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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">New Era
Transition #05 – Turmoil in democracy; social evolution; Media and Ethics –
Oct. 17, 2016<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Machiventa
Melchizedek,</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">
Planetary Manager and Planetary Prince</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Topics:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-size:12pt">Working through options of
development</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Consciousness of participation<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(0,112,192)">The turmoil’s of the world<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(0,112,192)">The swing of the pendulum<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(0,112,192)">The purpose of the Teaching
Mission<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(0,112,192)">Training individuals and groups
in this work<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(0,112,192)">Many are called to begin this
work<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(0,112,192)">The coordination of Thought
Adjusters around the world<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(0,112,192)">“Hands-On Democracy”<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(0,112,192)">Cultural change will bring
about social progress<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(0,112,192)">Reconstruct the past or evolve
something better?<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(0,112,192)">“Partyism,” a political disease<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(0,112,192)">Electoral reform and public
input into decision-making<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(0,112,192)">Need for greater participation
by those receiving the Urantia Revelation <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(0,112,192)">The dangers of democracy<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(0,112,192)">Attend meetings and voice your
opinions<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(0,112,192)">Redesigning the democracy<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(0,112,192)">Self-determinism and political
sovereignty<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(0,112,192)">Societal selfishness<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(0,112,192)">Peace and goodwill is centuries
away<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(0,112,192)">Incorporating other cultures
into nations<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(0,112,192)">Polarization<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(0,112,192)">What is an “energy signature?”<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(0,112,192)">Importance of media and ethics
in journalism<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(0,112,192)">Social creep<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(0,112,192)">Christ Michael’s involvement in
our world will succeed<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<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Team
members: Roxanne Andrews, Craig
Carmichael, 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 17, 2016<span></span></span></b></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"> Good morning, this is Machiventa Melchizedek
and I greet you once again from the celestial realm, to our fellow brothers and
sisters on Urantia.<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">(Group
greetings.)<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(0,112,192)">Working through options of 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"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">We
continue to work through the options of development for this Correcting Time,
this Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission, to bring social sustainability,
peace and social stability to your world co-creatively with you. Some of you, who have read history from the
times before and after Christ Michael’s appearance as Jesus, and through the
centuries since that time, might be aware of our influence occasionally in the
material world with individuals who have brought about new innovations
socially, technologically, scientifically, and so on. Our presence has been here with you
continuously and operationally since Christ Michael’s transition back to his
Headquarters in Salvington.<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(0,112,192)">Consciousness of participation<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">Having
brought about, with many individuals, the Age of Enlightenment, the Renaissance
and the Industrial Era, Scientific Era and so on, to the present time, you know
there has been a continuous and conscious effort and participation by us in
your world, albeit without much conscious awareness on the part of individuals
who assisted us in this endeavor. Even
those who had some psychic abilities and were able to “channel” our presence,
few did so or were able to consciously engage it as those who do now. This is the major element of this era of your
civilization that there is a consciousness of our participation, and there is a
consciousness on your part and our part to bring about the conscious social
evolution of this world. Not just for
one nation, but for all nations; not for one people, but for all people, for
all people are chosen and then, of course, we wait for individuals to choose to
do God’s Will in order for us to work co-creatively with them. Releasing one’s ideas of what “ought” to be
in the world is perhaps the most unconscious driving force that obstructs our
work, whereas where individuals consciously release their careers and their
designs for what their careers “ought” to be, in order to co-create with us,
those individuals are most adept and adaptable and malleable to our work, and
we are greatly thankful for their co-creative participation.<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(0,112,192)">The turmoil’s of the world<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
turmoils of the world of present day, have been anticipated for many centuries
and many decades, now we see that the passage of years has affected the passage
of months, weeks and days, such that there is little time now that does not
have something significant occurring in them that affects the outcomes of what
is to be. If you take account of your
political situation in the United States at this current time, which is less
than one month away from its Presidential elections, (2016), you would note
some particular facets and characteristics to this era, and you might come to
the conclusion, as we have, that there is an immense moral, ethical and social grace
in great deficit in this nation at this time.
If you consider this as the furthest of the moral pendulum to the most
immoral and catastrophic swing of that pendulum, you are seeing the most
difficult time in your nation, which affects the rest of the world. There is great angst here among foreign
nations about the situation in America, for just and good cause 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"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">The swing of the pendulum<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
you were a macro-observer of your history and of social change and the long
trends of nations socially, politically, and economically, you have already
come to the conclusion that once the pendulum reaches its farthest extent, that
it will soon begin its swing back to center and then past center to the most
conservative and as destructive era of arch-conservatism and fundamentalism for
social rightness, political rightness, and so on. We have anticipated this; this has been a
point of discussion for many centuries among us about the process of bringing
the pendulum to the standing point at the bottom. What is typical of that bottom point are
peace, social stability, economic and political stability, and an equanimity
about all things social, which of course, is everything about the human race.<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">What
must occur to bring the pendulum to a standstill is the provision of values; values
that are as old as your species, values that have motivated human behavior and
decision-making that has sustained your species, and in fact, have urged your
species to “progress” to the point where there has been much improvement
technologically and to some degree socially in your world. Only a value system that is embedded into the
decision-making processes of your social, political, and economic institutions
and organizations will be able to stop the pendulum from swinging to the
arch-conservative, fundamentalist point of view. That would be as destructive as the
immorality and unethical behavior of citizens and public executives in the
current time. Neither position assists
in the progressive social evolution of societies; particularly it is observable
in democratic nations and societies.<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(0,112,192)">The purpose of the Teaching Mission<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">We
do not want this revelation to come through some awestruck individual who
announces these changes as being an emissary of God and God’s appointed
individual to bring about this information.
Rather, we have used the work of the Teaching Mission to bring about the
TRing process of channeling, such that ordinary individuals can bring through
parts and pieces of this work, so that when the history of this work is observed,
the readers will find a matrix, a weaving of the warp and woof of logic and
reason that bring about the truth, beauty, and goodness of this message of the
Correcting Time. It is essential that
the one individual not be pinpointed as the “bringer of truth,” but that many
dozens, hundreds and thousands be acknowledged as capable of doing this. This allows this Correcting Time and the
revelation of these values—the 6 values of social sustainability, as This One
calls them—to become known to everyone and to be accepted as part of the human
life, human existence, that once this revelation becomes known, that these
values can be deeply embedded into the decision-making processes from parenting
to international relations, and so on.<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(0,112,192)">Training individuals and groups in this work<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">This
One has, with us, written two manuscripts, which are companion documents: One is the book on “Progressive Politics,”
and the other is on “Organic Morality.”
These are available upon request to any individual who wishes to have a copy—either
a hard copy, or a PDF. Yes, this is
Machiventa speaking about “protected format documents” as necessary for our
work. It is important that moral
decision-making become a part of the everyday decisions that people have—mothers
and fathers, children in learning, educators and religious leaders as
well. We do not leave out those in
government , politics, or economics and finance, for these values must guide
the decision-making of all social institutions in order for social
sustainability and the Days of Light and Life to become achieved. We have given this process a great deal of
thought, and now we come down to the months and weeks where we are exploring on
the functional level with individuals, the possibility of teaching and training
individuals and groups of individuals in workshops and classes and through
reading materials, how to take on this decision-making process to the good
working of individuals, families, communities and social institutions, whether
they are social, political, or economic.<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(0,112,192)">Many are called to begin this work<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
you have been following our work, you realize that it has moved from the
esoteric to the very pragmatic and socially functional levels of
operation. There are several
opportunities left and remaining for us to exercise before the great changes
come upon this world. We will surely
exercise them as we have been mandated by Christ Michael not to leave any
practical stone unturned, or any option unexercised, for we must do all that we
can to engage mortals at the mortal, personal level with our work. Some of course, are not aware of our
participation in their lives. These are
unconscious members of the Reserve Corps of Destiny, and some are in the
Reserve Cosmic Corps of Destiny as well.
Many have been called; many are answering even unconsciously to this
work, and again, in no case is our work such that we override the will-decisions
of individuals for that is not a part of the work that we do. No one is forced to believe or to act in any
way which is contrary to their self-will.
Then we say that those who are open to receiving direction and guidance,
we participate actively in the option development for the decisions they do
make, for the will-decisions they enact in their lives.<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(0,112,192)">The coordination of Thought Adjusters around the world<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
must as well be insightful of the coordination of the Thought Adjusters in
mortals around the world that they are being guided by the Thought Adjuster who
is resident on this world, who has worked with Christ Michael and myself. There is one representative of the First
Source and Center who is working to create a coordination of all Thought
Adjusters in this work. This is a
pivotal time in the history of the future of Urantia, and no spiritual option
has been left to be idle, for all are active in this work.<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, Machiventa! Does anyone have any questions in regard to
this message?<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I wrote down some questions, not specifically
related to what was just said, but this was an invitation to me to attend this
session that coincides with my developments in my long-term interests in
political evolution.<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(0,112,192)">“Hands-On Democracy”<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
I wrote down the guiding principles and specific ideas on “Hands-On Democracy”
earlier this year, I started getting a real sense of how adopting such
techniques of governance, putting day-to-day decision-making more directly into
the hands of the citizens, how transformative that would be, how we will change
our politics and integrate it into daily society, and that was said last
session to be part of the advance toward Light and Life. I don’t have the same sense of just where and
how economic institutions can be restructured to fit the picture, might there
be others who are seeing clearly now how to put together these insights and
ideas we will have for the future? </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://www.handsondemocracy.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.HandsOnDemocracy.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10pt;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(0,112,192)">Cultural change will bring about social progress<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"> Thank you for your question; this is
Machiventa: Yes, there are individuals
who have given this a great deal of thought.
We are operating on several levels, as you are aware, one of the great
desires that we have is to create with mortals, a cultural change, an
acceptance of the slow transitions of the archaic to the more effective forms
of thinking culturally about an individual’s life, individually and
collectively. The thought that
economically the “have nots must have,” and culturally, how do we begin the
inception of this idea. You might
recognize in the two Nobel Laureates for Economics this year, that there is
something significant about their work, that this is a cultural change that will
bring about great progress socially, economically, politically and
industrially. It has to do with the
contracts between employees and employers, how to win for both parties in the
outcomes of these contracts. You might
think that this is a small bit of trivia in the history of economic thought,
but it is not; it will have a significant influence on the future. <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">In
order for the “have nots to have,” they must become part of the
responsibilities and work of corporate sharing at the employee level. The ethos of corporate and organizational
operation has been one of survival, to exist or not to exist, and to do
everything possible to continue existence.
This has been measured by the “bottom line,” as it is called sometimes
by the percentage of profitability, the decrease of expenses, return on
investment, and so on, and the amount of dividends from quarter to
quarter. It is important that these
corporations move from a survival basis of ethics to one of cooperative sharing
ethics, that the best owners are those who are doing the work. There is investment by executives,
incorporations that the decisions that they make renders them possible to earn
more money. This idea must as well be
shared with the employees, workers on production lines and on production
floors, whether they are a software industry, or manufacturing hard goods out
of steel and metals. Yes, you are quite
right that this will take a cultural change.
<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(0,112,192)">Reconstruct the past or evolve something better?<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">In
the meantime, we have also brought about the 6 core values of social
sustainability, which will be the coordinating value system for this new
cultural era. These are also offered as
a backstop for improving conditions currently, and also for a means of
reorganizing future conditions of society after the crises and cataclysms
occur. The primary question that must be
answered by those in the re-construction era is this: Do we want to reconstruct what has been
lost? Do we want to move on to something
more evolved and better and fairer? This
question is primary to our work; we do not see an immediate fix for these existent
problems, other than the broad education of the world population in the 6 core
values for decision-making.<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">You
are most welcome to expand on your question to include what I have just shared
with 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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Thank you.
I may do that next time. Last
session you said that focusing on politics at this time provides the best or
most social leverage of projects that might be undertaken; it also seemed to me
that the overbearing demands of today’s politics and economics actually
militate against social progress in other areas. Would that be a reasonable assumption?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> That is an accurate conclusion.<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(0,112,192)">“Partyism,” a political disease<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> So, I’ve been seeing political
parties—“partyism” being a political disease that has been brought about, that
came about inadvertently by unforeseen and so far unevolved factors in our
political systems, that move political power from elected individuals in the
legislatures where it supposedly resides, into party backrooms, out of public
view where it is subject to all kinds of influences that have nothing to do
with the public good. And now we hear of
political parties in a new light with new types of parties as agencies of
political learning and evolution. So,
might we think of these new parties as being composed of design team groups
with common political focus on evolving political systems? <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></b></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"> Excellent idea! There is a larger good to be had by this type
of thinking, that rather than partyism “us against them.” There is a partyism of “us with us,” that
eventually the public sees themselves as co-participants with their public
executives in much more real ways. You
mentioned earlier about decision-making far more frequently than on Election
Day. This is essential to changing the
backroom politics to the front-room politics, where citizens are more directly
involved and more directly responsible for the outcomes of those decisions.<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(0,112,192)">Electoral reform and public input into decision-making<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Okay, and one last thing I thought hopefully
might be worthy of your comments: I
recently attended the Victoria B.C. public meeting of the Canadian
Parliamentary Committee on Voting Reform.
It seems to me, sort of a historic event, that there hasn’t been
anything like this before. It seems to
me that the committee constitutes sort of a design team focusing on one piece
of a puzzle that actually has a number of interlocking pieces. It sounds like the Canadian Government may in
fact, adopt new voting measures, or at least the committee will recommend them,
and perhaps those proposed by the B.C. Citizen’s Committee on electoral reform
in 2004. The committee asked a spokesman from the BC group about that, and heard
a lot about that at the meeting. What
are your views on this process and perhaps the results that might be expected?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></b></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"> This is a good cultural shift. It is a very slow process to have the
political wheels change, and it is unfortunate that the changes that are needed
will not be able to take place before the cataclysms occur and the disruption
of economies and societies. However, we
recognize that this type of thinking is advanced for many in politics. It means that there is something that is not
working right and there could be a better option for voting. We would suggest that at least a 3-tiered
means of decision-making be involved:
One is voting for public executives and particular ballot options where
the public is involved, such as in referendum issues, and that there be another
at least two different levels of decision-making recognized where citizen input
is necessary. It would not be called
voting, but it would be recognized as participation by the public without
decision-making as a result. It would be
input by the public into the decision-making process by public executives
whether they are elected or appointed.
The other one would be a local community of political participation
where the grassroots level individuals participate in solution creation on
their own, which would impact the other two decision-making levels. It should be recognized that voting is
decision-making, and when decision-making begins to be examined, that then the
greater innovative work can be accomplished through this reframing of
voting. Do you see my points?<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, I think so.<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(0,112,192)">Need for greater participation by those receiving the Urantia Revelation
<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"> Your questions and your thoughts lead me into
the other part of my presentation today, and that is the need for greater
participation of individuals from our core, whether you call it the Teaching
Mission core of individuals, the Magisterial Mission, Urantia Book core of
individuals, but you have been educated; you have been informed; you have
gained new knowledge and ideas from us about the evolution of society, which
involves politics, economics and the social structures that support societies. It is important that individuals, such as
yourself, not hold back from sharing your ideas. Even those who are shy and socially reticent
must develop the courage to stand in a group of people and make
suggestions. It is from you representing
the most intelligent of the grassroots individuals of the society, whether it
is you as an individual of spiritual persuasions, which we are involved in, or
whether an individual is totally secular.
The individual must stand up and share their ideas and thoughts. This avoids regret in years to come when you
know your ideas could have been useful at a pivotal time, and this is, in a
way, doing God’s Will, the work of Christ Michael through a mortal in your
social realm.<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Thank you; that’s all I had.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></b></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"> I appreciate your participation and
appreciate the spontaneous questions that you develop in each session. You might note that we do move forward rather
rapidly at times where subjects change rapidly from week to week, and questions
which would be recognized and appropriate immediately come later and may be
forgotten and put in the dust bin. You
are most welcome to resurrect those questions, however, and ask them again when
needed.<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(0,112,192)">The dangers of democracy<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I have a couple of questions on voting that
you discussed. The Urantia Book says that,
“The dangers of democracy are:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Glorification of
mediocrity<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Choice of base and
ignorant rulers.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Failure to recognize
the basic facts of social evolution.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Danger of universal
suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent majorities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Slavery to public
opinion; the majority is not always right.”<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">We
are already off on the wrong foot in all 5 of these. How do we reverse course, for example, taking
suffrage away from the uneducated after we have worked so hard to get everyone
registered to vote?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> First of all, let me comment about those
points that you made, and as you see and observe your situation in the United
States at this time, that all of those points are at a critical point, at a
critical stage in their existence now.
You are seeing the worst of democracy in operation around you, that
these polls that continue to operate sway opinion and it shows that media has
lost its function as the critical conscience of a democracy, that the media has
become just another industry with another bottom line with dividends to be made
to its investors. How this is turned
around is “very slowly,” and we are consciously doing that with individuals,
such as you and our new member and This One and many thousands of others who
read these papers. It is the inception
that change is possible, that you do not have to adhere to the popular thoughts
and opinions of the mass majority, for it is true that the majority is often
wrong. There has been much discussion
about the majorities and ways of making-decisions in the past by your social
scientists and we recommend that you review these.<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(0,112,192)">Attend meetings and voice your opinions<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">It
is the open thought, such as the voting conference in Victoria, B.C. Canada
that gives individuals thoughts of flexibility of other options. It is the work of others in foreign nations
in their democratic situations that gives those here in this American homeland,
ideas that this can change too.
Democratic institutions and citizens must not adhere to the “us against
them” morality, but must include everyone in the decision-making. Your “how” question, (please put “how” in
quotes,) is most difficult, as it is rather a “what” question: What must we do to change this process? And we have given you instructions even
today, how to do this, and that is to attend meetings, to voice your opinions,
to begin to share your ideas with innovative groups of individuals who are
dissatisfied with the status quo.
Mediocrity is so boring, as many of you know; that it does not avail
itself of creative ideas that are so productive by many magnitudes of
difference in benefits. You have been
given the way and the direction, and it is now time to bring those to
bear. <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">A
good idea being manifest in the media, or in your local community, please
attend; please comment; please show your support and give your attention to
these beneficial factors and improvements, or social movements that begin by
one idea attracting another, and more individuals who know that they can change
the status quo. When people say they are
<i>powerless</i>, then they surely are. When people say they are <i>powerful</i>, then they surely are.
It is up to the individual to participate and provide their power to those
ideas, which are beneficial, rather than negative and harmful. When you see the uneducated and the
culturally illiterate participate with their anger and vengeance and their
outward violence, then you see that their decision-making does not contribute
to the good of the whole. And we say, as
one of your wise philosophers (Edmund Burke), said, “The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good
men to do nothing.”<span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)"><span></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(0,112,192)">Redesigning democracy<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Another question on <i>universal suffrage</i> from the Urantia Book: “Representative government presupposes an
intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever
be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while
remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped,
and otherwise differentiated.” (UB
71:2.12)<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">Do
you think that the design teams will be able to incorporate this into the
legislative body of our government? They
seem to be so welded to our original documents and not receptive to such
sweeping 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"><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, most definitely. <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"> [This is <b>Daniel:</b> You just opened a
big warehouse to a huge training program!<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" style="text-indent:0.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I could actually think of a bit of a
perspective on that myself.]<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> One moment.
We have done a great deal of work in the conceptual thinking to answer
the question that you have in mind. One,
it must be recognized that the design of your democracy was conceived of 240
years ago and has not taken into account the immense social change that has
occurred in those decades and centuries.
It is an ossified, calcified and crystallized design that did not
incorporate the means for it to adapt to new and improved ways of operating. It did not recognize that social evolution is
caused by social change, and that there are new needs of citizens at the
individual and collective level that must be addressed by the social
institutions in politics and economically to address these changing needs. It is important that it be recognized and
brought to the awareness of those who are making decisions that there is a need
for a new design for your democratic process, just as in software,
institutional documents and processes must be updated and improved as changes
occur and the need requires. <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">Adaptation
was not recognized as necessary in the originating documents. The founders were simply happy that they had
established an operational, functional democracy regardless of its deficits
that they were unaware of; that this was such a huge improvement over the
monarchy and totalitarianism of the times that they were joyful of what they
had done. Now, you must be joyful in the
capacity and capability that a democracy is flexible enough to include
improvements in its operation to take into account social change, which
emanates from a changing hierarchy of needs and interpretation of those values,
which are innate to all humans. If this
is recognized then mediocrity will go by the wayside and improvements and
excellence will come about. You are at
the bottom rung of the ladder of social evolution and that step in that ladder
must include the recognition of social evolution, social change and the
necessity of adapting, or declining and collapsing as a 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(0,112,192)">Self-determinism and political sovereignty<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> The Urantia Book also says, “Political
sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism . . .,”
therefore in building a new Progressive Party, are we taking back our
self-determinism, but destroying political sovereignty?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, to both questions, and both are
good. As Richard Buckminster Fuller
said, “Desovereignization is an important step in the progress of human
civilization. It is the sovereign
boundaries of nations, and of organizations which hold back social
progress. The progress of your societies
is dependent upon people taking on more sovereignty of their decisions;
self-determination which is ameliorated by the necessity of liberty, which is
taking on the responsibility of shared governance with others for their own
good, as well as that of the individual. <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"> If the new Progressive Party consists of more
people taking an active part in their democracy, how does this differ from the
“fallacy of self-determinism” that the Urantia Book talks about?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Self-determination is individual, while
progressive work with groups of people is collective. It is necessary that the selfishness of
self-determination give way to the fully operational liberty where freedom is
held in check by the responsibilities of shared governance by the many.<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"> The Urantia Book says that, “Political
sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world.” Does this mean it is built into our DNA? (UB 134:5.12)
<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(0,112,192)">Societal selfishness<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"> Yes, if you take the politics of sovereignty
meaning the individual. Individuals are
hereditarily selfish, but also have empathy and compassion to balance the
selfishness. When social institutions do
not reflect these values, then that selfishness becomes societal, which is very
dangerous.<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(0,112,192)">Peace and goodwill is centuries away<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"> (UB 134:5.12)
The Urantia Book also says, “When all the peoples of Urantia create a
world government, they have the right and power to make such a government
sovereign; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls
the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men
can prevail—but not until then.” This
seems so impossibly distant to me! Your
comments, please.<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, you are correct; it is impossibly
distant; it is centuries 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"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> We need to evolve the democracies to the
point where such a world government would be a safe and progressive thing to
do, rather than a worldwide tyranny.<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> You are correct.<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"> Another quote from the Urantia Book: (UB 134:5.14)
“These 48 states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty
and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquility. So will the nations of Urantia begin to enjoy
peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands
of a global government—the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men.” Are there still plans, eventually, of a
global 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"><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, of course.<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"> (UB 134:6.4)
“Global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. Global sovereignty will prevent global
wars—nothing else can.” Are we in danger
of a third World War, and will it be racially suicidal to citizens in the
Middle East if it occurs?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I defer answering that question.<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(0,112,192)">Incorporating other cultures into nations<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> As our nation becomes more literate in the
Spanish language, how will this affect our nation becoming a better democracy?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> It will be more in touch with the cultural
roots of other Spanish speaking cultures. It will be more influenced by women and family
as factors to take into consideration for policy decisions and policy
formation. You do recognize there is a
certain machismo in the Latin cultures, as well as there is in the European
cultures of North America, yet there is a more equitable balance within the
home, between energies of the male and the female—mother and the father, wife
and the husband. This is a wonderful
facet to be emulated in a more thoughtful and rational way in government and in
social institutions.<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"> Does multiculturalism within a nation help or
hinder the necessary changes in democracies?
<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> It is one phase in the development and social
evolution of a democracy. The first step
is to recognize multiculturalism as existing and as a part of the social
reality that exists within a nation.
This situation can lead to opposition of minority cultures and the
dominance of majority cultures, or it can be recognized as a cultural
diversity, which is beneficial to all positions in all cultures. There is more than one way of viewing
cultural life in a democratic nation.<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(0,112,192)">Polarization<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Our national unity in America is at an
all-time split—almost 50:50 in many matters, not just in politics. Will making the necessary changes in our
democracy heal this division? <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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Recognition of social evolution as being a
motivating factor for cultural change is important for all groups.<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">Craig:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I think if we do evolve politics, there will
be a lot less polarization in everything.<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> That is correct. You see, in democratic nations currently that
politics and the political environment acts as a lever, the leverage necessary
for you to use to change your laws and to change the direction of a
society. It is the place where we in the
Correcting Time, necessarily must place ourselves to be able to move that lever
in the direction that is useful for the progressive social evolution, rather
than the devolution of society.<span></span></span></p>
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<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(0,112,192)">What is an “energy signature?”<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">Roxie:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I have only one more question from one of our
readers: He asks, “Energy Signature—what
is it? What comes to my energy signature
and how does it cause one to be attracted or rejected to another? How does one improve one’s energy signature,
or raise the frequency or speed of vibration so as to be much more attractive?”<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Energy signature is simply the identification
of one individual’s presence whether they are physically with you or not. The signature is much like your own written
signature—this is who I am, this is my name, this is my vibration, this is what
people call me—you can find my origins through this signature. So too, with your signature, you are known. You, however, can change your signature by
changing your vibration. This is best
done consciously and intentionally with a view of what you want to
accomplish. When you set your mind, your
willful mind, to make will-decisions that fulfill the vision you have for the
life you want to live, then you are changing your signature decision by
decision. That becomes imprinted in your
“signature block” when you live out these decisions over and over again,
repeatedly, with the same intent and the same outcome for those decisions. Then your signature changes to what you have
become. As you progress through your
morontial lives, you will change your signature many, many times through the
course of your morontial career, before moving on to a spiritual realm.<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"> Thank you.
I’m sure he will be very happy with that answer. That’s all the questions I have.<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Any last offers for questions or comments?<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"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Importance of media and ethics in journalism<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">MMc:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, I have one. As you say, the media is tremendously
important in our democracy. Can you
steer us in the right direction, or provide suggestions as examples of how we
can improve the profession of journalism?<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">MACHIVENTA:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Yes, certainly. Your question has been answered very capably
by a past ethicist in journalism. Ethics
in journalism is well known and well practiced; it is simply that media now considers
itself as a profit-making enterprise. Media
is best held as a utility would be held, something for the common good, or in
the common good for the public, and that it is supported because it is a
necessary element of an effective democracy.
Just as the original foundation of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
was devised for that subject and that message; it has slowly become
Americanized in its function and its presence, which is most unfortunate. It is necessary that the media not become a
politically correct organ or mouthpiece of political organizations and
political parties, but that it remains, as I said, a critical conscience of the
public good, and of the public behavior of politics, society and
economics. As you can see, its function
has become tremendously disabled by profit-making and the necessity of share
holders in these media corporations. Several
media organizations are held by an individual who has a tremendous influence on
the slant and the tilt and the voice of its media outlets. Your question is vitally important to the
function and the social evolution of a democratic society, its government and
its economics and finances. Without this
independence and ability to be politically antagonistic, rather than
politically correct, your democracy will have greater difficulty.<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(0,112,192)">Social creep<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">MACHIVENTA: Now, I will make a closing statement for our
session today, and it is this: As you
look through the questions and the answers and the broad field of subjects that
we have covered today, and as you look at that over the spectrum, the horizon,
the distance of 240 years, you must be seeing something that has changed
dramatically, and that is what you might call, “social creep.” This comes about through small incremental
decisions that change the end result over decades and centuries. Your democratic society, government, politics
and your economy are now a very greatly deformed social infant. It is growing to be crippled and unable to
walk steadily and thoroughly and stably into the future. These small incremental changes are again the
result of not having a consistent set of values for decision-making. If we have said this once, we will say it
again thousands of times in the future: <i>You must have a value system that is
consistent, and is included in all decisions, small and large, whether made by
individuals, families, community organizations or grand international
corporations and associations of associations at the planetary and global level</i>. Without a stably and consistent
decision-making base of values, you will continue to have social creep that
aggrandizes the lesser nature of individuals. Those who are aggressive become powerful and
warp the social institutions and the value systems to their own ends, which is
in the end the destruction of the societies on which they have become parasitic. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">It
is not that individuals are intentionally predatory on the goodness of society,
though those individuals surely do exist, even today in your political realm,
as you were seeing in your daily television and your media reporting, but it is
the unintentional creep of decisions made slowly by individuals whether they
are in informal social situations or in high political positions. The slow creep of watering down decisions so
that the immorality and unethical behaviors are acceptable is the anathema and
the death of democracies throughout the world, and will become just another
aggressive player in the world scheme of things. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Christ Michael’s involvement in our world will succeed<span></span></span></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This
portrays a rather dismal picture, does it not?
And Christ Michael will not let this happen. He came to your world on his seventh bestowal
to begin the healing of the planets and civilizations that were in
quarantine. He will not let this occur
because he is involved; it is because you are involved and you are consciously
involved with your Thought Adjuster. It
will not occur because you are making conscious decisions. This era of spiraling immorality and
unethical social behavior by individuals and organizations will not
continue. It is, as alluded to earlier, with
the moral pendulum going to swing back because people cannot stand this immoral
behavior, that they will begin making decisions that will bring your world into
balance once again. As we have said
before, people are innately good. They
were created with the values to make good decisions. It will not occur because of the values that
have supported the survival and thriving existence of your species have
supported your sustainability, the values that make you and identify you as
humane, that you do have empathy, you do have compassion and you do have a love
of humanity as you love yourself. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This
era of greater immoral difficulty will not continue because of Christ Michael’s
influence and his personal engagement with you as an individual. It is upon the individual level that your
world will be healed and saved, and will resurrect itself into the Days of
Light and Life as a world that is healed, that is whole, that is contiguous and
complemental to itself and to its individuals.
This will occur because of that spiritual influence which is pervasive
around your world, which is now becoming palpable and recognizable. It too, has an energetic signature; you can
tap into it, just as you in America now feel the energy of millions of people
in tremendous angst over your election that is coming forth, and the revulsion
of the behavior of the candidates. So
too, does your world have a signature of peace and order and kindness and
fairness. It emanates from the best of
you who are the cultural, social, political, economic, and financial leaders. It is you who are willing to take risks on
the goodness that is inherent in people, rather than capitalizing on the
immorality and the evil that they do, whether they are conscious of it or not. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">You
are in the elite forward movement of those who are in the legion of light that
Christ Michael has formed by you joining forces with us. We know that you will succeed as we will
succeed, co-creatively. We will all
succeed, even those who know us not, who ignore the light that is within
them. You know this is to be true, and
we rely upon you to make willful decisions that guide your world in the right
action, right outcomes, right attitudes and right demeanor. You will do this through yourself, your
children, your grandchildren, and so on, that you will teach them that they are
responsible as you are responsible for your mortal and your immortal
career. You have begun the eternal
journey, the ascent. Part of your
responsibilities is to think and <a name="_GoBack"></a>act responsibly toward
yourself, to your career, to God, and to your fellow brothers and sisters of
this world. We see the light! Do you see the light? Good day and thank you.<span></span></span></p>
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