2021-02-08, RRS #2, Machiventa
Rapid Response Solutions #2
Machiventa
Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
World Economic Forum simulations
Feeling the Love
Spreading the Love
How individuals experience love varies
Helping the political situation
The importance of discernment
Using discernment
Your world is extremely cranky, but…
A new hope
Sharing the Progressive’s Handbook
Praying with the angels
Competing factions
Idealism of the 60s and millennials today
Voter turnout
State of the media today
Twilight of The Urantia Book
The “why” question
Celestial expectations
Garner the wisdom of these days
TR: Daniel Raphael, PhD
Invocation: Jeff
2021-02(Feb)-08
World Economic Forum simulations
Machiventa: Good
morning, this is Machiventa Melchizedek. We will
begin with questions if you have any.
Jeff: Good morning Machiventa, this is Jeff.
Are you familiar with the World Economic Forum and their sponsored subforums?
MM: We are aware of many economic forums around the world. That would
be one of them, but please go ahead.
Jeff: I’m seeking a comment, if possible, on a past simulation event
that they did, and on one that is coming up soon. The first event that I’m
asking about is the event they called event 201 which preceded the Covid
crisis. Can you comment on that?
MM: No, I cannot. Do you have further information to provide to my
team?
Jeff: I’ve sent information to JT, and if it meets with your approval,
I’ll ask him to send that to the group and I’ll ask my questions at the next
meeting. [JT: Jeff asked me to share with you a link to the subject
matter of his question today for Machiventa. Here it
is: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/
just published an article titled From "Event 201" to "Cyber
Polygon": The WEF's Simulation of a Coming "Cyber Pandemic."]
MM: Certainly. Is there a particular question you had about it, or a
general question about some situation?
Jeff: My understanding is that event 201 was a simulation that was
entered into in September of last year [JT: 2019] dealing with a worldwide
pandemic and miraculously, after that the Covid crisis came up. Cyber Polygon
is the next scheduled event in July, and it is basically a simulation to see
how robust the security systems are against a worldwide cyber-attack on banks
and financial organizations all at once, and I do not know the intent of this
group—whether it’s malevolent or friendly. I’m just seeking some guidance.
MM: Thank you. We look forward to having This One and others read the
material. Thank you.
Jeff: Thank you. That’s all I have.
Feeling the Love
Rick: So, Machiventa, my wife Liz (who’s here
today with us as well with her computer,) has, in my life, shown herself to be
a deeply, spiritually resonate person and she picks up things that I, being a
reasonably bright, intuitive, and artistic guy miss. And she shared with me
(not for the first time) recently that she feels this very strong spiritual,
celestial power in an unusual amount being poured upon the world. My question
is 1, is it true, and 2, is there something that we as individuals can do to
enhance and support this power?
MM: Certainly. Number 1, we completely affirm and confirm her
perception of tremendous outpouring of spiritual energy and love upon this
world. It is important that those who are receptive to this energy and love
receive it, feel enlightened, and [are] willing to contribute to the good of
humanity no matter which nation or location they are in.
Daniel: The second part again?
Spreading the Love
Rick: The second part was: What can we do to individually, and I think actually you are answering it, to support and help this
manifestation? And I do have a third part too, but let’s finish with the
second.
MM: Yes, it is important that the individuals…. There are several
factors involved in making receptive individuals highly effective. One, is to
be open and ready to receive and to see themselves as receiving. Two, is
that this is an empowering process for them to expand their consciousness and
to then send their consciousness that reflects this love and energy out onto
the world of other people. This way there is an amplification of Spirit’s
outpouring of love and this vibration or energy upon the world. Your third
question?
How individuals experience love varies
Rick: The third part is: In March of 2017, I started feeling an overall
irritation, anxiety, and so forth. And a year and a half later, you mentioned
in one of your posts you said: Yes (18 months ago was your reference) that
there was some sort of change in the energy and so forth. And I apparently felt
that as anxiety. I don’t feel it as much now, but I still feel it. And maybe if
I were a more highly spiritually-evolved person, I
would see this as positive and [uplifting,] but my question is: “Are there
those of us that are experiencing this energy surge as (I’m searching for the
word) anxiety for lack of a better word?”
MM: Yes. There literally millions of people who are feeling this.
Your interpretation depends on your own emotional, energetic imprint upon
yourself. If you tend to be an anxious person or curious about what’s going on
and feel insecure, then you will interpret it that way. However, other people
feel that it is exciting, exhilarating, uplifting, and that it is like a shot
in the arm that is good for you—no reference to the vaccination. So, you and
millions of other people are participating in this mostly unconsciously, but we
would prefer that people be conscious of this, recognize it, and then want to
do something with this energy.
Rick: Thank you.
Helping the political situation
Craig: Good morning Machiventa. I’m thinking at
the moment about things we can do to help with the
political situation it there’s anything that can be done. I guess for
each person the answer is different. What can I do? I was kind of wondering if
you had anything specific for myself that you thought might be valuable in the
coming weeks to be trying to accomplish?
MM: Certainly. There is something specific for you and that is to…
You have a very active mind, a very capable mind. You have a great background
of intelligence and you’re very inventive. We ask that you also be highly
discerning which is what I will speak about next—that you be open and receptive
to alternative ways of thinking. Be a possibility-thinker and discern what
works and what does not work. We know in saying that, that you can interpret
that in many different ways about [what] works and
what does not work. You can interpret that to be applied to households and
families, or you could apply that to the social peace of a community or of a
nation and state. I think with that I will close that statement. Do you have
other questions?
Craig: I don’t think so. Thank you. I’ll keep my ears and my mind open
as much as I can. I hope I can contribute.
MM: Certainly. We certainly appreciate your participation in this
group. You bring something that no one else does and so it is unique, particular, and even peculiar to you and we have a great
appreciation for that. We know that you do not say much, but that your mind is
always active and open, and you are presenting many other factors for us to
take note of as we sense your thinking. Thank you.
Craig: Thank you.
The importance of discernment
MM: I will now launch into my discourse—my lesson—which is not very
detailed, but you may have questions afterward.
The aspect of discernment is highly important to your situation
now in America and the world. The difficulties that democracies are having is a
topic which has been almost foremost in the minds and thinking of everyone who
is attached or working with your planet, the populations, and specifically
individuals and groups of individuals. We took note of the conversations and
the writings and questions of individuals who responded to last session’s topic
material. There is a very important lesson here for everyone. It does not
matter if you are pro-anything or against anything. This is useful as you are a
human being on a planet that is very controversial even among celestials and so
on. The point is this of discernment: Let us take media. And before I begin the
topic of media, let us examine an illustration that I have for you. You are
Newton back in the 1700’s and you are working on the theory of gravity and the
mathematics of gravity. You, as Newton, realize that all objects are attracted
equally without distinction to gravity. Every object in identical circumstances
would fall to the earth at the same rate of speed as any other object and take
just as long to reach the bottom as any other. The first experiments that began
testing this were those who used a small cannonball and they dropped it and
sure enough they discovered that over numerous experiments it took…
Daniel: Is it 16 feet/second/second?
JT: It’s 32 feet/second/second here.
MM: [Gravity] attracts all objects. So, they dropped a feather and of
course it took a lot longer. They realized that the feather was somehow being
obstructed by something which was air. So, eventually they had the means and
mechanisms to create a perfect or near perfect vacuum and they dropped the
cannonball or a small shot in a vacuum cylinder and it dropped at a known rate.
They then put the feather in the same cylinder with the air evacuated and it
fell at the same rate as the shot. This proved that under observation that
these two objects obeyed the laws of gravity that Newton had determined. Now,
the observers there actually saw this, and you can duplicate these experiments
in your own home. All you need is a small vacuum pump, a clear plastic cylinder
with stoppable ends, and you can duplicate the experiment. [JT: See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tEA8Vtc0o ]
Now when you see this, you will say “I see it as true.” And so,
someone who was not there may question you and say: “No, that is just not
true.” And even people today in the 21st Century
will say the same thing. There are people who are not
aware that objects under similar conditions fall at the same rate. Nonetheless,
so this person says: “Oh, it’s not possible.” So, one person says: “Well, I
observed it happen. I tried it with a shot, and then I tried it with a
feather.” And so, the one person says: “It’s true. It is true.” And the other
person says: “Nah, it’s not true. You’ll have to prove it to me.”
Using discernment
So, when you set this experiment to the side and you then go to
your media that reported on the confrontations that occurred on the 6th of January
at the United States Capitol, the only people who were there, who actually saw it, were the only people who actually
experienced this difficulty. And so many hundreds of others who were there and
reported on it. Others reported on the other persons reporting. And so, you
ended up with first, second, third, and fourth validated, hearsay evidence.
Now until you, as an individual, actually
witness and see with your own eyes and hear what is being said, you lack
a total comprehension of what occurred. So, what would the discerning mind do?
The discerning mind would, first of all, read several
sources—those they agree with and those they don’t agree with. And then they
would go to other further sources that seem to be indifferent to the whole
situation and are objective observers. The next thing you would do would be to
read the criteria of honest and authentic reporting—reportage—of news and
happenings that occurred so that you would then have the same criteria in mind
as those who wrote the ethics of reporting so that you could judge and estimate
the articles that you had been reading. Nonetheless, we know that some will say
that those which are in agreement with me were
correct, and those which are not were wrong. However, the discerning mind would
take all options into account to assess on their own the validity of what they
have read and what they’ve seen. Remember, that even when you see videos, the
person who is operating the camera is directing their attention of the camera
towards that which they want to report. And some will show videos of only the
things that they want to report and neglect the other things. They will neglect
recording those individuals who speak in ways that are contrary to the beliefs
of the cameraperson. And some will point the camera toward those who are
speaking “your-speak”—what you want to hear and what you would like to say
yourself.
So, when you hear these things—particularly now in American
reporting and media of all types—there is a high influence of fallacy in all
regards. You must be discerning. The person who has a discerning mind and is
challenging all fronts of news and media sources, they would then report, then
wait upon the passage of time and history to give a full accounting of what
occurred. Remember that every report will be interpretations of what
someone saw even though the videography that records sounds
and sights can be highly biased due to the thinking, values, beliefs,
preferences, and prejudices of the camera person.
Factual and ethical reporting in media is something that has been
going on for many decades, many decades. It is something that has been
questioned over the centuries. Even the patriots of the founders of the United
States democracy knew what reporting had to do to help win their side of the
confrontation with the British. So, you see that prejudice, bias, and opinionation have been common throughout the history of all
humanity whether it’s reported or not. The town crier who rang the bell at
certain hours and provided the news of the day had the same option for doing so
to imprint the populous with the bias of either the king or the
revolutionaries.
Your world is extremely cranky, but…
Liz: Good morning Machiventa, this is Liz.
It’s good to be with you today. I’m wondering if you would tell me what the
temperature of our world is. Are we feeling better, or are we still cranky?
MM: (Chuckling) Are you referring to the temperature as in
disposition?
Liz: Yes.
MM: The disposition is extremely cranky. What we are finding however,
is that there is a growing population of people who are experiencing joy. They
are experiencing pleasant relationships. They are experiencing their neighbors anew—meaning that they are discovering that people they have
not talked to, seen, or shared coffee with over their “fence” have rediscovered
them and have a kinship towards those in the grocery stores and elsewhere. As
we have said before, there is a continuing separation of those who can and
those who can’t or won’t. So, the disposition of the world now depends on where
you are located, the nation you live in, and your own personal circumstances.
There is still no great settlement that we can see in the “temperature” that
you speak of. There is great anxiety/angst among populations around the world
concerning the economy and concerning the prospect of contracting Covid-19 and
sharing it with their family and witnessing the deaths in their own families as
they witnessed that of friends, neighbors, and people in the cities and places
where they live. No, we cannot say that your world has changed tremendously
towards the positive, but there are those who are very indicative of a highly
positive nature for which we give great joy. It is our hope that this would be
shared with others as they greet strangers in the grocery stores, the parking lots,
or in the queue somewhere for whatever purpose. There is now a commonality
among all humanity which is in despair. The positive side is that this
commonality has brought about the sense of oneness that “we’re in this all
together so let’s be friendly until something more drastic happens or it all
gets better.” Do you have a further question?
A new hope
Liz: I do and thank you for that. I am feeling a sense of hope in
people that I have interactions with. Perhaps it’s because of the movement
toward vaccinations or I don’t know why, but I’m feeling it, I appreciate it,
and I was hoping that it was worldwide. I know that the “mousetrap” plan that
you and your team had has been changed, and I wonder if you would share with us
your current ideas about your activities.
MM: Yes. The “mousetrap” is a project which we have set aside. It is
not invalidated; it is still workable and can be put into implementation very
quickly. What we are working on now is the tragedy of the democracies around
the world. Not just the United States and its turmoil from before January 6th and
afterwards, but democracy around the world is in deep trouble. We are speaking
specifically of mature democracies—such as the United States, Canada,
Australia, and the whole group of mature democracies around the world. Those
democracies that are called “emerging democracies” and “developing democracies”
still have their challenges ahead even to become mature. What we have found in
mature democracies is what we call “feral democracies.” They have taken a turn
backward. They have become feral in that they will fight over every possible
scrap of positive news and positive economies to take advantage against
others—politically, economically, socially, and otherwise. There has always
been a competition between non-democratic nations and democratic nations as you
see with Russia, China, and others. It is most difficult that they should do
this as those nations have so much more in common than they have in opposition.
As you are well aware, nations do have a “personality
type.” Some have a disposition towards competition, some have their own
xenophobic nationalism, and some have an openness which is friendly to
everyone. The xenophobic competition usually stems from historic orientations
and to [the] ego personalities of despots, dictators, and others.
The work that we are now investing in is for mature democracies to
fully recognize their desperate and disparate situation where they alone will
fail, whereas they also have commonalities that, if these are recognized, they
will find their oneness and cooperate more fully. We have shared the
manuscript—the document that Avalah and This One have
created called The Progressive’s Handbook for Reframing Democratic Values
that is an important handbook for those individuals who want to know what a
more mature form of democracy looks like. This form of democracy is an
evolutionary stage that progresses out of the Stage 2 Democracies such as we
have listed a moment ago. “Stage 3 Democracies” involve a new way of thinking
about almost everything. The orientation is towards values rather than objects.
The old way of thinking was object oriented and the
new way of thinking is values oriented. This then translates the value of a
human from a quantity of 1 to a quality. What are the qualities of a
contributing person in a democracy? That is more important than that person
has, as a person, of 1 of a larger population of citizens in a democracy. This
valuation will be something that must come into existence as the objective,
empirical, object-oriented ways of thinking that are historic throughout many,
many millennia must give way to a more advanced way of thinking and living.
You live in a social environment. You are one person among many
even in your locale. In the cities of the world, you are one of many, and in
many, you bump into individuals—literally and figuratively—at stores, on the
internet, and in other places. However, if you see them as just one person you
want out of your way, then you are thinking the old thoughts. If you are
thinking this is a person who has some value, beliefs, and ideals that may be
akin to yours, maybe you, together can generate something highly positive for
both of you. And this is the orientation of Stage 3 democracies and this
evolved way of thinking.
We have shared the Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission with
you for decades. We have introduced you to the 7 innate values of homo sapiens,
of your race, of your species within the last 15 to 20 years. This now will
give way to applying those values and subsequent ethics and morality of those
values into your social environment. This must occur in order
for your nations to become peaceful, to become stable, to become
friendly environments to citizens at home and to citizens abroad and nations
everywhere. This is necessary. You must necessarily learn how to cooperate
locally before you can do so abroad and among nations. So, what we are
introducing are the very necessary steps of behaviors that you as individuals,
families, communities, societies, and nations must exhibit before the early
phases of the Days of Light and Life will arrive. It’s as simple as that.
Social evolution is a necessary part of life and living on any
planet. Even the non-decimal planets must go through this process of social
evolution. It is more easily managed because they are non-decimal planets;
however, as a decimal planet [it] is all experimental. Let’s see what the
natives will come up with. So, it may be positive things that will help all
populated worlds and new worlds in the whole Grand Universe, or it might be
just those worlds in the local universe. Nonetheless, wisdom is wisdom and is
appreciated throughout the whole universe and gaining that wisdom, as you know,
is a very difficult process. Wisdom only comes from experience—positive
or negative—where lessons are learned, lessons are reflected on, and you sum
that up and squeeze the wisdom out of those experiences. This is your job, this
is your work on a decimal planet, and you are now suffering some of the worst
casualties of society and civilization at this present time in a highly
overpopulated world. Only better times come ahead though you will see even
worse situations arise in the not-too-distant future. Thank you.
Sharing the Progressive’s Handbook
Liz: Well, that was a very comprehensive answer, and I appreciate
that. Would you suggest that I/we send this Progressive’s Handbook to
our local elected representatives at the city, county, state, and federal
level?
MM: My team and I have discussed this a number of
times, and we always come up with the answer, and it is “no.” The individuals
you will want to share it with are the local alderman/alderwoman, the local
politicians in your community who have an affinity towards humanitarian,
liberal perspectives. As you read that paper, you will find that there are
liberal and conservative perspectives involved there. If you read the brief
paper called Societal Morality, you will find it is highly positive, but
has some very conservative perspectives in it that will require individuals and
whole societies to make decisions about their society—who to promote and who to
assist and who not to. The problem with sending it to elected
officials and so on is that they will really not have a clue what you are
talking about. Almost none of them will read it through and may hand it to
their chiefs of staff if they have one, who will hand it to a student who is on
loan from the university or so on. This is where you will find greater
assistance. We would suggest in that vein that you provide this to millennials,
to universities—particularly to student bodies who are interested in the new
way of thinking. Remember that the millennials, the 18 to 28-year old’s, and 28 to 38-year-olds are not very fond of the old
man politics of Stage 2 democracies and regimes, yet they do not have a
workable alternative. These are the individuals who will literally inherit the
reins of leadership in your nation and other nations. By sharing it with these
young people and the leaders of these young people in their discussion groups,
you will have more influence on the future of what they devise for their
communities and their nations.
Praying with the angels
Liz: Well, thank you for that. That gives all of us actual things to
do. I want to just make one other comment of a personal nature and that is that
I have long prayed for better contact with the celestials that are in contact
with me and the other day I read a George Bernard 11:11 Progress Group post
that said that the angels love to be invited by us to pray with us. So, I’ve
been doing that, and I have to say that my prayer life has never been more
wonderful or fulfilling and deeply gratifying. I just wanted to put that on the
record. Thank you so much Machiventa for your time
today.
MM: You are most welcome. You see the effectiveness of your inviting
the angels to pray with you is that it gives them access to your mind to pray
with you as you pray. And as they pray with you, they will also be instructing
you about your prayers subtly and non-invasively. You will find, just as you
have, that your prayer life grows and becomes more embellished and more fulfilling.
Thank you.
Are there more questions JT?
JT: We have some and Stéphane has joined us. We will go to Craig
next.
Competing factions
Craig: Good morning again. Maybe this is just an observation or a
perspective, and maybe it relates to the object orientation verses value
orientation. I’m thinking of our institutions of all types, and it seems to me
that what’s been happening is that each institution seems to be acting more and
more for itself wanting to have more preeminence, power, recognition, profit,
or whatever it is and that these institutions aren’t working together, and they
aren’t working for the benefit of society, and that more and more our nations
are splintered into competing factions owing to all these competing
organizations. Do you have any comment on that idea?
MM: Yes, surely, I do, and we do. You are perfectly right. You are
correct. You have assessed the situation remarkably accurately. It is the
unfortunate situation of this nation, for example, that competition is highly
sought after. Money is highly sought after to gain advantages legitimately and
illegitimately. This type of thinking has invaded the minds of individuals— individuals
at home, individuals on boards of directors, and trustees. It has invaded the
thinking of high executives and even people on the assembly line. This is a
malicious malignancy within the social confines of a democratic society. It is
one of the things that we are striving to correct.
Our work as we have answered earlier, is to now invade those
domains of control, power, and authority so that they become aware of this new
way of thinking. This is a project we have been working on for a number of decades, and, as we have said recently, these
current times now offer themselves grandly to the scheme of Christ
Michael, the Most Highs, and to planetary managers all over Nebadon.
Thank you.
Craig: Thank you. That’s it.
Stéphane: Hi Machiventa, how
are you today?
MM: We are fine. Thank you, Stéphane. It’s good to hear your voice
once again.
Idealism of the 60s and millennials today
Stéphane: Thank you very much. I was late coming into
the call, but I heard some of your comments in the last 20 minutes or so, and
I’d like to challenge a bit what you said about how the millennials need to
hear what we have to say about Stage 3 Democracies and will be able to move
forward in the next generations with these ideas. I think back to the 1960s and
the days of challenges that the youth were presenting to the world—against the
wars, against the establishments, against the ways of those days—and I must
admit, I do not see the massive improvements that were idealized in those days
being materialized today. Do you see a difference between the ideals of those
generations back in the 60s and 70s and the ideals of the millennials today?
MM: First of all, thank you for your
statement and question, and yes, we do see a difference. The ideals of the
young people in the 60’s and 70’s were group ideals. They were cultural ideals.
They were wonderful ideals that were shared by millions of people, but as the
Vietnam war ground ahead and the wheels of industry ground ahead, these
individuals were caught in that machinery and squeezed out individually and as
groups. Many people—what you call old hippies—are still around, they still have
the same ideas and ideals, and look [for] means to express that. The
millennials—both of the groups I mentioned—have those ideals and higher, and
more pragmatically so, but they see from their parents and that generation and
the previous generation, that is virtually neigh on to impossible, and in fact
they have classic symptoms of societal depression—of seeing the situation as
hopeless and helpless, that their lives are dictated by old men in control and
[in] positions of authority and power, and that they are now working the only
means they know how to gain power and authority to work out their own ideals
for their own personal lives and that is through the acquisition of huge
amounts of money.
Nonetheless, they have no ideals as how to spend that, how to
share that to help break the great divide of the 1% and the 99%. We agree with you and we see that there is hope for everyone under the
right conditions. One of the things that is hardest to kill is hope among
individuals and groups of people. You might look to the Jewish people who have
throughout history been stomped on, squeezed out, killed, murdered, and
brutalized by genocide. However, they have succeeded in being identifiable as a
culture and as a people. They had hope in themselves to some degree to remain
visible, existent, and perhaps eventually even powerful in the world. They are
not the only people who have that. There is a wide swath of the population of
individuals in middle America who have the same hopes, the same angst, and
daunting feelings of never achieving those desires. [Later notation by MM: What
the wide swath of individuals in middle America do not have is a cultural
identity to unify their energies.] This is most unfortunate, and it is our
hope to overturn that. Thank you. I didn’t mean to obfuscate your question. Do
you have clarifying questions you’d like to ask?
Stéphane: Yes, thank you. I see the difference between
the two generations that we’re speaking of. One of the big events that happened
in-between, of course, was 1987, the abdication of the rebellion and all of the events that have happened since then also. And
when you talk about hope, can you quantify that hope by saying that we are
aspiring more for a better world today than we were then? We have more tools at
our [disposal] for our aspiration to become a reality.
MM: Yes, we agree with both of your points. Thank you.
Voter turnout
Stéphane: Machiventa, another
question I have is, you mentioned around the getting more involved with our
democracies. I’m’ going to take an example of the last US election just as an
example, but I think it portrays what goes on around the world in general. Even
though 20 million more people voted in the United States in the last election
than the previous one, this only represents 2/3 of the eligible voters. If
those 80 million people did not vote were to vote, where do you think
those votes would go? Would they improve the outcomes? Do you think that more
involvement in the election process would be a step in the right direction?
MM: There is no simple answer to your question as it is hypothetical
at its extreme. How it would change is dependent upon the constitution for the
demographics of the 80 million who did not vote. I can only speak from our
perspective rather than from a hypothetical situation and that is that we
understand and know that active people in the political process make a
difference, and it makes a difference when they are committed with their heart
as well as their mind. It is important that individuals become more engaged in
that which affects them so heartily from day-to-day, month-to-month, and
year-to-year. The interest must be more than just ideology, it must be some of
the pragmatics of family life, making a living, raising children, and seeing to
the future of those children. I know I’m taking your answer to the side,
but the direction and guidance of politics and policies are highly skewed
towards the financial, object-oriented qualities of a democratic society. This
must change as the economic divide will become wider and wider and then you
will end up with an economic revolution as occurred during the French
Revolution in 1789. It is important that that not occur. We are totally for evolution,
not revolution. Anything that we espouse must take the “r” out of revolution
to become more realistic in addressing the needs of humanity as
a whole rather than a very small percentage. I know that it probably
feels like we’re playing handball in a handball court with this topic, but I
hope you see our perspective on these issues.
State of the media today
Stéphane: Thank you Machiventa.
One last question is around the pandemic. It forces us [into] lockdown and of
course different communities are in different stages of lockdown, but it forces
us to have more access. The only access is through media—be it social media or
television media—for our views on the world. And of course, that is not always
healthy for us to have just more exposure to media, and I would think that that
is decreasing our ability to grow as individuals. So, my question is: “As an
effect of these pandemics, which are only going to increase, are we to be more
and more reliant on media or does this just mean that we need to be more
focused on local communities rather than media as our lives become more and
more locked down in nature?”
MM: First of all, you seem to be reading my
mind this morning. The topic you’re talking about now on media has to do with
the next topic I was going to bring up in [four] weeks, but I will reveal part
of that right now. Media is one among the social institutions of society,
whether it is a democratic society, a communist society, or a dictatorship
society. Media is a social institution, and were you to do sociological,
cultural, and anthropological research, you would find that all social
institutions have gone through phases of development, evolution, and maturity.
In the case of family practices, these are well established, but have not been
well documented so that they are not taught in public education. You have insurance
as a social institution. It has been well researched and put under the guidance
of laws and so on. And it’s the same for justice which means the police,
courts, and corrections.
As for media, media is a bad boy so to speak. It is working too
much on its hormones of profit making and influence pedaling to those who are
the highest bidders. It is a throwback to primitive social institutions that
used to be, which have matured. This is now what is occurring in some of the
thinking individuals in your society—that they are striving to promulgate rules
of conduct for media, that these be enforceable, and that there would be a
punitive effect at the same time that there is an
educational effort upon media to become better behaved and that it is
responsible for the status and the condition of society as a whole. And that
this becomes then a societal, moral obligation as other social institutions
have, towards the good of society—for its safe conduct, for its maintenance,
and for its good working order. Right now, media is a rabble rouser, a riot
maker, and a faction seeker. We wish to assist all efforts to civilize this
rampant misconduct. That is as much as I will say about this at this time.
There is more to say in the future, and I will leave it to another occasion.
Stéphane: Thank you Machiventa.
That ends my questions. Thank you so much for your reply.
MM: You’re welcome.
Twilight of The Urantia Book
Rick: My question is actually related to
Stéphane’s original question about the hippie generation and values. The first
Teaching Mission group I attended was in February 2001 called Celestial Nights
in Florida. In fact, Daniel Raphael attended some of those and I went for a number of years. The first year I was there, there were,
as I recall, 55 of us and I was struck by the fact that everybody seemed to be
the same age. So, I made it my business to go around and ask each of the 55
people what year they were born, and, as I recall the statistics, of the 55
people 52 were born within a five-year span between 1948 to 1952. And I thought
the statistical probability of having 55 adults show up and well over 90% were
born in a five-year period was extraordinary. So, the thought occurred to me
that there was some sort of spiritual planning by you guys during that period
of five years. Could you answer that question for me please?
MM: Gladly. And yes, you are correct. We have introduced many of the
spiritual influences into your societies and you cultures
at specific times due to the receptivity of those individuals who make contact
with these new ways of thinking spiritually and planetarily. It is intentional.
Our work here is definitely intentional, and we do
take advantage of streams of thought, changes of cultures, and so on. It is
important to do our successful marketing. We do market research ahead of time
which may seem very business-like, but the spirit for Christ Michael and
everyone is our business. It is important that people become cosmic citizens of
the universe who get to know who they are, where they are, why they’re here,
and what is in store for them along the way. [Daniel during editing: MM is
alluding to the revelations of The Urantia Book.]
We of course want people to be receptive to that. Does this answer your
question?
Rick: It answers my question, but it leads me to question 2 which is:
One of the things that is deeply, deeply, distressful to most of us UB readers
is that we’re aware that we’re all a bunch of old people. I turned 70 recently.
We’re also aware that there are very, very, very few people in their teens,
20’s, 30’s, 40’s or even 50’s who are following the UB. In other words what we
see, is that it’s dying out. And it’s not for lack of effort. I was a teacher.
I gave out I think a little over 50 copies (I’ve written down the people’s
names) and I didn’t just hand them out helter-skelter. I handed them out to
people who I thought it would resonate with, with very, very little
positive response. And when I say positive, I mean them becoming UB readers. I
know Fred Harris started a group ____ directly related to fostering young
people and I think, from what I know, there was very little success there. In
other words, it appears that UB followers are dwindling as we die, and that’s
deeply sad and distressing for both of us. So, my question would be: Why didn’t
you continue seeding after 1952?
The “why” question
MM: (Chuckling) Thank you for your question—put very bluntly. As you
know, the “why” question is always offensive to us as it requires justification
as we never ask why of any mortals. It requires a defensive response, and the
answer is that this was necessary at the time and to be carried no farther. We
admire the individuals who have taken that book and shared it to many thousands
of people around the world. They have been seeding the world over
and over again with the book in many languages. This is the
responsibility of those who read. As a marketer you would say that obviously
this book no longer feeds people and that people are
no longer interested in it and that it does not serve to publish it further.
However, the book does contain those ultimate responsibilities, obligations,
privileges, and honors to move forward with the grand ascension scheme of the
universe. This will never change. There are many tomes in history that have
been lost and forgotten for centuries and then became well known and
republished to great success. This too will lay as a seed among humankind in
many societies (perhaps not all societies) where it will be discovered once
again. It is one of those esoteric sources which fascinates people who enjoy
and appreciate esoteric communication such as what we are doing today. Do you
have a response to that or a question?
Celestial expectations
Rick: Yes. So, the UB was given to us as a seed for future generations.
It was not expected to be a worldwide success during its first 100 or 200
years.
MM: From the celestial perspective, expectations are null and void.
It is important to plant the right seeds at the right time for the greatest
success, and then to see where it goes. Remember that Urantia
is a decimal planet, it is an experimental planet and so it requires
experimental applications of celestial and divine insight to be shared with
mortals there to see what they do with it. It is important for us to see this
process work out and to make adjustments as necessary
along the way over the decades and centuries so that the truth of that book is
not lost. Thank you.
Rick: Thank you.
JT: Machiventa, do you have a closing?
Garner the wisdom of these days
MM: Yes, a brief one. We thank you for your attendance today. These
are difficult times which require excellent minds to appreciate and to garner
the wisdom that is here to be taken, to reflect upon what’s occurring in your
world, to be patient as it unfolds and to garner the wisdom that applies to you
and which can be shared with your family, community, nation, and the world. It
is important for us that you have been here all along over the years. It is
important that you hold these things in mind as we move forward. You can
anticipate that there will be further breaks in our communication via This One
in the future though that is not an immediate answer at this time. We know that
you seek a conversation with us in many regards, a place where you can ask
questions—those that are difficult, those that are easy to answer and to ask.
We thank you for your intelligence here and your participation with your
hearts, your minds, and your souls. We wish you good day.
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