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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">New Era
Conversations #54 – Awareness; Self-observation; Applying Wisdom – Oct. 5,
2015<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
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style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary
Manager </B></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" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Awareness is the precursor of
consciousness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Appreciate the value of being aware<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">Teach
your children to be self-observing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Evolving into greatness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Accumulating wisdom and applying it<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Becoming self-sustaining<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">The
afterlife begins by making ethical and moral decisions and
service<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">An
esoteric fable<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Astrotravel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Consciousness is not singular, it is
collective<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">Is
intuition part of self-awareness?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">A
curious mind<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Teaching self-awareness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">An
irreducible foundation of criteria<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">People will always have opinions and preferred ways of
doing things<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">The
selfishness factor<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Creating a self-sustaining society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">What
is ingrained in your DNA?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: purple">Why
the 6 core values must be available now<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Simplification of laws<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Enculturation and indoctrination of those who violate
other’s rights<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Machiventa’s closing words<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoFooter><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TR: 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>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>October 5, 2015</FONT></H1>
<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>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Awareness is the
precursor of consciousness</FONT></U></H2>
<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>Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today I would like to
talk to you about awareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Awareness is the precursor of consciousness; to be aware is to be
conscious and that is the beginning of consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, if you are not aware of even
your circumstances around you physically, then you remain out of touch with your
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the example of
misplaced awareness, where drivers in cars are looking at their cell phones and
texting messages to friends when they are involved in an accident and
killed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be an old fashion
situation where a lady is at the door of a restaurant and there is a man behind
her, and she waits in awareness that he is there; he is totally oblivious and is
not aware of her social stature and does not open the door for her.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, he looks at her and wonders why she
isn’t going in, and she looks at him and wonders why he is not polite enough to
open the door.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Awareness can take
many forms.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When you begin to think of
awareness in terms of your society, your community, your family, yourself, your
neighbors, your co-workers, you realize that many of them are unaware, that they
are going through the routine of living, and that the routine has supported a
lifestyle of unawareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To live a
real life, one must be aware of the life around them physically, socially,
emotionally, spiritually and otherwise.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>[This is Daniel:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What he is referring to are the 7
spheres of human awareness and activity:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and
spiritual.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Appreciate the
value of being aware</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be aware is to be awake, and it is
also to appreciate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are many
individuals who are aware of their circumstances around them, but they do not
give value to some portion of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The unseen is what is usually off the radar of people who do not have a
consciousness of God, an awareness of God in their life, and so they go about
life as though there were no other extensions of reality beyond what they see in
front of them, or what they see in their checkbook and their accounts.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have heard of the awakening
of philosophers, of mystics, of avatar leaders much like the Buddha, who became
consciously aware of being aware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He expressed thoughts of consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once he became aware that he was
thinking, that he was conscious of his surroundings, he became conscious of his
own thinking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He discovered,
published, and taught the way of enlightenment, the process of being
self-observing, and self-aware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
do not use the word “self-conscious,” as that is a double entendre that causes
confusion in discussions, so we will use the process of “consciousness” in lieu
of that. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Teach your
children to be self-observing</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>If you teach your children
anything, it would be to teach them to be self-observing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of the great intellects, spiritual
leaders, social leaders, and others are primarily self-aware; they are
self-observing; they have seen themselves as one of many.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How they think and how they feel is
indicative in the main of how others could think and feel as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can teach your children how to be
self-observing, they too will have the potential to become great, even with
average intelligence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Self-awareness and self-observation leads one to those “ah-ha” moments of
insight and revelation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Self-observation is both a conscious process of observing one’s self as
they are living in the moment, and simultaneously in the same moment, reflecting
on similar situations of the past, and drawing conclusions and insights from
that, which are primary to the accomplishment of wisdom and enlightenment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seeing many similar situations as
lessons, one draws a conclusion from that, and that is the conclusion of
wisdom.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Evolving into
greatness</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This wisdom does not beget from a
lack of self-observation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What your
world needs now, and has needed for the last 100 years, are more individuals who
are self-observing, who become conscious of themselves, and who developed a
consciousness of their being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
you have those concepts in mind, and you have them tagged in your thoughts and
mind now, let us move to your society—a community of families.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A community is really a local gathering
of individuals and families, and a gathering of communities that generate
societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How societies, how
communities, how families evolve into greatness and make their situations more
supportive of a better quality of life, is to see that community as being
conscious of itself, and where there are deficits in families in that community,
the community assists those families to grow into the greatness or
self-awareness equally as others in the community enjoy.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Accumulating
wisdom and applying it</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What is missing in a community
and in a society is a process that emulates the mind of an individual, where
that community or society can begin to examine its thoughts about itself,
beginning with its experiences that it has had in the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Observing itself is a means of garnering
lessons of the past to derive wisdom for the future, to guide the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accumulating wisdom without application
to making better decisions for the future is a useless hobby, both for
individuals and for communities and societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the work of academics who gather
wisdom and do nothing with it but write books about it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Emotionally sustainable societies must
have a process by which they examine history—all history, of human history—from
the earliest of times, to examine the recordings of those societies and what
they learned, and what they did not learn, what supported their sustainability
and continuance, and what led to their demise.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Becoming
self-sustaining</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This is the first time in the
history of the world where your societies now have the capacity, and means, to
become <B>self-sustaining</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There must exist a means of a society to be self-sustaining in order to
become socially sustainable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Self-sustaining means that there are internal processes of
decision-making, of option development, choice making and decision-making and
implementations that lead to better decisions, better actions that fulfill and
sustain-itself into the future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Social sustainability is not possible without invoking and implementing
self-sustaining processes of decision-making, at the level of the individual,
families, communities and societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do not get lost in the size of decision-making.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you hear “community,” you think of
the diversity of your community and how it is almost impossible to come to any
agreement, and when you extend that to a society of thousands of communities,
you begin to be far more skeptical about the possibility of making wise
decisions at the societal level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Simply keep your eye on the local level; keep your eye on where you are,
and how you think about your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you are skeptical about your life, then you will be skeptical and
pessimistic about the capacity of families to adjust and make adaptive changes
for their own self-sustaining existence, and that will extend to communities and
societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>The afterlife
begins by making ethical and moral decisions and service</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You, as God-believing
individuals, believe in the possibility of an afterlife.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins by making ethical and moral
decisions, and also comes about through your service to others, and it begins
with service to yourself—not self-serving service—but self-service to become a
better person, more whole and complete, to become more capable of providing
service that supports others and helps them in their growth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being aware is primary to this
process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being self-aware is
fundamental to developing self-consciousness; being conscious of yourself, to
observe yourself, and then take corrective actions in your thinking and in your
doing, to lead and live a better life.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc</B>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being more aware or more self-aware is a
positive aspect for the individual, but it is also a positive aspect for the
community, I would think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I
correct with that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, that is correct.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>An esoteric
fable</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was recently in a conversation with a
gentleman and I became aware of something that was new to me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He believed that our sun has a twin, a
dwarf star that has a 12,000-year orbit, and that it is completing the orbit and
will come around our sun soon and at least part of the cataclysms that we will
endure will be caused by that dwarf sun coming close to our planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I found that hard to believe; I had no
awareness of that at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you
comment on that?</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>That is an esoteric fable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your scientists and astrophysicists have
sufficient equipment to have already identified an object long ago if it
existed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A sun with that
capability, or that gravitational force would have caused the planets to have
changed their course ever so much, and a dwarf sun would be visible to the
infrared satellites that have scanned your astrofield for years now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A 12,000-year orbit is not
extraordinary, it would mean that the dwarf star would have gone past the Oort
field, and would return.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it had
left the solar system, or left the proximity of your sun 12,000 years ago (or
6,000 years ago,) it would have possibly been recorded by those who observed
that phenomena in the skies, by the ancestors who watch the stars in the
heavens.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would now be on its way
back, and it would become observable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I hope this satisfies 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>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ah yes, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So nothing is observable, so we are
dealing with a myth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080
size=3>Astrotravel</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Consciousness,
self-consciousness, awareness are interesting subjects.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have become aware that if I could
compose myself in such a way, and I have the awareness that it might be possible
for me to astrotravel to the first mansion world, or one of the other spheres,
that this is a possibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I
correct in that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are wondering if you can astrotravel
to the mansion worlds?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(<B>MMc:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it is
possible?)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it is; several have
done that.</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>So, if we look at the everyday awareness
of people, they’re very much unaware of what the potentials are for
consciousness, and what consciousness actually provides?<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><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Consciousness is not singular, it is
collective<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you develop awareness, and
awareness of yourself, you will have begun the journey of consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Consciousness is not singular, it is
collective, so your awareness, your consciousness would become eventually
expanded to the awareness that you are a part of a larger consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take that to a further level, you come
to the insight that consciousness is non-temporal, and non-dimensional, and so,
with that knowledge and through deep meditation, and to more awareness within
yourself, you can become aware of the other situations where consciousness
resides.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This could mean
astrotravel to another planet in another part of Nebadon; it could mean
astrotravel to the Hall of Records on Salvington; it could mean your awareness
of the Resurrection Halls in Edentia, and so forth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Become aware of the presence of other
consciousness, or the conscious awareness of others who have been in those
places.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You become conscious that
your consciousness is part of the larger consciousness of your human race on the
planet, and of the universe consciousness.<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>If you have the thought that this
is not possible, then it does not occur to you to accept those visions, those
thoughts of what you see in your mind’s eye.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are skeptical or pessimistic and
do not think it is possible, it will not occur, and it does not occur if you
have fear of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being open to this
type of awareness is a matter of your own expansion of consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you become aware of the presence of
your Thought Adjuster within you, then you may be aware of that, but it will
take an act of volition then to engage conversation with your Thought
Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once you begin that, and
you are accepting of what you hear in your mind’s ear, then you can begin the
process of an unending conversation with an agent of eternity that resides
within you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What an expansion of
consciousness that you have then, don’t you think?</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>Oh, yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Is intuition part
of self-awareness?</FONT></U></H2>
<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>Machiventa, you are talking about
self-awareness; intuition,is that part of it?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, a bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Intuition is a spontaneous recognition
of bits and pieces of awareness that fit together into a moment of
intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is much like a packet
of information that enters the Internet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When you write a story or you write an email and send it to a friend, it
might be broken up into many dozens of packets of information and sent by
various routes, until they reach their destination and are recombined on the
person’s cell phone or computer until they access it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too, intuition is very much the same;
it is bits of consciousness, data, you might think, packets of consciousness,
awareness, that fit together and are received by you, and you have an “ah-ha”
moment that you call an act or a moment of intuition.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Intuition is usually of the present, or
the near future, whereas you would call a moment of intuition about anything in
the past as an insight of wisdom, or clarity about some situation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But intuition, yes it does, tap into the
stream of consciousness in the universe.</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>Thank you, Machiventa.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One other question about self-awareness
and observation:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know it begins
with the individual, if you want to bring more people into that way of thinking,
how do you do it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do what,
Dear?)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Make them more observing of
themselves and aware of things going on around them?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>A curious
mind</FONT></U></H2>
<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>It starts with good people as yourself,
who are parents or grandparents, and who guide the thoughts of young ones, of
their grandchildren or children, to begin monitoring their own thinking; to
observe themselves as how they feel, and then to identify that and then share
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Begin by situations that are
real, where a parakeet that you had for many years, suddenly dies, and the child
says to its mother, “Mother, I feel sad that our parakeet has died.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it begins with simple things as
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also begins with the
curious mind; the curiosity factor is very important.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was primary to the discussions of
philosophers: they began to question reality, or question their thinking,
questioning how this whole world has come about, how it monitors itself—or does
not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This begins with
enculturation; it begins as early as possible with the young members of your
societies who have begun to talk and develop a vocabulary.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vocabulary is primary to the way you
think, and so, that is why it is important to teach children other languages—at
least 2-3 languages—so that they can think in alternate ways of reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Teaching
self-awareness</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"
class=MsoFooter><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Sir, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can we go a step further now to
community, to bring awareness and self-observation to people in your
community?</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>Are you asking how one goes about
that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>Yes, please.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then there must be a member of the
society who already has that self-awareness, who is self-observing of themselves
and of their family, and of their community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also helps to have one in the
community who has lived there long enough to have seen the changes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or, in fact, one who has come from
another culture, who has come to your community and sees how it operates so
differently, and sees what they identify as obvious social problems, or social
situations, or topics that could use some resolution or improvement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins with some spark by an
individual who has that awareness and shares that with others, and that they
begin to think in terms of the community as solving that.<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>Historically, the great
difficulty has been that there has been no means to monitor, or for individuals
in a community to participate in a community self-awareness program.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now that you have the Internet, you have
the possibility of creating a local community—not a blog—a means of sharing
information about problems or difficulties.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a technological problem or
situation, that has many solutions, but rarely has anyone attempted to build a
local community Internet system that brings consciousness to that
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our hope that the
situations that you were discussing before the recording of this session, that
those situations would bring about the community awareness in an internal
Internet process for connecting individuals to participate in an ongoing
awareness program, an opinion and preference gathering process to resolve
community problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is too
large a project to discuss thoroughly at this time, and in the context of our
current conversation.</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>When a community starts to use the 6
core values as the basis of rebuilding their community, for example,
self-observation and self-awareness has to go hand-in-hand with this; it would
be an automatic thing, wouldn’t it?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, of course.</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>So it’s not something that even if
people are not aware of it at the time, they will evolve into this sort of
observation of themselves, and awareness of what is going on around them,
because they want these things, these values to be the basis of their
rebuilding.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>An irreducible
foundation of criteria</FONT></U></H2>
<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>Exactly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What the 6 core values of social
sustainability provide is an ultimate and irreducible foundation of criteria to
weigh all social issues and topics and problems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are not amenable to personal
opinions or speculation; they exist for all time and have supported the
sustainability of your species and are the ultimate criteria to weigh social
problems, and such.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is dependent
upon individuals in the community to then bring those 6 values to the attention
of the other community members as a means of examining their current social,
political, and economic situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It may be that a community, for example, the Pennsylvania Dutch or the
Amish, [who] have decided to interpret those values in terms of their own lives,
which does not cause any harm to anyone else, but satisfies them for their
traditions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Advanced technologies do not
indicate that you have a higher benefit of a better quality of life or standard;
it simply means that you have advanced technologies.</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>So when you fit the 6 core values and
your interest in their being introduced, like you said, there are some people
who are going to have their own opinions, and with the 6 core values, you really
can’t have any opinions, as such, because these are the ones that you are going
to be basing your society on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is going to be a big stumbling block, and I know you’ve talked about it before,
how people who are very strong in their thoughts have a hard time going by just
these values.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do some people never,
ever get it?</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>(Hearty chuckling.)</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>Sorry, but I didn’t know what else to
say.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>People will always
have opinions and preferred ways of doing things</FONT></U></H2>
<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>(Still laughing.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, there will be some people who do
not “get it,” but you must remember that people will always have opinions about
preferred ways of doing things, and preferred ways of improving the quality of
their life and how to grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
will be a necessity politically of an open, public process, very similar to the
one that I just discussed a moment ago about a community Internet program
process that allows the monitoring of opinions and preferences from the
public.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And there will always be
political opinions about the solutions that your society needs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is simply just part of the human
nature to be opinionated, and of course, personally that they can express
preferences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would be a
wonderful situation, because it would indicate then that individual communities
and societies are then discussing their opinions within the context of social
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would be a
wonderful development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have yet
to make social sustainability an item of public discussion broadly across any
community, state, let alone a nation or a collection of nations—it is that
new.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our hope that you are
accepting of opinionation within the context of social sustainability as being
actually desirable. </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>Now, I understand that
completely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In <I>my</I>
opinion—and I will not change my opinion—is that I cannot possibly understand
why people could not <I>accept</I> the 6 core values!</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>Oh, now we get to where it is
interesting!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is because of
selfishness.</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>Ah-ha!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This selfishness is for the good of
everyone?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>The selfishness
factor</FONT></U></H2>
<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>That is correct, but in social
sustainability the authority and control and power resides with everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The reason why there is such an
egregious disparity of prosperity and wealth across the nations, whether it is
in Bangladesh or whether it is in the United States, is because of the
opportunity to take advantage of situations without concern for the equality of
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is as money and wealth
have been deemed or have been identified as the quality or the item that
dictates the evidence of wealth and circumstance, such as large houses, private
airplanes, ships, and so forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then money becomes the differentiating aspect between the wealthy and the
impoverished.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It comes down to a
matter of the ancient primal urge of individuals to express “me first, then
you.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The lion, the dominating male
lion of the pride will eat first before others eat, and get the scraps or what
is left after he is full.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This kind
of thinking is the cause of the failure in the history of all human civilization
and societies, nations, dynasties, empires and so on, is that this kind of
separation and division is what is unsustainable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It eventually goes through the cycle of
expansion and development, and then decline, disintegration and collapse.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Creating a
self-sustaining society</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>To create a society that is
self-sustaining, it must have self-sustaining processes involved in
decision-making, using values that are irreducible, universal, and
permanent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What Christ Michael is
developing through the Correcting Time is the first self-sustaining society and
civilization in the history of Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That will be quite a remarkable achievement, don’t you think, when that
occurs?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is simply a matter of
time before it does occur.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is
needed now is the function in your society that has not existed before, and that
is self-observation and the collection and collation, cataloguing and storing,
and then distribution and publication of the wisdom of what works and what does
not work, to support a socially sustainable society, government and
economy.<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>The second part that is needed is
how to then use that wisdom at all levels of society from the local level to the
tops of all hierarchies to implement that wisdom to develop and formulate
organizational policies that support self-sustaining practices within that
organization and society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
hit upon the core of the Correcting Time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It begins with teaching people how to be moral and ethical, and to
provide a service, which continues to be the goal of the Teaching Mission.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then to build and infuse organizations
with the 6 core values of social sustainability so that organizations support
the social sustainability of society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a wonderful thing to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The acquisition of great amounts of wealth does not support the
sustainability of all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course,
the primary ingredient within this is that you have moral and ethical
individuals who have a quality of self-discipline to care for others who have
less, and to assist those who have less to learn how to have an improved quality
of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your simple question leads
to grand problems and grand solutions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you for 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>Thank you for explaining it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When a person, or organization, opts for
money and control, and things like that, there is no possible way that they can
be existent, that doesn’t even fit into the equality part of the 6 core values,
does it?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>What is ingrained
in your DNA?</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That paradigm of thinking and existence
is unsustainable, but it has come through the eons of the existence of your
species and has become ingrained in your species DNA.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, there is the primal urge, or DNA
urge, to “have first, before others have,” and on the other hand, there is
written in your DNA the 6 core values of social sustainability, that you are
always seeking a quality of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But when you have the consciousness of the existence of others having the
same values, then you would want to have the self-discipline and to engage those
others in improving their quality of life to grow and to do such equally as you
have done, and to have empathy for those individuals to see their need, and then
compassionately reach out to assist them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you would do that from the core identification of yourself with
others and see that your love of self extends to the love of all humanity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was the mission of Jesus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins by realizing that you are sons
and daughters of God, and that you are needed and wanted, and that you are loved
by God.</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>Thank you, Machiventa.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no more questions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no questions on our current
discussion, but our friend in Russia has sent me a couple of questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not quite sure how much of it you
have already answered, but I’ll give it a try here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He says, “Thank you, Machiventa for your
interesting answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Speaking about
devising a nation with low taxation, my thoughts flying around the intentional
communities, which have self-supporting ability at a broad extent, that are
sustainable socially, economically and perhaps with the new political
regulations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Taxation is necessary
for increasing quality of life of the society as the whole unites.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From this point of view, the taxation
could have multilevel structure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Individuals could pay taxes only within their own intentional community
for essential needs, to ensure growth of quality of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One intentional community itself pays to
the enclave of communities; the enclave pays to the bigger associations of
intentional communities and so on, (according to the hint that you gave us in a
previous session), as a payment for requested service.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The low taxation has meaning of an
effective one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are a lot of
things that are difficult to take into account for devising effective taxation
and sustainable in terms of centuries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Could you provide your opinion on the life of the intentional communities
regarding to effective taxation, or maybe a wider view? </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>It would be preferable to not
provide an answer of speculation in answer to your speculation, but to wait for
the future to come about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are at
this point now very much interested in implementing actual, effective action to
improve the circumstances of your world, from the local level to the global
level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of that, I will
refrain from answering your question directly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your indulgence.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can see by how vehemently Americans
hang onto their “rights,” to have firearms, and how opinionated they are about
everything, that giving up their personal liberty and independence to accept the
three core values will be a tough sell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Their competitive nature to have more of everything than their neighbors
have won’t be given up easily.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
are often totally unconcerned about what is best for the whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no question there, but do you
have any comments?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Why the 6 core
values must be available now</FONT></U></H2>
<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>Your estimation is correct and that is
why these ideas and concepts and processes of developing social sustainability
and implementing the 6 core values of social sustainability must be available
now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That liberty and that capacity
to make decisions has only the value that individuals can give it to take
advantage of their neighbors, as you say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What will occur, as we know and have told you, is that the cataclysms
will come, some are here now and will increase.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will take away much of the capacity
of individuals to make independent decisions, or to take advantage of
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When life becomes dear and
having a life itself without difficulties and traumas, then social
sustainability will make sense. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Simplification of
laws</FONT></U></H2>
<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>Another question our Russian friend sent
us, he said, “I would like to return to the topic about laws.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How could we simplify laws and where to
start?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will it be on the basis of
the intentional communities and applying the 6 core values of social
sustainability within them?”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What will be required is that
individuals take on more responsibility for their behavior, what they do and
what they do not do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 6 core
values of social sustainability, when they are implemented at a community and
societal level, will actually decrease the number of laws necessary to enforce
conformance by individuals and by organizations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will also implement more harsh
measures to those individuals who know about the 6 core values of social
sustainability, but nonetheless, selfishly violate those values and those few
laws that do exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No one, of
course, in your nations now has freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are not free to do anything you want to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, you do have liberty, which
gives you the personal authority to move about and do what you can do in your
society without interfering or harming the welfare of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the socially sustainable community,
this will be more clearly defined through the 6 core values of social
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You could interpret the behavior
of those individuals who are acting outside of those 6 values as not being fully
human.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are taking selfish
advantage of the welfare and goodness of others to improve their own situation,
which is unsustainable at the community and societal level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How your societies deal with individuals
as that will be decisions that will have to be made in the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But know this: government will become
more simplified and straight forward to support the improved quality of life for
individuals and for opportunities to grow into their potential, and to do that
equally as others would want to or could.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That brings up a question I have had
from the Urantia Book for quite some time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It says, “The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting
your free will choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to
you or injurious to your fellows.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(UB 48:6.6)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>How do we solve the problem of
people who do make free will choices that are detrimental to others, for example
when those planes dove into the towers on 9/11?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They violated the free will choice of
3,000 people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do we keep people
from doing things like that, that violate other people’s free will to live?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#800080 size=3>Enculturation and
indoctrination of those who violate other’s rights</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, there is no way to prevent
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People will make decisions as
they make decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you think
in terms of social sustainability and the course of nations in a society, then
you are thinking of minimally 50 years to 500 years, and it begins at the family
level, where children are enculturated by their parents and by educational
facilities in the proper use of freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When this is not sufficient, and a child grows into adulthood and
violates the well being of others, violates their 6 core values of social
sustainability, then that child/individual would be held in retention until they
agree to live in accordance with the good of all concerned.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that they would be left in
detention without being affected by enculturating processes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know the harsher term of
enculturation is called indoctrination, and so when people are held in
detention, it is untenable and unsustainable to leave them there without
affecting their own improved quality of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals who are held in
detention are given remedial educational information and indoctrination—even if
that is subliminal—to assist them in making decisions that support their own
sustainability.<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>Those individuals who refuse to
live in accordance with the rules of a sustainable society have the option of
remaining in detention for the rest of their life, without interaction with
others to contaminate others with their ideas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The traditional forms of incarceration
in human societies from times immemorial are unsustainable; they are detrimental
and are unconscionably inhumane.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Detention is not seen as punishment—in a socially sustainable society the
word, “punishment,” is not used because all actions of society are oriented
toward reclamation or the development of sustainable behaviors, attitudes and
thinking of individuals in societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Complex, developed societies cannot exist peacefully or stably into the
future without self-sustaining processes for the larger good of those
societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This may mean that
individuals who are continually aberrant in their behavior and violent and cause
injury to others—and who refuse to recant—may be removed permanently from
society.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no further questions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Machiventa, do you have any closing
words for us?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">Machiventa’s closing words<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We began this session with a discussion
of awareness; just being aware, and the development of becoming self-aware.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have gone through the minutes of
this session, we have come to the point of a family, a community, a society, a
nation and a community of nations becoming self-aware.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To become self-observing, and then to
consciously engage constructive processes based on the irreducible, universal
core values of social sustainability, to develop remedial programs to make
designs that create new organizations that are self-sustaining to support your
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many individuals may think
that this is anathema to their way of life, but the way of life that individuals
have collectively is anathema to the sustainability of societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Failure to apply these 6 core values to
self-sustaining practices will lead again to the destruction, decline and
collapse of societies, but in this time, it will be the collapse of thousands of
societies around your world, rather than their sustainability into an indefinite
self-sustaining future of centuries and millennia.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We hope you are beginning to see
how the selfish dictates of individuals can lead to the collective decline of
societies, and that it requires the conscious self-observing practices of
individuals to amend their ways that lead to the betterment of all
concerned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Doing so will develop
social justice and social equity, so that the common good is known to everyone,
and everyone is able to enjoy that balance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are a few of the goals of an
improved, evolving society that will lead to the Days of Light and Life, to
stable societies and a world that is stabilized and enjoying the presence of
some individual, an Avonal Son, who has come to assist this world to enter into
the Days of Light and Life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
beginnings of this journey is very difficult; it is very rocky; it is very
turbulent, with much agitation and much resentment by those individuals who have
to share the good that they have enjoyed compared to the little that others have
had to put up with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An evolving
society, an evolving world is not without its difficulties, but the offer is
this:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The offer is HOPE.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you and good day.</P>
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