[tmtranscripts] 5-18-03 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

[Gerdean O Bowen]

Date: May 18, 2003
Location: Rio Rancho, NM, USA at Mary Jo’s
Teachers: TOMAS and ANATOLIA
Topics:         "Turn on the Lights"
"Man Can Rationalize & Justifying Anything!"
                        Marking the Passage of UnTime
Q & A:            Mota #28
                    "The Book of Thomas"          
T/R’s: Gerdean for Tomas; Matthew for Anatolia
Prayer: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.
Master Teacher,
We come to you today with a reduced work force, but all of us are truly
here in Spirit. We represent a lot more than are showing in the room. We
take safety and security in knowing that we place ourselves in your care
and custody and in that of our Heavenly Father and the Infinite Spirit
and the Eternal Son. The Trinity -- vast, awesome and beyond our
comprehension -- is such that it could make us feel like specs and
unworthy and insignificant; but on the other hand we know we are part of
the vastness that gives us our identity, our meaning and our future.
So for that which you brought into our reality and made us aware, we are
forever grateful. We ask for the teachers who are here today, that they
will bring further understanding to our hearts and our minds as we
continue on our path to be all that we are made to be, here and now and
forever. Amen.
TOMAS: I am Tomas. I will join you now. How are you this afternoon? 
Group: " - great – very good – thank you…"
TOMAS: It is almost a rhetorical question, for I have been here all this
time, enjoying your picnic and your dialog with one another. Therefore, I
am well aware of how you are -- at least insofar as how you purport
yourself to be among your peers. But now let’s find out how you Really
are, in the depth of your being, as we once again gather around the
campfire and ponder the Truths of Life as compared to the Truths of
Being. 
(At this time Matthew is whispering to Esmarelda that he turned the light
off … )
TOMAS: You turned the light off?!?!?!?!
Matthew: (laughing)…in the kitchen. Sorry. (group laughing) I had left
the light on when I left the room.
TOMAS: If there is one thing we don’t need is someone of your stature
going around turning lights off! (laughter) It is sometimes so dark on
your world, an artificial light is preferred! 
You are all full, I know, and in the afterglow of the afternoon respite
from routine, your molecules cry out for a nap. And yet, I would not be
worthy of my hire if I were not to take advantage of the momentum of your
discourse to reveal yet another lesson in the curriculum of the
Melchizedek University that we enjoy.
Well before I heard your dialog today, I was intending to discuss with
you today the word, the attitude, and the relative value of
Rationalization. If you appreciate what I am saying, you will agree that
Man can rationalize and justify anything. Indeed, all the vagaries of
existence are brought into being because someone was able to think of an
idea, rationalize its existence, justify its being. This is the part of
Free Will that allows you the option to do such things whether or not
they are to your advantage or the advantage of your peers. 
I am speaking to you, as always, as if you were in Apostolic Allegiance
with those who would bring the Light of Truth to your world. In order to
bring Truth to your world, it must be brought one-at-a-time, and so your
intercourse with your fellows -- men and women in the field -- is the
essential part of the work upon which we are engaged. It is in this
context that your work is important. Each time you Turn on the Light,
each time you enable another individual to Turn on the Light of his own
Spirit Illumination, you have contributed to the Light of Truth on
Urantia.
And you who are aware of the possibility of such Illumination are the New
Apostles. Whether you choose to have a ‘spiritual’ mantle such as that is
irrelevant. In fact, in some cases it is better if you do not think of
yourselves as New Apostles, for this perception may lead you to become
vulnerable to religious ego and to act as if you are someone you are not,
but as someone you believe you must become in order to behave in a
certain way.
What has all this got to do with ‘rationalization?’ you ask. Would it be
redundant for me then to answer and say that when your life is built upon
Reality, Rationalization becomes an unnecessary appendage. It becomes
time-consuming scaffolding to an unnecessary structure. And those who
have not the perception of Spirit Illumination as you have, are a part of
the World and its Un-Reality in a drama that is given structure through
the Art of Rationalization.
Rational thought is the gift of Thinking Man. ‘Reason’ is a gift given to
Homo sapiens. Rational thinking is a way to enable those who are not deep
thinkers to understand the necessity for certain acts – or failures to
act – based on Human comprehension. And the comprehension of these Humans
are, generally speaking, comprehensions which are born of Man and not
born of the Spirit. 
Thus, centuries of behaviors have been brought about because of the Fine
Art and Skill of Rationalizing, not only behaviors but Belief Systems and
Governments. The scaffolding of such Systems of Belief and Government
constitute the Ways of the World you know, and without which, the
Systems, the Governments, would crumble. They are as a House of Sticks /
a House of Straw that will be blown away by a goodly gust of strong wind.
What you have, my loyal students, is the ability to blow wind on the
shaky structures in which people reside. 
I hear your Soul inquire about the wisdom of blowing away someone’s
Reality such that they stood naked, alone and fearful. What kind of
‘Graciousness’ is this, you might ask. What kind of ‘Christ-like
behavior’ would that be for me to destroy the structure that provides the
Security for my fellow creatures? What kind of ‘Loving Kindness’ would
that be? And I tell you, you have Rationalized your own Religion by such
a question. Would you not rather, as Jesus did, apply with spittle and
mud the cake upon the eyes of your brothers and sisters to call them
forth from the darkness? Would they not in truth rather resound to the
Reality of Life as it is lived in the Spirit as compared to the hovel of
life as it is lived in the Flesh? Who are you being loyal to when you
rationalize your reluctance to act upon your own Light of Truth?
"Man can rationalize and justify anything." 
You, too, are capable of justifying how you perceive; whether or not you
will serve; the extent to which you will walk a second mile. And you will
justify these behaviors, or not, depending upon your own Light of Truth.
And the extent to which your Light of Truth shines is dependent upon your
own ability to rationalize your own responses to stimuli you’ve been
given -- the stimuli on one hand of God Himself and the stimuli of Man
(Mammon) on the other. 
It is important for you to understand your fellow human beings. It is
important for you to understand them in order to love them. But it is not
necessary for you to join them in their foolishness simply because it is
the predominant reality, because, in the Light of Truth, it is an
insufficient reality to alter the course of destiny. And if the course of
destiny is not altered on Urantia – if the Spirit is not allowed to
prevail as the predominant reality – the people of your world will
continue to find myriad ways of engaging itself in destructive behaviors
– UN-real behaviors. Un-realities.
In order for you to understand and appreciate the full extent of how
humanity tends to rationalize and justify the State of Affairs on your
World, it is necessary for you to understand them, to-wit: put yourself
in the position of empathizing with their point-of-view. Consider their
motive. And in the fear-ridden, their motive may not be to ‘take over
power’ but merely to Survive. And, as an animal who has survived, you can
certainly empathize with that quality in them, and thus in your empathy
and sympathy go no farther than to provide Comfort by your Presence. But
is your Presence – your Comforting Presence – a Fruit of the Spirit? Or
is it another degree of Rationalization that keeps you from being about
the Father’s business?
Look around you this week at the myriad ways in which Humanity
Rationalizes its very existence. How it measures its choices – based NOT
on a Divine Perspective – but on an animal perspective that seeks
creature comfort and passive acquiescence to the Powers-that-be, and
observe the skills with which the Powers-that-be utilize their sway over
these sheep. Rationalization is a dangerous thing. 
Witness Jesus’ life and site me one example – if you can find one – where
he ‘Rationalized’ anything. He understood and could empathize, yes. But
it was not in him to leave the situation as he found it, but always to
give Spirit Illumination to the Moment – to the Human Condition – in such
a way as to bring the Light of Truth to that man, that woman, or that
child – such that their life was enhanced and in that, Planetary Life was
advanced.
Yes, I am finished with my little diatribe. But now that I have you where
I want you, I will give the microphone to my co-worker.
Matthew: Anatolia is here.
ANATOLIA: Good afternoon, this fine day in May in your calendar, 2003
years from the beginning of your ‘calendar time.’ This is an arbitrary
indication of the passage of time and it is truly artificial, for your
knowledge of your physical world, as you understand it, is millions upon
billions of years old. This (2003 years), in the Large Picture, is just a
‘blink’ of existence and not even to referred to as ‘time’ – so to speak.
My lesson today is not on the passage of time or the demarcation of this
quantity and quality that you know in your world. But rather it is to
mark time by your thoughts, your movements of expression and your quality
of being. 
I would like to present a concept that could bring new meaning to what
you know. Consider the ‘passage of time’ and the development of Man – or
Humankind’s – Rationalization, if you will. That is, I am speaking of the
Eras or Decades that you can mark as eras in time, as passage of
particular styles, ways of doing things, manners, popular thought,
colloquialisms, trends, and historic actions that are the culmination of
the collective unconscious, as well as conscious, to produce and to
accommodate and even Rationalize, that which is the Group Consciousness
or Group Will. This is something that is consciously - as well as
unconsciously - agreed to, inasmuch as trends or cycles of productivity
and unproductivity amass to result in great accomplishment or tremendous
horror at what Humanity can produce. 
This is my introduction to you in terms of the Untime in your thinking
and being. For in your Untime – which is NOT measuring of time as it is
happening, but is looking back and seeing those eras or phases that you
can clearly indicate as movements along the way on the time spectrum. You
can see what has transpired to be an ‘expression’ of the current trends
or thoughts. 
So what I’m leading up to is yet another opportunity to present to you
another way of looking at things – from a 3rd dimensional point of view
and from an Ultra-dimensional point of view. Meaning that in your current
status as 3rd dimension creatures you can only see things in the pre and
post (as well as, to some extent, the current) accumulation and passage
of time. However, from a Spiritual point of view, these things are
relevant only to the individual and collective expression of Free Will
demonstration. 
In other words – this is somewhat difficult to explain, but I’m trying to
get the point across that these two functions operate simultaneously just
as you operate as Spirit and Matter simultaneously. What you do, perform
and act on a daily basis would be considered your ‘animal tendencies’ or
‘animal life’ being performed on a daily basis. How you approach this
from your attitude and point of view is your Spiritual Faculty that
determines your otherwise animalistic-functioning on a daily basis. 
If you can see, then, what I am speaking of, is that it is possible to
conceptually rise above the everyday and the functional – the animalistic
expression of your life – to have it be expressed. Despite its animal
nature, it can be expressed in a Cosmic Spiritual Ultra-dimensional point
of view, so that you can make the reality of Heaven on earth become Real
- so that Time no longer has a function or a purpose. For what you can
define by Time in a post-mortem perspective – in looking back – you can
also define as Time from an Eternal point of view - so that my depiction
of the individual experience of viewing a life as purely animalistic or
as a Will creature - with the ability to decide how that animalistic
function will be expressed – this too exists on the Grand Scale as
Humanities’ co-existence with the physical and the Spiritual so that the
Collective Unconscious does have a real theatre in which to present its
production. 
Your ability to influence this is as significant as each and every other
individual’s opportunity to affect the world stage.
What I encourage you to do is to view your role as an Actor. And you are
to look at this as a demonstration of parts in a play or a movie. You
might imagine your parts as being, certainly, on the set as ‘extras.’
Your particular role is not especially meaningful or necessary in the
production as it is building in its notoriety to those ‘key’ individuals
that are playing the most ‘meaningful roles.’ Yet without the ‘extras’
the "significant" roles would have no theatre in which to play.
So your particular role can be that of a crowd in a mob scene with
harangues, such as "give us Barabas!" Or it can be in a scene feeding,
clothing, and healing those castaways – the lost ones – the untouchables
that no one else wants to engage with. It is always your choice and
always your perspective that makes all of the difference.
So I wish for you to consider the Untime that was spoken of earlier and
what your role will be in the functionality of Untime in your world. It
has been known that so-and-so ‘passed in an untimely manner.’ I would
suggest to you, how will you fulfill the rest of your Untime in your
world as you know it? It is your choice and your destiny that will be
fulfilled as the result of your conscious decisions in this regard.
I wish you the ultimate of Life’s expressions both here and throughout
the Grand Universe – to know on all levels of expression – in the
multi-level dimensions of Life – that what you are now is what you are in
all of those other dimensions - both here as we speak as well as what you
are becoming will exist in all of those dimensions as we go forward. So
my future as a co-inhabitor in the Life we express is as dependent on you
as you are upon me. My wish for you is no less than it is a wish for me –
to experience all of the Love that can be encountered and expressed by
One Life. 
I share that wish and that destiny with you and urge you to join with me
to make our collective futures that which can be only dreamed of in the
here and now. For surely as I speak there is no future that is dreamed of
if it is not dreamed right now. For there is nothing that has existed
that has not be forethought and planned as a positive expression. These
dimensions and opportunities for expression are not accidents but are
forethoughts and statements of purpose as they develop.
Peace be with you, and know that all is well and all is one as has been
intended from the beginning of time. Peace be with you.
TOMAS: Amen. And thank you, Anatolia.
I am willing to engage in questions, answers if you are awake. I say this
in appreciation for the pleasing, lethargic peace prevailing in your
midst. Anyone? Gerdean?
Gerdean: Thank you, Tomas. I was listening to Anatolia’s discourse with
your words fresh in my mind and was wondering if it could be said that
Rationalization is something that is a product of time and space and that
as we perceive Reality as being Outside of the restraints of time and
space that, that’s where Truth is, rather than Rationalization.
Is that a fair perception?
TOMAS: It is, because of the fact that all the worlds of time and space
are arenas wherein Rationalization and Justification seems to find its
necessity. God has no need to rationalize or justify his actions. Nor do
the higher beings – those who are transcendent or Havona bound. There is
no rebellion in Paradise. The rebellion of Lucifer was born from his
Rational belief (his Rational mind) -- in his belief that creatures of
time were unduly burdened by the process of evolving. If he were not
invested in the System of his assignment he would not have thought about
going against God. It was only because he was enabled the opportunity to
develop his own will choices, and did so based on the Material Reality,
that he was found to be in opposition to the Divine Will.
When one is in concert with the Divine Will, there is no need for
Rationalization. Thus you will be able to tell much about yourself and
your fellows if you find yourself, or them, going to great lengths to
explain the Material situation without regard to the Divine Perspective.
You’ll find the same Unreal propensity in those who cling to the concept
of their own Divinity without real appreciation for their connection to
the Material world.
When you encounter the common practice of Rationalization in your
fellows, or in yourself (which is basically someone or yourself trying to
talk you into some point of view) allow yourself the luxury of consulting
first with the Divine, with the Spirit of Truth. This way you can
appreciate the point-of-view of your fellow and understand him better
without having to subscribe to his philosophies. This might give you an
opportunity to, at some point in the discourse or the relationship,
Illuminate the Moment in Time by the Reality of the Transcendent
point-of-view which requires no justification for Being.
Perhaps you will find some merit to the 28th Mota here. Look it up.
(The search begins and it is found in the Urantia Papers)
Gerdean: Okay, Tomas, we have it here. Morontia Mota #28 says: "The
argumentative defense of any proposition is equally proportional to the
truth contained."
Matthew: Wow. (as rest of group ponders the mota)
TOMAS: Did you want to make a remark? (no one responded)
Well, it ought to speak for itself then. … and to some degree underscore
the answer to your question posed above. The More you need to Rationalize
and Justify your position, the Less Truth it contains, inasmuch as Truth
needs no explanation if you have the Divine Perspective. And thus if the
Divine Perspective is not available, a lot of Time and Space and Energy
will be devoted to Explaining, Rationalizing or Justifying the Facts of
the matter – rather than the Truth contained therein. Anything else this
afternoon?
Matthew: Just curious about this topic. Why did you bring up
"Rationalization" today? From what we were talking about earlier?
TOMAS: Actually, it was on the Agenda prior to coming here and hearing
your discourses. It is one of those situations wherein the Topic was
determined in advance and turned into the appropriate field of study,
inasmuch as it was a facet of all your minds today: The discussion on
your Planetary State of Political Affairs, the necessity for
Rationalization amid the angers and the paradigm of life as it has
evolved based on the factors of life which has been your lot. It is also
because the prevailing reality is based on Rationalization of Reality.
Everyone does what they do because someone has presented the Option in
such a way as to incline Humanity toward following certain directives.
The Rationalization of Reality is hard to buck – hard to resist. 
In addition to your political conversations, Gerdean and Thoroah were
having an interesting and lively discussion en route to the Lakes along
these same lines, in terms of family loyalty and employment situations,
such that the paradigm of Temporal Reality – the dominant reality –
prevails more often than not, even when the Spirit of Truth would have
you go in another direction. Resisting the common paradigm is a job for
super-humans and most of you are reluctant to consider yourself in anyway
a superhuman because you have a False Humility that aligns you with the
‘common man’ and which, in many ways, undermines your ability to perform
as a New Apostle.
The prevailing atmosphere on Urantia must be awakened in order for a
higher and more Divine Light to shine upon the lives of Humanity. Your
political discourse simply upheld what you already understand. My point
this afternoon was to elucidate your under-standing to the extent that
you would be able to ‘conscious-ize’ your understanding so that your
innate Adjutant Mind Spirit of Understanding would take on the dimension
of ‘cognizance’ – even of Wisdom – so that you would be able to cut
through the paradigm of existing Reality to reveal the Reality which we
struggle for in our Mission together.
It is an ideal time, as I see it, to help you become aware of the
insidious nature of Rationalization and begin to perceive how the
skillful application of Rationalization and Justification have you eating
out of its hand – buying into its Lesser Reality – conforming to its ways
and aspiring to its goals rather than the goals, plans, ideas, hopes you
foster through your Spirit Life.
It is difficult to curtail the demand of mammon and to resist its charms
and expectations. But without the ability to sidestep that lure – that
Lesser Lure – in favor of the Lure of Eternity – you will contribute to
the retardation of this world which we are attempting to edify. We are
attempting to Turn On the Lights. We need you to Turn On the Light
Switch. Do not apply the dimmer switch just because everyone is walking
around in the dark and they feel more comfortable when you also are
darkened. Do not diminish yourselves by conforming to the status quo.
This is my admonition to for you this afternoon. And once again the
invitation is to study the total qualities of Rationalization so that you
are able to recognize it. Recognize it in the tone of voice of those who
speak to you. Those who would coerce you into doing their bidding –
whether that is your spouse, your parent, your child, your church, your
employer, your employee, your counselor, your teacher, your preacher,
your politician, your public servant – whomever! Even yourself. 
Learn to recognize the ‘sound’ of Rationalization and its co-worker
Justification which sets paucity into movement. 
I know you are sluggish and enjoying the mellow afternoon but I have had
the good fortune of being in your midst and given the opportunity to
speak to your Deep Mind. Thus while you have languished in your stupor of
creature comfort, I have planted the seed in your mind that will give
rise to your thoughts gravitating toward the words which I have implanted
in your mind. 
And thus I have done my job. And without adieu, I am prepared to depart.
However as always Anatolia and I are at our service and eager to be of
assistance in your minds and lives. What can we do for before we go?
Matthew: I just wanted to mention quickly – and I know this has nothing
to do with you – but I saw on a PBS show the other day about an author of
a book - excerpts of the Dead Sea Scrolls called "The Secrets of the Book
of Thomas" – presumably the Apostle Thomas – of sayings that Jesus had
expressed. Ironically many of them – the nature of them was shared by the
author in this interview – and the tone of them, she said, were
admonitions from Jesus to recognize the Power Within and the Direct
Relationship that individuals had with their Creator God and not anything
like the 4-books that were chosen as the Gospels. So it just reinforced
to me the message that was presented in the Urantia Book and it was
thrilling to hear it come from another source - that she found just
totally valid – sufficient enough to write a book about it.
TOMAS: It would be in keeping, would it not, with the political flavor of
that day and age, to banish such invitations that were presented in the
Book of Thomas – "Doubting Thomas" – to look Within to find the answer,
to search the Spirit Within for Divine Guidance. This puts the onus on
the Individual and off the Priesthood, an idea which was antithetical to
the development of the Mother Church, which has kept the concept of Jesus
alive but has not, as Doubting Thomas would have it, given Individual
Minds and Souls an opportunity to grow and flourish in the Light of their
own Truth through their Indwelling Adjuster.
Someone – back there and then – employed the skills of Rationalization to
pick-and-choose which books would be selected and chosen for the ‘Holy
Text’ – those words which would operate on their behalf. They opted to
think for the people and choose for the people how they would think
rather than allowing the individuals to become Enlightened by their own
Free Will Choice and advance themselves. 
But they had also the wisdom to know that by-and-large the multitudes are
not ‘thinking’ people and that they would just as soon someone else did
their thinking for them. 
But this is how the Art of Rationalization becomes the Voice that leads
the people and it may, or may not, be in accord with the Voice of God.
Therefor these matters are indeed worth discussing and reflecting upon,
wouldn’t you say?
Matthew: Definitely.
TOMAS: Yes, there are a lot of interesting things coming to light. The
burial box of the brother of Jesus being another recent discovery that
has brought a shiver to the Organization of Religion since it casts New
Light on the Greatest Story Ever Told.
And this is your task, as well, children - to shine New Light on the
Greatest Story Ever Told - making it even Greater. And giving the
children of this great man an opportunity to share his life and reality
in light, and not in shadow; to enhance their existence – not to overlook
it. 
What opportunities you have! I can only hope that one or two of the seeds
we implant in your mind will grow, in order for you to take root and give
forth the fruit of your efforts. This way you will have a consciousness
of your contribution to humanity. You will not wake up in the mansion
worlds and look back and realize how much of you was wasted. I encourage
your investment in yourself and in your future as well as the future of
your progeny by listening to the Spirit of Truth and recognizing the
words of Rationalization for what they are: Lesser teachings. Even as my
words are Lesser teachings to that which dwells within you. Peace be upon
you, beautiful children, and we will see you where and when next week.
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