2016-8-22, NET #02,
Machiventa
New Era
Transition #02 –
Transitions; Democracy; Trauma – Aug. 22, 2016
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
Change does not always mean
evolution
How the light within you is seen
by others
This New Era of Transition
Maturity of cultures in our world
Using the 6 core values in life
Transition Era will start slowly
Collapse from the inside out
Democratic nations must be
flexible and adaptable
Social justice, peace and social
stability
Backwards countries
Chemical imbalances of the brain
Framing questions
Dealing with the traumatic
effects of catastrophes
More on framing questions
Mental health issues
Raising spiritual consciousness
Control over non-natural
cataclysms
The good of the individual vs.
the good of the whole
Thinking outside the box
Closing remarks by Machiventa
TR: Daniel Raphael
Team
members: Roxanne Andrews, Michael
Lanier, Michael McCray, and a Student
Invocation
August 22, 2016
MACHIVENTA: Good morning, this is Machiventa Melchizedek,
and welcome to a new day. We know that
for many of you who follow these sessions that it seems like just another
television episode that rolls over to another and another and continues to
develop and evolve. There are subtle
changes but the plot remains the same and that you can, in some ways for many
of you do, drop in and see that it is not changed much in the space of a year
or two. But on the other hand, the
developments that are occurring are many of which you do not see, which we have
said before.
For
you, who are mortals of a lifetime of approximately 80 years more or less,
there is a certain tedium to this sameness that you get tired of. We are quite aware of that. You will become morontial someday, and
eventually spiritual, and you will look back at the developments in your life,
and in your society, and you will see the rush of details that unfolded so
rapidly, much like watching a flower in a movie that takes a frame every hour
and so you see the flower come out of the ground from its seed or bulb and
mature within less than 60 seconds into a fully mature flower. This is how we are seeing your world
today.
Change does not always mean evolution
The
social, political, economic changes are immense, and at the same time, while
these changes are immense, that does not necessarily mean that they are
evolving. Some of the changes are
devolutionary, going backwards, and that we see a rush of social maturity as
being stopped and halted, and that your family structures are deteriorating and
becoming debilitating to new generations, which is totally contrary to the
other 9 out of 10 planets in the Local Universe. Your experimental decimal planet provides
much challenge to the administration of any Creator Son throughout the Grand
Universe. With 37 planets, there is even
more of a challenge. However, the
uniformity of the goal of each planet is the same for each and for all, and
that is for the evolutionary, spiritual growth and development of each mortal
individual, and to provide the best circumstances and opportunities for
individual growth.
How the light within you is seen by others
You
can put yourself directly into that equation, even though this is a strategic,
developmental plan for the planets that were in quarantine, nonetheless you
have a special place for yourself in it, and those plans, those strategic goals
are also individually tailored to you.
You are not alone. You are not
abandoned. You are not forgotten. You are remembered intimately and
completely. You, however, make the
difference in how we relate to you. When
you are a bright and shinning beacon of consciousness on your planet, we see
you; we literally “see you,” as a bright and shinning beacon of that light that
emanates from within you. It says that
you are akin to the light of the universe of the First Source and Center
Creator, and that you are similar in ways to Nebadonia and the Creator Son,
Christ Michael, and that there is an affinity within you to grow that light
into greater brilliance and in breadth, and you will achieve it, my friends, in
the ultimate destiny of time, even in Nebadon when you are greeted and embraced
by your Creator Son, Christ Michael.
This New Era of Transition
As
we have said in past sessions, the New Era will continue, however, there is now
occurring a parenthesis, so to speak, opening a Transition time that will also
have a closing parenthesis in the New Era.
This is a transition from the early phase of the New Era to a later
phase of the New Era. We have said that
we have provided to you the Urantia Book
from the 1930s and its publication in the mid-1950s. The Teaching Mission came along and provided
you with the fundamentals of that course, that structure to your syllabus of
classes and developments for you as individuals, and for your families and your
communities. The Magisterial Mission has
come along to collectively develop socially and spiritually mature individuals
into working groups to provide your world with the transition it needs from the
primitive nature of its societies into much more mobile, flexible, and facile
communities and societies that can grow and socially evolve into their
eventuality as spiritual communities, while here on this material planet.
This
transition time is a period where individual plans are developed into social
plans so that organizations begin to take on the qualities of mature social
organizations that are safe emotional and social environments for their
employees, for their workers and for those individuals who constitute the
organization. This is a period of time
that will last perhaps decades, and give way to the New Era as it is expresses
itself in societies that are much more settled and peaceful and more fully
democratic, where individuals are more responsible for their individual and
social behavior than ever before, where the individual sees him or herself as
co-responsible with other individuals and their communities for the care of
themselves and for the improvement of their whole society.
Maturity of cultures in our world
This
is not the case now with most individuals in your society, and particularly in
less mature and evolved societies as well.
We are not saying that the United States culture is the perfect culture,
for far from it; there are more mature cultures in the world than this, my
friends, and it is worthy to look about in the world to cultures within nations
that are more mature and more peaceful and more thoughtful in the care of
individuals, and the individual’s thoughtful care of their community and
society. It is all a very mixed bag of
developments on your world, and we work with the most developed and the least
developed. For the least developed, we
try to provide an environment of growth, peace, and stability so that they can
become settled. When you see the wars
and genocide, and the militancy of various groups in Africa and the Middle
East, these seem to be worst case scenarios for any society, any culture, any
ethnic group, nation or individual.
These are fully debilitating events and calamitous situations that lead
to great personal chaos in the intra-social, and the inter-social parameters of
a person’s life.
When
one has not been raised in a peaceful situation, and chaos, war and conflict
reign in their minds, to those timid individuals it means that they are at a
loss and eventually will become a victim of those events. Even those who are perpetrators of violence
are victims as well, victims of a larger scope of the intention of their
socio-religious cultural groups, which can be very defaming to the individual and
destructive to the inner structures of personalities, to families and to
communities. These groups are most
difficult for us to work with, as the social structure around them does not
lend itself to the improvement of the individual and to the peaceful nature of
good family structures.
Using the 6 core values in life
These
are not forgotten, surely they are not, for the Most Highs work in the
administrations and leadership groups of organizations around the world,
whether they are non-profit, whether they are governmental, corporate—or
otherwise—that the Most Highs work within those organizations for the
development of right circumstances for those communities, which are in such
distress. When you take the sum total of
what I have been saying this morning into consideration on a personal basis,
then you have the perspective of a Planetary Manager. Much of our training has been to assist you
to become Planetary Managers, where your consideration for others is as great
or greater than for yourself. We know
that you will strive to take care of yourself, which is a part of your very
nature. Where you seek the improvement of your quality of life means that you
will continue to seek to improve your circumstances; your equal consideration
of others is a tremendous boon to your compassion and your empathy, which is of
great assistance to yourself as an evolving spiritual being and to yourself as
a social person among others. This is
how you become great in the eyes of others, and in the esteem of yourself that
is realistic and not narcissistic.
Transition Era will start slowly
This
Transition Era is going to be a slow engine to start. We have likened this motion to that of an old
steam engine locomotive, where the fire is made greater and greater that boils
the water and the steam rising far past the level of boiling into the
super-heated levels of 600-800 degrees steam, which then becomes explosively
expansive. This is our efforts in your
world to expand the explosive nature of good works, where the compassion of
individuals reaches out to assist others.
Organizations that are ossified, calcified, and crystallized into a
lattice work of staid stability will have great difficulty in the future. Those organizations that are intrinsically
immobilized in their ability to adapt to changing circumstances will be crushed
in the near future.
Collapse from the inside out
You
will see whole societies, whole organizations collapse suddenly from the inside
out, that they cannot withstand the dynamic of changing organizations and
social structures and social change among individuals and groups of
individuals. It is in the interests of
the Days of Light and Life that governments become adaptable and flexible, to
take into consideration the organic nature of social change within individuals
as they interpret those core values into their own personal hierarchy of
needs. When these are far distant and
different from those of their government, then there will be change that will
soon follow.
Democratic nations must be flexible and adaptable
As
we have said before, democracy is the most developed form of government for
your Urantian planet and civilization.
Revolt and revolution within a democratic society is anathema and
totally destructive and will take your societies backwards rapidly in time to
martial law and to dictatorships and military triumvirates, and so on. It is essential that your democratic nations
evolve to become more flexible and adaptable, and that this begins by adopting
a new value structure for making decisions.
We have emphasized this in the past through the 6 core values of social
sustainability so that those decisions are humane, as well as being just and
necessary. Only through those groups
within a democratic society that see these needs in a wide spectrum of the
population can they become actors to accelerate social change that is
progressive and evolutionary, rather than receding into past modes of social
structures.
Social justice, peace, and social stability
You
in this nation of the United States have a very broad and wide populace who fit
that generality, even those to the near far-right and near far-left see the
need for change and are in many ways amenable to reasonable and rational
change. When your forms of governments
become organic extensions of the organic values and needs of individuals and
whole groups of individuals, then they will become more responsive in a
responsible way to match the needs of your society, while also adhering to the
necessity of social justice, peace, and social stability. Democracy must not die; it must mature. It is much like that plant that we showed you
through time-lapsed photography that there is a time of beginning, a middle
stage before germination, then germination and new seeds being sprouted around
the world, while it matures in itself.
Just because a society says it is democratic does not mean that it is
advanced. It means that it provides the
opportunity for adaptability in the future of necessity in order to match the
needs of individuals and whole communities for rational governance. It allows for growth of individuals and the
development of more integral communities, whether they are ethnic, cultural, or
homogeneous.
Thank
you for this time to give you this short discourse. You will see changes in your own nation
before too long. You have seen the
difficulties of evolving and developing democratic nations in the world in the
East, as they move from old monarchial forms to early democratic processes. You are now also seeing developed and
maturing democracies that need the same kind of adaptability so that
individuals become more responsible in their own governance along with their
public executives. Thank you.
Roxie: Thank you very much for giving us more
in-depth perspective on this “New Era Transition.” That will be very helpful when we form
questions.
Does
anyone have questions on Machiventa’s opening statements?
Student: Machiventa, you talked about some countries
are more exact in their democracies, or are more advanced in their approaches
to social sustainability. Could you talk
a little bit more about that, please, and how much more advanced they are than
we are?
MACHIVENTA: Your question is most difficult to answer, as
there is no qualitative or quantitative way to measure that. It is simply that there are countries that
are more mature in their evolution of democracy. Speaking more about it is too general to
answer your question, or to make a reasonable answer.
Student: Sir, could I ask, are they using the 6 core
values?
MACHIVENTA: Yes, many of these more developed democracies
are unconsciously using the 6 core values in their administration and their
policy development. This allows them to
become more stable socially, politically, and economically.
Student: So this is just something they evolved into;
it’s not something that has been brought to their attention?
MACHIVENTA: That is correct.
Backwards countries
Student: Another question that came up during your
talk, when you were talking about countries that are going backwards, sort of
like some countries are having more difficulties, for instance Africa and the
Middle East. It affects everybody, Sir,
and when you talk like that, I just feel very guilty, because of the fact that
we are all trying, and there are a lot of places that are not functioning in
the way that they are supposed to, but what do we do?
MACHIVENTA: Well, [pause], you attend these meetings
every 2 weeks, and we talk with each other and we assist you to work in your
communities. You are doing that. You continue to belittle yourself for what
you are doing, but what you are doing is magnanimous to the 9th
degree compared to others around the world.
Student: No, it’s never enough, Sir; it’s never
enough. And the other thing you talked
about too was the age group at the beginning of your conversation, people in
their 80s and that. To my way of
thinking, people that are in their 80s, 90s or 70s, or whatever, with their
experience of life you would think that they would be more open to receiving
these different changes—their values, social sustainability and accept them
willingly—and this isn’t happening, I gather?
MACHIVENTA: By the use of this phrase, a span of 80 years
of a lifetime as a general age or years of a person’s life, rather than
speaking to an age group. Do you see
what I mean? (Student: Yes, Sir.)
It was not addressing to those 80 year old people.
Student: No, Sir, but it was just the generality of
that. I was thinking that the age group
would have more insight and understanding.
Thank you. (Machiventa: You are
welcome.) I don’t have any more
questions on this subject, but I have other questions; I will leave them unless
others have questions on what you talked about.
MMc: As you say, Machiventa, I think this
transition is going to be slow and a very difficult one for some.
MACHIVENTA: Yes, you are correct.
Chemical imbalances of the brain
Student: This question is to do with a previous
question sent by a reader about schizophrenia and drugs. He now sends another question, and his
question relates to Machiventa’s answer.
“Are the chemical imbalances spoken of previously, which caused this
deleterious development of the brain organ in late youth and beyond, affecting
the development inevitable, or are they a pre-disposition that perhaps could
have been prevented from manifesting under favorable conditions? If the latter, are there warning signs a
parent might look for and an action they might take, in regard to
schizophrenia? Do you want me to break
it down? (Machiventa: Please.)
One
of the questions is on the chemical imbalance:
The previous question he asked was, “Is there any advisable way a person
might end the taking of drugs without reverting back to their symptoms of
schizophrenia? And your answer was on
the chemical imbalances. This question
is: Is there any way this can be
prevented? Are there signs that the
parents might be able to look for before the person manifests any outward
symptoms of schizophrenia?
MACHIVENTA: Individuals who are pre-disposed by genetics,
meaning that there has been prior evidence in their families on either one or
both sides that have demonstrated some mental health issues. Sometimes, the trauma of separation from the
family of origin at age 17 through their early 20s is traumatic enough to cause
an individual enough distress to begin the imbalance in their thinking, and
those are latent and potential into the future.
There are some individuals who have a pre-disposition for mental health
issues that never manifest, simply because they have always had a very
supportive personal and social environment to care for them and support
them. There are those occasions,
however, in adulthood when there may be some traumatic situation which would
then bring this latent mental health problem into manifestation. It is not necessary that one follows the
other, however.
As
far as families observing their children at the early stages, it is important
that parents review their own personal family history for evidences of some
mental health problems and issues that were manifest in former generations, or
in current generations. Their best
course of action is to counsel, or have the child counseled with the parents
about the potential of these developments and what it means when those symptoms
begin to manifest. It is important that
the child, becoming an adult, not be overwhelmed by their increasing
disability.
Much
can be done within the interior of the intra-personal relationship between an
individual and their mind and the functioning of their brain. This has not been well developed in your
culture and in your psychiatric professional realms. [The individual] can observe the early manifestations
of this and can help their mind work against or work with these symptoms for
their own better adjustment. There are
many in your populations around the world who are mentally ill, but who are
adequately able to conduct themselves in a “normal” manner, so that their
behavior allows them to function in their society. I have gone on past the necessity of the
answers to your questions. I would be
glad to entertain the next portion of your question.
Student: Thank you, Sir. But the next portion of my question refers to
the thing we talked before about emergencies, concerning drugs used for
psychiatric purposes and for health purposes, and to find out what local plans
were for these emergencies. I did check into it. I asked about what is the preparation, or
what rules do they have regarding emergencies for psych drugs, and things like
that, and I was told that where we are, there are no drugs, psychiatric or
medical for heart or anything like that, that they be stockpiled for any
emergencies, because it is up to the individual to make sure they have their
own 72 hour supply, and then after that, it is dependent upon the government to
supply the drugs. The reason given to me
was about liability. Prescription drugs
they just won’t deal with in emergencies like that unless the Federal
Government steps in. So, I think it’s
important that other people should know this and they should search in their
communities to find out what their rules and regulations are. I don’t know how to go about changing it
right now, except to make everybody aware.
MACHIVENTA: One of the purposes of our sessions is to
make people aware.
Student: Yes, Sir.
We have a responsibility for every person to look out for their own
selves, prescriptions and everything else for the first 72 hours, and then
after that, well . . . hopefully the government will step in. Sir, do you have any further suggestions?
MACHIVENTA: No, we have made them already.
Roxie: Since our student brought up the subject of
mental health and drugs, Colorado and several other states are now legalizing
the use of marijuana for recreational and medical purposes, and a few more
states allow just medicinal purposes.
Can you tell us how this particular drug affects the brain, because so
many people believe that it is completely harmless and others do not?
MACHIVENTA: Your medical journals are most replete
concerning the affects of marijuana and the active psychogenic/psycho-active
ingredients in marijuana that affects the mind and the brain.
Roxie: Are these permanent-type changes?
MACHIVENTA: This too, has been considered in those
journals.
[This is Daniel: I think our audience here is making a mistake
in thinking that Machiventa is your personal Wikipedia. This just doesn’t work, and that’s my opinion
as I feel the Celestials withdraw from a question. That isn’t apparent to you, but they just
aren’t our own encyclopedia. They are
concerned with Planetary Management.
That doesn’t minimize your concerns for this problem, but how does it
affect the general welfare of the world?
Roxie: It’s just that we get so many conflicting
opinions in our own sources. That was my
reason for asking. But you are
right.
Student: What you just said is true because there are
so many personal opinions and conflicting opinions about different important
subjects, that I think the reason we ask Machiventa some of these questions is
because we are looking for some truth to deal with the subject because we don’t
really know about a lot of these things, and we are still grasping for the
truth of them. There are just so many
opinions.
Daniel: Will you wait just a minute for Machiventa’s
response to that?]
Framing questions
MACHIVENTA: It would be more purposeful and useful if
your questions were framed in a less specific manner. If your questions were more generally as
this: Is marijuana detrimental to the
health of an individual and to a society?
This takes into the moral parameters of decision-making and of slow,
creeping social debilitation due to widespread drug use. Those kinds of questions are within our venue
to address more specifically, more generally.
We are concerned about populations being enhanced in their capability
for making decisions and also in the slow, gradual debilitation of society.
Dealing with the traumatic effects of catastrophes
Student: Thank you, Sir; you are right. I have a question and I hope I have worded it
the right way. My question is on trauma
and how it affects people, especially with the changing times coming now, the
traumas are going to escalate and also the types of traumas that people are
going to experience. Could you talk
about that, please?
MACHIVENTA: In what regard?
Student: In regard to if there is a cataclysm—and
there is going to be—people are not going to be able to get the things they are
used to, not necessarily just drugs and things like that, but for everyday
living, and the traumas are going to affect a lot of people who never, ever
dealt with trauma in their lives. How do
we positively deal with this type of trauma?
Is that too general a question?
MACHIVENTA: Thank you for your question. The first and best way to address trauma is
to realize that trauma is coming, and to know that there will be trauma, and
that there will be confusion. There will
be social confusion, economic confusion, and political confusion; and that
there will be confusion in peoples’ thinking and that they will be incapable of
making decisions at that time. You have
seen instances where people have been in trauma, where their house caught on
fire and the only thing they took out of the house was their cosmetics. Or they took out something that was
irrelevant to the total situation. It
will be cataclysmic on the personal community spectrum of living. Your best preparation for engaging trauma is
to know that trauma is coming, and that it will be much like sitting on the top
of a hill where you see the tsunami come across the western side of your island
and raise the level of water in the bay, and as you sit on the hill there is
nothing you can do about it, but you see the water engulf businesses and
houses, and so on. And then as the water
recedes, you see many individuals being washed out to sea along with their cars
and houses and other materials that will eventually drown and sink into the
ocean. You are then helpless with that
situation. This is trauma of a very heightened nature, seen as an observer.
However,
if you were sitting on the dock of the pier when the water rose suddenly within
less than 1 minute, then ten feet, it would be a cataclysm for your own
personal life. You would be engulfed in
the process of trying to stay above water and to survive by grabbing onto
something that was floating. Yes, the
trauma of those situations will be horrendous, and it will be something that
some individuals can endure and live through in relative ease, where others are
totally crushed psychologically by what they see going on around them. How will you react when this occurs? You are an elder person and so you have had a
full life already. Will you easily
succumb to your mortal passage, or will you resist it in trying to save others
as well?
This
becomes personal when you see trauma on a wide scale basis. It always eventually becomes personal and how
you make decisions about that. And what
decisions will you make? Those
[decisions] are the most important things to consider now: “Who are you?” “What are you made of?” “Do you have empathy for others?” “Will you reach out in compassion to help
them,” and you will probably even see many who will sacrifice their life to
save that of others, and these are worthy things to do and [are] never
forgotten. The question is very poignant
and very timely. Within the next 10
years your countryside’s and your world will have much trauma that they will
engage on a personal, local and national basis. It will come in many forms; it is not
specific, it is general, but you will have trauma in your lives as you are
seeing among those people in the Gulf States of the United States where there
are tremendous floods, as well as the incredible flooding and fires in other
nations across the world. Monjoronson
has spoken of this in years past, and has tried to help prepare you for these
traumas now that they have become closer to your life. You are going to, and you are even now living
through them. There are those in our
audience today who are now undergoing this kind of trauma through the great
dis-ease of themselves and their families.
Student: Thank you, Machiventa, and thank you for
generating so many questions like that.
With these traumas and as we deal with them, Sir, could you please talk
about the spiritual energies that we are going to really be working on to deal
with all this?
MACHIVENTA: Your question is too general to answer, Dear.
Student: Oh, okay.
I’m trying to figure out what is meant by the words “spiritual
energies?” (Long pause.) I don’t have any more questions.
More on framing questions
ML: My question is this: Is it correct to assume that if Machiventa is
withdrawing from a question, that issue or question is not relevant to the
Management of Responsibilities that we are being look to, to provide?
MACHIVENTA: Thank you for your question; it is a very
appropriate question to be asked.
Oftentimes, as you might have witnessed just immediately before you
asked your question, you heard that I did not respond to the statement of the
Student. And this was because it was not
addressed as a question. First of all,
we, whether it is myself or a member of our team, strive not to respond to
comments as that can cause confusion and ambiguity in the individual who made
the statement. It “assumes” that we
understand that there is a question, or some question in mind by that
individual. When we demur from answering
a question, it is because of several reasons:
1) It may be a curiosity question and not be
relevant to our work, or to the lives of the individuals to make a moral,
ethical, or evolving decision. 2) Another reason for demurring is that it is a
probing question, but is not relevant to what we are doing. 3) We
prefer to engage questions which require a large scale perspective to your
world, and then to your nations and cultures and the communities, families and
individuals, and that we strive to avoid providing answers to individuals,
which may be used erroneously in the future to make a decision.
We
have devised our own protocols for answering questions, which never have been
discussed with you in such a specific way as your question has asked for. It is good to do so. We do know that there is a desire by
individuals to take the macro perspective to the micro perspective, and then
apply that to themselves or to their local situation. What we strive to do in answering these is
not to provide information which provides an excuse or a reason for the
individual not to take rational, spiritual evolving action and decisions in
their life. We do not want our words be
used as: “Well, Machiventa told us . .
.”, and so on, and then to prove or disprove the validity of what Machiventa
said. This would be the height of folly
in having these sessions occur. We
strive not to allow that ambiguity and those difficult situations to
develop. That is why in many ways our
answers and responses are so generalized for you.
Mental health issues
When
you come to a case of mental health issues, you realize that, yes, it is a
species specific difficulty for Homo sapiens and that, yes, it is specific to
your family genetic heritage and that perhaps even you as an individual has a
specific difficulty with some psychiatric problem. Therefore, the general problem of mental
health in the human species becomes very specific to the individual. How to ask a question that addresses both the
general and the specific is one that we would encourage you ask.
Raising spiritual consciousness
ML: Thank you.
I have another question. Is there
an effect occurring on the future cataclysms by way of the rising spiritual
consciousness?
MACHIVENTA: Yes, there definitely is. As you know, the Power Directors for this
solar system and particularly for your planet can suppress energetic
developments in specific areas and otherwise.
They can also have an effect upon the weather in some general ways that
can be postponed or delay the difficulties that will occur. If you, as an individual or corporate manager
of a situation, knew that you had an unavoidable development that was
occurring, [and] you had the capability of delaying that detrimental action,
you would perhaps wish to do so, to allow it to release itself at the most
opportune time in the future for the welfare of your corporation or
company. It may have to do with going
public or to the sale of stocks, or to acquiring another company, and so
on. You have issues that can be delayed,
but will have to be engaged in eventually.
Planetary
Management is not much different. In
this case, the general spiritual evolution of your world is increasing
generally, though you know as well as we do that specifically and in specific
areas it is highly detrimental and almost non-existent. Therefore, we want to assist those areas that
are growing spiritually to become models and exemplars of mature social and
spiritual development. It has been our
action so far to protect those areas as much as we can. Eventually, however, those geophysical
aspects of your world that have been delayed will eventually express themselves
in a rather much more detrimental way.
In that regard, as we have said, we do know that there will be events in
the future that are not of a geophysical nature that will be incredibly
tumultuous and cataclysmic to your world, and it is perhaps at that time that
great change can take place after these cataclysms have passed.
Control over non-natural cataclysms
MMc: Does the spiritual world have some control
over these cataclysms that are not natural in nature?
MACHIVENTA: Only to a limited extent. When you consider social, political and
economic realms as having the capacity to express cataclysmic developments,
those are in many ways, cultural, they are sometimes isolated to specific
organizations, but most of the time they are developmental and develop to a
point where the social structure, political structure, economic structures can
no longer suppress those actions. As we
have said before, there will be a cataclysmic economic development that [will]
occur on your world that will affect all economies. The spiritual realm can assist in deferring
these as much as possible, by having individuals come forward with those Nobel
Prize Winning inclusions in their research and in their actions that provide
excellent examples or insights into better social, political, or economic
management. This has been very
advantageous to us, as there are many people who have open psyches that are
open to the new ideas and who are not constrained or confined to the old
cultural boxes of ideology.
Roxie: I’ll go on with some other questions our
readers have sent in: “Given that many
planets in our system did not go into rebellion, what are the benefits of the
Planetary Prince’s staff leaving behind their Thought Adjusters when embarking
on this service?
MACHIVENTA: Let us defer that question until the next
session, thank you.
The good of the individual vs. the good of the whole
Roxie: Okay.
The next one: “As we know from
the Urantia Book, our Paradise Father follows the principle of maintaining the
unity and integrity in the Management of the Universe. In this work, the private interests are
sacrificed for the good of the whole.
Eco-villages must learn to choose priorities to make hard decisions in
difficult conditions of survival to preserve its existence and even make
development possible. Therefore, there
is an inevitable conflict of interests, private interests versus the interests
of the whole. What could you say about
the management of eco-settlements which are in difficult circumstances like
these?
MACHIVENTA: The question begs for a much broader
perspective of private interests versus public or community or societal
interests. The first perspective is to
change this from adversarial to cooperative and complemental. This decision-making has not been given deep
thought as to the priorities of sustainability.
There must be, first of all, a sorting out between the priorities of
material sustainability within that general area. Secondly, there must be a prioritization of
decision-making within the social sustainable area of consideration. What is most important to the sustainability
of a society? Of course it is the sustainability
of individuals and individual families so that the community can reproduce and
maintain itself and sustain itself.
However, when the interests of individuals, the private side of this
equation, become dominant and selfish to the extent that it compromises the
integrity and sustainability of the whole of society or community, then there
will be social decline and destruction of the whole community or society.
What
we have given you through This One, is an illustration of the hierarchy of
decision-making for societies and for individuals.
Priorities
of Decision-Making
To
Create a Socially Sustainable Society
Species
Individual/Family
Community/Society
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ORGANIZATIONS Social-Societal |
ORGANIZATIONS Political-Governmental |
ORGANIZATIONS Economic-Financial |
In
text, it is that the sustainability of the species always comes first. Every species on your world is constructive,
rather than self-destructive. It seeks
to replicate itself in dominating its environment. Of course, as you know from these studies
that when the species becomes too dominant and too pervasive, then it dominates
its environment and it kills itself off due to too many numbers.
You
must reconsider the social contract between the individual and your
society. This is an important facet of
thinking in the priorities of your societies and the obligatory symbiotic
relationship between individuals and the society. Individuals have a moral obligation to do all
they can to save and sustain their society without overwhelming that society by
their sheer numbers. Society, on the
other hand, has an obligation in this relationship to do all it can to unlock
and develop the potential within each individual without expending so many
resources that it becomes debilitated and unable to participate effectively in
this relationship. This is an area of
consideration that is far past philosophical, but lands “smack dab” in your lap
as a practical matter for individuals and for your communities.
You
see, then, in the democracy of the United States and those in Europe, and so
on, that this relationship, this conversation of this obligatory symbiotic
relationship has been held at arm’s distance as a philosophical matter of those
individuals who think about things like that.
However, this is an essential aspect of discussion and enculturation for
every generation, without missing any generation in this enculturation. Your societies in general have been
dismissive of enculturation’s performance to assist society to survive, let
alone [assist] its citizens as individuals.
Thinking outside the box
Roxie: His next question is: “Thinking outside the box does not help where
it is necessary to stick to routine things.
On the other hand, routine thinking does not give the ability to create
innovative solutions. How does one
balance these two opposite abilities without any loss to think creatively?”
MACHIVENTA: I am chuckling because you give evidence to
having the answer already.
Roxie: I guess that’s all the
questions I have for this session.
Closing remarks by Machiventa
MACHIVENTA: In closing, we thank you for being here today
to ask these questions, which are rarely asked or supposed in the minds of
individuals, let alone large groups of individuals. This is your “thinking outside the box of
your culture” by thinking of other planets and civilizations, as well as
thinking of how you can reinvent your own culture, your own society, socially,
politically and economically. When you
have this openness to do this, you actually have the capacity to see problems
as opportunities to create solutions to old problems that cause those
difficulties. Think about these things
deeply and you will find it is not so much the fact that problems arise, but
how you deal with those problems, how you view them. Will you see them as problems and
difficulties, or will you see these problems as opportunities to create
solutions that have never come about before?
These
words that I am sharing with you are nothing new to your philosophers or to the
thinkers of your societies. This is old
wisdom that is something that is very important to be engendered in each
individual, in each generation. We hope
you will think long and hard about those aspects of wisdom that are as
applicable to this generation as they were to 5 generations before, and to 5
generations in the future. Thank you
very much and have a good day.
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