[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho TeaM - 10/26/03

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:                  October 26, 2003
LOCATION:         Rio Ranch, New Mexico - Ann & Don's Domicile 

TEACHERS:         TOMAS, BOB & ANATOLIA
TOPICS:                  Creating Harmony & Happiness 
                                Growing Through Group Association
                                "Kindred Spirits" -- Pro and Con
Q&A:                       Effects of Passive Acquiescence 
                                 Harmonic Concordance

T/r's:           Gerdean & Matthew
Music:         Elena on Piano:  "Break Thou the Bread of Life"         

PRAYER: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.

Master Teacher,
 We bring ourselves to you this day, as we do every Sunday, with the
expectation of good news continued to be shared.  And we ask that
whatever lessons we need to hear, that we hear it as delivered - whether
it's as we wish to hear it or not.  The message is the main thing, not
the way it's delivered.  In other words, if someone had told us to get up
off the couch and do something or other, we're hearing that something
needs to be done, not the way it was delivered.  As we go forward into
the future, starting today, may we be happy, healthy and whole in our
approach and dedicated to your purpose and the purpose of our Eternal
Father.  And for those needs that we perceive within our hearts and our
minds, may you address those as well.  
        Amen.

TOMAS: Amen, and thank you, Matthew.   I am Tomas.  Greetings, dear
friends.

Group: Greetings, Tomas.

TOMAS: Anatolia and I are here with you again to enjoy the companionship
and stimuli of like-minded individuals.  The chronic harmony you seem to
enjoy in this group makes it difficult to create those templates, which
one can play off against the other as a means of finding the kernel of
truth between the two opposing poles.  It also serves to save a great
deal of time, for we can discuss issues harmoniously instead of
conversely or contrary.  There is merit to that kind of music, but unless
it is skillfully done by true artists, it can sound just like noise.  

The ability to sit down and break bread together is a result of a
spirit-led life, much as happiness is a side effect of the spirit life.
However, many people put the cart before the horse and seek happiness, or
harmony, not appreciating that those are the result of personal spiritual
growth, which has solidified in the personality consecrated to seeking
the divine will in and of himself, finding the Source, developing a
relationship with the Source, and then being led out into the fields by
the Source to serve.  

The value in my message here today stems from your conversations of today
wherein you have recognized that while the 70's or 80's may have been
regarded as "the ME generation," a lot of enlightenment has taken place,
much self-awareness has come about, there is a spiritual renaissance in
progress, and many enlightened individuals are yearning for harmony and
happiness with peers.  Thus there are groups forming together, similar to
this one, which satisfies that longing to be in company with kindred
spirits.

"Kindred spirits" is a reality.  There are people who recognize each
other at a soul level, and bond there first, before undertaking the
extension of that Source reality into extraneous interests or outreach
activities.  This is the value of group worship.  You acknowledge your
own being, as a child of God, treasuring that connection, but also
basking in the comfort and security of that self-same psychic condition
in your peers.  This joyousness of spirit is able to reflect out even
into the ethers of your world and contribute to the extension of the
kingdom through unconscious and impersonal waves of good will.  

When you share your inner life with others, you create the Supreme.  

Granted, it is a slow-growing entity, but like the business seminar you
were discussing, there is a great deal of amalgamating that goes on in
the creation of the experiential god.  There is purpose to being
individual religionists, certainly.  And while each individual
religionist is as an only begotten son, it is part of your growth to
bring together your energy with energy from others such that you can
amalgamate your realities in the spirit through understanding and mercy,
tolerance, curiosity, concern, human interest, ambition -- all the
elements of personality existence.  And in the doing of that which you
will do together because you choose to be together (not because you are
conveniently abutting one another), great waves of collective
consciousness can be expelled into great works. The result of such
disciplines, selflessness and rejoicing, is harmony 
 and happiness. 

The same phenomenon is occurring now in your political arena and in the
spiritual realm, even with the Teacher Corps, because of your capacity to
assimilate more because of your own private, personal lessons in
Correcting Time, and the willingness you are giving your Adjuster and
other spirit guides to lead you into such group purpose.  Having group
purpose does not negate your individuality, or eradicate identity, but
all conspire willingly to enhance the values of the divine such that
peace and harmony can be found, progress can be made, cooperation can be
forthcoming, and so forth.  

It is good to hear that news that even the matrix of the corporate world
is bringing into being those networking avenues that not only compel you
forward but that allow you to amalgamate with existing paradigms such
that gaps are bridged for harmony and happiness can come upon everyone. 
Not only is happiness a personal product, it is also a byproduct of
social efforts, political efforts, spiritual efforts - if they are all
done in and through the light of truth and the love of God.  

We are encouraged when we see the growth and development of civilization
augmenting the brotherhood of man, and this is how your own growth
reflects in the growth of your globe.  Group effort is a learned
behavior, which cannot be learned until the individuals within the group
are able to stand as their own entity and then engage intelligently in
communion with his fellows.  What of my fellow, Anatolia?  Are we able to
engage intelligently?

ANATOLIA: I am right here, your friend and confidant, Anatolia.  It is my
pleasure to be with you again this wonderful day, as so many other days
are here in your Land of Enchantment.  I have many things that I could
talk about today; however, we will choose just one, as is both practical
and rational, in the sense of staying on topic. 

Today's benefit to the body of Christ or Supreme Being, collective
consciousness, is the topic of acceptance of your divine will that is
part and parcel of your beings.  The reason I bring this to your
attention is for you to be fully aware of the capability that you have. 
It is in large part a continuation or expansion of the presentation that
was given last Sunday from Christ Michael, in terms of the opportunity
for joining in the process of life, much like standing on the sidelines
watching the parade and deciding to enter it, that it is not just a
spectator sport, but is meant and intended and lived as if your life
depended on it. That is, to get into the flow and enter the flow and not
to simply observe.   

This too is my purpose to speaking to you today, to add just a few
thoughts to that concept that give additional dimensionality to it, in
terms of being mindful and respective of the power that you have to
exercise your free will for ill or for unselfish gain.  It is your most
cherished and valuable asset.  In the creation, as it is, you are given
the ability to accept, reject, or deny that which is true to the powers
that life has to offer.  For the origination and actuality of the life
force is unknown to any of us, but once consciousness is recognized, what
you decide to do with that is fully within your power.  

So it is truly both a decision and an ultimate determination that you
hold the key to, that is your part of the bargain.  You can choose to
annihilate yourself or to be as gentle and humble in your comportment as
is possible, or any point along the scale you may choose to act out that
particular role. So it is your choice to make, just what you will make of
your life. 

This sounds like a commencement speech to a high school class; however,
you each have the ability and the authority to decide this for yourselves
each and every day and every moment in between.  You could decide to
change course totally or to become irascible in your demeanor, apparently
choosing to seemingly cooperate, yet Not Really.  So I am seizing the
moment to encourage each of you to be deliberate in your choices, to know
why you are choosing what you are choosing, and to make your choices
well.  Not that it is a matter of choosing incorrectly, but to choose for
the right reasons and to know why you are doing what you are doing.

I encourage you along your spiritual path and to enable you to move
freely, willfully and lovingly.  I leave these thoughts with you to
contemplate and incorporate into your daily living, knowing that the
reason that any or all of these opportunities are presented is because of
the unlimited, unconditional love given by your heavenly parents.  So I
wish you abiding love and peace and brotherhood in your encounters, both
here and in the every day world.  Peace be with you and walk with
dignity.  Amen.

Group: Thank you, Anatolia.

TOMAS: There is the floor.  It is open.  Walk with dignity onto it and
talk to us about your development, or concerns, as you will.  

Elena: Well, I was interested in your talking about amalgamation and that
different groupings of the Teachers of the Teaching Mission.  I thought
that was really interesting, and then the discussion about Choose Well. 
And I was also thinking about a portion of the sermon this morning, how
easily the disciples were duped in certain respects, about not seeing the
clear lessons that they were shown by Jesus, and it actually made me
think of some of the things I would go through in life, about our
discussions between Bush and the candidates.  

So I guess my question is, sometimes it is a little too easy to be duped.
 I mean, like, even the disciples were easily fooled sometimes, and it's
hard to know what the correct decision is, but yet choosing wisely 
 that
is what Anatolia was talking about.  The divine will and wanting to do
that.  So I guess I'm intrigued by all those concepts and wanting a
little more guidance on that, perhaps.

TOMAS: There was a smorgasbord!  We ought to be able to do something with
that.  I also noticed Gerdean having quite a fascination with what
Anatolia was saying.  Perhaps we can get more from that counsel about
doing what you want to do.  

Elena:  Well, and the different groupings that you were talking about,
too, the different amalgamations that were possible, given the idea that
we were more developed because of the lessons we had absorbed, I guess. 

TOMAS: I'm going to give this to What-About-Bob.

WHAT-ABOUT BOB: Good afternoon.  Thank you for allowing me to come in and
participate with you in your group setting.  I am glad to be able to pull
some threads together for something to stand on here with the idea of
amalgamation and groupings and the like.  I have an interesting
perspective on the evolution of this world and have watched as it has
undergone great changes -- in this last century particularly.  You are
all somewhat familiar with the global evolution and so I don't need to
review that, but the sociology of your culture in America has been very
individualistic.  

In fact, it's part of the American spirit to be quite the individual --
which is a side-effect 
 not of consecration to the divine, but of
self-will having a full slate of opportunities to pick and choose from,
knowing that you can do almost anything you want to do because of free
will and, in your country, having attained a point of mastery over the
material world such that you can indeed do many more things than any
generation or nation before you could do.  You want a car?  You buy a
car.  You want a television?  You buy a television. You want to visit
another part of the world?  You buy a ticket.  You go there.  You want to
have another relationship, you answer a personal ad.  You want to end a
relationship, you simply 
 what does the song say?  "Slip out the back,
Jack.  Make a new plan, Stan."  

There has been a great era of individuality allowed, and because of free
will it will continue to be permitted, and yet the effects of these
choices are changing your choices because even while you may say this is
what you want, you may not want to pay the price of your decision.  How
long can the mentally, emotionally and spiritually bankrupt continue to
spend so much of its time and energy on self-indulgence and things that
it wants -- without ramification or without paying for it -- before that
system eventually will not work any longer.  The individual sooner or
later begins to recognize his responsibility within a framework of others
-- perhaps so he can use others, so he can get more and more of what he
wants.  Or perhaps through coercion or cooperation with his fellows of
like-mind, they can get what they want.  This does not make it spiritual,
but it is still possible - because of free will.  It is a fact that
humans can and do all manner of foolish and despicable things simply
because they can.  But how long can man live with such behaviors before
cosmic justice enters in to bring that person around to another choice?  

Groups come into being because of the mental paradigm of the like-minded
individuals. It can happen in crime, in criminal behavior such as gangs. 
It can happen with creative people, such as creative works.  And it is
happening now among religionists.  They have gone past the point of
me-me-me incessantly, "What about me?" to recognize the futility of such
a path.  There is no happiness in such a path.  These short-term goals
and quick fixes that are quite possible by a simple act of the will, are
not enough to fill the heart and soul and contribute to humanity's true
substance.  

So now we see people who are making moral choices and groups that are
making moral choices because the individuals comprising the group insist
upon making moral choices.  This is a reflection of your evolutionary
growth -- introducing the spirit into it. It has many levels still of the
totally perverse and the totally high-minded but any time these groups
can be brought together to recognize their commonality and how they can
help one another, they have been enhanced because now they have the
ability to network and accept what is rather than having to make it "from
scratch."  Progress is being made.

Elena:  Well, that is encourage to hear.

BOB:  Indeed.  It is encouraging to see.  It makes the evils and negative
energies or the gray range of mediocrity more visible and objectionable. 
Anatolia was discussing individual choices, free will choices.  And you
mentioned in your church service this morning, the sermon was about how
individuals make a choice, often based on another person's reality.  This
is the pattern we hope to get away from, that people stop making their
choices based on what other people are doing, but on what they are guided
to do through their own personal and intimate relationship with deity. 
Listening to others, having others tell you who you are and define your
parameters is a way of forfeiting your free will.  Or, in that great gray
range of mediocrity, free will is virtually eviscerated, eradicated,
eliminated, removed, erased, does not count, might as well not be there,
for as little as it is used by its owner.  

This is how people move groups of other people [is because] they don't
think; they are programmed; they are brainwashed.  This is one of the
complaints voiced in the Urantia Papers.  You people don't think!  You
are not good thinkers!  You are on automatic pilot much of the time and
your faith even is often blind faith in the context of you have no idea
who to listen to, what to listen for, or what to resist!  

The Father's will is not always the path of least resistance.  There is
no doubt that the Father would not stop you if you wanted to go down and
buy a $30,000 car, but if you no longer have the money, then, to make
your rent payments or to put food on the table, how foolish is that?  And
the same with corporations.  How foolish is that, to continue to try and
get away with such a behavior before everything comes crashing down? 
They knock on your door, collecting for all your irresponsibilities;
"Repo man" taking back the car, the stereo, the refrigerator, and you are
a laughingstock. 

This is classic animal behavior and you are certainly not immune from
animal behavior, being animals yourselves, but you are in a position to
think through these things.  You are, hopefully, learning to think as
well as to have faith.  Otherwise, you are like the flock of pigs that
pell mell run off the cliff.  We expect more from you who have been given
so much.

When any existing paradigm works with others, in terms of cooperation and
expansion, it is harmonious and good.  Anyone who is individualistic to
the point of isolating himself from others is not good.  This asocial
attitude is what abruptly halts progress and the stream of time.  

What is it that you are searching for?

Elena:  Are you asking me?

BOB:  Yes.

Elena:  From my questions?

BOB:  Yes.

Elena:  I was looking at the groups that I'm aligning myself with in my
life, so I was thinking about that, and actually getting assurance from
what was being said in the lesson, and then still just kind of baffled as
to how anybody could amalgamate under Bush, to tell the truth.  So those
things.  One was a positive one and one was just baffling.

BOB:  Where did you get the idea of amalgamating under Bush?

Elena:  Oh, I didn't.  We were just wondering how groups - how people
could 


BOB:  Because they can!

Elena:  Well, that's right.  That's what you said.  And I was listening
to the part about the groups -- that crime, gangs 
 and so that was
helpful, too, in answering that, so thanks.  I appreciate that.

BOB:  Perhaps my perspective has given you something to think about.

Group: Sure!  Yes, thank you!

BOB:  Then I will leave you for now and give you back to Tomas.  

Group: Thank you, Bob.

TOMAS: Is there another question or another area of concern?  

Angus: I've been really interested in the upcoming event they are calling
the "Harmonic Concordance", which is supposedly another step that
followed what happened in 1987 called the Harmonic Convergence, and in
this particular astrological alignment there would be a perfect Star of
David created by certain heavenly bodies, and at the apex of the event
there will be a total eclipse of the our moon.  

And I'm not trying to get caught up in the magic of the moment and look
for fireworks in the sky, although there will possibly be some aurora
borealis sightings, but with a reference that was made in the Teaching
Mission lesson last week also about (how)circuitry continues to be
aligned, gets aligned, connected, et cetera.  I saw a correlation,
perhaps, between these lineups of the planets which has not happened
before, according to our knowledge, that this might be an actual part of
the alignment or the reencircuitment, or at least symbolic of it, and
perhaps it won't be very dramatic but will be a subtle effect felt by a
lot of people who will now start seeing what was mentioned earlier about
how we'll start noticing the mediocre more.  All these things that need
corrected will become obvious to more and more people because of this
reencircuitment process.  I was just wondering if that had any credulity
to it.

TOMAS: The "Harmonic Concordance" is an undertaking that is directed
toward cosmic expansion, yes.  The motives and intents are pure, with the
result being a springboard to many, many individuals who will make
certain new choices based on the influence of the programming they are
receiving through the promoters, master minds, seers of this spatial
phenomenon.

I am a little concerned about the 6-pointed star, for its political
implications.  But the Lord knows we need to have a great light shine on
that conundrum in order for harmony to reign.  I cannot tell you whether
or not the Concordance is to heal the Jerusalem conundrum, but it cannot
hurt.  

Angus:  I was thinking that configuration might be called, like the Grand
Sextile or something that is more astrological, more of a sacred geometry
alignment that became the so-called "Star of David."  I hadn't really
thought about the political aspects of it.  I think the 'Star of David'
is a euphemism for what astrologers call the Grand Sextile.

TOMAS: I am in the dark.

Angus: It's the language.

TOMAS: It's a great "love in" coming, being well advertised, and it will
be responded to.  Does that help?

Angus: Um-hum.  "Going back to Yazgur's farm."

TOMAS: Who is Yazgur?

Angus: That's where Woodstock was held.  The great icon of the love-in
type of thing.  

TOMAS: The love-in I was referencing was more along the lines of
accelerating the consciousness of the divine.

Angus: Of course. 

TOMAS: But there is no need to stop the music or the dancing.  

Angus: If Woodstock could have, it would have been a divine event, I
think, but it fell a little short.  Maybe we could raise the octaves the
next time.

TOMAS: Well, it is cyclic, you know, this forward movement of ascension. 
Not as apparent, perhaps as the sociologic advancement I and Bob talked
about today but cyclic, nonetheless.  Let's continue our efforts to break
the cycle of abuse and begin moving forward into greater realms of
harmony and happiness for Urantia and all humanity.  

The Spirit floods upon you.  It flows downward into you, like the sun
shines on you, constantly and consistently and as it will.  It is your
hearts and minds that must look up and see the sun.  Bring on the cymbals
and kettledrums that bring an awareness of the greater universe and all
the wonders thereof.  The child of destiny enjoys looking up and
imagining his future home on future worlds in new constellations and
dimensions, but the child of earth enjoys his home here and sooner or
later will have it in his heart to do something good for Urantia, looking
around then, for others of like mind, with whom to break bread and commit
to a realm of harmony and happiness resulting from the desire to do God's
will in all things and in all beings.   

We'll see you next week.  Farewell.

Group: Bye, Tomas.  


 
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