[tmtranscripts] 10-20-02 Rio Rancho TeaM

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Date: October 20, 2002
Location: Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Teachers: TOMAS, ANATOLIA and 
Cherubim:  "What-About-Bob"
Topics: Understanding yourself and your neighbor
        Understanding your animal origins
        Responding to the impulse of life
        The self-preservation instinct
        The adjutant mind spirit of intuition

T/R’s: Gerdean (Tomas and What About Bob)

        Matthew (Anatolia)

Music: Song selection: "Simple Gifts" – a popular old Shaker melody –

Pianist: Dorenda

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Prayer: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.



     Master Teacher. We come to you with whole and happy hearts, that are 
presented to you as doers, workers in the field and happy harvesters of that 
which you present us with. We realize that you are the vine and that we are 
the branches and that grapes are produced as a result of your work. Remind us
to be mindful of that which we have to do and that the juice of the product 
is the wine that we savor, that our lives are to be savored as that which you 
presented as the greatest illustration, in this case. We ask for the 
teachings that you deem helpful and necessary and productive to our onward 
and upward growth and for each of those concerns within our hearts and our 
minds and for those who are traveling that they be returned to us gratefully, 
because we are grateful for their return. 
     For all that is one in you and our heavenly Father, we are forever 
grateful. Amen.



TOMAS: Good afternoon, family and friends. This is Tomas, your teacher, glad 
to be again in your midst and in our

customary environment. What a wonderful time it was when we enjoyed the lake. 
How reminiscent of when the Master was with the mortals of your world and 
walked along the rivers and lakes of his native lands, enjoying the terrain 
and temperatures of the material environment. Now recall a

group together in the shelter of a home, that which is the foundation of 
civilization.



How is it that you become civilized and socialized and spiritized? Through 
trial and error, for the most part. By experientially traversing the range of 
possibilities, discarding that which is inferior and embracing that which is 
superior until, at length, we embark upon a new avenue, that of revealing the 
divine pattern of perfection, even in the

humble human home.



There are lessons galore that speak to the topic of the home and the 
importance of the relationship between husband and wife, who create the 
environment and produce the offspring which sanctifies the home environment 
as the pinnacle of civilized existence, even incorporating the lessons 
involving the spirit reality which is set forth in the ideal example of the 
parent and child that Jesus taught when he taught the apostles to pray, ‘Our 
Father who art in heaven.’ 



The success of this family configuration is because you all  acknowledge the 
Fatherhood of God as authority over you all and inasmuch there is 
graciousness and cooperation among you, there is no real sibling rivalry, no 
competition to attain God’s attention, or affections, inasmuch as all of you 
are blessed in your personal understanding of your own

relationship to divinity. This simplicity, that we know in this moment, is 
living the gospel, living the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.



This is the simple essence of your work, to realize this atmosphere in the 
hearts and minds of all those you encounter. And most of those you encounter 
are yet unaware of the personal relationship that can be had between the 
Universal Father and each of his sons an daughters, even

those of you who are flesh and blood.



I’m going to invite Bob in again for another session, albeit brief. I’ll be 
back. One moment please.



BOB: Greetings, peoples and associates. I’m glad to be, again, with you and 
appreciative of the opportunity to instill in you an awareness of your human 
nature, for in understanding yourself, you are in a better position to 
understand the motives and devices of your fellows.  It is said that if you 
can understand your neighbor, you can learn to love him. It would seem that 
there are many who have no hope of learning how to love their neighbor, for 
their understanding is curtailed by their own ignorance and prejudice, as 
they cannot see the full scope of their neighbor. For as many will do, they 
choose to retain the sense of separation. And with that sense of separation 
the understanding is only partial. It is based not on spirit, but on the 
limitations of the human

existence. And when it is suggested that you understand your neighbor, it is 
recommended that you understand him in the full sense of the word.



Jesus taught with the eye of perception that included an appreciation for the 
highest, as well as the lowest, common denominators of humanity. For whereas 
a human may be base and selfish, it is true that he may also be noble, good 
and altruistic. And thus to limit your view of your neighbor

to any degree, is to limit your understanding, and therefor to limit your 
love potential. But to look with understanding upon your fellows with this 
full-range vision, it must be possible for you to look first at yourself and 
recognize your own dimensions. In this way it is possible, then, for you to 
understand you neighbor fully, from the high road and

the low road view.



There are many among you who cannot even acquiesce to the fact that human 
beings are animals. That is truly laughable. In fact, much of humor is 
derived from a sense of the ludicrousness of the human animal and his antics. 
Have you not all watched toddlers and young people before they’ve

become involved in the prevailing cultural mores, being themselves and 
speaking from their perspectives/perceptions all manner things that can only 
be regarded as funny, if not culturally correct? How many time have you 
observed monkeys at the zoo and laughed at their antics and twittered

at how closely they resembled friends of yours? And how often have you 
admired your dog for his loyalty and appreciated the same loyalties in 
yourself?



There are great qualities about the human animal. It is no shame to be born 
an animal-origin creature. It is a rare opportunity you have to relish the 
form and fashion you are. You will perforce leave much of it behind when you 
translate to the mansion worlds, but there is still much of the animal legacy 
which will follow you into the future. And, again,

these qualities of your animal nature are indicators that you share with 
others. And when you are honest with yourself about how you behave as an 
animal, you can better apply yourself to the business of understanding that 
animal, so as to appreciate its values. In seeing your neighbors values, 
then, you are able to see how you are alike. And though they may

have certain cultural differences, invariably they will essentially represent 
those higher levels which are also of a common denominator through that in 
you which is born of the spirit. Thus, pathos and empathy, sympathy, 
compassion, patience and perseverance are born and become a part of your 
character.



We talked about impulse, the impulse of life. The impulse to live, to survive 
and the response to that impulse. When you consider the animal aspect of 
instinctually responding, you can consider its reactions are going to be 
fear-based, for they have no faith-capacity. Fright evinces flight or freeze 
modalities. You’ve seen the deer on the highway freeze

when it’s caught in your headlights. You’ve seen the birds flee when they 
see your shadow. This is the self-preservation instinct.  Add now a taste of 
the adjutant mind spirit, the gift of the Mother that provides you with a 
sense of intuition. That intuitive sense that allows you to ponder, in 
advance, how you will react. 

When danger is near, you can smell it. Sometimes literally, more often 
figuratively. You are being cautioned, admonished to be alert, to be aware, 
to be mindful of something that might be a threat to your survival. This is 
the gift of intuition, the intuitive sense that can direct you into safety 
and away from danger. This elemental understanding of the most elementary 
aspects of existence is universal. It occurs in your friends and it occurs in 
your enemies. The adjutant mind spirit of intuition is a gift to all of the 
animal world, including the human animal.

Observe, this week, as you go about your affairs, observe impulse and observe 
reactions and responses to impulse that will manifest through instinct and/or 
intuition. Understand intuition and instinct in yourself. Enjoy learning 
about your own composition. Recognize your built-in capacities to survive. 
And later we will further examine these profound
gifts of nature, in order to help you appreciate how you have developed, not 
only as an individual, but as a race, into a semi-civilized culture and how 
it is when you look upon your fellows, your neighbors, you can truly learn to 
understand them. And eventually learn to love them.

This is fostering spirit reality. This is kingdom building. It is not born of 
high philosophy nor is it the fruit of a great theology. It is essential 
reality which none of you escape. All of you have the tools to understand who 
you are and how you relate to your world and its citizenry. This is an effort 
toward developing a bigger appreciation for the dimension of divinity that 
controls you and the growth of universes. 
I return you to your teachers.

TOMAS: This is Tomas. I am back on the dais with the microphone, as it were, 
and as we stretch and reflect on the atmosphere our Cherubim left with us, I 
invite Anatolia to join us here and enjoy her moment with you, as we all do.

ANATOLIA: I am here with you, this afternoon, as Anatolia and am appreciative 
of the opportunity to meet with you once again. I commend you for your 
devotion and your dedication, two words being similar, yet distinctly 
different, and your commitment, another similar but yet different word, to 
the varied teachings that are brought to you each week. I know each of you 
have a similar reason for attending, yet each of
you has a particular reason for attending. Regardless of the reasons, as 
noteworthy as they are, in your own personal sense, you are to be commended 
for the commitment and dedication that you demonstrate each and every week.

You have also entertained and fulfilled bringing new personalities to the 
group, which is to be encouraged and to be found beneficial. There is, 
nevertheless, not a great need to proselytize, or to extend the news of these 
meetings far and wide, for while it is absolutely beneficial that each and 
every soul who has eyes to see or ears to hear, would, and will,
benefit from such messages, it is more relevant that each of you, given your 
simplicity of purpose and clarity of mind, will benefit most by being true to 
these teachings and accordingly being greater witnesses than you would be if 
you were simply committed to having other personalities experience the 
phenomenon, if you will. 

You are to be commended for not encouraging or expanding the group based upon 
phenomenon alone. For as this is not a phenomenal exercise, per se, in 
spirit-faith dimensions, it does take a certain amount of open-mindedness and 
expansiveness in your spiritual growth, to accept this method as common 
place. This is, again, to be commended for your great, stalwart, faith 
production. If only there were the faith that
permitted others to experience this, or yet even more, the world would not be 
the trouble spot that it is. Nevertheless this is not simply a commendation 
of your faithfulness and steadfast loyalty to our purposes.

I realize that my participation in your weekly meetings, is to receive 
further food for thought and re-enrichment of the roots that are deep and 
grown truly through the lifeblood of your being. It would be of no benefit 
for anyone of this teaching mission to be reinforced or puffed up, if you 
will, with gratitude for your devotion to each or any of us as personality. 
Our purpose mirrors your own in terms of being true to that which you know to 
be of deity origin. We know, as you know, that this is our purpose. We share 
the light with you and in your presence. And likewise, your light is shared 
and bestowed upon us.

For who has not had the fondest desire to bring their younger brother or 
sister into the fold?  Who has not, as an older member of the clan, so to 
speak, taken sheer pleasure and protective custody of the youngest of the 
group?  This is my care and concern that I share with you, that as an older

sibling I share your care and concern with that of others who are entrusted 
with your protective custody. I have said it before, but will say it again, 
it is with the greatest care, concern and endearing love, that I, as an older 
participant in your life story be allowed to share these times with you as an 
onlooker of the growth and potential that each and all of you have in this 
life and beyond.



So to summarize, and to bring you to the point at hand, I encourage each of 
you to look in the mirror this week, each and everyday as you prepare in the 
morning, to recognize that the cute little bunny, or whatever animal origin 
you may find yourself to be, you are truly a spirit being of divine origin. 



Rejoice and be glad, for this is the day that the Lord has made and you are 
fully aware and part of every ray of divine presence with us. So be glad and 
rejoice and know that you are one with us as we progress in this onward 
spiral in the outer reaches of consciousness awareness.



Peace be with you and all is well.



TOMAS: I take up the microphone again and hand it to you. Shall we engage in 
discourse or questions?



Elena: I found the discussion about looking at your neighbor and 
understanding where they are coming from especially pertinent because I’m 
going to this conference in Austin and there is a person going there that I 
just abhor. And I find that this will be a re-direction for me in my 
preparation to go and helps me to better try to aim at understanding this 
person. I doubt very seriously that I will get to love but I will focus on 
understanding. So I am very grateful for the advice from Tomas.



TOMAS: There was talk earlier about wanting to incorporate a paragraph, or a 
point, from your Urantia text into your discourses on your Sunday afternoon 
get-togethers. This might be an ideal chance for me to recommend that you 
find the example of the savage with the upraised club. Do any of you recall 
that depiction? 



Esmarelda: Was that from the earlier stages - before Jesus -- a long time 
before that?



TOMAS: This is not so much a period in history, as it is a point of 
indication, indicating how you can have short-sighted view of your fellows 
and by expanding your perspective you get a bigger picture and that will 
enable you to have a greater perception. It’s not in my software to point you 
to the page, but there are software programs available that will find it 
quickly, no doubt.  Have any of you got that software that would readily 
identify the three or four paragraphs I’ve referred to? 



Elena: It’s on the internet if you just enter for ‘savage’ and ‘club’….



TOMAS: "…upraised club."



Matthew: I remember the illustration being used that if you observed 
prehistoric man in a cave with an upraised club, your impression might be 
‘what an animal’ or ‘what a primate’ ‘how beastly or ghastly’ but if you 
look closer you could see that he had his club upraised because he had his 
wife and family behind him and he was protecting them. Then you would be 
better able to understand what one’s behavior is not always what it appears 
to be; there might be a good reason for it. So I remember the illustration 
but where it is in the book, I don’t know.  [Ed.:  Page 1098]



TOMAS: If you can ascertain, for yourself, what he is perceiving as the 
saber- toothed tiger that is threatening his home and hearth, you have a much 
better appreciation for how he has reacted to the stimuli of the instinct to 
survive that Bob discussed.



Elena: Well, I’ll just give it a try.



TOMAS:  Don’t curtail your capacities by short-circuiting the potential for 
success, in this case. You do as many do, you say ‘I’ll try but I don’t 
think I’ll succeed.’ That is establishing for yourself in advance a reason 
to not follow through with the assignment. The end result is simply an 
ability to love another individual and this is socializing the brotherhood of 
man. It is not required that you invite him over for dinner.



What has been going on in your lives that may have prompted you to 
soul-search, that you find valuable and would share with your peers, now that 
we have a chance to spend some time on these matters which matter to your 
soul? (Silence) 



When, you think about your spirit life during the week, when you think as a 
son of God, when these matters arise that could be considered "cosmic 
problem-solving issues," make a note. Share your findings with your fellows 
and thus stimulate their willingness to express their spirit-born life as 
well. In this way, gradually, over time, we will learn to socialize more 
fully that which we are becoming, that which is at our Source, that which is 
our origin and our destiny, that which is, and will be, even after this 
temporal life is ended.  

And yet your socialization of those matters which are meaningful to your soul 
development are also the morsels of mota which will feed those younger 
brothers and sisters who
are, even now, beginning to taste the perfection hunger that has activated 
you and stimulated you for these many moons. 

Remember to pass on that which you have learned.  In this way you keep the 
doors open for new growth. You keep your lives stimulated and activated. It 
is by becoming spiritually complacent that you grow fat and ineffective. 
While it may do well for pussycats, it is not conducive to a wide-spread
recognition of the vitality of your place in the universe. 

Life is an impulse and you are urged to keep in touch with that impulse, that 
which keeps you alert and acutely aware of the world around you, both for its 
beauty and for its ministry opportunities.  

We wish you a vital week, thrilling in its simplicity, profound in its depth, 
and brilliant in its presentation, as vital and dynamic as the autumn leaves 
and as enduring as the sands of time. Peace be upon you. Farewell.


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