2021-06-14,
New Era Transitions Planetary Manager’s Group #7, Machiventa
Planetary
Manager’s Group #7
Machiventa
Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Topics:
Develop
a working relationship with God’s presence within you.
We
are also here, and want to co-create with you
Pragmatic
expression of spirit
Improving
the quality of life for others in service
Seven
core areas of human experience and growth
The
October workshop on team building
Accepting
the indefinite
Ideal
representation in a democracy
More
on a political party across nations
Raising
the level of the conversation
Attract
the right kind of people
Our
agenda is about co-creativity
Revealing
the presence of the Celestials
Some
will choose the nothingness
A
base set of expectations
The
greatest challenges
Establishing
commonalities
Call
on your spiritual assistance to light your path
TR:
Daniel Raphael, PhD
Invocation:
Liz
2021-06(June)-14
Develop
a working relationship with God’s presence within you.
Machiventa: This is Machiventa
Melchizedek. Thank you for your presence here today. As I see you, I also have
a very large perspective around the world, around Urantia, to view many people
simultaneously—everyone at once and individuals in particular
as I choose. We wish you to have the same perspective of yourself among
billions of people—that you are one of many and that you have a personal
relationship with your Thought Adjuster, and it has a very particular one with
you. The acknowledgement of the God presence within you is a beginning place
that follows faith and trust and knowing that God is in you. And secondly, to
then develop a working, functional, conversational relationship with the God
presence within you is another step closer. That is an important one, and
oftentimes it does take not just days, weeks, and months, but sometimes years
and sometimes even decades. We know that for humans to accept the presence of spirit
within themselves as an active, functional entity that they can cooperate with,
coordinate with, and co-create with is spectacularly new for many people. Yet
this is the truth of your personal relationship with a Thought Adjuster—the God
presence within you.
You
see, as we've said many times before, it is not that you have
to beg God's presence to be with you. We bid you to open your
presence to the spirit within you. It is as simple as that. We have
always proffered our presence to you. It is simply your option to accept or
not. What [is] required to have any functional relationship with anyone is to
have an awareness of their existence, to acknowledge their presence, and then
to assert yourself into that presence so that you can begin a functional
relationship. But such it is with the God presence within you, your guardian,
your celestial teacher, and with many others. You have around you the presence
of many who are waiting for you to accept this proffered invitation so that you
can become a functional part of God's Universe and Christ Michael's Correcting
Time. Whether you participate in that Correcting Time as an individual—alone by
yourself without participating with others—it makes no difference to us. It is
simply that you have offered yourself to be of service to Christ Michael, to
Jesus, your guardian, and your Thought Adjuster. This is where we begin. This
is where you begin.
We
are also here, and want to co-create with you
Let's
take this one step farther now and we have proffered to you (“you” meaning everyone on the planet) the capacity to be in a
functional relationship with us and what we are offering you is our co-creative
energies to begin with you to announce our presence to the world—that we are
here and that we want to co-create with you. And this is not just a simple,
intellectual practice. It is not a simple devotional practice. This is a
pragmatic, spiritual practice that we wish you to invoke in your life and to
begin the process. You are seeing many people who are doing good in the world.
You were seeing many who are taking on projects as you have never seen before.
People are awakening to the fact that they are not just one, but you are one
among many and many are available to you to participate with you in the
energies of co-creation. Even other mortals are present with you to co-create.
This is an incredibly honorable time to be alive, particularly to be a believer
and now you can, as most mortals like to do, they like to do things. You
identify with doing—to enact activities to accomplish something. And so it is
that we are opening this new era to the functional, pragmatic, practical
relationship between spiritual entities, spiritual beings of the light, and you.
You may say “Well, where do I begin Machiventa?” You begin by acknowledging
that you have a relationship, you acknowledge that you have a willingness
to do something with spirit, and if you don't have a willingness to do
something with spirit, then there is no harm in withdrawing from that. You
simply believe and accept that spirit is here and that you are being guided
along your life. You plan to graduate into the morontial realm eventually,
ending your mortal career on this planet.
Pragmatic
expression of spirit
So,
you see, this is an opportunity for people who want to have what you call feet
on the ground. This is where the rubber meets the road. Where people put a
shovel in their hands and start digging. Many of you have been digging for
years and years, and now would like to do something. You would like to build
something; you'd like to express yourself in more pragmatic ways. You want your
spirituality to express itself in more pragmatic ways, and not as outward
efforts of piety or a demonstration of faith, but simply that you would like to
see your world become more peaceful—more socially stable, families become more
functional—able to raise children who are happy, and those children are
able to raise their own eventual children to be happy as well. Of course, that
requires some definition to define what happy is, and that's where many
people in the materialistic realm of your world are lost. So, it is a matter of
finding yourself. What we are seeing though is that there are many millions of
people, whether they are rich or poor, who are awakening to the fact that the
greatness of their wealth and their houses they live in does not get them
happiness, does not give them peace, and does not improve their quality of
life—they just simply have an abundance of quantity of life.
Improving
the quality of life for others in service
So,
you see, you are beginning to see what your neighbors are doing. You are part
of this community—this community of the Teaching Mission, Magisterial Mission,
Urantia Book, and so on. You're beginning to see your friends in these faith
belief systems where you actually visualize seeing
them do something with their faith. They are engaging the improving quality of
life for other people. It is not necessarily just going down to the soup
kitchen and volunteering to ladle out soup on weekends. No, this is much more
than that. This is you reaching out to improve the quality of life of
individuals at the soup kitchen. You may have a coloring program, teach people
how to color pictures much as children do. What do idle people do? What do they
think of? How do they keep themselves busy? How do they keep themselves from
going what prisoners have called stir crazy—that you become so immersed
in your own existence you’re lost to any intellectual, cultural pursuits. This
is most unfortunate. So, when you think of improving the quality of life of
some individual, at the soup kitchen for instance (and that is only a rough
example of many thousands of examples), you would want to know what would
improve your quality of life while you live in this situation. That is a very meaningful
question. They may defer to the materialistic realm, and we would suggest that
you don't reflect that, but you would engage them in a way that they would be
steered around to the quality of life rather than the quantity of life.
Of course, if it's wintertime and they are in need of
a quantity of warm clothing, you would most definitely want to fulfill that.
People must be warm and well fed before they can begin to think of doing other
things.
Seven
core areas of human experience and growth
So,
when you think of the traditional religious Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist
traditions of service to others, you may see this now in terms of quality of
life. This would have a great impact upon your immediate circumstances and your
own self-worth. Many religions, churches particularly, parishes, temples,
synagogues, and so on have lost their missions in life. They simply want to
preach the word and not assist people to enjoy and improve [their] quality of
life. What you want to do eventually is to bait the person you want to be of
service to (or the organization) so that they finally ask, “Well, how do you
improve your quality of life?” Of course, that puts you on the hot seat for
many aspects of your life. And all the while, you were looking at these people,
these individuals, impoverished people wherever they live in terms of the seven
core areas of human experience and growth. That would be the physical, mental,
emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual. When you want to be
of genuine service to people, you would want to assist them in exploring one or
two of these seven areas of human growth and expansion and development so that
they could improve their quality of life. This is most challenging for you as a
service person, a person who wants to be in service to others. Remember that
you as a growing soul have your own needs to grow and to improve the weight of
your soul. We have said before that you must make moral and ethical decisions,
overcome those memories of hurt and pain in your life—to work through those—and
then lastly be of service to others.
When
it comes to the inner work—the intrapersonal relationship—improving the quality
of life begins at that place too. To improve the relationship
you have with yourself and not to be bedeviled by past memories of hurt and
injury that you caused others or that were caused to you, is a tremendous place
for you to begin to be of service. And of course, you want to address your own
intrapersonal relationship first before you can be effective in assisting
others to do the same in their life.
You
know only too well and too often how many times we have spoken about the seven
values and the morality and ethics that emanate from those values and of the
growth that is needed in organizations. We have said before, years ago and
months ago, that it is helpful to infuse organizations with these values—with
that ethic and morality—and also now, to assist the quality of life of everyone
who is connected with that organization—whether it is the officers of the
organization's board of trustees, the senior corporate staff, middle
management, team leaders, supervisors, and the wonderful sea of employees who
support the ongoing production of the work of that organization. How do you
improve the quality of their life? Oddly, this COVID-19 pandemic has created an
opportunity for exploring alternatives to the quality of life involved with
employment—whether it is being a remote worker, in the corporate offices, or on
the production floors of a warehouse, for instance. This has made a difference
in many people's lives. Consider the quality of life that this has created. And
for some it may be just the opposite—that it has created a lesser quality of
life than before. Nonetheless, when you change people's lives, you change the
circumstances of how they react to it and how they react to their own reaction.
People seek to have a stable platform in life to live upon. It is not meant to
[allow] people to indulge their laziness or their unproductiveness. It is an
opportunity to become productive, inventive, ingenious, and to express your
individual ingenuity in many wonderful ways. Remember, there are seven spheres
in which you can express that.
The
October workshop on team building
The
workshop that we had in May was a very intense workshop for advanced
spirituality—for experiencing the practice of advanced spirituality. The one
that we will be holding in October in Eugene, Oregon will be of a much
different caliber—a different type. It is for those individuals who have been
transformed by their own spirituality and those who wish to be of service (and
those two categories are not necessarily combined). This will be teaching
people how to do something practical in their local community, how to start a
local community design team, to organize it, to initiate it, to enlist people
to do team bonding exercises, and to then learn to teach the processes of the
design team to individuals of potential teams, and then to actually sit down
and figure out a problem among the five to eleven people, that they must go
into that indeterminant phase where they have to work together, where they
communicate with each other. This is an important phase of team building that
is essential to the actual production of accomplished works later
on. There are at least two occasions where there are indeterminate
activities.
One
is the team bonding—team building—and the second or third is the indeterminant,
indefinite process in the team where the team is confronted with the issue of
finding a topic, coming to agreement on a topic, and then beginning to work
on the topic. There's only so much that a facilitator of a workshop can teach
the potential teams. It is important that teams attract those individuals who
want to initiate activities that assist the quality of life of their own
family, their community, their neighborhood, their city, state, and so on. This
is a place where leaders come forward. This is a place where incredibly helpful
followers come forward. And when I use the word followers, this is definitely not a demeaning position at all. Do not think
that for once. It is the individuals who ask questions that are most important
in the team—people who have that intuitive capacity and insightful and incisive
capacity to ask questions which slowly dig deeper and deeper.
Sometimes
the right question can cut through days of work of a team that is befuddled by
what to do next or how to approach the problem. This is a time when there is a
need for reflection. There is a synchronicity that can occur when people do
take a break from the team and go apart. They might take a day off. They may go
work in the garden, but through this process of reflective moments of
restorative calmness in their life, they oftentimes come to sudden insights
about what they were doing. This is the synchronicity of leadership that the
leader—the facilitator—can see that the group is stymied, needs to move ahead,
and perhaps needs to take a break from all of it.
Accepting
the indefinite
You
may think that, perhaps, we are overemphasizing these teams and the values and
so on. We have been working with This One for over four decades. It is
important that the investment that has been given by us is seen to be
productive. We too have a need for seeing the productiveness of our efforts
with individuals and groups of individuals. And we do particularly work with
individuals who have the centeredness, the balance, and the groundedness to
accept the indefinite. I chuckle, because this is the most difficult problem of
being spirit led—those indefinite times where there seems to be no direction.
But you are doing as the Zen Buddhist would do—you are letting that be revealed
to you, and then you will begin.
If
you have questions, I'll be most glad to answer them. Thank you.
Ideal
representation in a democracy
JT: Alright, I'll start a
question-and-answer session. I'll start with some questions from Walt. He asks:
“What ratio of representatives to citizens do you recommend as optimal?”
MM: Ironically, it is 1:1.
I say ironically because a highly functional democracy chooses to accept the
input of every citizen and proactively provides the means by
which they can do that. A representative would be one who gathers the
opinions and preferences and choices from those 1:1 relationships
such that they can present a rational, necessary, proactive agenda of
legislation to their state legislature or their house in the Congress that
would make sense to a broad spectrum of other people in that nation. Thank you.
JT: And he asked you to
please provide one or more examples of a successful process used to validate
public sentiment in the context of individuals becoming very involved in their
own governance.
MM: We have none at this time. Thank you. We do invite you to begin though,
Walt.
JT: All right. He asks:
“What practical ways can we approach validating the morality and ethics of our
government's conduct?”
MM: This has been given to
you numerous times. You are well acquainted with the
social sustainability schematic for design and validation. The same instrument
can be used to validate the ethics and morality of the behavior of individual
elected officials or appointed officials. This would follow the same process as
a design team process. This would be a design team process oriented
towards moral and ethical questions. The process is the same, but the genre of
questions and issues to be examined would, perhaps, be different. Thank you.
More
on a political party across nations
JT:
Walt
says, “You said in your last meeting that there will
be a public political party of the people across nations. Does that refer to a
grassroots version of the United Nations? Please clarify and or elaborate.”
MM: No, it would not be an
organization such as the United Nations or any other similar organization. We
are inclined to think that eventually there would be individual local community
political parties that are interested in soliciting and gathering public opinion
preferences, choices, and so on concerning multiple issues. And that in the
eventuality of work that these local design teams do that there would be
reaching out to other teams in other communities whether that is locally, or in
a city, or state, or nation, or across nations. You see, the immature
perspective of human existence is that you are all separate and that your
nation is separate from other nations, and that you have nothing in common with
you except how we can make money with you or from you or together. The reality
is that humans are basically all the same. They all have the same basket of
needs and value interpretations that emanate from the seven core values that
every human has within them. This is the bonding element that ties your political
organizations, future political organizations, and their legislation together.
When nations and states begin thinking in those terms, they will begin thinking
and solving common problems and attune to each other at the individual basis
for resolving those problems. You are seeing even today in the G7 and the other
forums of nations where there is identification with each other, but there is a
difference of opinions about topics and issues.
Of
course, what it will take is the consciousness of some initiators—some
grassroots starters—to begin this process. It is something that definitely has a great future to it, and the calamities,
catastrophes, and cataclysms of the present era (which will continue) will
force these groups to work together [rather] than separately. You can become
more powerful by joining the forces of two individuals than by two individuals
working apart. It is that kind of synergism which necessity will bring forward
to humankind. Thank you.
JT: And his last question
is: “You stated, ‘It is important that the authority of the public be balanced
with its responsibilities.’ Please provide concrete examples of both positive,
effective ways the public should exercise authority, and what are the
responsibilities necessary to balance the exercise of authority?”
MM: I have given you the
answers to that question in the two former questions. Thank you.
JT: Thank you. This is
Recca. Good morning Machiventa.
MM: Good morning Recca.
Raising
the level of the conversation
Recca: It’s different to be
with you in this format. Thank you. It's hard for me to write down a question
before I speak it. So let me ask this. [During] our last election cycle, I was
prompted to examine the precinct distribution of votes at my precinct level here
in Oregon in my county. I also belong to a community club which is mostly rural
activities. I also belong to a town soup kitchen sort of community club. I
belong to several different areas of my interests. I also sing music in a
public space. Are you speaking in terms of co-design community teams taking
aspects and membership in each of these individual groups and raising the level
of the conversation to the quality of our group memberships? Is that how we
affect these changes now on our own levels?
MM: Thank you very much
for your thoughtful question. The answer is yes. Yes
is always a good place to start, and you would want to look particularly for
activist people. If you have an activist group that you belong to, then you
would want to assist them to improve the quality of their activism. Simply
holding a rally, overturning police cars, and burning the fronts of buildings
is very much a demonstration, but it is socially irresponsible and highly
immoral. What you would want to do is to begin working or suggesting with the
inner workings of an organization whether they would be interested in learning
more about a process for making effective choices and preferences that would
work well with other organizations and groups.
Attract
the right kind of people
Most
organizations do have a self-centered agenda. They want to show others that
they are effective so that other people will join them and will donate their
money to it so that they can make bigger placards, rent bigger spaces, rent
tables and chairs, and so on to hold these rallies and groups. You would want
to work with individuals who have the leadership capability to want to
appreciate what they can do more effectively. Unfortunately, you will find many
individuals who take ownership of new ideas and who deny that using them would
be worthwhile. They want to double down and try their efforts at their old
processes more strongly. When you see this occur, then you have hit a brick
wall, and your efforts would fall upon deaf ears. What you are looking for
(just as you have been attracted to this forum and to the work that
we're doing with many here) are people who are open to
receive—people who are curious, people who are minded, people who have a sense
of the wholeness of life rather than the selfishness of one organization.
And
yes, those individuals are rather rare. Whether it is in a huge political party
or whether it is in an office improvement committee. You want to attract people
who are willing to listen. If someone is always taking the floor and dominating
the discussions, then that person, surely, would not have time to listen to
what you're doing unless there is a self-interest involved in what you present
to them. There are many limitations working with mortals on
Urantia—particularly in organizations. They take ownership of what they're
doing—they have invented the wheel and they don't need any spare tires. So,
many innovative individuals would find that they are socially rejected and
their ideas alongside them. We are hopeful though because we have attracted
you. You are one individual who meets many of those criteria and you have come
forward. And so, this is not impossible. There are capable, caring,
compassionate, empathic people who have the intellect and character to lead
others forward in a direction that is productive for humankind. Do you get my
drift so far?
Recca: I do. I do understand
what you're saying. I also happen to know myself fairly well,
and I am all of those things, but I'm also lazy and unproductive. So, it's sort
of a wash there. My experience has been that dropping a word in a conversation
or bringing two people together with myself as a third party who are interested
in accomplishing service is that 1:1 ratio that you're talking about. It is a
1:1 exchange of ideas, uplifting of those ideas, and improving or contributing
to the goal of community. Yes, I understand what you're saying. Thank you.
MM: Do you have other
questions Recca?
Recca: Not today. Thank you.
Our
agenda is about co-creativity
MM: Thank you. This is
Machiventa. This is addressed to this team and to the audience. Do you see the
direction we're going? Do you see the long preparation we've made before we
began this stepping out into the field of pragmatism, of social evolution—how
to create social evolution in the various social institutions. We want you to
be comfortable with that. We are not cloistered. We do not have deacons, we do
not have priests, and we do not have organizations. We simply are working
individually with each one of you as you choose to work with us. This is the
main emphasis of your work and our work, and it is what Christ Michael has
deemed necessary to heal your world. That agenda is solely about
co-creativity—to garner the greatest wisdom of mortals through the process of
evolution and the healing of your world in many ways. And of course, this will
take time. Thank you.
Revealing
the presence of the Celestials
Liz: Good morning
Machiventa. This is Liz. It's wonderful to be with you today. I've had many
distractions here. And so, I hope I'm not asking a question that you have
addressed, although I could be. Last time you said you wanted to make it known
eventually that you are here—that your team is here. So, I've been thinking
about that and how I might in my daily discussions with people impart that
information. For example, not long ago I was with dear friends and we're all
getting older, and they are older, and we were talking about death. And he
mentioned that he believed that after death there was nothing, and he is happy
with that frame of reference—that when he dies, he will go into darkness and
that will be the end of him. And in the past, I have said things like, well,
that's okay because I have enough faith for both of us, but that hasn't always
been well received. So, I'm wondering if there is an opportunity in discussions
like this for me to reveal your presence or how I could reveal your presence,
or give them a different idea about their impending, eventual deaths?
Some
will choose the nothingness
MM: Thank you. Let me
ponder that a bit with my team. [Short pause] In the event of a person you are
speaking with who believes that there is only nothingness, then you could give
them solace in the fact that this is the “void” and that this is a desirable place
where Buddhists always hoped to go to in their meditations. However, there is
the nothingness, and if a person chooses the nothingness, then they have chosen
the nothingness. They will, however, be confronted in the morontial realm and
the resurrection halls with that ultimate existential decision of whether to continue on or to refuse to do so. The refusal to do so
means that they have assigned themselves to the nothingness. The choice
is theirs. It is an eternal, moral choice. If you can grasp the profundity of
that choice in that statement, you have grasped then the great dilemma we have
in working with the decimal planets and particularly with rogue decimal planets
such as Urantia. Nothingness is not desirable as it means that there is a place
where they want to go where there is no God. And it is not an intellectual
decision that they're making because they have no awareness that God truly does
exist. Your efforts to convince a person in the mortal form that there is a
God, or there is a Machiventa, or there are other Melchizedeks, or their
guardian angels is a fruitless endeavor dear. You should just accept them where
they are and tell them that you love them as they are, where they are, and
please do not take a self-righteous position by saying “Oh I will pray for your
soul.” That is just so much BS as you know. People do not accept that and have
no regard for it, and, in fact, you will be causing aspersions and disrespect
to be cast upon yourself. Rather be of great benefit to the individual silently,
and in the great space of humility [where] there is no ego, but there is simply
love. Thank you.
Liz: Well, thank you for
that. I appreciate it. These people have been damaged by their religions, and I
understand that they have forsaken all ideas about God. But it hurts me because
I love them so much. So, okay. I understand how I should proceed in those
situations, and I thank you for your answer.
MM: You’re most welcome.
As Jesus said, be of good cheer. Everyone wants to see a smiling face. Thank you.
Stéphane: Good morning
Machiventa, this is Stéphane. How are you today?
MM: I am very well, thank
you for asking. I am in good health.
Stéphane: Good. Well, it is
beautiful sunshine in the area where I live, so fully living in the vibrations
of life today. And it's getting better.
MM: Wonderful.
A
base set of expectations
Stéphane: So, earlier in your
statement you mentioned your expectations for the group are quite broad. We can
choose to work co-creatively amongst each other in this workshop in October or
individually. Even if we don't choose to work in a co-creative sense, then this
is fine too—you just want to listen to the message and think about these things
that is just as well. So, what I want to ask you is what is your expectation
for a best-case scenario? I know we can now be doing as Jesus was doing, but
what would be your recommendation for a best-case scenario for each team member
on this call and those who listen to it or read it online? Will there be a base
set of expectations?
MM: Yes, and again, very
broadly, our anticipation is that those individuals would
will to do God's will, and then demonstrate that in their lives by their
own personal decisions about their personal life and their business relations.
This is the beginning. The expectations perhaps are far too low—that there
would be expectations for your attendance, for your thoughtfulness, for your
knowledgeability of what we have provided you with over the months and years.
Our expectations could be great, but they are very simple. One is to will to do
God's will in your life as you're able to and as needed and to continue your
growth and learning and so on.
We
would anticipate that if you are curious and you want to expand your
intelligence and your character and capability as a social creature in
humanity, that you would learn how to work with others. And working with others
can take many forms (as you know) from being a stern and archaic dictator,
supervisor, manager, and corporate head to being a benevolent teacher who leads
people to do the right thing by their own example and by answering questions of
the curious student. There are many ways to work with others, and we are
suggesting that, first of all, mortals on Urantia need
to work with each other. As you have seen for many families, families do not
make good working teams. I think it works better when there is very little
history between individuals and that they are able to discover
each other and to find those commonalities and find their common motivations,
common goals, and particularly a common means or technique for working through
problems and situations. We do not teach people hysteria. We do not teach
people chaos. I would not teach people how to be an independent intellectual in
a group setting working with others as then you have out of 10 people on a
team, you would have 10 separate teams, which is fruitless and useless. So, we
teach cooperation.
The
greatest challenges
The
greatest challenges that you have in the universe are to cooperate with God
within and to aspire to fulfill Its goals for you. And even Its
expectations are low, though those expectations are continual and are of
continual influence on you to make decisions correctly day by day.
Learning to work with others is essential to your ascendant career. You will
never in your ascendant career (outside of your mortal era) work alone unless
you have ascended to such dimensions that you are a Solitary Messenger and so
on. There are individuals who do that, but they're always connected with
eternity and with the central administration of the Grand Universe.
So,
the first chore is to be willing and wanting to find
commonalities with others. We would hope, eventually, that people would even like
others, and that they would want to get to know them better. So, this is the
process of friendship that you have heard about and read about in The Urantia
Book. Before you can love your neighbor, you must love yourself and become
friends with your neighbor. So, these are our low expectations which would
contribute to huge advancements in the evolution of your world and particularly
of your social structures. Thank you.
Establishing
commonalities
Stéphane: Thank you. [About]
establishing those commonalities with people, there's a stronger sense every
day to me that I need to establish [commonality] with everyone I meet
[regarding] the faith part of me, because that is the basis for establishing
commonalities and finding out whether the person I am
conversing with has a similar faith where we can at least have a spiritual
basis for further discussion. And that's not always easy to do.
MM: This is Machiventa.
You’re totally correct and that is not easy to do. It is oftentimes best not to
do it first off, but to give time for the friendship to develop where trust can
become evident, and eventually you would be able to KNOW that the individual
holds your esteem and your regard as an intimate contact—that they will not
violate you. And most of all people want to know that they are safe, and that
if you want to establish a spiritual relationship with them, you must establish
a safe emotional relationship first, and a safe social relationship as well.
Does this help?
Stéphane: Yes. Thank you. And as
a group, how are we doing with the progress in recent months?
MM: Are you referring to
this PMG group?
Stéphane: Yes, absolutely.
MM: Yes. You're doing
well. You are making wonderful strides in developing your teamwork, and you
find that you have more commonality than you have differences, and those things
are what you build upon. As you know, this is not a clique, it is not an
elitist group. Yes, it is a chosen group for we have need of a working team who
will work with us and who are willing to bridge the quirks and idiosyncrasies
of some of their fellow team members to pursue the greater good of Christ
Michael's work on Urantia. Yes, there is great accomplishment [that] has been
fulfilled yet [there is] much more to do. As you know, the growth of a human
mortal is infinite and that when you accomplish one stage then you are given
another stage and you continue on. You may want to
know as well that we have given you several eras of soul growth, and one is to
overcome the sometimes-deadly traits that you learn as a child in your family,
from other people who express those, and that you then must develop a model for
your wholeness and your completion that is apart from that which is helpful,
constructive, and loving.
The
next part is to then observe yourself in that process to overcome those
negative, destructive deficits in personality and in character. And that you
wish to become a greater individual by becoming more humble.
These are basic tasks, and once you have accomplished that, then you enter into the realm of service—to the service of others. We
have stated this numerous times in years and decades past. From there you
learned that there is a greater good to be had as well as you ascend in your
pre-morontial career as a mortal. You begin to feel the presence wherever you
go. You are conscious of your being, you are conscious of your presence, and
you are conscious of your projections to others and that others are sensitive
to what you project whether you are conscious of that or not and whether they
are conscious of it or not. So, you move forward in unconsciousness to be the
greatest good you can as a living individual. As you know, the greatest good a
person can express are those actions and those thoughts which are unconscious
to them, but which are benevolent to others. In other words, you're ascending
in the scheme of love of others, including yourself. And this is not a selfish,
narcissistic love, but one which is most generous as Jesus had expressed in his
lifetime. Thank you for asking.
Stéphane: Thank you so much.
JT: That's all the
questions we have for today. Machiventa, do you have a closing?
Call
on your spiritual assistance to light your path
MM: Yes, this is
Machiventa. I have a brief closing for you. In many ways, mortals on this world
who are also believers are metaphorically spelunkers—people who like to
explore caves. Now it is one thing to explore a cave at nighttime without a
flashlight or in the daytime without a flashlight deep in the bowels of your
earth and doesn't that whole scenario change tremendously when there is someone
in front of you casting a light upon the path to take. And the best path you
can take is out of the cave of darkness (this might remind you of some ancient
philosopher) and into the light. And so, you call upon your spiritual
assistance, your Thought Adjuster, your guardian, celestial teachers, and
others to be of assistance to be the light—that they cast the light upon the
path of your life plan, and they guide you through the vicissitudes of life and
its challenges so that you grow and survive. It is not only necessary to grow
but also to survive those challenges of growth. You are a desired individual in
the universe. You have much to contribute and we want to keep you safe so that
we and the universe can enjoy your presence in the morontial realm, spiritual
realm, and the eternal realm. And we thank you for accepting the challenge.
Good day.
JT: Thank you Machiventa
and thank you Daniel.
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