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<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#008000>New Era Conversations #55 –
Equality; Self-discipline self-awareness – Oct. 19, 2015</FONT></H2>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Machiventa Melchizedek</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 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The core value of Equality<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Slowly bending society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Improving the quality of life of
everyone<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Growing in a safe environment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Self-discipline<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Human inertia and apathy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Knowing the universal needs of all
people<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Being dependent on government
handouts<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">An era of feminine mindset<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The secondary qualities of social
sustainability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Community self-awareness programs<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Community consciousness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Developing community self-awareness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Predators in society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Becoming self-aware<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">The growth of self-awareness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Self-correction of your behavior<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Teaching self-discipline in the
family<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Closing remarks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></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<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>October 19, 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>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The core value of
Equality</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:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a pleasure to be
with you again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group
greetings.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have noticed through
This One, and from shared editorials, the willingness to look at the core value
of Equality from different perspectives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>An editorialist mentioned and discussed that equality and inequality have
good sides and down sides to it, that there are various ways of looking at
inequality in a democratic nation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>From our perspective it points up to a system’s error, in the system of
distribution of wealth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not
wrong or bad or harmful that some people are part of the 1% and have accumulated
or amassed huge amounts of wealth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And poverty is always a part of every society; it is the anvil or the
stone that helps grind out personalities or character and strength.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For those who do not have that, of
course, it grinds them down into lesser individuals, and diminishes their
capability.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What is in error is the system of
distribution and the means by which individuals can ride above the fray of
difficulties by means of improving their quality of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have discussed many times in the
past, once you have a home, or some kind of domicile that has running water,
heat, sanitation, light, and cover, that increasing the size of the domicile,
the home, does not necessarily improve the quality of your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can be quite happy by yourself,
living in 800 sq. ft., rather than 8,000 sq. ft. or 80,000 sq. ft. of living
space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The quality of life of the
individual who lives there is the main indicator of whether that residence
serves well, or serves not so well.</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>Slowly bending
society</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The process of including the
means of decision-making through the three core values of social sustainability
gives a broader consciousness to the quality of life of everyone concerned, and
that through the ingenuity and thoughtfulness of God inspired individuals,
whether they are aware of their God Presence or not, there will become advances
in your society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The social and
societal pillar of your societies, as well as the governmental and political
pillar, and the pillar of the financial-economic supports and structures of your
society, will begin to <I>bend</I> slowly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Bending slowly means being patient with change, being patient with
improvements.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a much better,
safer process of social evolution, rather than political, social or economic
revolutions, which tend to be violent and take the society backwards years or
decades, and in some cases, even centuries.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The recovery time does not assure that
those inequalities would have been adjusted or resolved.</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>Improving the
quality of life of everyone</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 time now for your societies
to become much more conscious and aware of the rights of everyone, and the
willingness to work with a system that is changing to improve the quality of
life of everyone as they wish to improve it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The main means to do this is to provide
opportunities for growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
possibility of offering free trade schools, or free college education to your
society is a wonderful start.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
does not mean that it has to be totally <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">gratis</I>, but that there can be a
reciprocal agreement between the individual who receives such benefits, and
their return of service in their society in some manner.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Paying off their debt through service
would be a wonderful means for them to achieve higher levels of education while
in service to their society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Service is, as we have said before, one of the main ways of adding weight
to your souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also provides the
emotional and social development of those who have not benefited from good
parenting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The humility and
willingness to be in service to others is a wonderful relationship that can last
throughout the lifetime of the individual, and be of benefit to society.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This process of bending your
culture is slow; we have said before, it takes approximately two generations
before you see significant change in a society, though minor changes can be
visible even after an era of 5 years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It requires that society take on more responsibilities, and that
individuals take on far more responsibilities for their conduct and for their
life and living in a family, a community, and a society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These have never really been sorted out
in any democracy, or in any other form of government.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been seen historically that
government is the solver of problems for society, and this simply has not
worked, whether it is handing out bread in circuses in the Roman Empire in Rome,
or whether it is doling out money through checks and debit cards to those who
are indigent—those are temporary stopgap measures.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unfortunately, when you see multiple
generations receiving these social benefits, it becomes very detrimental to
their personal growth and to their integration in 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>Growing in a safe
environment</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Though the individual in society
must have more clearly defined responsibilities, certainly your societies must
learn to protect the interests of the individual to grow in a safe
environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The social predation
that goes on in your “modern” societies is tragic; it is life threatening to the
very fabric of your societies by letting those mean and dispirited individuals
run amuck in your societies, creating great havoc and multi-generational
disabilities, emotionally, socially, and mentally to the citizens of your
societies.<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>Accepting responsibilities has
not been one of the greatest attributes of individuals in a democracy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those citizens tend to believe that they
are free, which they are not, but rather that they are at liberty to do whatever
they wish, as long as it does not harm or injure or deter another individual
from growing into their potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Defining those limits and removing predatory individuals from your
societies will be one of the greatest moral challenges of the 21<SUP>st</SUP>
Century in democratic nations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For
those who are here and want to live peacefully, they must demonstrate living
peacefully by not harming others.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>How this comes about will be very
interesting for us to work with you as this unfolds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The effort to spread the word of social
sustainability and the 6 core values is one of our more important tasks within
this century.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To see those values
embedded into your statutes and your social standards and mores would be a
wonderful addition and improvement to what exists now.</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>Self-discipline</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The second aspect that is
definitely needed in your societies is self-discipline, the willingness to do
what needs to be done, knowing that it is necessary to do so, and plucking up
the courage to engage yourself in doing the right thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is self-discipline in the greatest
manner, whether it is practicing your piano lessons daily, or some other musical
instrument, or learning a new skill—going out and weeding the garden when you
really do not want to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Self-discipline begins by seeing what needs to be done, and then choosing
to do so at a convenient time, but not delaying such that it causes greater
injury or difficulty for yourself later.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Raising children is much the same
way; parental self-discipline is paramount to raising children who learn
self-discipline.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It used to be that
children “did the dishes;” now it is hard to get them to even put them in the
dishwasher in some families.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is a most difficult thing to teach, yet when parents take up the challenge of
preparing children to become independent, responsible adults, it becomes defined
more clearly, even to the weekly chore of cleaning up a room, putting things
away and making them tidy and vacuuming and cleaning the floor, and so on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-discipline begins early in life; it
comes very, very early, yet, to teach this without being egregiously harmful or
coercive to the child takes skill and parental advice and coaching from other
parents who have been successful.</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 to your questions,
which may relate to these subjects, or to any other questions or topics you wish
to discuss today.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Human inertia and
apathy</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>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question that has to do with
apathy and inertia; those are two of the most detrimental things I find that are
happening in our society, and I’m talking on a community and worldwide levels
too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do we deal with things
like inertia and apathy with humans?</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>It begins early in life by teaching
self-discipline.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social apathy and
social inertia of apathetic attitudes are highly detrimental to an improving
society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we spoke some time ago
about awareness—people are not aware that their apathy may be detrimental to
themselves and to their society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Existing in slow motion is not sufficient to improve the quality of your
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social apathy is indicative
of many people living in the same mental and emotional state of existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of the challenges of indigenous
people have been taken away from them by governments by being placed on
reservations, which is highly detrimental to the social fabric of families and
highly detrimental to the emotional maturity of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was once that indigenous people did
live a relaxed type of life, but the necessities of living and providing for
food, clothing and shelter, and cooperating with neighbors to assist in the
larger social and productive enterprises required that individuals become useful
to their society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apathy was not
seen as a social or accepted part of their society or their industries, or way
of life, and that those who were apathetic were seen as eccentric and unusual
and oddball outcasts of that society, unless of course, they had some special
talents that could be useful to their culture.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>How to change that is also a
culture-bending challenge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those
who do see, or who do have awareness of social apathy, and see this as
detrimental, have the social and cultural challenge of awakening their neighbors
in their communities and societies to this situation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not that it is bad, but it is not good
either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social apathy does not
provide the possibility of engendering new generations with interest in
improving their lives, to grow into their innate potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is useful to bring this out in
individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A most difficult
situation for that is in a society where there are no goals; where there are no
aspirations; no inclination to escape from the humdrum, ordinary, and
egregiously stale society that they live in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is accepted as a way of living but
non-living, which is highly detrimental to the soul growth of individuals.<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>Part of the reculturation of
individuals in some societies that are accepting of it would be to reinvigorate
the relationship between the individual and God, that God lives within them, and
that there is a purpose for them in life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Dealing with an apathetic society or community is much like dealing with
an apathetic individual; they are in need of being coached that there is more to
life than there appears to be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Motivating questions might include, “Why did they choose being in that
culture?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why did they choose the
family that they came to?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is
the purpose of their life?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why were
they given life to begin with?” and so on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And finally, they must ask that
final ultimate existential question, “Is this all there is?” and be dissatisfied
with what they see in themselves as part of an apathetic society.</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>When you look at society as a whole,
most societies, the government is the one that in effect people have allowed to
take over total control and has taken away the drive and the goals of a lot of
humans by, like you have said, brought them down to a level which they just
accept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monthly checks, they are
put into reservations and things like that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is just so mind boggling when we
think about trying to deal with all of this, but you’ve got to start, I know,
from the bottom up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The governments
have just got such control over everybody that people just accept it now, and
that has become and made them apathetic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I can’t figure out where you would start.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would always start with the
individual, because even individuals become executives of government, public
executives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They become
legislators, they become members of Parliament, and so on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a need to instill in
individuals at the family level that governments have a greater responsibility,
they have a moral responsibility besides keeping society peaceful and calm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the same problem that Rome had
with its populations, how to keep large populations from being upset and causing
riots, and so on, which if you read the history of Rome very carefully, they had
many of those kinds of riots and upheavals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a moral responsibility of
government to assist the population of individuals to become the greatest they
can become by developing their innate potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether a person has an IQ of 85 or 185,
they bring to the world a certain potential with them that is in need of being
developed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Government has a mission
to challenge its citizens to become more than they are now, to grow into their
potential, to see that they can make a difference in their society, rather than
being the victims of their society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The role of government must be redefined; the role of governments whether
they are communist, totalitarian, or democratic nations, the roles of government
must be redefined.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be a
co-operation in populations to understand their joint and shared
responsibilities; it is not just to exist in slovenly and lazy ways of life and
living; surely, that is not what we would call prosperity.<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>Knowing the
universal needs of all people</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Your thoughts are well received
and appreciated, and you are beginning to see the challenges of being a
Planetary Manager, where you appreciate all people with the same regard, knowing
the universal needs that all people have, and to have a life with meaning and
purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, when that is taken
away from people, when their purpose is no longer there to go out and hunt and
fish and prepare for the winter months, then they become lazy, slovenly and
their very potential, their very heart, the very future of a larger society is
squandered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you are correct,
your governments must be redefined and done so in a way that concurs and agrees
with the very nature of the people that they govern.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They must be in agreement with the life
force, energy, and values of your species.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Being dependent on
government handouts</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>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes, when you want to make a
suggestion to an indigenous group, or other groups of people about it’s time… it
would be great to be self-sufficient and not depend upon government handouts,
it’s very hard to do because you know that they have become very dependent on
the handouts, and yet they are losing their self-respect and their dignity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m finding that to be quite a challenge
to keep my mouth shut in that respect, because they would have a better life if
they were more independent themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Could you comment on that please?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When generations of individuals have
become dependent upon the largess and the over-care of government, they also
lose the skills of life and living and self-support for themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When governments are not permanent,
governments are only transitory, governments change over the centuries, and when
they do change, the care and welfare of the populations, the public is put in
jeopardy, because they have lost the skills of self-supporting themselves and
caring for and doing what is necessary to look forward to the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When there is no future in the minds and
eyes of individuals, then they do not see what needs to be done to care for
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see an
apathetic society, you are seeing a society that has chosen sleepily, not to
think about the future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through
apathy, they have no reasons for existence, and they do not feel that they are
needed or useful, or can contribute even to themselves, which presages a social
disaster of societal proportions.<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>An era of feminine
mindset</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>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From what I understand, we are moving
more to a feminine era or mindset than what has been in the past, which was more
masculine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help in some
ways to maybe make changes more positive, or would it make a difference?</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>It will make a difference.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The frontiers of your world have been
conquered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Men of aggressive
mindsets and strong wills and strong bodies have overcome the challenges of the
frontiers; they have tilled the soil and cut the trees, and so on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have done the heavy work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now the social interior work of families
and communities must be taken on by women—women of a gentler nature and more
cooperative and socially integrative, rather than the divisiveness and
individualism of males.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The best,
of course, is the union of the two characters and their abilities to govern
themselves and their communities for the betterment of everyone, for every
society does have a need for both qualities and capabilities of both
genders.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, traditionally, males
have dominated simply because they can show great anger, and their voices raise
and they pound on desks, walls, and so on, to have their way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This creates separation and fear in
others, which is useful at times, but no longer useful in a developed
society.<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 secondary
qualities 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>More is needed; more of the
secondary qualities of social sustainability is the sense and feeling of empathy
for others and their situation, and then the willingness to reach out to them
and care for others as you would care for all humanity, as you are part of that
humanity and as you would want to be treated by others who see your situation
through their own empathy and reach out in compassion to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the attributes of
well-balanced feminine personalities, whether they come from indigenous people
or from modern societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those
value-emotions are indigenous or innate to your species, and now it is time to
bring them forward.</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’ve talked to a few people and I’m
hoping I was right in what I was saying, that the balance of the feminine coming
in will eventually balance the male part, because it has been so dominant for so
long, and that’s what we are looking for, is the balance—eventually.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right?</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.</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>Community
self-awareness programs</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>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One more question:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the last session, you talked about
community self-awareness programs, and you said at the time that it was a large
subject to talk about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you
mind talking more about it today, please?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a necessity—and this is a good
response to your question or situation of social apathy—that people must awaken,
become aware of themselves as a larger group of people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They must become aware of themselves as
separate from other communities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
order to identify themselves, to have a consciousness of themselves as a
community in which communities that function, develop, and evolve according to
the 3 core values of social sustainability, there is a need to have… they must
become aware of their quality of life as the beginning of community
self-consciousness — to be aware of themselves and their condition, and to say
“We are not growing,” and become aware that their community is stagnant.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In order to improve the quality
of life for the community, citizens must see that they are a community of
individuals and families, to see what must be done equally for everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As example, there are individuals in
small communities who are shunned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They must be invited out, as they are a part of the same community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They represent that part of society or
community that other people may fear of becoming.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Individuals who are shunned would be
brought out and invited to participate, and to engage others whether they are
educated or not, whether they are culturally evolved or not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The development of community
consciousness is the beginning of societal growth and development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When a community with self-awareness and
consciousness begins to expand its awareness past itself, and begins to examine
its transcendent purposes, that community can become something that will
transcend the lives of many people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Surely good communities provide a transcending environment that assists
individuals and families to grow into wholeness, and that the completeness of
community assists in that process.<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>What is missing from such a
community is the exception.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see
the exceptions who are rejected and are homeless and live apart from others. Yet
a community can also produce people of great exception who go on to become
educated and contributors, and return back to the community to make major
contributions to where they came from.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is necessary for such a self-conscious community to rise into its
fullness is to see the potential for greatness, that there is a possibility for
individuals to come into the expression of their great potential, and become
leaders within their own right, and within their own social environment; and
reach out in compassion to fulfill that vision.<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>Community
consciousness</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The prize of community
consciousness is primary to the growth of a sustainable society that has a
sustainable community and has sustainable families.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It happens through the development of
individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be some
model that children would aspire to, and there would need to be a reward system
for exceptional, positive results, and that there would come into being a
rewarding system of recognition and appreciation and acceptance of individuals
who want to enter into the stream of accomplishment and personal
self-development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If these are
missing, then they need to be put into place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Children’s groups and children’s
societies, children’s service groups (i.e. 4-H, Cub Scouts, etc.), children need
to have safe groups in which they can associate, and which they are guided and
coached and taught and trained how to develop their inner potentials to where
they can express their curiosity in safety to build machines, or build social
processes that lead to expression in the larger community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The potential of any community lies in
its children, and the next generation, and the generations after that, to remold
itself, to build itself into a new purpose for existence.<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 communities that are
apathetic and they say in general, “Community for what?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is the purpose of community; why
should I care?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those questions
must be answered in positive terms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You who are conscious of the 6 core values of social sustainability have
the organic criteria of our species to guide you into the future, into what
helps individuals grow into their potential, and then to demonstrate that others
can do so as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope this
helps answer your questions, Student.</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>Yes it has, and in many ways.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you talk about community, most
people don’t even know what the word “community” means.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking in terms of if you start
a self-awareness program on the Internet, and you start with the 6 core values,
and having people’s input, then the ideal of community will grow through
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Machiventa:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is correct.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>[This is
<B>Daniel:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go back and reread
the last article I wrote for the “Haida Gwaii Trader.”</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=MsoBodyTextIndent><B>Student:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And it’s true that people still can just see the word community and it
doesn’t mean anything to them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
doesn’t mean anything to them unless they are personally involved in their
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m meaning from people
who are not involved.]</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
community self-awareness</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:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you begin the development of
community self-awareness, the first question that begins with, “Who are
we?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even to just say “we” is a
statement of commonality, and that is the beginning of community—having
something in common.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Who are
we?”<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 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>[This is
<B>Daniel:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I assume that this
is a fairly dominant society and that their culture is indigenous?</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=MsoBodyTextIndent><B>Student:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A lot of it is, yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
indigenous population would like to be, and is trying to be the dominant one
here, because of the fact that it is their land, and that’s what they believe it
to be.]</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" 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 have a point, a toe hold into the
potential future, and that begins from cultural pride, indigenous identification
with the land and their living, and their heritage.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This can be developed into highly
positive processes and social developments, which help current and future
generations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a place to
begin if you choose to do so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not an easy process, and oftentimes takes years and decades to develop
fully.</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 very much.<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>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Predators in
society</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>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you can be more specific in
identifying those who are predatory in our society, or what you mean by those
people who are predatory in our society.</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>Certainly, I would be most glad to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Predatory individuals in a society and
community would include all individuals who create harm to another individual,
whether they deal in financial transactions or whether they deal in sexual
assaults.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals, the
most egregious ones which are not evident until years past, or parents who cause
harm to their children, and who teach or model them in ways which cause
trans-generational social abuse or neglect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any individual who is physically
aggressive to another individual is a social predator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first and most egregious harmful
social predators are those that cause trans-generational damage to an individual
family and community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Sexual abuse and sexual violence
of any type, whether it is a violation of roles of authority or position, or
whether it is simply physically assaultive, cause tremendous trans-generational
damage to the individual, their children, their friends, and so on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It creates a fear of existence, a fear
of being a father or mother, or a child in the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These types of predatory actions are
ultimately harmful to the soul growth of the people we love the most, those who
are children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such predatory
actions prevent the child from growing into their potential as a child of God,
and as an intellectual, social being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Bank robberies, of course, at gunpoint or intimidation are also social
predators for financial or material means.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Home invasions under force are also social predators; they cause damage
and fear in individuals to live freely and openly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you getting the point?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I am.)<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>Now, your responsibility, which
will cause the greatest moral difficulty in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century for your
society, is what to do with those individuals, how to treat them, or how to
handle them, or how do you remove them, or how do to incapacitate them so they
do not cause any further damage to anyone else.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Society and government and your control
authorities of police, courts, and corrections do not live up to their moral,
societal responsibilities when they do not remove those individuals or
incapacitate them from further harm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just as we were speaking of identification of groups and how to assist
them to grow into their potential, it is necessary to identify those people who
are predators as not being fully human.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To be fully human is to want to improve the quality of your life, to grow
into your potential and do so equally and to be able to enjoy equal capacity to
both improve the quality of your life, and to grow into your potential as other
people would.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals who
want to harm other individuals are predators, and are working contrary to the
good of society and the good of themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are particularly working against
the good of their victims, causing retrogression, devolution of a society and
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Failure of social
authority and social institutions to curb these individuals is a
multi-generational crime against the good of society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Governments that do not fulfill this
moral obligation are morally bankrupt in our estimation to assist their citizens
and societies to become greater than they are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of all the egregious social problems
that you have in your world and in this democracy at this time, it is that of
the failure of societies to remove those individuals who harm others.</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>What is your suggestion for our
governments to remove these individuals?</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>We have no suggestions for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a societal problem, it is a
governmental problem, it is a problem of groups of individuals who must make up
their mind what they want to do with this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The choice is yours as individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In a democratic society you must bring forward these issues for
discussion in a rational way, and one that is less political than objective and
rational.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are many sides to
this problem, as you have already seen, whether it involves gun control or
capital punishment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a socially
sustainable society, punishment is removed as a method of providing for the
improvement of societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
actions that need to be taken may be seen as punishment, but they are
reinterpreted in a positive way to assist the growth, development, and
improvement of your societies over all.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I know this does not answer your
question, but it is a decision that must be made by individuals—thousands of
individuals, millions of individuals—in how they want to live in the
future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To let everyone live, to
have everyone live in your society equally and enjoy the benefits of a good
working society, is impossible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There will always be individuals who are self-willed to harm and predate
on others in a way that is detrimental to large numbers of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you cognizant, are you aware that
for every person who is convicted of rape, on average they have committed 30
other rapes, which they were not prosecuted for?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What harm does this cause to your
feminine population and to your children?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is huge!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such deviancy
must not be tolerated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To
incarcerate and put them away for the rest of their life is also socially
unsustainable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your societies must
devise ways that are less egregious to the destruction of the soul of the
individual, even if that means altering their mind mechanism.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Becoming
self-aware</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Machiventa, you talked to us last time
about becoming self-aware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
mentioned Buddha; the self-awareness in Zen is quite different from what we
would think of self-awareness in Western philosophy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you can tell us a little
more about how does one go about becoming self-aware?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Laughing.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To ask the question means that you are
self-aware.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is necessary in the development of
self-awareness is for those individuals who are self-aware to raise into
consciousness others who are not self-aware.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The possibility of being self-aware and
improving how they think and how they live and the decisions and choices that
they develop, and the actions that they take.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being self-aware is part of the problem
of the indigenous people on Haida Gwaii, is that there must be self-awareness—it
is not self-awareness for what reasons, but self-aware as its own rewards.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-aware means that you can make
decisions about who you are, what you are, and your future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Knowing that this self-awareness has a
beginning is important.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I said,
those who are self-aware must begin to raise the question even in educational
situations with 3<SUP>rd</SUP>, 4<SUP>th</SUP>, 5<SUP>th</SUP>, 6<SUP>th</SUP>
graders, and higher.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The facet of
self-awareness is inherent in becoming educated and that begins the process of
becoming self-educated, developing a curiosity about yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The growth of
self-awareness</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In the case of the indigenous
people, if there is no curiosity then they are what you would say in your own
contemporary parlance would be “soul dead;” that they have no possibility of
growing into their souls, or filling it, or adding to their being through the
processes and structures of their life and living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your question is truly one that has
profound import.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, yourself, can
bring self-awareness to others and ask them “what they think about themselves,”
and “how they think about themselves,” or “have they ever thought about
themselves thinking” and “what they are thinking.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a convoluted system of
self-analysis at all, but simple observation as a dispassionate individual would
see another individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The growth
of self-awareness is primary to your becoming, and engaging the ascendant career
that you have before you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems to me that as part of
self-awareness there is a sense of being able to self-correct or look at your
situation and being able to correct it or to bring it into a better focus.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Self-correction of
your behavior</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being self-aware and observing yourself
would be to become dissatisfied with some of the unproductive ways of
behaving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see that you are
causing some uncomfortableness in your life by what you are doing, then you
begin to become self-aware of your speech to others, and you become aware of
your mind-talk with yourself, and you become aware that you are the generator of
your problems, the choices and decisions that are not helpful to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, when you see this unhelpful
behavior, you see that you have made unhelpful decisions, and you become aware
that perhaps the decisions were made by beliefs which are erroneous or do not
contribute to your good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so,
yes, to be self-aware is to make estimates of what works and what does not work
to assist you in the goals that you have in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals who are narcissists,
or who are self-centered, or who are hurtful and aggressive to others have truly
not begun to examine their behavior as productive or unproductive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are simply expressing their innate
nature to others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, we do know
of individuals who have self-awareness who are making decisions that hurt
others, and they choose to do so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is evil; this is the practice of iniquity, to know the difference
and to pursue the harm anyway.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there any other questions today?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you talk about self-awareness,
Machiventa, and you talk about discipline, my perspective of looking at it is
trying to keep a balance in your life, especially with discipline because it can
go overboard and be very militaristic, I guess is the word I’m looking for, and
with self-awareness you need a balance too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know how to word my question, to
be honest with you.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Teaching
self-discipline in the family</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, perhaps, are thinking of discipline
in the parental way, or the Germanic way of thinking about discipline.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ‘should’ and the ‘ought to’ that are
given to other people, but we are talking about self-discipline of doing the
right thing for the right reasons, even when you feel lazy and do not want to do
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not using discipline
as a position of authority, to tell other people what to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes that is necessary when you
have individuals who have low self-discipline, or where self-discipline is
absent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must then become the
outside, external authority to project what needs to be done for the right
reasons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is missing in many
children who become adults and lack in self-discipline is having had someone
explain to them the benefits of self-discipline, the rewards of it and the
difficulties of it as they grow up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many people have not been taught about self-discipline as a choice, as a
lifestyle, a way of having an organized life, rather than one that is in chaos,
and is in disarray.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The best source of
self-discipline is within the self, who is self-observing, self-aware and can
see what the choices of discipline behavior—or lack of discipline behavior—can
produce.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being able to forgo
pleasure today, in order to have something better tomorrow is
self-discipline.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the denial
of immediate gratification for accomplishment of future good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a requirement both of
individuals, families, and societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If this is not instilled and enculturated in children in early years,
then the community apathy that you see around will become endemic and permanent,
which is most unfortunate.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So self-discipline comes first, and then
self-awareness?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is this right?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Laughing.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can start from either, but it is
best to have both.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it is best to have both.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there any other questions?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoBodyTextIndent>[Roxie asked
Machiventa for help with a very personal family problem, which is not being
shared publicly at this time, even though it is directly related to today’s
session.]</P>
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class=MsoBodyTextIndent> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: green">Closing remarks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MACHIVENTA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us bring today’s session to a
close.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have brought some very
interesting questions to the forum today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The awareness, self-awareness, the rise of consciousness,
decision-making, and so on; of apathy in a community, and how to raise that into
higher levels of positive, social evolution and development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These always begin with self-awareness,
of comparing your situation with others, and neither being avaricious or in
despair for your situation, but seeing that you have decisions that you can make
in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, of course, this
is the most important aspect is for the children that are here, and for the
generations yet to come.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
bring about a sustainable world only by seeing future generations as living with
you now, and that you can affect those positive and constructive developments
through the decisions you make in your personal life, and with your neighbors in
your community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>##</P>
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