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<P>DATE:</B> March 31, 1997<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Butler, PA, USA<BR><B>T/R:</B>
Gerdean<BR><B>TEACHER: TOMAS and MERIUM<BR>TOPIC: Identifying Otherness</P>
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<P>TOMAS:</B> It is well to begin our sessions with a moment of stillness and it
is also beneficial when we direct our minds toward Our Great First Source and
Center for He is our guide, truly, in all things; and so we may address Our
Father in prayer and in praise of His being, asking His guidance and protection
on our thoughts and our attitudes, that they may be in accordance with His will,
that they may be a refreshment to the soul and that they may arise to greet the
moment as a new day, a new dawning, in preparation for the many good works which
are given and received by Our Glorious King to His honor and glory.</P>
<P>My friends, Merium and I are glad to be here with you. There are others, of
course, and I greet those others on your behalf. Your personal teachers are
aligned by your side and in rejoicing of your presence once again in community
in communal service to the Father and to each other.</P>
<P>Merium giggled earlier and thought this arrangement this evening was somewhat
like a lover's tryst that is hastily thrown together and must be fruitful and
passionate for time is of the essence until the more mundane aspects of life
come to invade the sanctity of your loving embrace; and so I giggle with her, in
concurrence with her analogy, and embrace you - but not speedily - for it is in
the quality of a transcendence of time and space which provides that divinity,
giving the embrace its eternal and loving qualities.</P>
<P>My dear friends and loyal students, how are you this evening?</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> Tomas, thank you for your embrace, and the others for embracing,
too. I have a question, please. When I was talking with Hunnah she brought her
friend Jasmine to speak and I asked Jasmine a question about my personal teacher
Hans and she said for me to speak to you next time that I came and I will ask
you the same question, similar to this, I am wondering when will Hans and I be
able to transmit with each other. I know that I am impatient; I am willing to
keep trying and I am trying to relax, too, and keep my - (what shall I say?) -
keep my mind when I am in stillness, so that if there is any printing of any
sort of message that comes, that I might be able to understand it. Could you
talk about that a little bit? or could I speak with Hans about that?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will address this, dear Iyana, at Han's insistence, for he feels
that a third party might have more objectivity than were he and you to discuss
it directly, and this indeed is part of the difficulty, for you and he have
worked so intimately together and for so long that it is now difficult to
perceive the difference between you.</P>
<P>However, in-as-much as you seek to engage in this more pedantic but perpetual
form of communication, I would suggest that you apply yourself to the rigors of
an assignment of religiously attempting to make contact in the same methods that
have been outlined before, and that is to sit in stillness and then allow a
period of time for free-flow hand-written expression, and after a period of time
you should see that your responding voice, through the pen, is being the
influence of one other than yourself.</P>
<P>That is a first step toward the process - identifying the "otherness" - and
through the vehicle of the written word, this is the first step in enabling you
to see that you and Han are separate entities. It is only in response to your
curiosity and your desire for the delight of the acknowledged companionship that
this is even necessary, Iyana, because, as has been said, your and his
communications have been on-going for a long period of time.</P>
<P>It would perhaps be beneficial for you to ascertain the separation of your
personalities but it does not harm you to equate so closely with your personal
teacher that you have indeed merged; for whereas on your plane "co-dependence"
is regarded as a lesser condition, in the spirit realms this same
"inter-dependency" is highly prized, for in working with the spirit, you are
working with powers that supersede your own ego drive and to the extent that you
allow this, through your Thought Adjuster relationship, through your personal
teacher relationship, or through the relationship that you and I share, it is
healthy and does suffice, but again, for your curiosity and your delight, it is
a matter of exercising this assignment of meditation and then writing.</P>
<P>In time, after you have begun to discern other identities through the written
word -- and these entities will identify themselves for your understanding --
you may then switch to a tape recorder and take the plunge into verbalization of
these words from other teachers. It is a time-consuming process but you
testified to a desire to accomplish this task and I feel you can accomplish it
if you are indeed applying yourself to the development of this unique
communication art form.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> Thank you. I have one more question. I was reading in the Urantia
Book, I have been reading in the back of the Book about the talks that Jesus
gave before he left the earth and the Spirit of Truth ... I know that there's a
paper here that Gerdean has and I haven't read it, but I had a question when I
was reading it. He said, "I will send you a helper." I was wondering -- you can
just answer this yes or no for me, because I'll read more about it -- is this
helper my personal teacher?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> No.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> Oh. Okay.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> The teacher He referred to, the Spirit of Truth, is indeed
separate from your personal teacher. The Spirit of Truth is a true study in
miraculous creativity by itself. It is addressed at length in the Urantia Book
but it (the Spirit of Truth) is without personality and your teacher is a
distinct personality.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> And this is a special gift? <BR><B>TOMAS:</B>
Indeed.<BR><B>Iyana:</B> That we have received from Christ Michael --
<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes.<BR><B>Iyana:</B> -- to go with the special gift that we
have received from the Father, of the Thought Adjuster. I mean we have those two
in us that are from them?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> That's wonderful.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> But you can have more than one gift.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Of a certainty.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Regarding the Spirit of Truth. Is that presence of that Spirit of
Truth expressed in us as a recognition of truth?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Because I was wondering. I seem to have an extended self that
knows … an awareness of knowing something. And under certain circumstances, I
can express myself. I was wondering if … When I transmit, I feel as if it's a
blend, and yet I know now that it isn't.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You have within you the Thought Adjuster, the actual fragment of
the living God. It dwells within you. You have also the Spirit of Truth, and as
you are transmitting, in that mode, you have set aside your ego identity to
allow for the greater spirit to prevail (utilizing your vocal chords, your
vocabulary, and so forth as you well understand, but you yourself are set aside
and what remains is the Thought Adjuster and the energy patterns of personality
of the teacher holding forth).</P>
<P>At the same time, operating in you and through you and in the others who hear
you or who hear the teacher, is the Spirit of Truth (which you hear when you
hear the words of the teacher, even as they pass through your own vocal chords);
you hear the truth therein, and often they will harmonize with your indwelling
Thought Adjuster. This is a good clear transmission, for the Spirit of Truth and
the Indwelling Adjuster are in harmony and you sense the harmony and the truth
of the message, or at least of the intent.</P>
<P>It is also true that others hear the Spirit of Truth as they hear you
transmit the words, for they too are listening with their higher morontial mind;
their indwelling God Fragment is being addressed; their highest nature is being
massaged and reached and caressed and stimulated; and as they allow their mind
to accept the intent of the content of the messages, their Spirit of Truth also
will be reverberating with that same harmonious truth.</P>
<P>This is one of the reasons why our personal sessions, these Teaching Mission
settings, are so satisfying and stimulating, for even though the words are a
great delight and a bit of company for you in later times (the written word,
that is), the true value of the interchange is that harmoniousness that exists
as you know you and your God are in harmony; not only are you in harmony with
your God, but in harmony with other Thought Adjusters, other "gods" around you
-- the Father which dwells within each of you.</P>
<P>This is the beginning of group worship. It is something that you long for,
hunger for and delight in, even though you might not be aware of what is
transpiring. We are attaining higher levels of spirit actuality. Have I
addressed your question, Hunnah?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I think that you embellished it. Thank you very much.
<BR><B>Iyana:</B> I appreciate it, too. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> We are all sitting here with a tummy full. I appreciate your
being able to come through Gerdean and I feel the presence of our
friends.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed, our friends are here and they are plentiful. My co-teacher
Merium is on hand and would like to say hello. One moment.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Good evening, faithful friends. <B>Group:</B> Good
evening.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I am here, coming through Gerdean who has her gastric juices on
hold. I have been admonished by Tomas that the setting here is not infrequently
induced by deep repose, having been well fed physically, and hopefully you will
come away feeling fed spiritually also.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> We do. We will.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> It is one of the advantages, if I may, of experience, of
developing stamina, that you can in fact learn to transcend the pull of the
material body, although it is sometimes difficult, even seemingly overwhelming
at times, particularly when your instinctual energies are involved, such as
electro-chemical pulls or hormonal pulls or the like, digestive pulls even; but
it is possible to overcome and triumph over these physical aspects of being. Of
course, that is your free will choice.</P>
<P>It is and remains one of life's rich experiences, that you be allowed to
enjoy and appreciate your physical nature, your hormones, your instincts, your
digestive aspects and so forth, but look you well to those that would hold you
in slumber from greater joys and satisfactions, and so although you are
admonished to enjoy your life, you are also encouraged to enjoy that which you
can attain through greater striving toward spirit integration.</P>
<P>I am going to leave and allow Tomas to wind it up. Our romantic tryst comes
to a hasty close, for as they say "tempus fugit." Good evening.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I was really hoping she'd come through for me. I was all rarin'
to go.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I apologize for allowing the time constraints of your realm to
impose themselves onto me and my realm. In particular, Hunnah, I have to convey
to you that there is a connection between you and Gerdean that is becoming more
and more readily apparent to you both. It is much as Merium spoke of in her
recent words with you about the cooperation and affection that develops. As it
strengthens, our communications will gather more fluidity.</P>
<P> </P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I had some recent discussion with someone and it has to do with
friendship and work and Christian experiences, that there is a possibility down
the road that my friend and I might speak publicly. In the event that this can
come about, will that make an opportunity for this work that we're having ... a
possibility of using that environment in ... let me put it this way: health care
and the Christian experience? Those words come to my mind.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Those words may come to your mind, but the word that I heard was
"my" friend and I must ask you, who it is that you are claiming here?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Tomas or Merium or a teacher. I was just ... thought I'd just be
Hunnah here for a minute and ask that because it's fresh in my mind. And I was
talking with someone who was so impressed with our conversation, and I have a
friend at work who has had the burden of being a health aide for a loved one,
and it's her Christian experience that has strengthened her, and it was
suggested that the two of us would team up and ...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will not go on at length but you have indeed set the wheels in
motion for our next lesson. I will say here, however, that it is to be
remembered <B>that our purpose here as teachers is to teach you to be teachers
also</B>, and as you experience this process of transmitting the teachers, it is
fully possible for you to transmit us in any environment that you can establish
and it need not be known that you are transmitting anyone but your own
understanding of truth.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Well, in my previous teaching, the man and the woman were
teachers. The word "channeling" teaching never came about; she just always
seemed very eloquent and now that this field is more open and this information
is made available to us, I reflect back and feel that she absolutely had to have
a teacher coming through, but that description was just never used. Wouldn't
that be true?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Yes.</P><B>
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<P>Iyana:</B> I had a lady come to my house for my Urantia group meeting.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> And I felt that she would come again. I felt very comfortable with
her, that she was loving, etc., and ... would you make a comment?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> She will be back. <B>Iyana:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It sometimes takes time for them to allow the seeds to germinate
and to be comfortable with the fertile soil, but they have tasted and they will
hunger. She will return.</P><B>
<P>Iyana:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Thank for the extra counsel. I will let myself be open to it. In
proper time it will probably come about.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let me give you an appetizer, a tidbit to tantalize your tastebuds
in the realms of teaching, and that is the refinements as are taught by and
enjoyed by our associates, the Morontia Companions. I will take this up again.
They have long awaited another turn at the wheel, and in-as-much as we are
entering the realms of "the group," it is again time to consider the facets of
graciousness that can be had and learned from the Morontia Companions -- also
wonderful teachers, although they are not as rigid and formal as we in the
Teaching Corp, and so I am finished for this evening and I cover you all with
kisses, my lovely mistresses in truth.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming tonight. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Farewell.</P>
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