[tmtranscripts] [11-18-97.BUT] including "Emotional Everglades"

[Gerdean]

DATE: November 18, 1997
LOCATION: Butler, PA, USA
T/R's: Gerdean and Hunnah


TOMAS, MERIUM, MORONTIA COMPANION
The Art of Communication; 
Love: The Superior Way 
Emotional Everglades; 
Inward and Upward


TOMAS: Good evening, children.

Group [Hunnah, Gail, Aniela, Gerdean and Leah]: Good evening.

TOMAS [Gerdean]: We are here and as you know we have been here for quite some time, enjoying your communion in the human realms, one with the other. You understand, and last week we rejoiced in, how good it is that you enjoy each other's company, and find laughter and camaraderie among yourselves, even with your many differences of character and background. Now this evening we are again rewarded to see another level of oneness among you, and that is in your emotional realms as women in the experiential mode.

There are obviously many, many responses that are available in the realms of the mind in response to your many emotional sharings this evening. The category of subject matter pertaining to spousal association is one that has carried humankind over the hills and dales of discourses and behavior for more centuries than we have been apprised of Urantia; but it is not our intent to give you an elongated dissertation of the human condition as it relates to spousal relationship, in particular not when the subconscious realms of you all are rife with the inherent emotional and sentimental mainstream of the situations presented and reflective of your cultural values.

What I will however do is inform you that your sharing this evening was of an ilk that is invitational to Morontia Companions. I would like to bring one of the Companions in to visit with you briefly, and in its association in socialization with you, you will feel elevated and rise above the rich emotional tapestry of your evening's discourse. I will return, of course, and Merium is also with me and will witness the effect of the Morontia Companions upon your souls and your personalities. We will visit with you then after the Companion has concluded his time with you.

MORONTIA COMPANION [Gerdean]: Gracious listeners, peace be upon you. How fine you shine. Your lights are steady this evening. Your emotional currents have subsided from the tumult earlier. You are similar to a pond, a pond of water. Each of you is a pond of water, individually, and your ripples are in accordance with your association with your core, and so when your core is at peace, your ripples are still, and you are reflective of peace, that peace which passes all understanding; you are serene and approachable, and it is then that your mouth is able to spill forth those pearls of divine wisdom which enlighten and enrich lives of those around you.

When you are in your emotional eddy, which is part of the flow of the water, you are like a washing machine that has its agitator activated and your waters splash! You make waves. You spread your moisture on the banks about you, and this is a way of allowing the stagnancy to dissipate. It churns the water for a purpose. The emotions are here for a purpose, and they are not to be eschewed. It is a wonderful opportunity for you to feel and experience the bounty of life as a creation of the divine Creator, and this occurs in and through your emotional composition.

And yet, when the tumult has passed, the ripples subside and your waves lap gently upon the shore, your ripples allow for a rocking, gentle movement for those lily pads you are familiar with, that your little frog kingdoms can find harmony in croaking to one another across the pond. And I have observed your storm at sea this evening and have observed the waves subside. I have seen you assume your place upon your lily pad and assume, too, the lotus blossom that accompanies you in your sphere. And now we sit in the larger pond altogether, in the living waters indeed, appreciating the lull of tranquility in the waters that have been purified of the algae and stagnancy of non-action.

We are now free to commence the art of communication, and so I have made my appearance as a Morontia Companion and for those of you who are not familiar with a Morontia Companion, you may read about us in your text. We are companions; we are companionable. We are not full of advisements. We are not here to teach or preach, but to companion you.

Now, the art of communication between mortals is a hard art to develop. Your culture has given us a panoramic cinema of engagements to observe and wonder at, but only as you elevate your awareness of reality into those realms of morontia reality that is that level of mental appreciation that abuts and bridges the realms of the spirit, can you appreciate the full nature of a morontia communication and at that time begin to appreciate and savor the concept of the association of a Morontia Companion such as myself.

It is not, at this point in your evolution, a diet you would choose to have night and day, for it is still desirable that you have some agitation and tumult in your emotional realms, as it is a natural part of growth that these throes take place. You splash in the water as you make these changes. It is necessary. It is only when you have allowed these things to subside that your appreciation for a morontia communication or association is appropriate and allowed.

These kinds of communications will continue, advance, accumulate and increase as time goes by. It is our hope, our purpose, our intention, in exposing you to some of our personality aspects, that you will find a certain degree of dignity and poise and ease of being, that you will find a morontial way of life enticing and comforting. 

In your association with your teachers, both a personal and a group teacher activate you in terms of your growth -- your cosmic, emotional, intellectual, psychic and so forth growth -- but when you associate with a Companion, you are not striving, you see, you are being and sharing your being with others who also know how to be. 

I will come back and visit you another time. It has been a pleasure and a rare occasion for me to express myself this way. Adieu.

TOMAS: Merium, as my colleague, I am eager to hear from you and to hear your remarks to the class regarding our associate and any other remark that you would make.

MERIUM [Hunnah]: Good evening, everyone. I hesitate to introduce myself in the evening talks because I like to hear Tomas and I like to hear him say it all, and then when he winds down, then I'm allowed to come in. Hunnah plays Scrabble with a friend and she likes to be second also; it gives her something to build upon, and I would like to take this evening's sorrows and make a little fire out of them, and we will burn them, but not without knowledge of the fact that there are growth lessons in all relationships.

My dear, do not hasten your feelings. Be kind to yourself. Get your rest and treat yourself the way you would treat someone else or you would want to be treated. There are times when we need a little pampering and this is a loss for you, and it requires some tender patience, so just know that you are not alone and that the picture will look pretty to you again in the not too far future.

I do not feel inclined to give a lesson because I can see the maturity that is here in this gathering, but I would like to expound and take advantage of something Gerdean talked about regarding loving many. You are designed to love, to interact, to remember the good times, and to be considerate. You are allowed to have pleasant memories and moments of remorse. You have feelings and you should allow yourself to know that it is good and that they have to be expressed.

There will be a form of grieving. Grieving can take place in changing jobs, in relocating. There are many reasons to grieve because the human condition likes to have things in control, and I want you to be patient with yourself. Tolerance has been the fruitage in this group -- tolerance, acceptance, understanding.

Hunnah was telling a friend recently about this group and said that she was enriched because "if we hadn't gone beyond the superficial niceties of getting along and having The Urantia Book material in common, we would not have become empathetic in a healthy way."

There is always a continuous challenge of fear in the human condition, fear of change, and it is not a welcome guest. It is turning and going backwards. You have all been exercised in the subject of trust. Trust is a forever lesson. Trusting that which you truly believe in, from On High, like the powerful structure of your consciousness as it has been developed, you cannot see the strides which you have made. You have gone from house to temple. You have gone from the clutter of an interior home to the beauty of the inner temple. As usual I will continue to spend more time there.

I am inclined to ask you for a question this evening, but it is all right not to have one. [No response] Could we have quiet for a while, please? I feel that we are being brought into preparation. Shall we be quiet?

[STILLNESS]

Love: The Superior Way

MERIUM: In the Thursday gathering, Hunnah asked to be allowed to read the 13th Chapter of Corinthians -- and it was an amusing discovery that a proper Bible was not available, and we did not decide that this was a growth or error, but it simply was not available -- so she asked that the group read the 13th chapter of Corinthians as homework. I am going to ask you, who do not attend that group, to read this chapter because if you do, it will give you a fresh perspective of what your destiny contains.

Humans are so used to doing things and then giving a report on how it was done. Our lessons are about the recipe of simply Being. B-e-i-n-g. Being yourself. Friendships and companionships, the backdrop of familiar faces, come and go, but being yourself can only continue to develop. Every situation that comes into your life is an opportunity for you to redefine and allow yourself to be in and with a new situation. If you are living in a situation that seems stagnant, then you are allowed to ask to have us stir the waters and revitalize your ability to appreciate that which you have, and it is on-going even though it appears to be at a very slow pace.

The 13th Chapter in this Letter to the Corinthians will bring forth an attitude of you that you can carry out into your daily life. It is true in your human condition that you need to vent and you need to stand firm for your principles and your definition of what is to be and what is not to be. This homework will remind you just what you are about, and that when changes come into your life, as startling as those that have been discussed this evening, that means that you have an opportunity to be free to develop and become what you might not otherwise be allowed to do if you were bonded to your situation that has been at hand for a long time.

Relationships can become a corral and they are not (meant) to be. They are to be fluid and graceful and supportive and generous. Watch yourselves for negativity. It is like stale air; it will leave you ill and you will be gasping for breath. Nip it in the bud. I sound like Abby, but I would really like to throw the windows open and have you rejoice at your very being here together, that you are in a place that you understand what a candle light represents.

We love you when you're happy and we love you when you're sad and we love you when you're full of foolishness or filled with questions or chasing away inertia.

Emotional Everglades

TOMAS: This is your trusty companion Tomas and I have in mind to take you on two trips, and the first trip that I would like to take you on is a trip to the Everglades. This is a trip that I have been on before, and I have spoken of the Everglades as the equivalent of the emotional realms. The Everglades are quite fascinating, quite dangerous, quite beautiful, very deadly, exhilarating, incomparable, sticky and any number of descriptive adjectives and they are very much like the emotional realms.

If and when you go into the Everglades, it is well to have a guide. Indeed now you know that you have your personal teachers that can go with you. Most of you do not know you have been to the Everglades until you have come Home and are safely on shore, whereupon you look back in your movie at your photographs of visual imagery and realize where you have been and it is your personal teacher then who can help you interpret what you have seen and what you have experienced.

After you have become familiar with the Everglades, that is to say, after you have been there a time or two, you become adept at navigating your way through the many, many variations of this terrain. You learn how to avoid the quicksand and the quagmire of many feelings that will suck you down and gobble you up. You will learn when to grab hold of a vine and swing across, as compared to when it is free for you to jump and swim in realization of the safety of the water -- or is it filled with crocodiles?

The sticky aspects of the Everglades is reminiscent in your frame of reference to a humid place filled with mosquitoes and other little gnats and bugs and you are all certainly familiar with the gnats and bugs of life, those irksome irritations that do not amount to a great lot worthy of an emotional pique, but are so irksome over a period of time they are enough to cause you to have a tantrum. This is an aspect of the Everglades -- the emotional realms.

The wisdom of having been to the Everglades on a number of occasions and having learned how to traverse the path, allows you then to go there well-equipped. You have now your knife, your rope, your knapsack, your boots and your know how to deal with life as it is lived in the dense humidity of the Everglades of Urantia, of the human experience, and now equipped with your insect repellent and so forth, you can enjoy the path.

You know where to step. You know what will hold and what will give and where to sit and have lunch. You can enjoy the incredible music of the many voices: the birds, the croakings, the crickets, the 'gaters, the snapping, the buzzing, the howling -- all of these incredible noises that you are familiar with on your planet are echoes of the Everglades. The colors, the smells, the richness, the pungency, the fragrance, the aromas, the greenery, the vibrant flowers, flora and fauna, the incredible wonders for the senses are all part of the emotional Everglades.

And in this paradise, safe from the 'gaters and the skeeters, you can enjoy your life immensely, and even learn how to be a guide for others who, in their naivete and their innocence, blunder in for an adventure and find themselves up to their neck in quicksand.

I bring this analogy to your attention because you are emotional creatures, and it is not for you to avoid an emotional state, but to appreciate that it is an emotional state and that you are guided in and through your experiences, and as you master your life and your experiences, realizing that you will come out on the other end of the 'glades in one piece, that you can enjoy the adventure, it makes it much, much easier, you see, to appreciate that you are a dual nature being.

Your indwelling Thought Adjuster, your God fragment, your spirit guide inside, is the one with the experience, is the one who can help you go through this emotional morass without succumbing to the many toxins and bug bites available. The animal of you is that which hurts, is that which runs to eat the fruit that will poison you, that sees the berries and gobbles them up before realizing they will upset your stomach, the many, many things that the human will do in a realm such as the Everglades without knowledge, without guidance.

And so as you walk through the experience of an emotional Everglade of life, take your Guide with you, and ask Him to sense for you whether you should step here and if you should step there. Should you step quickly? Should you stand and rest here? Or should you move on before it sinks, before it moves underneath your feet? Only your internal Guide knows for sure, and inasmuch as you are in for an adventure in this existence, and in your many existences to come, you will be provided the occasion, the opportunity to experience as much and more than you would like, as long as you are in a learning mode and enjoying the process.

I would like to also take you on another trip and this trip is not to the Everglades but it is into another realm of the imagination. It is into (and perhaps you can help me in this one, Merium) it is into your own superconsciousness that allows you to make contact with your own spirit guide, into a mode of reflection and meditation that provides a universe of sensitivity and it is all behind your closed eyelids.

Inward and Upward

It is not in the emotional realms, not in the Everglades of existence. It is not "out there" but it is inside. Remember it is said that The Father dwells within you and that to attain Paradise, you go inward and upward. What does that mean? I will ask you now to come with me into those interior realms of reality that will enable you to make contact with your own spirit guides and find that firm footing on the realm of spirit reality that will keep you from sinking into quagmires of emotional unreality and difficulty.

The practice of stillness, as we have discussed many times, is a practice of stilling the body and, as the Companion spoke earlier, in your emotional state your waves are splashing on shore and you are not in stillness, you are not at peace. Occasionally you will allow yourself a steady ripple as if you were seeing a faucet drip into your pool and it was just enough movement to keep the pool alive, feeling that you had attained Stillness, adequate Stillness, for by comparison, see how quiet it is! You can barely, barely ascertain that there is a ripple. Only you know that you have not truly attained Stillness.

In order to attain this at-oneness that is effective, you need to become perfectly, perfectly, still. Physically quite stone still. Do not allow the Stillness to frighten you, and you must not think of it as being bored. It is en route to a rapturous adventure in the cosmic realms of your morontial existence.

After you have become perfectly still, you will feel certain physical realities, you will be aware that you feel grounded, that your limbs feel heavy. Your sense may be that you feel warmth. There are any number of side effects, physical side effects from Stillness, all of which are beneficial to your health, all levels of your health.

We have experimented here before wherein you feel that your mind is not willing to hold still and yet it is imperative that you allow your mind to learn Stillness, for as long as your mind is churning, you might as well be dropping water into the pool.

It has been said in your psychological realms that self-mastery involves mind over matter, and this is true, but that is not all there is. In order to attain full self-mastery and attain full-fledged Stillness, contact with divinity, person-to-person, you must allow for spirit over mind over matter. And now you have, as you say, your ducks in a row. Your spirit can accommodate you if you give your spirit permission to take over your willful mind and assure your willful mind that it can resume its adventure as soon as you have had a moment with The Father.

This place of Stillness is vast. It is as large as the cosmos. As vast as space. It goes all the way to Paradise. I am not going to encourage you to go surfing on the cosmic Internet, no. I am going to encourage you to stay here, for it does no good for Urantia to have you playing in the fields of the Lord in Orion or Sagittarius. It serves more purpose for you to begin to understand how it is that you have a relationship with the First Source and Center that accompanies you night and day.

Your relationship with the First Source and Center is your key to your understanding the purpose of your life and in finding supreme happiness in your life. Not the happiness that you feel that you will find when you go into the Everglades, no, but the happiness that you will find when you go into Stillness with The Father, when you sit in His presence and obediently await His time and His prompts and His direction for you in your life. He will tell you how to feel; He will tell you what to do; He will tell you where to be. His is the agenda of eternity.

It will make you happy, children, if you but believe that you have a right to know happiness. It is only your reluctance to know this sublime happiness that interferes with your attaining it.

MERIUM: Bravo. Well done, Tomas. Well done. You do not need any ruffles or curtains on that wonderful discourse.

Perhaps we need to close. Brother Michael has been in the wings. He wants you to know He cares very much for your little group and He is joyous at the prospect of companioning you more because you have learned to invite Him. I think you have plenty to tend to and we should recess, then, if it's all right with you, Tomas.

TOMAS: It has been a pleasure to be with you this evening. Be at peace, little ones, devoted flock. Anticipate the wonders of the days ahead wherein you will observe the Everglades of your surroundings, the cacophony of sounds of the birds and the beasts of the realm, and understand that you may step firmly upon the lily pad of your faith and you will not fall for He is with you. 

We bid you good evening. Farewell.
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