughters of a living, loving God. 

Ours is the God who has brought to you the peace that passes all
understanding, that has delivered his perfection to you through the
abundance of life as it can be seen in nature, in the flawless beauty of
the physical realm, as it is also seen in and through the Spirit of Truth
that has been bestowed upon you since Jesus departed as the Sovereign Son
of his Universe. 

The idea that God would demand such a sacrifice of his children is a
despicable idea and that so many of you in your culture continue to
expect you as "Christians" to continue that pattern of laying down your
life for the betterment of others, is also a warped idea of the goodness,
beauty, and truth of divinity. For God has called you forth, out of the
darkness, as Jesus called forth Lazarus, to rise up and live again in the
spirit, in the eternal life that is offered in joy of eternal Sonship. 

I cannot stress to you enough the importance of getting this straight in
your mind and in your heart. It is essential that you who know the
Master, you who sit with Him in the privacy of your own prayer life, you
who turn to Him for answers to your soul’s questions, clear your mind of
that erroneous thinking and give yourself freedom from that taint of your
erring ancestors. Give the children of tomorrow the opportunity to look
forward to the life that is intended for you – that being peace on earth,
goodwill toward all men. 

This is my message for today.

Group: Thank you.

TOMAS: Before I relinquish the floor to Anatolia, I would like to remind
you that there are changes afoot, even in our own group – all good
changes, all growth adjustments, adjustments to the growth and the needs
of you yourselves as you aspire to make yourselves more aware and more
available to what it is that you can do to support and add to this
tremendous challenge we are here to address ~ not as an overriding and
burdensome responsibility, no, but as a joyous undertaking for the
upliftment of these souls who linger and languish in mistaken identity. 

Formatting, we will deal with at a later time. 

Anatolia, may I pass you the baton? 

ANATOLIA: Welcome, all, to our weekly rendezvous with eternal destiny. 

This is a delight to participate in, not because I get no opportunity to
speak otherwise, but because I join one of our able Teachers, held in
esteem, not just within your group but among the other teachers within
the Teacher Corps, and am happy to be able to share my amount of breath
that I experience in the cosmic environs. 

I wish to share with you today good news of that which we have been
discussing by the lesson presented today by your Teacher Tomas. I wish to
share with you the teaching and good news that occurs as a result of that
which has transpired in your world and that which, by otherwise good
intentions, is leading to a better under- standing of that which our
teaching is about. And that is to convey to you that despite the good
intentions or perspectives that a believer in faith has, to be able to
share with the world, the outcome of this effort is a grand opportunity
for teaching. 

This opportunity is being brought about in the discussion that the
sacrifice of Jesus was not so much a lesson of sacrifice and selflessness
as it was a supreme lesson of love and surmounting / overcoming /
resurrecting / eliminating any opposition which would be placed in one’s
path. 

In other words, it is difficult to present, or to discuss, perhaps,
awkward to convey, but that in the discussions that take place, and of
those which you may have already heard or shared yourself as a result of
seeing and believing the points of view from this movie the people who
have seen it, to say that they are brought to a new level of
understanding, and are in awe at the sacrifice, are at least able to rise
to an occasion, to realize that there was a real movement of supreme
effort exerted in the sense of benefiting humankind, that if one were to
sweat blood, the effort in doing so is far beyond most humans’ capacity
to imagine. So if for no other reason than for mild to nonbelievers not
appreciating, prior to this movie, recognizing that a supreme effort was
exerted on behalf of humanity, then the movie serves a purpose. 

However, there is limited value in depicting the amount of suffering that
took place. In a sense it belittles and denigrates; it is undeserved by
Creator Son. Nevertheless, for those who are of the opinion that to
denigrate and focus on merely the brutality and depth of despair and
despicable treatment -- of any human being, let alone a Creator Son –
have at least a perspective that perhaps the blood sacrifice was more
than what it appeared to be.

Perhaps his rising above that which was despicable, incomprehensible and
vile is what Jesus intended to conquer by his expected and accomplished
resurrection from the tomb three days hence. For, after all, is this not
the magnificent part of the story? That a limitation that would appear to
have squelched, silenced, and eliminated that which people did not want
to hear, could not be silenced, could not be vanquished, and is evidence
that truth shall prevail and love is unquenchable and unconquerable. 

This is the message that underlies all that took place within the week
leading up to the resurrection. It is not as if we wish to exempt or
gloss over the events of so-called Good Friday, but rather it is because
of Good Friday that we know the Resurrection.

One can also argue: would it not have been possible for Jesus to have
lived a so-called normal life, to have retired somewhere, to have lived a
normal life and died of natural means? But this would not necessarily
have proven or indicated the supreme victory over death that he
demonstrated on Calvary. 

Despite the best efforts of a weak and un-insightful mob scene, he was
able to rise above, literally, that which is the worst of fear for anyone
in the flesh. This leads us to the conclusion that any and all efforts to
love and to serve are beyond reason for fear, hesitation, or reservation
as to the ability to leave a gift or a legacy that may be of value. 

I contend, or offer to you, that a labor to present a beautiful rose from
a child to its mother, which may have entailed sacrifice, strife and
effort to reach among the thorns into a bush to secure the flower to
leave for one’s prized love destination, this in and of itself has a
lasting giftedness and contribution that can not be bought, purchased or
otherwise duplicated. For obstacles to be overcome at such cost is truly
a magnificent presentation.

I urge you, therefore, to focus on that which Jesus did give, so that all
may have eternal life, by recognition and by development of their own
internal sources of recognition of who you are and where you hail is
worth your time, effort and commitment ~ to no longer have fear that
anyone could even put you to death for that which you offer as your gift
to humanity and to the sacredness of life.

I leave this then for your consideration as to the ongoing debate and
what you may be able to lend to it, not just in terms of discussion, but
in terms of your contribution to the Kingdom of God. It is each and
everyone’s choice and opportunity to do the most that you can with the
gift of life that you have. Not that everyone is called to such
demonstration, but whatever it is you are called to, surely it is as real
and as powerful to you as what a Creator Son demonstrated by his gift of
life.

So be of good cheer to know that you share in the co-creative opportunity
that Jesus did, by his demonstration of being and sharing the life that
is given each and every one of us. Peace be with you, and may this week
be particularly potent in your minds for eliminating the negative
connotations and limitations and for rising to the occasion to join in
the resurrection of your hearts and your minds to eternal life. 

Peace be with you until we meet again.

Group: Amen. Thank you.

TOMAS: Let us now welcome you to the exchange that we so enjoy. Are there
questions?

Reneau: There was an interview on Diane Sawyer where Mel Gibson stated
that he felt that he was moved and guided by the Holy Spirit in making
this movie, which I don’t doubt he was moved by something
 so he did this
out of his own passion 
 to pick this. Was there celestial help? A
corroboration?

TOMAS: Let me turn your question around and ask you this: as you all
approach the work of consciously following what you perceive as the
divine will, what about then, those who have become sacrificial lambs to
the cause of strapping themselves with bombs to be destructive of those
elements that in their perspective are destroying that which they regard
as unholy? 

The idea of being led and guided by the Spirit is always a frail
perspective, for it is subject to human error. The idea of passion itself
if fraught with concern, for passion is an emotional condition and the
Spirit is not an emotional state of being, although devotees of a
religious perspective are often ‘on fire’ with their point of view that
it is the most important value in existence. 

How can it be that the passion of Mel Gibson is any greater than the
passion of Osama Bin Laden, when you look at what their programming is,
their conditioning? If you are, to some, "the infidel" in such a degree
and to such an extent that entire nations are rising up against you, what
scourge does such a passion add to this drama? 

Yes, it could be said that anyone who has a passion that is perceived to
be divinely sanctioned is augmented by spirit aid and power, but you
cannot then say that one is superior to the other. Passions are
dangerous, for they are without thinking. This is an intelligent
universe. Intelligence is essential to wise planning and to following
through to create a stable base of reality for the global environment. 

The danger of religious war rises when the passion of the "spirit of man"
is committed to his ideals of his idea of what is the "Spirit of God." 

Does that shed any light on your question?

Reneau: Um-hum. 

TOMAS: "Be still and know that I am God." In the stillness, in that
citadel of the spirit where you repose with the Master in sublime worship
of that which is most precious to you, you will not find a need to
destroy. You will find no evidence of ranting and raving, raging or
railing against – only in praise of, in support of, in service to, in
longing for. This is the illumination of the spirit, the divine light
that casts a soft loving glow over humanity and not a glaring neon light
that seeks to search out and find and destroy an alleged enemy. 

It is that kind of thinking that got Christ crucified! It is in error. It
is not noble; it is destructive. Be still and think! Think about the
effects of your causes, about the immediate short-term effect as well as
the long-range effect. Passion acts now. Without thinking. Only from a
sense of urgency and importance. Passion takes what it wants to satisfy a
terrible desire. To satisfy itself. This is antithetical to the peace
which passes all understanding and to the glory of God. 

Beware of fanaticism of this sort. Be wary of these kinds of emotions,
for while they speak to the heart of man, they speak to the lesser being.
They draw mankind back into the broiling, bubbling cauldron of confusion
that is at the root of the problem: that chaos which came from
Caligastia’s reign as a result of Lucifer’s unwillingness to allow the
natural unfolding of destiny to take place slowly but surely and
naturally, according to the divine plan. Thus, you see, impatience is
also a dangerous passion.

Being excited does not necessarily mean that you are being touched by the
spirit. Think before you act. Think before you respond. Add wisdom to
your composition. Remember the lessons of the seven adjutant mind
spirits, that five of them are animal, just as 5/7 of your very existence
is animal, at the top of which is worship which may worship any number of
approaches to divinity, and this, still further, is crowned by the
adjutant mind spirit of wisdom, which can perceive that all of the lesser
spirits serve a purpose but cannot be the be all and end all of your
existence. 

If you must sacrifice anything, sacrifice the perspective of the seven
adjutant mind spirits to the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Truth will
not tell you to rise up in passion against that which you don’t
understand. It will lead you into the ways of peace. 

This is very difficult for you to understand and to tolerate, because you
are so short-sighted. Borrow upon our perspective. Borrow upon the
farther view, the long-range plan. This way, when you lay down your tools
and pick up the burden of the Master, you will go forth celebrating his
gifts, offering yourself in service to the understanding of this thing
called Sonship, this eternal relationship with divinity that defies human
passion and ascends into the realm of perfect peace. 

Often when Anatolia and I close our session we stress "peace be upon
you," "be of good cheer," "peace I leave with you." Peace is the way of
the God-conscious son of man. 

What else? Are there questions?

Maria: You spoke of healing and transmitting/receiving and we were
discussing with other people that we were going to do it.

TOMAS: Yes.

Maria: Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by
healing?

TOMAS: Certainly. Healing is correcting. In order to heal, one assumes
there is something that needs healing, something that is out of sorts,
out of kilter, out of the fine design. If you pursue a course of healing,
you will need to have a greater understanding of what we’ve been
discussing – the nature of perfection as compared to the nature of chaos,
for chaos is imperfection. Chaos is in a state of not knowing itself, or
not being in keeping with its essential need to be. 

Healing entails ascertaining where the confusion lies, where the missteps
are, even to how they originated, allowing order to enter in and become
the prevalent reality. It is a process of prayer, which would seek that
the divine will be done in all things, even into the pattern of
perfection that is inherent in all of creation, as it was intended, even
before the effects of the default and the rebellion, even as it was
implanted – perfectly – in the life implantation in you, in your life
origin on this world.

The Life Carriers brought perfect pattern and planted it within the
living water of your world. It was sparked into life by the Mother Spirit
who actuates all of the material creation, and so the Mother ministers as
you seek to heal that which is in error. See the pattern that is
instilled by Universal Mind, that Third Source and Center which refers to
the material worlds. As those disruptions affect the personality and
social intercourse, appeal to the Eternal Son, the Second Source. And as
it impacts on the relationship between the child and the Father, appeal
to the Universal Father, the First Source. In this way you bring the
energies of Paradise into your paradigm of thinking and you ask for the
pattern of Paradise to recreate itself in the realms over which you would
minister.

In healing, you are simply asking that everything be returned to the
pattern for which it was intended. There are those who feel that in being
healed or being corrected, (which is just about everything; indeed this
is the Correcting Time,) it is an attempt by you to bring the original
pattern back into being. It is there. It is at the root of your reality.
But it has been scrambled. Defiled. Disheveled. But it is not destroyed.
If there is life, then the divine pattern is inherent within and there is
no reason why you cannot expect a miracle.

Be, therefore, of good cheer in your approach to healing others and in
healing yourself of those perspectives and perceptions that have been
distorted by the vagaries of existence and the ill-advised decisions of
your prior mentors. You may deal with energy, yes. Energy is a part of
the process of invoking healing. But neglect not the personality of the
Paradise Trinity, which gives personality to the process. It gives you
who are in the process of correcting, associative appreciation since the
universe is not entirely mechanistic, but is also personal.

Much like the patient gives himself up to the care of the physician,
encourage those you would assist to give themselves up to the care of
that Dear and Glorious Physician which you represent and have interceded
on behalf of, for in this way you are a channel of assistance. You are
representative of the willingness of the Divine to reach down to and into
its child and set right the wrongs which have been implanted. This will
add another dimension and courage to that individual who seeks to rise
above his limitations and deficiencies, to greater health, wholesome
fulfillment, and radiant joy of being. 

We had indeed talked of learning how to tap into that Source. This gets
me back to the paragraph I inserted earlier, the logistics that this will
entail. This group is coming up on its two-year anniversary, and thus
this is a good time to review the patterns that we have established and,
where appropriate, up-step our program of learning without disrupting the
foundations that have already been well established. 

We need your input on how to go about the adjustments, rather than merely
telling you how we will comport ourselves for the next period of time,
for this is your learning platform. And while we are delighted to come,
and honored to serve, it will be you who ultimately makes the choices
that you can live with and which will allow you to continue advancing in
your spirit tutelage, without succumbing to the lure of the worldly ways
which would leave us swept ashore, beached, disembarked from our sojourn.

What I would suggest is that in your social time you give voice to your
preferences and your needs. I urge you to continue to meet weekly. I
think, without being invasive, it is evident that the weekly pattern has
not hurt anyone, even though there are variations within that pattern
which give everyone an opportunity now and again to venture away for
various and sundry reasons. 

There is no quota required, although with varying needs, both on your
side and our side, it may do you well to structure your weekly gatherings
such that we can take care of all our needs and desires in terms of what
we meet for with a structure which will benefit you all. 

Work with that prospect in mind, with alternate weeks or associative
choices. For example, Anatolia might take a Sunday and I take a separate
Sunday, so as to give Anatolia an opportunity to extend her expression
beyond that of being my assistant or associate but developing herself in
her own right. It would also provide me an opportunity to forego my
pattern with you such that you find more variety in your gatherings. 

Each of you ought to learn this technique, and you could sacrifice your
social session for group practice on a weekly basis or choose a week or
two per month to engage in that process, remembering that as you opt to
learn the process of transmitting/receiving, you are also accessing the
realms of spirit energy and divine personality which will in turn help
you to better understand the association we enjoy. From that experiential
standpoint, you will better understand the process of healing. And so all
of us benefit from this expansion of our normal platform. 

After two years of quality association, it is our sense that the
expansion is necessary.

It is up to you, however, how we will go about that and, referring to my
earlier admonishment, I will ask you to think. Think about what it is you
want to get from this reality we share and seek within yourself that
which your soul yearns for, and if we may be of service. We are here for
that purpose.

Within these remarks is the necessity to point out to you that there are
many other teachers in this mission and throughout the galaxy that are
aware of our experiment here on Urantia and attend these gatherings
apropos of their being able to also contribute. Thus, there are visiting
students and visiting teachers, not to overlook the constancy of the
midwayer corps who are always in attendance, the various orders of angels
who are also aware of our efforts, in hopes of your eventual development
to put them to greater use in constructive methods of uplifting your
world, and other members of the Teacher Corps who also are available for
augmenting your sense of perception. 

Abraham almost always attends, as does Machiventa Melchizedek, although
they are not pressured into speaking. We are very prosperous in our
resources. 

There are many who would willingly come and engage you in the process of
learning to transmit, and as you get to know their personality, your
working association with them will be enhanced in more ways than you
would imagine from the inexperienced position you hold as a non-T/R as
compared to those who have learned this art of communication. What else
can I say?

What I can also say is how much we enjoy your company and, without
intending to overlook your personal guides, and your guardian angels, you
are a vast host of ministering spirits, even as we sit here today in this
amphitheater in the round. Even though you think you are a handful of
mortals, we are legion. 

We have tentacles that reach out, not only into your community, but into
the spheres, sister planets, and distant points of light, all focusing on
your growth in the spirit, for your growth in spirit reality is part of
the scaffolding and structuring that will lend impetus to the furtherance
of god consciousness in your arena that extends to the age of light and
life, which will also enhance the system and the constellation and
Michael’s universe of Nebadon, which then reflects its light even into
Paradise itself. 

While you enjoy your limited perspective most of the time, remind
yourself on occasion of how far into infinity your influence extends, and
for which Anatolia and I are supremely grateful, for as you grow, we are
made to look better, and all the worlds of time and space are able to see
the light of Urantia growing stronger, growing brighter, and growing more
and more beautiful as these sundry lights come on as stars twinkling in
the night sky. 

Precious students, we bid you good afternoon. Be of good cheer. Peace be
upon you. Amen and farewell.
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