2019-12-30, NET #80, Machiventa
New
Era Transition #80 –
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
Unique opportunity as planetary manager
If you were planetary manager
Step one: People and not people
Step two: Commonalities of personhood, gender, and
group identification
Commonality of decision making according to values
Need for code of decision making oriented toward unity
Morality, ethics and the seven core values
The four primary values are not enough
The Three secondary values
Christ Michael’s mandate and its audacious
implementation
Implementation of plan now underway
You are part of this at ground zero
Correcting Time as your opportunity
Transforming social institutions and becoming
Start with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
Programs must benefit the individual and bring
world toward oneness
Programs to be all inclusive by design
Acting for benefit of all humanity and each
individual
Difficulties of Correcting Time and a grand opportunity
Little boys with sticks
Time for Urantia to realize the larger realm – a subtle
approach
Functional social institutions
What we have done is not working
You are the seed group
Close of one era, dawn of a new
Not despair, but hope
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TR: Daniel Raphael, PhD
Members present: Daniel Raphael, PhD., Sherille Raphael, Liz Cratty, Michael McCray [MMc], James Travis
Invocation: Liz
December 30,
2019
Unique opportunity as planetary manager
Machiventa:
It is a pleasure to be
here. I enjoy this as an opportunity. This is an opportunity for a planetary
manager that has not come along very often. Planetary managers who are in the
flesh or incarnate, on the other hand, do have this opportunity. But for a planet
that has come out of the quarantine – two hundred thousand years of darkness -
and now to be engaged in ongoing conscious and intentional conversations
between ourselves and material mortals is a phenomenon that is remarkable in all
regards, particularly for this correcting time program that Christ Michael has
initiated. It is not that this has not occurred before, but this time it is
co-creative – highly co-creative. And it is a process by which we teach
mortals how to live life conscientiously, peacefully – with social, political,
and economic stability – that is of course the initiation into the Days of
Light and Life.
If you were planetary manager
I
want to once again play, not a game, but I want to play “let’s imagined.” We
played this with you approximately four or five years ago when we said we wish
you to design a program that would be of benefit to people – very general. Now
this time, after your training of the last two to three years as a prospective
planetary manager, we wish you to imagine that you are a planetary
manager, that you have taken an oath of office with Christ Michael, and that
you are committed to the program that he has set before you. And that program
is to bring the world – all the world – into the Days of Light and Life.
The question that we have for you today, in this play which you imagine that
you are a planetary manager, is this: What programs would you develop as a
planetary manager that would include all of humanity? That’s the question. The comments are that you would have
unlimited resources, particularly of people, particularly of celestial input,
and that whatever else you needed would be provided to you. The second question
is: Where would you begin? Would you begin with a particular race of people, a
particular gender, culture, or ethnic group? Would you begin with some
particular religion, political party, or some economic formula for the world?
Where would you begin? How would you lead the world – all the human population
– into understanding its role for future generations and settlement of this
planet? I know that this is a huge, very huge, program of the work that
you will eventually share with us.
Step one: People and not people
Now,
let me lead you through this. Historically in our work with you we began with
the basics. And now we want to go backwards, and we will do deductive
reasoning. The first step that we used before was inductive, and so now we will
start deductively. So, if you take the planet – this is step one
– you take the planet, what is the first step that you would undertake in this
sequence of logic? The first step would be to determine to make the logical statement
that on this planet there are just two things:
those that are of people, and those things that are not of
people. So, in other words, you have already divided the world into two
categories. Now, you know, and we know, that these are not mutually exclusive,
but that they are interdependent. For our concern about the Days of Light and
Life, our primary concern is people – individuals – and their progress in their
evolution as individuals and their personality, their soul growth, and as they
evolve to become the morontial individuals whether here on earth or when they
make their translation.
Step two: Commonalities of personhood, gender, and
group identification
Now,
of people – step two – we will discuss this (and I have already
given that to you): there are people. There are men, and there are women
- two genders. And of those two genders they are of a race, they are of a
culture, they are of an ethnicity, and they are of some social group, and so
on. Now we change the tactic in this sequence just a bit. So, we have divided
this down to people and their commonalities. The greatest commonality is that
they are people. The second commonality is that there are two genders. The next
commonality is that they belong to various groups that identify themselves as
separate from other groups.
Commonality of decision making according to values
Now,
in this next stage, we are seeking another intuitive, logical sequence
step. That is, what behavior is common to all people? What is common to all
people is that they decide – they create the future? Obviously, (it may not be
obvious [to you], but it is obvious to us) that all people make decisions. Even
children make decisions. And everyone who has a mind eventually makes
decisions. What we are doing now is drilling down into the territory of logic
to get to the point of those commonalities of all people. What are the
commonalities of decision making? The commonality of all decision making is
that all decisions are based on values. Values always underline all
decision making. There are no decisions that are made without values that
underly those decisions. And herein, at this point, we have a great divide. The
divide is between groups of people and their belief systems, and their value
systems. They express these values in
decisions that continue and maintain division rather than seeking commonalities
that join groups together.
Need for a code of decision making oriented toward
unity
Now,
if you as a planetary manager had a universal, global training and education
program that taught people about these values and how to use the values to
underly all their decision making, believe it or not, you’d still have great
division in the world. They would use these seven common values to underline
their decisions that would maintain their division and separation from others.
And so, in your thinking in this logic sequence, you say “ah-ha! ah-ha!”
We need a code of decision making that is uniform across all humankind to
assist people to make decisions that eliminate division and creates union and
oneness. As an insight, you know, and we know, that these seven values are
common to all people. And so, we would want a decision-making code that was
common to all people and applicable to all people, and that the function for
this code is to provide uniformity and commonality to all people. The insight
of that is that we would be using those same values, because of their universal
characteristics, to write a code of decision making. Now, as an aside, you
would say: “Well, yes, I agree with that Machiventa that yes, there are matters
that are common to all life. And so, we would want to have this code useful to
maintain the life of people, and groups of people, all people. And
secondly, we also know, as you know Machiventa, that this leads to
relationships. Humans are social creatures and being social, we have
relationships.”
Morality, ethics and the seven core values
As
you can see from this discussion and this make-believe dialogue, we have gained
great insight into the future. So, we have gone from a world of things that are
of people, and things that are not of people. And we have drilled down
to the point where we need a code of conduct in relationships and in human
life. As background, historically you know that most morality deals with life.
It has been confused with ethics, and ethics has been confused with morality.
But for the purposes of this discussion and our education of you and all people
in the future, morality has to do with maintaining the lives of others - their
physical life, their social life, their intrapersonal life, their interpersonal
life, their quality of life, and so on. And in this division, we have
ethics. Ethics deals with the ethical behavior that maintains
relationships. Right decision making that deals with maintaining good
relationships - not hostile relationships, but good relationships. And
so, as we have shared with you before, your creator has created a wonderful
process within you, within your genetic structure, that these seven values come
in primary and secondary modes. The four primary values - to be redundant
– are life, equality, growth, and quality of life. And the three secondary
values are empathy, compassion, and a generalized love for humanity.
The four primary values are not enough
You
will see that the primary four values are used to sustain the species. And
these are used to maintain your quality of life. They are fundamental to the
growth of civilization, nations, societies, communities, and families. And
these are what have promoted and brought your civilization, and societies, and
nations to the present time. Yet, you see your world is in tremendous turmoil
and difficulty. And that even your developed democracies are now deteriorating,
and will soon decrease in effectiveness, disintegrate, and if that trend
continues, they will collapse and disappear.
The Three secondary values
All
of the work we are doing is to assist your world to come into the Days of Light
and Life. We are not necessarily involved or interested in your politics.
However, we are definitely involved in the social structure of your world and
the conduct of your social institutions from the family through the democratic process
and including your newest social institution – that of media. This is where the
three secondary values come into play. It is necessary that organizations begin
to use not only the four primary values, but the secondary values to sustain
the organized social existence of your nations and your association of
nations, your societies, communities, and all social institutions and your
families especially.
So
the primary values are sufficient to sustain your species and to initiate
the progress and growth of your societies and nations, however they are
insufficient to provide for the developmental progress of your social
institutions and your organizations that support the continued existence of
nations and association of nations, cities, states and so on. The three
secondary values are primary to your humanness. You have been taught and know
that your species is an aggressive animal that will destroy others to control
the environment. You also know that your humanness includes your capability to
be an ennobled being – one who expresses kindness to others and is benevolent.
And in the infinite empathy of reaching out to others and sensing their
situation, you, as a human, are compassionate enough to reach out voluntarily,
without coercion, to help others in their plight, or to share in their
enjoyment of life. And so, in the greatest expanse of your humanness, using the
three secondary values, you reach out in your great love for humanity, you
project your consciousness of love and integration of wholeness and oneness to
all the civilization of your world.
Were
you to exercise these principles and recommendations in your lifetime, with the
total dedication of your will to God’s will, and your subordination to do
Christ Michael’s will for the development, construction and transformation of
your world into a world that is settled in Light and Life, then you will have
achieved the commitment I have made to Christ Michael. You would then, for all intents and purposes,
as a mortal, become a planetary manager.
Christ Michael’s mandate and its audacious
implementation
Now,
let us review the work of Christ Michael, myself, Most
Highs, Monjoronson, and all those who are on the council for Urantia. Having
received Christ Michael’s mandate, he asked us to come together as a team of
individual groups, individuals as leaders and executives, in groups of
subordinates with their executives, to develop a plan that would correct the
faults that came about through the rebellion and the default of your former
planetary manager. Remarkably, delightfully, and enthusiastically, these
individuals developed what is known as the “correcting plan.” An auspicious,
incredible, even audacious plan that included the participation of
mortals in the co-creative transformation of this world. When this was first
proposed, and before it was accepted by Christ Michael, (chuckles) many
throughout Nebadon, Orvonton and Uversa were agog. They were what English
people called gob-smacked. In other words, they
couldn’t say a word and they put their hand over their mouth and were agasp at
what they were reading and what they were hearing. And they too began to
discuss this. And they discussed it in parameters that not only included the
planets that were recovering from quarantine, also Nebadon, and all
sectors of Nebadon, all constellations of Nebadon, and how it would repercuss
in Orvonton, each of the seven great universes, and even in Havona, and in
Paradise. Well, my mortal friends, it took centuries for the eventual decision
and uniformity of decision making and commitment to reach the point where the
vast, vast, vast majority of individuals throughout the whole realm of the Grand
Universe agreed that this was a most audacious project – one that would have
incredible, outstanding, astounding, and profound repercussions and results for
God the Supreme, and for the progress of all Creator Son’s local universes to
engage other future, probable rebellions.
Implementation of plan now underway
Now,
stand back from what I just said in the first part and the second part. Stand way
back. Give yourself some distance from this. Because, when you grasp your
position now, all those who are committed to the teaching mission, magisterial
mission, and to the Urantia Book, that this is not a possibility, but a probability.
And, in fact, it is now ongoing. This program of the correcting time has
been engaged. It has evolved. It is developing. It is a program that
will eventually transform the worlds in rebellion into worlds that are one with
the progressive, spiritually aligned planets of all Nebadon.
You are part of this at ground zero
And
you, my friends, are here at ground level - ground zero – of the light
that will encompass you for the rest of your life and all your progress through
the eventuality to when you become a Finaliter. You are totally integrated into
this program to the extent that you are committed to it. And commitment means
accepting and using those values of love, oneness, humanity – you know, the big
values that Christ Michael would give you if he were speaking to you now. Plus the human values that are necessary to sustain your
species and the values that are necessary to sustain peace on your world.
Correcting Time as your opportunity
Now,
for some of you this is overwhelming. It’s time to lay down, take a nap, and
think about this. That would be good advice. It is not so much a burden to you,
or a responsibility you assume, but that this is an opp-or-tun-i-ty for you to take on and assume (meaning take on)
the accountability to participate. Remember the actions are yours, the
consequences are the Father’s. You, however, will always be accountable for
your actions. What would you choose? Would you choose personal joy and
enlightenment, a purpose, and enduring, infinite meaning in life? Or would you
cast that aside and let things fall as they will, and see what happens, and
decide later. Either case is you are accountable to make a decision. And
failing to make a decision is, in fact, a decision.
Well,
this is not Machiventa Melchizedek talking to you like a stern father, a stern
mentor, councilor, or advisor, but one who wants to present you with an
enticing opportunity that will last for the infinity of your spiritual life.
Thank you.
I
am open for questions regarding this and also other questions that you may have
generated over the days and weeks since our last session and even before.
Transforming social institutions and becoming
Liz: Good morning Machiventa. A couple of
things came up for me while you were presenting this to us this morning. One is
that humans seem to like these lists – seven core values, twelve steps of
Alcoholics Anonymous, ten commandments – and so, it seems that once this is
presented on a grand scale it should be something that humans would be willing
to adopt. They’re quite different of course from the ten commandments. The ten
commandments have had many years of public relations behind them, and perhaps
that’s what the seven core values needs is a public relations promotion.
MM: Is that a question?
Liz: Yes, am I correct?
MM: (Chuckles) Yes, you’re correct Liz, it
is a question. And here’s the answer: All the things that you mentioned are
lists except for Alcoholics Anonymous. The way to engage people into accepting
these values and this oneness is to engage it as a process. It is important
that people learn the process of becoming human – fully human -
based on the seven core values and the ethics and morality that emanate from
those values. Therefore, it must be a program of education - pragmatic
experiential training - to learn how to work this process for their benefit. We
have learned from observing human nature since the beginnings of pre-humanoid
individuals that there is not much convincing
individuals - even in the 21st century, in any nation - of what they
ought to do, or giving them a list and saying: “Here, now do it!” That is a
recipe, for failure. Those who know, those who learn teach. Therefore, we are
your teachers, we are your mentors, we are your guides, we are your individuals
who give you insight in how to develop these
processes. Eventually you will learn that each social institution (family,
education, healthcare, political structure, religion, finance) you will learn,
eventually, that, in order to transform your nations and your societies, that
you will need to transform each social institution.
Therefore,
each social institution will have a program, a recipe, a developmental process,
where you do this and do that, you add this, and you add that, and you end up
with a transformed social institution. You know, and we know, that there will
be staunch resistance to any persuasive language that we or you could make in
[public relations] to convince the resistant populations into accepting this
process, these values, these ethics, and this morality. And that’s where you
find the divide between those who become, and those who don’t. To be-come is to
be and come into your fullness of your personality, your soul growth as an
individual, as a family, and as a society. Becoming is a process. Therefore,
when you engage the transformation of social institutions you will see this as
a process of becoming – becoming whole, becoming complete, becoming
operationally, socially, politically, and economically functional, so
that the policies assist others. You might say to yourself: “Ahha! Machiventa,
this creates a divide.” Well, my friends, you have to draw a line in the sand
somewhere. It is not that we are against anyone – surely not! The old dictum of
“You’re either for me or against me” is false, it is abhorrent, it is
destructive, and it causes separation in itself. But when you present your
programs - your processes of becoming - for transforming of social institutions
you include everyone. And it is their choice to come along or not. As we
say, we are not against anyone, we are for everyone, and we are for
their happiness, their fulfillment, their contentment, and that involves
lifestyle, standard of living, and quality of life - from the individual and
the family, to communities, and the whole civilization. That’s our policy, and
we’re sticking to it.
Start with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
Liz: Well, thank you for that answer. When
you began challenging us with where we would start and if we were managers of
this planet and what we would do, I immediately went to the idea of Maslow’s
hierarchy, and realized that there are many people on this planet who are busy
scrambling and scraping everyday just to exist. In my understanding I am privileged,
so, I only know what I know from reading and newscasts that there are many in
poverty and they have hardly any quality of life at all. It seems like
that would be the place to begin. Would it not?
MM: I’m not going to disagree with you. It
is a place to begin, but I would ask you this question: Are there any
programs that are now trying to assuage that problem?
Liz: Yes.
MM: And how is that working out for you?
Liz: Not well.
MM: And why is that?
Liz: Because I think that there coming at it
from the wrong direction. One of the programs that I am familiar with loans
people in Africa, for example, loans them money. Well I don’t think putting
them in debt is the first step. And yet, these people who are loaning them
money to start their businesses, or to buy a cow, or whatever, they think they
are doing the right thing, and for a while I thought they were doing the
right thing, and now I think they are off base.
MM: So, I’ll ask you again. How’s that
working out?
Liz: Yeah, I don’t think it’s going well.
MM: So, can you answer your own question
then? You asked me, “Is the place to start with observing Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs and satisfying the needs of people?”
Liz: Well, I still think perhaps yes. But,
coming from a position of the three secondary values instead of just trying to
raise their standard of living… I don’t
know. You just presented this to me a few minutes ago. I haven’t had a chance
to take a nap and think about it.
Programs must benefit the individual and bring
world toward oneness
MM: I was trying to have you work yourself
into a hole. Not to be mean, but to help you understand your logic and your
reasoning as being faulty. Remember, you are a planetary manager in this
scenario. And it’s your responsibility in the end, that the end that
approaches the times of the Days of Light and Life where individuals are
capable of making decisions for their own good or not. That ultimately, you are
responsible, in all your programs, that this benefit the individual as a
growing soul to become more mature, and more complete upon their graduation
from mortality. That gives them entrance as a capable candidate for the
morontial schools as the first step of their morontial career. That is the
primary mission of all the correcting time. Of all that Christ
Michael has ever been involved in - in his mortal incarnate mission and
for all time. The proviso that I had to buy into was that, in order to
do that, we must bring the whole world - as a collective of nations and
disparate societies, political groups, races, and ethnicities - into accepting
the oneness that is common to all people.
MMc: What you are saying is: You can’t do this with one small
population. You have to do it with everybody.
Programs to be all inclusive by design
MM: Correct. You may start with one
population, but the programs must be designed at their very earliest initiation
to include all of humanity. Let me give you a very graphic and painful parallel
to your work as a planetary manager. In this parallel you are general
Macarthur. You have just had your pants beaten off by the Japanese. You have
waded off into a boat leaving the Philippines on their own and to the
machinations of the invading people, and you must devise a plan that would eventually
sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers from many nations to
accomplish the goal of capturing that island, nearby islands, all
the islands, and then forcing the dominant nation – the aggressor – to submit
to your control and to live in peace.
Acting for benefit of all humanity and each
individual
Now,
in this parallel, remember, you are a planetary manager. Though you have - under
the name, and in the name, and on behalf of, and in behalf of Christ
Michael - in your station as planetary manager the capability to completely
transform whole societies in the blink of an eye, would you? That is a fundamental
question. Would you do so? Would you deny the Grand Universe the privilege of
understanding the concept of co-creative transformation? Would you be willing
to engage this program knowing that you cannot address every need, or even a single
need of a day’s worth of food for every individual on this planet. That is a
spiritually existential question. Where would your ego leave off for you to
become a planetary manager and a Creator Son in your own right in this small
realm? I have not presented this very difficult presentation to you to beat you
about the ears, or to scold you, or to pain you in any way. I am striving to
teach you how to think, how to speak, how to design, and how to act for the
benefit of all humanity. Of course, we are primarily concerned about you,
the individual. You, Liz, and everyone else who reads this transcript, everyone
who ever hears this transcript, and everyone who is ever born on this
planet, we are concerned about you individually.
Difficulties of Correcting Time and a grand opportunity
Now,
what I have done – painfully done – with you is to present you with the
difficulties of the Correcting Time. The difficulties at a personal
level are the same difficulties that I live with, my consulting team lives
with, the Most Highs live with, and all others. As you know, you’re multiple
God-centered religions have presented the fact of God worldwide. There is
probably no one on earth, or very few on earth, on this planet who have not
heard of God, and who have either disregarded the message, who have engaged the
message, or denied the message, or absented themselves from any
commitment. This was the first part of the Correcting Time that began so long
ago beginning with Abraham and the teachings he had, and others had before him
from the time of the Melchizedek. It is a choice to go out and strike your
neighbor, take his wife and his children and turn them into slaves, and to
harvest his crops or not. That is still going on today. What we are doing
through this painful presentation is giving you an appreciation of the largesse
of Christ Michael and the Correcting Time of your spiritually moral
responsibilities to assist us in this project. This is not a message of joy,
but, my friends, this is a message of grand, grand, profound,
personal opportunity. If you engage this from that perspective, you can see the
joy you will have from understanding the message and the work that is at hand.
And the work that is at hand is close to coming to fruition. We have teased you, we have taunted you, we have given you tidbits of what
is to come and that time is drawing to a close. It is now time for action on
your part, and time for action on our part, and when you see this it will be
self-revealed to you what this is all about.
Little boys with sticks
Liz: I think that one of the things that we
in this group, and those of us who read this transcript, the advantage that we
have (and those who read the Urantia Book) is a grander vision. We have a
cosmic idea of who we are and where we’re going, and what it’s all about that
most of humanity does not have. There was a book written a long time ago called
Lord of the Flies about a group of children marooned on an island and
they had their own government and their own wars and, as readers, you got so
caught up in their society that you forget they’re just little boys with
sticks. And this last week I thought of our congress as just that - so wrapped
up in what they are doing they are completely blind to the larger picture -
they’re just little boys with sticks. And I’m thinking what the world needs is
a greater vision of who we are and what we’re about. Is there a way we can
begin to accomplish that other than disseminating the Urantia Book?
Time for Urantia to realize the larger
realm – a subtle approach
MM: Yes, peripherally. First of all, I wish
to congratulate you, thank you so very much for your presentation about the
cosmic point of view. And that you have a special view of the universe from the
mortal perspective and what is to become. Secondly, you are correct about these
august bodies of little boys with their sticks creating wars and creating
friction between groups of individuals. Yes, there is a means of augmenting the
work of disseminating the Urantia Book. And we so much admire, respect, and
thank those who have been involved in that.
You
have, unconsciously, alluded to a development that we have been working on Liz,
and for those who are thinking along these lines. That yes, it is time for the
Urantian civilization – people, individuals – [to] begin to realize that
there is a larger realm among them. That there is something that is ongoing
which is enabling the continuation of your world. And that there are, in fact,
celestial teachers, angels, Melchizedeks, archangels, and many others, unnamed,
who are here on this planet who are here as part of the spiritual
administration of Urantia. What begins that process is a spark, a curiosity, an
awareness that, perhaps, we [mortals] are not alone. And I’m not referring to
the presentation of extra-terrestrials and their spaceships, and so on. That
has been done as well without any progress among mortals. But this must be
subtle. It must not be a smack in the back of the head to wake you up
and say: “We’re here!” No, it must be subtle. It must be so subtle that the
individual, without speaking to others, begins to realize to him or herself that
we are here, and that “there are others here with us. And these are benevolent.
They want the highest good for us. They want to lead us out of our closed mind
thinking, our linear thinking. They want us to encompass the magnitude
of who we are and do so with them.” Your question alluded to this insight of
what we are doing. And it is so subtle that many of you will be unaware of it
until you turn around one day and say, “Oh, my gosh! They are here. They
are active. I believe in God, I’ve read the Urantia Book, I’ve read
these transcripts and, they’re here! I can see their footprints.” Yes,
it will take that kind of subtlety to win the minds and souls of individuals
across the world for us to do our work.
Liz: And so, what do we do to help you?
MM: You are doing it now. You are engaging
us with meaningful questions on behalf of the audience that is growing ever
larger. You are doing it for us. You are doing it for them. You are
participating. You are projecting your consciousness of love and oneness onto
the world, and in your individual efforts you are assisting others to know how
to help themselves. Be of service where you can. Be of information where you
are able. Be of sharing of a kind heart to the surprise of others.
Liz: Thank you for all of that. That was
quite wonderful.
Functional social institutions
MMc: I am very interested in what you are having to say today.
The question you put forward to us initially…. Let me run through some of my
thinking and see if it equates somewhere here. First thing was that, in order
to do what you are looking to do, you needed education. In the western
educational system, it is basically geared to produce employees. It’s not here
to induce higher thinking – basically you memorize a bunch of stuff and
regurgitate it back at test time, and you’re supposed to learn your ABC’s to
read and write and do arithmetic so that you make somebody a very good employee.
But that lacks a great deal for those of us who would become thinkers. And so,
for myself, I was completely out of college, about ten years out of college,
before I turned around and went to medical school. And I didn’t do well in
school - all the way through. We don’t ask questions. We’re put in positions
where asking questions is a hinderance to the class, and so, we stop. But you
will need to educate people, and when you talk about educating people,
basically, the system that is in place now is archaic. Can we re-introduce your
value system to young people in school and carry it all the way through? Would
that be a way of starting?
MM: To truncate your presentation, go back
to what I said some time ago this morning when I said it will be necessary to
transform every social institution into one that is functional. That is the
key. Now, as you know, the family is the primary social institution. Education
is a secondary social institution as is healthcare, as is religion, as is the
democratic process, etc., etc. Now, I just gave you some insight into how to
transform them (those social institutions) when I said you would want to
transform them into functional social institutions. In this regard, what is a
functional social institution? And here is where we must use the illustration
of the priorities of decision making to sustain a society that we developed
with This One some years ago.
The
first priority of all social institutions is to sustain the species. And there
are other aspects of that as well. The secondary importance of a functional
society is that it supports the sustainability, the functionality, of organized
social existence. Now, when you take those two aspects into account, which are
huge, and that will take at least two centuries to accomplish, you have begun
to see our efforts. And as you and Liz have stated, you must first make people aware
of what the situation is. If people are unaware, they cannot develop options
for choice making, they cannot do choice making, decision making, or action
implementation. The first part is to make people aware.
What we have done is not working
Now,
to go back to two sessions ago and last session we mentioned that sometimes we
create problems that require individuals, and groups of individuals to make a
conscious decision of which way they’re going to go in the future. And yes, we
sometimes tie your shoestrings together so that when you stand up and try to
walk you fall over. That is a perfect metaphor for the situation developed democratic
nations today. Now, what is the insight that we want people to become aware
of concerning their political situation? The simple insight and awareness is this: This isn’t working, is it? Or the simple statement:
This isn’t working. And that statement begs the question: What’s not working? And,
as I explained before, the five steps of Kurt Wright in his book Breaking
the Rules, first of all, you want to become aware that your educational
system isn’t working. And, in fact, you’re almost to the point where you are
saying: “Really, this is not an educational system at all. It’s actually
just a linear process.” And then you’d say again: “This isn’t working”
you would ask, “What are the resources we could use to improve this to make it
a process? And what philosophical base should we use?” What is the intention of
education, of all education? whether it’s from diaper daycare to
post-doctoral work. What is the function of education? I’ll leave you with that
question. It may sound like a rhetorical question, and it is for this
discussion, but it is a highly pragmatic question that must be answered
and will be answered in order to [transform] your societies into
sustainable societies. I know that some of you are wondering about this –
thinking about this. You are going: “Oh, my gosh. This is connected to this,
this is connected to that, that’s connected to this over here. It’s all
integral,” but it’s not a process.” And so, the primary element that is missing
from these linear systems is learning, learning from experience, learning from
the experience that those linear processes not working, learning that it
requires humility, deep humility to say: “I don’t have the answer,
we don’t have the answers. What we’ve done is not working. What do we do? Who
can we call in to help us? Are there existent programs that may have some use
to us?” And so, that’s a beginning. If organizations are not transformed into
learning organizations, whether it is a small do-it-yourself sole
proprietorship, a mega-corporation, a national government, or any other
organization, your societies will fail, your democracies will fail, your
civilization will fail. And we are here to help you prevent that. And yes, it
may require somebody standing on the street corner saying: “The world is at
end.” And hopefully someone will step up to you and say: “Please explain that.”
And that’s where you begin.
You are the seed group
And
so, my friends, everyone who is listening, everyone who is reading this with curious
minds saying: “How do we do this?” We know that Christ Michael (Jesus) is our
master. He was the ultimate exemplary individual for us in our life, our
living, our families, and our personal lives. Now, how do we do this for our
societies, for the sustainability of our social existence? That’s the
beginning. It’s the beginning of being able to learn – to get over your ego, to
get over your gender, to get over your age, to get over your beauty, to get
over your ugliness, to get over yourself – and move on. It is to be fully human
to help others help themselves. This is why we’re here, and you are the
individuals who have given us hope. You give us hope that we’re on the
right track. You are the seed group to carry this forward. What you are yearning
for is some august moment, some incredible change of direction in the winds of
civilization to assist you to say what you want to say to everyone else.
[No
reader-questions this week, as Daniel was quite drained of energy.]
Close of one era, dawn of a new
MM: this is Machiventa Melchizedek, your
planetary manager. It is my pleasure and my opportunity to be with you today as
I have been so many hundreds of times before, and in the decades, centuries,
and millennia before. It is a pleasure to be here with you to share these words
with you. Those of you who are global thinkers, those of you who started with
the beginning arc of these discussions so many years ago and are present today,
you’re going to see that arc and come to the realization that “hmmm,
something’s changed. The content, context, and tenor of these discussions,
these presentations, have changed tremendously.” That’s an insight. And what
can you learn from that? You have your own intuition, your own insights, your
own conjecture, and speculations about what this is all about. This is all
about an era of your civilization and nations that is coming to a close. It is
necessary that this ancient era does come to a close. And, of course, as
I’ve said, with the closing of an era a new era begins. And so, you who have
been reading know that this is the New Era Transitions, and this gives way to a
new era within that transition of what is to become.
Not despair, but hope
I
do not apologize for being the presenter of this difficult message. It is
necessary work. One that I do not joyously engage, but responsibly accept. It
is one inherent, inseparable aspect, part of my role as planetary manager. And
as always, we will not leave you in despair, but always leave you in hope that
you come into the fulness of yourselves as individuals, as parents, as growing
souls, ones who have the hope of engaging the morontial career fully apprised
of what is to come and ready for the first school in your morontial career. You
have our love, our appreciation, and our deep respect. Good Day.
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