[tmtranscripts] 12-29-00.SPOKANE TEACHER BASE (2)

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AARON: Or that you would not be able to withstand the leveling of pride that 
comes with recognizing you have been imperfect?

THOROAH: No.

AARON: I would not hesitate, then, if I were you, to begin to portray for 
your mind's eye your celestial peers and planetary helpers.  You may discover 
that they can have conversations on their own to which you can be a party.

THOROAH: That would be interesting.

AARON: Or an observer, and gain insights by appreciating their perspective.  
All this is possible as you give personality an opportunity to exist.  All 
these personalities and potential realities are possible because of God's 
will.  Find out what it is for you.  Make it real.  Make it so by cooperating 
with the greater reality and helping foster it and bring it into being.  

You say, "What for?  What's the point?"  Except for your own mental exercise 
or imaginative diversion.    But you cannot give reality any more substance 
that it has inherently.  And if it is not in keeping with His will for you, 
that you take this knowledge into your arena and use it to expand the gospel 
or the living organism of the brotherhood of man, including the celestial 
sons and daughters in your cosmic family, then you will be shown how to use 
this information to augment truth, beauty and goodness or to abstain from 
mentioning it at all.  

As with any tool, however, you will find that if you want to use it, the more 
you practice with it, the more adept you become.  And skilled.  It becomes an 
art.  A craft.  

Alright, I have completed my exercise.  I don't know if I have done any good 
at all, but you seem to find the subject fascinating, so I thought I'd spend 
some time with you overall.

THOROAH: I thought it was excellent and very timely.  I'm getting the idea of 
maybe sculpting. A visionary sculpting process.

AARON: Well, sculpting is a good way.  Your development of your perception of 
your companion is much like George describing the elevator rising and 
revealing a face, a body of a being in such a way as to allow the viewer 
(you) to assimilate your recognition of the fact of its existence in a 
framework that is amenable to you so that you don't fear your neighbors in 
the spirit realm, on the other side.

THOROAH: It doesn't feel like fear, but maybe it is.  Something in front of 
you.  I get over excited and hyper-ventilate.
  
AARON: You have had glimpses of your personal teacher.

THOROAH: Yes.

AARON: Both personal teachers, I believe, have lent glimpses of themselves to 
you so you have an idea of their coloring or their mannerism.  This gives 
them greater credibility in your consciousness.  Not only in the 
super-conscious realm, but also in your conscious, sub-conscious and 
unconscious.  They become more real because you have given them greater 
reality.  There have been disparaging remarks about how it is that the human 
is always dragging God down to his level.  I am suggesting that this is an 
area of play, where you are indeed encouraged to bring God down to your level 
in order for you to perceive of His vast family.  

Incidently, it's fun for me to think about how you will even more appreciate 
the arrival of some of these Teacher Sons or the presence of the Magisterial 
Son or possibly other materializations ... [tape turned] and weigh that 
reality with that which you have helped bring into being by your own 
perception.  Always is Reality greater than that which you have managed to 
perceive.  This is why it is always exciting and ever enlightened.  

THOROAH: Well, that makes me want to ask the question that this conscious 
reality that we're familiar with now, mortals here on this planet, as real as 
that airplane sound was, that is real in this reality.  Are entities going to 
make themselves present to us in that reality? Or are we going to have to 
discover them in their reality?  Or is it a combination of both?

AARON: It's a natural combination, just like any of these have been so far.  
You have to reach and we have to reach.  The only thing that is laid in your 
lap is your Thought Adjuster.

THOROAH: Okay.  That's very succinctly put, that last phrase.

AARON: Even that is not accessed without your active participation.  You need 
to reach inward and upward while it inherently is a reality of God that has 
already reached down and made itself at home within you.  

THOROAH: So in a sense, all these realities are going on around us at the 
same time; it's just our inability to recognize them that we have to get past.

AARON: Yes!  And if you can begin to give them a reality, they begin to take 
on a substance that you can use.  You won't know how until you've done it.  
It's like the kid who complains about having to learn Latin.  "It's a dead 
language!" he exclaims.

THOROAH: I think I said that!

AARON: And yet the value of Latin has been incomparable over the ages in 
eliciting a great deal from language that has lent edification to the minds 
of man, over many parts of the globe for many generations.  It seems I've 
diverted everyone.  Have we all suddenly gone back to high school?  Alright 
then, while we're there, can you see the hallway?  Can you see the lockers 
lined up along the side?  Can you see the floor shining and gleaming, having 
just been buffed by the maintenance crew?  Can't you hear everyone in the 
classrooms, behind closed doors, muffled voices of teachers, while your heels 
clicking on this empty hall echo into infinity? 

Rap your knuckles on one of those lockers and hear the sound of your youth.  
You can smell it.  If you stand there long enough, you will be able to 
remember what you had on.  What style of shoes you are wearing.  What the 
cover is on your textbook.  What page your homework reading assignment begins 
on.  You'll know what you have in your lunch pail.  You'll know what your 
mother is having for supper and what your father is going to tell you about 
this evening.  

All of these memories and realities of a life are able to be accessed because 
you have given credibility to them.  You have stopped in your tracks long 
enough to say, "I have known this.  This is a reality.  This has meaning."  
Maybe you don't attend that high school any more.  And maybe you haven't used 
a locker for a long time.  But that doesn't mean that that experience isn't a 
part of you, that you can't relate to those magic moments of being a young 
person getting an education and realizing the potential of the mind and the 
dreams of the future.

So make friends with your unseen helpers.  Give them something to wear; give 
them a book to carry; give them a reality so that they can walk with you and 
talk with you as realities into your next phase of cosmic citizenship.  
They're all full of good ideas, insights, inspirations and intentions that 
you will identify with and learn to cherish and depend on.  

Get next to your midwayer friends early on and you'll get familiar with the 
streets of Urantia.  You'll learn "street smarts" in an entirely new 
language.  

I've had a good time here today.  Thanks, Gerdean, for bearing with me.  I'm 
getting warmed up now so I better get off.  

GROUP: (Chuckling)
THOROAH: It's been great, Aaron.

AARON: We'll do more.  Maybe you can use this impetus to play with it a 
little bit and when we meet again, you'll have gone beyond the lesson to be 
able to convey to me what has happened to you as a result of some of the work 
you've done in this realm of the mind.

THOROAH: Thank you.

GINNY: Thank you, Aaron.  You sound a little different this time than what 
I'm used to.  I don't know why.  But, say hello to your friend Timothy.

AARON: I'd like to hear from YOUR friend Timothy.  

GINNY: (Giggling) Maybe next time.  Next time I'll ... I have an appointment 
tonight that's sort of getting on my time.

AARON: Alright then.

GINNY: It seems to me – are you buddies?  Are you partners or something?

AARON: I am a long-term associate and friend.  We have about the same degree 
of tenure.  And have many shared experiences.  So yeah, you could say we were 
fraternity brothers.  

I'm not going to stick around, nor am I going to turn the floor over to 
another teacher because we don't seem to be able to give those poignant one 
paragraph lessons any more.  We've made ourselves at home.  I just want to 
draw on the meaning of the season.  I didn't make much mention last week 
about your season and there were those who wondered why not.  I didn't mean 
to be rude, but we don't celebrate Christmas here so I didn't pay too much 
attention to it.  

I am aware, however, that even though I'm not a Christian or Jewish or even 
Africaan, I am mindful of the influence of the new millennia upon us, and 
even though we have many times talked to you about new beginnings, I cannot 
let this moment pass without embracing the potential of tomorrow - the 
threshold of the millennia that will bring correction, light and life, to 
your world.   

We've made such good strides in a short period of time and there are so many 
things unfolding now because you have allowed so many doors to open, but even 
so we have a whole planet to contend with.  Let this be our commitment: to 
embrace not just the light of truth, but also embrace the darkness, for in 
loving that which we cannot see, it will emerge into the light.  I cannot 
conceive of a more appropriate new year's greeting for Urantia than to 
realize that the awakening is into the light and shall be forevermore.  

Shalom!

GROUP: Shalom.