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<P>DATE: </B>April 21, 1995</P>
<P>Business and sharing </P>
<P>Opening prayer</P><B>
<P align=center>Surfing the Wave</P></B><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> Greetings my friends. I am Daniel, your guide and teacher.
Welcome my dear ones to our ongoing adventure of seeking the First Source and
Center, and in the spiritual quest of expanding knowledge, wisdom, and in the
pursuit of righteousness. Tomas and I are on board as usual to bring you some
thought from our perspective that will cause you to think, to perhaps strive a
little harder, to prepare you for the unfolding of life. The unfoldings of this
past week have been personally, for each of you, a time of stretching.
Nationally it has been a time of stretching, and globally likewise for life is
never static. There is always flux, always the waves of movement and
progress.</P>
<P>A wave is an interesting phenomenon for it rises and crests and as the crest
falls away it recedes back down again, the high time and the low time of your
personal life, of the life of all mortals collectively on this planet. And so
understand that because you are a part of nature there will be always this
ebbing and flowing; and this knowledge can benefit you when you are on the
underside of the wave. Always when you are on the crest and riding high is there
great joy and little thought of the low times. But it is through the experience
of those low times that you appreciate the high ones.</P>
<P>The surfer paddles out on the great ocean, waits and watches for just the
right wave and then begins to ride the top of it, the curl of that wave. You, my
friends, are like surfers in a spiritual quest, always paddling out into the
vast unknown relying on faith that the wave on which you are about to embark
will be the one that will bring you to a higher and more gratifying perception
of the purpose of life, of the grandeur of God and a greater understanding of
all that encompasses Living. </P>
<P>From Romans it is said, "Let us pursue peace and upbuilding." [Ed. note:
Romans 14:19] In times of crisis, in times of chaos, and in times of disharmony
it is important to seek and find peace and to pursue that which can be
upbuilding. My friends, it is not possible to come away from crises on top of
the wave if there has not been some manner of preparation along the way. Those
who prepare daily will meet a crisis with a firmer surfboard to ride the waves.
It is an unwise surfer who goes out on a belly board in waves of tremendous
height. It is the unwise surfer who handles these waves without experiences on
the smaller waves of life.</P>
<P>How, then, do you prepare to meet crises? Crises cannot be met totally from
an outer perspective for that which you come away from often, then, are not
lessons that can nurture your growth but are more like a hollow shell. It is
more productive to meet crises on the premise of being prepared, for by that
means the experience garnered will be more fulfilling. To pursue peace and
upbuilding requires knowing an inner peace. Inner peace and harmony transforms
the individual. There is courage, there is confidence, and there is a general
knowledge that that which surrounds, that which is on the outer life can be
managed, can be forked through. There is hope. There is faith.</P>
<P>Those who are hollow within suffer greatly the vicissitudes of life. The
falling away of the wave for them spells doom, creates fear, brings about
intolerance, impatience, and misunderstanding. Those who have worked to fortify
themselves and who have inner strength do not come away from the fallen wave in
despair and remorse. They see that what has transpired affords opportunity to
bring about a greater purpose. Tomas and I ask you to consider this avenue of
inner peace. It is this that we have striven to help you build. It is the
foundation upon which you can ride the waves of life. My friend has some added
words.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Good evening friends and loyal students. Indeed, have I words for
you who are present. However in acknowledgement of those who are not here this
evening with us in body and those, too, who are not with us in spirit we send
our greetings, our love, and our great faith in the ultimate unfolding of all
good. I have words to contribute also having to do with waves for you in your
growing reality are becoming as a wave. In your joint effort, the small
stirrings within you all are, as has been reviewed by Daniel, part of the ebb
and flow of your mortal experience. In this season of spring there emerges a
swelling of new life which takes hold, rises, and wells up to the high crest of
summer's great wave falling in the autumn to sleep quietly on the shore. The
wave to which I refer now is that wave which is emerging from the deep waters of
your most primal birth, your most original coming into beingness.</P>
<P>In these times of spiritual awakening the coming-togetherness in your budding
spiritual reality begins to move in a forward direction. Your movement is then
joined through your mutual purpose to align itself to the reality next to you in
spirit. This coming together of spiritual energies and reality is now forming a
powerful movement; although the movement of the waves in creation is not yet
powerful, the stirrings are deep in the ocean of life and it is formulating. The
swelling of new spiritual life on your planet, on Urantia, is now compelling the
fishes and driftwood to move in a certain direction. It is, as yet, temperate
but as you become more trusting of the natural force of this swelling of
spiritual water your willingness to ride with the wave will create a true tube
of power which will be compelling and tremendous for all involved.</P>
<P>We look forward to the ride. The waves that you begin to activate by your
decisions will one day carry life to the shores of Paradise. How glad we are to
take part in this initial stirring. For those of you now who are here this
evening we urge you to be aware of the pulsing movement of the being beside you,
to rise with that energy and bond in a way which is fluid and cleansing.
Acknowledge your interconnectedness to that forward swelling wave. The wave will
traverse the craggy rocks and shoals and will prevail.</P><B>
<P>DANIEL: </B>Thank you Tomas for your extended comments.</P>
<P>The necessity of inner work allows, then, for you to understand and know<SUB>
</SUB>the connectedness of those beside you, around you, with each individual on
this planet. Indeed are there timeless truths that prevail. There must continue
to be neutral striving for peace and upbuilding for you cannot separate
yourselves from one another. You are one and the same.</P>
<P>Our analogy this evening has been to use the wave, the ocean. You are but a
drop in that ocean. You are part of the whole, and like the ocean you are part
of the nature of ebbing and flowing. Certainly the tide, the wave crashes
against the sand and the rock but the waters pour back into that which falls
back into the ocean, only to be recycled again into another place, another time,
another part of a wave. Even if you should be the drop of water that is flung
farthest from the beach and evaporates, that evaporation still rises to the
clouds and again falls, and at some point connects again back to the oneness of
the ocean.</P>
<P>Our words to you tonight are to remember who you are. Strive to know inner
peace so that you can understand your connectedness and you can ride the
vicissitudes of life with confidence, with courage, with understanding and the
wisdom to know how to act. Tomas and I are joyous teachers when we witness the
strength with which your foundations are bonding and cementing. </P>
<P>We open this now for questions.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Daniel and Tomas, thank you for the lesson. It gives me much to
contemplate. In particular at the moment I am trying to understand further how
it is that as we do our inner work and we know inner peace we see our
connectedness to the whole. And even as I ask this question I guess I feel
rather foolish because I suppose as we do our inner work we get to know who we
are; and as we know who we are we see we are part of all. But that is in - kind
of - real general terms, I guess. And I'm wondering if you can talk about it in
a more specific manner?</P><B>
<P>DANIEL: </B>Certainly my friend. It is he who truly knows and understands
himself who is able, therefor, to love himself, who is therefor able to drop the
trappings of an egotistical being. When the individual is able to put aside ego
he is open to understanding others, to accepting others, to the understanding
that he, his brothers and sisters, are very much the same. Does this
help?</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Tremendously, Daniel. Thank you.</P>
<P>(Long pause)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS: </B>While you wrestle with your minds to formulate academic questions
to that which you are feeling and sensing in your heart let me tell you a story.
Actually it is another movement.</P>
<P>You have all heard the analogy of the symphony, that in the swelling of the
musical notes many emotional crescendos are met on the way to the conclusion.
The wave of oppression, which has flooded over much of your nation has been the
kind of wave which I refer to in some respects, for so many people have tapped
into their feelings of outrage and sadness that the content is viable, is almost
physically noticeable in your atmosphere. Others are affected consciously and
unconsciously by the grave concerns focused on one devastating incident. The
human is a highly sophisticated instrument. That is all.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Tomas, as I was listening to your story, the conclusion that
came to, or these were my thoughts, is that you talked about people being tapped
into their outrage and whatever the other thing you said, and I really manage to
keep myself fairly insulated from other events. And so I really don't know what
happened in Oklahoma City. And I am seeing shocked looks on everyone's faces!
But I have been feeling stuff this week. And I guess my understanding of part of
what you want from us as members of the Teaching Mission is to maintain that
sense of peace, to maintain that sense of love, to not allow ourselves to drown
in those waves or to become a part of those waves, but rather to be bearers of
light and be spreading a different wave to counteract the waves of outrage and
whatever else it is. In a minute I will ask you if chat is a correct
understanding. </P>
<P>And then I want to speak a little bit further about some thoughts I was
having this week which is that in order to do that I have had to insulate myself
from the news and from the situations. Otherwise I tended to get sucked right
into and tended to become part of those waves. I was thinking to myself just
this week that maybe I was ready to become aware of what was going on again
without becoming immersed in that. I have been considering allowing myself to
know more about what's going on, but I don't really want to tap into the news
because I don't like the negativism of it. I guess I would like you to comment
on my first statement. Is that a correct assessment about a part of what this
Teaching Mission is and what you have been asking us to do? And then if you have
comments on my personal thoughts this week that would be great also. Thank
you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> How avid a student you are, my dear! You have seen through me, for
I deliberately created a contrast of an emotional wave as compared to a
spiritual wave. Yes. I am going to make a brief remark and then offer Daniel
opportunity to further respond if he opts.</P>
<P>The desire of your teachers is that you keep a finger on the pulse of the
true swelling. It is possible, too, through your alignment of what you know to
be true within, it is possible to 'insulate' yourself by understanding the
safety of your Source. It is possible to be aware of the many vagaries of
existence occurring on Urantia without being sucked in to the emotional
backlash. [Ed. comment: I fumbled with the tape forever it seemed before finally
getting it inserted properly on side B so Tomas commented further] ...vagaries
throughout the world and even here! ! (Laughter) I jest! (More laughter) And I
relinquish the floor.</P>
<P>DAVID: I have but one note of caution. Being a hermit or living in a
monastery shielded from the outside and doing hours of prayer does not
necessarily mean soul growth. You are a part of this world. Knowledge and
understanding bring higher levels of knowing how to deal with, situations.
Being, as Tomas has stated, sucked down does not solve problems either. Here
again, balance, tempered with inward tuning will help direct those who speak
answers down pathways of finding solutions.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Thank you both for your answers and comments.</P><B>
<P>Leetah: </B>Good evening, Daniel and Tomas. I'm sitting here trying to equate
three words you have used tonight and probably interdependently, I'm not sure,
but as we recognize our interdependence as a human species -- I am thinking in
terms of the planet, when we think of our interdependency and peacemaking and
reconciliation -- is it recognition of our interdependency that will cause us to
reach out, to reconcile both with nature, the planet itself, with our human
brothers and sisters that will surely bring peace, Light and Life to this
planet?</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> This certainly does not hinder the situation. It is, in fact, the
strong who are able to relinquish and see the viability of other ideas. Dogma,
strict political boundaries, etc. tend to alienate. Certainly pride in one's
country, in personal areas of one's life as well, is tolerable to a limit. When
pride overlaps and blinds one's ability to see beyond … when pride overlaps and
causes one to tread on another's feet … then the ability to see beyond, to
reconcile, and to be able to cooperate is endangered. Does this help?</P><B>
<P>Leetah: </B>Yes, Daniel, it does. I am thinking further that as our human
pride reveals itself in human hurts or emotional insults ... (I am trying to
make this personal to me and I shouldn't) … perhaps it shows a weakness in that
you are saying that if we are strong in ourselves, the powerful and purpose and
motive are able to reach out in cooperation and try to recognize that other
person's position and to be very willing to acknowledge their position, is
really a strong place?</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> Yes. Of course, these are ideals, but those who do not hold
ideals are willing to settle for the humdrum, and the humdrum does not bring
about progress, enlightenment, or the planting of morontial seeds, of planting
the seeds of love. And so even though this seems like a plateau or platform
beyond your reach, never forget that in any ascent, no matter how difficult, no
matter how steep, there is always help and support. For every step that is
gained there may be some regression, but from that regressing point another step
will be made and from there on and on always in a forward motion. Never give up
on your ideals.</P><B>
<P>Leetah: </B>Thank you Daniel.</P><B>
<P>Isaac:</B> Hello, this is Isaac. I'm trying to restrain my pessimism today
and maybe it is the mood of the country that we are all feeling this way,
whether or not we were aware of the actual details. There was a section of the
Urantia Book that Virginia and I read this morning that puts in</P>
<P>Words one of my major concerns. I am going to quote it here. "Polyglot
culture can be preserved only if the superior stock reproduce themselves in a
safe margin over the inferior. Unrestrained multiplication of inferiors with
decreasing reproduction of superiors is unfailingly suicidal of cultural
civilization. And we have been bemoaning the deterioration of our children,
their behavior levels, their functioning, etc., in school. I just felt like I
needed to express the fact that this kind of thing ... I see it happening! And
it is discouraging! So it is kind of like ... those are the downhill waves, or
those are the waves that we are counteracting, if I understood what PamElla was
trying to say. </P>
<P>My understanding from Ham is that one of the aspects of the Correcting Time
has to do with environmental improvement. Since this is Urantia Day and we are
talking about some of those topics, I though at least I would make mention of
it. I think you have probably dealt with this kind of feeling before and maybe
you don't even need to say anything but, I think I express a feeling that is not
just my own but shared by others.</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> Indeed is Urantia heavily laden in many backward modes. Many
characteristics of this planet could be seen as those of a dying race, a dying
planet. However, one must remember that the First Source and Center is well
aware of this far-flung planet. The Mother and Father of this universe, Michael
and Nebadonia, are Parents of great wisdom. Wise parents allow that which is
necessary for there to be experience upon which growth can occur. During times
such as you are now feeling, these fears of gloom and doom tend to rise. One of
the goals of the Teaching Mission is to stress to all students far and wide the
necessity for foundation building that will be strong enough, big enough, to
support your human life in times when disharmony abides upon your planet or
within your individual life. Certainly the electro-chemical makeup and your body
will feel the effects emotionally and wearily but as each day brings forth a new
dawn so, too, does the body change and rejuvenate and clearer thinking will
bring you to understand that, again, faith has carried you through.</P>
<P>There is no easy answer. There are no magic wands. There is the day in and
day out of living, of experiencing, of growing. Those who build a spiritual
foundation will find that the vicissitudes of life are manageable, not likeable
at all times, but manageable! Spiritually you understand joy and you will
understand, also, the necessity for working through challenges of day to day
living. Be assured, all of you, that work is being done on this side and on
Urantia by many humans who are called, who heeded the call, who are working to
bring about change. Recall Abraham's words of last week. Fear not, you are not
alone!</P><B>
<P>Isaac: </B>Thank you very much. Just one last question on this. Does that
mean I give no thought to the fact that there seems to be a problem with birth
rate in this country right now, and that it isn't the more intelligent or able
people who are having the most kids, it is the other way around? Shouldn't that
be something that people become aware of before we can do anything about
changing it? I thought that this was a fair thing to point out just because it
is a reality that isn't promising. Should I not worry about that or what?</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> Are you going to live in a monastery?</P><B>
<P>Isaac: </B>No.</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> Then of course you need to think about things. You need to pray
about them. You need to seek guidance. But to carry the burdens of all only adds
to the negativity. Seek and ye shall find that in your own way you can
contribute some aspect that will help generate the movement and the pace toward
bigger and greater change.</P><B>
<P>Isaac: </B>Well, I will certainly not try to carry the weight of the world on
my shoulders. So... everything you said I fully agree with. Thank you for
reiterating that. I am sure we all share this gloomy mood this week. It is
certainly true of my friends at the school where I work. So thanks for your
encouragement, Daniel. I appreciate it.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I would add that earlier in the evening's discussions reference
was made to the powerful energies which were resident and emanating from your
political capital, your government center. And that political power is
captivating and intriguing. Many have succumbed to its power and you are in some
sense feeling a strong alignment with that aspect of yourself, which seeks
action and resolution. This is an innate part of the politics of the human
animal.</P>
<P>The subsequent discussion this evening in our communication has evidenced
another instance of discourse which could be acted upon by the technique of
political power, the feminine reconciliation ideal as compared to the method of
trade and commerce as a way of bringing about interdependence,
interconnectedness and forward movement as one example. Your concern for the
general malaise of intellectual striving and the same power again politically
which might fight this battle on the fields of your country's arena, the issue
of procreation of select representatives of humanity, these two examples are,
indeed, mortal concern which have been taken to your leaders. And you as
citizens are given not only free reign but encouragement to involve yourself
individually in those issues you feel strongly about. As my co-worker indicates,
we are not here to encourage you to hide yourselves away from the very real
issues alive on Urantia. </P>
<P>I will refer to yet another anecdote, that being the twins which Daniel spoke
of; which twins grew up having the same ideals, yet manifesting diverse ways of
bringing about the desired effect. Half of your life experience is adventure.
You are free to engage in these adventures of formulating the evolutionary path
of your planet to the extent that you find a positive wave of others with whom
to surf. You will be assisted in your efforts. We are teachers in Correcting
Time and our position has been and consistently is that of maintaining a strong
hold on spiritual reality and potential, for as that energy is directed and
focused on the overview, on that mighty spiritual wave which is now stirring, we
will ultimately crash upon the beach of Urantia in a powerful, triumphant surge
of bubbles and joy. Either and/or several avenues are available. You come here
as students of a frame of reference, which you will repeatedly be brought back
to. That is all. </P><B>
<P>Isaac: </B>Excellent and complete. Thanks for the reminder about the twins. I
rest. You have done a great job, both of you, with my concern!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Your concerns are our concerns. We hold you all in deep esteem and
affection.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> It's getting late, so I realize that this may not be the time to
answer this question, but I would like to ask it now while I am thinking about
it and maybe you can formulate an answer for me later. I had some confusion. And
maybe I need to speak to Isaac who is clear. I had some confusion about what you
were tying to communicate about. Politics is one place where I would like
clarification. And the other was your comment about masculinity, commerce, and
trade.</P>
<P>The way I interpreted that was in my own framework of thinking (which may
totally have perverted what you were communicating) which is that the
masculine/feminine balances of this planet have been way, way out of balance
toward the masculine, and that our economic system as it exists today reflects
this imbalance.</P>
<P>In fact it was Karl Marx that taught that the rise of the use of money hides
our interdependence while it makes us more and more dependent. For as we work
for wages instead of our own livelihoods we become very interdependent because
every aspect of the economy has to function; for if there is a breakdown we get
unemployment and crisis and it spreads. We truly are very interdependent in our
current economic system but the nature of money hides our interdependence.
Because we think of ourselves as being very independent and separate from one
another we have our whole independent ideology.</P>
<P>So what you said really struck me. And it strikes me, of course, because you
know my background in economics. Some of my apathy is because I am not working
in an area where I see anything useful to do other than earn a paycheck. And I
often think about what kind of an economic system would work as I find our
economic system severely flawed because of some of what I just said about the
breakdowns and also the power relations. There are so many, many things that I
find it almost … well anyway, I'll stop there. Were you suggesting that as
masculine /feminine comes into greater balance our economic system will change
and that perhaps our patterns of trade and commerce that rely on power and a lot
of other things will change also? What were you saying there?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Okay. (Outburst of laughter) Thank you! (More laughter) This
does not answer my first part, which was to ask what you were saying about our
political system, where you mentioned succumbing to the powers! But then it
sounded like at the same time you were suggesting that Isaac get involved in
these issues. And so I thought I heard contradictory stuff there that was
confusing. Can you clarify that?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Only somewhat, for as you say, the hour grows late and we are
dealing with limited vessels. However our enthusiasm and appreciation of your
stimulation is now such that we would like to start all over. The discourse
which you presented is, indeed, stimulated by a single word that I used, to wit,
'feminine.' I have full faith in your ability to carry on that theory at length
with those of you who have similar excited concepts and create indeed, a wave.
For you have certainly room in your life to become involved in something which
stimulates yourself and which contributes to the overall correction of a subject
which you have personal and professional interest in and qualifications to
address.</P><B>
<P>PamElla:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>DANIEL:</B> As Tomas has stated, the vessels through which we speak are
growing weary. And so as this evening is brought to a close we ask you to build
your surfboard, your foundation, that you prepare and know what precautions to
take that you can ride the waves and meet the crash at the bottom of the wave
with the same measure of elation as when you are on the crest. In spiritual
reality you can do this. In human terms the reality is that you will feel and
have emotions that will trigger a downside. But he who has built and she who has
built that foundation will be able to be sustained spiritually during times of
human struggle. Let us now pursue peace and mutual upbuilding. Good evening.</P>
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