2006-06-25-One Size Does Not Fit All

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Topic: One Size Doe Not Fit All

Group: Rio Rancho TeaM

Facilitators

Teacher: Merium, Tomas, Monjoronson

TR: Gerdean

Session

Opening

Music: Elena on Piano: "Blue Skies"

MERIUM: That was a prayer!

This is Merium. I am so glad to see so many of you here today. We have a full house. You enjoy the homecoming as well, I perceive, for your joy reflects in your greetings to one another. Uncle Tomas, today, would like to talk straight, and I'll be here to open the windows when he is finished. (Group chuckle)

TOMAS: How long must I bear with you, child? This is Tomas, your friend and counselor and guide and companion in these years of association, with the best interests of all at heart.

Lesson

We in the Teacher Corps are assigned to fulfill a certain conscription. And within that conscription, we have tremendous latitude to teach what will most impact your own spirit growth. That is a huge assignment, since all of you are at a different place in your spiritual awakening, and so you find most of our lessons generic and unspecific so as to reach the greatest number of hearers with truth, realizing full well that the truth will fall on each ear as a unique tone, even as all of you are privy to our orchestration.

In the Teaching Mission, as it has come to be called, one size does not fit all. If you will, for instance, observe your Teachers, they modify, they adapt to new people. They incorporate the whole. Many times my meandering and long-distance running sentences are the only way I know how to rope in such a wide variety of minds as are here, even in this configuration of fairly like-minded individuals.

It may be easier for a Teacher to address a group who has one common interest, as compared to a group that has many common interests, but I believe teaching has its own degrees of challenges regardless of the socio-economic or socio-political or socio-religious construct of the classroom -- although size does have bearing. And this is why the personal teachers have been encouraged to be utilized by you who enjoy these group lessons, for personal teachers can and do go into more intimate detail with you in your daily life than do the group teachers.

There is expansion in the living universe. It is not stagnant; it is not fixed, even while there are certain truths that are immovable. And so you will never have firm footing as to what's going on because what's going on is constantly changing. You can, however, have confidence and assurance that whatever it is you are an integral part of it. You have your contribution to make according to your commitment and your capacities, which you perform loyally, even as do those who wear their banners on their sleeve and wave the flag and toot the horn more vigorously.

We are not all the same. We are not all at the same level of growth and development. And there are those who feel that the appropriate thing to do at such a point as you find yourselves on occasion, to break off one from another and allow the advanced students to forge ahead or convene as an advanced group as compared to the remedial work of those whose capacities are not inclined or able to pursue advanced studies and attainments with the same gusto as the advanced group. This is good in terms of administration, but in terms of association, it is improbable that it will do anything but offend and divide.

Thus, we continue -- we in the Teacher Corps -- continue to address the group as generically as possible, even as understanding the uniqueness of each student in our class, hope to provide some gem of truth which you can chew upon, some seed of truth-beauty-or-goodness that takes root in your soil that the Father himself may stimulate the growth of that seed in your consciousness and in his kingdom. This is no doubt the desire of all God's kids. In that, one size does fit all. All of you seek to do His will. And all of you do it to the best of your understanding. In that there lies a blanket of grace over you and all of us.

I want to also make note of the fact that although I may be teaching and addressing a group here or there or otherwise, I always have to remember that the universe is listening. These lessons don't apply only to your group, but to people across the world and even other worlds take interest in these developments. I say this not in order to make you feel self-conscious, but to allow you to see once more how it is that you are a part of the avant-garde of those who are league with the heavenly helpers, in order to reopen the circuits between your world, which has been in isolation, and the greater universe of which you are a part.

In time, the broadcasts will be more public, more acceptable, more visible, and humanity will be more inclined to recognize they are a part of the universe and not singularly a citizen of this planet. And such knowledge also always leads the individual to an appreciation of the vastness of creation and in the recognition of such vast reality, the normal sense of smallness and awe is a part of your comprehension of ultimate truth, beauty and goodness. For even as you are of God and accept his qualities as your own, you do clearly see how infinitesimal and finite your reality is in this moment, and so humbly we advance in each other's company and in search of the path that will open before us as children of faith.

That is all I wish to say this afternoon. Thank you for bearing with me.

Dialogue

Esmeralda: Thank you for coming to see us, Tomas.

Elena: We appreciate your coming, Tomas.

MERIUM: Merium, back here again, under "Blue Skies" on a balmy summer day with friends and associates in the spirit interest.

Have you, along the lines of Tomas' words, wondered why I call myself a babysitter? In the vast cosmology of things, with so many roles being filled, the Magisterial Son, the Creator Son, the ascended masters and associate teachers: angels, orders of seraphim, and on and on infinitum, why am I content to be called a babysitter?

Does that mean I am here to supervise you until your parents get back? Am I here to keep you from getting into trouble, without One High in Authority being over you? Am I just here until you grow up and can take care of yourself? I call myself a babysitter just so you know I am only a little beyond you on the totem pole of ascending sons and daughters. All of us have something we can teach those who are just a little younger. I learn as much from you, I suspect, as you do from me.

Where have you been, Maria? How wonderful it is to see you back in our company!

Maria: Learning other things. Going other places.

MERIUM: Indeed, child, the world is a university. It does not all take place in these classrooms. Healing is a field of interest that took off a long time ago, in terms of alternative medicine. And science is accommodating. Many times we become circumscribed in our viewpoint, and neglect to appreciate how vast an enterprise this Teaching Mission is -- this "mission" to teach you that you may teach others. There is an attitude about teachers that is evidently important enough to emphasize.

Myra, tell us the difference between a teacher and an administrator.

Myra: [who is a schoolteacher] (Chortles)

Angus: Keep it clean now.

Myra: (Laughing) It depends on the teacher and it depends on the administrator, really, but actually the teacher works with children and the administrators supposedly work for parents and teachers. That's what I've been told. And I think it's true.

MERIUM: Teachers associate with learners. They may or may not be children. Children are the assumed students, but adults also enjoy learning. Many times the teacher is younger than the students, so I'll argue with you about the students being children.

Myra: I'll let you argue with me on that one. I only use my common language in my own small little atmosphere, I guess.

MERIUM: This is natural and appropriate. I only make the remark to point out to a larger audience that has been quibbling about word usage, that it matters who is speaking, for everyone has their own frame of reference for how words work and how they convey information, just as do those of you who listen hear something unique, depending upon how you hear.

Teachers, as a rule, according to what I am instructed to be, is one who allows whatever is in you to be enlarged. It is not to superimpose information upon you, but to allow your own self to be revealed. The teaching I do, and Tomas does, is not factual. It is therefore not administrative, and I will not be promoted, depending upon how I do my job, so I am not interested in--

Renault: Or how many students pass the test.

MERIUM: Correct. I'm not interested in a raise or tenure.

Myra: Or leaving any of us behind.

MERIUM: -- not interested in leaving anyone behind. That's correct. Like Jesus, who suffered the little children and would stop in the middle of an important lecture to tend to their needs, we do the same. And those who want to forge ahead quicker and explore the universe trails, it is their right, duty and responsibility to themselves to do so. There are so many classes in this University. There are so many avenues to investigate. There are so many personalities with so many variations on the basic theme of personality that the options and opportunities are truly endless.

Paula: Well, you know the old cliché, that life itself is a constant learning experience. And it's true! You learn all the time. From the time you're born until you die.

MERIUM: Yes, indeed. You go to the head of the class.

Paula: Good!

MERIUM: Everyone likes to be a star student. Everyone likes to learn. Everyone likes to be acknowledged for what a bright little star they are. It is a part of the development of a healthy self-identity that allows you to know that what you do is good.

There are new dimensions opening up in the Teaching Mission that incorporate the idea of the immanent arrival of a Magisterial Son on this world. This emerging ideology is disruptive to some and enthralling to others. Just as we were a new phase of interest and growth for so many of you, so is this concept of the Magisterial Son stimuli for growth and creativity for yet more and other students of cosmology and universe design.

There are many religions and religionists who look to the heavens for solutions and wait for that day when the clouds open, the trumpets sound, and a savior will appear. It has happened before; it could happen again; and so it is not unfeasible that it could happen even within your lifetimes, but I would be remiss if I were to neglect to gauge the temperature of the water before I threw you in and expected you to swim.

There is no intent to frighten anyone, even when others are impatient for new material. And so this business of enjoying and cultivating the depth of character and divine duty reaches fulfillment and curiosity sets in. We can only go with what your Spirit of Truth will allow. There will be no ramrodding in this classroom.

Our joy in coming together is to know that we are part of a spiritual family, that family who loves one another as Jesus loves us, and besides enjoying one another's company, we might find ways to support this greater reality that lies either within or without the conventional methods of teaching the fact of God and the reality of His love.

That said, let's open the windows. Are there questions?

Elena: Well, I'm kind of curious. I think it was really interesting that Tomas' lesson talked about what it did because I have been thinking a little bit in the last week or so that I had used to be more focused or concerned or worried about my obvious working with a personal teacher, or wanting to and not being aware of, or trying to and not being perceptive of who that was, and not getting anywhere, seemingly. And basically I just decided not to worry about it.

And so when Tomas was talking about general comments and general messages, and that each one of us picked up what we wanted to, then that had meaning to me, so that meant a fair amount, but now we mention about the Magisterial Son and I'm … I don't know. I'm curious about that. What does that mean? I don't know what that means. I guess I'd kind of like some more information about it, but it… I don't think I'm afraid of that but it seems to be kind of thrown out there without very much information.

Or that's what it feels like to me, so that's the end of my comment and whatever you want to say in reply.

(One moment)

MONJORONSON: I am Monjoronson.

Thoroah: Greetings.

Elena: Wow! Well, thanks for coming!

MONJORONSON: It pleases me to be welcomed into your midst. I cannot come where I am not invited. This is the case with all helpers. You cannot just stand by and assume you will be taken care of when it comes to those matters that necessitate your conscious involvement. My visit with you today is preliminary to more action in the future, in the consciousness of those who are engaged in actively activating, accentuating, enlivening and expanding universe reality. There is much afoot, but most of it cannot be conveyed because it depends upon you as much as us.

If you think in terms of the evolving Supreme, you might have a better understanding of how I will be assisting in the work of Christ Michael, that of uplifting your world. I will also be assisting Abraham by utilizing his army and battalions of workers, units of workers, to accomplish these things. And they will depend, to a great extent, upon who participates and to what extent they seek to commit their superconsciousness to these deeds that will enliven the reality in the universe that you have access to and that you can learn to manipulate and manage to help bring about the greater good.

If you think in terms of the future, wherein you may create universes, think about how to begin learning to create -- in a cosmic sense, as compared to a finite sense. Our mission is not necessarily to create organizations or associations as they are known on your world, but rather as they are known in heaven. I do have a staff of helpers I call upon and there are mortal associates signing up. Be advised it is not essential but to some it is inevitable. Many, too, are occupied in other efforts and need not devote themselves to our task. Be advised we are all workers in the field of the Universal Father, citizens of the friendly universe you inhabit.

Your Teacher talked to you before about manipulating energy, about connecting with each other in a merkaba, a gridwork that connects you. It is that energy and potential power that we will utilize in creating our administration and infrastructure that will recreate the lost infrastructure that was once your legacy before it was devolved by Lucifer. Never will it be as it was initially intended; however, creative administration can take what was meant to be and enhance it such that it becomes even better than was originally intended, and this is what we are embarking upon -- to recreate your world, beginning at the beginning.

The Teachers have been working with you to recreate you, that you might help recreate others. And now we in the Monjoronson Mission will take those graduated soldiers of the circles into the field for righteous service. We are the administration as compared to the teachers, getting back to that earlier question that was posed about what's the difference. Naturally we will all continue to learn; that is one of the benefits of experience.

I come with Teacher Sons who will augment the role of the Teacher Corps who has done much preparatory work to this new development. Nothing is being phased out. All is being added to. As is the case with you each individually -- there will be nothing taken away from you; but much will be added unto you, if you but pay attention. Thank you for hearing me.

Elena: Thank you for coming, and thank you for giving us some information. I appreciate that.

Thoroah: Yes.

MERIUM: Are there other questions?

Paula: Well, you know, it's funny. You always do learn new things, except in my case, I guess the good Lord forgot to put that in my make-up. I hate to sew. And I had to learn it in school. They made you take Home Economics, and the teacher just used to shake her head because I couldn't catch on -- mostly because I didn't like it! And what I don't like to do, I do very badly.

And one time, I was back east with the family, and one of my little great-granddaughters had something she had crocheted. I forgot what it was, but I said, "Oh, isn't that nice! I never learned how to do that." And she just looked at me and she said, "But you're so old!" she said, "You should've learned how to do this!" (Group laughter) And I said, "Well, yeah I guess I should've, but what you don't like to do, you do very badly."

And in school, somehow you had to take cooking and sewing. I did all right with cooking, but with sewing, the teacher used to just look at me and she'd shake her head, say, "You know, I thought you were a smart little kid, but I guess you aren't." She said, "You really haven't learned much in my class." And I said, "No! because I don't like it." And she said, "Yeah, but you got to take it so you might as well learn how to do it." But I never did. And she just finally passed me with some kind of a mark so that I didn't exactly flunk it but … you don't learn things that you don't want to learn. At least I don't. The rest of you are probably a whole lot better at that sort of thing.

Group: (Guffaws and denials.)

Thoroah: We learn things reluctantly that we might not have chosen to learn, but unless you want to, there is only one way to learn and that is reluctantly.

Esmeralda: Or through necessity. I know when I was younger, I said, "I'd rather scrub floors than do bookkeeping, and then spent most of my life keeping books. And I loved it!

Thoroah: At least compared to scrubbing floors!

Elena: And it paid better.

Esmeralda: I've done some of that, too!

Paula: You know when my kids were little, all the other mothers were sewing little dresses, little shorts (group laughter) so finally I was so embarrassed because my son said, "Well, she doesn't make anything for me." So I thought, "Well, I'm going to do something." SO I thought, "It can't be too hard to make pajamas." So I got a pattern and I struggled through it and when I got it all done he just looked at it and said, "Do I have to wear them?" I said, "No, dear." So we used them for scrub rags. Never did wear them. And after that I just gave up on it. I thought, why should I learn something that I don't like?

Thoroah: I had the same experience with woodworking. So that's not an unusual experience.

MERIUM: Learning is something that most children want to do, particularly if it is appealing to them, and this is the real challenge for teachers -- to make life interesting, so that the student wants to learn. For as you say, it is very difficult to get a mind to open up to something it does not want to assimilate, and many times the teacher is the one to be held responsible, for they do not make learning fun.

Teachers who make their students feel like they can't learn, will never get them to learn. That rebelliousness is not there just to make you difficult. It is a part of the first adjutant mind spirit that seeks to live in its own right, that has a right to pursue its own course -- the one that has been naturally embedded in its personality pattern, given to it at birth, and so when teachers or elders or parents attempt to formulate a child in the ways that are anathema to it, it will inherent resist and rebel the guidance and direction of those who would propel you otherwise.

Unfortunately, children are not heard. Their objections are regarded as whining, or disobedience, and when they grow up to do that, they are accused of having sass or insubordination. This goes to show that everyone is not the same, and they should not be forced to be like everyone else. Perhaps, Paula, you did not learn to sew, but you certainly passed the course with flying colors as far as apple pie is concerned, (agreement and cheers in the group) and if that's all you managed to learn in that class, that's enough.

Paula: Well, I'm certainly not the world's greatest cook, by any means, but I like to make apple pie.

Thoroah: And it shows.

Paula: Everybody seems to like it all right.

MERIUM: So take what you do well and run with it.

Thoroah: Absolutely.

Closing

MERIUM: Isn't there a song to that effect, to "accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and don't mess with Mr. In Between" and when it becomes alluring, a healthy child will be the first one to say, "I wasn't interested then but I am now!" and pursue its interest with enthusiasm.

And I will allow you to pursue your interests with enthusiasm now in company with one another. I have been glad to facilitate this gathering today and am so pleased that so many of you came out to enjoy one another and the adventures that spirit living brings.

Bye-bye!

Group: Bye, Merium. Thank you.