[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho TeaM 05-05-02

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DATE:       May 5, 2002
LOCATION:   Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TEACHER:    TOMAS & MICHAEL
TOPIC:  "My Kingdom is Not of This World"
Q&A:        "You gotta have a dream."
        "On earth as it is in heaven"
        Midwayer assistance
        I Have Time For You
T/r:        Gerdean

Opening piano music, played by Elena:   "Here I Am, Lord"

TOMAS:   Welcome once again and still to our gathering.  Let me reach out and 
greet you as your soul comes forth to greet me.  How joyous we are in this 
circle of friends.  How charming is your music in honor of our Master who has 
also come today as a conscious presence in our midst.  He will speak with you 
later; I would like to proceed with our session for today, our lesson, and 
that has to do with this theme:  "My kingdom is not of this world."

I am addressing this at the request of one of my students.  It is not an 
audible request but a soul need, and your soul needs are my mission.  
Therefore it pleases me when you give me your notion of what you need to have 
a better understanding of, for in this way I am saved the troublesome 
practice of meddling in your souls.  It pleases me greatly when, in fact, 
your souls have attained such a level of yearning to be godlike that they 
take on their own energy and their own enthusiasm, indeed, the true hunger 
for truth and thirst for righteousness.

The Master, when he was here, often admonished his followers about the 
Kingdom as a spiritual kingdom, and in those days it was hard for them to 
understand the concept of a spiritual kingdom, even as today it is difficult 
for you to differentiate between the material kingdom and the spiritual 
kingdom for they, in your mind, overlap.  In your efforts to be about the 
Father's business, and to be of service in his fields, the greater grasp you 
have of this concept the greater your ability to be effective in the field 
will be.  

You are all a part of the material world and its energies.  Even when you 
have been reborn of the spirit and begin to learn about the energies of a 
higher mind, it is difficult for you to have such a well-formulated 
appreciation of spiritual energy as to keep you from being swept up into the 
energies of the material realm.  And as you know, many of you are lured, 
wooed, seduced, made comfortable and complacent in the lives you carve for 
yourself by the nature of the civilization in which you dwell.  

It is no wonder then that many of you are reluctant to get involved in "the 
system" or, from your frame of reference, are able to see the good that 
exists in the society and find your will to serve being usurped by the 
perception that there's nothing to do.  The Father's will is being done and 
your best approach is to behave yourself and stay out of trouble, thus being 
of service.  Well, there is merit to that concept, as is evidenced in the 
story of the prodigal son.

The admonition Michael offered his apostles, "my kingdom is not of this 
world," was a way of identifying another dimension of reality.  It was not to 
say that the material world has no reality, but that his is a different 
reality, and one which we need to attempt to understand, for as we grasp the 
concept of the glory of God, the greater Kingdom then will come to pass as 
night follows the day,  for those of you who are enthralled with the reality 
of the spiritual kingdom will see to it that your world eventually and 
ultimately conforms to those values that you hold dear.  And, since love is 
more contageous than hate, it is the assignment of me and my fellow teachers 
to remind you and encourage you to promote the spiritual brotherhood of man, 
sisterhood of women, family of children of God, as compared to promoting the 
material kingdom.  There are already plenty who promote a material way of 
life.

Our object is to introduce the new dimension, as Jesus sought to introduce 
the new dimension, of the spirit reality into the material reality.  There 
are errors in thinking.  When you look at your saying, "render unto Caesar 
the things that are Caesar's," you have a sense that means you need to put 
your Self aside, your own reality aside, for eight hours a day and become the 
subject of a lesser reality, forfeiting your existence even, in pursuit of 
the value of the work place.  This is not the case.  

There is no place that does not belong to the Father.  There is no place that 
God does not exist.  In this way you may take the Kingdom by assault.  You 
may take the Father into your arena with you.  The music that was played, 
"Here I Am, Lord. I will hold your people in my hands," means you will honor 
the fact of His Kingdom, even in the work place, even in those areas which 
are not designated as "God's House."  From the perspective of infinity, all 
of existence is God's House, and we are all residents therein, all being 
formed to ultimately exalt His creation of which we are a part.  

I will cease my remarks here and open the floor for your involvement, 
possible questions about my words.  Any questions, commentary, or anything I 
need to know?

ESMARELDA: Tomas, we do have a first time person here with us today -- Emily, 
who is Carl's daughter, and we are very happy to have her.  We're also 
extremely happy to have you, Tomas.

TOMAS:  Welcome, Emily, to our enlarged family configuration.  You are 
obviously quite at home in our midst and we embrace you happily.  In 
responding also to my affectionate student Esmarelda, I say we are a mutual 
admiration society, and in this contageous and loving environment, we augment 
that which is good in us, as we allow that which is less than perfect to fall 
away in the light of our divine love.

"Our Divine Love".  What could that mean?   That must mean something having 
to do with the theme "My Kingdom is Not of This World," for without divine 
love it would not be possible to see the Kingdom in any of its 
manifestations, or the children of God that we can "hold in our hands", 
without the eye of perception.  That is a gift from divinity.  Thus, we 
attempt to enhance an appreciation of our godliness, even as we 
counter-balance that with a new appreciation of how humbly we offer ourself 
to be raised up.

Our Father is a great proponent of individuality, as it is He who instills in 
each of us a unique and wonderful personality - that which is His gift to 
each of you, and which only you are able to, in return, devote to Him in 
service. 

ELENA:  Tomas, one thing that that was bringing to mind - you know, "my 
Kingdom is not of this world," - sometimes, when we think about … we might 
apply God's will, or what we think might be God's will, and we get these 
visions that, I guess, start out in the material world and it makes me think, 
too, about the apostles, who first pictured pretty grandiose positions, 
possibly, for themselves,  -- and I have to admit that I'd probably be right 
in there with them, -- to getting kind of pumped up about, "Wow, this is 
really cool" and then it turns out to be something different.

My question for your comment is: sometimes this excitement seems to be 
helpful, in a way, to get an idea started, getting the energy going.  You 
also spoke about energy.  You were seeing energy starting to develop in each 
of us, maybe, or some individuals, and so I guess maybe some comments about 
aligning that with God's will and keeping this energy going in a positive 
force, hopefully towards God's will.  Does that make any sense at all?  Or, 
there are like 15 questions there.  Would you like to pick one? 

TOMAS:  I will pick one.
ELENA:  Okay.

TOMAS:  I will make it very simple.  I will now go to Walt Disney, who 
sponsored the attitude, "You've gotta have a dream.  If you don't have a 
dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" And dreams are 
"fantasmagorical", and perhaps are super-conscious uprisings, as nightmares 
are subconscious uprisings sometimes, and these uprisings are outside the 
realm of any reality but your hidden mental realms, and so, if you are 
dreaming, you might as well allow yourself to dream any and all things that 
waft through your many conscious levels.  In pursuing your dream, then, it 
will be made clear what is worthy and what is not for the ultimate creation 
of the reality you once dreamed.  

There is another phrase, "self aggrandizement" which is a stumbling block for 
many, for somehow you perceive that any reference to the self is to be 
squelched, snuffed, eradicated from your existence, as if you were out to 
kill your ego and all sense of identity.  How unfortunate for your existence, 
that you would discipline yourself out of being, in some misunderstanding of 
how that word is intended to help you identify that ego which is so 
self-serving as to eliminate any other reality than itself.

I am being made aware of how much we need to depend upon our Creator for his 
guidance and sustenance, his encouragement and direction, for the soil in 
which you have been grown has been one which will need to be redefined from 
its outset if you are to understand how your responses are conditioned to 
behave in a way that has been impressed upon you by others, others 
well-meaning but perhaps not as original for you and your path as was 
intended by your Creator.  

I'll not discourage anyone, but I will point out that our reconnecting and 
reconditioning process has only begun.  You in your life will not see the end 
result of our efforts, and yet it falls upon you as an awakened one, to know 
all you can know about that which is becoming, in order that you yourself 
might become more than you were.  Thus, you will "seek first the Kingdom" and 
with that view, that understanding, that enlarged perception, you will have a 
divine perspective, then, from which to observe your fellows and how they 
have been conditioned, and how that conditioning interferes with the growth 
of spirit or enhances the greater reality. 

And in this you can intuitively be of service because to the extent that you 
are awakened, you are an instrument of the Master to work through, to help 
you guide and direct your fellows in the faith path in such a way as to 
increase light and life, and not to assume a superior stance over them simply 
because you have an enlarged and enhanced perspective.  This response is a 
partial response to your concerns; however, I feel I have clouded the issue 
or made you feel more weary than encouraged.

ELENU:  I don't think so at all.  A lot of things were really encouraging.  I 
loved that "original path" thing, and I mean there were a lot of things.  No. 
 Thank you, Tomas.

TOMAS:      I like you, too.

CARL:     Now, Tomas, I hear you make reference to the spiritual kingdom, 
also to a material kingdom, and I know that every Sunday of the year that we 
pray, "Thy Kingdom come, on earth …"  I gather from this there are going to 
be two kingdoms.  One on heaven and one on earth.

TOMAS:  No, my friend.  (pause)  I will try to respond to you.  Perhaps I 
need to say, "Yes!  You're right!  There will be two kingdoms.  You will be 
able to see one with your physical eyes and you'll be able to see one with 
your spiritual eyes, but in truth they will be one in the same, whereas today 
they are not."  What we want to do is reclaim your world as Our Father's 
domain.  His son incarnated here, and in so doing, he fulfilled the 
requirements for sovereignty over the universe he created, the local universe 
of Nebadon, in which we reside.  

Many, many worlds are housed in this local universe - which is one of many, 
also.  Universes are filled with life.  Your world is much like others, and 
yet it has its own peculiarities, as do all the worlds, just as, as people, 
you are all alike, but each of you have your own particular imprint.  The 
world as we see it here today, this world, is not infused with the light of 
spirit as was prayed for in the Master's prayer, "Thy  Kingdom come, thy will 
be done, on earth as it is in heaven."  

In Heaven, in the sphere of Havona, at the center of which is the Isle of 
Paradise where God lives, there is divine perfection prevailing, and in the 
worlds of time and space this perfection is relative to the capacities of the 
evolving worlds.  Your world has had its setbacks, as we've mentioned, and so 
you've been in quarantine, cut off from many of the advantages of being a 
part of the universe.  But now, with this new age, we are embarked upon a 
mission to reconfigure and reinvigorate this world, "the world of the cross," 
with the divine light of sonship, and as you each embrace your inheritance as 
rightful sons and daughters, you will be made mindful of your dignity status. 
 You will become ennobled.  You will begin to incorporate the Father's 
reality in all you do and in all you are, and you will become as the fruit of 
the living vine, that will bring about the perfection potential here even as 
it is perfect already in Paradise.  

Inasmuch as another of Jesus' great pronouncements was "The Kingdom of Heaven 
is within you," you are given the added dimension of the reality of God 
within you, as your core reality, and which you will eventually bring into 
immortality by your will aligning itself with the divine will.  And so when 
you meditate, when you focus on the divine Fragment of God which is yours, is 
given to you by God ~ as God ~ within you, you are able to perceive - 
increasingly perceive - His will for you, and how it is that He would have 
you say to him, "Here I am, Lord.  I will hold your children in my hands." 

And so you will find yourself working in the Kingdom as you set out, your 
hand in his, to serve his people and bring the light of truth into the lives 
of those who fear, of those who sit in darkness.  You will light their wick 
with your eternal flame. You will keep them encouraged as you encourage each 
other in this loving community that we are forging here, quietly, in this 
humble community in the desert.  Has this been helpful to you, my son?

CARL:  Thank you.  Thank you, Tomas.  Yes.

EMILY:  Tomas, I have a question I'm not quite sure even how to ask, and it 
has to do, I guess, in my mind with how to bring the Kingdom of God into a 
very real situation that's been troubling me in the last few weeks, and it's 
a situation that involves some physical injury to me, and has since resulted 
in some harsh criticism of me by some friends who were involved, and I'm just 
wondering if you have any words of wisdom for me about the right course and 
the right path for me because it's been troubling me.  If I need to say why, 
I can.  Maybe that would be -

TOMAS:  I will take what you have given me, daughter, and suggest you make an 
arrangement to have a personal session, outside of the group - not to exclude 
your concerns from others, but because then we can take the time necessary to 
determine the factions of concern you have.  There are several factions of 
concern here, obviously.  But as for how you ask your question, have no 
hesitation to put forth your concerns, even when they are unformed, when your 
questions are unformulated, for this is how we open doors of communication, 
and the ultimate purpose of communcation is communion -- and when we are able 
to rise to that level of group worship, we have answered all the questions 
for we are in the presence of all the answers.

Your situation may well indeed provide you with a few clues as to how to deal 
with troublesome individuals.  They well may be reacting instead of 
responding - reacting to the difficulties of life out of fear, and 
defensively, rather than understanding compassion, and rather than allow 
those attitudes to be a bar against you or between your friendships, you 
would do well to understand what their perspective is before you conclude 
otherwise. 

LINDA:  Tomas, I would like to say something.  I was reading in the last TeaM 
Edition where one of the midwayers came through and said that they, too, are 
part of the divine plan and are here to help, and if we would but call on 
them more often, even with our detailed wants, that they are happy to help us 
out, and, obviously, in bringing about the kingdom they are here to help, and 
so we can call on them in our daily endeavors.

TOMAS:  Yes.

LINDA:  And I have angels of ministry, and angels of health, and midwayers 
that go unrecognized, perhaps helping us find where we're going.  So I want 
to take this opportunity to formally ask for midwayer and divine help in the 
project that I have at the house, in putting on the addition, so that 
everything goes smoothly and cheaply, and that we'll get the permits in a 
timely manner, that the contractor will be available, that it won't go over 
budget, et cetera, and have the timing of things work out, even conveniently, 
so I'm open to all the celestial help up there of shuffling time tables and 
schedules and moving materials and getting things done so that we can enjoy 
more room, as it were, and so I'm just taking this opportunity through the 
divine channel to ask for assistance and to say "thank you" in advance for 
all the help that I'm going to receive in doing all this.  I know it's kind 
of a big project and I have, like you said, lots of dreams to make my dream 
come true, here, so I envision a lovely space for my family, our growing 
family.  So if you would kind of carry on that message for me Tomas, thanks.  
I would appreciate it. 

TOMAS:  Your question was indeed well specified, even while I smile as to 
your innocence.  Yes, the midwayers are fully able to manipulate the material 
environment as they might need to, however it will not be to pound nails or 
hand you clothes pins.  In fact, you will discover that they, too, are 
tedious at times, for while in fact they will and do help you (much like the 
"parking lot angels"), your most gratifying relationship with them, your most 
meaningful associationship with them, will be in how they have been able to 
enhance your willingness to work with others in Lowe's or Barcelona Lumber 
Company or UPS, as an extension of the reality of the greater kingdom, not 
just yours.  

In other words, even though they are here to help, they are not here to make 
your life more comfortable, (giggles) and those of you who are more 
knowledgeable about spirit reality also know that from you who have received 
much, much will be required. It therefore may be your question-able privilege 
to bend over backwards to help the workers help you, for in this way they are 
exposed to truth, beauty, and goodness, and those opportunities for them to 
make a decision that will enhance or retard their own spiritual development.  
And in this reality you may be sure of all the universe's support.  

THOROAH:     The bad news is they are not here to make life easier; the good 
news is they're not here to make life any worse, either.

LINDA:  And you still have to do the work.  Yeah. You still have to put 
pencil to paper.

TOMAS:  This is how you are able to enjoy accomplishment.  This is what the 
ascension plan is for you.  Not that you have been created perfect or that 
circumstances are perfect, but that you can attain perfection.  And remember, 
you do have the overcare of the angels of the home, and that should assure 
you that even under cramped circumstances, you have the tools you need, the 
influence over you that will see to it that your home is made sacred, humanly 
sacred, by giving the Father the role of head of the household and seeking 
His counsel in all you do.  

I'm going to move over.  Michael would like to have a moment with you.

MICHAEL:  Be at peace.  I come as your friend.  I am your friend.  Many call 
me "the Great Friend" but when I sit with you, I am not great, I am one with 
you.  We are comrades.  

You are my sheep, my flock, my faithful fold.  You are my brothers.  You are 
my sisters.  We know the difficulties of the human experience.  We have 
buried the dead and brought new life into the world.  We have disciplined and 
nurtured as appropriate.  We have bought and sold, negotiated.  We have won 
and we have lost.  We have friends, and we have enemies.  

I am also your Father, an emissary of the Universal Father.  And as my 
creations, my children, I choose to regard you as my personal kin, my 
children, sons and daughters.  From that vantage point I encourage you to 
rise above the vicissitudes of the earthly life and love your enemies as we 
attempt to enlarge the heart of humanity to include the love of our Eternal 
Parents.  

I am not so busy upholding this universe that I cannot sit with you.  I have 
administrators who manage the worlds of time and space.  I have time to 
attend to the business of upholding my universe without that taking time away 
from you.  You will recognize me as you open yourself that I might reveal 
myself to you.  I have no thought to chide you for being young.  I seek to 
strengthen you with my love, with my encouragement, perhaps through my life 
example.

In my communion with you, reach for me.  I am real.  I am reaching for you.  
I long to embrace you and comfort you, sit with you and wile away the time in 
joy, in pleasure, in comfort as well as in work and service.  There is time.  
There is time for all this and more, and we will know and do all of this and 
more as we progress in our association.  

For now, I am your friend.  I thank you for allowing me in your 
consciousness.  I allow you to think of me as a dream until such time as the 
dream becomes a reality, and as I become a reality for you, I will help you 
create the reality that Our Father intends for you to have for all eternity.  

In peace I leave you.

TOMAS:   I'm still here -- Tomas, that is -- although I often have a hard 
time getting my metabolism up after having been in His presence.  I don't 
know what it is about Him that captures me so.  Are there any other questions?

JANET:  I wonder if I could ask a question, and maybe you can answer it.  I 
felt all my life that people around us often have problems and difficulties 
and you have to be able to be there and listen and maybe advise a little bit, 
and after a long, long career in medicine - in opthamology - when I came out 
here, I wanted to find some way that I could volunteer to do something, so I 
work in a hospital one day a week in the surgery unit, and anybody can do 
just the routine things that have to do with setting up surgery or taking 
care of the patient and so forth, but what the patients need more than 
anything else, and the families, is somebody to talk to them and to listen.

And maybe it's a gift that God has given me, but I've been able all my life 
to talk to people and help them that way, so this was one thing I felt I 
should do out here, and I try, because these people have deep problems.  Even 
though it's maybe a minor surgery, but still, it's something they're going 
through and they need to talk about it, and my main job over there at the 
hospital is listening to these people and talking to them, but I often 
wonder, in spite of all that, if I'm living up to my full potential.  Is 
there any way you can answer a question like that?

TOMAS:      Your desire to be of greater service is evidenced in your 
recitation.  You see, you are already serving by perceiving their need to be 
heard.  Listening is a service and listening with ears to hear that which 
goes beneath the surface of social discourse is a divine gift indeed and one 
which you might ponder developing as you see these people and hear their 
fears.  

Your situation is an example from today's lesson, that you can see beyond the 
material to the etherial.  You can perceive with spiritual eyes what they 
talk to you about, based on their inner eye rather than their optics.  Begin 
to think of yourself as a minister in the art of visualizing, not just the 
physical eye but the spiritual eye, and you'll likely find amusing and 
helpful opportunities to expand their vision to include a spiritual dimension 
as well as introduce an element of humor to their situation, which will 
alleviate much of their sense of stress.

Yes, listening is a fine service, and it's a rare commodity.  Those of you 
who know how to listen with ears to hear are able to teach in ways that 
others cannot.  Persist in your will to be of service, daughter  And how 
thankful I am for your expressions this afternoon!  I am glad to see you have 
let go of your anxieties. Of course, it's only human to keep taking them 
back, isn't it?  (Group chuckle)

It's a matter of perseverence, persistence, and establishing good habit 
patterns to replace those habit patterns which are unfruitful or destructive. 
 As was pointed out, the universe is filled with celestial helpers, merciful 
ministers, anxious and eager to bring order and divine light into your realm, 
that we might elevate this orb to its rightful state of perfection, in honor 
of its creator and you who have been born here, born in the flesh and born of 
the spirit.  What a victory over darkness!  What a triumph over evil!  What 
an exaltation to overcome the lamentations of past ages.  Glory, glory, 
hallelujah!

Amen and farewell.

Closing music, sung by  Carl:   "Glory, glory hallelujah!"  

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