[tmtranscripts] TOMAS: 02-16-99.BUTLER

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 Butler PA Teacher Base
 February 16,1999
 Subject:  Plugging in to The Source
 Teacher:  Tomas
 T/R:  Gerdean
 
 TOMAS:	I am Tomas.  Good evening.
 GROUP:	Good evening.
 
 TOMAS:	I am going to begin our discourse this evening with a few words along
 the lines of  encircuitment and use the analogy of your electricity for some
 of you have the idea that you can illuminate your environment on your own
 power.  Indeed, you cannot and expect any enduring light or heat.  
 
 Let me talk about an electric outlet and a cord and allow that the energy
 inside the electric outlet is primal energy fostered by the First Source and
 Center and I will not go into the details of the mechanical universe
involving
 Power Directors and so forth but suffice it to say that this electrical
outlet
 is the Source and the cord that's lying on the ground is you and you cannot
 garner the necessary power and energy unless and until you are appropriately
 and firmly connected to your power source.  Merely placing your socket near
 the outlet serves no purpose.  It must be connected, and yet once this
 connection is made, all manner of wonderful things can take place.  
 
 I again and pedantically point out to you that you cannot put a plug into the
 circuit unless and until, in your modern fixture, you have the wide side
 inserted in the wide hole.  You cannot do it otherwise.  It doesn't fit.  And
 so you cannot be pretending to be connected and expect to be effectual.
 Interestingly, it is very apparent when you are appropriately connected, for
 your energy is such that it has an independent operation.  Independent,
 almost, of your will.  Except, of course, that it has been your will that you
 be plugged in.
 
 I think maybe this is an advertisement for stillness, for therein is the
 connection.  Now the point of my bringing up the subject of an electrical
 connection, a contact with your energy source, is to bring to your reality,
 once again, this stuff about energy and you have been studying energy in your
 formal studies and even in your informal discourses, and let us say, just for
 analogy sake, that you are designed to be a lamp Rachel, and you Leah are
 designed to be a vacuum cleaner, and Angus might like to be a power saw, and
 Gerdean can be an electric toothbrush, because each of you have your own
 function and your own skills and your own tools and your own pattern of
design
 that is accommodating for you.  Maybe there are lots of different kinds of
 lamps, but not quite like Rachel, and so forth. 
 
 As you are connecting now to your power Source, you begin to operate
 automatically and naturally and do what you do without friction, without
 interference (providing of course you maintain your machinery in good order).
 And what is the point of all of this picture book saga I relate this evening?
 It has to do with the master plan.  The primal Source of all that is, is in
 full charge of all of its lamps and power saws and vacuum cleaners and
 electric toothbrushes.  It knows where they all go, it knows where they
should
 all operate, it knows when they should go in for repairs, it knows when they
 are seasonally of no use, and I draw this elementary analogy so that you can
 begin to realize that in the vast scheme of things, there is no difference
 between what I have just described and the working of a smoothly run
universe.
 Once more we reiterate that you need to be true to yourself for only in being
 who you are designed to be are you able to be of maximum use to yourself, to
 your environment, and to the universe at large.  In other words, it does no
 good for Gerdean to try and be a power saw; it does not behoove Angus to try
 and be a lamp, and so forth.  Only by ascertaining your true essence and
 recognizing its inherent abilities and developing the requisite skills
 thereto, are you contributing to the overall design that will ultimately
bring
 about that pattern which will result in ultimate perfection whether it be a
 social event, a project, a family or a civilization.   
 
 All too often you look outside of yourself and you see constantly others
 looking outside of themselves, many times to you, saying, "Leah!  You must be
 an electric toothbrush!  Can't you see how desperately we need an electric
 toothbrush here?"  And Leah says, "Oh, yes!  Let me try and be an electric
 toothbrush!"  And this is such a waste of time, for that is not your purpose
 and you will find yourself trying to vacuum with an electric toothbrush.
This
 is what is going on in your world today and you wonder why there is mass
 chaos.  
 
 How simple God is.  We are amused when you, in your attempts to undertake an
 understanding of this advanced cosmology and spiritual experience (as
compared
 to your traditional religions of old) lament the loss of the simple God and
 what I have discussed above is as simple as it gets and yet it is too simple
 because truly you love to complicate things.  You love to try to recreate the
 paradigm.  (Pause)  Is everyone plugged in?
 
 RACHEL:	Yeah, we're all plugged in.  Unfortunately in my life, my parents
 always wanted me to be something else than where my real talents were and I'm
 just discovering them now, so I'm just learning to turn on my lamp!
 
 TOMAS:	This is good.  It is good that you are beginning to realize that you
 are a lamp and not whatever it was that you were told that you were to be.
 This is something that all of Urantia suffers under.  It is very unusual for
a
 child in your culture to be so well accepted and well directed in their home
 environment that their course is early on revealed, but part of the
 difficulty, without getting into overmuch armchair psychiatry, many parents
 want their children to live the life that they missed, and so they anticipate
 that their creation can create for them their experience.  
 
 And additionally, it is unfortunate but true, that many people limit their
 approach to potential for fear of failure and so many parents feel that their
 children's ambitions should be reasonable and thus they do not encourage them
 to go beyond what is commonly acceptable in their frame of reference.
 
 RACHEL:	Then when we don't turn out to be who they want us to be, then we
have
 to go and suffer the disappointment of their disappointment.  You can't win.
 
 TOMAS:	You must unplug from that power source.
 RACHEL:	I know.  It's difficult.  So much conditioning, Tomas, it's
 incredible.
 
 TOMAS:	Indeed it is, and the longer we are here the more we see it is deeply
 ingrained and the more we see you grow the more easy it seems to be for you
to
 bypass correction because you realize and we realize how truly engrained it
 is, and so you buy into a lesser reality, for to forge into a greater reality
 would once more put you in a position of being singularly, existentially,
 separate and distinct, by yourself, and this inclination toward the herd
 instinct, toward the all-is-one theory, toward the collective consciousness
 downdraft, is yet another large power surge that would suck your cord into an
 erroneous power source.
 
 Once you have learned how to connect your entire being, your entire reality,
 to the First Source and Center, you can begin to assimilate energy and
 recognize the power source as the Source of all that is, and thus you will
 become so enamored of this directing bent, you will have no further use for
 these lesser realities.  But it takes a tremendous character to do that.  I
 challenge you each to give yourself permission to develop this tremendous
 character which is accessable to you each inasmuch as you each have your cord
 that you can plug in to the Source of all, including yourself.
 
 RACHEL:	Well, I plug myself in daily so how long is it going to take me to
get
 fully charged?  Hypothetically, of course.
 
 TOMAS:	You bring up a good point.  You are en route.
 RACHEL:	I'm having separation anxiety from the herd right now.
 
 TOMAS:	Yes.  You are still very much a product of the world at large.  You
are
 truly a fledgling yet, Rachel.  You are beginning to understand independence
 and human liberation, and in this understanding of your own identity and
 ability to not only survive but thrive in this world with all of its vagaries
 and peculiarities, you will be developing an aspect of yourself that will yet
 rejoice in discovering you, in spite of your inherent fears and in spite of
 your desire to be carried.  
 
 The more aware you become, the more aware you can be.  The more you allow
 Father to help you, the more you can help yourself.  The more you help
 yourself, the more the angels will be able to help you also.  And so you can
 soon forget your dependency upon your external world for you will have so
 closely identified with  your inner world, your Thought Adjuster,  your inner
 life, that you will then be able to impact your environment in such a way
that
 they will be able to begin to learn from you where they might go for their
 Source of power and reality.  
 
 Remember, Michael's mission will enable you to be more than you have been.
 You have the ability to develop superhuman abilities, not only to accomplish
 what you can do because you are the heir to Father's gifts, but because you
 choose to use your gifts in service to Him.  And this agenda can be so
 invigorating, intoxicating, stimulating, satisfying and comforting that any
 lesser reality holds no fascination.  This is the real part of the scheme.
 This is the celebration.  This is the joyous rejoicing working in the field.
 
 We are most respectful of your struggles and most encouraging of your mutual
 support of one another's spiritual reality.  There is a reference in your
 textbook that you might want to review, and it indicates that you ought not
 commisurate with people simply to have company in your misery, but rather
help
 one another lift up and out of the darkness and plug in to the power Source
 that you might all begin humming and purring and cleaning and drilling and
 illuminating in your realm as you are created to do.  For all of you know
that
 working together is an exciting concept, and even more exciting when you are
 able to actually accomplish this and see the results of your combined
efforts.
 
 I am given an illustration of seven dwarfs who are happy to go off to their
 chores, their work, because they have connected with that which gives them
 power and energy.  In the case of that child's story, it is the delightful
 Snow White and their love for her.  Your love for Michael is certainly no
 less!
 
 ANGUS:	Hi ho, hi ho.
 TOMAS:	You got it.
 
 RACHEL:	I feel like a little kid in kindergarten who cannot wait to graduate
 to 6th grade.  I get tired of being this person who I got molded into being.
 
 TOMAS:	Then break the mold!
 RACHEL:	I'm trying!
 
 ANGUS:	I didn't have a mold to break and so it was the opposite thing of
 trying to find myself from a different angle rather than to have to fight off
 something that was forced on me, so it was a little different experience.
 
 RACHEL:	Really?  Mine was pretty ironclad.
 
 TOMAS:	Both of these situations are serious challenges, but it is two ways to
 go about the same end -- to find out who you are and to develop it. Whether
it
 be through the affirmative approach or through the process of elimination, it
 is still a matter of determining who you are and being true to that which you
 are.  Know thyself.  An interesting challenge, considering that much of you
is
 growing and changing on a regular basis.  Indeed your character is growing,
 but remember, your Father-bestowed personality is unchanging.
 
 RACHEL:	Just think of all those people out there who don't know themselves.
 It's such a gift of the Father to have this unfolding within yourself.
 
 TOMAS:	Indeed it is, and don't get lost in the field.
 RACHEL:	I just feel sorry for them all.  I have compassion for them!
 
 TOMAS:	Your compassion is noted, but it is a very easy way for you to become
 so enamored of their condition, you neglect to mind your own.  What are you
 doing, Leah?
 
 LEAH:		My thoughts are rambling.  Your last response to Rachel you stated - I
 could have easily said, "Tell me about it!" - sarcastically.
 
 TOMAS:	I thought of Nalda.
 
 LEAH:		That's not the first time you have thought of her around me.  Is it
 coincidental that she was married a few times?
 
 TOMAS:	I have a hunch you have a pre-determined, a pre-disposed relationship
 with Nalda that is not the one I am calling to your mind.  My reference to
 Nalda has to do with her tendency to drift away from the subject at hand and
 become rationally, justifiably, philosophically focused on other than the
 issue at hand.  Even in ignorance/ innocence, it is a very clever human
 technique to avoid the heart of the issue.  
 
 The heart of the issue is your personal relationship with God, your cord
 plugged into the power source, and Rachel looked at all of these cords lying
 around on the floor feeling sorry that they were not plugged in.  Rather,
 Rachel, plug in your cord and let your light shine so that they can see to
put
 their cord in their socket, you see.  Don't waste time worrying about whether
 they are plugged in or not, for when you worry about whether or not they are
 plugged in, you are giving your energy to the reality that will pull you away
 from your own socket, thus you become embroiled in the collective
 consciousness, the world at large, you have once again given up your reality,
 your very essence, to become one with the floundering, you see.
 
 RACHEL:	Yeah, you're right.  I do tend to do that.
 
 TOMAS:	And so if you can see this, and if you sincerely desire to withdraw
 from this herd instinct behavior, then take this to heart and challenge
 yourself to be effective, in spite of what others may be doing.  Now, lest
you
 think I am not concerned about the lost sheep, think again.  In your
 connection with divinity you can be appropriately directed; you can be
 encircuited and empowered, directed, as to how to perform, where to
 specifically shine that light.  Go to your Source for instructions rather
than
 determining for yourself, outside the power supply, where you should shine
 your light, you see.  Once you become encircuited, you know the feeling and
 you can operate in full confidence for you know the difference.  You know
what
 it feels like to flounder.
 
 RACHEL:	Yeah, I know that one!
 TOMAS:	Then practice the other one.  Are there questions this evening?
 
 RACHEL:	Well, what do you think of all of us going on vacation for a bit of
 rest and rejuvination?  [Celestial Nights in Cape San Blas, Florida]
 
 TOMAS:	We are packed.
 RACHEL:	Yeah, I'm sure you'll be along too!
 
 TOMAS:	We made our reservations.  We have even helped with the itinerary.  We
 are all looking forward to this reunion.  Not only will you enjoy the company
 and camaraderie of one another, but we also will relish the energies and the
 upliftment inherent in your association as well as ours.  It will be quite
 wonderful for us also to be in close proximity.  Indeed, we will all plug in
 together.
 
 RACHEL;	I was thinking about how I heard of this months ago and I thought,
 "Oh, God, I really want to go," and felt this, "Yeah, you're gonna go," and I
 didn't believe it!  And then all of a sudden everything cleared away and here
 we go!@
 
 TOMAS:	The more you live in faith and the more you allow your faith path to
 function, the less resistance you will provide.  I will suggest here that you
 are all conscientious individuals attempting to be adult and responsible, and
 we have many times offered the option to be childlike and so many of you fear
 being childlike, lest you feel childish, or worse that you be accused of
being
 childish, but Michael himself, when he was incarnate as Jesus, kept his
 childlike attitude toward Our Father the entire time of his life here, always
 faithfully looking toward The Father for counsel and guidance at each step,
 always holding up his hand to be led by Our Father in heaven, always
believing
 that he would be guided and directed in his path and not forsaken, and indeed
 he was and is well loved, beloved, by universes.
 
 Childlike faith is the cornerstone of our mission, Michael's mission, on
 Urantia - to bring life and light of truth to the children in darkness, to
 reunion with one another in spirit reality.  Only as a child can you come to
 this place of faith.  When you are here in faith as children, you are raised
 up to be able to do great works because of your childlike faith, and so we
are
 certainly enjoying the anticipation, which is inherent in one of these
 opportunities to engage in a melee of childlike glee in company with fellow
 believers, kindred spirits.  Put your cares aside as Michael admonished his
 early apostles and rejoice in diversion, recreation, rest and play.  Become
 friends with your brothers and sisters again and anew.  Enjoy yourselves, and
 enjoy your teachers who will also be enjoying you, at rest and at play.  We
 will all be renewed and return to our arenas rested with our problems in
 perspective and with yet new direction and impetus for cosmic problem solving
 at hand.
 
 RACHEL:	Sounds so wonderful.  I can't think of a mortal who would tell us
 that.  It has to be a celestial, because it's always work-work-work-work-
work!
 Drive you into the ground!
 
 TOMAS:	All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
 RACHEL:	Very crabby.
 
 TOMAS:	You have to understand also that these kind of outings are not mere
 carefree wafts into revelry but an opportunity for joy and thanksgiving.  The
 love inherent in your intention is enlarged and it can do nothing but serve
to
 guide you into fields of worship, and so the childlike flavor of your
 personalities plans to lift you up into degrees of being that are not
afforded
 you when you are marching in the fields or working in the trenches.  
 
 Remember that in future ages you will have more opportunity for worship.
 Indeed, in your distant future you will worship most of the time and so this
 is good practice for you.  It is another way, as you say, Rachel, of becoming
 plugged in, and although it may not be work, it is invaluable and necessary
 for the work.
 
 RACHEL:	Are you meaning to say that in the morontia life we spend more time
 learning how to worship?
 
 TOMAS:	Yes, progressively.  Dare I say you learn how to keep yourself plugged
 in better?  It is the most direct zap there is.
 
 RACHEL:	Because in my life, I was never taught worship in any way shape or
 form.
 TOMAS:	You cannot be taught worship.
 RACHEL:	No.  I guess it just comes from within.  It's that glad "thank you".
 
 TOMAS:	Yes.  Circumstances (tape turned) and this fosters good spiritual
 habits, but if you are not encouraged in these ways, then you must wait until
 you feel the impetus on your own and develop those habit practices that
enable
 you to develop a taste for and an appreciation of worship as a practice.
Many
 people don't like to worship because it makes them feel good and they cannot
 believe they are allowed to feel good in that way.  They feel unworthy of
 being in the presence of God or even approaching the presence of God, and
this
 is awful.  
 
 It is our hope that you, in your love of Father, will be able to naturally
 encourage, by your behavior, the behaviors of others as we spoke of earlier
in
 the maze of electric cords lying around on the floor, if they see your light
 humming, burning, glowing with warmth and good work, they will feel more
 inclined to discover their own power Source, that they too may feel that
 comfort, hum and glow of their own productivity, their own spiritual
 connection, indeed their own intimate relationship with their power Source.  
 
 This is worship, after all, for it is acknowledging that which gives us our
 very being.  Appreciate the source of our being, and becoming one with our
 Source, operating and functioning in and through our source, becoming one 

 with our Source.
 
 I anticipate a few days of glorious exposition, exploration and exponential
 learning, and thus I will not keep you up late this evening, overworking
 yourselves, for you have have frolic to attend to and plans to make, bags to
 pack and as the song says, fish to fry, and so Merium and I will go rummage
 around and find our bathing suits and pack a few things ourselves.  We will
 all be with you, and thus I am looking forward to my friends also.  We will
 just hitch a ride along with you guys in your van, Leah, and so if you want
to
 talk about it en route, get my attention or Merium's or one of the tour
 guides.  We will party hearty.  Rest well, brethren.  See you soon.
 
 

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