[tmtranscripts] 01-20-01. SPOKANE Q & A

[ZooidODell at aol.com]

GERDEAN: Tomas, or someone, while you're here, I have a question.   This is 
Gerdean.  And it has to do with the promise that we would learn to be 
teachers, that you had come to teach us to be teachers, or that which you 
teach us will eventually be ours so that we will be doing what you do.  Okay. 
 Now here's my question, and my frustration, because many times when, for 
example my husband, other people also – they will hear you or another teacher 
through me and hear you and listen to you and honor you and respect you and 
when I do it as your student, as a teacher-in-becoming, as myself ... I get a 
lot of flack.  

I'm certain a lot of this has to do with male/female communication 
difficulties, cultural misunderstandings, definition of terms, but how come 
that is, Tomas, and what can I do to overcome that or to learn from that?  
That is an observation on my part.  And inasmuch as I want to be a teacher 
and I want to be admired and respected also, in my Own right, I want to know 
how I can be effective in My presentation as You are effective in Yours.  
Could you address that concern for me, please?

TOMAS: Yes, I can discuss it with you, daughter.  I would be glad to.  Your 
sincerity is endearing, albeit your idealism is perhaps naive.  You know how 
you dislike being talked down to.  You are not alone.  Very few individuals 
enjoy being talked down to, and as you perceive a teacher has the edge, and 
you emulate your perception of that kind of teacher, you will also have an 
edge in your voice that will not be well taken by those who have not given 
you permission to be their "teacher".

If you are in a position, as in a workshop or classroom, just like I as your 
teacher am understood to be teaching in a teaching platform, you would be 
perhaps more effective; but socializing is another form of interchange that 
is a skill that is being redefined by every nuance of reality that you attain 
and the same is true insofar as the attainment of everyone else you know.  
And so, the potentials of socialization are so extensive as to preclude you 
from engaging without some specified area of expertise, for therein you have 
your authority; you know whereof you speak.  You are credentialed.  It's an 
elementary view of what social skills are being developed now because of your 
expanded awareness of who you are.  

The same is true in the world of your assignment, but inasmuch as it is your 
assignment, to bring the light of truth to your fellows, you have there an 
avenue of relating which adds a spiritual dimension to the otherwise 
"godless" dimension that you are spending your time in.  We are entering into 
subtleties of teaching here, for when you enter into the greater realm, the 
community at large, in order to express divinity and give God an opportunity 
to manifest Himself throughout His creation in and through the associative 
deity between the children of God who are your siblings, your sense of 
purpose will enable you to be guided and directed by the Spirit of Truth 
which works with you when you minister in the field.  

When you minister inside your own family, you run the risk of being a pain in 
the neck to your fellows who have already got the message.  You are singing 
to the choir.  And so, save your breath, trying to teach those who have 
enough of a grasp on the greater reality that they are already being 
consciously led, through their conscious relationship with Our Father.  Focus 
that on those who are in the dark, or who look to you for answers.  

You are, as a T/R, in a position to intimately observe my relationship with 
my class, my students, my hearers, my fellows.  But observing the intricacies 
of another relationship is not the same as having that relationship with your 
associates in and of yourselves and in your own rights.  That is something 
that is developmental between you; that cannot be brought about because of my 
association with you as a mouthpiece for my words.

But as I promised a long time ago, Gerdean, when you are called upon to teach 
and preach by the Spirit of Truth, you will nobly respond.  You have in the 
past, you are dependable today, and you will in the future; therefore, you 
need not worry about not being heard when your Adjuster seeks to reply to the 
yearning of Itself in the lives of others.  Be like Onagar and respect the 
perspective that comes from the passage of time.  Trust, too, in the panoply 
of omniscience that oversees our very existence.  

You do well.  

THOROAH: I think we want to do so much.  Whatever it is that each of us as 
individuals think of as, whatever it is we can do that amounts to something, 
for the cause, for the mission -- and I realize how important time is to 
wisdom, as well as to perspective – and when we're told to relax and remember 
it takes time, it's almost like we're giving up part of the time we have left 
on this planet to accomplish something, so I gather that it's in our daily 
demeanor and behavior, character display, that we have to focus, and if we 
live that, trust the fact that it will have its own message and someone will 
come to us and ask us for answers, for insights. 

I think that we would like people to come to us and ask us because that's 
what we have to do. You know.  We come to you and we ask and you keep telling 
us that's how we find out, is ask, and so we need people to ask us and it 
seems like we don't have the patience to behave long enough like we know what 
we're about in order for people to seek something from us.

TOMAS: It is very difficult for humans at this point in time to ask for help 
or to admit they haven't got it all together.  Even spirituality has not 
helped you out of that hole of misunderstanding very much yet.  You have so 
many left-over racial conditionings.  Remember it is the enlightenment of the 
individual and then the enlightenment of the civilization, not the other way 
around.  And so you will find yourselves building civilizations by and with 
your personalities, ideals, goals, and inspirations as to what it means to 
build a better world.  

Even a generation or two ago it was commonly understood that you wanted to 
create a better life for your children, and a lot of energy has gone into 
amassing better lives, but without waxing politic, it's apparent that there 
is an element in this advancement that is essential to accomplishment, and 
that is the acknowledgement of the Master's hand, divining the growth of the 
new relationship of living organisms that constitute the civilizations of 
Urantia, the sons and daughters of God.  

This will not be done in a fortnight, this light and life, but yes it does 
begin today and now in your individual and very personal lives, and spread 
out to the man, the woman, who stands next to you with his and/or her 
relative perfections and imperfections, goals, purposes and dreams inherent 
in the relationship between the child of God and the Universal Father.

The potential for tomorrow is staggering, intoxicating, exhilarating.  If you 
find it exciting to be standing on the brink, on the precipice, consider what 
excitement is inherent in the actual doing of it.  This portends great 
accomplishment, but great confusion can greatly retard the works, thus the 
propensity for God to occasionally bring everything in an individual's life 
to a screeching halt so that they can renew their realization of their 
reality, casting aside that which has been a mere scaffolding, en route to a 
greater consciousness of a greater reality which will serve in time and space 
until the next molting allows for a greater advancement of soul realization.

Tomas waxes philosophic.  

THOROAH: I was thinking earlier about Onagar explaining as far as time, 
perspective, and now we're looking at our situation trying to get the time 
and perspective elevated.  It seems like no matter where you go or when in 
the universe, there you are.  

TOMAS: Thank God.

THOROAH: I suppose we'll always be looking, yearning to grow.

TOMAS: These opportunities will be provided without your having to look very 
hard or very far.  The era that you are in today, the realm you find yourself 
in, in fact, is the beginning of the age of the mind.  The mind is coming 
into its own, thus your fascination with deep mind and the construct and 
hypnosis and creativity.  

THOROAH:   Well, we have great need for mind expansion and maybe that's the 
big lure.  It's almost new.

TOMAS: Yes, it is a new plateau.  And you are bringing your new selves with 
it.  You'll need to learn to love your relationships within the organism of 
enlightenment, even those less than perfect parts, for this is part of the 
relativity of your early contributions.  The foundations that you are laying 
are eternal bedrock.  Take your time and progress wisely, learning to 
understand yourself and your fellows as you proceed under way of your 
program, your product, your unit, your platoon, your purpose, your 
undertaking, your ministry, your depiction, your machination of good faith.  
For which efforts we find our mission a worthy investment in our time in 
space.  On behalf of Michael and his natal planet and those worlds of his 
which are now being embraced in the cosmic neighborhood as one of its own. 
We'll see you around.  Good evening.