[tmtranscripts] 10-12-03 RR NM TM

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:                   October 12, 2003 
LOCATION:         Rio Rancho, NM, USA
                                "Esmarelda's Hideaway" 
TEACHERS:       TOMAS, ANATOLIA, MERIUM
                              & Special Guest Midwayer "Jack" 
TOPICS:             "My Unseen Friends" 
                             In the Yellow Glow of TB&G 
Q & A:                 Do Midwayers Become Weary?                      
T/Rs:                   Gerdean and Matthew 
MUSIC:              Elena on Piano:  "Our Precious Jesus" 
PRAYER:  
Matthew:        Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ. 
Master Teacher, 
        We ask for your presence with us today as we gather together with
fewer of us but nonetheless a dedicated core wherever we may gather. 
Where two or more are gathered, you said you would be with us, so we
trust that.  We also trust that everything that you have told us will
come to fruition and that one day light and life will visit upon this
planet to bring it into the brilliance that it was always intended to be.
 We recommit ourselves to that purpose knowing that it may well not be
during our lifetime, but to contribute to that so that one day our home,
which was and is your home, may be as has been intended 'on earth as it
is in heaven'.  So with that purpose and with the mission of the Teaching
Mission, we recommit ourselves to the purposes for which we understand
and for those that we do not, we place as faith before you.  In
appreciation for all of the teachers and those that are with us today, we
commend ourselves to your and their service.  Amen.
TOMAS:  Amen and hello.  This is Tomas, and the equipment is like your
piano, Elena, unused and therefore squeaky.  Let's 'crank it up' and work
the squeak out so that we can hear undistorted beauty in the notes to
follow.
Your perspective on our assemblage, Matthew, is from the human
standpoint, for surely you would be astounded to see how many are here in
truth.  As you say, Angus, in Michael Mann's song, " 'My Unseen Friends'
are everywhere!' and we have many here today to enjoy you in your
gathering and as you join forces to lift up your consciousness to meet
those peaks of attainment that bring you into the morontia sphere of
thought and potential reality.  This way of bridging the spirit and the
material results in the morontial way of life that will be known to you
in time as light and life.  For after all, once a planet has attained
light and life, its citizens are no longer required to ascend through the
mansion worlds, inasmuch as they have already attained that learning in
their native sphere.  
And so this is one of the goals of the Teaching Mission, certainly, but
we cannot grow as a planetary consciousness until such time as we have a
certain grid work stretched the panoply of space, joining you with your
fellow men and women the world over, to exalt the brotherhood of man
under the Fatherhood of God and let these morontial values prevail as the
preferred reality to the prominent/predominant reality which is the
material legacy - that material legacy which is sorely flawed.  But as we
are aware, this very condition is what stimulates our desire to be of
service.  As it is said, difficulties only stimulate the sons and
daughters of the living God.  Rather than lay down beside your problem,
you take up your bed and walk -- even walking the second mile, in order
to serve the greater reality which lures you forward.  
This is obviously not an ambition who enjoy the material world or who are
finding themselves content and complete and challenged appropriately
within the material paradigm.   Shall I say, "Matrix"?  The matrix, as
you see it, as it is being lived out, being prominent and predominant ...
Dominant ... is the one that naturally compels your attention, while the
invisible realm, being unseen, and your unseen friends going unnoticed,
you thwart the very progress for your world that you profess to seek.  
This afternoon I'm going to attempt to offer an opportunity for an old
friend to come visit -- a midwayer friend of Gerdean's from decades ago -
but I'll be back.  
0802-AB:  Good afternoon, dear friends and fellow workers in the field. 
This is Jack. 0802-AB Jack here. 
Group:  Welcome! 
JACK:   Well, thank you, I appreciate your hospitality.  I appreciate the
opportunity to have this ... what you would almost call 'artificial
format', for it provides me an opportunity to get my foot in the door of
your consciousness and perhaps to fan the flames of friendship, which
have often been put on hold because of the natural nature of creatures of
the flesh.  
Recently Gerdean asked our friend George [Barnard], who is working with
the 11:11 Progress Group, as they call themselves, to introduce the
United Midwayers to the consciousness of humanity.  And Gerdean said, "I
wonder if the midwayers get weary?" and so I would like to respond to
that question.  But first perhaps I ought to expound a bit on why the
question would be asked in the first place.  
On a bright and sunny day when all is going well, one hardly thinks about
the efforts others undertake, for all is well and everyone seems joyous
in the spirit and, of course, all is right with the world. There is no
thought to being discouraged or worrying about what has not been done in
the face of what has been done.  But it was a simpatico kind of question,
if you ask me, because 37,000 years is a span of time for an order of
beings who had not originally been intended to have such a long tenure. 
Yes, Gerdean, we do grow weary.  However, we have learned of late how to
overcome the effects of that sort of exhaustion.  
The spirit is tireless, but we are not indwelt like you are.  Even so, we
are motivated similarly, for we have goals and dreams and plans and they
are born into us as inherently and as surely as you have dreams,
ambitions and plans built into you.  In many ways, you know, we are
cousins and we share similar attitudes.  And I am like you in that I
enjoy accomplishing something, in particular, something that I have
determined needs something done to or about.  This is a part of the
craving for perfection and the will to serve.  And when it is thwarted, I
naturally - like you - must "mourn" the forestalling or out-and-out
ending of a reality that was beginning to shimmer with real life. 
There is a very unfortunate image coming to this mind.  I will try to
push it aside and not broadcast it.  (pause) 
We take great comfort in each other, much as you do in your fledgling
culture.  We take great comfort in knowing there are others like us, who
think as we do, who feel as we do, who have responsibilities, commitments
and goals.  
We midwayers, many of us, primary and secondary alike, wasted a lot of
time.  Wasted thousands of years, in fact, and for your information it
was not entirely because we were merely Children in Need of Supervision
or out-and-out Juvenile Delinquents, but because we had no adequate
example to follow ... until we saw the Master.  And his humble work with
his chosen apostles was enough and has been enough to commit us to make
up for lost time.    
Those of you who also a perception that you wasted time "looking for love
in all the wrong places" or "doing the same thing expecting different
results" or just being generally unaware, are sometimes compelled then to
make up for lost time, and while on one hand this is good ... for it
reinforces your choices to go forward ... it can also become an albatross
around your neck that carries with it a great weight of guilt and
responsibility that serves no one, least of all yourself.   And so in the
camaraderie of fellowship with your seen and unseen friends, who find the
material life by itself without substance, those of us who have to have
the morontia element involved, we feel we are not living up to our
potential, our capacities, our true selves.  
While it is not necessarily good to compare yourself to others, inasmuch
as everyone is different, everyone has different capacities, it is
certainly appropriate to find the companionship of your fellows an
important part of your life because friendships are an end in themselves.
 There is nowhere you have to go with a friendship; it simply is.  You
just enjoy each other, recognizing each other for the valuable piece of
the cosmic puzzle he or she is.   
There are many ways to lift yourself up out of the propensity to fall
victim to despair when you see the imperfections of this dense planet
working themselves out through cause and effect, action and reaction,
basic karma.  Detachment is a good tool.   Developing the parental
attitude is a wise path.  Humor is a good antidote.  Prayer and worship
are personal and even occasionally social activities that can get you
outside of yourself sufficiently that you feel you might go on.  
But you will notice we are called United Midwayers, while you are known
as Agondonters.  A movement to become United Agondonters might benefit
those of you who think you are alone because you have not engaged
yourself enough in understanding and working with the unseen friends that
are in the same business as you are, of upholding your state of mind into
a state of grace.  Whether that is on a shallow level or a deep level,
everyone strives to be happy.  
Another trick I like to use is when I find life becoming problematic, or
my commitment to a task floundering, or feeling undermined or usurped, is
to turn aside for awhile and do something I know I can do and which I
don't need anyone's approval at.  Something I already know how to do
well.  This gives me a sense of security in myself, and so often, as is
illustrated in the Master's going out away from the work at hand and
taking the apostles, usually when they returned from their day of rest,
their problems had ceased to be such big problems and were more readily
handled.  
Be of good cheer.  
This, too, shall pass.  
We enjoy it ever so much more when we see you advancing, for we know that
our work is not in vain.  It is always a reward to see the results of
your efforts, and it is always a disappointment to see your work
destroyed.  I don't care what they say On High about disappointments.   I
and you have them.  And perhaps that's part of the imperfection of this
faraway planet, Urantia.  But without the understanding of
disappointments, how would we know the deep joys of culmination and
victory.  
Just because we become discouraged on occasion is no excuse for you to
say, "Yeah, well even midwayers get discouraged," as that is not taking
my words in the spirit they are intended.  I am being honest, not giving
you an excuse to be lazy.  
I guess I've done enough damage for one visit.  I'll give you back to
Tomas who has taught you well and, like all of us, yearns for greater
opportunities to dig deeper and serve further for the extension of the
Kingdom - light and life for this planet ... where we will be far longer
than you will be, who get to leave Very Soon ... all things being
relative.
Group:  Thanks for coming, Jack.  
   
TOMAS:  There is a good moment here now for me to pause and invite Merium
in to fluff up the pillows, as it were, for Jack has spoken with an iron
fist.  However, I have complete regard for his message and respect for
his courage, along with the courage of all the midwayers who have been
here for so long - the primary midwayers having been here from virtually
the beginning of time -- and all of their   dreams and hopes for their
future having been dashed time and time again.
MERIUM: This is Merium, trying to hasten in before someone else gets the
microphone.  Up!  Up on your feet!  Up on your feet now, I say.  Get up
on your feet and shake away the burden of responsibility that Jack has
reminded you that we carry.  Yes, we carry this burden, but we don't have
to dwell in it and let it dampen our day.  What a beautiful day it is!  
Deep breathe, now.  Deep breathe.  Breathe in the beauty of this day. 
Think, in your mind's eye, how blue it is, and the clouds, how white they
are.  What a magnificent sky you enjoy here and what dazzling brightness,
being so close to the sun.  Is that it?  Is it your altitude that gives
you such clarity here?  There is a distinct lack of water in the air that
gives colors a chance to express themselves for literally miles.  
The autumn colors now coming out, the golds and deep greens of autumn,
and the purples and browns are weaving a new pattern of perfection in
your arena.  Let's sit down then.  Sit down in this patch of long grass,
this splendor in the grass that we can now enjoy because it is our
birthright.  All the wonderful joys of sonship are ours to enjoy.  Go
ahead and waste your time here.  Waste your time here and drinking in the
beauty and the peace of your world, your planet.  
If you have a chance, take a walk out into Mother Nature and smell the
smells of Mother Nature and the delicious air that abounds.  Take it all
in and know that this is created for you.  This is the gift of life. 
This is what you have been given, and you don't have to wait for light
and life to enjoy it, you can enjoy it right now, with your seen or
unseen friends, it doesn't matter.  Enjoy it by yourself.  This is the
window that I came to open, for you to look out and be in.   This is your
world.
TOMAS:  I am Tomas, again, wondering if Anatolia would like to join this
merry-go-round we are enjoying today. 


ANATOLIA:  I am Anatolia, happy to be with you on this fine day, as has
already been cited by my friend and colleague, Merium, and with the plan
for renewing your thoughts and beings on a brighter note because of a
brighter day, I welcome the opportunity to shower you with the yellows
that are so abundant in your environment here.  The  yellows that you
find everywhere around are reminders of cheer and glee that are part of
your heredity.  
It is not gloom and darkness, destruction and volcanic ash that is your
inheritance, but rather the glow and the glee that surround you with the
yellow that is a reminder of the sun that abounds here, the warmth and
the beauty and the nature that is provided and the yellow which
reinforces that which you already know on virtually a daily basis.  This
is not the message of today, but just a subtle reminder of that which you
have, that abounds in your presence.
I wish to re-communicate a thought or two from weeks gone by, and that is
for you to reconsider the points of you that I have placed before you in
terms of relative beauty, goodness and truth.  This is partially what my
message has been, that is, not that truth, beauty and goodness are
relative, but that relative perfection is a factor in your perception of
who and where you are now, relative to truth, beauty and goodness.  
These are hard and fast rules: truth, beauty and goodness -- but are
relative to the extent that one can only perceive these three qualities
inasmuch as one is able to perceive.  If one finds him or herself wracked
with pain, the ability to perceive truth, beauty and goodness is
certainly overshadowed by something that interferes poignantly with those
perception capabilities.  This is something that I would like for you to
consider in your perceptions of what you consider to be any one of these
three factors.  Your ability to perceive any one of these, or to practice
any one of these, is of course to be commended.  Anyone else's practice
as you perceive it, that is not met with your level of perception, is
viewed as inferior or less than what you would find acceptable or that
you would be willing to give yourself, relative to these.  As the age old
lesson that our Master had conveyed, in terms of "do unto others", please
give consideration to one's ability to give any one of these three
qualities to the best of their ability, to their greatest extent, without
judgment, view or weight of what you perceived or perceive to be of
value.  
If a child gives a flower to his or her mother or to anyone, is that to
be viewed as a lesser gift than if someone were to give a home in the
country, full of horses and abounding meadows?  One's measure of this
would be, certainly, "You have to be kidding!"  However, one's
willingness to give without question and without measure are of equal
value, not judging one's quality of gift giving or the level of love
intended.  One gift in a material sense is no greater than the other,
given the benefit of the doubt that both were given freely and without
reservation.  
So my point is, without prolonging the obvious, is be kind to yourselves
and your fellows, to not predetermine what level of their giving or
participation may be, for surely it may be the greatest gift that they
can give, by giving a flower, that all things considered, it is a
priceless and precious gift.  So place this upon yourselves as well, and
not mete out that which is any more severe upon another than you would be
upon yourself.  
This I leave you then.  I leave you in the golden light and brilliance of
your place on the planet and to be kind to yourselves as you are to one
another. To practice these three qualities as your thirst for life and to
be all that you are because you are all that there is, in terms of
evidence of creation.  Be as you are and as you are becoming.  Both are
truly beautiful.
Group:  Thank you. 
ANATOLIA:   Peace be with you. 
TOMAS:  We open the floor now to your participation, if we have not taken
up all the time in this parade of visitors we have had today.  It is
always good to hear from unseen friends, and it is often my concern that
the normalcy and regularity of your teacher base of Tomas and Anatolia
will leave you feeling unsatisfied or complacent.  Yet, if there is not
someone knocking on the door, like the Master or the Planetary Prince, it
is just as well to proceed with what we came to do, knowing that in the
course of time, the opportunities for enhancing our capacities here will
be met and, in the meantime, we bond as a family unit.  And today we miss
those who are not with us, and look forward to those who are yet to
arrive. 
What is going on in your lives?  What are you grappling with?  What would
you like to share? 
Angus:  I would like to defend ... if that's the right word. - Jack's
presentation.  It was kind of like a Veteran's Day speech about a month
early.   I really think it's important for us to know that we have
someone else that can identify with our struggle, that are, indeed, here
- although we can't see them - and are like us, as compared to everyone
else in the universe and most of our other unseen friends.  The midwayers
are the forerunners.  They, like us, began their existence here on this
planet, and I don't know that there are any other entities that have that
distinction, and so it's nice to know that we had those veterans, our
cousins, and that they are there.  They are real.  And we do own them
something.  And it's not unlike what we owe the veterans of our own
struggles in the human sense.  So I appreciate being reminded that there
are close entities that we may not be able to see, that we have a
responsibility and a loyalty to.  Thank you, Jack.
TOMAS:  And I will add that, from our perspective, these workers had a
tremendous part to play in the textual revelation inasmuch as they wrote
the life and teachings of Jesus, without which you would not have been so
impressed as to have found that much merit to what could be otherwise
regarded as a science fiction cosmology.  The midwayers, in loyalty to
this plane, will be misled again, will always seek the Source for
confirmation of what they should do.  
And remember, without the Spirit of Truth, through the indwelling
Adjuster to guide them, they must perforce behave much like you do when
you leave your unseen friends out of the picture, you have to figure it
out yourself and hope that you've come up with the best solution for the
greatest number of personalities.
The fact that there is a midwayer here, now, between Gerdean and I,
conveying my concepts into the artificial language of your reality, is
something that could not happen were it not for the midwayers who are
always attendant upon these proceedings.  I will add this, for I have
noticed it from my perspective.  The midwayers derive tremendous --
tremendous! - joy and satisfaction in their active role as liaison
between the teachers and the students, because they are immediately in
the proximity of the Thought Adjuster of the mortal who does not leave
during this process, but merely steps aside, much like the human ego
steps aside in order for these messages to formulate and come through in
this fashion.  
The proximity to a Thought Adjuster for a midwayer is probably similar to
sipping a sweet soda through a straw when you have been on the dusty
trail.  There is a great deal of feedback allowed these participants. 
Not only you benefit.  Did that make sense?
Esmarelda:      I thought it was a little confusing. 
TOMAS:  Well, suffice it to say they get a big kick out of being a part
of the T/R'ing process. 
Esmarelda:      Oh, now, that's something I can understand. 
TOMAS:  They like getting next to us, you see, just like you like getting
next to those you love.  And this could lead to another discourse, but I
won't go there.  Anything else?
Matthew:        Are they involved in the communications we might have
with our thought adjuster or is that strictly personal? 
TOMAS:  That is strictly personal.  They are only as close as allowed
during a procedure like this.  The personal relationship that occurs
between you and your Adjuster does not require their intervention.  I am
an outsider, you see.  I am like a Thought Projection, as compared to a
Thought Adjuster, or a Thought Controller.  I am being Projected into the
essential configuration of you and your Adjuster, and the midwayer has
his foot in the door that allows me to be projected into that essential
setup. 

Matthew:  Okay.  Thank you. 
TOMAS:  Even so, remember that the Adjuster and the mortal are both set
aside in order for me to get at the technology that I need, that is to
say the language center and the voice box.  The concern of the Adjuster
is that nothing interfere with the sanctity of the free will of the
mortal I am engaging.  (Pause)  What else?  (Pause)  Then let us be on
our way.  See you next week.
Group:  Thank you.  All. 
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