<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">PR<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)">New Era
Transition #04 – </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Evolution
of Democracies – Oct. 3, 2016<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Machiventa
Melchizedek</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">,
Planetary Manager<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Topics:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Political evolution of
democracies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Revolt, rebellion and
revolution<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Monjoronson’s insights<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Overpopulation as a generator
of problems<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Problems evolving the
democratic process<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Using design teams to reform
democracies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Political parties<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Evolution of social
institutions and organizations<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">The transition era<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Library of wisdom<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Problem of self-interest in
economics and financial realm<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">New political parties already
in development<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Having hope of constructively
changing the political system<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Being actively involved<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">The Urantia Book</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)"> speaks of the ideal
democracies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Becoming political, social and
economic activists<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">TR: Daniel Raphael PhD<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Team
members: Roxanne Andrews, Michael
Lanier, Michael McCray<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Invocation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">October 3, 2016<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Political evolution of democracies<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek. It is a pleasure to be here
once again. It is some time ago, that I
mentioned that the sequence of developments had to be amended, and that we had
put on hold the social evolution projects in order to begin a more active role
in the political evolution of democracies on this world. Since then, we have learned a great deal and
know now that our actions were appropriate and timely.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Second,
our programs are always oriented towards social evolution—social evolution,
political evolution, economic evolution—these are all social institutions of
one type or another, and they are all related.
There is a system of social institutions that awaits a world that is on
its march toward the Days of Light and Life and social peace, political peace, and
economic peace. We have become more
active in these developments such that individuals and others have begun to
come forward with their own ideas about how to proceed. They are the seeds that are germinating under
the light of God; under the light of Christ Michael and Nebadonia, and with a
plan in mind. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Revolt, rebellion and revolution<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Social
evolution is important; it is the means, the “modus operandi” for Creator Sons
to bring about the Days of Light and Life.
Without social evolution there will become no days of settlement as
that. In the case of the evolution of
democracies politically, it is important that the inhabitants, the citizens
within a democracy, realize that a democracy is rather delicate. Where revolt, rebellion, and revolution
brought about political evolution up to the time of some early form of
democracy, those types of behaviors within a democratic nation in fact retard
and begin the process of social and political devolution, so that society and
the economy suffers from those forceful efforts of citizens.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">As
you can see, it is important that there is a cadre, a seed group of individuals
who see the evolution of democracies as a process where they personally can
have some influence. It is important
that within groups that have discussed and are disgusted with the behavior of
their politicians and government officials that they not take an aggressive,
violent orientation towards amending the problem. Doing so only aggravates the problem and eliminates
the possibility of peaceful solutions within a democratic society.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Monjoronson’s insights<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hopefully,
with that thought in mind, you can see the reasons why we have begun with
Monjoronson’s presentation of his thoughts about the necessity of
sustainability, which have evolved over the months and years. Since the time of
those first thoughts, many insights and concepts and truths about social
evolution in the form of sustainability have developed. The obvious element of sustainability is
material sustainability, as everyone who has a good lifestyle and a prosperous
way of living sees that their own acquisitiveness has brought about a
tremendous amount of disparities between “those who have and those who have
not.” <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Overpopulation as a generator of problems<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The
fact of overpopulation should be evident to you, though many have not really
thought about overpopulation as a generator of problems concerning material
sustainability. Those who evidence
traits of empathy often reach out in compassion to help those around the world
who have less than they do, less than their society, and seek to improve the
condition of individuals. This is how
social sustainability comes into the consciousness of millions of people —
through the observation of those who have not, and the observation of their own
lives which have been so benefitted by the material and social evolution and
generosity of the world to assist them to attain tremendous levels of
self-fulfillment and the development of their innate potential.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Problems evolving the democratic process<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">As
you can realize our efforts of social sustainability begins at the levels where
the most leverage can be brought to bear upon social problems and the
difficulties of the times. Currently, mature
democracies are suffering a great deal because they are not able to transition
to a more evolved form of democratic process.
Their founding documents, which are hallowed and respected and highly
regarded, are in themselves crystallized, binding citizens to their old form of
doing business, They do not inherently
have the capacity or capability to allow citizens to make adjustments to democratic
political processes, so that your societies can evolve to more effective levels. Because democracies are founded on the
authority of the public of citizens, it is therefore necessary for citizens to improve
their relationship with their democratic government. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Using design teams to reform democracies<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">If
citizens are not to use violence, then how must they proceed? We have proposed what is called “design
teams.” These can be formed by local
citizens with 5-11 members, with 7-9 being optimal. You have been provided with a procedural
format, that This One calls the “Schematic for Validating Social
Sustainability,” for discussing topics.
As well in this team, there are assigned roles, so that through the need
of inventing new social processes, policies and statutes—and even campaign
promises—you will be able to have an influence on your government to amend
itself. The evolution of democracies requires
that citizens to take on more active and effective responsibility, rather than
ineffective, violent, and inefficient activity.
We have given you the formats and the means to do so. It now is incumbent upon you to begin the
process of beginning to work on the processes and programs and public issues,
which disgust you, which there seem to be no solutions for you at this time.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Political parties<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Next,
when it comes to political formation, this is a means of moving the lever to
make changes within your democratic process.
We observe that many small political parties compete by calling
themselves by different names, with different missions. However, they continue to operate in the same
way as other political parties with different names. They are competing within the same milieu. It is important that you see new political
parties as operating outside of the realm of contemporary, old fashioned
politics, political parties, and “politics as usual.” What this means is that we are seeking those
who would form a political party, particularly one particular party, rather
than competing with political parties of similar natures, such that would
empower local citizens at their community level, to engage the political
process by providing rational, consistent, integrated public policies and
discussion of issues in a rational means.
We are seeking to have this develop within the timeframe before the
current elections in the United States.
As you know, the world has its eye upon the maelstrom of politics in the
United States at this time. We do not
need to go into greater detail concerning the difficulties and the rather
silliness of the politics that you experience through your news media.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Evolution of social institutions and organizations<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">What
I am striving to assist you to see in today’s presentation is that the efforts
of Christ Michael, Nebadonia, Monjoronson and myself, have been through a long
lens. We have been striving to bring
about the healing of this world through the social processes of social
evolution by bringing forward the values that have sustained your species for
so many tens of thousands of years. We
have striven to point out that social institutions and organizations will not
be able to survive until they adopt the values of the dominant species, which
is Homo sapiens. The intent of that is
to bring about the evolution of your social institutions and organizations so
that they are able to adapt to changing social conditions. Your societies are not the same as those 240
years ago; they are vastly different and they would be unrecognizable by those
who lived in that earlier era, just as you would not be able to accept without
difficulty, if you were transported back in time to live there as well.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Therefore,
what we are striving to do is to assist you and empower you with these
mechanisms to change or amend your social institutions and organizations so
that they are able to adapt to changing social conditions. They need to grow into their potential, just
as you, as a species, always seek to improve the quality of your life. So too, must social institutions seek to
improve the quality of their life. They
must seek to grow—and the operative word is “grow”—into their innate
potential. They must evolve from the
novice, early forms of democracy and social institutions into more mature,
flexible, adaptive social institutions and organizations. We are not seeking to create another
crystallized set of founding documents for your democracies at the social
level, political level, or the economic level.
We are seeking to assist you as citizens in a democracy to bring about
the peaceful evolution of your democratic institutions, so that they are
flexible and adaptive to changes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Further,
we have said that the structures of the hierarchies of the social, political,
and economic hierarchies are not designed or capable of amending themselves
simply because those mechanisms were not embedded in the founding documents of
their existence. We are not criticizing
what the founders of these social, political, and economic institutions did. Truly they were incredibly innovative,
creative, challenging, and radical to the times of their initiation, but they
have remained the same in operation since their founding. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">The transition era<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">You
have been in a transition era of your democracy, socially, politically, and
economically since the 1960s, and this transition era continues. Always a transition era anticipates what is
coming next. We believe that we have
provided you with sufficient information that most of you will be able to
project what will be coming next. What
comes next is an evolutionary development of your staid and archaic forms of
democratic process, so that the best is retained of the past, and that new,
innovative processes embellish and improve the effectiveness of what was begun
long ago, and do this all without revolution, revolt, or rebellion. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">As
I have said this morning this era now that has begun so many months ago,
politically is an opportune time to gather the attention of local citizens who
might form a political party that has the rational means of improving the
processes of democracy, which must include the greater responsibility of
citizens and their greater ongoing participation—ongoing participation that is
far more regular and frequent than every two years at election day—but a
political process that includes citizens on a daily basis, not weekly or
monthly, but on a daily basis, so that the responsibilities of democracy are a
24/7/365 process for everyone who wishes to participate.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I
emphasize “those who wish to participate” simply because though everyone is
invited, few will attend a party or this process. We know that many of your population, your
public, are irresponsible and asocial or even anti-social and will not come
forward to participate. The process must
as well become educational; it must inform the public and educate the public
such that they are aware of the issues that are involved and know the
background to the development of those political, social, and economic problems,
so that they are able to make wise decisions based on their experience and what
works and what does not work as proven in the past. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Library of wisdom<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">As
we have said as well, we hope that eventually there would one day be a library
of sustaining human wisdom, so that what works is retained, and what does not
work is also set aside to show and demonstrate to the readers and patrons of
this library what does not work. We know
that what does not work is often forgotten, similarly as the pangs of birth are
forgotten by the mother in her great joy for her new child. So too, must this reality remain with you,
but not agonize you; it must in fact, give you hope that through the positive
and constructive wisdom that is retained, you have confidence that you can make
improvements on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and decade basis to improve
your societies. When hope is gone, then
confidence becomes vacant; it is essential that you have confidence in the
knowledge of what works from the past to begin the inception of new dimensions of
inventiveness, socially, politically and economically. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Problem of self-interest in economics and financial realm<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I
hope I have given you enough food for thought to develop some questions for
this session and in following sessions.
As I have said, it is important first of all that we come to assist you
to develop the levers of social change, which seems to only come about
politically in your world. We find that
economics and the financial realm are last to come about and come into a more
mature state of being, simply because self-interest is so central to its
hierarchies and institutions. Socially,
you are in angst; you see great difficulty in your society. You see the immense disparity of wealth where
1% of the world owns over half of the financial and material assets of your
nations. There is something definitely
wrong with this, don’t you think? <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">How
would you go about developing solutions to this, beginning at the local
level? I hope this is food for thought;
our questions are meant to stir your thinking and your creative, imaginative
solutions that you may have with your neighbors and fellow citizens. Thank you.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Machiventa, I’m not sure I heard you
correctly: Did you say that we need to
start a new political party before this coming election, which is only one
month away?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">New political parties already in development<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> You could interpret my comments that way, but
that is not what I said. There have
already begun by conscientious individuals, the development of political
parties that wish not to be a part of the old political processes. They wish to bring about innovative
evolutionary changes to the political scene and to the political
hierarchies. You surely must be aware of
the efforts of the followers of the candidate, Bernie Sanders, and that the
development of the Progressive Party has been on a state-by-state basis. There is in Colorado the “Colorado
Progressive Party,” <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.coprogressiveparty.org/">https://www.coprogressiveparty.org/</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">that
was initiated in March and April of this year, which seeks not to follow the
course of traditional political parties, and wishes not to compete with them,
but to bring about innovative processes to the public in local
communities. This was developed totally
independently of the work of This One, and their union was brought about by us
through the “conspiracy of angels,” as you might say, so that the best of them
is engaged with the best that we have developed through This One and others in
similar ways.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Because of the Internet, people are beginning
to take a lot more interest in politics and there are ideas for change, but a
good portion of them work contrary to the good of a system as a whole. They can be pretty cantankerous, judgmental,
and difficult. Do you have any comments
on how we can get more people to work toward the good, rather than just
starting more conflicts?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Having hope of constructively changing the political system<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, you have seen our work already, have you
not? I had hoped that what I said today
would make this explicit. We only wish
that those who listen to us, and read these words would participate with those
who have hope of constructively amending and changing your political
system. This is not an easy
process. We have used the Internet and
all means to broadcast this work to the greatest extent. It is our hope that the connection between
the Progressive Party of Colorado and the Progressive Parties of each state
that has a similar party, would come into connection and that they would begin
to confer with each other about how to approach this work. There is a National Organization of
Progressive Parties; it is our hope that the founders of the Colorado
Progressive Party would have an influence with those individuals and bring
forward the 6 core values of social sustainability and the process of
developing hundreds, if not thousands of local community design teams that
would use the schematic format procedure using the 6 core values and the roles
of the team to create a dynamic of imaginative change.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Thank you.
Does anyone else have questions on today’s lesson?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ML:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> My comment would be this comes across as a
very positive endorsement of what this local Progressive Party is undertaking,
and your encouragement with respect to them, if I read that correctly, seems to
be very motivating. So many of us—I’ve
talked about it myself—sit back and bemoan the current state of affairs in
government, the lack of cooperation, the infighting, the self-serving nature of
the parties, and their loss of recognition of who their constituencies are, so
this gives us a step out of that morass and actually potentially to take
action. So, am I reading this
correctly? We are being encouraged to
investigate and potentially join with the new Progressive Party here in
Colorado?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[Note: Three members of our team just happen to live
in Colorado, thus the emphasis on what is going on in Colorado.]<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Being actively involved<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes.
Thank you for your summation of what I have said this morning; it is
much appreciated. Yes, there is a
necessity that those who have been a part of our conversation and dialog for so
many years become actively involved in their local state Progressive Party and
begin to become an influence and encourage your local party to look at the one
that was founded in Colorado. They need
direction; they need leadership. You are
our cadre of trainers for idea investment into the local community political
scheme where you live. You recognize, as
we do, that the traditional political parties are incapable of changing
themselves to reframe themselves with these new values and to redesign and to
remake themselves, to reinvent themselves in a way that is constructive. They are highly competitive. What we wish to point out to our readers is
that the development of this political party in Colorado occurred by two young
men in their 20s and 30s, who have not been a part of the Teaching Mission,
Magisterial Mission, or <i>The Urantia Book</i>. These are individuals who are open and
receptive to meditation and to being guided from within. We hope that you realize, Dear Friends, that
this is occurring all over the world, that there are individuals who are
spontaneously coming into higher social evolution and recognition of the need
for your social institutions to evolve and progress and become more effective
in serving those of their audience. Yes,
you have a very accurate take on this.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ML:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Thank you.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><i><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">The
Urantia Book</span></u></i><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)"> speaks of the ideal democracies<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> In <i>The
Urantia Book</i> it says that, <i>“Social
evolution should be encouraged by governmental supervision which exercises a
minimum of regulative control. That
state is best which coordinates most while governing least.” </i>(UB 71:3.9) Does this apply no matter how large the
population?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, it most certainly does. There must be a caveat though to the
statement from <i>The Urantia Book</i>, and
that your government must see itself as a facilitative change agent, to assist
its citizens to move forward in social evolution. However, when your social institutions have
not evolved to a more mature state of existence to become self-regulating
within themselves, then what the book advocates is not possible. That situation is an “ideal” which will come
about when democracies move from their novice state to the mature state and
become more reflective upon the influence of government upon their citizens and
how detrimental and controlling those effects can have on the citizenry and the
public as a whole. Thank you for
bringing that forward.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Thank you.
That’s all I have on democracy for today, and there are no questions
from readers.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ML:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> It would seem to me that the quotation from
Urantia is quite applicable as a fundamental approach to be considered by the
Progressive Party. I would have to admit
little confidence that the existing institutions of government would ever be
oriented towards that approach; it simply defies their sense of self-service
and inward look at things, but I think it would be healthy, obviously, when we
connect with the Colorado Progressive Party that we find the time and means to
bring this guiding principle to their attention, and hope that it would become
a part of their movement forward. Does
this make sense?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> It most definitely makes good sense, and as
we said, it is an ideal to strive toward.
That occurrence is dependent upon the public accepting more
responsibility to participate more regularly.
We believe that when the means are provided to the public that they will
attend to their responsibilities. The
authority with the corrupting elements of positions of authority is what brings
about control and then power. And when
there are self-serving individuals involved in positions of authority, then
begins the self-serving of those in power.
If the power has always resided with the public in every democracy,
there simply needs to be the means for citizens to exercise their authority and
wrest control of the political, social, and economic processes by participating
co-creatively with their public executives.
In time, public executives will see their positions as one to be of
concurrence with the public. When the
public is upset, then the politicos must respond. This will become more and more evident as the
influences of local citizens, through the political mechanisms that are currently
being invented become effective.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Becoming political, social and economic activists<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hearing
no further comments or questions, let us bring this session to a close. We appreciate your attendance to this session
today. After you have read through this
session, you will realize that there has been an incredible and big change in
our relationship: We are now asking you
to become political, social and economic activists, having given you a rational
means for your activities, that you may become involved in presenting your
ideas to your public forums, whether they are political, social, or
economic. It is now time for you to come
out of your caves and into the light and now speak to those before you, those
who are in your community. If you were
shy to participate before, we ask you to come forward in courage as you will
find a ready and receptive audience for these values, for this process and for
the hope that you will provide to everyone.
The rational processes we have given you will give your local community
confidence to engage that hope in a constructive and positive way. Know that in your processes that you must as
well be attendant to the guidance from within, and that you are being prompted
by your Thought Adjuster to be courageous, to come forward where you have been
shy or receding socially, politically, and economically. Yes, this is a challenge, but it is a
challenge far less serious than the challenge that was presented to the
Apostles who followed Jesus in the days after his passing and his resurrection. Thank you and good day. ##<span></span></span></p>
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