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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">New Era Conversations #74 – Spiritual
progress; Culture bending; Prayer – Jul. 25, 2016</span></b></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Machiventa Melchizedek</b>, Planetary Prince and Planetary Manager</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Topics:</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Individual spiritual progress</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Personal destinies for the global population</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Destiny points</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Finding those who are motivated to join us</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Preparing for medical needs after the cataclysms</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Human motivation to be involved in this work</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Bending the culture slowly over time</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">The religion of life and living through experience</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Making our democratic processes more effective</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Concerning grant proposals</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">How does the political split in our country affect the
race consciousness?</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Personal questions on prayer</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Suggestions for those who do not hear their Thought
Adjuster</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Spiritual needs vs. material needs</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Machiventa’s closing comments on ascension</span> </p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">TR: Daniel Raphael</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Team members: Roxanne Andrews, Michael McCray and a Student</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Invocation</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>July 25, 2016</b></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Individual
spiritual progress</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Good morning, this is
Machiventa Melchizedek, your Planetary Prince. I am always delighted to come here and speak
with you, to tune into your minds and to listen to what is going on in the
depths of your minds and your words and your vocabulary and your social
interaction with yourself and with others.
Through the months and years we have seen progress in you—this NEC
team—and we have also seen it in those who persevere to read these sessions
diligently and to follow what is going on.
The work of a Planetary Prince is of no value if it does not bring about
the transformation of the individual from the inside out, from the intra-social
interaction that one has with themselves in their thoughts, in their minds as
they rehearse the day and prepare for the future, and also with the interaction
with others. We have seen much progress
by those of you who pay attention to the words and are striving to integrate
them into your own minds, your own lives, and your own behaviors, in your
thoughts and your words and your social interaction. So, we salute you and we thank you for this;
you are the testament of the work that we are doing that you show that there is
positive results in what we are doing.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Personal
destinies for the global population</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Now, to extend that
to the rest of the world and to the 7 billion plus people who live on this
planet. And always, when you think of
these terms, think of these projects and programs and think of the individual
and how we must infuse this thinking into the individual so that they carry
that forward into their families, their communities and organizations that they
work with, and are in a professional association or other groups of people who
they associate with. It is through this
interaction that the work of Christ Michael is carried forward, and this
prepares the minds and the hearts and the souls of individuals to receive their
instructions from their Thought Adjuster to engage their personal destiny. And yes, each individual does have a personal
destiny that is awakened by the person asking questions about their own life,
and hopefully that will begin early in life, rather than later.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">You may proceed with
your questions if you have any at this time.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Destiny
points</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> Machiventa, this may be related
to what you have just said. I’ve been
reading some transcripts from the 11:11 Progress Group and I was interested in
their discussion in 2015 about “Destiny Points,” mentioned by Ophelia. Can you give us more information on that,
please?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Yes, most certainly. There are individual destiny points in a
person’s life, and sometimes they conjoin the destiny points of other
people. In the first case, this is the
destiny project of your life and that you come to certain important and
critical points in your life where you make a decision, or you make an
observation and you act on it to change your direction or what you are doing,
or where you are going, or the group of people that you associate with. Sometimes these are those critical junctures
through the loss of a parent or partner or child, loss of a job/employment where
the predictability of the past is suddenly smashed, and that your life seems to
be crashing around you. Those examples seem
pretty obvious that those are junctures or destiny points where your life can
change through your awareness, where you take a “time out” to slow your life
down or reflect on your life and rebuild your life. Sometimes these destiny points or junctures
are not traumatic; they are not destructive, but rather the summation of a
growing feeling within the individual that causes them to wonder whether their
life is on course or not. Sometimes,
this is the awareness that you are in the wrong job, and that you need to
change your job, or that you are with the wrong partner and you need to change
partners in order to change your life. </p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Oftentimes, most
often, people are totally unaware of their destiny. However, there are only a very few, a very
small minority or small number of people who are aware that they do have a
destiny and are engaged in life to find it, and so these subtle destiny points
soon become a burden and that there is a sense of feeling within themselves
that they need to change their life, even wondering what that would be. There
is the other layer where I just mentioned that sometimes the destiny points are
in conjunction with that of another person’s destiny points. This should suggest to you that there has
been collaboration before birth between Thought Adjusters or your Destiny
Groups. We are unable to thoroughly
explain this to you at this point, and do not want you to speculate about
that. However, it does involve your
preparation for this life. </p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">You can also “take
it to the bank” that your Thought Adjuster and your Celestial Teachers,
Midwayers, and Angels have already consulted with each other to assist you to come
to these points of juncture with other people.
You can see this throughout your political and social and economic
history. It is more easily seen in large
scale changes of a society where one individual changes the course of a
culture. You can point to those as a
destiny point that changes the lives of many people, and so these destiny
points come to help a society progress; they help to bring about social
evolution. Of course, at the individual
level, it is the social, psychological, and spiritual evolution of the
individual that will assist them to will to do God’s Will—not passively but
actively—and to consciously and intentionally do that so that they can get on
their destiny path. I hope this helps.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> Yes, it does; thank you very
much! I do have other questions but they
can wait if someone else would like to jump in on this topic.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> May I ask a question, please
about this destiny point? When you feel
as an individual that the situation has arrived in which you are guided—like I
was guided when I met a certain person and came here—when you realize that this
is happening and you are going along this pathway, and then down the road you
realize that maybe . . . does it ever happen where that person that you felt
has guided you towards coming here when you met, that there is a parting of the
ways? I don’t know how to explain this,
but you know where you are going and then all of a sudden you are not on the
same path together?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Yes. Sometimes when people come into your life, that
they are agents of change for you, where you might not see where you need to
move ahead in your future to relocate.
Another person comes into your life and they motivate you to change
locations, and then they might fall away and take on their own life’s
course. There is nothing wrong with
this; it is simply positioning you in the right place at the right time to work
with the right resources that are available to you now. Your own personal life, from what I see, is
exactly this situation. It is developing
in ways that you had not foreseen four years ago.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Yes, Machiventa. This is true and the person that helped me to
change my mind to come here, we have become great friends, but I am sure you
are aware that I really didn’t want to bring this up, but there has been a sort
of block between the two of us, and it is to do with the 6 core values and
social sustainability. I am really
trying to figure out what I can do and I haven’t got any answers. But anyway, thank you for your answer.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Finding
those who are motivated to join us</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> If I might continue that
thought…, as we have said, we do not “sell” or “persuade” or “market” or
“convince” people that what we are doing is “right.” We are looking for people who see that this
is something that they need in their life, and they are motivated to join with
us. This creates the strongest team bond
and usefulness among people.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Yes, Sir, and I agree with what
you are saying. It is just that this
person is speaking against it and I have a hard time dealing with it. But thank you anyway.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Preparing
for medical needs after the cataclysms</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">I have no more
questions on that subject, but I have other questions. I have a question from one of our
readers. He states he has a friend who
is on medication for schizophrenia and he is concerned that the friend may run
into trouble if the drug he takes for his illness becomes unavailable in hard
times. He asks, “Is there any advisable
way this person, or others, might end the taking of these drugs, without
reverting back to their symptoms of schizophrenia?” That’s one of the questions. Have you got an answer for this?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> It sounds like he wanted a very
definite answer. Let me say this: The mind that you were given, and the
mechanism and its operation is what you have.
There is a certain amount of change that you can bring about in your own
thinking—let me go slowly—and there is a certain amount that others can do to
assist you to reprogram your mind. In
cases where there is chemical imbalance, that this is a life-long occurrence,
just as some children come into a developmental psychosis in their late teens
and early twenties, where there is no evidence of it before, this will continue
throughout their life. This is a part of
the maturation of the brain organ as it comes into maturity in the mid-twenties
and even into the early thirties. The
minds that you have at that time are the minds that you will have until you
pass from this realm. </p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">In the case of the
individual who has this schizophrenia and the medication assists them greatly,
this should be a major concern of your disaster managers in your society. The emergency management planning for most
communities deals only with the physical infrastructure of society. The concern that your friend has for the
availability of that medication, in the case of a social disruption of a major
sort, that should be a concern of your state and national leaders. However, we do not see that topic on their
agenda at this time. The unfortunate
result when you project this into a region where there is major infrastructure
disruption of the economy and roads and highways, and the passage, the death of
individuals who make the process work—for instance in the pharmaceutical
distribution process—then you will see the outbreak of much mental illness
among the population. This will be a
cause for great consternation among the population, who do not have problems. And for those individuals, who have mental
illness problems, it will be an incredible disruption in their lives as they
see what is happening to themselves and that they are losing the capacity to
function normally or functionally in their society at that time. The best possibility that a person can do
would be to stockpile this medication, though there are limitations by which
the Federal authorities allow for this sort of thing. This is not a good news message, I’m afraid.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> So when you talk about
emergency situations, it applies to not only schizophrenia, it applies to all
types of drugs where people are dependent upon them for their living and their
existence?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Exactly. Whether it is insulin for diabetes, or
whether it is medication for some mental illness problem that is treatable by
medication and is no longer available.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Something like this should be
activated, I would think, like we have our own emergency system here, and this
should be activated here—not necessarily on a Federal level or a provincial
level. Would it be wise to do it that way?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Usually, pharmaceutical
limitations are mandated by your Federal governments. In the United States, the Federal Drug
Administration limits dispensing only 90 days at a time to individuals. It used to be 30 days, but now it is 90 days,
mainly because of the abuse of using these drugs and keeping them and housing
them, or reselling them by the individual.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> So, Machiventa, what is your
suggestion, please, about approaching on my level? Who would I approach?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> You would want to discuss this
with your Emergency Management Organization, whether that is the Red Cross, or
whether that is your local Emergency Management. Your City Manager would have information about
this and could advise you how to proceed.
You would want to have this problem on the agenda of Emergency
Management so that there could be a sustained distribution process for those
critical life and psyche sustaining drugs.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> That’s fantastic! Thank you, Sir. There are going to be a lot of questions coming
up about that, but for now, I will do just what you said.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Human
motivation to be involved in this work</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">I have another
question, if that’s all right. I know
that over the time I’ve been involved that we are planning/preparing and
helping to change things in the world.
What I would like to see, if this is all right in saying, that the
people who read these transmissions, I would like to see them ask questions of
ways in which we could go—regardless of what is going to come—to go more
positively and more spiritually and to look at dealings with all these things
that are coming and happening and changes. To look at it in a way that we are not only
transforming ourselves, but we are transforming the world. I know this might be a bit idealistic, but I
think it can be done and I’d like to see more of people who are involved in
these transcripts and reading them to get involved and start asking more
questions. That’s all I have to say for
now.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> The key to your statement is
human motivation. What would motivate
individuals to be more concerned about their situation or life, and to ask
questions about how to act to improve their situation? Your question provides you with an insight
into the reasons why we have changed the format of our work through the
Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission over the years; it is through the lack
of motivation of individuals to take this work seriously and to see how they
can apply it to their own life. For
many, these transcripts are just “entertaining spiritual fiction,” that they
provide a hope and a way of remaining positive in the face of great, tremendous
difficulties that the evening news brings to your homes every day. This may sound like a cynical statement on my
part, but it is simply an observation.
We have made these plans and have presented them and developed them in a
way that individuals can pick up these transcripts at a time of need, and to
begin applying the principles that the [transcripts] contain to their immediate
lives and to the reconstruction of their families and communities, and further,
how to improve the quality of the lives of individuals who are law abiding and
competent, responsible citizens. From
our perspective, we have just made the necessary adjustments that we can and
need to, to engage a receptive audience when they are able to bring their own
lives forward to do this work.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> So, what else can we do?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> You are doing it right now and
we applaud you and compliment you for participating actively in this, and in
your own home location you have begun to bring these questions of social
sustainability forward, as well as the principles and values, and how this can
be applied to your local community to improve its future, the next generations.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> But Machiventa, it still
doesn’t seem to be enough!</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Bending
the culture slowly over time</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> We would agree with that. However, we accept the situation as it is,
and to bring about the forces that will bend your culture slowly over time
towards the situation where conscious social evolution has progressed to the
point where many people are receptive and able to engage their own lives and
their destinies for the betterment of their society, even without being
consciously aware that they are doing so.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Thank you, Sir. I have no more questions right now.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">The
religion of life and living through experience</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> Machiventa, would you tell us
more about the religion of life and looking to experience?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Would you define that more
clearly, please?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> Not too long ago, a couple of
sessions ago, you defined the difference between what we see as religion in
this world—for Catholics, Protestants, Islam, Jews, etc.—you made a
differentiation between religion as it is viewed in this world and the religion
of life and living through experience.
This was more involved with the religion that hinges around a
relationship with the Father.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Well, you have almost answered
your own question. Truly, in the
religion of life and living, it is your living faith that you have in your
personal life as you work with the Father to develop your life and to fulfill
your destiny and bring about a successful and peaceful next generation. The religion of life and living is not in the
churches; it is out in the community, it is out in your personal life, it is
within you, it is the intent of your life and the conscious effort of yourself
to join with the Father to bring about your conscious spiritual evolution.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Making
our democratic processes more effective</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> You said that you were taking
steps to make our democratic processes much more effective. Would you tell us a little more about that,
please?<br>
<br>
</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> We have alluded to this in the
past and it will be revealed through the actions of individuals as they bring
these thoughts forward. As you know,
there is a tremendous disgruntlement in the population of the United States about
both candidates, and that the area is in even broader disgruntlement about the
operation of their State and Federal Governments, and the effectiveness or
efficacy of those processes. If you see
this as a push to bring something into existence then you would need something
that would have a “pull,” that would pull people into a new process, a new
direction, a development of democratic process that aligns with the existing
process, but which brings about tremendous realignment of the public with their
public executives, and the policies of their government. I speak in very nebulous, global terms, but I
wish not to jeopardize those efforts which are now being brought forward and
developed. You—meaning the general
public—will be surprised by what comes through the back door. There is anticipation for many political
efforts that may develop into new themes in your country and other democratic
nations, but the improvements that we see will come out of what you call in
America, “out of left field,” to surprise most everyone and to be of such a
nature as to cause no disruption to your existing political processes, but to
make it much more effective to the great disgruntlement of those people who are
in power.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Concerning
grant proposals</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> Thank you. Can you tell us, please, about the status of
the plans you originally requested from our audience? Are we going to revisit those plans at some
point?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> The question is too vague to
answer, Sir.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> If you’ll remember, some time
ago—a month or so ago—you asked our audience to think of plans that they would
project if they had the money to do it, what would they do to make plans for
their future, or to help the future of Urantia.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> And your question is?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> Well, are we going to revisit
those plans, or is there . . . have you thought about when we might revisit
those plans, or are we going to look at them in some way?</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> As I said last time, or the
session before, is that this operation with you is co-creative. You take one step; we take one step. Initiation by mortals to begin something is
primary to us making progress with you.
We can set up the field so that individuals are motivated to make
changes, and when they do, we will respond.
But when people see that they can do nothing, or that they think and feel
helpless and they do not take that step, then we have nothing to work
with. If you see no evidence, then we
see no evidence. We see much more than
you do, but outwardly, if you see no evidence then there is none. This is co-creative. The whole health, social, and spiritual
health of your world depends on individuals taking action that agrees with
social evolution that is constructive and helpful for individuals, families, communities,
and nations.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MMc:</b> I have no further questions at
this point.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> May I please ask a question
about these plans that you were talking about, Michael? (<b>MMc:</b> Certainly.)
I guess I misunderstood it too, Machiventa. I thought we were to draw out plans, and then
we would discuss them. But from what I
understand now, these plans that we have, or are drawing up, it is an ongoing
plan and as we work with you, together, we can create—hopefully—the final
results, maybe? Is this right?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Yes, you yourself are working in
your community; you have made plans, you have met with people, you have
discussed these things, you are engaging local issues of significance to your
community and to your culture, and you have engaged these and we are assisting
you.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Okay, I see now, and I am going
forward with the thought from last session about drawing up an outline on both
social sustainability and material sustainability. And I am getting assistance, and I thank you
so much!</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> (Laughing.) Exactly.
Your life, your experiences are the living answer to your question, and
to the former question.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Thank you, Sir. It is wonderful.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">How
does the political split in our country affect the race consciousness?</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> Half of our country is praying
for social evolution that somewhat mirrors the 6 core values, while the other
half prays for the opposite kind of change.
How does that affect the race consciousness of our country?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Powerfully! People across the board, across the world
generally know what is good for them and what is not, and what is of a
long-term solution and what is a personal and selfish solution. These 6 core values resonate with individuals
at the deep level of their lives, and that the short side of that is that
individuals—other individuals and even those same individuals—do not trust the
long-term prospects of this coming about, so they revert back to their selfish
inclinations that you call race consciousness.
Our influence is to bend the race consciousness of the cultures of the
world towards the benevolent engagement of these values in the lives of
communities of individuals, families, communities and nations. Our efforts are to change the race
consciousness to one that is beneficial, is even celestial, as it approaches the
Days of Light and Life. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">You are at the
basement level of your cultural situation, and many nations around the world
that you have seen in such distress are below the basement level. Their lives, their cultures are going down
the drain in that basement, and so it requires us to be of influence to help
the general good of the world. These are
all very grand, large scope projections I am making, I know, to answer your
question, that culture bending and changing race consciousness is a very slow
process. You have seen the bending of
race consciousness and cultural consciousness in technologically developed
nations towards more aggressive, animalistic, competitive race consciousness,
the worst side of human nature to occur within the last 600 years. It is important that the process we begin now
becomes a “conscious process” by individuals to engage the conscious social
evolution of your world. This can take
place even with a small group of people to affect the whole of your world and
your world’s civilization within 50-150 years.
You are at the very beginning of this process and you perhaps may see
very little progress before you pass from this realm.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Personal
questions on prayer</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> I find it easier to worship the
Father than to pray to him, because I trust that he already has our best
interests in his hands, that his Will is already dominant, unless human free
will interferes. Do human prayers really
matter, especially when we always pray that his Will be done?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> First of all, it is wonderful
that you pray. It is a wonderful habit;
it is a wonderful practice to engage on a daily basis, and as you become more
acquainted with your Thought Adjuster and you are able to converse with your
Thought Adjuster, this praying, so to speak, goes on throughout the day. Worship, on the other hand, is that
magnanimous self-forgetfulness of yourself in immense, ecstatic gratitude to
the Creator for all that you have, all that you know, and all that exists in
you at that moment. This is the total giving
of yourself to the Father, without any regard for return to yourself. You know in that moment of worship that the
Father, the Creator, has all “good” for you for all your life. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">The use of prayer is
highly useful. It is hoped that people,
individuals, would develop a self-directed life to grow in ways that sustain
the universe and their relationship with the Creator, and their Thought
Adjuster within them. You are not an
automaton; neither are you a knot on a log just watching the sun go up and down
for a lifetime. You have an active
responsibility to act in the commission of your life and much more error can
occur through omission than most often occurs through commission in the lives
of good people. If you are to become a Creator
Son in the eventuality of the seventh stage of the Grand Universe, then you
must begin to act like one, and to work like one, and think like one. You must take the risk of not knowing the way
and learning from the Father’s direction, which is the right way, and how to
submit to the Father’s Will by also projecting what you think you need in your
life to do so. We are not talking about
a new car, a new house, or the best school for your children to go to, though
of course those are not out of the realm to arrange with you through letting
them occur and submitting to the flow of the universe energy in your life. Remember, what you hold in mind manifests in
the world. This is basic spiritual
metaphysics, which is how most of life operates when you are in a faith-lived-life
with the Father as your model to go by.
Thank you for your question.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> I assume that when we pray, the
prayer is really for our own benefit, mainly.
Does the Father ever truly act on what we ask for that he wouldn’t take
action on if we hadn’t asked it of him?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Yes and no. Remember that what the son requests, and the
Father agrees to, IS. And you are a son
of God; you are a child of God and that what you ask for which is in alignment
with the Father’s Will manifests. Your
life and your living is to learn how to become more in oneness with yourself
and oneness with the Father, and oneness with your neighbors. Prayer is not only for yourself, but it is
for others as well. You can pray for
others without return to you and be quite effective in your prayer work. Remember, that the universe is at your beck
and call; that once you are in alignment with the good of the universe that you
can be an agent of good in your world.
You have seen healing in other individuals due to prayer; you have seen
right circumstances come into existence, due to prayer from many other people. You are to pray and pray and pray without
acting in your life as a means of improving your prayer power, but remember, as
the Quakers say, “You must pray with your feet as well.” </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> Does the amount or substance of
our prayers affect our level of spiritual growth, or morontial standing? Are we graded on them?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> No, you are not graded, Dear
Heart. It is the qualitative aspect of
your prayers that is most significant.
What most people guess about and have not been taught by their religions
is how to pray effectively; how to improve the qualitative substance of your
prayers. This is a slowly learned
process as you release yourself to the Father’s Will by allowing and actually
authorizing, and not only permitting, but asking and calling your Thought
Adjuster into your life, and that you will to do Its Will. The number of prayers is not important; it is
the qualitative state of your mind’s existence that is most important. Those who are in alignment with God are in “prayer”
constantly with God. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">When Christ Michael,
as Jesus, went away for a time, he lived a dual life and in his prayers he
joined into union with his Father to discuss the process and the progress of
his work, of his lifetime in revealing the true nature of the Father to the
Hebrews and Israelites at the time. And
so, he was in conference with God at that time, and in prayer. Prayer is not asking; prayer is in oneness
with Father; prayer is a means of releasing yourself to that oneness so that
you gain the essence and presence of God within you that speaks through your
life. Then in the quality of your
prayers, you exude the “God-ness” within you.
It is not that you need to stand on the corner of the street preaching
God’s message to individuals to demonstrate that you are in alignment with
God. Surely, God knows when you are and
when you are not, and you must be in prayer to assess where you are in your
relationship with God. Yes, only you can
exercise the practice of prayer, and by doing so you become more “expert” at
living who are you becoming. Yes, prayer
is solely for yourself, but not selfishly!
In doing so, you engage the universe and you make a contribution to the
oneness and the expression of God in your life, and to all others that you
meet.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Suggestions
for those who do not hear their Thought Adjuster</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> I have always had a problem
with prayer. It just seems like worship
is so much easier because there is so much to be thankful for. I still do not know whether I am following
the leadings of my Thought Adjuster, since I am not able to hear him
directly. Do you have any suggestions
that I haven’t already tried?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIENTA:</b> When you do not hear, then you
look to your life. Is your life in
order? Do you have a means of supporting
yourself? Is your house in order
literally? and figuratively? Are you
able to be of assistance to others around you?
Do things work out for you? Do
you meet the right people? Do the right
circumstances come about that help fulfill your needs? When you are living your life in order and in
oneness with the Father, those things that you need suddenly appear, or they
gradually appear. Your life comes into
order and there is oneness and harmony. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"> Even if you are looking for a used Coleman
stove for camping, and you walk into a store and there is a great sale, and you
buy one, or some neighbor says, “What do you think I should do with my old
camping gear? I want to get rid of
it.” The answer is there for you. This is living the life of oneness and
harmony, when the needs that you hold in mind are manifest outwardly. You do not need to think of this as a prayer,
but it is a state of your consciousness, which is most important in your
spiritual progress. For those who do not
hear and cannot hear to discuss that with their Thought Adjuster they can see
this manifest in their life.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Roxie:</b> Thank you very much,
Machiventa. That is all the questions I
have. Did anyone else think of more?</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Spiritual
needs vs. material needs</span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> I would like to ask a question
about what you just said. I don’t
understand when the needs that you manifest in your mind are met
outwardly. I always thought that the
needs that you manifest in your mind, if they are to be met outwardly, would be
spiritual needs, not material needs.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> I chuckle because that is a
religious answer, that when you are in harmony in the universe that what you
hold in mind may seem significant, but is provided to you and somehow you come
into contact with this. Perhaps you are
looking for the right and perfect bib for a grandchild, and that you haven’t
found it. One day you are rummaging around
in a consignment store or used clothing store for newborns, infants and children,
and you find this bib that is still in the package and has never been used, and
you see that it is exactly what you have had in mind for a long time. This is a manifestation of good outworking in
your life. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">What many people get
wrong, especially in spiritual and Christian metaphysics is that this is some
kind of a conjuring up of some magic way of bringing good into their life in a
material way. This is totally opposite. You are in alignment with the universe and so
the Father takes delight in bringing to you what you need, or you go to where
your needs are fulfilled easily, and comfortably and patiently. The state of your existence begins in your
mind, and your peace and your world begins in your mind. Some people can be in great turmoil around
them, but they are peaceful in their mind and they are not affected by
this. Your life does not necessarily
bring harmony in your life, especially if you are working with people who are
outside of harmony. This can be very
disquieting to you and upsetting to the peace of your mind. It takes a great strength of character to
maintain that peace in all situations, and even Christ Michael, as Jesus, was
challenged at times by those around him who were at such dissonance with their
oneness with the Father, and the respect for the Father’s Universe and the
world around them. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Your spiritual
engagement and growth of maturity begins on the inside; it begins by your
hunger to know the truth and to be in oneness and to live your life in
peace. So, you discover those means to
do that. Some people find that through
Taoism, some through Buddhism, some through meditation, which may be
disconnected to any discipline, but they live a life peacefully. One of the greatest hopes that you can have
for your life is that you live a life of ease without striving—that is very
comforting, and you see many people who live in impoverished situations who
live a life of ease without striving and who are comfortable with that.</p><div></div><p></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>Student:</b> Thank you, Sir. I have no more questions.</p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Machiventa’s
closing comments on ascension </span></u></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Let us close our session
today. Your ascendant journey is a life
of living on the outside with the growth on the inside. Life on a planet as yours, where you live as
agondonters, where there is no eminent visible Deity, or evolved individuals
around you to give you comfort and sureness of the universe. You live in a slow, learning process, one
where if you look only to yourself and your life’s experience to grow into your
wisdom, and to your insight, your spiritual development and unfoldment goes
rather slowly. When you are in
consultation with others who live a similar life, you learn more quickly and it
is possible to pass this on to your children as well. When you enter the morontial realm, your
progress will be immense and it will be quick. It depends on your own integration in your own
mind, and your willingness to engage the outer evidence of spiritual
development around you to grow quickly, if you consciously and intentionally
engage your spiritual/morontial growth and will to grow. Yet there will be individuals who are still
struggling with the outside and inside problem, struggling on the outside
because it does not match their expectations of what this afterlife is all
about. They will have difficulty
reorienting themselves to a new regime of spiritual ascension, where they
thought their old religion provided all the answers. Your struggle here will continue in the
afterlife if you are resisting the evolution, the spiritual, social evolution
of your life now. </p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">It will not be much
easier for some of you who resist adamantly, and even some of those who resist
so adamantly will give up and will choose to exit the stream of life to meet
the Father. Your journey begins here. To live in alignment with the oneness of the
Father is an immense project, an immense challenge that begins early in life, and
if you were not given that guidance early in your life to grow that way, then
you must learn to do so on your own.
Sometimes that is through tremendous travail and agony, and the
existential crises of your life as you engage the reality of living your life
in peace and harmony, or one of difficulty, challenge, and competition. It is your choice. The way is made forward, and we are here to
reveal that to you. We wish you a good
day and may the light of God always precede you in all your efforts. May you project your own engagement
consciously with that light so that you are one with that light, and you lead
yourself as well as the Father leads you into the future and the development of
your life, and the oneness with the Father who is within you. Good day. ##</p><div></div><p></p>
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