View source for 1995-12-23-The Color of Personality

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===Topic: ''The Color of Personality''===
===Group: [[Pittsburgh TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==	
===Teacher: [[Tomas]]===
===TR: [[Gerdean]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
TOMAS: Greetings, group of [[joyous]] and [[faithful]] followers. I am Tomas, your teacher.

Group: Greetings.

TOMAS: I am [[happy]] to be here with you today as the heavenly [[chorus]] sings, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Nowell Noel, Noel]" in [[anticipation]] and appreciation of our [[joys]] of [[Christmas|the season]].

We have enjoyed your party today, and [[Celestial Artisans|the artisans]] who have come by to [[observe]] your representations have twittered among themselves with delight at your precious and prosaic approach to [[creative]] [[divinity]]. Crease not in your efforts to [[understand]] and, indeed, to convey those [[values]] and realities which you perceive to be your [[destiny]] and your birthright, for your [[perceptions]], as they are acted upon, are experiential and a training ground for your enlarging perceptions.

===Lesson===
===='''''[[Trust]]'''''====
We truly delight in your [[fledgling]] understanding of these workers, and only through your own [[appreciation]], and, to some extent, your experiencing these creative factors in your own life, can the [[reality]] of such beings become part of your expanded awareness and [[consciousness]] of how they work.

And this is true of your experience in the large, for only as you [[practice]] [[faith]] do you understand what is faith, and as you practice [[trust]] do you understand what is trust, and as you practice love do you engage upon yet newer and greater and deeper portrayals of this divine [[endowment]].

I have observed this week, as have the many celestial helpers who assist you and who assist [[the teachers]] and who assist in general, observed your [[response]] to our [[study]] last week, the [[fertilization]] of the [[seed]] of [[trust]], … have observed the [[growth]] of that living reality in your [[souls]] and reflected often in your own awareness through your [[meditations]], reflections and affirmations of those things which you have learned to trust, have [[desired]] to trust, have yearned to [[trust]].
===='''''[[Sharing]]'''''====
This [[recognition]] is a [[light]] in the [[darkness]]. It is a candle burning in a sea of distrust. Let your candle burn and be boisterous in your [[proclamation]] of your trust in [[divine]] [[reality]].

It is difficult, I realize. It is all too frequently observed that as your [[truth]] rings out, it bounces off the [[barrier]] of the ears of those you would reach and [[reverberates]] back to you as a boomerang of distrust and [[rejection]].

This [[reaction]], which is so common as to be the norm, has a tendency to cause a [[normal]] mortal, even a [[vigorous]] believer, to curtail his or her pronouncements of [[truth]] and [[faith]], inasmuch as this negative [[shadow]] of disbelief can be energy depleting. [[Persist]] in your delivery of your [[truth]] in the face of [[rejection]] and derision. Do not allow the boomerang to strike you, but duck, and allow the negative reaction of [[fear]] to pass you by.

As you [[practice]] this [[technique]] of sounding the toll of [[truth, beauty, and goodness]], you will become strong in your own right. You will believe your [[truth]] and hear your truths, whether it was heard by others or not. Keep company with your own truth. [[Listen]] for the [[harmony]] of your own truth. Take [[comfort]] in this truth. And when and as this truth, as you [[perceive]] it, becomes unreal to you, seek for [[clarification]] and [[insight]] from [[the Father]] and ring out again your truth. Do not allow others' disbelief to hinder you in your [[expression]] of your [[trust]] in [[divinity]].

It is not required that you badger your fellow [[human being]] by your [[testimony]]. It is not required that you hold your truth so loftily as to rankle the [[integrity]] of your brothers and sisters, but [[sing]] your truths clearly and [[graciously]], that they May be received. Gently deliver your "Noel."

This [[exercise]] in [[manifesting]] yourself) from your [[understanding]] of yourself) allows you, upon [[reflection]], to ascertain how and where your own [[growth]] may be augmented. Always remember that as a teacher you are also [[students]], that as you remain open and [[vulnerable]] to spirit [[leading]], you learn greater [[truths]] and greater ability to portray your truths.

Have we [[truths]] to [[share]] with one another today in our question/answer period?
===Dialogue===
===='''''[[Color]]''''', '''''[[Personality]]'''''====
Loreenia: I have something to share with you, as you have shared with me. I have been told that you were seen … with a [[spiritual eye]] … as a deep, deep, dark blue - sparkling with the white -- trimmed around with flecks of yellow. And I don't mean our [[mortal]] [[knowledge]] of "white" but a beautiful white of the spiritual world … not of this world. Are you [[representative]] of that?

TOMAS: Behold, daughter, the [[color]] of my [[personality]] as I am here in your [[presence]] and as you [[perceive]] me.

[[Celestial Artisans|The artisans]] who work with [[color]] are adept at embellishing [[presences]] with certain color tonal [[qualities]], and as we and you [[mature]], as we experience various levels of [[emotion]] and [[reality]], our [[reflection]], by way of color, alters. (It is also true that your [[perception]] of color is grossly [[limited]] by the natural limitations of the mortal sphere, and the colors, which will be part of [[personality]] embellishment in our later [[recognition]] of one another, will be infinitely enhanced.)

I am blue, yes; blue-black … deep blue, darker than your [[Urantia Book]]s … but even in agreeing that I am predominantly blue, I am not conveying to you real [[truth]] but merely what is true. There is a [[difference]]. And you understand me as being blue, but this is through your [[perception]] of color and not through an enhanced understanding of color as you will come to understand it in your later time spent in the [[morontia worlds]] when color is more representative of [[energy]] than the visual identification you know it to be today.

Yes, in your [[perception]], this is correct: deep blue, and augmented by white. Does this, however, contribute to your [[understanding]] of your spiritual nature, child?

Loreenia: Yes. And my other question is: how quickly are you turning white?

TOMAS: And again, we must quibble over [[relativity]] …

Loreenia: Yes.

TOMAS: … for your [[appreciation]] of time is far removed from time in the sphere in which I am accustomed to [[functioning]]. I will tell you, however, that I am not turning colors on you so rapidly as to [[fuse]] and leave you, no. I am stabilized during my [[tenure]] here with you, and although I am still evolving, still [[growing]], still developing, as are you, and at a "[[healthy]]" [[pace]], I am not growing by such leaps and bounds as to surge into full-fledged [[spirit]] as of yet. Is this helpful?

Loreenia: Yes. I sort of see you as [[representative]] of what I've seen before and I saw with [[spiritual eyes]], whatever, and it was representative of the spiritual aspects of all of us, covered with a [[dimension]] of the white light, like I saw when my [[Thought Adjuster]] came. Once it started working in the deep blue … and the energies of that blue that you are, it was automatically … it was very quickly that I saw the white light that I perceive all of us as [[becoming]]. Are you representative of that?
===='''''[[Acceleration]]''''', '''''[[Correcting Time]]'''''====
TOMAS: I will recall to your mind the incident when the [[angelic orders]] decried observing the body of [[Christ Michael]] molding in [[188:1|the tomb]] and [[189:2|asked that it be speedily dissolved]], and the [[miracle]] of speeding up time took place in order that this request could be granted. Also, the incident of the wine, wherein a natural [[process]] was speeded up to effect certain causes.

Your [[understanding]] of [[accelerated]] growth is being visualized through [[color]] and this is why you representationally see color quickly [[evaporating]] into white [[light]]. This is almost a photographic technique you are experiencing, as if you were in a dark room and, in reverse, the white paper quickly becomes impressed with the photo in an accelerated fashion. Your perception of [[spiritual growth]] is impressed by color. It is not the case for everyone. You have been [[blessed]] with this aspect.

Loreenia: That's why we're here. I know [[time]] is [[Acceleration|being speeded up]] like for Christ's body to quickly (dissolve), and I would request that (indistinguishable) be speeded up.

TOMAS: Your request is noted and I will remind us all that through the requests and indeed, the deep heart-felt [[prayers]] of many, the many believers who languished in spiritual [[isolation]], those prayers which were sent up individually resulted in the accelerated arrival of [[the Teachers|we teachers]] and [[Correcting Time]] as an [[emergency]] measure to assist [[Urantia]], so your requests are not overlooked. Indeed, it behooves you all, us all, to take our concerns and [[earnest]] desires to [[Our Father]] for His judgment, for all things in [[time and space]] are in accordance with His will.
===='''''[[Prayer]]'''''====
Mrs. M: In speaking about [[prayers]] and [[effective prayer]]s, I have been [[wondering]] how I can make more effective my prayers for Gary. You know Gary -- and many people in this group know Gary -- who put in my patio, who might have to have a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_transplantation kidney transplant] and is so very young, and I've been deeply moved by his concern and have turned it over to the people in the group here and was wondering, perhaps -- I did tell his mother, now that I understand this condition as stated in [[the Book]] -- that you told the person that you're praying for them, and is there any other thing I can do? I've asked many good praying people. Have you any other suggestions as to how we can be more effective when somebody strikes us as being such a very special person, in our praying?

TOMAS: Yes, and no, for you have already garnered much of the [[truth]] about [[effective prayer]]. To advise, to [[share]] with that [[individual]] for whom you are praying is helpful, as that opens the door for them to [[understand]] that their plight is not one which has gone unnoticed, that there are other connected [[individuals]] who are pulling for him or her as the case may be.

To [[devote]] quality time in [[stillness]] with [[the Father]], to take the love of the Father in prayer to your [[friend]], by [[focusing]] on your friend that love which you feel, is a direct line for [[healing]] energies. As more people focus these healing [[energies]] on the aggrieved one, that individual is then [[strengthened]] to follow through with what His will is for that [[individual]]. It is not necessarily what you [[feel]] is the proper outcome.

[[Pray]] for the individual to have [[strength]], to [[understand]], to have [[faith]] and to [[trust]], to trust the [[process]] of life, to process their life's experience in such a way as to open their [[heart]] and [[soul]] to the acceptance of their infinite [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filiation filiality], which extends beyond this [[life]] experience.

If an individual lives in the understanding that he, she, is part of the [[grand universe]], the celestial [[family]], then tenacity to this life is not as desperate.

It is understood that your [[understanding]] would have him become well quickly and easily, indeed [[miraculously]], and to this end you may certainly [[pray]], but by the same token, if this is not the outcome, then pray for your own understanding that the [[friends]], [[family]] and loved ones of this aggrieved individual will [[perceive]] the [[harmony]] in the [[process]].

Mrs. M: I really thank you very much because I really feel that this is extremely helpful, and yet I do have a further [[question]] and that is that at one time I was interested in things that Lazarus said. He was presumably [[channeled]] rather well and was a being in his 16th life or something -- I don't know what that meant. But the things he said seemed to ring true to me at the time … some of the things he said. One of the things he had said was that [[health]] was the greatest gift you could give [[the Father]] and I would just [[appreciate]] your commenting on that.

TOMAS: Such a [[quote]] is indeed [[truth]] and an [[honor]] to his [[wisdom]], for in good health one can robustly serve and rejoice, and it is indeed a gift that one may give if it is a gift that one has, but those who are not in good health cannot be slighted or lessened by their inability to give their gift of robust health to the Father. Indeed, their gift may be to afford their fellows to see [[compassion]] and tenderness.

All [[manner]] of gifts are there [[received]] and given, and the greatest gift, then, is to do the best you can with what you have at any moment, in [[anticipation]] of even more and greater moments to naturally follow.

Mrs. M: That is extremely helpful and I will think about these things and try to [[integrate]] them into my own philosophical framework. Thank you very much.

TOMAS: Thank you.

Leah: Tomas, could you expand on the word "filiality"? I believe … what does that mean?

TOMAS: [[Filial]] is, I believe, from the [[Latin]], having to do with brotherly. Filial. Filiality, then, is [[family]], and I refer to filiality as the family of man (and woman) "under God."
===='''''[[Status]]'''''====
Loreenia: Tomas, a question came to my mind yesterday. There are in the [[Urantia Book]] names of groups of beings like [[Lanonandek]] and [[Vorondadek]] Sons and on and on and on. When man -- well, we're all sons of God, but -- when [[this planet]] goes into the [[morontia]] worlds, the [[mansion worlds]] or wherever … I know that we're the last of the [[agondonters]] and that's true of the [[other worlds]] as well. What will man be called besides the [[Faith sons|sons of God]]? Do we have a particular -- on this planet -- do we have a particular name that we'll be called as a group?

TOMAS: No, not in particular, although [[Agondonter]] is certainly a category you fall under and will, indeed, for some time. [[Urantia]] is a permanent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo tattoo] of yours, if you will, and [[Corps of the Finality]] is also a [[classification]] that you will also wear. In fact, although you may wear many hats and [[experience]] many [[lifestyles]] on the way to [[Paradise]], you will increasingly learn to become part of the greater [[community]] and not seek so much for [[unique]] and individual [[recognition]], either as individuals or as a [[classification]].

All [[life]] is part of the great [[dance]], the great [[symphony]]. All are children of [[Our Father]]. All are one. And the further up you go in your [[cosmic]] [[citizenship]], the less it matters how you are identified, for your uniqueness becomes a pivotally unique Reality that is an aspect of [[First Source and Center|the First Cause]].

Loreenia: I was seriously [[curious]] about that. A matter of curiosity, but we were talking about titles of different sons.
===='''''[[Body]]''''', '''''[[Death]]'''''====
Mrs. M: Tomas, I have another question about this [[question]] because it says in the [[Course in Miracles]] that if you can become a [[person]] who is very forgiving, "you'll lay aside your [[body]] as a well used garment" and I think the one you just -- any kind of [[illness]] … and so I'm trying to put that into what you said to us.

TOMAS: Let me then help you from that [[light]]. If you are to set aside your mortal raiment as a well used [[garment]], indeed, a vessel which has served you well, you have indeed, now, set it aside. That is to say, it is no longer [[necessary]], for the you that you have become is independent of this material body. The material body well might be used up, may be decrepit and diseased, but the you which has become is not decrepit and diseased. The you that you have become, that you are indeed now today [[learning]] to [[become]], is the real you, the capital R real you, which is not to say that your [[humble]], [[mortal]] [[self]] is not real, but it may fall apart, may return to dust, may be cut away, and all its frailty and illness and decay with it. Do you see that as you become a [[morontial]] being, as you identify more and more with your true Self, … the carcass, the [[cocoon]] that has held you, is not relevant any longer and it matters little if it blows away or whatever. Do you see?

Mrs. M: I'll do some [[thinking]] and praying about your remark. Thank you.

TOMAS: I want to say that it is entirely possible for an [[individual]] of great [[faith]] and deep [[trust]] to walk through the [[process]] of [[terrestrial escape]] with [[grace]] and [[poise]] in the [[soul]] despite the discomfort of the [[body]]; that the power of [[God]] and the power of your [[soul]] is such that you can [[transcend]] the vagaries of terrestrial escape. It is possible to not succumb. Whether or not it happens that way is dependent on many variables, but it is possible.

Mrs. P: Tomas, I had an [[experience]] like this I'd like to [[share]] with you. As my son lay on the gurney in the [[hospital]] (and they said he was [[dead]]) and the nurse let me go in (and I knew he was still there) and I sat down (and they gave me a chair) and I held him in my arms and I [[explained]] to him that where he was going I could not go with him. I sensed his [[fear]]. And I said to him, "You will not be [[alone]]. Someone will come that you will know."

And I could see this broad expanse, almost like looking across a [[desert]], and way off in the distance is a small tree-line or a black outline of whatever's there -- and he was facing toward it and he had his back to me and his crippled [[body]] was no longer him. He was a total six foot man, with his curly blonde hair and his beautiful deep blue eyes (that appeared on the gurney down at the left end) and he was standing there, looking at me and [[smiling]], and his eyes said, "I know something you don't know" and with that he started walking away, and two [[angels]] came in from the right hand side and joined him. So I know what you're talking about. I saw it happen.

TOMAS: You are indeed a [[witness]] to such a [[reality]] as will become more and more frequent as your living [[faith]] perfects and [[progresses]]. That he knew something that you do not know does not diminish that you have great [[faith]], and it is a [[blessing]] to you and a comfort that your [[morontial soul]] was able to [[embrace]] the morontial soul of your son and send him forth. You are fortunate in this [[experience]], yes.

Mrs. P: Thank you.

Dr. B: (Something about a situation at work) terrible lives, and yet they are so [[beautiful]], so loving, that you could see that its like none of it. … I can't say it didn't [[touch]] them, because it touches them, but … you can just see it. They're very loving people and somehow the [[suffering]] was not something that they liked to be saved from.

TOMAS: Precisely. Much of the [[resistance]] to the experience of "passing on" is because of [[fear]]. Fear of the [[unknown]]. Fear of [[God]]. Fear of many things. And this too is one of our [[purposes]] in [[Correcting Time]], and indeed in our [[conversation]] here today, to remind and uphold the [[truth]] that our [[eternal career]] lay ahead, our [[existence]] has barely begun, our [[soul]] [[expression]] has only begun to know what it is, and it will harmonize throughout and beyond.

One parenthetical remark. It will be to our [[advantage]] if ever we can get the Recorders to put this on record for us and handle the [[transcripts]]. Do you think that as a group we could put in a request to the [[Lanonandeks]] or some other high administrative body to help us with that job?

Leah: I think we can [[agree]] with that. Is everyone in agreement with that?

Group: Yes.

Leah: We are requesting that.

TOMAS: Like children, we may ask for many things, and in His [[infinite]] [[wisdom]], our requests will be answered in accordance with that which is best for all concerned.

Leah: Tomas, I'd like to put in a request to whoever is available to help with some [[understanding]] with whatever the [[problem]] seems to be with Gerdean's brake cylinder, and what any [[midwayers]] or anyone who could help us out or give us some [[understanding]], we certainly would appreciate what to do about her brake problem or her car, and I think there are people in this room who are in agreement about what should be done in this case.

TOMAS: Ms. Gerdean has long understood that brake problems are, for her, a matter of stopping pell mell activity, and this is no exception.

Leah: You didn't say Pall Mall, did you?

TOMAS: Pell mell. As she slows herself, indeed as she brakes (b-r-a-k-e-s) and begins to allow the [[velocity]] of her own [[path]] to carry her rather than the velocities of her [[surroundings]] and external [[influences]], the brake light will return to normal.

I [[assure]] you, and Gerdean, that her [[mortal]] life is not in imminent [[danger]] as a result of that red light on the dash.

Leah: Thank you.

TOMAS: But, however, the red light has come onto my dash, that this [[transport]] into realms of [[spiritual]] [[understanding]] is soon to run out of fuel, and we will therefor cease our format for this afternoon with the [[understanding]] that we are united, we are a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_field_%28physics%29 force field], if you will, in and for your benefit "living [[color]]." I am ever so much enjoying our [[rapport]] and look forward, yes, to our continued developing [[relationship]].
===Closing===
Enjoy your holiday season. Be of good cheer and be [[merciful]] in your ministry to your brothers and sisters in the upcoming days. Be [[sensitive]] to loneliness and be tender of [[emotions]]. Be calm and real underneath your festive appearance. Until we meet again next week, I wish you a happy holiday and [[joyous]] moments in [[Christmas|season]].

Group: Thank you.

TOMAS: Farewell.

Group: Farewell.

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