2020-09-21, NET #100, Machiventa
New
Era Transition #100 – (Find this and previous NETs at: https://bigmacspeaks.life/)
To attend these
sessions live contact JT at UpwardInward@gmail.com
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
Implementation has begun—a long approach
Changing the culture of Western civilization
(democratic nations)
New video series—the evolution of democracies
The United States is in an existential crisis
Only democracies can adapt to current
uncertainties—incorporating the 7 values
You are on a crash course
Reforming the foundations of your civilization using
all 7 core values
The heart of humanity must come forward
An appeal for Divine intervention
Free will is sovereign in all regards
Celestial team “moving ahead” or waiting for humanity
Necessity for major cataclysmic trauma?
God is the Center of all
Coming in a great clap of thunder—free will and
co-creativity
Use your free will to become part of God’s grandeur
We do not offer hints, but you need to have forethought
The excellent and just balance
Ethics in artificial intelligence
Guidance on being a Transmitter/Receiver
A mass awakening today?
Support those who make sense
Pragmatic idealism
Evolution in the democratic process
Feedback in democratic systems
Rebuilding in alignment with the 7 values
Asking for help and growth—be open to it
Liz on a journey—personality gravity
Who has the power to change that?
Power is very fluid
Empower yourself, empower your society
You are not powerless. You have the power of the God
presence within you.
TR: Daniel Raphael, PhD
Participants from: Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela. If I missed your country, please let me (JT) know at UpwardInward@gmail.com
Invocation: Sherille
2020-09(Sep)-21
Daniel:
Before we begin, I
would appreciate it if, when you ask a question, you say “This is {State your
name.} and my question is” or something like that. It’s nice to know the names
of the individual who is speaking, unless you request to be anonymous. Thank
you.
Implementation has begun—a long approach
MM: This is Machiventa Melchizedek. Thank
you for your presence here today. The time of implementation has begun. We have
announced that several times in the past, and we want to assure you that it is
definitely a part of the landscape for this planet now. It is part of our
long-term agenda for our work leading into the Correcting Time which continues.
We are leading you into the eventual Days of Light and Life. It is important
that you realize that this is a long approach. It is much like walking across
the plains in Tanzania as you approach Kilimanjaro, and it takes a long time in
the incline. It’s very gentle, and then it becomes steeper and steeper. Such is
the incline that we are on for the implementation. You might say that you have
landed on the Atlantic side of Africa and are walking your way through the
continent to this time and this place.
Changing the culture of Western civilization
(democratic nations)
We
are now in the phase where we are working diligently to bring about those
changes that you so desire. We have said before, and we reiterate, that when
people become receptive for answers, they will be ready to receive them and
implement the suggestions that come along. A good idea that benefits the
breadth and depth of humanity will be seen by most people as beneficial to them
personally. The particular emphasis now is upon approaching the transformation
of your social institutions which includes the democratic process. For most of
you, you are unaware of many of your social institutions. [They are] something
that you accept and something that you are used to, but the democratic process
is one that rubs you in the wrong way many times in many countries. It is one
in which you sense that there is a vast inequality of the expression of
political power and personal regard for you as an individual citizen within
your nation. We oftentimes have said, as we spoke about the western
civilization, [that] the western civilization includes and is all
democratic nations. Totalitarian nations, those that do not espouse the
equality of humanity and of individual citizens, are not part of this culture.
Our work now is to change the culture of western civilization—of democratic
nations—such that those nations will begin to see the necessity of evolving
into the next, higher stages of their social institutions. As we have reviewed your
social institutions, which includes, of course, the family, education,
healthcare, justice, the democratic process, and many others, you and we know
that all of these institutions need to be transformed to become more
effective—so that they are much more attuned to the lives of individuals and
families.
New video series—the evolution of democracies
To
the reluctance and reticence of This One, we are, perhaps, premature in
announcing that we have begun a video series with him to indicate how social
institutions must transform in order to sustain the context and content of your
societies—your nations. This is a time now for thinking in terms of transitions
in the evolution of your social institutions. It is important that you begin to
accept the fact that your social institutions—your nations—are in transition,
and the transition that we seek and we want to influence is the evolution
towards being more effective, towards recognizing the needs of individuals and
their families to become the primary socializing and enculturating agencies of
your societies. You now realize, hopefully, that in many ways your parliaments,
your congresses, your executive branches are very, very similar—far more
similar—than to the monarchies they left behind. That historic movement was
evidence of the democratic process, and we see that will continue in the future
for you. You will have this pointed out to you in these videos. What we are
doing in these videos is educational. It is to teach you as individuals and
your political and social groups how to help your societies evolve to become
socially sustainable, politically sustainable, and economically sustainable. As
you can see from the tragedies around you—socially, politically, and
economically—your nations are not sustainable. The trajectory of your nations
is on the same path as those that have failed during the last 30,000 years.
This will be the first time that anyone has attempted to build a sustainable
civilization from the ground up. You may be shocked by that, but if you look at
the history of your civilization and your democratic nations, none are founded
on a logic that encompasses a system that appreciates individuals and social
institutions as a part and parcel of the holism of a functional, democratic
nation.
The United States is in an existential crisis
As
you may see in your own nations now, you are marginally functional, and the
process of becoming less and less functional is approaching you with every
passing month and year. This nation, the United States, is in an existential
crisis right now. You may be seeing the possibility of martial law in your
nation after this election should the present executive officer become
re-elected. On the other hand, it will require the diligent service of those
lovers of freedom and democracy to come forward to prevent such occurring. What
you are seeing in many ways is reminiscent of the rise of fascism that you
historically saw in Germany and in Italy. This is most unfortunate. We are
mentioning this simply because you may be asleep at the wheel so to speak, and
that your democracies run off the road and crash creating a reversal of the
progress you have made as a civilization of democracies. We are not causing you
alarm. We want to cause your awareness, consciousness, a presence of the moment,
to be in touch with the times and the tune. There are many in your nation who
would like to see a dictatorship take over, so that the power of one side is
against the other. This surely is a road of destruction for any democratic
nation.
Only democracies can adapt to current
uncertainties—incorporating the 7 values
Why
am I speaking about democracy and these two factions at this time? It is
because democracy is the only political system that has any possibility
of adapting to the future and the uncertain circumstances of the present moment,
adaptation to the circumstances that creates a species who can sustain
themselves into the future. Your Homo sapiens species has learned to adapt as a
species, but what is missing is that the organized substance of your societies—of
your democratic civilization—has not learned how to adapt! Those values that
are embedded in the DNA of your species are not embedded in the organizational
DNA of your organizations—whether they be churches, whether they be corporations
of any type, non-profits, and, particularly, in your governmental processes.
Neither are they a part of your executive branch, judicial branch, or
legislative branch.
You are on a crash course
So,
you see, the trajectory of your nations is on a course of collapse and
crashing. Only those people who can appreciate these moments will appreciate,
then, what your read in the books by Jared Diamond the historian, by Chris Martenson (The Crash Course: The Unsustainable
Future of Our Economy), and William Strauss and Neil Howe (The
Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell us About America’s next
Rendezvous with Destiny). Those books are fairly accurate as your own
esteemed historians and futurists have evaluated. They have assessed your
histories and put it in terms that you can understand.
Because
democracies are the only form of government that can adapt itself, it therefore
must be in tune with the social change that occurs within your citizenry.
Social change is an important factor to improve the conduct of societies and
the evolution towards a more equitable basis for its operation. You will not
find that in dictatorships. You can see where dictatorships and totalitarian
governments have led you. You can recall Stalin. You can recall Hitler. You can
recall Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and others. Those are all negative
influences by individuals and their groups of supporters that caused the
collapse and destruction of their societies. It requires deep, deep thought and
ingenuity to think of how to sustain a society—a nation—into the future without
dominating anyone at all and providing the freedom individuals need to grow
into their innate potential.
Reforming the foundations of your civilization using
all 7 core values
Therefore,
and because of that, we have begun this diligent and consciously deliberate
process of starting at the foundations of building your civilization into one
that expresses the best of democracies and of the freedoms and capabilities of
individuals and of organizations. You can create a nation and civilization unconsciously
by using the four primary values, but it takes conscious thought, conscious
deliberation and decision making using the three secondary values to
consciously develop a thriving democracy of the four primary values into one
that sustains itself well into the future.
The heart of humanity must come forward
You
could interpret this as saying that the heart of humanity must come forward to
generate its own longevity. It must be generous enough and trustworthy enough
to guide individuals into the future to develop their potential, to improve
their quality of life, and to allow the greatest amount of freedom without
jeopardizing the freedoms of others. This is truly a democracy. This is the
best of what can come about, and this is a junior level of what you would see
were you to live another 300 years in the approach of the Days of Light and
Life. Thank you.
Walt: Good day everybody. Machiventa, I am
touched and impressed with the urgency and the depth (meaning heartfeltness) of
your message. I thank you for this arousing call to wake up. Also, I wanted to
say to Jim that I am very, very impressed and grateful with your editing of
these sessions. It’s a tremendous work both in the formatting and the
organization. I’m giving thanks for that.
An appeal for Divine intervention
Now
to get to the point. I do have 8 questions. I will only ask 3 to give others a
chance and leave it to the moderator’s discretion on when to stop, but I will,
in consideration of others, just ask three though there will be a total of 8.
Here’s the first question. For over 200,000 years we have been extensively
subjected to self-defeating conditioning and programming by disloyal and
renegade non-mortal actors—as if free will were not sacrosanct. The result is
that the human will is hardly free because it has been profoundly corrupted to
bend us toward self-destructive behaviors while actively hampering our social
progress and spiritual uplift. In this context, I appeal to Divinity to, at
minimum, release humanity from the shackles of a corrupted and confused will.
Using the relevant spirit energies, please bestow on us the gifts of one, clarity,
and two, the freedom of a healed will which would enable us both to understand
and to actively choose the glorious potentials to be found in fully embracing
co-creativity with celestial light workers such as you, Machiventa, and your
team. And hence my direct question is: To what extent can this type of request
be granted?
Free will is sovereign in all regards
MM: Dear Walt, this is Machiventa. We
adamantly disagree with your tenet that people’s will are inherently flawed and
that they are being controlled by some outside source. This is completely
contrary to God’s will that the will of the individual is sovereign in all
regards. We would suggest that you amend your question and your thinking
regarding the will of human beings as one that is influenced by parents and by
society and by media and by other influences upon them as they grow up and as
they are subjected to peer pressure and so on.
Celestial team “moving ahead” or waiting for humanity
Walt: That is wonderfully insightful, and
that definitely, completely changes the landscape of my question. I will
definitely give meditative thought given that new understanding about what
would be better to more accurately ask. My second question is: While discussing
an eminent, tangible, and positive initiative by your team in NET #75, you
asserted that you and your team would be moving forward whether the mortals
join in or not. The determination you stated was: “Lead, follow, or get out of
the way, because we are moving ahead.” However, in NET #98, you stated that the
team is waiting for humans to be overjoyed/enthusiastic/jubilant about the
possibility of having assistance in times of stress and difficulty. And my
question is: What has caused this 180-degree turn toward this softened
approach?
MM: Within the narrow parameters of a
mortal’s vision and understanding, it would appear to be 180-degrees of change,
however we operate on a much more inclusive basis as the breadth of our
understanding of what is occurring includes those who do stand in the
way, those who do oppose, and those who are resistant. There are those
who want to participate in helping us, and they are part of our team as you are
and the others who read these materials and so on. We include the possibility
that individuals may change their mind; that they see that the times may change
in their world around them and that they need to come along with us to be of
assistance. We have always invited those who stand aside, those who are bystanders,
those who observe but do not participate. They neither help us nor hinder us.
They are simply there, and we ask them to come on board. Those who are deniers,
those who are outliers who wait for an opportunity to dislodge or disrupt our
progress, those individuals have no assistance for us. They are totally
supported by the beneficence of our Creator and by Christ Michael, and by their
Thought Adjuster, guardian angels, and so on. We thank you for your question.
Necessity for major cataclysmic trauma?
Walt: OK, thank you too, Machiventa. And my
third question before giving the opportunity for others is: Despite our
profoundly limited mortal capacity to grasp universe reality, when I ponder the
reality of infinite intelligence and infinite power, I struggle to accept that
there is absolutely no possibility in all reality for this world to have
a spiritual and social turn around without major cataclysmic trauma. And so, my
question is: Is it your understanding that there exists no other spiritually
legitimate way in all reality to accomplish our spiritual and social uplift
except through including radical trauma.
God is the Center of all
MM: Dear Walter, you keep singing the same
song but a different stanza. The truth is that your world does not need trauma
to change its course. It needs to have the understanding that God is the center
of all, the ultimate reality, and that each of you have a part of that ultimate
reality within yourselves. These calamities on your world were not caused by
the Creator nor by us or by Christ Michael. These calamities that you see—the
fires, the floods, the hurricanes, the ice melting, and so on—are consequences
of human activities and natural consequences of the initiation and creation of your
world and the natural development and ongoing development of a world as a
physical, material entity that is undergoing change for many reasons.
Coming in a great clap of thunder—free will and
co-creativity
There
are opportunities for the Creator, Christ Michael, and the First Source and
Center to come through your world in a great clap of thunder and shake the
bejesus out of everyone (laughter.) To have them awaken into the realization
that there is something truly grand and awesome in the universe besides their
own egos and their frightful bag of fears. This is harsh verbiage I’m giving to
you. Sometimes we give it to you in an earthy phrase and colloquialisms, but
you understand the point that this is not possible because of the mandates of
our First Source and Center and Christ Michael. One is the mandate of your
First Source and Center that no individual’s [free] will will be overturned. Second, that Christ Michael has said
this is a Correcting Time—one which is co-creative—and that people learn
their lessons and learn growth and maturation in their spiritual and emotional
selves through the process of living—facing the realities that exist with them
and by them that does shake them to their boots, and does shatter
their sense of equanimity and their self-justified egoisms that they then feel
they have a right to express.
Use your free will to become part of God’s grandeur
Yes,
this is a world of great trauma, immense trauma. It is rare to
see a world such as Urantia undergoing such a terrific, horrific approach to
the Days of Light and Life. And yes, you have not seen the full breadth and
depth of the destruction that will occur on your world yet. And will it take
these to overturn the dark hearts that are around you and among you? No, it
does not. It is the self-willed individual ideas and will to become a
part of the grandeur that God has in store for you. These developments coincide
with this time in the history of your planet where your planet is now well
overpopulated by at least two thirds, and that you will see a tremendous loss
of life in the future. Is this a part of God’s plan? No. This is a part of the
overpopulation and the lack of consideration and forethought by individuals to
control their needs to reproduce, their needs for selfish, material
self-aggrandizement, and so on. You are
truly seeing, Walt, the crash of your world. You are witnessing this. You may ascribe
this all to God and to Christ Michael, but it is not of their will. Their will
is peace for everyone—a sense of peace that passes all understanding within the
minds and hearts of individuals. This is what is God’s will for you and
for all your fellow men, women, and friends here in this world.
Yes,
my friend. I would be afraid too were I in your shoes in this world at this
time.
Walt: I am just so in awe of your answer in
every expression. I am just grateful for it all. And no, it is not too harsh.
It is exactly what we need to hear and understand. I have nothing but
full-hearted thanks for your answers—every word. I will turn the floor over to
others and hope I can get another chance to ask the additional questions. Thank
you so much, Machiventa.
We do not offer hints, but you need to have forethought
Bea: Good morning or afternoon Machiventa.
Thank you again for these sessions. I thought about, actually, whether or not I
should withdrawal my question, but I’m going to go ahead and ask. In your
introduction you referred to the possibility of martial law following the
election. Is this possibly a hint that the incumbent will remain in office? And
if this is the case, it would obviously be a great disappointment to some of us.
How would you recommend that we handle it? I guess personally I’m asking. I
admit [that] if that does happen, I am going to be fairly disappointed. I might
even be distraught.
MM: Thank you. You make some vast
assumptions in your opening comments and your opening sentences. We do not
offer any hints. We do not offer any suggestions of what may occur. It may
occur, but of course all of this is totally dependent upon the decisions
of mortals. You, as thoughtful citizens of a democracy, should be forethoughtful.
You should have the foresight to think of possibilities which are repugnant and
violent to your consciousness and violent to your rights. Failing to do so, you
remain very naïve citizens. We are not suggesting that this will occur. We are
not suggesting that it won’t occur. We are suggesting that the peaceful
evolution of your democracy take place: peaceful social evolution,
peaceful political evolution, [and] peaceful economic evolution are needed for your nation and all democratic
nations. The difficulties you are seeing are the chaffing between the rights of
individuals and the rights of a society to grow and mature [but] held in place
by antiquated, crystalized, archaic social institutions which have become
formalized to the degree that they seem to be concrete, immovable, and
implacable. Citizens always have the right to change their minds. Citizens
always have the right to protest [that] which is repugnant to their humanity. Not
by revolution, not by violence, not by killing or eliminating the opposition,
but formalizing groups of thoughtful individuals into powerful, political
blocks of opinion—blocks of opinion that now need to become part of the other
dominating fields of thought. Conservatism isn’t bad. Liberalism isn’t bad. You
see, these must come into a balance.
The excellent and just balance
Christ
Michael has always, as Jesus, espoused the even flow. Not the average, not the
mediocre, but the excellent and just balance. You have that within you to do
that. And do not think that we are participants of formalizing or fomenting an
opposition of violence. This is not our case. We would never do that, and we
would be in opposition to that in general terms without invading the minds of
individuals. It is the work of the Most Highs to work in the organization of
humanity, of mankind, of your social institutions, to change the minds within
groups to go in the right direction, to be thoughtful and reasonable. So,
please rephrase your thinking, thinking that I suggest that this is a
possibility or probability, for it is not. There is every opportunity to change
the future in the minds and opinions of individuals who have the gumption—the “chutzpah”—to
come forward and say what is right and tell other people what is right. Thank
you.
Bea: Thank you Machiventa. That’s the answer
I wanted (laughing.) I mean I’m grateful for your answer, but it does make me
feel a lot better. I do understand the concept of balance between conservatism
and liberalism, and really, we should not be crystalizing anything regarding
that. We should remain open-minded. I guess that brings that question to a
close. Thank you very much.
MM: You are most welcome.
Ethics in artificial intelligence
John: Hi, this is John from northern
California. Thank you Machiventa. I appreciate another opportunity to ask a
question. I’ll keep asking questions and learn how to do this with your help. I
have two questions today. The first one has to do with a wonderful documentary
that has just come out called The Social Dilemma. I don’t know if you
are aware of it, but it touches on the idea of artificial intelligence
(AI). I went back and looked on BigMacSpeaks.life website and in NET #53 you
talked about artificial intelligence and you mentioned that you had sent the
two documents that you had worked through This One [Daniel] to several dozen
leading individuals of the AI industry. And I was just curious about that. Is
there any progress to report on that? Is there any positive direction that has
come about as a result of that? I would appreciate it if you would comment on
that if you are so inclined.
MM: Certainly. We, the co-creative element,
have not received any feedback from the documents that were forwarded to the AI
industry. You see, in the minds of those individuals, they were on the cusp of
making AI a powerful engine for their industry. Our work included to them the
ethics that are reasonable for an AI industry that wants to support all of
humanity. There is the self blindedness. Many of you are far too young to
realize that horses that pulled a plow had a harness that included blinders,
and these were to the outside of the head of the horse to keep them from being
distracted by what was to the side of their peripheral vision. This kept them
on course to go forward. This is what has happened in the AI industry—that they
are in disregard of the well thought out ethics for the artificial intelligence
industry. The will to have more advantage over others and to take advantage of
an electronic industry through AI is too much on their mind to dominate the
industry and the market as far as they’re concerned. You see, the ones who are
making decisions are still the “old white men” who want profit over humanity
and morality. They want to increase profits while increasing the bottom line
for all concerned. That may sound cynical, and yes, it is appropriately so,
because there is a mindedness to disregard ethical guidance when ethical
guidance is needed and for which they themselves have made such a to-do about
until only the last few months where they have closed their minds and closed
their mouths regarding ethics.
Guidance on being a Transmitter/Receiver
John: Thank you. I appreciate that update. My
second question is more of a personal one. I’m just wondering if you can
suggest things that would help in my practice in terms of trying to become more
effective at transmitting/receiving?
MM: Yes, and this is general guidance for
everyone who is interested in being an effective T/R with greater ease and
greater fluidity. The most effective T/R is one who is self-forgetful, one who
is no longer involved in the process, one who does not think of what is
incoming and outgoing—incoming through your mind and outgoing through your
mouth. It is the T/R who is self-forgetful to the point where there is an natural flow from the celestial, the angelic, or divine
individual through the T/R without thought. Thought by the individual who
thinks about what is being said—who analyses it or puts it into a cache, so to
speak, in the mental process—is one who is then interfering in the process. We
seek those fluid individuals who do not hold the message, think about it, and
then paraphrase what is said. We prefer T/Rs who are not into a mental process
at all—those who act as somewhat of an automaton on our behalf and on the
behalf of Christ Michael. This automaton state of T/Ring does not disregard the
individuality of an individual but holds the individual in high regard who has
sacrificed their will to the will of Christ Michael and to the will of the
message coming through. This is a particular state of being that the mortal has
to learn—to be self-forgetful to the point where they forget they are involved
in the process, that they are simply just another person in the audience
listening to the message. This is, perhaps, the most difficult part of any
mortal existence—to forget yourself and forget your ego and to [realize] the
fact that the ego has no part and parcel of this at all. In fact, its
absence is totally necessary for the process to flow evenly and smoothly.
John: Thank you so much Machiventa. I do
appreciate the thought and the willingness of you to join with us and consider
these things. Thank you.
A mass awakening today?
Raymon: Good morning or afternoon Machiventa,
this is Raymon. I’m passing on a question from a third party. And the question
is: There has been a great deal of discussion via various transmissions in the
last months regarding mass awakening. Some have speculated that this might
occur in an event of some kind, such as what happened at Pentecost. Would you
be willing to share with us whether there is such a thing as mass awakening as
part of the Correcting Time, and, if so, how will this happen?
MM: First of all, thank you for your
question and relaying the question to us. Again, Urantia is a most peculiar
place to live, to reside, and to participate with spirit in this awakening.
Because of the co-creative nature of the advent of the Correcting Time and of
this transition era, the awakening must be in the consciousness of the
individual. We are in observance of the needs of the Most High and God the
Supreme to awaken individuals to the necessity of consciously coming into the
embrace with the Divinity within them. We do not foresee an awakening of the
nature of the Spirit of Truth coming upon humanity for it is here. We do not
foresee the presence and eminence of Christ Michael coming upon this world
either, nor that of Nebadonia. Their presence is here. The most that can be
learned from humanity’s experience at the individual level is the conscious
awakening of the individual to the awareness that God is around them, within
them, and is in the care of all.
What
you are relaying is that there would be a simultaneous and spontaneous “ah-ha”
in the consciousness of each individual around the world. Those who are of the
nature of God, those who have willed to do God’s will, and those who are in the
observance of the life and lifestyle and decisions of Christ Michael already
have that awareness. They will be the ones who come into individual
consciousness of the “ah-ha” moment and realize that “ah-ha,” this is a time of
deciding. This is a time that is very familiar to fundamentalist Christians who
decide—come into consciousness with the Christ consciousness—to be observant of
the good around them, and to know that their lives are in transition all the
time through their awareness of Christ being in their life all the time. No, we
do not foresee an awakening of the old times that are spoken of in the Old
Testament, or the New Testament, and of those moments when the Spirit of Truth
crossed the boundaries of consciousness on your world so that it entered the
minds of all those who were open and receptive (and even those who weren’t) to
awaken those who had the possibility of knowing that something was afoot of a
spiritual nature. Thank you.
Raymon: Thank you Machiventa.
Support those who make sense
Dennis: Thank you for taking my question. This
is Dennis from central Colorado. In your opening statement I heard you say that
if the president is re-elected, there is a likelihood of martial law,
presumably to counter the violence from his opposition. My question is, given
the shortness of time before the election, what can I do, and what can other
members of this group do or change to influence or alter this outcome?
MM: I would like to correct your first
statement. I did not say that martial law would be enacted if this current
president were re-elected. I conditioned that in further statements to other
questions that related. The real importance of your question lies in “what can
I do?” One, you can support those individuals who, when they make speeches,
make sense. Make sense in terms of what is good for all humanity—what is of an
equal nature for all humanity. It is important that the presence of women be
wholeheartedly included in all democratic processes in the future. There are
some who do make good sense and they need your support. It is one of the
fallible points of your democracy that it is divided. It is divided among a
two-party system, and yet it is workable in some regard. You have seen
multiparty systems come to a quagmire of decision-making and incapability in
France and Italy. Multiple parties are certainly useful, and you have yet, as
democratic nations, to formulate a process so that their voices are included.
That strengthens the process for all. This requires a higher consciousness that
surpasses most political consciousness at this time.
Pragmatic idealism
We
are enthusiastic, however, that there are pragmatic idealists who espouse
certain concepts in democracy that should be, could be, used in part and
applied in part to your current democratic process. Many would espouse
revolution—a total change of system, a total change of process. This is
untenable as well, for there is too much lost in revolution to be regained
through the idealism of those revolutions. What you are asking for is how to
become a pragmatist while striving to fulfill the ideal. You are really
addressing the points of the heart (as humans know the heart—the Christ
mindedness within yourself) to take on the work of higher-minded,
heart-centered work and still not be in opposition to the mindedness that is
required to manage a society and manage a planet. How can you be of assistance?
Be open-minded my friend. Thank you.
Dennis: I’m very grateful for your answer,
Machiventa. Thank you.
Craig: Good morning Machiventa. This is Craig.
MM: Good to hear from you Craig.
Evolution in the democratic process
Craig: Well, thank you. My question is
political as well, along…. perhaps, following this topic. We want to get to a
balance in our whole political system, but as I see it, the way we vote,
especially the single X ballot, seems to promote extremism. Instead of voting
for the person that we think we might like the best, we vote for the person
that we think is most likely to prevent the one we like the least from
attaining the office. So, without going into specifics, is the changing of the
balloting system, in particular, a way to help get better balance and swing
that pendulum towards the middle instead of to the extremes? Thanks.
MM: We wholeheartedly agree with you, and
we see that changing the ballot process is one of many changes that need to
take place in democracies. This would be a part of the evolution of the
democratic process. There are many factors involved in an evolution of a social
institution [such] as the democratic process. It is not individualistic in its
means, but of multiple approaches to advancing the interests of everyone. You
will hear more about this in the near future. You may have an interest in one
of the future videos that comes about that talks about the three stages of
democracy, and that the current stage—Stage II Democracy—has outgrown its
usefulness. It is now antiquarian, and must evolve into the third stage, or
revert back to the first stage. We, of course, of the Correcting Time, in the
interests of the Most Highs, espouse that which is for the good of the Correcting
Time and the advancement of socially mature, spiritually eager societies and
social institutions. This is the necessity of these times. You are in the
greatest transition of human civilization ever to occur on this planet. It will
impact all 7.8 billion people in the eventuality of time, and particularly
those who remain after the decimation. You are in many ways building a future
that is tenable, that is workable, that is malleable, that is adaptive—one that
takes on the concerns of thoughtful decision making as you suggest in the
ballot. This is the essence of an advanced democracy where citizens are the
final authority for the state of existence of their democracy, and, ultimately,
the final responsible authority to do so. This is a great absence that
is occurring in Stage II Democracies now—citizens do not feel
the weight of that responsibility, and thus do not give their decisions the
weight of thought they deserve.
Feedback in democratic systems
Craig: Thank you. And it occurs to me that
something that even seems to be missing in our second stage democracies is a
process of feedback from the citizenry to the decision-making bodies. That once
they make a decision, they don’t know whether it was a good decision or a bad
decision, and it often affects society in adverse ways that aren’t being
recognized, perhaps until much later. Do you have a comment on that?
MM: Well, certainly and thank you for your
question/statement. This is music to our ears. Democracy is impossible without
feedback to those who are ultimately responsible. This is a way of changing the
power structure of the current democratic process where you have the executive
branch, judicial branch, and the legislative branch. All of these are players
in the middle between the people who are the ultimate authority, and the
people, the public, who are ultimately responsible. The process we see in the
future would be that these individuals who are elected or appointed in these
three branches would become more technically expert in their fields of endeavor.
Their work, as they perceive it now, is to obscure public participation. This
must change, so the feedback process must become more immediate and much more
accurate.
Rebuilding in alignment with the 7 values
Let
me cut through all of this, please, to help you understand what we are doing in
the long scale. What we are doing is rebuilding your civilization. How can you
do that? You must have the right tools, the right dimensions, and the right
processes to make that work. For one, we are espousing the use of the seven
values. These are measurable, these are timeless, these are your metric tools
that you can use to make consistently moral and ethical decisions. That, and
public feedback from those processes that are public, can help you make better
decisions.
What
is so confusing to all of you is the human interpretations of those
seven values. You have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of
interpretations of those values, but there is no process that you have at
present to take back or go back or revert back to the final analysis of where
those interpretations have come from. Once you have that final analysis, then
you can begin building social institutions that are functional, that work, and
that are fair. The unfairness that you have now is due to personal
interpretation and the manipulation of those values that America and the
democracies hold so dear. That they are now subject to further interpretation
by those who are in power—to benefit themselves. What is further necessary is
that from these seven values emanate a rational and logical ethic and morality.
This is the final analysis for a functional democracy—that its morality and
ethic that underlie the basic tenets of freedom, social institutions, and the
governance of the public stand in place and be unshakable. This is necessary
for a rational democracy and for the Days of Light and Life to come into being.
You are now sitting on quivering sand as you hear the earthquake beneath you in
social, political, and economic dimensions. It is now [time] to think of and
prepare for permanence—timeless, immutable, irreversible, and
irreducible values that hold permanence for everyone concerned universally.
Thank you.
Craig: Thank you very much, and we see once
again that it comes back to the basics of the program that is being espoused in
the Correcting Time program and all the basic things that are being promulgated
in that. Thank you very much.
MM: Thank you.
Asking for help and growth—be open to it
Doug:
Good morning. Thanks
for taking my call Machiventa. You ask us to open up and seek our own
connection with God within. My question is, how do we ask for help and growth
without that falling over to selfish prayer?
MM: Well, the answer is one you can apply
immediately, and we wish you to no longer ask, but to realize that God is
available always, all the time, and immediately for you. You do not have to
ask for this, you simply have to become open to it. And you may ask for
God to assist you to become open and willing to receive God’s guidance in your
moments of stillness, thoughtfulness, and reverie. It is important that you
understand the difference. You are not praying for God; you are praying for
yourself. You’re asking God to help you to be open to receive God’s guidance.
That is always available for everyone equally. Does this help, or can I explain
this further for you?
Doug: Yes, I guess the notion of selfish
prayer, that somehow asking for things for yourself, is kind of not what we are
intended to do. That if I wanted to see love in the world, I need to send God’s
love out to the world and, therefore, I receive God’s love through
that—as opposed to just asking for God’s love for myself.
MM: Correct.
Doug: Thank you for your time.
MM: You’re most welcome. Thank you for your
time.
Liz on a journey—personality gravity
Liz: Good morning Machiventa. It’s good to
be with you again. Thank you as always for being with us. I’ve been quite taken
by the concept that I can be a student at Melchizedek University, and that
makes me kind of excited to go to sleep at night and look forward to whatever
lessons I am privileged to have. So, the other night I had an experience, and I
differentiate this from a dream. This seemed like no dream. I was in the middle
of the ocean in something like an outrigger canoe with someone else and I asked
where the map was to get us to the place where we were supposed to go as there
was no land in sight. And the person with me (the guide) said: “We don’t need a
map. Personality gravity will pull us to them.” So, my question is: Is
personality gravity a thing? And my follow-up question is: Is the lesson here
that I should just relax and know that I will be drawn to the right people at
the right time where I can be of the most service, or is there something more
that I should take from this experience? And feel free to disabuse me if it was
simply a dream.
MM: I chuckle to myself in your statement and question because
it is a rare moment when we get to observe this in others—what you have
experienced. And no, this was not “just a dream.” This was your lucid encounter
with your Thought Adjuster on a canoe of life crossing the great void of the
unknown. Yes, there is personality gravity. This is real. It is something that
you are well acquainted with, and we hope you will become even more fully
acquainted with. It is being open to say to your Thought Adjuster, your
teachers, and angels, to say that, “I’m open to be led to those individuals who
will be of assistance to me, and please help me to avoid those who would not.”
And you ask that they assist you to be attracted to those individuals who would
assist you and to avoid those who would not. And then, upon asking that and
saying that to them, you would say: “Would you be willing to do that with me?”
And they will say yes. And then you will say: “Please move ahead to fulfill
that. Who do I need to meet next?”
This is very conversational. It is very
personal. It is something that is very intimate to your spiritual growth and to
the fulfillment of your life’s mission during your mortal lifetime. This is
conscious, spiritual evolution in the making. This is something that you can do
with your guardians, your Thought Adjuster, teachers, and those Midwayers who
are of assistance to you. You want to be led to those individuals who can help
you, and those individuals who can help you would be led to you, and
that you have the mindedness to discern which is which and what is helpful and
that which is not. You see, during your brief mortal lifetimes you really do
not have the time to dally about in the time that you have remaining. That you
use your time wisely, and that for those students that are spiritually diligent
and want to earnestly move forward in their life’s career and their life’s
work, that they have the greatest advantage to do so. And that they can be most
productive in assisting their soul growth and being of service to Christ
Michael at the same time. This is a remarkable coincidence, and we
appreciate your sharing this with us.
Liz: Well, thank you so much.
Scott: Good afternoon Machiventa. It’s a
pleasure to be in your company and to be speaking with you once again. As a
long-time practitioner of politics at a very practical level (since my
youth—quite a number of decades ago now), I’ve been involved in many different
undertakings, including trying to help restore… Oh, by the way, I’m from
Imperial Canada, so I’ll be talking a bit about the Canadian context of
parliamentary democracy. We had a very big split between conservative-minded
people that created a situation where winning an election was next to
impossible to do because of that. However, there were a lot of good reasons for
that separation that many of us in the Legacy Party found important. I guess
one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is: we managed, finally, after about 10
years of sustained effort and a couple of leadership contests, [to realize the]
necessity of the status quo parties—the two parties—brought them back together
again which I think [helped] restore competitive balance. And I think a
competition is very, very important, but it occurs to me that the citizenry of
our respective countries don’t appreciate the blood and sacrifice that was made
by so many brave men and women in the Pacific Rim and in Europe in
particular in the world wars to give us the privilege of electoral
franchise. And there’s work to be done to help educate and elevate them to
understand that their lack of participation is really self-fulfilling in terms
of a.) bad, non-progressive outcomes to election campaigns, and b.) not helping
us evolve as we might otherwise be able to do. It’s also occurred to me,
through some of the other sessions and reading I’ve been doing during this
period of time, that it would be very helpful for people in the Urantia
movement in particular to help write op-ed articles and to try to get work out
into the public domain through social media or other ways, that could open up
the hearts and minds of more fundamentalist Christian thinkers and even other
faiths to recognize God’s Supremacy and His very real presence and availability
for all of us. There’s a lot of great writing that’s been done by members of
the Urantia community. I think particularly, always, of Meredith Sprunger (who
I had the privilege of meeting a number of times a long time ago) [and his
works] like “The meaning of the Cross”, for example. Maybe we should be working
on getting more organized to put a lot of this information out and to put ideas
out as well. That would be very helpful for the teaching time that we are in
right now. And also, it was very disturbing for me to hear that efforts to get
people in the AI industry more educated to contemplate their responsibilities
beyond just the bottom line did not succeed and maybe there are things that
could be done through public opinion to help with that as well.
MM: And your point, sir?
Scott: Are these things we could be doing to
help mobilize people to be writing more, trying to put information out and
op-ed pieces into newspapers, magazines, and social media that would be helpful
to the uplifting and to changes that need to be made to get people more tuned
into the fact that changing government is not a hopeless situation? The
opportunity is within everybody to participate more actively and appreciate the
privilege of franchise that so many other countries in the world do not have.
That may help spiritually uplift the process and changes that are being sought.
MM: I do not know how to respond to your
long statement.
Who has the power to change that?
Scott:
I’m sorry it was so
long. I’m just speaking from personal experience about how so many people feel
that there is nothing they can do to make change, and it occurred to me that
the knowledge and insight that many of us have in the Urantia community and
those who are choosing to participate in the Correcting Time, that we could be
helping to give hope and uplift people and lead them to higher ground.
MM: A moment please. I challenge you: Who
has the power to change that?
Scott: Well it’s up to individuals who have
the free will, obviously, to make those changes.
MM: Exactly.
Scott: And I think in terms of the concept of
personality gravity and everything. But if we help bring out different ideas
more into the public domain in a higher profile way, then maybe we can help
change this defeatist culture that we seem to have, and the thinking that
there’s nothing you can do about it, all politicians are corrupt, etc. etc.,
right? And we can’t strive for the higher levels that you were commenting on
earlier this afternoon.
MM: Again, who has the power to change
that?
Scott: We do. With God’s help.
MM: And who is we?
Scott:
I guess we as
individuals who….
MM: How about starting with me? The little lowercase
“me”—meaning yourself. Do you have the power?
Scott: I believe I do, and I think I’ve seen
the effects of that positively in past undertakings of attracting good quality
people into public life and changing the parliamentary structure here in
Canada.
MM: Then you need to tell others that you
have the power, and ask them: “Do they have the power?”
Scott: Yes.
Power is very fluid
MM: You see, power is very fluid. If you
say you have the power, you have the power. When you forget to say that you
have the power, then you have given away your power and you are powerless. And
others can use your power of not saying anything. It is important that you
empower yourself by saying: “I have the power.” This is the only way that
democracies survive. This is the only way that dictatorships are
overthrown to become democracies. You must say: “I have the power,” and through
that you can express your God-given sonship with the Creator—that you have the
power and you have the power through Christ, Christ Michael, Jesus and his way
of life. This is something that can appeal to Christian liberals, Christian
conservatives, and all God-believers no matter of what persuasion—whether they
are liberal or conservative. If you are centered in God, then you love your
neighbor and you would empower your neighbor to empower themselves and empower
more people beyond that. It is important for individuals to realize that
democracies are totally dependent upon the empowerment of the citizen. You have
said so yourself. You have said so in the statements that they need to be
educated and the education begins by saying: “I am empowered. What do I need to
do to express my power peacefully?” Thank you.
Scott: Thank you.
JT: We have more questions, but I’m afraid
we are out of time. Machiventa, do you have a closing statement?
Empower yourself, empower your society
MM:
Certainly. This is
Machiventa Melchizedek. These last statements that were just given to Scott are
to everyone. It is to everyone who wants to change this world to become a
better world, to become a world that is openly, eagerly receptive to the
presence of God, to the presence of a good society, and to being
responsible for what occurs around themselves and in themselves—what they
think, what they say, and what they do—and to encourage others to live a
rightful life. I do not use the word “righteousness” as it has been abused so
many times in the past; but rightful living and rightful thinking are necessary
to have a life that works both for an individual, for a family, and for a whole
society. If you’re not able to participate as a functional, working part of
your society, then empower yourself to do so. And empower your society and your
agencies of governance to assist you in that process.
You are not powerless. You have the power of the God
presence within you.
You
are not powerless. You can call upon your Thought Adjuster to assist you. You
can call upon your Thought Adjuster to bring you to individuals who can assist
you and to whom you can assist. Your guardian is there to assist you [to] do
the same. You can also empower your Thought Adjuster (though it is a totally
independent authority) to move ahead in a direction that you think is
useful and God-like. You can do the same for your guardian angel and to the
teachers and angels who are around you.
You
are not powerless. You have the power of the God presence within you to make
decisions that are God-like, and to empower those spiritual beings around you
to assist in doing God’s will through your life. We give thanks for your
presence here today, and for your empowerment, and how you will be a
meaningful participant and creator of the future you want your children to live
through. Thank you.
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