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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">New Era Transition #25 – Societal History; Reserve Corps
of Destiny – Sept. 25, 2017</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Machiventa
Melchizedek and Sondjah Melchizedek</b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Topics:</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Sondjah’s greeting<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The history of our
socialization<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The intention to use the 7
core values as we proceed<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Reasons for past failures in
our social organizations<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Learning to adapt to future
needs<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Essential organizational
development process<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Failure of the past as lack
of unified means<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Question regarding
presentation to a university<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The holism of the 3 pillars
of support<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The pieces must fit together<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Question on the Reserve Corps
of Destiny<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Accepting projects on their
own merit without endowments <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Sondjah’s method of working
with our group<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Sondjah’s closing statement</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">TR: Daniel
Raphael, PhD</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Team members present:
Roxanne Andrews, Craig Carmichael, Doug Dodge and Liz Cratty</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Invocation</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>September 25, 2017</b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>MACHIVENTA:</b> Good morning, this is Machiventa
Melchizedek. It is a pleasure to be here
with you. Today we are going to switch speakers
from myself to Sondjah Melchizedek. My
official role to present the macro perspectives of the Correcting time to you
and to the audience has been completed.
I had hoped that there would be more questions on the macro perspective
of the Correcting Time for this planet, but we have now completed as much as we
can and we are glad to begin the next process of implementation with the
presence of Sondjah Melchizedek and he is here now.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Sondjah’s greeting</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Good morning, this is Sondjah Melchizedek. I will be your host for some time to come;
perhaps a similar length of time as Machiventa served as the presenter for the
last several dozen sessions. You could
say this is a promotion for me, but as there are no promotions for
Melchizedeks, what has occurred is that my responsibilities have broadened
immensely. My work with the co-creative
design teams has been of great assistance to me now to proceed with a much
greater perspective. Working with you
intimately, personally, one-on-one and one-to-a-group is something that I have
learned through the eons of my life. I
feel well prepared to assist you in working into the implementation stages and
in the various teams and groups that we will be forming in the near future.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">You may ask about that, and yes it is true, those will be
groups. These will be mortal groups who
gather together and assist us in meaningful ways in an organization of your
making and of your choosing, with our guidance.
You are enthused in this stage as it becomes much more “sandals on the
ground,” as Machiventa said in a recent session. We will begin by working with the family,
which is the essential unit for every civilization. And when I speak of civilization, I speak of national
cultures and societies. If you were to look
on a map and try to find a society or a community or a civilization, you would
be hard pressed to find a zip code or a GPS location for such a community. As this is part of your instructions, you
will note that communities and societies and civilizations are truly an imprint
of the many factors of human social activity. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The history of our
socialization</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Humans are sustainable by themselves, particularly so as
a family unit or clan, but it is the family that is the primary
organization/institution that enculturates, socializes, and educates the child
who represents the next generation, and so on.
This has been going on for your species for well over 200,000 years, or
approximately 8,000 generations. Your
species has been dabbling in social organizations for the last 10-20,000
years. Of course these are indefinable
by your archaeologists as communities and societies and civilizations simply
disappear. What is left are the
artifacts of your material organizations, and are in some ways representative of
those communities and societies but definitely not accurately representative.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The intention to use the 7
core values as we proceed</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">What you can conclude from that statement is that social
organization of humans is a recent development of your species. However, it has been going on long enough now
that it is time to bring this into a conscious and intentional effort to
develop social organizations that are socially sustainable — social
organizations that have the capability to become as sustainable and stable as
the longevity of your species. What we
will be doing is to use the 7 values that have sustained your species and your
families and interject them, embed them, in the organizational structures of
your organizations. We wish to do this
in the two major social/societal organizations in your society, of your
nations. In this way, the intention of
doing so is to give those organizations a decision-making mechanism that is
similarly based and as effective as your species sustainability. This has not been done before. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Reasons for past failures
in our social organizations</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">As you know, if you have studied your social history of
your species, whatever nation and whatever culture, wherever they are located
in the last 20,000 years, you will know that these cultures and societies and
nations, dynasties and empires have come and gone—they have all failed. They failed simply because they made bad
decisions; they made decisions that did not sustain that society, or that
organization, or that administration, or that government into the future. The reasons for this are two-fold, first of
all, societies and organizations, governments and empires came into existence
without a conscious intention for their long-term existence. It was simply thought that if they did what
they did successfully one day and one year and one decade, that it would
continue on into the decades of the future.
As you know, they failed miserably—all of them failed, and the
societies, administrations, governments and so on of this century, will also
fail unless they also include in their decision-making the values that help
sustain them and <b><i>adapt</i> </b>to the future, and to the circumstances that are
occurring. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Learning to adapt to
future needs</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The support for organizations to become social
sustainability organizations requires that they review their intention for
their existence and make this a very conscious process. To just continue doing business as
organizations, governments, and corporations do, offers no hope beyond a very fallacious
understanding of the future. The future
is something that changes constantly.
One thing that organizations significantly fail to do is to adapt, and
to adapt to conditions around them. It
is one thing for a profit-making corporation to adapt, downsize, increase its
size, or to enter into new market fields in order to stay profitable, but it is
another thing to adapt to the changes of society and a civilization over
centuries to remain in existence.
Therefore, its intention for existence must adapt to the reality of the
future and to the constancy of social change. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Essential organizational
development process</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Machiventa has reviewed with you several times what it
takes for organizational development to be complete. There must be a <u>vision of the organization
in the future</u>, and that vision must be couched in those 7 values; there
must be a <u>statement of intention</u> that is also congruent with the values
that have sustained your species. If the
intention does not couple itself with the existence of the human species and
social adaptation, then that corporation will fail and the government will
fail. There must also be <u>a mission
statement</u>. This is something that is
quite normal for most organizations to have.
What is behind that mission is an <u>operational philosophy that
incorporates both the vision intention with the mission</u>. The operational philosophy exists, works
through and envelops every decision that is made in the organization, whether
it is who makes coffee in the morning, or sits on the board of trustees at the
annual meetings. It is something that is
important to guide the ethos of that organization forward into the coming
centuries. And of course as you know,
the objectives emanate from <u>the mission fulfilling what actually will be
done</u>. In many ways, the organization
of Christ Michael and the Triumvirate incorporates all those same specific
actions or developments of organization. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">You have been looking forward to the time of
implementation. This involves the
objectives of the mission of the Correcting Time. We call the Correcting Time a program with various
missions underneath; and then there are objectives that<span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">
</span>we co-creatively attend to, which need implementation. We are at the stage now where implementation
will involve many areas within the social/societal pillar of your
societies. Functional societies, as you
know, have three main pillars of support: 1) the social/societal, 2) the
governmental/political, and 3) the financial/economic. These three areas must function with
stability and sustainability in order to carry the society into the far distant
future.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Failure of the past as
lack of unified means</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">What has occurred in the last 20,000 years of human
social existence is that there has not been a unifying and unified means of
approaching social, commercial, governmental, economic existence. It has simply been the need to dominate and
control, to control developments so that one mindset, one philosophy or one
political orientation is dominant and gets its way. This simply does not work to sustain a
society into to the distant future. What
is needed are for your societies—these three pillars—to develop a holism, an
integral holism of all social, governmental and economic activities based on
one set of values to guide all decision-making in each of those three areas. When this occurs, then you will find that the
purpose and the meaning of existence for a society will become known and
expressed and will become a part of the enculturation for your societies with each
new generation. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">I will bring a halt to my discourse, my opening statement,
at this time and invite questions about that.
I know and I expect and anticipate that you will have many questions
regarding implementation in future sessions, though you are most welcome to ask
them now if you choose.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Question regarding
presentation to a university</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> Good morning, Sondjah, this is Liz
Cratty. It’s an honor to be with you
this morning. As you may or may not
know, my friend Jeff Cutler and I have an opportunity to write the syllabus for
a 4 credit class at Southern Oregon University on teaching social
sustainability. We make our presentation
to the decision makers about that in April and we are very excited; in fact
today is the day we begin writing not only our presentation, but the syllabus
that we propose. I was going to ask if
you have suggestions for what to include, particularly in the presentation as
that is my initial focus. We will be
talking many times between now and the time we make this presentation to refine
the syllabus. But I think that your
opening statement tells me a lot about what needs to be in this
presentation. Regardless, I will ask if
there is anything specific to a 4 credit class in the Honor’s College that you
think that we should include in this presentation?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The holism of the 3
pillars of support</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Most definitely, I do have some definite
thoughts about that. One is that you and
Jeff would be of a mindset as planetary managers and that what you are doing
through this first initial class is to open the subject as a holism of these
three supports, pillars of society, of a nation and that you would present this
material in the syllabus; that you are attempting to create a holism of human
existence—social existence—that has not occurred before. You will need to couch that in terms of the
class, and the dimension of the class, but it is through the values of your
human species that this holism can be brought into reality. This class will be an exploration into social
sustainability, but it also has the pragmatic ability to become applicable to
almost every social science field in a university.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">The pieces must fit
together</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">This is not something that will overwhelm these
decision-makers, but if they truly have not thought of the holism that a
university presents…, it is rather ironic, is it not that the root word of
“university” means “universal,” it means “integral,” it means “whole,” it means
looking at all the pieces together. And
in this regard, it is our hope that the class would present this holism to the
audience, to the students. This brings together
the intra-organization of all that a university is striving to do. Think in terms of the decision-making tree <b>‡</b> —the priorities of decision-making in
a society, that education then becomes a primary enculturating, socializing and
decision-making organization that enlightens individuals how to make personal
and organizational contributions to their society and to civilization. I suppose that may sound a little bit
overwhelming to you; I hope it is not.
You can glean these words, you and Jeff, to organize your syllabus into
thinking in these terms. You must
remember that university officials and those who devise the curriculum for all
the departments and schools think in terms of specifics, of
specialization. However, what is truly
needed to bring order to your world and to your society and is a sense of
general awareness of all the pieces fitting together, the values that have
sustained your species do bring all those activities from specialization into
holism where your general approach is very necessary and needed.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>‡ </b>Note from
Daniel: Sondjah is referring to the
illustration at the end of this session. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> Thank you very much for that answer. We have been speaking with the President of
the Honor’s College and it is our intention to create a 4 year degree program
in social sustainability, but that is a long way off; this is a foot in the
door and we are very excited about it.
We want to make sure that we lead with our best.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Question on the Reserve
Corps of Destiny</span></u> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">I have a question that is more of a curiosity nature, and
I don’t know if you would entertain this.
In our <i>Urantia Book</i> study
group last week, we were reading that in the sixth century before Christ
Michael came here, the Salem teachings were in danger of disappearing, and then
suddenly, Confucius and Lao Tzu and the Buddha all came along at the same
time. The question was posed: is this what it would look like when members
of the Reserve Corps of Destiny are activated?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Most certainly, and you have grasped that
very well. What you have not grasped and
are not aware of are the master teachers who are among you now. There is such an abundance of data—literally
data—and new interests and social media to share all these interests that there
have not come to a point of settling out of the major developments. This is yet to come in years and decades
ahead. The Reserve Corps has been
bolstered tremendously; you have some numbers from a past session you may want
to refer to, the numbers that were given in the <i>Urantia Book</i> were very miniscule compared to what is available
now. What is important in this process
is that when the Reserve Corps is expanded, you will also experience an
expansion of consciousness, of awareness, and this awareness is necessary in
all major segments/sectors of society’s existence, so that there will be
someone in the physical sciences, someone in the social sciences and so on, who
will recognize something important and see that before others do. They are the “sentinels of development,” and
it is important that the individuals of the Reserve Corps act as sentinels to
make others aware of what is coming and what is here, and how to prepare for
that. And of course there are those
individuals of the Reserve Corps who are doing exactly that; they are preparing
for a future that they may not even be aware of, but that they are working on. There are, in fact, very few of the Reserve
Corps who are conscious of their membership in the Corps. This is as a protection for them so that they
neither use their abilities nor their position for selfish reasons, and that
they also might protect themselves so that they are more productive. You will find that when individuals are aware
that they are a part of the Reserve Corps of Destiny, they may slip into
immense humility, or they might strive to be in self-aggrandizement, or
overwork themselves in service to the cause.
Does this help?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> Yes it does!
Very interesting reflection and I thank you for that.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Accepting projects on
their own merit without endowments</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> I would like to continue with my previous
answer about your presentation to the Honor’s College. Yes, you would be in a better position if you
had half a million dollars behind you. Saying
that the college ought to take on this project, but in fact, what is necessary
for this to be truly an effective and authentic program for the honors program
is that it be accepted in its own right, rather than from the money. It would be disheartening for you and for us
and for many that if the money stopped, that the college would stop its program
in social sustainability. It is our deep
and fervent hope that sustainability would become accepted as a study to be
pursued in its own right, rather than the funding that it would garner. Is this clear?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> It is.
Of course, colleges require funding to continue, and when one comes with
an endowment, an idea for a course of study and brings its own endowment, we
have their attention immediately. It is
only through Jeff’s dogged persistence that we are at this point now, because
we have not done any type of fundraising or proposed any type of
fundraising. So this is being accepted
on its own merits at this point.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Wonderful!
It is our hope that the least we would achieve is that they would say, “This
is a wonderful idea. We will implement
it immediately and will do so when the funding can be provided to do so.” With it, its acceptance with the proviso of
funding. Do you understand?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> Yes, thank you. I take that as a promise of assistance from
the celestials and that is welcome news.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Then you are reading between the lines. No promise is implied. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> Thank you very much, Sondjah; it’s wonderful
to have you with us. </p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font color="#93c47d">S</font><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(0,176,80)">ondjah’s method of
working with our group</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Thank you.
You will note that I will be much more pragmatic than Machiventa. This is a dialog, more of a dialog than you
have had before. I will be asking for
clarity in the questions from you when it is not clear and that you would be
able to have the latitude to ask questions for greater clarity and
understanding. As we become more
pragmatic this is necessary. For us, it
is much like raising children. We are
training you to be much more pragmatic about your spiritual education and your
spiritual practices, as this is co-creative.
If you had a teenage daughter or son, and you were striving to teach
them how to become co-responsible with their father or mother in the family,
you would assign them chores and responsibilities to attend to, which are
normal in a family with children. You
would ask them if they understand the instructions and they would say yes or no
and ask questions, and then they would be assigned a time to begin this chore,
whether it is studying or reading or doing homework, or it might be washing the
car, or doing the laundry. And then you
would teach them how to do that and then you would inspect their work along the
way, without interfering. When the final
results are there, you have already asked them to ask you to review their work
when they are done so that there are no sudden surprises for anyone. The idea is to have completion of work, and a
work that is effectively completed. It
is no different than in the business environment that you work in.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Are there other questions?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Liz:</b> I have no further questions.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Craig:</b> [Let us know he joined us late, but I
couldn’t understand his phone transmission clearly. He did not have a question, however.]</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Roxie:</b> I haven’t received any questions from the
audience. I’m sorry I am so
discombobulated today. I’ve been working
with upgrading my knowledge to enter into the 21<sup>st</sup> Century with
technology and my mind is swimming. But
I am still working with the group that is doing the new archive. I sent off all of our Colorado transcripts to
them last evening to put into the archive.
I’m making some progress, but it’s slow.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any questions, but I am certainly glad to
have Sondjah with us once again. I value
your information and your assistance greatly!
That’s all I have.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)">Sondjah’s closing
statement</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>SONDJAH:</b> Thank you for being here, all of you and
those readers and listeners; we appreciate your attendance and we deeply
appreciate your co-creative participation with us in this implementation
stage. We will have more specifics about
that in the future weeks and months. And
yes, it is a slow process; yes, it did take us 30 years to get here to the
implementation stage, but it is necessary that we have a settled audience who
is prepared to engage the moment and the future. You, who have been with these movements for
all of these years, know and understand and have experienced the tumultuous
upheavals that you have had with your groups and with individuals, and so
on. It is necessary to go through this
with mortals in this situation as we have experienced on other planets that new
developments take time to become accepted and the new concepts and values to be
understood and useful to individuals. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">This is, yes, a rather plodding sort of experience for
you, but in terms of the morontial and spiritual realms, we are jackrabbits
moving ahead rather quickly, compared to the tortoise-like schedule of developments
on a planet that is not a decimal planet, and a planet that is a decimal planet
that is not in turmoil as has been Urantia.
So compared to the other 99% of all planets, we are racing ahead with
great speed. And in doing that, we also
must be careful that we do not bang into the pillars and posts and impediments
along the way, that we take into consideration the mortal necessity of growth
and development of the mind mechanism and the personality and the integration
of spiritual values and meanings into the individual’s life, so that they can
become more effective partners with us as we implement these
social/political/economic programs. We
give you our peace and love, and may peace, love, joy, and understanding be
with you each day. Good day. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">See next page for the illustration and
explanation of the <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">“Priorities of Decision-Making in a
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“Designing Socially Sustainable Democratic Societies,” page 88-89. This document is available as a downloadable
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/danielraphael">https://sites.google.com/view/danielraphael</a><span></span></span></p>
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organizations need to understand the hierarchy of decision-making that supports
the social transcendence of their host societies as shown in the illustration
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">What is not obvious in the illustration
above is the distinction between the individual/family and all else that is
social. Families and individuals can
sustain the species without the social elements of societies, governments, and
economies, but societies, governments, and economies cannot sustain themselves
without sustainable families that raise the individuals who will become the
sustaining innovators, leaders, and decision-makers of those
organizations. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 2"">Ö</span></b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif"> Because families provide the foundation for
societies and civilizations, making decisions that support families to become
functional and socially sustainable is the premier priority of decision-making
for organizations within the social-societal, political-governmental, and
financial-economic pillars of functional democratic societies. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 2"">Ö</span></b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif"> <i>Societal
sustainability is not possible until <b>organizations</b>
become responsible participants in the symbiotic relationship that supports
societies, communities, and the individual/family.</i> By working to teach and train all people how
to make socially sustainable decisions, we can build socially sustainable
families, communities, societies, and nations.
Doing so will create a societal system of sustainability<b>:</b>
Parents teach their children how to make socially sustainable decisions,
who grow up to use that value system in organizational decision-making, that
support the development of socially sustainable families, communities, and societies. <span></span></span></p>
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