[tmtranscripts] 2/3/01-Spokane, DIscussion & Gorman

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TOMAS:  Alright, class.  I have concluded my lecture for this afternoon and 
am interested in discussing that which occupies your mind.  Have you got 
questions or commentary; even a healthy curiosity, in the face of our 
undertaking?

THOROAH: I was thinking about possible relationship between the seven psychic 
circles and the various dimensions we read about, as well as the relationship 
of the movement through the psychic circles toward the eventual fusion 
process.

TOMAS: Yes, certainly.  You are talking about degrees of perception, 
therefore you are talking about degrees of reality.  What phrase was that you 
used?  Parallel universe. Well, certainly, but your use of such a phrase is 
in need of dressing down, for it would infer diffractions to the point of 
disassociation, and you who have attained some of your psychic circles no 
doubt sometimes find yourself completely estranged from those who have not 
sought such attainment -- you can say you live in two different worlds -- yet 
you encounter individuals in the course of a life that seem to be a 
personality you have known eternally, and this phenomenon is because the 
experiences that you have gone through to attain your level of awareness are 
similar to the experiences the other individual has gone through in order to 
attain his or her level of awareness.  And you recognize each other.  You may 
see a stranger across a crowded room and recognize them as kindred spirits.  
This is, yes, an element of attainment attributable to the psychic circles.

But they are not the kind of parallel universes that you can see in science 
fiction movies that would allow for you to literally take one step to the 
left or the right and find yourself in a new architectural sphere.  Even 
though symbolically and creatively thinking, you are correct.  You can step 
into the world of another's reality and find yourself in a foreign place 
indeed.  But if your desire, your motivation is in keeping with your 
attainment levels in terms of your association with Reality (capital R), you 
will utilize your awareness of the separation in such a way as to bring a 
degree of reality to the situation, perhaps by weaving the warp and the woof 
of your two worlds such that a bridge has been built, a communication chasm 
has been crossed.

These are some of the creative applications of the experiential life.  These 
are some of the opportunities that are presented.    The higher you ascend, 
the more readily you can see how to take advantage of the opportunities that 
are presented.  And as you become skilled in realizing your own reality, in 
relationship with Divine Reality, the more effective you can become in your 
methods, the more sure-footed you become in stepping from one reality to 
another and for what purpose.  

THOROAH: These levels would then be in direct proportion to our relationship 
and communication with our Thought Adjuster.

TOMAS: Purposefully, yes, but on the other rim of revelation, these 
encounters with divinity are more rare and they are as you ascend inward   I 
perceive your minds are frozen

GINNY: Well, I have a kind of curiosity question.  My mind isn't TOTALLY 
frozen.  
TOMAS: Alright.

GINNY: But I have been wandering WAY off today.  But I've made an effort to 
come back.  Um.  We've been given the Urantia Papers and now we have the 
Teaching Mission where you have so graciously come to us.  I wonder what the 
next big step is.  I'm curious.

TOMAS: YOU are!  I understand your desire to linger in fantasy-land and look 
for those curiosities that will amuse you en route to Paradise.  I'm aware 
your question relates more to what kind of phenomenon you look forward to 
next, such as maybe Material Son and Daughter returning, or Machiventa 
Melchizedek materializing, or Trinity Sons arriving in company with a 
Magesterial Son, even to the return of the Christ, and it would be incorrect 
- it would be error for me to even attempt to assume I had any inkling of 
what will come next.  I am as blind as you are in that.  I am not as curious 
about that kind of thing, for what has that to do with my assignment, which 
is to reveal to you your own divine status.  

It would be as thrilling for me and all of us if you were to don the robes of 
divinity such that you yourself would come forward in all your raiment and in 
full power and glory be all that you are intended to be.  You surely realize 
that such a revelation of your highest aspiration is such that would bring us 
all to our knees in response to the claim of Deity upon your soul.  

Thus I am not inclined to cater overmuch to the yearnings of mortals for 
supernal personalities to arrive and present more revelation to you, for you 
yourselves are the fifth epochal revelation which will bring the Father into 
reality on your world and change the course of your world as a result of your 
choices, your desires, your motives. You are the handmaiden of God.  The 
wonders that you would do, were you to put as much stock in your own affinity 
with your Indwelling Adjuster as you seek for outside yourself, is enough to 
alter the course of Urantia, and were you ALL to attain this personal goal, 
it would be the signal to lower the morontial temple to the Father and 
release these loyal midwayers to ascend.  

I bring these words to you not to belittle you, daughter, but to help you 
rise up to your potential, and recognize your own potential greatness.  There 
is none greater than you.  The Father loves you as he loves Machiventa and 
millions of other sons and daughters.  Everyone has a different function, 
perhaps, and each creation has his or her own capacities, perhaps, but within 
the framework of your creation, you are beloved -- no more, no less, than all 
His other creations.  

This is a difficult concept for you to appreciate, I know.  It calls to your 
mind an undue accent on self, but that self which you are in union with your 
bestowed Adjuster is the Self that we adore, that you yourself yearn for and 
look for in others.  You are, even so, in your relative imperfection, enjoyed 
and appreciated as if you were a child playing dress-up in mommy's dresses 
and daddy's shoes.  For is it not said that the way to become a frog is to 
live each day loyally as a tadpole?  The same thing holds true, that in order 
for you to be a fully fused adult, you will need to live each level of 
attainment as an ascending pilgrim, cherished for your contribution and your 
potential as you learn to grow into all that you can be and will be in the 
course of time and eternity.

You want to know who's coming to dinner?  I do, too!  But I am more concerned 
about preparing the room, attending to the tasks at hand, and making ready.  

Let me welcome a visitor who might help to enliven you.  I sense a burden of 
responsibility that is unnecessary.  I regret my somber tone tends to mood 
swing you into this somber state.  One moment.

GORMAN: Gorman here.
THOROAH: Greetings, Gorman.

GORMAN: Greetings, my friend.  I am in the ante-room, since I haven't heard 
from you in the Board room lately.  That's just a little trick I learned a 
long time ago, that if I can't get your attention one way, I'll try another.

Hello, everybody, I am Gorman, a secondary midwayer.  I'm on the staff of the 
Light and Life Journal and a participant in the undertakings of the Harp of 
God that would swell with a musical strain to strum the chord of your soul to 
reverberate even into Paradise, but we've been on hiatus and I have not had 
my customary contact, and so I had Tomas open the door for me to put my foot 
in and greet you.  I've become accustomed to mortal contact and so I have to 
have my fix.

You have no idea how much affection we have for you, in particular when we 
have been able to develop a relationship.  It would be as if your spouse were 
to go visit his or her family and forget to come back for weeks on end.  We 
won't ask for a divorce but will shower you with flowers upon your return to 
assure you how we love you and how much you have been missed.  What's up?

THOROAH: We missed you, too.  You must know that.
GORMAN: Yes, I do know that.

THOROAH: It's been a combination of things.  Our CEO is getting hooked back 
up.  It's become quite an awareness to us the vital role he plays.

GORMAN: It is as if your very organization is going through a psychic circle, 
is it not?
THOROAH: Um-hum.

GORMAN: In these undertakings of group effort, it is an experience indeed to 
behold how bonds are formed and welded together. [Gerdean is very concerned 
about the politics of my making an appearance at a Teacher Base session, and 
I tell you, Gerdean, relax.  You aren't the gate-keeper here.  You're just a 
T/R.  I'm allowed to visit. You needn't fear that I am one of the rebels.  
Even so, I have Paulo here to oversee my shenanigans, and he is "the expert 
on rebellion after all," he says.  I have come to calling him Beelzebub.] 
(Group giggles)

There's a lot of friends here in your midst, and yet the only way I can truly 
convey to you this reality is to encourage you to develop your own 
appreciation of your own relationship with your own support staff of loyal 
midwayers who work with you in your efforts to bring about an era of light 
and life.  I know that sounds high-fallutin' and grandiose, but you all know 
what it is you do to bring about a new appreciation of truth, beauty and 
goodness, what you do to turn on the light switch of divine love, how you go 
about activating the divine virus, your relationships with your family 
members and co-workers.  

Your attempts at building TeaMs of workers to accomplish various tasks are 
not gone unnoticed or unaided.  Accept us into your life and invite us to be 
a part of your interweaving of Our Father's reality in your finite lives so 
that we can work our wonders with you, thereby being far more effective than 
when we try or you try to do it by yourself.  This is one of the new 
standards that is coming into being, this thing about TeaM is real!  Why wait 
til the 4th mansion world when we have what it takes right now to get our 
heads together in service to our Father and His projects to bring Urantia 
around to the happy place He intended it to be.  

Let's roll up our sleeves and get busy, get back to the drawing board, get on 
the telephone, make a list, check it twice, get out your tools and shake a 
leg.  There's a lot of work to be done and it's all a good time and for a 
worthy cause.  We are already launched, so let's make it a go.  There's what 
you can look forward to, Ginny.  The United Midwayers in your life.  You want 
something to satisfy your curiosity?  Have some of us over for lunch and 
we'll come up with something that can move reality into a new dimension.  
(Pause)  Far out!

THOROAH: Amen, brother.

GORMAN: Nice place you got here, Tomas.  Thanks for inviting me in to say 
hello.