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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><STRONG>New Era Conversations #9 – Practical Application of
Sustainability Issues – Oct. 18, 2013<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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class=MsoBodyText><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Teacher:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG>Machiventa Melchizedek<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Topics:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Ongoing crises and tumultuous activity on our
planet<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Small developments within small
communities<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The threats to small businesses from businesses seeking
dominance<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Identifying business strategies<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Identifying what you do not want in your
economy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The values of transparency in business<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Stability always begins at the local
level<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The decline of volunteerism in the
community<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The problem of extreme individualism and reliance on
government<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Changing culture<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Extreme individualism will work against its
survival<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The needed changes in thinking<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">The values of social sustainability for potential
longevity<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">Sustaining quality and equality of
businesses<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">The concept of “Godselves”</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">TR:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Daniel Raphael<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Moderators:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Michael McCray and Susan, a new member of our team<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><STRONG>October 18,
2013</STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Invocation:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><I>Heavenly Father, Michael, Nebadonia, Monjoronson and his staff, and
whoever else may be listening to today’s session.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We join you now for another session of
conversations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for
indulging us in this way and we hope that in these sessions we can come to
understand what our future will be and how we can best serve the Father and
Michael during this Correcting Time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">[Note:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We have added Susan, from Northern California, to our NEC staff.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She has been working with the
co-creative design team concept for several years now and will be a great asset
with her practical field experience.]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoBodyText><STRONG>MACHIVENTA:</STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
morning, this is Machiventa Melchizedek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Group greets him warmly.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And welcome to our new member to this group; this is a wonderful
addition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I enjoyed our
conversations in Northern California very much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(</SPAN><STRONG>Susan:</STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><S><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></S></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Ongoing crises and tumultuous activity
on our planet<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>I will provide an overall
perspective of today for this session.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many of you are seeing great and tumultuous activity on your planet that
is related to earthquakes and volcanoes, rains, droughts, and then you have the
social crises that are ongoing in your societies and your nations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are seeing these crises also spill
over into the political and economic realms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These three areas will continue to grab
and hold your attention into the future for many years to come.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can account these this way, that
each event is one small increment of change that brings pressure upon those
social/political/economic systems that are non-functional, or do not work very
well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find that eventually
these will break down, as you recently discovered this week that the economy of
the United States dominates that of the global perspective.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not the “all in everything,” but
it is the hinge that makes the world economy swing back and forth, and that
without this hinge, there would be disarray and great difficulty economically
and financially, down to the personal level from the international level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This has pointed to the
inadequacies of the concept of sovereign national economies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is an oxymoron of sorts because
economies are free flowing; they must be global, they must be national and they
must be local.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet the political
sovereignty of nations is working against the free flowing aspects of your
global, national and local economies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This will continue until they have found the underlying values and
systems that will help those sovereignties and economies work together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be one unifying functional
value system underlying it all, that will eventually work against the greed and
avarice of chief executives and intentional destructive economic and market
actions of large corporations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do
not necessarily focus your attention on any one individual, but see all these
global developments as an eventual and collective gathering of those smaller
developments, that there is a trend going on in your world that we have spoken
about, which Monjoronson has spoken about extensively in the past few years.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will leave those comments as
complete, unless you have questions about them.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>For the sake of your procedures
with our new member, I would ask that the established members ask first, and
then let our new member chime in.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no questions yet, but thank you
for the update, Machiventa.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t have any questions either.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of my questions was to ask you if we
were going to be moving from emergency to emergency, and you’ve covered that
completely, thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>Does our new member have a question
related to my opening statement, or if you have something unrelated, that is
fine as well.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Small developments
within small communities</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"
class=MsoFooter> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a prepared question that actually
quite serendipitously is related to what you spoke of about the developments on
a global scale being a gathering of many small developments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, my question is about small
developments within small economies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t know if this is an appropriate time… (<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, completely; please proceed.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will go ahead then.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I have a question about how to
begin to change the culture of business at the small business and community
level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In reading past
transcripts and observing my own experiences in business, I understand the need
to evolve the motivating force behind business enterprise from the accumulation
of wealth, power or self- aggrandizement to one that is a means of individual,
family and community support, community service and sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what I have read in the
transcripts tends to speak mostly to the corporate world as the place where
things will change, and what you just spoke to sort of encouraged me.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">The
threats to small businesses from businesses seeking
dominance<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in" class=MsoFooter><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In a small rural community, such
as where I live, it is easy to see how vital the latter motivation is to our
health, as each business relies on the health of others for its own
viability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is also easy to
see how some levels of competition among us—those of us with similar products or
services—when it is spread across an adequate market need, are very
advantageous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some levels of
competition can<SPAN style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN>spur innovation, can<SPAN
style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN>spur a desire for excellence and most remarkably,
what I’ve seen, can spur a spirit of community service.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the scales can be tipped very easily
if even one of these competing businesses moves from these sustaining
motivations to a desire for dominance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And I’m going to assume that that’s obviously what is happening on a
larger scale in our corporate world.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>For us, when this occurs, the
livelihood of others is immediately threatened, at least in the short term, and
a business that is threatened in such a way, of course will react.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often the reaction that I observe is
that the threatened business or entity ups their level of action to meet the
threat of the other, by entering the same playing field.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I hope this is flowing and making
sense.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This can lead both parties
into a morally bankrupt field of play and antagonisms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, it is challenging for a
business to keep their moral compass on true north, when the actions of another
threaten its survival and the survival of its employees and families, in the
short term.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I use “short
term” to acknowledge that one sees how holding to “true north” is ultimately
more sustainable, but it is <A name=_GoBack></A>harder to see how that will
continue to put food on the table today.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>My question is:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is an alternate course for a
businessperson in this situation, when challenged with threats to his or her
survivability by the greed of others?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well stated and well integrated, thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answers you are seeking
are in your community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If I
understand your question correctly, the short term new threat is an attempt to
pick the “low fruit” that is available in the market situation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did I understand your question, and does
this answer provide an insight to it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(<B>Susan:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will always be a vulnerability to
your market, your potential clients, as they see the aggressiveness of a new
competitor who is seeking those quick-sales, those quick contracts and so on, to
make their situation flourish.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
long-term program of a local level must be as it is at the international
corporate level — to espouse a core value system that appeals to the long-term
interests of your clientele, and for you, your community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You must acknowledge these values
that are core to your business and to your community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are referring to the <B>three core
values of social sustainability</B>, which must also become innate, indigenous
to every business.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are the
means to improve the <B>quality of life</B> of their clients, and for you, that
means an ongoing working relationship after the sale, or after the service, so
that you have satisfied clients and customers who desire to come back and who
will recommend you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The second
value is <B>growth</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
only grow on long-term stability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Short term sales, short term acquisition of new clients without these
core values will not be sustainable; they will eventually fail.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in the meantime, your business will
suffer from this high-energy competition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Third is that you want <B>equality</B>, to value each client as you would
another, and that in this instance, would want to sell to a customer or client,
a tractor, for instance, which may cost $13,000, as easily and as diligently as
you would sell a new tractor that would cost $130,000.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, you want to apply this equation of
values equally to every potential client and customer.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"
class=MsoFooter> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The third aspect I wish you to
address would be to, in your local community, you perhaps have a business
association such as the… what membership are you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be a Chamber of Commerce or an
Association of Realtors—there are several like that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Identifying
business strategies</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, and that you—you meaning the
collective group of you—would want to meet and discuss business strategies,
openly, without having an agenda.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The agenda and intention must be for the long-term good of the community
and the long-term good of businesses and families.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to identify those strategies
which work against social sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We have discussed those strategies, and I will give you a couple of
examples:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is “picking the low
fruit.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is detrimental to the
stability of all businesses in a similar business venue.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Second is the egoistic,
self-aggrandizing need for being number one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The third one would be to—as has been
explained before—is “winner takes all.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is to do whatever is necessary, ethically and unethically to “die
with the most toys,” as some of your contemporaries would say.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fourth aspect may be to establish a
dynasty that would support or give longevity to the “winner takes all”
strategy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you can readily see,
these are the strategies of children playing board games at the dinner table,
and in the schoolyard.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The business
and economies of adults must evolve, and GROW in order for the quality of
business life and customer service to support a sustainable community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In any business environment,
whether it is international or whether it is a local business, it is necessary
for the long-term stability of your communities and the world business
communities for it to identify those business tactics that are detrimental,
hurtful and cause the instability of your field of business or reference.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have excellent examples in the
financial world, that predate—if you were to examine the recessions and the
“economic bubbles” that preceded the collapse or the decline of economies—there
are particular lessons involved in those scenarios and those developments in the
last 30-40 years, particularly within the last decade.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These come down to very simple
identities or identifications of unethical and immoral and un-socially
sustainable immoral behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For
instance, when a CEO of a given corporation misleads the Board of Directors or
Trustees, to aggrandize their own accounts and their own wealth, or when there
is a monopolistic behavior on the part of a financial institution that
jeopardizes the investments of the client investors.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Identifying what
you do not want in your economy</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What I am getting at is that it
is necessary to identify what you do not want to occur in your economy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Usually, this is based on individual
decisions and sometimes in collusion with other members of a corporation or
board.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is necessary to identify
those immoral—and when I say “immoral,” I am speaking directly to the morality
that violates social sustainability, those behaviors that violate and compromise
social sustainability, whether it is by an individual, or a corporation, or a
company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not speaking
necessarily of immoral personal behavior or the traditional mode.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So begin by identifying the most
egregious situations and examples, and it is not unheard of for local bankers,
local realtors, local businesses, or local utilities to take advantage of the
situation due to secrecy and business opacity of their dealings, to continue
their immoral activities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>The values of
transparency in business</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>One of the values that is
necessary in business is transparency and the open identification of a business
and family with the values of social sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This makes it more evident that when
there is social sustainability there must also be transparency, and that this is
actually a benefit to your clients and your marketing public, as they see your
business is in alignment with the highest long-term needs of the community and
of families, and of other businesses as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, you will need to begin a
social sustainability design team (SSDT) when your community within your
association that assists your community in devising standards—socially
sustainable moral standards—for the conduct of business.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This could turn into an educational
program that would assist new businesses in finding their place within the
business community.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>As this is new and innovative, it
will cause concern among highly competitive businesses in your community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is standard fare, as the act of
transparency will clearly show those businesses that do not adhere to and will
not adopt the standard value system of social sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will point their own fingers to
themselves through this process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
may provide an opinion to you about proceeding and that is to proceed in a dual
manner:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is identifying an
egregious business behavior which is detrimental to your community, and even to
the international business community, and simultaneously begin examining the
values that sustain businesses not for a decade or for two decades, but for
centuries and millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As an open
comment, there are three structures in society, in a civilization that must
become socially sustainable:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>social
institutions, the economy, and the political that underpin the sustainability of
a society, nation, and civilization.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Stability always
begins at the local level</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You, as a businessperson, are
also a mother, grandmother and a partner to families, and so you have “two feet
in two ponds,” in two areas, two venues of sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is the economic and one is the
social.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you will see through
examination of these three areas, you cannot have one being sustainable without
all being sustainable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The result
of sustainability in these three areas is eventual peace — social peace,
economic peace, and political peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When people pray for world peace, they really are praying for social
sustainability in their communities first.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are not remiss or adventuresome to begin at the local level, for all
political, economic and social stability always begins at the local level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can only be initiated and authorized
and enforced at higher levels of your states and nations and international
levels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope these answers do not
confuse you, and if they do, please ask further questions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This didn’t confuse me at all; it
answered so much more than what I even asked.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see that identifying what we don’t
want first is a core part of this process, something I hadn’t thought of before,
and then examining those values that would sustain us, a two-part process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is wonderful, thank you!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are most welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Proceed, the forum is open.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"
class=MsoFooter> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>The decline of
volunteerism in the community</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our rural community has had a decrease
in the level of volunteerism in the community in the past 30 years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>30 years ago, when our economy was more
stable, there was a stronger sense of community and the importance of community
service was much more evident.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
are now in a time of economic crisis, which we have been moving towards ever
since our main industry left the area.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As it is now, because we are in this crisis, it is now that such sense of
community and service to the community is soooo needed, but is so very scarce.
There are a strong few who see volunteerism and service as vital to our communal
health, but most others seem to drift in a world of individualism, and in the
thought that others will make things happen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The responsibility for self within the
larger organism simply isn’t there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We, the strong few, often discuss this question with no adequate answer
as yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>My question is:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“How do we motivate individuals in the
community to such service for each other”?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is the motivation factor that seems to be missing.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">The
problem of extreme individualism and reliance on
government<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have hit upon a very large problem
in developed democracies, that of extreme individualism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we would espouse, and which you are
asking for is a directed social activism that leads to greater community
cohesion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When everything is fine
and economies are great, individuals, families and communities can afford a
tremendous separatism because there is a feeling of sustainable autonomy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the same time, over those 30 years,
what has happened is that there has been an increased reliance on government at
all levels to resolve social problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As we have said before, governments can do well at political and military
and even large global and national economic problems, but they seem incredibly
incompetent at conducting or developing effective social programs in the
long-term.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They continue to see
social problems as economic, and throw money at the problem to resolve it, with
the money being used usually in inadequate ways.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Changing
culture</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What you are asking for is a
change of culture from extreme individualism to a sense of social cohesion in a
neighborhood and community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
will make yourself stand out from your community when you begin to espouse
social action at the level of individuals, families and neighborhoods and
communities that see the necessity of working together, as opposed—and yes, it
will be seen as opposed—to the completion of action by large governmental
agencies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The words will be true
that the programs—large funded programs that government is prone to support—will
not be forthcoming to a small community as yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your community thrives best when the
prosperity of your large state is doing well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the larger state is not doing well,
and your community is not doing well, there needs to be a persuasion to
individuals, neighborhoods and communities that the answers they seek must come
from themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social cohesion
provides a synergistic additive that can assist communities to survive, and in
fact, become socially sustainable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Extreme
individualism will work against its survival</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The egregious, extreme
individualism of your American society will now work against its survival as a
national society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be a
coming together of not just business people who wish to see their businesses
survive, but community families and neighborhoods [that] see the necessity of
coming together to resolve common local social problems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These solutions will not be forthcoming
from your county, state or nation, though they may commiserate with you to
discuss these problems, and perhaps offer outside advice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is the hard work of working
together that must be sold to your neighbors, individuals and families so that
when times become more difficult, they see that through working together, they
can survive better as individuals and families in that community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a matter of persuasion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The message must be consistent; it must
be persistent—over the duration of years and decades. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>To counteract the pernicious
individualism that has been sold to your society, it is now enculturated in your
local communities that individuals can solve problems at all levels by seeking
assistance from governments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And,
this simply is not true.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome to follow this up with
further questions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again, your answer is so complete I
am at a loss to follow up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
beginning to understand that it’s a rhetoric that needs to be pursued. I
mentioned the strong few who still feel the need for volunteerism and community
service, so it’s the rhetoric between those people and how we reach out into the
community that will be the start.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, your message must be clear to your
community that working alone will lead to isolationism, both socially,
economically and politically and otherwise.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In order to improve their survival, or
their quality of living and growth potential, they must bring themselves in to
see themselves as equals in partnership with their community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, you must point out clearly what the
benefits are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now that you see what
is ahead for your community and for your societies, you have a much clearer
message to develop to those individuals, which unfortunately, will propose a
truism before it is needed, and so, it will be seen as a self-fulfilling
prophesy, so to speak, that benefits everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did I speak too circumspectly about
that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay, we will propose a truism before it
is needed?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be a community you must believe in
community; you must believe that you are part of it and that you have something
to contribute that adds more to the lives of others, as they add more to your
own personal life.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is wonderful!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you do not provide that slogan or
that truism beforehand, when it is needed, it will then be too late.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ah, I understand.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your questions, which
point to the answers that are desperately needed throughout the world,
particularly in developed democracies that have espoused individualism to the
extreme.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Any comments or questions?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>The needed changes
in thinking</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it occurs to me that once the
populace becomes aware of the values of social sustainability, they will almost
come to see them as change that is needed in their world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is certainly a change that is
needed in their thinking.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it is our intention to begin
feeding these values in specific areas that need attention, but eventually the
light will dawn on many people that these three values are applicable to almost
all areas of social, political and economic reality, wherever they are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They must see the connection of these
three values that have sustained your species for over 40,000 years, as now
becoming necessarily integrated into their organizational structures, both as
guiding values supported by operational procedures.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a follow-up question to your
response to my first question; I hate to back track like this, but when you said
to proceed first by identifying the egregious behaviors that are detrimental to
sustainable business, and of course we can apply that to communities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you said, “examine the values that
have sustained businesses for millennia.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As I’m looking at this, I’m assuming there are no businesses that have
been sustained for millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could
you expound on that, what you were referring to there?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">The
values of social sustainability for potential
longevity<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was only referring to the values of
social sustainability as sustaining businesses that could be applicable to all
areas socially and politically that will assist them to become long enduring for
decades and centuries and millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, you are correct: there are no businesses that have lasted
millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The extension of the
statement was to encourage businesses to see the potential of longevity, of what
it takes for large and small businesses to survive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would do well to do your research of
business entities that have lasted centuries.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Rothschild family, for one, has been
long enduring, though it has waxed and waned in its existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are other businesses that have
lasted for a great deal of time—none for millennia, but there are several that
have lasted for centuries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Look to
them as to what has helped them survive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They must, obviously, have some values that would look similar in some
ways to social sustainability. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Sustaining quality
and equality of businesses</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Obviously, businesses seek to
sustain the quality of their business, i.e. their bottom line, to avoid the red
numbers below the bottom line, and to grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only difficulty that they have had
in surviving is in the aspect of equality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As we spoke earlier some time ago, that equality is a two-sided
sword.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will work for you as long
as you remain within a competitive field as an equal, seeing the value of your
competitors in your field.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But when
equality works to become dominating and controlling, then it works against your
business and society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Businesses
often think that they work apart from society, but they do not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Businesses often times see individuals
and cities and communities—even whole states and regions—as their parasitical
domain, where they can take advantage of those areas without supporting,
providing the resources to assist those locales in surviving.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>To give you a glimpse of the
future, businesses must become much more thoughtful in supporting those people
who buy at their stores.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone
who comes to a store to buy things is an employee, or has been an employee, and
so it becomes almost self-evident in a society that is moving toward social
sustainability that employees have not receive just an adequate compensation for
their labor, but must be more than adequately compensated so that they can
maintain the quality of their lives and this added income or wealth assists them
to grow as individuals, to explore their potential, and in return, this becomes
a synergistic cycle or system that helps businesses grow.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no further questions at this
time.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further questions from anyone?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>The concept of
“Godselves”</FONT></U></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder during your session in Northern
California, you said that during this Correcting Time it was Christ Michael’s
plan to bring people into their Godselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Considering that there is confusion about God on Urantia, I wonder if you
would explain this concept more fully for us, please?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Godself is identification between
yourself and the presence of God within you—this is your Godself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not just an accident of the
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such philosophies or
theories work against the unlimited, infinite potential of each individual.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When individuals see themselves as
[being] in partnership with God of the Universe, who exists also as a presence
within them, they will eventually realize that they have an immense potential to
develop in that relationship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>People who are in social, political and economic distress have great
difficulty in identifying with their higher selves, their Godself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have great difficulty developing
their growth; they are usually simply involved in their survival or their
existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Correcting Time’s
intention is to bring about a more equitable, higher quality and growth
potential for individuals within their societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your societies provide a social
environment, a seedbed, a nurtured field, so to speak, wherein individuals can
grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Right now, your world is heavily
overpopulated and it is in great distress because of that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The lessons that are now being learned
in your societies must be put into bases of wisdom that can be taught to
children, who grow into parents and adults, and you can begin expressing their
Godselves with their children and developing and nurturing that in their
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not live in
isolation, either in the universe or in your communities and families.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are interconnected and your
survival, your existence and your sustainability—and even your thriving
sustainabilities—depend upon that synergistic relationship you have with your
family, your community and of course, with the God presence within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you realize this in these
interconnected systems, you begin to realize that you cannot do this alone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the crisis that many believers
have that they cannot do it alone and must have faith to believe that God
<I>will</I> participate, <I>is</I> participating effectively in their life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When this occurs, then the God presence
blooms within that individual and can be shared with others.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for that question,
Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It almost seemed like the
answer if I could just memorize it verbatim, would be part of the persuasive
rhetoric that we would be doing in our community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have enjoyed our community here, we
four who are here together and we—my team and I, and those who are observing
this—appreciate the definite magnitude of the addition of our new member, so we
thank you, Susan, for being here, for participating and we hope you look
forward—as we look forward—to our next engagement, our next session.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish you all well and during these
times of great difficulty to connect with your Godself, the God presence within
you, and not only [to] believe in God, but have faith that God <I>is</I>
assisting you in your life when you risk to invite Him in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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