[tmtranscripts] 09-29-01.SPOKANE TEACHER BASE

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Date: September 29, 2001
Location: Spokane Teacher Base
T/R: Gerdean
TEACHER(S): DOLORES; TOMAS
TOPICS:  Service of Reserve Corp, Heroes and Self-Acting Adjusters 

DOLORES: This is Dolores.  I would like to begin our session this afternoon 
by joining our hearts, hands, minds and souls in prayer.

"My eternal parents, it is a privilege for me to be able to come to You and 
acknowledge the association of these, your mortal children.  The privilege 
that we share, we mortals and teachers in this mission to enhance the light 
of truth upon Urantia, is an association which will bridge the gaps of time 
and lead us evermore into deeper affection for each other and for the work we 
do for You in Your fields, in Your many mansions.  

We are gladdened by this association and comforted by the understanding of 
companionship, of comradeship in the work of the harvest.  Bring to our 
awareness that which we need to know in order to see which products are ready 
to be picked and which are to remain on the Vine awaiting further growth.  
Help us know how to contribute or refrain in this gardening process.  Sweeten 
our juice that we may be better lures for those who would follow us as we 
follow You in our desire to present You with all the glory, as we understand 
our destiny, dear Parents, raise us up in accordance with Your divine will.  
Amen."

TOMAS: This is Tomas, good afternoon.

GINNY: Hello.

TOMAS: Hello, dear one.  I'm happy to be on call and, in keeping with your 
gathering, I offer you my services.  There was a question presented. 

GINNY: This is kind of a curiosity question but I'm wondering if ... I'm kind 
of curious about whether or not the Reserve Corp of Destiny is being 
activated at this time.  On our planet.  Or if it's not the time for them.  
Just curious.  [off-line conversation in the group]  They are here for 
planetary emergencies.  Planetary spiritual emergencies?  Or any planetary 
emergency?  I'm sure it has to do with planetary emergencies that have to do 
with light and life, but is this event something that would make them be 
activated?  

TOMAS: Is this a good time for them to be increased in numbers and called 
into active duty?  Is that the gist of your question?

GINNY: Yes.

TOMAS: It is an ideal time for the Reserve Corp to be activated because there 
are so many critical moments being played out in your experiential field.  

The training of Reserve Corp goes on quietly, subtly, in the deep mind over 
long periods of time, only to be brought forth at that moment in time wherein 
the Voice of God needs to make itself heard without fail.  The Voice of God 
is most often heard from within, but there are times when the impact of Deity 
will be more effective when it comes from without, when it comes from another 
source than the individual's own mind.  
      
This is how it is that you can hear the Voice of God in all manner of 
expressions.  If you are seeking Him, He can be found in any wise saying or 
in any music exalting truth, beauty or goodness. It is the Reserve Corp, 
whose training has been long-term, on-going, who will be able to rise to the 
challenge and hear the prompt, speak the words, and do the deeds which must 
be done in order to keep the wheels of advancing civilization churning in a 
forwardly direction. This may be done spiritually or it may be in response to 
great need of a social or political nature, but it will be toward the greater 
good, toward a greater understanding of the universe and the individual's 
place in it.  It will be the voice of clarity, and it often awaits a critical 
moment in time before it is called to action, and that is the nature of 
emergency.  
       
We seek to act as a bridge, a transition between one reality and the next, a 
handrail to hold onto so that that which has been gained so painstakingly 
will not be lost in some avalanche of error.  It's why many Reserve Corp are 
unaware of their capacity to serve thus it is why the heroic nature of their 
work goes unsung.  Even they are often unaware of the importance of their 
contribution, because they are selfless or not mindful of self but are doing 
what must be done based on some inner drive, that which has been developed 
for a long time, merely awaiting its opportunity to act. These also are 
traits of those who have a self-acting Adjuster and in times such as these 
there are many more self-acting Adjusters in service.  

One thing that ought to be made clear is how essentially simple and elemental 
are these individuals who house a self-acting Adjuster or who may be regarded 
as a Reserve Corp of Destiny.  They are quiet, unassuming, unpretentious, not 
grandiose, self-effacing, and busy, being about their business without 
seeking reward or acknowledgment.  There are also heroes, those who happen to 
find themselves in the right place at the right time, whose capacities to 
serve are magnified manyfold because of the nature of the circumstances of 
life, such as the firemen in the World Trade Center, and the policemen who 
mustered their courage to do what they knew needed to be done because of the 
oaths they had taken in their career.  The ability of a people to step 
outside themselves is often made easier because of these assumed service 
positions, these civil servant roles that give strength of character which 
may not have ordinarily been brought to light.

So you can't assume that a simple hero is a Reserve Corp or that he or she 
has a Self-Acting Adjuster, but you can consider yourself fortunate to be a 
peer of any one of these human beings who have valiantly struggled to 
overcome the trials and tribulations of such a life on such a planet.

* * * * *
You all had a rousing conversation before we commenced with this more formal 
portion of the meeting.  I would call you back into participation.  Have you 
questions or commentary to share in this format having to do with your 
interests in current events?

GINNY: Am I correct in my perception that the goodness of the spirit or the 
really higher parts of ourselves will be manifest by the common people as 
they have been in this time, where everybody is just seeming to come out of 
the woodwork offering the best of themselves to help people.  Is that where 
the light is? Where the glory is?  And not so much in what the government is 
doing?

TOMAS: You know the answer already to that.  Yes, of course, the heart of the 
people is the real mark of civilization.  The government is to follow suit 
and serve the people, whose hearts have been touched by being part of 
humanity.

This is the importance of spiritual liberty: to be able to see with your own 
eyes and think with your own faculties rather than allowing someone to think 
for you or to tell you what you see.  The only way you can courageously 
uphold your perceptions is to believe in the inalienable right to have that 
kind of freedom that will allow you to perceive - the liberation of the 
spirit - and this will transcend religion ... and nationality and gender and 
culture and geography.

Injustice is injustice, and an awakened heart is repelled by injustice.  That 
is why we have come to help you open your hearts!  So that you can begin to 
perceive with the heart rather than from the head which is capable of 
distorting reality to meet the needs of other beings and powers and purposes 
than that which is rooted in the heart.  And I don't mean sentimentality, I 
mean divine love, the heart of meaning and value.

THOROAH: A lot of the injustice is not obvious yet the assault on the senses 
in New York was not necessarily the bulk of the injustice.  There's larger 
injustice going on than that and that is the reception that this thing in New 
York is a part of.  That's to me the greater injustice, and it's hard to do 
something about that it's so deep-seated and long-held.  I'm hoping that 
there's some intervention to help overcome the odds.

TOMAS: Deception is part of the legacy of Urantia.  It stems from many 
centuries ago, and you have had a series of interventions.  Even epochal 
interventions! And now it is in the form of the Teacher Sons who are 
infiltrating their way into your lives, into your thinking, so that your 
responses are strengthened in the way of truth and light, rather than falling 
prey to the tremendous power of the deceivers, those who are heirs to 
Lucifer's legacy who will not let go lightly.  These powers may or may not be 
incorporated, but they are real in that they are creating an evil influence, 
an anti-Christ, an obstruction against the light.  They need the darkness.  
They need the secrecy, the covert behaviors, the strength of isolation.  And 
yet it is a terrible illusion. Even as that illusion is destructive of much, 
it will dissolve because it cannot endure in the light.  Keep your lights 
burning.  Bring your fears out and admit that which you don't know in order 
to make known the quiet secret places, so that the hologram of evil can be 
brought into focus and dealt with.  

Here it is very critical that you particularly understand the Master's 
saying: "He who is not for us is against us."  Be generous in your 
recognition of those who are for good as compared to those who are for evil.. 
 Look at the naivety and ignorance of all these machinations, all these 
imperfections, and understand that the Christ Himself said "Father, forgive 
them for they know not what they do."  It is possible for you to have and 
maintain that kind of a vantage point that will allow you to continue to 
stand in the light of truth, even as you see the actions of the power of 
darkness.  Love is more contagious than hate.  Bond with those you can love, 
you will love.  Support those who are not completely antithetical to 
Michael's purpose.  

You cannot put your finger on evil.  The evil one has been eradicated, is no 
more.  It is his legacy you are confronted with and it is a hologram, an evil 
illusion that can only dissolve by consuming itself.  Continue to forge ahead 
for life and light, love and liberty.  

THOROAH:    Kill ‘em with kindness.
TOMAS: To coin a phrase.
THOROAH: Some people would call that very Pollyanna.  
TOMAS: They are babes crying in the wilderness.  Embrace them.  Comfort them. 
 Invite them to share, then let them decide.

THOROAH: It seems if we do the changing inside, we disarm the deceivers 
because they've been using us, using our weaknesses and our fears to 
manipulate us, so if we change from the inside, we take it away from them.

TOMAS: How can I stress to you this is the importance of the personal 
Correcting Time.  If you have absolved yourself of guilt and sin, if you have 
cleansed your soul and been forgiven, if you have nothing to hide, you have 
nothing to fear, you have nothing to lose.  You have everything to bring to 
the work.  You are naked.  You are empty, a channel through which He may 
speak.  Only as you are afraid of exposure, only as pride and ego are 
blocking the way for you to see clearly, are you involved also in the power 
of evil.  Therefore, reach into yourself and allow the correcting to commence 
and be completed so that when your day, your hour, your moment comes, you are 
an open channel.  You will hear the instruction to speak forth and you will 
speak forth.  

Your paths are so delayed by your own rationalization and justification of 
your own shadow lands: your sense of shame, your sense of guilt.  These must 
be absolved, resolved, released. Be as a child, a little child.  Trusting, 
open.  In this you will be made great, strengthened, resolved, made ... [I 
want to use the word "worthy".  Gerdean objects.] ... made worthy by refusing 
to subscribe to those lesser qualities that weigh you down, the imperfections 
of time and space. Let go of that thing.  
    
You have the advantage as religionists to have the overview that this 
horrible incident reveals.  The call to action, the heroics, the compassion, 
the desire to serve, the common bond of humanity, the ennoblement of 
civilization, the true beautiful and good in humanity – this is a great 
triumph of the human condition, and you as religionists are able to see and 
appreciate how it is that the spirit is able to be victorious even in the 
face of such calamity.  

Continue to further the fabric of men's minds, to follow through with this 
potential reality for Urantia, that even in times of peace and domestic 
harmony this humanitarian approach can be the rule rather than the exception, 
for it is within you, it is evident, you have been able to see yourselves as 
enlightened and ennobled men and women. You are not "assailing the enemy" 
because you are without hatred.  That you have attained a level of 
comprehension of the human condition that enables you to function without 
hatred is truly an accomplishment.  

THOROAH: Some would call that naivete, too!

TOMAS: All children are naive.  But you keep referring to these mental 
constructs which denounce the childlike attitude of a faith son or daughter.  
Are you reluctant to conjoin with those who see so innocently?  

THOROAH: No, I'm not reluctant, but I am for finding the alternative to the 
hate and vengeance, all the emotions, the destruction that accompanies all of 
that.   Even in its innocence it's effective;  I.not so innocently believe 
that we need to take this approach, a national approach that ... be careful 
we don't get self-righteous in our zealousness and stupid at the same time!  
You know, we could be stupid about some things as well as pacifistic.  Just 
because we're pacifists doesn't make us right.

TOMAS: Then you are talking about the development of civil procedures to 
guard against such global disruptions.  You're talking about global 
government.  You're talking about maintenance of civilization.  These are 
matters for your conscientious application through the channels of the 
material world.  There are those who work in the world and still operate as 
Reserve Corp of Destiny.  Building a civilization is a tremendous 
undertaking, and you are invited to participate.  

In this you will learn about politics and procedures.  You will learn how to 
prevail with men and women.  You will understand the value of one voice, one 
vote.  You will understand the merits of the conclave, the committee.  This 
is human undertaking.  But these undertakings will be more effective, longer 
lasting, further serving, if they are done in coordination with the spiritual 
nature which is one of trust.  

Send me, God, into the world.  Show me where I can serve.  Am I to do work in 
the political arena?  Shall I run for office?  Am I to get up petitions?  Can 
I put placards in the window or send e-mails around to indicate my opinions?  
Can I speak in the town square about the values and meanings which I feel are 
necessary to create a better world?  What are the policies about prayer in 
school now that we have discovered in foxholes there are no athiests?  The 
world is filled with work that needs tending to.  It's not just helping 
people become spiritually awakened, although that is certainly the first 
step, but having become awakened and eager then to do something for the world 
and/or the Supreme, then what process shall we take to undertake these many 
missions?

GINNY: So is the decision to strike back never a spiritual one?

TOMAS: It is a human choice based on the assessment of the circumstances 
under which they are struggling.  It's always such a soulful decision -- 
always -- that it commands the decision makers to devote time in prayer to 
making those decisions which they will have to live with for eternity, and 
thus God gets involved, but from the human standpoint.  These are affairs of 
men, of mankind, humankind, en route from its origins into the myriad 
plateaus of evolution up to the pinnacle of light and life.  

As you look around and as you see some of the things that have taken place on 
your world, the barbarities that have run their course, they make you wonder, 
but if you look at the animal realm and see the balance of nature, you will 
see the artistry of survival and the human race has developed survival arts 
as it has climbed up its own ladder of evolution, even stepping on the heads 
of those they have oppressed in order to survive and get to where they felt 
they needed to go in order to ... what? ... wield power over others? Take 
great territories? Exhaust man power?  Natural resources?  Eventually to 
persist in a peaceful way of life, for science and art, incorporating God 
into the paradigm.  

This is the destiny path of the creatures of time and space, implanted in you 
by the Life Carriers.  The uphill struggle.   Continue your uphill struggle 
and help strengthen those who are hurt in the process.  Encourage those who 
have not begun to think of the higher/ better way, to think alternatively 
than the tried and true dominance of yesteryear.  Civilization is a long 
uphill struggle.  To pretend that there will not be death or destruction is 
indeed to be naive, and that is not the kind of childlikeness I invite you to 
partake of.  I don't ask you to be foolish. 

The eye of experience allows a perspective and the heart also allows a 
perspective.  Don't become embittered but remain close to the Parent, in 
trust of His over control, that in eternity the universes are unfolding as 
they should.  I am happy to reiterate these lessons these words.  They will 
need to be repeated time and time and time and time again for you to accustom 
yourself to the superior response.  But this acquirement is one which you are 
making and will master and when the world has mastered these lessons, we will 
have arrived at light and life.  

And so through you, be advised of the progress that was made in this battle 
on Urantia against savagery and darkness and destruction.  Even in the face 
of default and rebellion we are attaining God-consciousness, even global 
God-consciousness, as the pageant of your planetary history unfolds.  

When you get to the mansion worlds, you will have an emotional hangover such 
that when you begin to feel more like yourself, you will have such a 
passionate loyalty to your world of origin you will regret you didn't 
recognize it while you were here.  

Anything else?

GINNY: No, thank you.  You certainly did a marvelous task tonight with 
lessons to think about and I'll read the notes.

TOMAS: And if you feel you want to do something, get involved.  There is 
plenty to do.  Give yourself permission, ask a midwayer to lead you into the 
sure path of trouble, and next think you know you'll be having a good time, 
even in the face of the imperfection.

GINNY: I'm sure that the recent catastrophy is going to activate many many 
many sluggish and rather lazy souls into having more of a commitment to being 
a more spiritually attuned human.

TOMAS: It may be then an ideal opportunity for you as a religionist, a former 
nun, a devoted disciple of the truth of the Urantia Papers and an Ambassador 
to the Father's Kingdom through the Teaching Mission, to develop a class of 
your own to teach these people who will want to know how better to live a 
spiritual life.  Who better to teach them than one such as yourself?  

GINNY: And we're doing that with our little group, our two little young 
people.

TOMAS: Indeed.

GINNY: It's a challenge.  Well, I thank you and ... I had another question 
but I'd like to discuss it with my friends first, and then maybe next time 
you can add your two cents.

TOMAS: Very good procedure.  That's what friends are for.  Godspeed, until 
next week.


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