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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Opening piano music, played by Elena: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINNh15cT08 Here I Am, Lord]"

Opening piano music, played by Elena: "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINNh15cT08 Here I Am, Lord]"

TOMAS: Welcome once again and still to our gathering. Let me reach out and greet you as [[your soul]] comes forth to greet me. How [[joyous]] we are in this circle of [[friends]]. How charming is your music in honor of [[our Master]] who has also come today as a conscious [[presence]] in our midst. He will speak with you later; I would like to proceed with our session for today, our lesson, and that has to do with this theme: "My kingdom is not of this world."

TOMAS: Welcome once again and still to our gathering. Let me reach out and greet you as [[your soul]] comes forth to greet me. How [[joyous]] we are in this circle of [[friends]]. How charming is your music in honor of [[our Master]] who has also come today as a conscious [[presence]] in our midst. He will speak with you later; I would like to proceed with our session for today, our lesson, and that has to do with this theme: "My kingdom is not of this world."

TOMAS: I will pick one. ELENA: Okay.

TOMAS: I will pick one. ELENA: Okay.

===='''''[[Service]]'''''====

===='''''[[Service]]'''''====

TOMAS: I will make it very [[simple]]. I will now go to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney Walt Disney], who sponsored the [[attitude]], "You've gotta have a [[dream]]. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" And dreams are "phantasmagorical", and perhaps are [[super-conscious]] uprisings, as [[nightmares]] are [[subconscious]] uprisings sometimes, and these uprisings are outside the realm of any reality but your hidden mental realms, and so, if you are dreaming, you might as well allow yourself to dream any and all things that waft through your many [[conscious]] levels. In pursuing your dream, then, it will be made clear what is [[worthy]] and what is not for the ultimate creation of the [[reality]] you once dreamed.

TOMAS: I will make it very [[simple]]. I will now go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney Walt Disney], who sponsored the [[attitude]], "You've gotta have a [[dream]]. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" And dreams are "phantasmagorical", and perhaps are [[super-conscious]] uprisings, as [[nightmares]] are [[subconscious]] uprisings sometimes, and these uprisings are outside the realm of any reality but your hidden mental realms, and so, if you are dreaming, you might as well allow yourself to dream any and all things that waft through your many [[conscious]] levels. In pursuing your dream, then, it will be made clear what is [[worthy]] and what is not for the ultimate creation of the [[reality]] you once dreamed.

There is another phrase, "[[self aggrandizement]]" which is a stumbling block for many, for somehow you [[perceive]] that any reference to [[the self]] is to be squelched, snuffed, eradicated from your [[existence]], as if you were out to kill your [[ego]] and all sense of [[identity]]. How unfortunate for your [[existence]], that you would [[discipline]] yourself out of [[being]], in some misunderstanding of how that word is intended to help you identify that ego which is so self-serving as to eliminate any other reality than itself.

There is another phrase, "[[self aggrandizement]]" which is a stumbling block for many, for somehow you [[perceive]] that any reference to [[the self]] is to be squelched, snuffed, eradicated from your [[existence]], as if you were out to kill your [[ego]] and all sense of [[identity]]. How unfortunate for your [[existence]], that you would [[discipline]] yourself out of [[being]], in some misunderstanding of how that word is intended to help you identify that ego which is so self-serving as to eliminate any other reality than itself.

TOMAS: I'm still here -- Tomas, that is -- although I often have a hard time getting my [[metabolism]] up after having been in His [[presence]]. I don't know what it is about Him that captures me so. Are there any other questions?

TOMAS: I'm still here -- Tomas, that is -- although I often have a hard time getting my [[metabolism]] up after having been in His [[presence]]. I don't know what it is about Him that captures me so. Are there any other questions?

JANET: I wonder if I could ask a question, and maybe you can answer it. I felt all my life that people around us often have [[problems]] and difficulties and you have to be able to be there and [[listen]] and maybe advise a little bit, and after a long, long [[career]] in [[medicine]] - in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opthamology opthamology] - when I came out here, I wanted to find some way that I could [[volunteer]] to do something, so I work in a [[hospital]] one day a week in the [[surgery]] unit, and anybody can do just the routine things that have to do with setting up surgery or taking [[care]] of the patient and so forth, but what the patients need more than anything else, and the [[families]], is somebody to talk to them and to [[listen]].

JANET: I wonder if I could ask a question, and maybe you can answer it. I felt all my life that people around us often have [[problems]] and difficulties and you have to be able to be there and [[listen]] and maybe advise a little bit, and after a long, long [[career]] in [[medicine]] - in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opthamology opthamology] - when I came out here, I wanted to find some way that I could [[volunteer]] to do something, so I work in a [[hospital]] one day a week in the [[surgery]] unit, and anybody can do just the routine things that have to do with setting up surgery or taking [[care]] of the patient and so forth, but what the patients need more than anything else, and the [[families]], is somebody to talk to them and to [[listen]].

And maybe it's a gift that God has given me, but I've been able all my life to talk to people and help them that way, so this was one thing I felt I should do out here, and I try, because these people have deep [[problems]]. Even though it's maybe a minor [[surgery]], but still, it's something they're going through and they need to talk about it, and my main job over there at the [[hospital]] is [[listening]] to these people and talking to them, but I often [[wonder]], in spite of all that, if I'm living up to my full [[potential]]. Is there any way you can answer a question like that?

And maybe it's a gift that God has given me, but I've been able all my life to talk to people and help them that way, so this was one thing I felt I should do out here, and I try, because these people have deep [[problems]]. Even though it's maybe a minor [[surgery]], but still, it's something they're going through and they need to talk about it, and my main job over there at the [[hospital]] is [[listening]] to these people and talking to them, but I often [[wonder]], in spite of all that, if I'm living up to my full [[potential]]. Is there any way you can answer a question like that?

[[Amen]] and farewell.

[[Amen]] and farewell.

Closing music, sung by Carl: "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic Glory, glory hallelujah]!"

Closing music, sung by Carl: "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic Glory, glory hallelujah]!"

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]