2016-10-3, NET #04,
Machiventa
New Era
Transition #04 – Evolution
of Democracies – Oct. 3, 2016
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
Political evolution of
democracies
Revolt, rebellion and revolution
Monjoronson’s insights
Overpopulation as a generator of
problems
Problems evolving the democratic
process
Using design teams to reform
democracies
Political parties
Evolution of social institutions
and organizations
The transition era
Library of wisdom
Problem of self-interest in
economics and financial realm
New political parties already in
development
Having hope of constructively
changing the political system
Being actively involved
The Urantia Book speaks of the ideal democracies
Becoming political, social and
economic activists
TR: Daniel Raphael PhD
Team
members: Roxanne Andrews, Michael
Lanier, Michael McCray
Invocation
October 3, 2016
Political evolution of democracies
MACHIVENTA: Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek. It is a pleasure to be here
once again. It is some time ago, that I
mentioned that the sequence of developments had to be amended, and that we had
put on hold the social evolution projects in order to begin a more active role
in the political evolution of democracies on this world. Since then, we have learned a great deal and
know now that our actions were appropriate and timely.
Second,
our programs are always oriented towards social evolution—social evolution,
political evolution, economic evolution—these are all social institutions of
one type or another, and they are all related.
There is a system of social institutions that awaits a world that is on
its march toward the Days of Light and Life and social peace, political peace, and
economic peace. We have become more
active in these developments such that individuals and others have begun to
come forward with their own ideas about how to proceed. They are the seeds that are germinating under
the light of God; under the light of Christ Michael and Nebadonia, and with a
plan in mind.
Revolt, rebellion and revolution
Social
evolution is important; it is the means, the “modus operandi” for Creator Sons
to bring about the Days of Light and Life.
Without social evolution there will become no days of settlement as
that. In the case of the evolution of
democracies politically, it is important that the inhabitants, the citizens
within a democracy, realize that a democracy is rather delicate. Where revolt, rebellion, and revolution
brought about political evolution up to the time of some early form of democracy,
those types of behaviors within a democratic nation in fact retard and begin
the process of social and political devolution, so that society and the economy
suffers from those forceful efforts of citizens.
As
you can see, it is important that there is a cadre, a seed group of individuals
who see the evolution of democracies as a process where they personally can
have some influence. It is important
that within groups that have discussed and are disgusted with the behavior of
their politicians and government officials that they not take an aggressive,
violent orientation towards amending the problem. Doing so only aggravates the problem and
eliminates the possibility of peaceful solutions within a democratic society.
Monjoronson’s insights
Hopefully,
with that thought in mind, you can see the reasons why we have begun with
Monjoronson’s presentation of his thoughts about the necessity of
sustainability, which have evolved over the months and years. Since the time of
those first thoughts, many insights and concepts and truths about social
evolution in the form of sustainability have developed. The obvious element of sustainability is
material sustainability, as everyone who has a good lifestyle and a prosperous way
of living sees that their own acquisitiveness has brought about a tremendous
amount of disparities between “those who have and those who have not.”
Overpopulation as a generator of problems
The
fact of overpopulation should be evident to you, though many have not really
thought about overpopulation as a generator of problems concerning material
sustainability. Those who evidence
traits of empathy often reach out in compassion to help those around the world
who have less than they do, less than their society, and seek to improve the
condition of individuals. This is how
social sustainability comes into the consciousness of millions of people —
through the observation of those who have not, and the observation of their own
lives which have been so benefitted by the material and social evolution and
generosity of the world to assist them to attain tremendous levels of
self-fulfillment and the development of their innate potential.
Problems evolving the democratic process
As
you can realize our efforts of social sustainability begins at the levels where
the most leverage can be brought to bear upon social problems and the
difficulties of the times. Currently,
mature democracies are suffering a great deal because they are not able to
transition to a more evolved form of democratic process. Their founding documents, which are hallowed
and respected and highly regarded, are in themselves crystallized, binding
citizens to their old form of doing business,
They do not inherently have the capacity or capability to allow citizens
to make adjustments to democratic political processes, so that your societies
can evolve to more effective levels.
Because democracies are founded on the authority of the public of
citizens, it is therefore necessary for citizens to improve their relationship
with their democratic government.
Using design teams to reform democracies
If
citizens are not to use violence, then how must they proceed? We have proposed what is called “design
teams.” These can be formed by local
citizens with 5-11 members, with 7-9 being optimal. You have been provided with a procedural
format, that This One calls the “Schematic for Validating Social
Sustainability,” for discussing topics.
As well in this team, there are assigned roles, so that through the need
of inventing new social processes, policies and statutes—and even campaign
promises—you will be able to have an influence on your government to amend
itself. The evolution of democracies
requires that citizens to take on more active and effective responsibility,
rather than ineffective, violent, and inefficient activity. We have given you the formats and the means
to do so. It now is incumbent upon you
to begin the process of beginning to work on the processes and programs and
public issues, which disgust you, which there seem to be no solutions for you
at this time.
Political parties
Next,
when it comes to political formation, this is a means of moving the lever to
make changes within your democratic process.
We observe that many small political parties compete by calling themselves
by different names, with different missions.
However, they continue to operate in the same way as other political
parties with different names. They are
competing within the same milieu. It is
important that you see new political parties as operating outside of the realm
of contemporary, old fashioned politics, political parties, and “politics as
usual.” What this means is that we are
seeking those who would form a political party, particularly one particular
party, rather than competing with political parties of similar natures, such
that would empower local citizens at their community level, to engage the
political process by providing rational, consistent, integrated public policies
and discussion of issues in a rational means.
We are seeking to have this develop within the timeframe before the
current elections in the United States.
As you know, the world has its eye upon the maelstrom of politics in the
United States at this time. We do not
need to go into greater detail concerning the difficulties and the rather
silliness of the politics that you experience through your news media.
Evolution of social institutions and organizations
What
I am striving to assist you to see in today’s presentation is that the efforts
of Christ Michael, Nebadonia, Monjoronson and myself, have been through a long
lens. We have been striving to bring
about the healing of this world through the social processes of social
evolution by bringing forward the values that have sustained your species for
so many tens of thousands of years. We
have striven to point out that social institutions and organizations will not
be able to survive until they adopt the values of the dominant species, which
is Homo sapiens. The intent of that is
to bring about the evolution of your social institutions and organizations so
that they are able to adapt to changing social conditions. Your societies are not the same as those 240
years ago; they are vastly different and they would be unrecognizable by those
who lived in that earlier era, just as you would not be able to accept without
difficulty, if you were transported back in time to live there as well.
Therefore,
what we are striving to do is to assist you and empower you with these
mechanisms to change or amend your social institutions and organizations so
that they are able to adapt to changing social conditions. They need to grow into their potential, just
as you, as a species, always seek to improve the quality of your life. So too, must social institutions seek to
improve the quality of their life. They
must seek to grow—and the operative word is “grow”—into their innate
potential. They must evolve from the
novice, early forms of democracy and social institutions into more mature,
flexible, adaptive social institutions and organizations. We are not seeking to create another
crystallized set of founding documents for your democracies at the social
level, political level, or the economic level.
We are seeking to assist you as citizens in a democracy to bring about
the peaceful evolution of your democratic institutions, so that they are
flexible and adaptive to changes.
Further,
we have said that the structures of the hierarchies of the social, political,
and economic hierarchies are not designed or capable of amending themselves
simply because those mechanisms were not embedded in the founding documents of
their existence. We are not criticizing
what the founders of these social, political, and economic institutions did. Truly they were incredibly innovative,
creative, challenging, and radical to the times of their initiation, but they
have remained the same in operation since their founding.
The transition era
You
have been in a transition era of your democracy, socially, politically, and
economically since the 1960s, and this transition era continues. Always a transition era anticipates what is
coming next. We believe that we have
provided you with sufficient information that most of you will be able to
project what will be coming next. What
comes next is an evolutionary development of your staid and archaic forms of
democratic process, so that the best is retained of the past, and that new,
innovative processes embellish and improve the effectiveness of what was begun
long ago, and do this all without revolution, revolt, or rebellion.
As
I have said this morning this era now that has begun so many months ago,
politically is an opportune time to gather the attention of local citizens who
might form a political party that has the rational means of improving the
processes of democracy, which must include the greater responsibility of
citizens and their greater ongoing participation—ongoing participation that is
far more regular and frequent than every two years at election day—but a
political process that includes citizens on a daily basis, not weekly or
monthly, but on a daily basis, so that the responsibilities of democracy are a
24/7/365 process for everyone who wishes to participate.
I
emphasize “those who wish to participate” simply because though everyone is
invited, few will attend a party or this process. We know that many of your population, your
public, are irresponsible and asocial or even anti-social and will not come
forward to participate. The process must
as well become educational; it must inform the public and educate the public
such that they are aware of the issues that are involved and know the
background to the development of those political, social, and economic
problems, so that they are able to make wise decisions based on their
experience and what works and what does not work as proven in the past.
Library of wisdom
As
we have said as well, we hope that eventually there would one day be a library
of sustaining human wisdom, so that what works is retained, and what does not
work is also set aside to show and demonstrate to the readers and patrons of
this library what does not work. We know
that what does not work is often forgotten, similarly as the pangs of birth are
forgotten by the mother in her great joy for her new child. So too, must this reality remain with you,
but not agonize you; it must in fact, give you hope that through the positive
and constructive wisdom that is retained, you have confidence that you can make
improvements on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and decade basis to improve
your societies. When hope is gone, then
confidence becomes vacant; it is essential that you have confidence in the
knowledge of what works from the past to begin the inception of new dimensions
of inventiveness, socially, politically and economically.
Problem of self-interest in economics and financial realm
I
hope I have given you enough food for thought to develop some questions for
this session and in following sessions.
As I have said, it is important first of all that we come to assist you
to develop the levers of social change, which seems to only come about
politically in your world. We find that
economics and the financial realm are last to come about and come into a more
mature state of being, simply because self-interest is so central to its
hierarchies and institutions. Socially,
you are in angst; you see great difficulty in your society. You see the immense disparity of wealth where
1% of the world owns over half of the financial and material assets of your
nations. There is something definitely
wrong with this, don’t you think?
How
would you go about developing solutions to this, beginning at the local
level? I hope this is food for thought;
our questions are meant to stir your thinking and your creative, imaginative
solutions that you may have with your neighbors and fellow citizens. Thank you.
Roxie: Machiventa, I’m not sure I heard you
correctly: Did you say that we need to
start a new political party before this coming election, which is only one
month away?
New political parties already in development
MACHIVENTA: You could interpret my comments that way, but
that is not what I said. There have
already begun by conscientious individuals, the development of political
parties that wish not to be a part of the old political processes. They wish to bring about innovative
evolutionary changes to the political scene and to the political
hierarchies. You surely must be aware of
the efforts of the followers of the candidate, Bernie Sanders, and that the
development of the Progressive Party has been on a state-by-state basis. There is in Colorado the “Colorado
Progressive Party,”
https://www.coprogressiveparty.org/
that
was initiated in March and April of this year, which seeks not to follow the
course of traditional political parties, and wishes not to compete with them,
but to bring about innovative processes to the public in local
communities. This was developed totally
independently of the work of This One, and their union was brought about by us
through the “conspiracy of angels,” as you might say, so that the best of them
is engaged with the best that we have developed through This One and others in
similar ways.
Roxie: Because of the Internet, people are beginning
to take a lot more interest in politics and there are ideas for change, but a
good portion of them work contrary to the good of a system as a whole. They can be pretty cantankerous, judgmental,
and difficult. Do you have any comments
on how we can get more people to work toward the good, rather than just
starting more conflicts?
Having hope of constructively changing the political system
MACHIVENTA: Yes, you have seen our work already, have you
not? I had hoped that what I said today
would make this explicit. We only wish
that those who listen to us, and read these words would participate with those
who have hope of constructively amending and changing your political
system. This is not an easy
process. We have used the Internet and
all means to broadcast this work to the greatest extent. It is our hope that the connection between
the Progressive Party of Colorado and the Progressive Parties of each state
that has a similar party, would come into connection and that they would begin
to confer with each other about how to approach this work. There is a National Organization of
Progressive Parties; it is our hope that the founders of the Colorado
Progressive Party would have an influence with those individuals and bring
forward the 6 core values of social sustainability and the process of
developing hundreds, if not thousands of local community design teams that
would use the schematic format procedure using the 6 core values and the roles
of the team to create a dynamic of imaginative change.
Roxie: Thank you.
Does anyone else have questions on today’s lesson?
ML: My comment would be this comes across as a
very positive endorsement of what this local Progressive Party is undertaking,
and your encouragement with respect to them, if I read that correctly, seems to
be very motivating. So many of us—I’ve
talked about it myself—sit back and bemoan the current state of affairs in
government, the lack of cooperation, the infighting, the self-serving nature of
the parties, and their loss of recognition of who their constituencies are, so
this gives us a step out of that morass and actually potentially to take
action. So, am I reading this
correctly? We are being encouraged to
investigate and potentially join with the new Progressive Party here in
Colorado?
[Note: Three members of our team just happen to live
in Colorado, thus the emphasis on what is going on in Colorado.]
Being actively involved
MACHIVENTA: Yes.
Thank you for your summation of what I have said this morning; it is
much appreciated. Yes, there is a
necessity that those who have been a part of our conversation and dialog for so
many years become actively involved in their local state Progressive Party and
begin to become an influence and encourage your local party to look at the one
that was founded in Colorado. They need
direction; they need leadership. You are
our cadre of trainers for idea investment into the local community political
scheme where you live. You recognize, as
we do, that the traditional political parties are incapable of changing
themselves to reframe themselves with these new values and to redesign and to
remake themselves, to reinvent themselves in a way that is constructive. They are highly competitive. What we wish to point out to our readers is
that the development of this political party in Colorado occurred by two young
men in their 20s and 30s, who have not been a part of the Teaching Mission,
Magisterial Mission, or The Urantia Book. These are individuals who are open and
receptive to meditation and to being guided from within. We hope that you realize, Dear Friends, that
this is occurring all over the world, that there are individuals who are
spontaneously coming into higher social evolution and recognition of the need
for your social institutions to evolve and progress and become more effective
in serving those of their audience. Yes,
you have a very accurate take on this.
ML: Thank you.
The
Urantia Book speaks of the ideal democracies
Roxie: In The
Urantia Book it says that, “Social
evolution should be encouraged by governmental supervision which exercises a
minimum of regulative control. That
state is best which coordinates most while governing least.” (UB 71:3.9) Does this apply no matter how large the
population?
MACHIVENTA: Yes, it most certainly does. There must be a caveat though to the
statement from The Urantia Book, and
that your government must see itself as a facilitative change agent, to assist
its citizens to move forward in social evolution. However, when your social institutions have
not evolved to a more mature state of existence to become self-regulating
within themselves, then what the book advocates is not possible. That situation is an “ideal” which will come
about when democracies move from their novice state to the mature state and
become more reflective upon the influence of government upon their citizens and
how detrimental and controlling those effects can have on the citizenry and the
public as a whole. Thank you for
bringing that forward.
Roxie: Thank you.
That’s all I have on democracy for today, and there are no questions
from readers.
ML: It would seem to me that the quotation from
Urantia is quite applicable as a fundamental approach to be considered by the
Progressive Party. I would have to admit
little confidence that the existing institutions of government would ever be
oriented towards that approach; it simply defies their sense of self-service
and inward look at things, but I think it would be healthy, obviously, when we
connect with the Colorado Progressive Party that we find the time and means to
bring this guiding principle to their attention, and hope that it would become
a part of their movement forward. Does
this make sense?
MACHIVENTA: It most definitely makes good sense, and as
we said, it is an ideal to strive toward.
That occurrence is dependent upon the public accepting more
responsibility to participate more regularly.
We believe that when the means are provided to the public that they will
attend to their responsibilities. The
authority with the corrupting elements of positions of authority is what brings
about control and then power. And when
there are self-serving individuals involved in positions of authority, then
begins the self-serving of those in power.
If the power has always resided with the public in every democracy,
there simply needs to be the means for citizens to exercise their authority and
wrest control of the political, social, and economic processes by participating
co-creatively with their public executives.
In time, public executives will see their positions as one to be of
concurrence with the public. When the
public is upset, then the politicos must respond. This will become more and more evident as the
influences of local citizens, through the political mechanisms that are
currently being invented become effective.
Becoming political, social and economic activists
Hearing
no further comments or questions, let us bring this session to a close. We appreciate your attendance to this session
today. After you have read through this
session, you will realize that there has been an incredible and big change in
our relationship: We are now asking you
to become political, social and economic activists, having given you a rational
means for your activities, that you may become involved in presenting your
ideas to your public forums, whether they are political, social, or
economic. It is now time for you to come
out of your caves and into the light and now speak to those before you, those
who are in your community. If you were
shy to participate before, we ask you to come forward in courage as you will
find a ready and receptive audience for these values, for this process and for
the hope that you will provide to everyone.
The rational processes we have given you will give your local community
confidence to engage that hope in a constructive and positive way. Know that in your processes that you must as
well be attendant to the guidance from within, and that you are being prompted
by your Thought Adjuster to be courageous, to come forward where you have been
shy or receding socially, politically, and economically. Yes, this is a challenge, but it is a
challenge far less serious than the challenge that was presented to the
Apostles who followed Jesus in the days after his passing and his
resurrection. Thank you and good
day. ##