[tmtranscripts] Transmitter Influence [08-26-97.BUT]

[Gerdean]

DATE: August 26, 1997
LOCATION: Butler, PA, USA
T/R: Gerdean and Hunnah (Roles Reversed)


TEACHERS TOMAS & MERIUM
Human Coloration of Transmissions
Are New Age "ologies and isms" Retrograde?
Making Preparations for Mansonia
The Safety Net of the Urantia Text

MERIUM: I am Merium. Good evening, my daughters.


Group: Good evening!

MERIUM: You are surprised to hear me. I am not surprised to hear you. I have introduced myself this evening through Gerdean, not to alarm you but to introduce an aspect of community, and that has to do with the ability to transmit a teacher no matter where this teacher comes from. I would like to offer Tomas to you, Hunnah, in-as-much as he is an old friend of yours and you know him well.

Let me say, however, that this surprise shift in the manuscript is not required, nor is it something that should cause you consternation. I suggest this because it would behoove you to learn to appreciate Tomas as a personality and not as a scholar. You seem to look to him as an authority on textual matters and, how would you say, "left brain activities." He is a child of God, as any other.

I also add that there was a time in our community history here where Gerdean felt that I, Merium, was not accessible or attainable to her, nor even particularly desirable, for I had become comfortable with you. And it became clear, in time, that it was necessary for she and I to bond, to become friends, to become one. As a result of our communion, now we have a lightening-up in her that I have found refreshing and from which the group has benefited. She has come to appreciate my personality and how it is that I affect my children, my students.


Would you be amenable to transmitting Tomas?


Hunnah: By all means.

MERIUM: I am going to "cheat" a bit, for I know that there have been some questions set to paper. I will ask Leah if she will take one of the questions and address them to myself and Tomas and we will then operate as your customary teachers, and yet we will address you through this shift in transmitters. Is that acceptable to everyone? 

Group: Yes. 

MERIUM: Before we commence with the experiment, perhaps Tomas would like to greet you this evening.

Leah: We'd love to hear from him.

TOMAS: Testing, testing, testing. It appears to me that this facility is adequate. Surprise surprise. (Group laughter) Merium is correct. Something happened to Hunnah that she is suddenly cooperative. I think the other evening's rehearsal gave her confidence, and I must say that all will benefit from this opportunity. Well! I feel as if I'm on a quiz show. What about you, Merium? 

MERIUM: I am ready for the envelope, please.
Leah: Where is the envelope? (Group laughter) I didn't know anything about this.
Gerdean: I didn't expect it myself!
TOMAS: I hope you don't ask us to spell. (Group laughter)

Human Coloration of Transmissions

Leah: Are we ready? I don't know who wrote this, but ... "Teacher, I'm painfully aware of the human coloration of our transmissions and fearful of diminishing the intent of the Teaching Mission. In setting this question down, I fear I am asking you to assure me that my ego is all right! I need to look up to you, to respect you, but I sense I and we keep dragging you down to our level. Please counsel me."

TOMAS: Ladies first.

MERIUM: Thank you, Tomas. The question is noted and provides a plethora of opportunity to respond, but I would, in my fashion, like to say first that you seem to feel, when you say that you are bringing us down, that you are in a lowly place, and I understand that your textbook does testify to your lowly status, but even so, my child, you are a daughter, a son of the living God, and this is no mean existence!

Your existence here is quite wondrous indeed. It is an adventure for us to reach down to meet you! It is not, after all, as though you refuse to come up, for you do! You attend these sessions. You eagerly embrace our presence. That, in and of itself, bespeaks your status. Do not worry that you are bringing us down. We have volunteered to "come down," after all. If and when you find that our humor has become crude or our motives have become selfish, then perhaps you can worry, but for now be assured that we are not being undignified by befriending you. This is our sublime privilege.

It is part of my ministry as a teacher to meet you (and I have spoken to you, Gerdean, of this before). I am not above getting down on the floor and playing with my children. I do expect you to rise to the occasion when the occasion presents itself, but even here I know that you have, as a child of God, an understanding of dignity and responsibility and worth and all those things that comprise your association with God. I need to have faith in you, as you need to have faith in me. It is all right. Fear not.

TOMAS: I find it rather interesting to be with Hunnah this evening because I have access to her very fresh experience. When she sat down in this chair she experienced a new type of preparation, and she found that she was declaring herself as Hunnah and not as the lowly individual who was trying to T/R. In a sense it's almost like a banana skin, the human vessel, and the being that you are becoming, who has received a name for the purpose of these discussions, to help you remember that you are more than you appear to be. And when she allowed herself to accept that name, she realized that she could stretch out and offer herself as a vehicle for my or Merium's delivery.

Perhaps with some imagery you could (I'm speaking to the one that offered this question) imagine yourself as being given a microphone in your hand and being asked to hold it for someone else to speak. In a sense that's what you are doing. You are becoming a microphone for our sessions, and I would like to make reference to this business of coming up and going down and coming up. I would like to be done with it. Let us suppose that we are in a room and it has a door. We open the door and we are all together in the community room. There is not your side and there is not my side. It is that we are together in unity.

There is another something special here that I would like to expound on, and it has to do with the biblical phrase where you stand at the door and knock. This is true at a certain stage of your development, and you can use that phrase as a comfortable crutch, but let us suppose that once you just touch the handle on the door, and you open it, you find out that the door is immense. The door, when you're first in this experience, may seem miniscule because you are uncertain of the relationship of what that door represents, but as you travel on your journey and you have met with us many times, we are simply coming towards each other.

There are many descriptions that sound like limitations and I would like to encourage you all to be done with it. Let us put away the childish talk. We are simply coming together in a room of camaraderie of common knowledge and I want you to accept your new positions and your identity and our relationship with you.

We wear the title "Teacher" for the sake of introduction, but what we really are here to do is to waken you to what you already know. It is in you. It is of you. And we are having this discussion and these sessions so that they may be sewed into the community in your dialog and everyday conversations, and that this good will will travel every bit the way light travels, like fragrance touches people, the currents of the air carry out the identification that is sweet and helpful, the words will be sweet and helpful.

And I want you to put down this business of being shy. We have been together for quite a while now and I would like to see you stand straight and tall and confident in your new awareness and in your final acceptance, I hope that tonight you will commit yourselves to this and there will be no bowing and cow-towing, and the ranks will be no longer necessary, the robes will be set aside, and we will find out that we are indeed a community in the body of Christ, as they say in the scriptures.

So I appreciate that question and I hope that whoever has asked it will receive a copy of this transcript and be done with her baby steps and spread out her confident stride and go to it.

MERIUM: I would like to further address the question and it was spurred, Tomas, by your most thrilling invitation to stride in confidence of living faith, and the section of the question in question here is the use of the word "ego." The use of the word "ego" would infer that the questioner felt that ego was somehow unsavory or undesirable, and I would like to chat about that for a moment.

When you are at one with the universe, when you are one with God, when your will is in alignment with His will, your ego is a mere identity of your individuality and not the ego of the material realms that is interested in beating out the other guy at any cost. Refuse to accept the old definition of ego for yourselves. Accept that your identity now is indeed that which you have become by way of being born of the spirit.

That we share ideas and ideals is good; that we teachers bring concepts to you for your chewing and understanding and edification, and that you do understand and enjoy and delight in these concepts; that you take them on as your own (which they are), is a surefire indication that we are working together, in unity, and that my thoughts are your thoughts and vice versa. It is a harmonious conjoining of motives. I thought that the word ego bore some dwelling on, Tomas. Would you like to add also?

TOMAS: I am pleased with your comments. The ego here in this case is something similar to what Hunnah had to deal with, and what happened was that she remembered that she had denied herself great wisdom and companionship for many years by fearing - fearing - that it was her ego that was bringing it in and that this was not a genuine use of her time. And she has regrets that she lost that time, but understood that the same frequency that companioned her simply took on another form and approached her from another direction, so you are not lost, but your fear of misuse of yourself is no longer of concern. This concern of leaving familiar surroundings will soon dissolve, because what will be familiar to this person will be the level in which we are at this present moment. Thank you. Is there another question?

Are New Age "ologies and isms" Retrograde?

Leah: Yes, there is. "Teacher, I feel like the elder brother of the prodigal son. All this New Age stuff, this psychic wave, magic, and "ologies" in vogue were part of the 60's. I've 'been there, done that' en route to a more mature spirituality. I say, why do I feel angry that it be so popular? People are profiting financially right and left from this stuff, which is like miracle working! It won't hold up over time. And I'd feel like a retrograde if I encouraged it. Help!"

TOMAS: Do you want me to speak, or were you prompted with that? 
MERIUM: Proceed, Tomas. I will follow up.

TOMAS: This is not unfamiliar territory for my hostess. We have to understand that in this awakening process, the -let's get back to ego -- the ego will want to be comfortable, and you have to remember that when you were interested in these areas, that you were also feathering your nest. It's a phase that you go through, and even though they may have the Spirit of Truth flowing in them, there is a fascination for these other areas that can help people design a new and better life, and as they experiment with this, they will tire, and see that it is not bringing the fulfillment that they hoped it would bring.

It will bring in new friends; it will bring in a new audience; it will bring in new cliches; it may bulge their purse for awhile -- and forevermore for that matter -- but in the long run, their spirit will lead them home.

And when you feel rather disgruntled, fear not. You are looking back at something that you have outgrown and you must allow others to have their own experiences. It was once given to my friend here, by a wise teacher who said that even if the student studied with the Hotentot's, they would tire of it and their spirit would lead them on, they would leave their group and bring them a greater sense of fulfillment, greater knowledge and greater release to serve their high calling that was stirring in them.

So as we see the many little campfires of questioning arising in the great awakening that is going on here, please do not be alarmed. Be yourself. When they have questions, your maturity and your development of your countenance will be very evident. They will recognize it and you will be there for them when they have need of you. Merium?

MERIUM: Yes. My friend, I am amused by your inquiry - in particular that you begin your dismay by stating that you feel like the elder brother of the prodigal son. I call to your attention the inflated ego of your remark then, for you admitted you have "been there, done that," and so how can you say that you have stayed at home and been noble all this time when you in fact played in the many "isms" and "ologies" of the fields of the Lord yourself? Perhaps you are feeling sour grapes.

But let me ease your fraught condition somewhat and say that you do have a right to feel like an elder brother, for you are seeing the children playing and you have played in these games and in these playgrounds. The wisdom that you have garnered from your many years of experience is what gives you now this - shall we call it sadness? - in your understanding that in some respects these bubbles will burst or will lose their charm and the seeker, perforce, will return to the path for deeper guidance.

Even here, my dear, it is not called upon for you to worry about your younger brothers and sisters, for they are looked after, and the Father knows truly what they seek. Think in terms of maturity in truth, for if you stand fast to what you are being guided into, you are proof that we have hailed you as the vanguard of those who will lead the children of time and space into the era of Light and Life.

TOMAS: This person who has asked the question is not here this evening to state that they are satisfied with our response, but if this reply reaches them, as I expect it will, and there is more in their heart, they are free to approach their own teacher, or an available teacher with further questions if it does not come from this group. I wish them well.

MERIUM: Are there other questions? [No response] 
TOMAS: Shall we take a break then, and perhaps something will surface.
MERIUM: Let these mortals stir up some question, yes. We will be in recess.

[Intermission]

Making Preparations for Mansonia

Leah: There was another question. "Somewhere in the Urantia Book it talks about people in Light and Life who get the word from 'On High' that they are going to be translated to the Mansion Worlds. The word comes down for them to wind up their affairs and get ready to leave, whereupon all the family and friends turn out to celebrate the event. Did that happen to you?" Let's ask Merium and also Tomas. Whoever would care to respond first.

TOMAS: I would like to request that Merium answer first because Hunnah is squirming.

MERIUM: Essentially you are asking how did we die. I have to think about it. But your question has to do with whether or not I was prepared in advance. One moment. And I say "one moment" because it is necessary for me, in this case, to receive permission to answer that question. One moment. I can give you a very cursory response, but not the details of my departure from my native sphere.

I was not fully apprised of my impending departure. I didn't know for sure, but it just happened, in my case, that my affairs were fairly well wound up. You might be able to identify with your own life in some regards, not to your death necessarily but to what you might call era, an era in your life, that you knew that a job, for example, would be coming to a close, or a relationship would be coming to a close. 

It is not uncommon to be psychically prepared for the next experiential sojourn. I was somewhat finished with an experiential episode, but I was not aware that I was going to be called away to the Mansion Worlds. My world was more advanced than Urantia (and I will not answer for Tomas but I know that his civilization was quite advanced even though the entire planet was not).

And so the bottom line, I suppose, is that if you are sensitive to your life in its cyclic nature, you will be more and more prepared with each cycle to approach that cycle when it arrives. I would encourage you, in fact, to be sensitive to the possibility. Not yet to translate, perhaps; you are all very young; but in due time. It is not something you need to worry about. As in all things in the spirit, in the Father's kingdom, it is a natural occurrence.

And that is all I will say about that. It is obviously a curiosity question, but it does point out the innate curiosity of the mortal who will one day leave the terrestrial spheres. And yes it is true. In the advanced worlds, it is very clear. And you may prepare. And it is a celebration. And won't it be wonderful when we approach death here like that - in your world - as a victory, as a graduation, as an accomplishment, rather than the mournful event that it is depicted in your world today?

TOMAS: Thank you. There are cultures that exist in the world today that have among the wise ones -- and when I say the wise ones, I might say the ones that are in a sense open to the circuitry of light and life -- who accept the transfer of one existence to another as a continuing journey. And I see here in Hunnah's repertoire the Reiki Master from Japan who called his family together to announce that he was going to be leaving because he did not want to be involved in any more death and dying through war and he knew that he would be re-commissioned into the Navy.

This is not the choice of someone who is running, but from someone who has already met the criteria of a high blend existence of service and enlightenment. There are those who will know it consciously and those who will be sensitive to it unconsciously and they will put their affairs in order without even realizing that this is what they are doing externally. Their families will not even be aware.

If everyone were to be in tune with the spirit of his or her true identity, this orderliness would be on a conscious level as well as on an unconscious level and communication within the community would be accepting of it. We are talking about many walls at many levels, but there is this road, this Way, that has already been prepared, and at this moment in time and space these variations of fear and enlightenment are living together like wheat and tares. But there is, within each of us, the ability to follow this higher path and to have this as a smooth journey. 

One does not have to suffer before they leave. They do not have to be withered and used up before they leave. Nor do they have to remain and work out the hassle of all the relationships of all those that they have known in their tenure. There is no especially correct answer here because this is uniquely individual. But as you allow yourself to be ascended to light and life, you will find that this is a natural course, that you will have completed a level of service here on Urantia and that you are free to leave or extend your stay. Has that helped?

MERIUM: Yes, you were having a very lively intermission, and we almost regret that you had to stop your lively discourse in order to get us back on-line. Perhaps we can join you in your lively discourse. What is it now that you were discussing?

The Safety Net of the Urantia Text

Leah: We were discussing meditation techniques, silence approaches, vibrations, energy. It sounds like a whole other evening's discourse.

TOMAS: I'll flip the coin with you, Merium.
MERIUM: I will be happy to follow up, Tomas. Proceed.

TOMAS: What I see this evening is an expansion of the safe world of your textbook. You are taking the truths that you have learned and allowing yourself to journey out into the community to compare notes, and you are discovering that all mankind is on the move, and that regardless of where they are, they are going to come about, and you will have your opportunities to share the information of the beloved text with those of you of other practices without any suggestion of soliciting.

You will simply be able to allow them to know that such a wonderful compilation of wisdom and knowledge is available and that it can bring them greater hope and it will bring them closer to the reality of their greatest dreams. It will free them from the pie in the sky, so to speak, and give them something more secure, more stable perhaps than -- even though the promises that they have had among their choices have sustained them, they will have been stretched without their really being aware of it, so that their appetite will be ready for greater teaching, they will be more receptive, and when the student is ready, they will find a teacher or a setting.

Now this teacher does not necessarily mean one that is physical. It may mean that the teacher within their self is waking, or I should say has been contacted, and they will be able to graze upon them, a great feast of preparation that is here and waiting, because I have reminded you earlier in the evening that we are together side by side and not afar, having to be called in. Have you noticed that the preparations of our conversations is almost automatic? That there is not a great waiting for the light to go on, so to speak? We are here with you and we are among those whom we hope to know in the future, very close in the future. Thank you.

MERIUM: I have the pleasure now of following up with a basket of flower petals that I will strew upon the path of those who count themselves among the light workers and energy workers, for although they are often in ignorance of the advanced theologies and cosmologies, they are, even so, acutely, keenly cognizant of the vibrational changes inherent in the opening of the circuits. 

The almost dizzying array of vibrations and energies that are dancing pell mell on your planet, particularly in certain areas, are in many ways fostered, encouraged and made more actual by those who support these energies, Even though they may not know what the energies are or the vibrations are, they know how they feel. They know it feels good, and they know that somehow it is related to God or to a sublime reality beyond the one that they have been accustomed to here in this long, dark sphere.

Now, for example, those lovely children who have -- I forget the phrase they use, but they have somehow anchored, by way of vortex, by way of sanction, by way of acknowledgement, a particular plot of real estate -- have actually, in their celebration, in their ritual and in their pronouncements, called attention to the reality of spirit in the environment. "The Point" in Pittsburgh is an example of God made manifest in the minds and hearts of those who contributed to the angels over Pittsburgh in that vortex occurrence, as in the Turtle in Niagara, New York.

These events are all part of the flowering, the effects of Correcting Time. Indeed, the spirit is vast. The precious, priceless, personal relationship you have with the Father in heaven, the association that you have with Jesus, and with the Spirit of Truth, are not all the resources available to you. The energies and patterns of Paradise also pelt your planet, and are literally dancing in your environment. All towns would do well to have a day to acknowledge the reality of living spirit, external of the churches and the traditional understandings of energy. It is more than electricity.

I am somehow reminded of the political parades that take place in your cultures. I remember they had gay pride parades to call attention to their existence, as they have done with the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as they have done with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and senior citizens and Special Olympics. These events call attention to a facet of your world and brings them honor and acknowledgement, and so these young people, young in spirit, young in wisdom, have brought the same delightful joy to their innocent comprehension of this grand and glorious spirit and said, "Look! This day, this town, at this spot, we have anchored spirit reality. It is staying. We will see to it. We will support each other in celebration of its existence."

Energy is in music, is in art, is in science, is in love. Energy is abounding and abundant. It is an open field as to how you may lasso a piece of energy and master it, ride it into eternity. Have fun! Ask your angels to help you formulate your energy in accordance with the divine plan and Wow! What a merry-go-round! What a carousel of happiness you can create.

Well, I don't know if that warrants an entire evening's discourse but I seem to have gotten on a role and done a fair job of it. I would shut up now, however, and see if Tomas would like to add some more or if you, Leah, would like to complain that we have not addressed your issue or whatever.

Leah: Well, you certainly have addressed it. I'd like to hear more, but not this evening. I'm too tired. I think Hunnah is tired this evening, too.

TOMAS: The only thing that Tomas was going to comment about this evening was that if you look at a chip or at a circuitry of a ...

MERIUM: Electronic circuit board?

TOMAS: Circuitry. ... It is as if you had your own sensitivity that can relate to other sensitivity, and if you add color to all of this and movement, you have a dancing, living, moving tapestry network that is interacting, depending upon the harmony and of lesser harmony, and as it is responsive to the great Source of its intent, this responsiveness can expand its versatility.

It will recoil from something that is not harmonious with it and go its way. I do know that this is not a specialty of mine, but I want you to know that you are all alive, are yourself, are dancing and vibrating to an inner listening, an inner sound, resonating harmoniously with the great sound of the center of the universe. And there are many people who have specialized in this subject and who express it very well. Do not hesitate to let in such guidance. It is a wondrous adventure.

Leah: Thank you.

TOMAS: I think we have had a very successful evening. I understanding that you have been traveling, Leah, and we are looking forward to being with you again. You have a very sweet dream this evening.

Leah: Thank you, for everything. 
TOMAS: Thank you, Merium.

MERIUM: Thank you, Tomas, and our lovely flock. We have indeed had a fine party and I am tickled to have engaged in it with this new T/R. I think that you sounded very much like yourself, Tomas. .

TOMAS: Thank you. 

MERIUM: ... and so I would like to thank your transmitter, Hunnah. I am most pleased. 

TOMAS: I did not wear a tie this evening. (Group laughter)
MERIUM: I didn't wear panty hose, either. (Group laughter)
TOMAS: Good night, everyone. I hope to see you all on Thursday.
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