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<P>DATE:</B> December 17, 1996<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Butler, PA, USA</P><B>
<P>Sundry T/R's in a <BR>PRACTICE SESSION<BR></P>
<P>EXTENDED STILLNESS</P>
<P>TOMAS</B> (Gerdean): Do not speak to me, but let me speak to you. Since the
circuitries-- You have all made contact with the circuitry. You have been
connected. Now, feel for the prompt. Learn to recognize, now, the prompt; and
when you feel the prompt ... proceed with your transmission. Take your time.
There are many, many loving beings here gently awaiting the appropriate moment,
waiting for you to open yourself to their personality presence, waiting for you
to open your language center that they may access your words, that they may
speak through you and bid you courage and give you joy.</P><B>
<P>HAM</B> (Gerdean): I am Ham, by way of the circuitry, in method of greeting
you newcomers to this art of communication. You are no stranger to us in the
Teaching Mission. We nudge one another in appreciation of your growth and say,
"Look there!" and so we are looking there today as we have long past, long
since, delighted with your efforts, bolstered by your faith steps, grateful for
your motivation.</P>
<P>I understand your hesitancy, but this too shall pass. Inasmuch as there are
many here, many personal teachers and many others, in a heightened sense of
expectation, I will step aside for now. Dear persons, be joyous, be glad, and be
at peace with us. Until we speak again, I am your friend and overseer of the
Mission, Ham.</P><B>
<P>Leah: </B>... then I thought I heard my name and I thought I heard the word
Nardias.</P><B>
<P>NARDIAS (Leah):</B> This is Nardias. I would like to ... to assure you … you
have the possibility of doing this (indistinguishable).</P><B>
<P>NARDIAS</B> (Gerdean): Nardias now through this facilitator. You are correct.
You have interpreted my impression well. You have seen me prompt you; you have
seen yourself called upon to serve in this capacity; you have heard my
impressions in your deep mind and voiced that which you were impressed with.
Remove your intellect now from your understanding of the process and allow me to
speak directly to the group without your acting as a custodian of my words so
that you have the sense of our working together. If you are willing, Leah, I
will then return to you and anticipate your responsiveness once again. (Long
pause)</P><B>
<P>JUDITH (Loreenia):</B> Tick, tock. Tick, tock. The time has come. Judith,
(indistinguishable) Strong feelings of body. Feelings of pleasure and pain.
(Indistinguishable) That is all.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE (Gerdean):</B> Good evening. I am Trieste, the personal teacher of
Gerdean. I am one of her personal teachers; do not let me overlook my affiliate,
Adrian, who takes a back seat to me this moment as I bring myself forth to greet
you this evening, to humor myself somewhat with this mortal picturization of
individuals sitting in the dark talking to spirits. One would wonder about us,
wouldn't they? But it is so healthy to engage in an attempt to communicate with
spirit reality. [Several moments "off the record" during the arrival and
departure of Abram.]</P>
<P>I was observing the humorousness of you ladies sitting around in the dark
making contact with the spirit world, and how in "the good old days" you would
have been flogged or burned at the stake for such folderol, but in today's more
modern milieu, you are quite fashionable. It is not our purpose, however, to
bring fashion to your lives but Reality, and truth, beauty and goodness. I only
came in to say hello. I have no pronouncements and nothing profound.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>May I ask a question? <BR><B>TRIESTE:</B> Yes, daughter. Of
course!</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>What's the difference between having a conversation with somebody
and hearing yourself, say, participate in the conversation that continues in the
creation of your mind and being able to ... because I have that feeling that
"when two or three are gathered, I am there." We are connected. And the
conversation is on a higher level for the soul description. What is the
difference between transmitting information (indistinguishable)? Was that
clear?</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> No, your question was fairly convoluted (Group laughter) but I
am learning to read between the lines.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Sometimes I hear myself speak when I'm talking to some ... and I
catch a satisfaction in the words because there might be something I wanted to
know, and I hear myself saying the answer.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> As you speak with your own wisdom, you then are speaking words
with the Spirit of Truth operating to manifest your words to others, and you
hear this. You hear this reflection of the Spirit of Truth in your own
understanding of truth, as if truth has connected with another mortal. And this,
of course, is one of the purposes of your understanding of your own innate
potential divinity. You speak your truths and as they resonate, the Spirit of
Truth then picks that up in the other individual and you feel the spiritual
repercussions.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>Then ....</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> This is a mortal teacher, if you will.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> The Spirit of Truth is a mortal teacher?</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> No, this is when YOU are functioning as a mortal teacher.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> All right. So then what's the difference between allowing the ...
finding out that the Spirit of Truth will use you, versus bringing in one of the
teachers from the order of spirit?</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> There are a number of differences, and I will preface my remarks
by saying, as I have said many times, that none of these processes are necessary
or required, but they are helpful to you as yet another frame of reference. Let
me also add to that that the sensitivity to spiritual circuitry and the
personalities of entities that would address you, or a group through you, is a
valuable sensitivity to develop. Also, as was said recently, to hear your words
reflected back to you, that you may then hear them with the Spirit of Truth,
reaffirms and reconfirms your own understandings. As you become bored with your
reality, then you can hear your mind striving for <I>higher</I> reality. Did my
convoluted response strike any chords with you?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I think I'll let them rest in me. But what I got that you said
was to go ahead and do it, that it would help my development.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I am glad you heard it that way. Life can be delightfully simple
if we know what we want.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>I'm not convinced that I want this, but for the sake of
cooperation I want to participate.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Perhaps this is part of your difficulty. If you are doing it as
a duty or something that you feel is required or necessary or socially called
for, you will not feel the doors open. It is a conscious decision that you must
make. You must say that you are willing to be a vehicle for this process. It is
a verbal, overt commitment to avail yourself.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I would be disrupting if I got into my humanness, but if I did do
it, I would do it to be co-operative ... as a co-operative action for my friend,
Jasmine.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> This is very gracious and kind of you, and it is also friendly.
It depicts tremendous self-pride and self-defense as well, and these are matters
that you and Jasmine can work on together.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> (Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I am glad I did not offend you.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Not at all.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Let me withdraw my presence here, as there are a number of other
beings in attendance and they would like to strike a harmonious chord in your
presence, if possible. I reluctantly leave you. Farewell. (long pause)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am Tomas, back for another pep talk, for I feel you all flounder
in self-consciousness and disarray of the spirit. You are self-conscious to a
fault. It serves not to balk, but rather, allow yourself to make mistakes and
learn the process. Leah and Loreenia have both stepped out from their shell and
have something now to reflect on in terms of transmitting, as well as what they
may learn from what was said in the transmission.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>Tomas, who was it who (indistinguishable)?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have to tell you that if they are accessing your mind, I did not
hear them. I know that there are many who are, as they say, hovering about and
awaiting an opening and many of them, I daresay, have felt an opening and the
willingness in the mind, but you have not carried your willingness so far as to
speak forth their words. Part of the problem is that you are such finite
thinkers.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I thought you said there was a cue.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There are cues. It may be comforting and convenient for you to
develop a communication cue between you and your teacher, but when you have
visitors from the opposite side of the universe to address you, they may not
know such intimate nuances, and we would have you contact and be open to
whatever entity would like to use your language center. The more open you are to
these energies and messages, the greater your capacity of service.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>(Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have admired your attempts and I would urge you to work with
your stalwart teacher Judith who has already indicated this evening, through
you, some of her joy and some of her difficulties. Review these words when you
hear your transmission and learn from the impressions she was given the
opportunity to put forth.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> We were being children together. Teenagers.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is a good place to start. You certainly do want to be a child
together. If your more difficult growing took place in your teen years, it is
not unusual for a teacher/charge to go directly to the sore spot, but do not
overlook your growth crisis as a wee child and as a grown-up, for twists of
thinking can occur at any juncture and they are embedded in you, and your
teacher is waiting patiently for you to bring them to her in order that that
twist can be corrected. She waits, she tends, she honors you in love, patience
and the joy of a girlfriend, yes.</P>
<P>Good work. Keep up the good work. Take your time and learn the process. Learn
how to be developed by your student teacher guides. This process is also good
for them.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>When we're so together, are we, in effect, actually one?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> No.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>No?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> No.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>It seems like it is.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> That is because you are working in harmony.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>Oh. <I>As </I>one.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes. Intimately. Intimately through the Eternal Parents. And so
barriers can be dissolved for awhile as you embrace in the spirit.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia: </B>This happens several times a day! (Indistinguishable) Was that
Judith I saw? As if through veils, she came to me because I
(indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B> (Gerdean): I would suggest that you allow for your own
interpretation of these visitations rather than ask for my confirmation, for I
do not necessarily know these things. I have my work to do and they are not
involved in particular with interpreting your perceptions of what you see and
what you perceive, what entity has made contact with you or manifested to you.
These are part of your packaging; therefore, I would applaud your companionship
and embrace her in good cheer.</P>
<P>I am bowing out. There are others who would enjoy an opportunity. Jasmine is
one; Wanda is another; Jay-Orjh is here, as is Judith. These may be a more
congenial being for you to make contact with. Also, I am at large if any of you
would like to transmit me. I am available and will await your availability
also.</P><B>
<P>JASMINE </B>(Hunnah): (Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>JASMINE</B> (Leah): This is Jasmine (indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>JASMINE </B>(Hunnah): (Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B> (Gerdean): Voice those preparations.</P><B>
<P>JASMINE</B> (Hunnah): (Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE</B> (Gerdean): Teacher, we would ask for your encouragement, as we
encourage you.</P><B>
<P>JASMINE</B> (Hunnah): We have expectations here.</P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>TRIESTE</B> (Gerdean): We are happy to hear your voice through your charge
and have sympathy and compassion for the mortal Hunnah who fears the process and
yet is like a child, eager to know and experience this wondrous new adventure.
It is so wonderful to hear your voice, Jasmine. You are a radiant sister,
patient and kind. I encourage you to bear with your mortal for she only needs
encouragement, as do we, in order to begin to stand unafraid in the
light.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>(Indistinguishable)</P><B>
<P>EMMANUEL</B> (Loreenia): Greetings. I am the brother. I come with blessings
(indistinguishable) to all here. We are in the process of conveying truth in
(indistinguishable). Glory to God in the highest. Sing praises to the King, the
Most High, for he is with you. I -- (indistinguishable).</P><B>
<P>MURIEL</B> (Gerdean): Muriel is my name, for these purposes. I am a teacher
in the Teaching Corps, in the Teaching Mission of Christ Michael on Urantia. My
friends, I have been in attendance this evening observing the struggle and I am
in full appreciation and understanding of your dilemmas for I am fairly new to
this process as well and I have been assigned a Teacher Base, a potential
teaching post in Hamilton, Canada — Ontario. And I have yet to practice my
skill/craft/art/technique/mind access capabilities with many mortals.</P>
<P>I have made some contact and I am beginning to become familiar with this
technique, but I am always eager for practice, and so I appreciate Gerdean
availing herself for me this evening, and for you who hear my words for an
opportunity then to see and sense how it is that what I am conveying impacts
upon your soul, your mind and your heart. It is an intricate interaction.</P>
<P>Yes, we are close neighbors and I know you well, as I know all my neighbors.
I am becoming familiar with your midwayers in this area and your personal
teachers, for we like to keep in touch. But I now am eagerly looking forward to
the time when I can develop my relationship with a fellow in truth in this
prospective new teacher base.</P>
<P>It is a thrill for the teachers to be a part of this Mission and we are ever
grateful to those of you who enable the Teachers to come forth and teach, that
you too will learn the art of teaching. My affection is with you and my spirit
arms embrace you. I will speak with you again often and soon. I am Muriel. Good
evening.</P><B>
<P>Leah: </B>(Indistinguishable request for Tomas to facilitate
Jasmine)<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Hello, Hunnah, my friend. <BR><B>Hunnah:</B> My
tolerant friend.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am not going to transmit your teacher just yet. I want to chat
with you regarding your development and regarding your fears in this process,
for I have heard you effectively allow for Jasmine's essence and message. It was
wonderful, gracious, spring-like to witness her elation at the experience
herself, and I overheard you say that you felt there were some expectations
placed upon you and I want to commiserate with you that Gerdean often feels the
same way, and so it is understood that until this process is well practiced, it
is a sensitive engagement, one which is fear-inducing, and I say that in respect
for your not wishing to be foolish or be in error.</P>
<P>I will say to you that as you sit poised, encircuited, in contact with the
teacher and physically fit and ready to go, you are at the jumping-off point of
making the leap of faith. I see you reach that point on the precipice and rather
than make the jump, the leap of faith which allows your teacher complete reign,
you rather grab a vine and jump from one landmark over the chasm to the next
landmark without allowing her her own freedom to function. This is part of the
trepidation of the process, and so figure that what you are going through is
normal. As I have said many times, one does not normally just pick up the baton
and relay messages from the spirit realm without some practice, without some
understanding of what goes on and how you participate in it.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> May I comment?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I don't feel fear. I simply don't know how to let it come
through. And I don't ... She's so lovely, it would be wrong to deny her of being
shown to the group. It's more an awareness of the tape running, I think, that I
probably intercede because it seems like a long time.</P>
<P>[Whereupon TOMAS stopped the tape.]</P><B>
<P>JASMINE:</B> (Untaped -- unfortunately! A great lesson on the value of a
genuine grin)</P>
<P>[Tape turned back on]</P><B>
<P>ABRAHAM</B> (Gerdean): I am Abraham and I am marching in to say, "What are we
sitting around smiling for? Let us forge ahead!" but I also am grinning. I am
delighted with your session here today and with your work at hand and with the
opportunity to witness the radiant Jasmine in her public debut. How enchanting,
is it not? I thought I would stop by while you were all so content and remind
you of our radiant duty, which is truly much as Jasmine has indicated, and that
is to let your lips do the job and go out there and smile and radiate the joy
which is your divine inheritance, also to speak those truths which will lead
hungry souls into fruition. Good work, troops. Shalom.</P><B>
<P>MICHAEL</B> (Loreenia): Blessed daughters of the universe. I am amongst thee.
(Indistinguishable -- unfortunately!)</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you, Michael.</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST</B> (Loreenia): John here. The Baptist. What have you to say
about that?<BR><B>Gerdean:</B> I am glad to see you have your head on straight,
John. (Group laughter)<BR><B>Ruth: </B>It's better than on a platter, isn't it?
(More laughter)</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST</B> (Loreenia): It's been touched by the ax. (Noises of
stretching) Feels good. What have you to say for yourselves, my chickens? Well,
speak up!<BR><B>Gerdean:</B> I'm rather astounded, actually! I've never seen a
teacher make themselves quite so comfortable (group laughter) in the mortal
form!</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> Oh, I enjoy the body.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> I see! Well!</P><B>
<P>Ruth: </B>It may come from losing one's head! (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> Oh, this is such fun.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean: </B>Well, it's great to have you here with us.</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> Thank you!</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> How's the rest of the counsel doing?</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> H-m-m-m-m. I haven't touched base there lately.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> I see. You've been down here watching the Mission? Or meandering
around the universe? Or what? Or is it none of my business?</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> I just popped in.<BR><B>Gerdean:</B> I'm glad you
did.</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> I wish you could have seen me in some of the other
transmitters.<BR><B>Gerdean:</B> How so?</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> Oh, I'm a wild man! (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> I know! I know! You have that reputation. We are somewhat timid
souls. It's a little overwhelming at times.</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> Oh, let loose. <BR><B>Gerdean:</B> Yeah, let loose and
bust it. (Group relapses into the giggles)</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> I enjoy your laughter.<BR><B>Gerdean: </B>So do we!
(Group hysterics) I think Jasmine started something here. (More giggles)</P><B>
<P>JOHN THE BAPTIST:</B> But we have such fun together. I'm going to step out
for a bit, but I'll come back and see you.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean: </B>Bye, John. <BR><B>Ruth:</B> Bye, John.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>We'll be having Santa Clause next. (Group laughter)
<BR><B>Gerdean:</B> I thought he was here earlier! (Total mayhem)</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> He moves fast! He's got my shirt all stretched out. (Group
laughter, again!)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, my little chuckle-berries, perhaps it is time for us to call
it a day and bring the curtain down while the audience is in such good humor.
(More giggling)</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> How about the observers? (More laughter)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We have all the equivalents thereof and this has been quite the
show. (Laughter) I am overall very pleased, however, for hear your very own
mirth! And this in itself was worth all the effort. But there is more to the
process, and you will reflect as time goes by on your potential and the
potential of what you can convey for those who wish to serve. And so take,
indeed, your smiles into your arena and spread good cheer. Over and
out.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>