[tmtranscripts] 05-05-01 SPOKANE TEACHER BASE

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DATE: May 5, 2001
LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
T/R: Gerdean
TEACHERS & TOPICS:
    TOMAS:  A Friendly Visit

TOMAS: This is Tomas.  Greetings, my friends.  I am glad to be with you this 
afternoon, and glad to be a part of your day, a casual day in the life, like 
any standard Saturday.  

The notations you made about this date, it being Cinco de Mayo and the 
celebration of the White Buffalo, are examples of how it is set apart as a 
special day, and those who have prepared special events for this day also 
find it perhaps a memorable event, and yet in the sweep of time and space 
there are no particular reasons for us to have come together in association 
except for the merits of relationship, the amicability of a friendly visit.

The quality of an informal get-together is an event even so. It is an 
opportunity for you to review your wealth of accomplishments and 
associations. When your friend comes to visit, your day is elevated from a 
day of solitude into a sharing situation that helps you realize the 
interweaving of personalities throughout the lives of those who find value in 
fellowship. 

"The road to a friend's house is never long," it is said. All it requires is 
a decision to make the effort to step out of isolation into companionship. We 
are coming into the season where your lives will be enriched by associations 
with fellows offering opportunity now to enhance your well-being by engaging 
in exchanges of philosophy and creativity, such that you are able to augment 
the quality of your life and the lives of others by the texture of two where 
there was one.  

The quality of relationship is a means to another dimension. You are, as 
religionists, in a position to put into practice the belief that if there are 
two or more of you gathered together in His name, He is there in your midst, 
and so you have an opportunity to enhance a simple Saturday visit by inviting 
a reflection of the Spirit of Truth to join with you. Enhancing your 
fellowship by the presence of the Master, you grant yourselves liberation 
from the fetters of time and the monotony of mortal existence, thus your 
chance visit by a friend passing by is a rightful celebration, an event, an 
alteration in time and space.

I was reflecting on the impression of how so many mortals find their lives a 
dark backdrop upon which occasional events evince a bright light on their 
otherwise grey existence, but how it seems that as you incorporate your 
divine nature in your appreciation of who you are, you are more able to 
discern your life as an experience of enlightenment and increasing luminosity 
with occasional shadow valleys of experiential musings. Let's add some color 
to this palette by inviting in a friend, by opening the door of your mind, 
heart, soul and psyche to the interconnectedness that comes when you reach 
out to others and they reach out to you.  

It has been said that `He who would have friends must show himself friendly.' 
Oh, I could have a whole lesson on how that may be perceived, but you who 
have been born of the spirit have certainly perceived the light of truth in 
the friendly nature of one who has goodwill toward all men, one who has 
agendas but which do not require full time devotion, ones who stop by on a 
Saturday afternoon to conjoin in the interests of others without guile.  

Friendliness is a skill, an art. After having been exposed to the darkness, 
there may be some reluctance to open yourself to the light of friendship. It 
may require from you an effort. It may require from you a certain commitment 
to step out of the sanctity of solitude into the adventurous arena of 
association.  

All this to say how much I enjoy the pleasure of your company! I look forward 
to our visits. I have been exposed to circumstances which are far more 
backward, wherein tribal members regard an outsider with distrust, and 
although I have no worries that we'll be burned at the stake, I am aware of 
occasions when the visitor receives "the evil eye" even in advance of their 
arrival.  

This is the beginning of a new era. Only the beginning, but we have 
definitely stepped over the threshold. We begin anew in some very fundamental 
areas. It's necessary, -- in order for us to build, create, design, develop, 
foster, further new levels of relationship, interaction, business and 
community, -- to extend our hand in friendship. In this way our limited 
solitary existence is expanded to include the spouse, the family, the clan, 
the tribe, the nation, the globe – the galaxy.

When you reach a point of stepping out into an area of investigation and you 
encounter those who are closed or suspicious, doubtful, distrusting, think of 
them in terms of those who have not yet seen the light. They have not come 
out from their long solitude into the clearing ~ where the light of the Son 
shines ~ but such a startling example can you set, those of you who have 
nothing to fear by opening your hearts and minds to impressions of others as 
they enter into your frame of reference as a gift, a bestowal, a breath of 
fresh air, a creative stimuli that elevates a common everyday day in the life 
to a personal spiritual experience because it has been enhanced by a simple 
visit from a common friend.  

What a lot of wonderful new friends we met in your town here last week as we 
exhibited ourselves at the EXPO. It was quite a round-up of fellow travelers 
on the cosmic caravan of commerce and community. All of those neighborly folk 
are a blessing in disguise. In their portrayal of their tools and toys, they 
depict a portion of who they are such that you are able to bring them into 
your field of vision, bridging gaps between you by an acknowledgment of the 
toys and tools they use to depict their hopes and aspirations in terms of a 
meaningful existence. They have broken out into the clearing and appear eager 
to share their personality expressions as they are in the spirit of 
friendship. Cordiality, certainly. 

It does take time to develop meaningful associations, the kind that amount to 
kindred spirits in will, but these relationships are developed out of mere 
associations, by and through your extending yourself in friendship into the 
arena of life without judgment, without pressure, without prejudice but with 
a childlike attitude of a party-goer, invited to celebrate a birthday with a 
neighboring child and friends.  

What have you been up to, my friends? Have you any questions, any concerns, 
any celebrations, or company coming? I am all ears.

THOROAH: Yes! We have company coming and hopefully some more company coming, 
which is a pleasure. A lot of things are working well for us. We're starting 
to get a clear picture of who we are in the community. The thing right now 
that is captivating me, which is again, perhaps not as meaningful in the art 
of living as other things, but this coming event of the Disclosure Project 
that we're going to have, a lot of official testimony of extra-terrestrial 
activities that may be basically coming up for a long time. I find that to be 
something fascinating. We're at the beginning there!

TOMAS: I find it fortuitous that my words today were having to do with visits 
with friends and neighbors, and that some who have been dancing around on a 
black background may regard their stellar neighbors as some fearful threat. 
Don't misunderstand me. A new assignation is almost always fraught with 
certain feelings that leave one vulnerable, but this is not any reason to 
pull out your weapons and put on your armor. It is rather an anticipation 
such as one might have in advance of a blind date.

THOROAH: Well, I'm sure I don't have to ask for as much heavenly guidance as 
possible, for all the things we might have to see and deal with, some of it 
might be rather frightening for some of us.

TOMAS: "Heavenly guidance" he says. "The kingdom of heaven is within you" and 
indeed you frighten yourself often and you seem to enjoy oppressing and 
frightening others, although I think this is part of your conditioning and 
it's a habit, largely, that will be easily broken once you have turned the 
page to another plateau of adventure and excitement.  

THOROAH:    The exhilaration factor.

TOMAS: Yes, there may be those who will revert and make a loud noise as if to 
say the "Independence Day" destruction day is upon us, ala Armageddon, but 
these are merely a few very loud voices. The multitudes are mute, and the 
movers and shakers of destiny divine are by and large peace-loving, even soft 
spoken, and so that loud noise may be disregarded; it will soon burn itself 
out. But the onward momentum of the revelation and the re-encircuitment is 
enough to move humanity into a relatively stable transition from cosmic 
solitude to galactic gregariousness, much as you as individuals are able to 
break out of your private room of isolation into the community of friends by 
a simple decision to show yourself friendly.  

Those of you who are intimately familiar with personalities stationed in the 
universe at various points along the way, are in a position certainly to 
reinforce the affirmative aspects of such explorations as have been 
undertaken and enjoyed for many years by those who have been in a position to 
do so. The fear factor will still be a part of the mentality of your world 
but your combined light, as it is coming on across the globe, is invigorating 
and illuminating of a dimension and a spirit that will stir the hearts of 
many and that will invigorate spiritual revelation in the hearts of many 
more.  

Remind those who have difficulty in appreciating the cosmic neighborhood of 
the lessons Jesus sought to teach his followers in days of old as in his 
reference to his many sheep not of this fold, and other lessons that you are 
aware of because of your understanding from the midwayers' presentation of 
his teachings, honestly seeking to expand an appreciation of intelligent life 
in the universe as a viable part of creation rather than something that would 
inflict even more fear and anxiety than they have already.

There are many who will never acquiesce to this great truth.  And thus you 
need to do what you can and move on. There are innumerable new opportunities, 
however, to teach cosmology in the unveiling of such news as you anticipate 
in these upcoming broadcasts. May 9th.  

But I bring to your attention the experience of the Contact Commission and 
the Forum when the Urantia Book was published and they sent out many copies 
to the great minds of the day only to find their wondrous work to be rejected 
or disregarded. Indeed, those who know are astounded that the world can 
choose to remain blinded by their own ignorance when the thrilling truth of 
relationship with divinity throughout eternity is a part of destiny anyone is 
welcome to embrace.

But there again I encourage you to rely not upon the weight of those who 
would stand in the way of others' reception of truth, beauty and goodness, 
for they cannot stop that which the Father wills. Thus you are in a powerful 
position, my friends, of putting forth the good news of association with the 
living reality of the netherworlds of time and space.  It doesn't mean you 
are packing your bag to go somewhere, does it?

THOROAH: No, we're just ready to pack on a moment's notice.  

TOMAS: I have prefaced my words this evening by inviting you to decide to 
visit your neighbors and thus make them friends. I would be remiss to 
discourage you from taking the father view, but if you're still here next 
Saturday, we'll stop by.

THOROAH: I said that because earlier today I was thinking about doing the 
Father's will, and it's sort of like having your bags packed. I meant that 
more symbolically than I did physically.  

TOMAS: It would be revealing to others my relationship with you, and an 
unfair advantage perhaps, if I were to remark. I therefore stand upon the 
Fifth Amendment in this context. All right, Space Cowboy?

THOROAH:  We look forward to being here next Saturday. We'll let you know 
that now, and everyone else, too, that I'll be here next Saturday.
TOMAS:  Paulo has put in his bid for a discussion. See you then.
THOROAH:    Thank you, Tomas.
TOMAS:      Farewell.



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