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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: green">New
Era Conversations #52 – Leadership; Current Global Situation; Punishment – Sept.
7, 2015<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Machiventa Melchizedek</B>, Planetary
Manager</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Topics:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">An era that needs leadership<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Response to leadership<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Nominating individuals in times of crisis to become
leaders<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Energized followers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The socially sustainable society is
non-competitive<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The social cataclysm of refuges into
Europe<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The global situation will destabilize many
regimes<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Mortals are ultimately responsible for the decisions they
make<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The way of social, political and economic
<B><I>evolution<o:p></o:p></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Human history is littered with the destruction of human
organizations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The mega-egos will try to scare people away from social
sustainability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The strength of social sustainability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Humane co-responsible relationship between leaders and
followers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Question about the laws as a tool of
regulation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Developing simple laws for an advanced
society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">In advanced society, there is no
punishment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Social education is the acceptance of personal
responsibility<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Creating a paradigm cultural change over
decades<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">It is important that people have hope<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">How would you devise an advanced nation with low
taxation?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Creating enclaves of enlightened, educated, cooperative
individuals<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="COLOR: green; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
way of social sustainability is a way of life</SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Team members:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roxanne Andrews, Michael McCray and a
Student</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>September 7, 2015</FONT></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Invocation</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>An era that needs
leadership</FONT></U></H3>
<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>Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a pleasure to be
in your company once again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(<B>Roxie:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our
pleasure to have you!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today I would like to speak to
you again about leadership, but this time the response to leadership and the
response to circumstances surrounding you in the time and era that need
leadership.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have a sense of what
authentic leadership is about and how it performs, that it is not self-serving,
does not seek self-aggrandizement and special favors, but seeks to coordinate
and energize the elements and energies of those around him or her, and the
environment to bring about movement toward the solution of some situation or
difficulty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enduring leadership
requires this to occur repeatedly over a period of days, months and years; many
good examples as that were shown during WWII, with Winston Churchill and other
leaders of democracy and freedom.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Response to
leadership</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There is always the necessity of
a response to leadership—we have not discussed this before—and that is when a
situation arises, and the known leaders are dithering about and have no
capability, or no shown demonstration of capability to engage the situation,
then it lies in the minds and hearts of those people in the nation to point
toward individuals who have those leadership capabilities and could possibly
provide the leadership that is needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If members of the public are as dull as the leaders who seem so incapable
of providing leadership and movement forward to resolve the situation, if the
public is as dull as that, then there will be no response and no leadership
internally or externally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of
the intentions of the Correcting Time and the Teaching Mission and Magisterial
Mission is to develop the authentic, genuine internal, personal leadership
within each of you, individually.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Nominating
individuals in times of crisis to become leaders</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You who have followed these
lessons for these many years are well trained in recognizing who is a leader and
who is not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will need to point
to those latent leaders who have the capability and capacity, but have not
demonstrated that or brought it to the surface of your society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be that you, as members of the
public, would encourage that individual or individuals to engage with others to
provide ideas concerning solutions to the problem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have no inclination to do so, and
none comes forward, then you have a flock of sheep without a Shepard.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christ Michael is your Shepard of
Nebadon, and I am your Shepard of Urantia, of this planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We, however call upon you to nominate
individuals in times of crisis to become leaders.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must be able to address, write to,
call, fax, email someone in positions of leadership, and recommend some
individual to come forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may
be on the opposite end, that you urge a potential leader and self-nominate them
and join them with others who are like thinkers, so that the solutions can begin
to be developed and implemented.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Energized
followers</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Wherever there is leadership,
there must be followers, those individuals who are responsible under leadership
to move society or their group forward to resolve some problem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Leadership is often seen as a lonely
place and position; truly in most instances it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, when there is leadership with
active, enthusiastic, and energized followers, then there is no loneliness, but
there is oneness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is oneness
that we seek in the resolution of the problems of Urantia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You who have read the <I>Urantia Book
</I>see the Days of Light and Life and the settlement of a nation and planet in
that status, as a desirable end.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But to be candid and quite frank with you, the road to that in the
beginning is very tumultuous, very difficult, arduous and challenging, as it
requires compromise after compromise with old traditions and old cultural ideas
about how the world should be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is why social sustainability is such a neglected, almost rejected idea, in that
it is so “exo-cultural.” </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The socially
sustainable society is non-competitive</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is so much outside of your
culture in operation that it is totally unfamiliar to you. In some instances is
so distant and different from the way business is handled in your society that
that it is repugnant to many people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Fundamentally, the socially sustainable society is non-competitive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has finally come to the point where
it is able to design systems within systems, and systems of systems, so that
there is a continuous flow, much like a figure 8; it goes around from one end to
the other without stopping—there is a continuous flow; it is non-linear.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the height of difficulty for
many contemporary minds to accept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The concept of money has been developed to such an extent that it is
something to compete for, something to be stacked up, even after all the needs
of an individual, family or community have been fulfilled and satisfied.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a very hostile environment for
sustainability and for the Days of Light and Life.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The social
cataclysm of refuges into Europe</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There seems little need to bring
to your attention to the global situation of your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The wave of refuges from the Middle East
and from Africa into Europe will be a development that will repercuss for many,
many decades.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be the cause
of much social and economic, and even political instability in years ahead.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have not recognized it as a
cataclysm, but it is a social cataclysm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is much like a huge reservoir behind a dam, and an earthquake occurs,
cracks the dam and the water rushes forward destroying towns along the
riverbank/riverbed, for not just a mile or two, but for tens of miles, 50 miles,
100 miles down river.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a
social cataclysm of catastrophic proportions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will repercuss in ways that will
cause much unsettlement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The global
situation will destabilize many regimes</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have seen the devaluation of
the Renminbi in China, which has had a tremendous rippling effect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though your economy of the United States
seems to be robust, other nations around the world are not so fortunate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have told you before that because of
the history of immigration and geographic development North and South America
have been spared from many developments of past millennia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too now, it is very much in the same
similar situation that many of these social cataclysms that are occurring and
will occur, seem to pass the United States and South American democracies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A stable economy and exchange of goods
is fundamental to social and political stability, yet, the global situation will
have repercussions in every nation, and will destabilize many regimes and
administrations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Mortals are
ultimately responsible for the decisions they make</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>All of these developments will
point to the necessity of social, economic, and political stability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But who, and how, will this
develop?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You recall that the first
mandate of the relationship between mortals and celestials is that celestials
will not abrogate the will decisions of mortals, that mortals are ultimately
responsible for the decisions they make—and the decisions they do not make.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That leaves us with a great deal of room
to work with your organizations as they meet and make decisions in their
boardrooms and committees and so on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the realm of the Most Highs, in Edentia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are intimately involved in the
decision-making of those groups and organizations.</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: green">The
way of social, political, and economic
<B><I>evolution</I></B><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>What we are waiting for is a
situation that requires a decision by such boards of directors, committees,
agencies and bureaus when they see the choices of moving towards social,
political and economic stability, as opposed to maintaining the current
situation, which would then be involved in decline, disintegration and
dissolution—ultimately in collapse.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There will come a time when those groups—and individuals—will choose the
way of progress and social, political, and economic <B><I>evolution</I></B><I>,
</I>rather than maintaining unsustainable organizations, processes and
procedures and policies of decision-making.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will be the tipping point of your
world toward social stability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Human history is
littered with the destruction of human organizations</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In order to prepare for that
tipping point, there must be, of course, a new set of concepts and ideas that
are presented to those groups to help them make the decision.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be truly an “either/or”
decision; there will not be many choices involved; there will not be many
options.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have striven to make it
very clear that civilizations, societies, nations, administrations, dynasties,
empires and so on, have all failed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All of human history is littered with the destruction of human
organizations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the
“either;” the “or” is to engage in developing and formulating policies and
decision-making processes that lead to social evolution, to systems development
that contribute to the sustainability of not just that organization only, but to
other organizations in society.<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>It is not that these
organizations become mutually dependent upon each other, but they become
mutually engaged in one enterprise of social, political, and economic
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “either/or” is
to see that your organization’s decision-making processes are one part of
thousands that contribute to the continuity of societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For profit-making organizations, the
“either/or” will be the choice between huge growth and huge losses, or continual
growth at low percentages of return, for not just a decade or two, but for
centuries and millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The advent
of organizational survivability over decades and centuries, on toward millennia,
surely must surely begin to some appeal for individuals and organizations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sacrifice will be the mega-egos that
evolve out of organizations that trounce and step upon the shoulders of those
who are not as adept or as competitive.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The mega-egos will
try to scare people away from social sustainability</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will see great efforts to
raise fear in the minds of the public concerning the fundamentals of social
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why we have
begun at the local level of individuals to understand the fundamentals of social
sustainability, that everyone, anyone can use this process to validate the
authenticity—or the fears—that are mongered by others to scare people away from
social sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will
portray it as something that is viciously destructive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most certainly it will be destructive to
UNsustainable processes to create an ongoing, constructive society that builds
the oneness that naturally develops from a system of systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The strength of
social sustainability</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will more clearly understand
these concepts were you to read the “Fifth Discipline” by Peter Senge that he
published in 1994.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a
remarkable book that points the way to the integration of societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Richard Buckminster Fuller is another
who was an avant-garde social realist, who saw the necessity of social,
political, and economic integration, rather than the destructive separation that
we see in your societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the
difference between building a large column of concrete and stones that support
each other, as opposed to the separate stones in a stream that bounce and knock
against each other and eventually wear each other down to stone talcum that is
seen in mountain rivers, that white, frothy water coming out of the mountains
that is from the debris and particulates of rocks that have bounced against each
other in the streams of fast moving rivers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The strength of social sustainability is
a strength that will support the Days of Light and Life; all parts of such
society work together through a conscious effort to rely upon each other and to
contribute to everyone’s sustainability.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Humane
co-responsible relationship between leaders and followers</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We are striving to help you
prepare for your position as followers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Followers are the powerful elements that make leadership possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Without conscientious thoughtful,
contributing followers, leadership is impossible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not leadership by force or
coercion, but leadership as a facilitator; the leadership that facilitates the
resources of people and the elements they live with is powerful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not talking about abject
dictatorial leadership; we are talking about the humane co-responsible
relationship between leaders and followers to support the good of everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you nominate someone for
leadership, you must nominate those who are not vainglorious; but nominate those
who do not seek their own ego embellishment or self-aggrandizement, or special
privileges that authority can provide.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am open for questions if you
have any.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Long pause.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Question about the
laws as a tool of regulation</FONT></U></H3>
<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 don’t have any questions on the topic
of leadership; I think you have been very thorough, but I do have a question
from one of our readers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of our
readers asked about “laws that are a regulation tool of any situation.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He says, “Obviously, high moral and
spiritual development could eliminate existing volumes of laws.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>According to human laws, there are
different levels of punishment acting as a tool to control our society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It fines, imprisons, tortures, and even
puts to death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you reveal
your vision on our laws and solutions in a highly developed society?”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Developing simple
laws for an advanced society</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I applaud you for your well-formed
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is very thoughtful and
offers us many opportunities to speak about social organization and
evolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an advanced society,
there is oneness among societies; that oneness comes from the very existence of
individuals/people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sovereign
boundaries of nations, states, provinces, districts and so on, is superficial
and artificial, and does not relate to the oneness of all humanity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To develop simple laws for an advanced
society—global society—it is necessary to rely upon the factors that are common
to all people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is it that has
sustained your species for so long?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whatever it is, it is so durable, and so consistent that it is universal
and timeless and irreducible among all people, and that this is a commonality
among all races, all cultures, all ethnic groups, nations and the genders.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When laws are developed from this
nature of humanity, then you will see uniformity, even among different
nations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That uniformity comes out
of the values that have sustained your species.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, when we speak about laws, those
laws are man-made, arbitrary, legalistic morality; they provide a
decision-making system, a legal-based morality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the case of nations now, it is a
legal morality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were to use
the values that sustained your species, those values would create a value-based
morality, a universal morality, a universal way of making consistent decisions
among all races, all cultures, all ethnic groups, and all nations for all time.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>In an advanced
society, there is no punishment</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Advanced societies have oneness
among them; there is an interpretation that may apply to their nation and to
their culture, but they are all founded on the same values.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an advanced society, consideration is
given towards the behavior of individuals as to whether their behavior violates
the quality of life of another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does their behavior violate the other’s capacity and capability to grow
into their innate potential?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does
it violate an individual as an equal of others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a developed, advanced society, there
is no punishment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Punishment is an
antiquarian way of coercing, cajoling, convincing and persuading a public of
individuals to conform to good social conduct, yet you have seen throughout the
4,000-5,000 years of recorded human history that punitive measures do not insure
conformity, does not insure moral behavior.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How then, would you convince those
individuals who are selfish enough to violate the values of an individual, or a
group of individuals, or a whole society without punishing them?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In the case of an advanced
society, incarceration is an UNsustainable option.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Incarceration takes away the resources
of the public to support individuals who refuse to conform to the morality of
that society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The real question
becomes, “Where does a society begin to eliminate punishment as a
necessity?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, it begins
by the responsible education of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you have asked for as an answer
requires a culture change, a complete paradigm change of culture from the
archaic fundamentals of your current societies to an advanced paradigm of social
behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins with
individuals; it begins by informing potential parents; it begins in a
pre-pubescent era where individuals are children are enculturated in the
morality of their advanced society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Much of it is rote; much of it will be interpreted; it will be given much
attention in your primary, secondary and university educational programs.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Social education
is the acceptance of personal responsibility</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have seen how the culture of
Japan has created a great deal of social conformity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you who live in the United States,
you are seen as a bunch of “cowboys” by civilizations of the East.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your independence causes a great deal of
selfish grievance upon other individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Democracies have a particularly developed and advanced problem:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How to develop liberty without license;
how to develop a maturing social milieu environment where individuals want to
succeed, want to benefit from living in their society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins by the education of
pre-pubescent students across the world, using a program of enculturation that
teaches them how to be students, how to be children, how to be children who are
maturing into early adulthood, and then adulthood.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first element of enculturation and
social education is the acceptance of personal responsibility for behavior.<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> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Creating a
paradigm cultural change over decades</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will not empty your prisons
of the inmates overnight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It occurs
over decades.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have said in the
past that such a cultural change would take minimally two generations,
approximately 40-50-60 years to change the culture of a nation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To change the culture of your world
would take, perhaps, with concerted effort, as each nation chooses voluntarily
to take on this new culture of sustainability, 200-300 years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world could be well on the way to
the Days of Light and Life within one millennium.<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>Your question takes in the full
scope of Planetary Management.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
answers take on the necessity of all people on a planet to manage themselves, to
become responsible for their behavior, and to act accordingly, and to teach
their children how to live in a socially sustainable society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of the liberties that your people
take will no longer exist; and they will no longer exist because individuals
want to give them up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What will be
the return for individuals during this transition era?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be that they will see hope in
an ever-improving quality of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It will not mean a bigger and bigger and bigger houses, with bigger and
bigger mortgages; it will mean that you will eventually have your own residence,
which is adequate for your needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It would also mean that you have an opportunity to grow into the infinite
potential of your mind, throughout your life; that educational, self-development
will become trans-generational, meaning that when you begin to learn, you will
have the opportunity to learn and grow throughout your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your society will offer that to you to
grow into the potential that you “wish” to become.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must understand that your potential
does not end its expression at the end of high school or college, or at age 45
or 55.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through continuing expansion
of your inner potential, you can reinvent yourself over and over again in
positive and constructive ways, and in doing so you will make more and more
positive contributions to your society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Lastly, you will have an equal ability to improve your quality of life
and to grow into your potential as other people do, as other people would, or as
they could.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>It is important
that people have hope</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is important that people have
hope.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see the tremendous
exodus of people from the Middle East and from Africa into Europe, you are
seeing those three values in living expression, people seeking to have the
fundamentals of survival, and then to learn to grow into their potential, and in
doing so, improve their quality of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The element of inequality looms so large in the minds of those people
that they have so little compared to those who have so much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that they are seeking to go
from a bicycle to a Lamborghini, but simply to walk in streets that are
peaceful, to be able to walk to work or to their local grocery store or café in
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would be a tremendous
luxury, one that cannot be purchased by money, or any other method of
exchange.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a condition of
living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, to fulfill your
answer, in part, requires the change of social conditions, political conditions,
and economic conditions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>How would you
devise an advanced nation with low taxation?</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will tease you a little bit
with a question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How would you
devise an advanced nation with low taxation?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, the key is personal and
organizational responsibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
will leave you with that to think about in the coming days and weeks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your wonderful
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you can see, it would
truly require at least a two-year, full-time college participation to teach you
the fundamentals of global and planetary management.<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>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least two!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least!)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>[<B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They would just be scratching the
surface.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wouldn’t it be fun to
write a curriculum like that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
could do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have always wanted
to win the lottery, not for a Lamborghini, but to hire curriculum developers and
advisors who would write curricula for new mothers and fathers, for this
enculturation of prepubescent children, and all through their life, from the
fundamentals of motherhood, the fundamentals of fatherhood, the fundamentals of
husband and wife and children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh
gosh, I could drop $100,000 in a week, hiring people to do that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We may have to do that if people don’t
step up to starting their co-creative design teams.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you are exactly right; it’s going
to take some philanthropic individual or group to do this without ever expecting
any personal or organizational benefit to accrue to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are people who exist like
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lets go on.]</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>Machiventa, if I understand correctly,
the enculturation of each individual in this new—it is new for now—but in time
when the enculturation happens, it will be something that is unnecessarily tried
and true, but at least well founded, or there will be a feeling that it is well
founded in the culture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My question
is:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you feel that this
enculturation will bring about a change in people’s outlook about what they wish
to involve their life in, in the future?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I can see that there is going to be a large amount of, as you say,
tumultuous beginning-ness, and as it goes on, how do you… what happens to those
people who do not wish to become enculturated?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you send them back to
school?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that the punishment for
their “punishment” for not complying with the culture, or are they shunned by
society, or how is that handled?</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, young man, you have really tied
yourself in a knot, have you not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have asked at least a half-dozen questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the purposes of your development, I
would ask you to select one question that you would propose.</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>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the process of enculturating people,
you are going to find people who will reject the enculturation; how do you deal
with that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Creating enclaves
of enlightened, educated, cooperative individuals</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good, that is a good start.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An advanced society does not coerce
people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you do is you create
enclaves of enlightened, educated, cooperative individuals who want to live in
harmony, live in synchronistic, symbiotic existence with others in a
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not so unusual
as it may sound, as you already have within your nation and other nations
intentional communities, but almost all those intentional communities have a
singular purpose to their existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One of the oldest intentional cultures is the nudist colony—people come
together with the intention of socializing without clothes and everyone gets
along quite well. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have intentional communities
that want to live in an enclave, a housing development, a district, a
subdivision where there is uniformity among them, that they have highly
efficient houses, that there is a commons building where they have meals at
least once a week together that are made and prepared by a rotating circle of
individuals—all individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are shared responsibilities in this intentional community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is one-half of the answer to your
question — is that people want to live in harmony with others, and in a
community that wishes to become socially, politically, and economically
advanced, individuals take on far more responsibilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Individuals learn how to become parents;
they learn how to enculturate their children so that their children eventually
can enculturate the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and so on.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is a system, a process of
building oneness within a small cell of individuals who have intentional
purpose, a conscientious intentional purpose, to live together in harmony, to
live in a symbiotic relationship in all regards, who want to live in a socially
sustainable community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For our
purposes, that is the answer to your question, that individuals will find each
other; they will advertise, they will market, they will show the benefits of
living in a socially sustainable society as a community—and they will not only
know <I>how</I> to do it, they <I>will</I> do it, and they will have the
trans-generational education and enculturating materials to teach them how to do
it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It will not be a matter of
isolated inclusion; neither will it be an isolated exclusion of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be an opportunity for
individuals to live in a completely new cultural way that shares
responsibilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You build from
what is positive and constructive, rather than coercing people and convincing
them to participate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We need people
of the New Era to be of one heart, of one mind, of one belief of shared values
that are common to everyone who choose to live in peace and harmony, rather than
conflict and in war.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, we
appreciate your question.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question, Machiventa.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a society, we are very impatient; we
want things to happen as soon as possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How do you convince people/humans that this will take a long, long
time—hundreds and hundreds of years, but it will happen; not today, not tomorrow
but it will happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you
convince them?</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><TT><B><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">MACHIVENTA:</SPAN></B></TT><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You convince them by showing them the
results in their personal lives from accepting the values that are common to all
people; and to understand those values and how to differentiate, how to discern
and improved quality of their life for themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Buddhist tradition is very good at
this; it has been doing this for millennia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a way of life that shows
individuals how to live in peace, rather than conflict; how to live with less,
so that more have as much as you do, so that you value others as equally
deserving and worthy of what you have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is not communism, because there is no central authority.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The central authority of a sustainable
advanced society is the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The individual must come to understand and appreciate—thoroughly
appreciate—what a peaceful life is about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A peaceful life comes about by the loss of inner conflict by thinking
that they have to have more material goods to be worth more, to be more
important, and so on than other people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></TT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><U><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#008000>The way of social sustainability is a way of
life<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></SPAN></TT></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><FONT
color=#008000></FONT></U>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Really,
the way of social sustainability is a way of life; it is a way of living that
brings harmony to the individual in their lifetime, even within weeks or months,
and certainly within years, and that they would want to pass this on to their
children and their great-grandchildren, and so on, and that there is a way of
living that brings this about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
begins with the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
intentional community begins with the individual who wants to live with other
individuals peacefully, in harmony and co-responsibly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The results of a widening community of
like-thinking people become a sub-division, and then a city or a county, a
village, a state, a nation, a continent and a world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins slowly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How long has your nation known a time
without war?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of the last 60 years,
how many years has your nation not been involved in war?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost none.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>War has become a way of living and life
and of business in your nation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When you have war and conflict and contention it seeps into the minds and
hearts and souls of individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just as it is necessary to take a hiatus from life and living in the
tension and stresses that you as individuals develop in your lives, so too must
communities and families and nations do the same.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">What
would it be like if your nation took a hiatus from war for 30 years?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be amazing!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The resources of war take so much away
from the individual, and from the sustainability of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would be learning how to be
non-competitive without war, without conflict.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answers to your question is always
that it begins with the individual—the individual that is convinced that this is
the way to live, and wants to live with other people who think the same
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your question and the
preceding question are directly related.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It begins with the individual without the concern for how much time it
takes, but what it takes for individuals to learn in terms of happiness and joy
and peace in their lifetime—not in ten years or twenty years, but now, this
week, next week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, it begins
in your lifetime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rewards of
thinking this way in terms of social sustainability truly means personal mental
and emotional and physical sustainability as well.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Student:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was not personally thinking about
this—I know it is within the individual—I was thinking about the general
response that has happened a few times when someone has posed it up to you that
they want to work toward something that is going to happen in five years—not a
hundred years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But thank you; I do
understand what you are saying.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">MACHIVENTA:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: green">New
Era Conversations #52 – Leadership; Current Global Situation; Punishment – Sept.
7, 2015<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Machiventa Melchizedek</B>, Planetary
Manager</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Topics:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">An era that needs leadership<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Response to leadership<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Nominating individuals in times of crisis to become
leaders<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Energized followers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The socially sustainable society is
non-competitive<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The social cataclysm of refuges into
Europe<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The global situation will destabilize many
regimes<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Mortals are ultimately responsible for the decisions they
make<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The way of social, political and economic
<B><I>evolution<o:p></o:p></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Human history is littered with the destruction of human
organizations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The mega-egos will try to scare people away from social
sustainability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The strength of social sustainability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Humane co-responsible relationship between leaders and
followers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Question about the laws as a tool of
regulation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Developing simple laws for an advanced
society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">In advanced society, there is no
punishment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Social education is the acceptance of personal
responsibility<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Creating a paradigm cultural change over
decades<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">It is important that people have hope<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">How would you devise an advanced nation with low
taxation?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Creating enclaves of enlightened, educated, cooperative
individuals<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="COLOR: green; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
way of social sustainability is a way of life</SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Team members:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roxanne Andrews, Michael McCray and a
Student</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>September 7, 2015</FONT></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Invocation</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>An era that needs
leadership</FONT></U></H3>
<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>Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a pleasure to be
in your company once again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(<B>Roxie:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our
pleasure to have you!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today I would like to speak to
you again about leadership, but this time the response to leadership and the
response to circumstances surrounding you in the time and era that need
leadership.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have a sense of what
authentic leadership is about and how it performs, that it is not self-serving,
does not seek self-aggrandizement and special favors, but seeks to coordinate
and energize the elements and energies of those around him or her, and the
environment to bring about movement toward the solution of some situation or
difficulty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enduring leadership
requires this to occur repeatedly over a period of days, months and years; many
good examples as that were shown during WWII, with Winston Churchill and other
leaders of democracy and freedom.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Response to
leadership</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There is always the necessity of
a response to leadership—we have not discussed this before—and that is when a
situation arises, and the known leaders are dithering about and have no
capability, or no shown demonstration of capability to engage the situation,
then it lies in the minds and hearts of those people in the nation to point
toward individuals who have those leadership capabilities and could possibly
provide the leadership that is needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If members of the public are as dull as the leaders who seem so incapable
of providing leadership and movement forward to resolve the situation, if the
public is as dull as that, then there will be no response and no leadership
internally or externally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of
the intentions of the Correcting Time and the Teaching Mission and Magisterial
Mission is to develop the authentic, genuine internal, personal leadership
within each of you, individually.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Nominating
individuals in times of crisis to become leaders</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You who have followed these
lessons for these many years are well trained in recognizing who is a leader and
who is not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will need to point
to those latent leaders who have the capability and capacity, but have not
demonstrated that or brought it to the surface of your society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be that you, as members of the
public, would encourage that individual or individuals to engage with others to
provide ideas concerning solutions to the problem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have no inclination to do so, and
none comes forward, then you have a flock of sheep without a Shepard.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christ Michael is your Shepard of
Nebadon, and I am your Shepard of Urantia, of this planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We, however call upon you to nominate
individuals in times of crisis to become leaders.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must be able to address, write to,
call, fax, email someone in positions of leadership, and recommend some
individual to come forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may
be on the opposite end, that you urge a potential leader and self-nominate them
and join them with others who are like thinkers, so that the solutions can begin
to be developed and implemented.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Energized
followers</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Wherever there is leadership,
there must be followers, those individuals who are responsible under leadership
to move society or their group forward to resolve some problem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Leadership is often seen as a lonely
place and position; truly in most instances it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, when there is leadership with
active, enthusiastic, and energized followers, then there is no loneliness, but
there is oneness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is oneness
that we seek in the resolution of the problems of Urantia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You who have read the <I>Urantia Book
</I>see the Days of Light and Life and the settlement of a nation and planet in
that status, as a desirable end.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But to be candid and quite frank with you, the road to that in the
beginning is very tumultuous, very difficult, arduous and challenging, as it
requires compromise after compromise with old traditions and old cultural ideas
about how the world should be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is why social sustainability is such a neglected, almost rejected idea, in that
it is so “exo-cultural.” </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The socially
sustainable society is non-competitive</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is so much outside of your
culture in operation that it is totally unfamiliar to you. In some instances is
so distant and different from the way business is handled in your society that
that it is repugnant to many people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Fundamentally, the socially sustainable society is non-competitive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has finally come to the point where
it is able to design systems within systems, and systems of systems, so that
there is a continuous flow, much like a figure 8; it goes around from one end to
the other without stopping—there is a continuous flow; it is non-linear.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the height of difficulty for
many contemporary minds to accept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The concept of money has been developed to such an extent that it is
something to compete for, something to be stacked up, even after all the needs
of an individual, family or community have been fulfilled and satisfied.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a very hostile environment for
sustainability and for the Days of Light and Life.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The social
cataclysm of refuges into Europe</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There seems little need to bring
to your attention to the global situation of your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The wave of refuges from the Middle East
and from Africa into Europe will be a development that will repercuss for many,
many decades.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be the cause
of much social and economic, and even political instability in years ahead.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have not recognized it as a
cataclysm, but it is a social cataclysm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is much like a huge reservoir behind a dam, and an earthquake occurs,
cracks the dam and the water rushes forward destroying towns along the
riverbank/riverbed, for not just a mile or two, but for tens of miles, 50 miles,
100 miles down river.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a
social cataclysm of catastrophic proportions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will repercuss in ways that will
cause much unsettlement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The global
situation will destabilize many regimes</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have seen the devaluation of
the Renminbi in China, which has had a tremendous rippling effect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though your economy of the United States
seems to be robust, other nations around the world are not so fortunate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have told you before that because of
the history of immigration and geographic development North and South America
have been spared from many developments of past millennia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too now, it is very much in the same
similar situation that many of these social cataclysms that are occurring and
will occur, seem to pass the United States and South American democracies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A stable economy and exchange of goods
is fundamental to social and political stability, yet, the global situation will
have repercussions in every nation, and will destabilize many regimes and
administrations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Mortals are
ultimately responsible for the decisions they make</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>All of these developments will
point to the necessity of social, economic, and political stability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But who, and how, will this
develop?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You recall that the first
mandate of the relationship between mortals and celestials is that celestials
will not abrogate the will decisions of mortals, that mortals are ultimately
responsible for the decisions they make—and the decisions they do not make.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That leaves us with a great deal of room
to work with your organizations as they meet and make decisions in their
boardrooms and committees and so on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the realm of the Most Highs, in Edentia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are intimately involved in the
decision-making of those groups and organizations.</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: green">The
way of social, political, and economic
<B><I>evolution</I></B><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>What we are waiting for is a
situation that requires a decision by such boards of directors, committees,
agencies and bureaus when they see the choices of moving towards social,
political and economic stability, as opposed to maintaining the current
situation, which would then be involved in decline, disintegration and
dissolution—ultimately in collapse.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There will come a time when those groups—and individuals—will choose the
way of progress and social, political, and economic <B><I>evolution</I></B><I>,
</I>rather than maintaining unsustainable organizations, processes and
procedures and policies of decision-making.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will be the tipping point of your
world toward social stability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Human history is
littered with the destruction of human organizations</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In order to prepare for that
tipping point, there must be, of course, a new set of concepts and ideas that
are presented to those groups to help them make the decision.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be truly an “either/or”
decision; there will not be many choices involved; there will not be many
options.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have striven to make it
very clear that civilizations, societies, nations, administrations, dynasties,
empires and so on, have all failed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All of human history is littered with the destruction of human
organizations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the
“either;” the “or” is to engage in developing and formulating policies and
decision-making processes that lead to social evolution, to systems development
that contribute to the sustainability of not just that organization only, but to
other organizations in society.<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>It is not that these
organizations become mutually dependent upon each other, but they become
mutually engaged in one enterprise of social, political, and economic
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “either/or” is
to see that your organization’s decision-making processes are one part of
thousands that contribute to the continuity of societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For profit-making organizations, the
“either/or” will be the choice between huge growth and huge losses, or continual
growth at low percentages of return, for not just a decade or two, but for
centuries and millennia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The advent
of organizational survivability over decades and centuries, on toward millennia,
surely must surely begin to some appeal for individuals and organizations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sacrifice will be the mega-egos that
evolve out of organizations that trounce and step upon the shoulders of those
who are not as adept or as competitive.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The mega-egos will
try to scare people away from social sustainability</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will see great efforts to
raise fear in the minds of the public concerning the fundamentals of social
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why we have
begun at the local level of individuals to understand the fundamentals of social
sustainability, that everyone, anyone can use this process to validate the
authenticity—or the fears—that are mongered by others to scare people away from
social sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will
portray it as something that is viciously destructive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most certainly it will be destructive to
UNsustainable processes to create an ongoing, constructive society that builds
the oneness that naturally develops from a system of systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The strength of
social sustainability</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will more clearly understand
these concepts were you to read the “Fifth Discipline” by Peter Senge that he
published in 1994.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a
remarkable book that points the way to the integration of societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Richard Buckminster Fuller is another
who was an avant-garde social realist, who saw the necessity of social,
political, and economic integration, rather than the destructive separation that
we see in your societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the
difference between building a large column of concrete and stones that support
each other, as opposed to the separate stones in a stream that bounce and knock
against each other and eventually wear each other down to stone talcum that is
seen in mountain rivers, that white, frothy water coming out of the mountains
that is from the debris and particulates of rocks that have bounced against each
other in the streams of fast moving rivers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The strength of social sustainability is
a strength that will support the Days of Light and Life; all parts of such
society work together through a conscious effort to rely upon each other and to
contribute to everyone’s sustainability.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Humane
co-responsible relationship between leaders and followers</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We are striving to help you
prepare for your position as followers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Followers are the powerful elements that make leadership possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Without conscientious thoughtful,
contributing followers, leadership is impossible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not leadership by force or
coercion, but leadership as a facilitator; the leadership that facilitates the
resources of people and the elements they live with is powerful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not talking about abject
dictatorial leadership; we are talking about the humane co-responsible
relationship between leaders and followers to support the good of everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you nominate someone for
leadership, you must nominate those who are not vainglorious; but nominate those
who do not seek their own ego embellishment or self-aggrandizement, or special
privileges that authority can provide.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am open for questions if you
have any.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Long pause.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Question about the
laws as a tool of regulation</FONT></U></H3>
<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 don’t have any questions on the topic
of leadership; I think you have been very thorough, but I do have a question
from one of our readers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of our
readers asked about “laws that are a regulation tool of any situation.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He says, “Obviously, high moral and
spiritual development could eliminate existing volumes of laws.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>According to human laws, there are
different levels of punishment acting as a tool to control our society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It fines, imprisons, tortures, and even
puts to death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you reveal
your vision on our laws and solutions in a highly developed society?”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Developing simple
laws for an advanced society</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I applaud you for your well-formed
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is very thoughtful and
offers us many opportunities to speak about social organization and
evolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an advanced society,
there is oneness among societies; that oneness comes from the very existence of
individuals/people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sovereign
boundaries of nations, states, provinces, districts and so on, is superficial
and artificial, and does not relate to the oneness of all humanity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To develop simple laws for an advanced
society—global society—it is necessary to rely upon the factors that are common
to all people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is it that has
sustained your species for so long?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whatever it is, it is so durable, and so consistent that it is universal
and timeless and irreducible among all people, and that this is a commonality
among all races, all cultures, all ethnic groups, nations and the genders.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When laws are developed from this
nature of humanity, then you will see uniformity, even among different
nations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That uniformity comes out
of the values that have sustained your species.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, when we speak about laws, those
laws are man-made, arbitrary, legalistic morality; they provide a
decision-making system, a legal-based morality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the case of nations now, it is a
legal morality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were to use
the values that sustained your species, those values would create a value-based
morality, a universal morality, a universal way of making consistent decisions
among all races, all cultures, all ethnic groups, and all nations for all time.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>In an advanced
society, there is no punishment</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Advanced societies have oneness
among them; there is an interpretation that may apply to their nation and to
their culture, but they are all founded on the same values.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an advanced society, consideration is
given towards the behavior of individuals as to whether their behavior violates
the quality of life of another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does their behavior violate the other’s capacity and capability to grow
into their innate potential?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does
it violate an individual as an equal of others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a developed, advanced society, there
is no punishment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Punishment is an
antiquarian way of coercing, cajoling, convincing and persuading a public of
individuals to conform to good social conduct, yet you have seen throughout the
4,000-5,000 years of recorded human history that punitive measures do not insure
conformity, does not insure moral behavior.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How then, would you convince those
individuals who are selfish enough to violate the values of an individual, or a
group of individuals, or a whole society without punishing them?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In the case of an advanced
society, incarceration is an UNsustainable option.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Incarceration takes away the resources
of the public to support individuals who refuse to conform to the morality of
that society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The real question
becomes, “Where does a society begin to eliminate punishment as a
necessity?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, it begins
by the responsible education of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you have asked for as an answer
requires a culture change, a complete paradigm change of culture from the
archaic fundamentals of your current societies to an advanced paradigm of social
behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins with
individuals; it begins by informing potential parents; it begins in a
pre-pubescent era where individuals are children are enculturated in the
morality of their advanced society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Much of it is rote; much of it will be interpreted; it will be given much
attention in your primary, secondary and university educational programs.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Social education
is the acceptance of personal responsibility</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have seen how the culture of
Japan has created a great deal of social conformity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you who live in the United States,
you are seen as a bunch of “cowboys” by civilizations of the East.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your independence causes a great deal of
selfish grievance upon other individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Democracies have a particularly developed and advanced problem:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How to develop liberty without license;
how to develop a maturing social milieu environment where individuals want to
succeed, want to benefit from living in their society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins by the education of
pre-pubescent students across the world, using a program of enculturation that
teaches them how to be students, how to be children, how to be children who are
maturing into early adulthood, and then adulthood.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first element of enculturation and
social education is the acceptance of personal responsibility for behavior.<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> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Creating a
paradigm cultural change over decades</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You will not empty your prisons
of the inmates overnight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It occurs
over decades.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have said in the
past that such a cultural change would take minimally two generations,
approximately 40-50-60 years to change the culture of a nation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To change the culture of your world
would take, perhaps, with concerted effort, as each nation chooses voluntarily
to take on this new culture of sustainability, 200-300 years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world could be well on the way to
the Days of Light and Life within one millennium.<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>Your question takes in the full
scope of Planetary Management.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
answers take on the necessity of all people on a planet to manage themselves, to
become responsible for their behavior, and to act accordingly, and to teach
their children how to live in a socially sustainable society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of the liberties that your people
take will no longer exist; and they will no longer exist because individuals
want to give them up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What will be
the return for individuals during this transition era?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be that they will see hope in
an ever-improving quality of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It will not mean a bigger and bigger and bigger houses, with bigger and
bigger mortgages; it will mean that you will eventually have your own residence,
which is adequate for your needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It would also mean that you have an opportunity to grow into the infinite
potential of your mind, throughout your life; that educational, self-development
will become trans-generational, meaning that when you begin to learn, you will
have the opportunity to learn and grow throughout your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your society will offer that to you to
grow into the potential that you “wish” to become.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must understand that your potential
does not end its expression at the end of high school or college, or at age 45
or 55.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through continuing expansion
of your inner potential, you can reinvent yourself over and over again in
positive and constructive ways, and in doing so you will make more and more
positive contributions to your society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Lastly, you will have an equal ability to improve your quality of life
and to grow into your potential as other people do, as other people would, or as
they could.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>It is important
that people have hope</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is important that people have
hope.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see the tremendous
exodus of people from the Middle East and from Africa into Europe, you are
seeing those three values in living expression, people seeking to have the
fundamentals of survival, and then to learn to grow into their potential, and in
doing so, improve their quality of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The element of inequality looms so large in the minds of those people
that they have so little compared to those who have so much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that they are seeking to go
from a bicycle to a Lamborghini, but simply to walk in streets that are
peaceful, to be able to walk to work or to their local grocery store or café in
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would be a tremendous
luxury, one that cannot be purchased by money, or any other method of
exchange.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a condition of
living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, to fulfill your
answer, in part, requires the change of social conditions, political conditions,
and economic conditions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>How would you
devise an advanced nation with low taxation?</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will tease you a little bit
with a question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How would you
devise an advanced nation with low taxation?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, the key is personal and
organizational responsibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
will leave you with that to think about in the coming days and weeks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your wonderful
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you can see, it would
truly require at least a two-year, full-time college participation to teach you
the fundamentals of global and planetary management.<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>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least two!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least!)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>[<B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They would just be scratching the
surface.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wouldn’t it be fun to
write a curriculum like that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
could do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have always wanted
to win the lottery, not for a Lamborghini, but to hire curriculum developers and
advisors who would write curricula for new mothers and fathers, for this
enculturation of prepubescent children, and all through their life, from the
fundamentals of motherhood, the fundamentals of fatherhood, the fundamentals of
husband and wife and children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh
gosh, I could drop $100,000 in a week, hiring people to do that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We may have to do that if people don’t
step up to starting their co-creative design teams.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you are exactly right; it’s going
to take some philanthropic individual or group to do this without ever expecting
any personal or organizational benefit to accrue to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are people who exist like
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lets go on.]</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>Machiventa, if I understand correctly,
the enculturation of each individual in this new—it is new for now—but in time
when the enculturation happens, it will be something that is unnecessarily tried
and true, but at least well founded, or there will be a feeling that it is well
founded in the culture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My question
is:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you feel that this
enculturation will bring about a change in people’s outlook about what they wish
to involve their life in, in the future?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I can see that there is going to be a large amount of, as you say,
tumultuous beginning-ness, and as it goes on, how do you… what happens to those
people who do not wish to become enculturated?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you send them back to
school?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that the punishment for
their “punishment” for not complying with the culture, or are they shunned by
society, or how is that handled?</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, young man, you have really tied
yourself in a knot, have you not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have asked at least a half-dozen questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the purposes of your development, I
would ask you to select one question that you would propose.</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>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the process of enculturating people,
you are going to find people who will reject the enculturation; how do you deal
with that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Creating enclaves
of enlightened, educated, cooperative individuals</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good, that is a good start.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An advanced society does not coerce
people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you do is you create
enclaves of enlightened, educated, cooperative individuals who want to live in
harmony, live in synchronistic, symbiotic existence with others in a
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not so unusual
as it may sound, as you already have within your nation and other nations
intentional communities, but almost all those intentional communities have a
singular purpose to their existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One of the oldest intentional cultures is the nudist colony—people come
together with the intention of socializing without clothes and everyone gets
along quite well. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have intentional communities
that want to live in an enclave, a housing development, a district, a
subdivision where there is uniformity among them, that they have highly
efficient houses, that there is a commons building where they have meals at
least once a week together that are made and prepared by a rotating circle of
individuals—all individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are shared responsibilities in this intentional community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is one-half of the answer to your
question — is that people want to live in harmony with others, and in a
community that wishes to become socially, politically, and economically
advanced, individuals take on far more responsibilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Individuals learn how to become parents;
they learn how to enculturate their children so that their children eventually
can enculturate the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and so on.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is a system, a process of
building oneness within a small cell of individuals who have intentional
purpose, a conscientious intentional purpose, to live together in harmony, to
live in a symbiotic relationship in all regards, who want to live in a socially
sustainable community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For our
purposes, that is the answer to your question, that individuals will find each
other; they will advertise, they will market, they will show the benefits of
living in a socially sustainable society as a community—and they will not only
know <I>how</I> to do it, they <I>will</I> do it, and they will have the
trans-generational education and enculturating materials to teach them how to do
it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It will not be a matter of
isolated inclusion; neither will it be an isolated exclusion of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be an opportunity for
individuals to live in a completely new cultural way that shares
responsibilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You build from
what is positive and constructive, rather than coercing people and convincing
them to participate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We need people
of the New Era to be of one heart, of one mind, of one belief of shared values
that are common to everyone who choose to live in peace and harmony, rather than
conflict and in war.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, we
appreciate your question.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question, Machiventa.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a society, we are very impatient; we
want things to happen as soon as possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How do you convince people/humans that this will take a long, long
time—hundreds and hundreds of years, but it will happen; not today, not tomorrow
but it will happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you
convince them?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"
class=MsoFooter> <o:p></o:p></P><FONT face=Arial><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>MACHIVENTA:</STRONG> </FONT> <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">You
convince them by showing them the results in their personal lives from accepting
the values that are common to all people; and to understand those values and how
to differentiate, how to discern and improved quality of their life for
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Buddhist tradition
is very good at this; it has been doing this for millennia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a way of life that shows
individuals how to live in peace, rather than conflict; how to live with less,
so that more have as much as you do, so that you value others as equally
deserving and worthy of what you have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is not communism, because there is no central authority.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The central authority of a sustainable
advanced society is the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The individual must come to understand and appreciate—thoroughly
appreciate—what a peaceful life is about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A peaceful life comes about by the loss of inner conflict by thinking
that they have to have more material goods to be worth more, to be more
important, and so on than other people.</SPAN></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></TT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><TT><SPAN
style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><U><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#008000><FONT face=Arial>The way of social sustainability is
a way of life<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></U></SPAN></TT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><FONT
color=#008000></FONT></U>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Really,
the way of social sustainability is a way of life; it is a way of living that
brings harmony to the individual in their lifetime, even within weeks or months,
and certainly within years, and that they would want to pass this on to their
children and their great-grandchildren, and so on, and that there is a way of
living that brings this about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
begins with the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
intentional community begins with the individual who wants to live with other
individuals peacefully, in harmony and co-responsibly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The results of a widening community of
like-thinking people become a sub-division, and then a city or a county, a
village, a state, a nation, a continent and a world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins slowly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How long has your nation known a time
without war?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of the last 60 years,
how many years has your nation not been involved in war?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost none.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>War has become a way of living and life
and of business in your nation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When you have war and conflict and contention it seeps into the minds and
hearts and souls of individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just as it is necessary to take a hiatus from life and living in the
tension and stresses that you as individuals develop in your lives, so too must
communities and families and nations do the same.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">What
would it be like if your nation took a hiatus from war for 30 years?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be amazing!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The resources of war take so much away
from the individual, and from the sustainability of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would be learning how to be
non-competitive without war, without conflict.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answers to your question is always
that it begins with the individual—the individual that is convinced that this is
the way to live, and wants to live with other people who think the same
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your question and the
preceding question are directly related.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It begins with the individual without the concern for how much time it
takes, but what it takes for individuals to learn in terms of happiness and joy
and peace in their lifetime—not in ten years or twenty years, but now, this
week, next week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, it begins
in your lifetime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rewards of
thinking this way in terms of social sustainability truly means personal mental
and emotional and physical sustainability as well.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Student:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was not personally thinking about
this—I know it is within the individual—I was thinking about the general
response that has happened a few times when someone has posed it up to you that
they want to work toward something that is going to happen in five years—not a
hundred years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But thank you; I do
understand what you are saying.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoBodyText><B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">MACHIVENTA:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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