[tmtranscripts] 07-21-02 Rio Rancho TeaM

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DATE:              July 21, 2002
LOCATION:  Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
TEACHERS:  TOMAS, ANATOLIA AND MERIUM
TOPICS:            The Garden
                     Stillness
                         The Value of Experience
T/Rs:       Gerdean, for Tomas and Merium
                Matthew, for Anatolia

MUSIC:   "In the Garden" played by Dorenda on the piano
PRAYER: Matthew 
(Tomas introduced himself and welcomed everyone then, after a few brief 
comments, introduced Merium who wanted to tell a story.) 
MERIUM:     I am going to take you on a rendezvous with one of your favorite 
characters in literature, Alice in Wonderland. I lapse thus, as it is too 
good a comparison to overlook.  Do you recall, those of you who have seen 
this story depicted in film, the charming scene in the garden where the 
various flowers were conversing and remarking about what they saw in their 
midst?  I have a picture here in my expanded consciousness to offer you, to 
see how it is that you are all "something" growing in the garden.
You've seen this before.  We have spoken to you about it before, but these 
are lessons that are being learned again and again as you upstep your ability 
to comprehend the value therein.  Do you remember, for instance, a patch of 
flowers that were quite grand, Iris perhaps, and they were talking about the 
superfluous posies and the seedy wildflowers. But look closely at those 
haughty Iris, and watch the Master enter the garden.  Watch him pass by these 
flower beds and see what happens to those haughty Iris.  They are humbled in 
his presence and they bow their heads in gratitude of being one of the many 
flowers honored to grow in his garden.
I bring this analogy to you today because there is a stir about the various 
flowers growing in the Father's garden, not only your little culture, but in 
the global climate as well.  The extent to which you are able to learn to 
accept and appreciate differences in your various natures, is the reality 
which you will introduce into the ethers of your world that will enable your 
combatant countries, as a result of their many different religious 
foundations, to begin to respect the insignificant posies and the seedy 
wildflowers as well as the stately Iris.
Inasmuch as I have relegated you to vegetables, I will leave, and let the 
host and hostess of this pretty garden elevate your mind's consciousness to a 
concept that is more in keeping with the sons and daughters of divinity that 
you are.  What a delight you appear to be to me!  So fragrant and delightful, 
each of you.  And how symmetrical in your variations.
TOMAS:  This is Tomas again. I am back. I trust that you have no objection to 
Merium's nature.
Esmarelda:  Her visit was delightful.
TOMAS:  The energy here is quite piqued this afternoon.  It is a different 
configuration.  I note we are missing Carl and Janet, and we are joined by 
Wally and Joyce, and this simple adjustment of the circuitry is enough to 
require an adjustment in the equipment (the T/R and I) because the frequency 
is different. The idea of differing frequencies is how I will take off from 
Merium's parable.  
There are certain frequencies that are harmonic and some which are static. 
Certain radio stations are younger and more driving than others that are 
sedate or classic in nature. And they each reach a constituency; a 
demographic, and each have value; however, they have value for you only 
insofar as you are able to adjust your frequency to accommodate the 
prevailing energy.
The discussion about the specific interests of specific individuals is what 
prompts this attempt at understanding how each of you are programmed to heed 
a certain frequency. The sound of the Master's voice, however, is all 
pervasive, in that, no matter what your natural resonance is, it will be 
affected by the resonance he projects as you open to his reality.
In time your world will be settled in Light and Life, and you might think of 
it as a garden that is completely manicured or you might think of it as a 
garden that is completely natural, but you'll certainly see it as a whole, 
without obstruction, without static, without interference.
We are embarking on the creation of the garden that incorporates humanity. 
You are followers of the Wayshower. The energy that you recognize as his, and 
that you can reveal in your lives, establishes a circuitry of harmony, having 
a cadence which everyone can understand.  However this is a process.  It is 
only in completion, in maturity, that this perfection prevails constantly.  
Growth is often a turbulent and upsetting experience.  It sometimes seems 
that the weeds are taking over the new shoots of growth intended to be 
flowers.  
However, in faith, the scripture indicates the tares and the wheat will grow 
together and the wheat, like the flowers, having their own purpose, will 
eventuate in fruition as was intended.  All it takes is a little maintenance.
The maintenance that we bring to your attention at this point in your 
development, is that of the grooming of the patch you grow in.  For surely 
those of you who are about the Father's business recognize that the work that 
is set before you is sufficient for you for the day.
It is necessary for you to continually realize that you are only seeing a 
small part of the whole picture. However, as you know, it is possible to see 
with a greater perspective when and as you provide yourself with that divine 
perspective that comes through stillness, that comes from understanding your 
brother and sister, and see, as do the Ancients of Days, how they have come 
to grow to be who they are and how they grow.
The riotous garden that you all are in is a seedbed of potential and we are 
beginning to see the effects of divinity making inroads into not only your 
culture and that which you immediately enjoy, but the global culture, that 
you are a microcosm of, and that you will energize, influence and direct as 
you allow the Greater Reality to become consciously realized in your own 
reality.
Have patience. Have faith.
Anatolia is here with me and assured of her desire to speak with and be a 
part of our conclave this afternoon. Thus I will close my remarks and afford 
her the opportunity to speak before we open the floor to you for questions.
ANATOLIA:  Good afternoon, my children.  I'm happy to be here and happy to 
share this wonderful afternoon with you. The temperatures are ideal, as far 
as I am concerned.  If you could, see, feel, and hear the difference within 
our domain you would truly appreciate what climate control is all about, but 
given that you are in a temperate world, so to speak, that is one that has 
ups and downs, constancy of inconstancy, you are truly in a place admirable 
and praiseworthy.  So this is not to say that anyone who is of other environs 
is of lesser status, or any lesser importance, it's just that this is a 
remarkable place to be and we're happy to be in association with you.
Whether we're here or anywhere else where each and all of you may have 
originated in the beginning, it makes no difference. It is the Now that we 
are concerned with.  It is  mainly a conversational item in terms in letting 
you know of all of our presence and the status of you, today, in your place 
of being -- not just your physical place, that is your geographic location -- 
but for where you find yourselves, where we find yourselves today it is 
pleasing and pleasant, worth celebration and worth everything, to have left 
everything behind to find that which is valuable, that which is beyond all 
measure and beyond all form of recognition of lasting value. 
You are to be commended for your valiant works in terms of finding that which 
is lasting and that which is true.  For what is alive and well and bright and 
brilliant within your hearts and minds is what's lasting and true, because 
one could put hot fiery coals to any part of your body but as long as you had 
that vision of what is valuable and true, you could withstand all types of 
pain and punishment were it necessary to put you to such a test, to know that 
you would prevail throughout any type of physical, mental or other torture, 
meaning that where your focus is, and where you have found peace and placid 
placement, is where you will be able to maintain, because this is your place 
of consciousness and it is your place of being that will far outlast even the 
physical status in which you currently occupy.
So I wish to commend you for your places within your hearts and your minds 
because this is the Place from which you springboard forward in terms of your 
next level. Conscious … onward … migration or progress.  It is much in the 
image, or the demonstration of being pilgrims -- pilgrims along the way of 
truth and rightness. I could say 'righteousness' which is a simile to 
rightness; I say rightness because it is more a matter of having your mind 
and your heart being right with all that is around you and within you.  Being 
right in terms of acceptance. Being in adjustment and being fine-tuned with 
almost anything that could happen.  For in a split second or a moment's 
notice all of your world could change.  I say this not in terms of any kind 
of catastrophic type of forewarning, I'm just saying, as you know, that your 
world could change in a moment.  So where you are in your hearts and your 
minds - placid places within your consciousness - it is advisable to 
recognize the reality of this; that it is not just a momentary passing of 
emotional satisfaction, but rather is the actual state of your soul and your 
consciousness when you find yourself in a place such as this.  
It is the heart and the soul and the body, if you will, of the 'stillness' 
practice that we'd spoken of earlier.  This I wish to describe to you in a 
number of ways but the primary way I wish to illustrate it today is through 
just this: That I believe most of you, if not all of you here today, would be 
able to vouch for the placid place within your heart and your mind that you 
find yourself currently. 
For any who may not be in this place that I speak of, momentarily, or 
currently as we speak, I know that you know this place and that it is not 
difficult to arrive at but rather just a matter relaxing, a letting go of 
your active mind and the ego part of yourself, to relax and take a back-seat, 
say, as you would a restless child, a 5-year old … in or outside of their 
car-seat, but let's play it safe and have that 5-year old in a car-seat -- 
because it is the law after all - but, telling that 5-year old to relax and 
to hush-up, if you will, that we're going on a journey and the only way to 
enjoy the journey is to be quiet and watch what scenery we find.  If it's 
nothing more than being able to entertain the 5-year old with promises of 
moo-cows and other scenery, do what you need to, to put the 5 year old to 
rest so that your mind can relax and find that placid place within that you 
know to be that vibratory location where you and your Maker and your Creator 
can placidly find yourselves as one.
This is the place that you will be when you are at peace with yourself. This 
is a place that is a springboard within your stillness practice, that is a 
place that you can practice in your conscious everyday moments of being.  You 
can carry on the greatest debate and the most convincing of arguments or the 
most saleable of sales presentations in this state of being because it is in 
this state of being that is your true consciousness and your true presence of 
being. It is your spirit being that is unguarded and beyond the limits of 
what  your ego mind would prevent from its placement within your 
consciousness.
So I more than urge.  I invite you.  I tease you into tasting this place with 
your Creator and with your Maker, to know that it is a place of holiness and 
it is a place of wonder and delight, much as the garden that was spoken of 
earlier. So I wish to allow you to cherish all of the scents and all of the 
smells and all of the peace that prevails in such a placid place within.
It will be a part of my continued discussion with you, in terms of how and 
where to find this particular location, but again, I believe, for most of you 
it is  not a difficult journey whatsoever.  It begins again by telling the 5- 
year old to relax and to sit back and enjoy the ride.
If there are any questions about this I would be happy to entertain those 
questions as we proceed.  In the meantime I return the floor to Tomas.  I 
appreciate your attention and hopefully the little bit of a ride that we did 
take and any of the scenery you enjoyed along the way was well worth the 
trip.  So peace be with you and until we meet again, I am always your friend 
and always within your reach.  Peace be with you.
 TOMAS:  Thank you Anatolia. And now we are eager to engage with you in 
relationship development.  How does your garden grow?
Esmarelda:  I hope mine is growing very well this year, Tomas.  I was 
thinking from last Sunday about how, in communion with the Father, one tends 
to talk to him as we talked to our own fathers when we were small children.  
And I was thinking back about that and my earthly father and I did not talk 
very much at all.  In fact, I used to try to begin a conversation with Daddy 
and he was always in a hurry and told me he didn't have time to answer but 
he'd explain it and I wouldn't know any more when he got through explaining 
it than I did before he took the time. And there just wasn't much 
conversation.  Maybe sometimes that's why I find it difficult to communicate.
But my literal garden, Tomas, is faring pretty well this year.
TOMAS:  Indeed, it is, but my focus will be on this figurative garden we 
introduced: the communication between you and your Father as compared to the 
communication between you and your Dad.  The example you site is an brilliant 
example of how times have changed in a very short time frame.  When you were 
a toddler, perhaps 6 or 7 decades ago, the stratagem was such that men were 
not participants in child-rearing -- certainly not with the little ones.
Esmarelda:  Tomas, with the discipline they were.
TOMAS:      Yes, father is quite naturally regarded as a disciplinarian and 
one to be feared, but the times are, in part, changing, and today men have an 
active role in fathering.  They are encouraged to be a participant in 
parenting, even to relating to the child when it is still in the womb.  Many 
husbands are taking maternity leave and experiencing morning sickness along 
with their spouses.  This is a natural result of the women's liberation 
movement.  That also provided new liberation for men, and will immeasurably 
impact on the development of the new generation.  
You speak of indigo children. These children are being parented by two loving 
parties in a community of devotion to each other, and that will naturally 
advance the precociousness of any individual.  However, given the constraints 
of those by-gone eras, it is a marvelous testimony to the workings of the 
indwelling Adjuster that it has prevailed in you to the extent that you have 
come to know and realize the Fatherhood of God and a Loving reality and not 
so much the fearful depiction as is our legacy.
Those of you who have been brought up to regard life's vicissitudes in one 
way are often reluctant to let go of the mental constriction in order for the 
easier, softer way to come into being.  You will realize this by recognizing 
the sagas told to you about how it was when your parents were young. Such as, 
"when I was young I had to walk a mile in the snow to catch the bus," and now 
kids have their own car to drive to class.
It's difficult for hardy old flowers like yourself to regard these up-start 
dandelions with much appreciation.  However, they are beneficiaries of a new 
potential as well as a new luxury.  Fact is, they will have their own row to 
hoe, as it were, and one of the rows they will learn to hoe is that the 
flowers who have grown in their garden for a long time, and who provide 
stability and beauty year after year, are the voice of experience, -- which, 
in time, will be like the chord that holds down the tune while the other 
youthful hand plays trippingly on the keys to create the melody.
Again this is a request … and invitation for those of you who have 
perspective, who have vision, and who have experience … to understand how the 
young will, in time, reach that point of awareness and maturity that allows 
the farther view. The way that parents lovingly look upon their immature 
children and allow them to make their experiential mistakes as they learn how 
to become older and wiser.
You didn't expect a full-fledged lecture on such a small remark, Esmarelda,  
But I and  other teachers lay in wait for a flicker.
Esmarelda:  Thank you, Tomas.  And I've been most fortunate with my two, who 
never were really dandelions, but have flowered for many a year and matured 
in their lives.   Thank you Tomas.
Elena:  Yeah, but you mentioned a 'chord' there, Tomas,  and it was well 
appreciated - that underlying harmony and substantial chord is well 
appreciated and recognized and loved.
JOYce:  That was great encouragement to me.  I can't put it into words, just 
….  Tthat I could be a 'chord', -- that I'm adequate,… That's -- I'm so 
happy I can't even explain.   It makes the whole trip worth it [Editor's 
note:  the Brentons were travelling through NM on an extended road trip]  
because when you have children and grandchildren, sometimes you're 
unaware,…. And I just took that off into my spirit.  Thank you Tomas.  That 
was so powerful.
TOMAS:      You are a rose indeed, shorn of thorns.  What a precious gift you 
are to our group!  Both of you!  It is like coming home, is it not, when you 
find yourself in a place such as Anatolia referenced where your faith is 
safe?  We recognize how fragile your young souls are, and how terribly 
difficult it has been for you to protect your tender growth from the assault 
of inclement weather.  And yet we desire to encourage you to see how hardy is 
that will to live and that devotion to discernment and divine light that 
gives you your fiber, that provides you the substance that is the gift of 
experience. Our Father has seen to it that He experiences life with you, and 
so you have much to bring to life and offer, as your life itself is a 
sanctuary to life as you found it and lived it, and can now express it as a 
viable reality, as a vibrant bloom, worth of statement.  You mustn't think 
you've gone from us when you continue your sojourn. You are one with us. And 
we are one with you. And our combined energy, our fidelity and harmonics 
combine to create the music of the spheres. 
And how we have enjoyed the orchestration of the afternoon. What a privilege 
it is to be a part of this cultivating garden.  What therapy it is for those 
of us who work with you to be one with you in your effort to realize 
yourselves in your own statesmanship.  Are there questions or commentary, 
otherwise?
Elena:  I wanted to comment on one thing that Anatolia said earlier. I guess 
I had done my stillness time feeling fortunate if I could kinda maintain that 
stillness and looking at the 'moo-cows' for 5 minutes at a time.  And then 
she was saying that it was possible to make a salesmanship presentation or 
basically do anything -- perform normal functions of our daily lives -- and 
remain in the stillness state.  Well, I've got a little ways to go there but 
I'm at least expanding my vision of what that might be.  It helps a little 
bit because of the potential, I guess.  I was not looking at--  I think in my 
idea of what I thought stillness was, was a very compact period of time set 
aside for me personally without any outside influences.  So that kinda 
changed my view point about that, so I'll kinda try to expand that.  That 
helped.
TOMAS:  Anatolia would you like to respond?
ANATOLIA:  I'm glad that it was helpful to you.  The main aim to what I wish 
to present to you in this topic area, is that it is on-going and progressive. 
 It's immediately a two-fold answer.
One is that I wish to remove the mystique or the foreboding obstacle that 
stillness, as it is perceived, has presented to you. To a large extent I 
believe that it is … in many points of view … a supreme discipline to 
suggest that one enter stillness.  It is as if one is saying, "Okay, it is 
time for you to go stand in the closet and remain in the dark."  I wish to 
remove the taboo, or the impression that somehow this is an austere, 
disciplinary practice that we are inviting you to undertake.  Contrare!  As 
I've tried to illustrate, that it is not just a momentary state of being or 
an escape from the normal wave length interpretation of reality, but rather 
it is a place of your heart and mind that is placid and real and can be 
experienced on an everyday basis.  It is that state of mind that is 
essentially the developed consciousness that becomes more aligned with your 
spirit essence and your spirit vibration that is what you're aligning 
yourself to.  Does this help any?
Elena:      Yes.
ANATOLIA:   Is there anything else along this line while we're on the topic?
Know then that, in my comments as we proceed, I wish to remove the taboo, if 
you will, and simply invite you to grow in your own conscious awareness of 
who you are and, after all, this is what we're all about.  Each of us, in our 
own states of being, in a progressive state of natural progression until we 
are at one with the Father in all glory.  We are all in a progressive state 
of conscious awareness.  So with that I leave you in good tidings and return 
to Tomas' chairing of the committee.
TOMAS: The picture of the Father's lap is in my mind and Esmarelda as a 
3-year old sitting on Father's lap.  The practice now is to allow yourself to 
be that little child.  Accept your tender souls, your fledgling reality and 
place it in the trust of Father that you would idealize your father to be; 
the one who did not merely discipline you but who did have time -- not to 
explain things perhaps, but to listen to you explain things to him.
Can you conceive of yourself spending time with Father to tell him about the 
bug you discovered in the yard and how it went across the sidewalk? or the 
problem you had getting your shoe tied?  If you can give yourself to Father 
and open yourself to him and appreciate the sanctity of the association, 
there will develop the kinship of spirit that gives you sense of security and 
being able to appear to him as you are.  And he accepts you as you are and 
loves you as you are because you are his child and you are precious to him.
In due course, of course, it is natural for you to grow, and your problems 
become more complex, but always -- as the child -- they are the problems you 
bring to him to hear his feedback, if any.  Sometimes there won't be 
feedback, only a sense of love. And in that case you have a new perspective 
on your problem, but many times you will be given counsel, your mind will 
reflect divine wisdom.  Don't be impatient with yourself as you learn how to 
develop this relationship with Father.  Create in your mind's eye the divine 
father that you would want God to be for you. And invite yourself to partake 
of His Greatness, His Kindness, His Humor, His Affection and His Strength.  
Whatever it is you need from God, He has it in abundance. And since He is 
your creator, He will reflect Himself in you and you will become more like 
your Father because you have spent time understanding how He loves you.  And 
eventually he will send you forth into the world to take with you that 
revelation of sonship such that the security you enjoy is reflected to those 
as you pass-by.  As it is said, 'it is a process,' an enjoyable process, and 
not an instance of fear of punishment or an angry god or a jealous god, but 
the loving god that Jesus taught when he was here.

With such a handle on our Universal Father or our Creator Father/brother, we 
develop into sons of God, daughters of God.  And that makes you superhuman 
not merely humans you have recognized and worked with all these many years 
awaiting the reconnection of your circuitry with the divine universe.

Well, children, flowers that you are, we reluctantly relinquish our hold on 
you in order for you to now go and practice and enjoy those realizations that 
have been given to you in this garden of companionship wherein the rain and 
sun of heaven has shined upon us and washed away our tears.  Be of good 
cheer.  Until we speak again, farewell.

Group:  Thank you.  Farewell. 

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