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Begin to still your [[thoughts]], discard your agendas and things you have to do, things you have to say—instructions for others—all those things. [[Imagine]] that you see a candle across the way from you and it is lit. You try to [[influence]] the flame by blowing on it, and as you blow out, you blow out all your thoughts, and soon this candle is still.

Begin to still your [[thoughts]], discard your agendas and things you have to do, things you have to say—instructions for others—all those things. [[Imagine]] that you see a candle across the way from you and it is lit. You try to [[influence]] the flame by blowing on it, and as you blow out, you blow out all your thoughts, and soon this candle is still.

Let us begin to build the [[merkaba]] beginning with the golden cord that comes down from the center of [[the universe]] through the top of your head and out through your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_chakra base chakra], to earth center—this is your own core, your own small merkaba. Now connect the tops of your golden threads to the energy shaft that is here at a north pole location above us, and the bottom of your golden threads to the south pole. By doing so, the smallness of the shaft enlarges immensely and glows with that nice aqua/blue/green color. Being in a circle, connect to each other and create the equatorial line—the latitude—and we make more lines of latitude in the northern and southern hemispheres so that what we have is a wire framework of energy circles, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system longitude and latitude]. Now let us each consciously expand the size of the merkaba so that it is outside of this house, way above it and way below it, so this area is protected in light and is a [[sacred]] place.

Let us begin to build the [[merkaba]] beginning with the golden cord that comes down from the center of [[the universe]] through the top of your head and out through your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_chakra base chakra], to earth center—this is your own core, your own small merkaba. Now connect the tops of your golden threads to the energy shaft that is here at a north pole location above us, and the bottom of your golden threads to the south pole. By doing so, the smallness of the shaft enlarges immensely and glows with that nice aqua/blue/green color. Being in a circle, connect to each other and create the equatorial line—the latitude—and we make more lines of latitude in the northern and southern hemispheres so that what we have is a wire framework of energy circles, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system longitude and latitude]. Now let us each consciously expand the size of the merkaba so that it is outside of this house, way above it and way below it, so this area is protected in light and is a [[sacred]] place.

We ask our unseen friends to contribute to this [[merkaba]] sphere of energy and participate with us. Now, take a few moments if you will to use the merkaba, and direct the [[fountain]] of [[energy]] from the top of it to whomever and whatever situation in the world or [[the universe]] that you’d like to, for [[healing]], for divine order, divine [[timing]], [[abundance]], prosperity and all of it’s [[manifestations]]. Use it for your family or friends or people you’ve never met, but you know their circumstances, you know their names. Name them and direct it to them. Take a few moments for this to occur. (Long pause) Please come to center and bring your awareness to this time.

We ask our unseen friends to contribute to this [[merkaba]] sphere of energy and participate with us. Now, take a few moments if you will to use the merkaba, and direct the [[fountain]] of [[energy]] from the top of it to whomever and whatever situation in the world or [[the universe]] that you’d like to, for [[healing]], for divine order, divine [[timing]], [[abundance]], prosperity and all of it’s [[manifestations]]. Use it for your family or friends or people you’ve never met, but you know their circumstances, you know their names. Name them and direct it to them. Take a few moments for this to occur. (Long pause) Please come to center and bring your awareness to this time.

[This is Daniel. Machiventa is ready to take some questions.]

[This is Daniel. Machiventa is ready to take some questions.]

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student: Thank you Father Machiventa. (You are most welcome.) I’ve been laboring in a small vineyard of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalist Unitarian/Universalists] these past two years, and your talk “hits home” with my efforts there. One of the main [[tenets]] that I’ve run across in that [[church]] is that they reject the [[Trinity]], and I would like to open that “can of worms” to the [[perspective]] that those who rejected the Trinity did so back in the 12-something-hundred without any true [[knowledge]] of the Trinity as portrayed in our [[Urantia Book]] revelation. I assume that when you say that help is available that this project is open to that kind of help?

Student: Thank you Father Machiventa. (You are most welcome.) I’ve been laboring in a small vineyard of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalist Unitarian/Universalists] these past two years, and your talk “hits home” with my efforts there. One of the main [[tenets]] that I’ve run across in that [[church]] is that they reject the [[Trinity]], and I would like to open that “can of worms” to the [[perspective]] that those who rejected the Trinity did so back in the 12-something-hundred without any true [[knowledge]] of the Trinity as portrayed in our [[Urantia Book]] revelation. I assume that when you say that help is available that this project is open to that kind of help?

Machiventa: We would offer that you not begin at a place of [[contention]] but begin where there are points of [[agreement]] and expand upon those in ways with which you are familiar. Any argument that has existed for nine centuries will surely surpass your own lifetime. (No [[doubt]]!) So please, do not begin there. This is a good [[question]] that you have asked, for many others who approach other [[organizations]] will ask it.

Machiventa: We would offer that you not begin at a place of [[contention]] but begin where there are points of [[agreement]] and expand upon those in ways with which you are familiar. Any argument that has existed for nine centuries will surely surpass your own lifetime. (No [[doubt]]!) So please, do not begin there. This is a good [[question]] that you have asked, for many others who approach other [[organizations]] will ask it.

Machiventa: If you as a [[group]], and those who read these transcripts, begin to look through your [[communications]] with others about what has occurred and what you have learned, you will see that you are also grappling with [[truths]] and applying them to larger areas of your lives, of your [[society]], of your [[culture]], of your [[communities]]. How would you apply these to [[public]] [[policy]]? How would you apply this to education? This is not limited only to [[religious]] [[institutions]], but to every human institution. As you know, the [[Most Highs]] are deeply invested and involved in every institution of human activity, whether it is international [[commerce]] or your individual communities here where you live in this [[neighborhood]]. You can begin to actively engage these institutions and their policies and expand upon them and help them become more [[compassionate]], caring and supportive of human activity—the best of human activity. You have seen plenty of examples in your economies and large institutions of [[finance]] that have taken advantage of “small people.” This is not [[good]]! Those kinds of policies do not support longevity and are in fact detrimental to the growth and longevity of those institutions. Other questions?

Machiventa: If you as a [[group]], and those who read these transcripts, begin to look through your [[communications]] with others about what has occurred and what you have learned, you will see that you are also grappling with [[truths]] and applying them to larger areas of your lives, of your [[society]], of your [[culture]], of your [[communities]]. How would you apply these to [[public]] [[policy]]? How would you apply this to education? This is not limited only to [[religious]] [[institutions]], but to every human institution. As you know, the [[Most Highs]] are deeply invested and involved in every institution of human activity, whether it is international [[commerce]] or your individual communities here where you live in this [[neighborhood]]. You can begin to actively engage these institutions and their policies and expand upon them and help them become more [[compassionate]], caring and supportive of human activity—the best of human activity. You have seen plenty of examples in your economies and large institutions of [[finance]] that have taken advantage of “small people.” This is not [[good]]! Those kinds of policies do not support longevity and are in fact detrimental to the growth and longevity of those institutions. Other questions?

Student: You asked us how we would do these things—I would ask you how we are to approach these things. I come from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism Catholic] background and I feel great [[resistance]] at the idea of approaching the people who hold those [[beliefs]] and try to bring them up other than one-by-one. I am just wondering, would we have to take public office or become [[teachers]] to act within these institutions, or can we [[interface]] with them from where we are?

Student: You asked us how we would do these things—I would ask you how we are to approach these things. I come from a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism Catholic] background and I feel great [[resistance]] at the idea of approaching the people who hold those [[beliefs]] and try to bring them up other than one-by-one. I am just wondering, would we have to take public office or become [[teachers]] to act within these institutions, or can we [[interface]] with them from where we are?

Machiventa: You can [[interact]] with them from where you are; you needn’t become an office holder, though you may want to. There are some [[institutions]] that are bastions of [[belief]], which will be tremendously resistant. Some of the most [[resistant]] church beliefs are the beliefs of man, rather than the beliefs of the [[Divine]]. These will be the most difficult and the longest ones to be intransigent. The simple recognition of [[women]] as equals to men in religious institutions seems fundamental to us; it is [[universally]] accepted in the [[Grand Universe]] and on all [[inhabited planets]], except those which have had great difficulty, such as yours. If the simple fundamental truth of the [[equality]] of [[the soul]] value of women is devalued by the [[gender]] in power, you can imagine how long that simple truth will take to be overturned.

Machiventa: You can [[interact]] with them from where you are; you needn’t become an office holder, though you may want to. There are some [[institutions]] that are bastions of [[belief]], which will be tremendously resistant. Some of the most [[resistant]] church beliefs are the beliefs of man, rather than the beliefs of the [[Divine]]. These will be the most difficult and the longest ones to be intransigent. The simple recognition of [[women]] as equals to men in religious institutions seems fundamental to us; it is [[universally]] accepted in the [[Grand Universe]] and on all [[inhabited planets]], except those which have had great difficulty, such as yours. If the simple fundamental truth of the [[equality]] of [[the soul]] value of women is devalued by the [[gender]] in power, you can imagine how long that simple truth will take to be overturned.