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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Daniel: Let’s hook up to the [[merkaba]] individually and as you do this, see yourself linking up through the merkaba with others here in the group. See the merkaba and the equatorial line that connects us all, the lines of [[latitude]] and [[longitude]], and the orb of [[energy]] that fills a large [[space]] outside of us, way above the house and way below it.  

Daniel: Let’s hook up to the [[merkaba]] individually and as you do this, see yourself linking up through the merkaba with others here in the group. See the merkaba and the equatorial line that connects us all, the lines of [[latitude]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system longitude], and the orb of [[energy]] that fills a large [[space]] outside of us, way above the house and way below it.  

Make your statements concerning your [[intention]]s for being here, for making that connection, your sincerity, your invocation of [[energy]], and your commitment. Also use this time to project healing energy to those who have healing energy needs for this, for their [[bodies]], for their [[minds]], for their [[emotions]]. [Student makes a request for a 9-year-old neighbor girl needing a heart transplant. Other students make requests also.] And for those people whose lives, it appears, are in disarray, send them energy for [[Divine]] Order and Sequence of Developments for their lives, and for them to be aware of this. It is not just a matter of sending them this, or projecting order and right sequence of events in their lives, but an "opening of [[consciousness]]" in their minds to see this and accept it. They don’t have to necessarily be "conscious" of it, but to be "accepting" of the order, the right order of developments in their lives. Of course it is much more powerful if it is conscious and they "will" to agree to that. (Pause) Bring your attention back to center, to the merkaba.

Make your statements concerning your [[intention]]s for being here, for making that connection, your sincerity, your invocation of [[energy]], and your commitment. Also use this time to project healing energy to those who have healing energy needs for this, for their [[bodies]], for their [[minds]], for their [[emotions]]. [Student makes a request for a 9-year-old neighbor girl needing a heart transplant. Other students make requests also.] And for those people whose lives, it appears, are in disarray, send them energy for [[Divine]] Order and Sequence of Developments for their lives, and for them to be aware of this. It is not just a matter of sending them this, or projecting order and right sequence of events in their lives, but an "opening of [[consciousness]]" in their minds to see this and accept it. They don’t have to necessarily be "conscious" of it, but to be "accepting" of the order, the right order of developments in their lives. Of course it is much more powerful if it is conscious and they "will" to agree to that. (Pause) Bring your attention back to center, to the merkaba.

As we look upon your society and culture, and your culture now pervades Europe as well as it is now invading technologically developed Japan, it is in some ways usurping their older, cultural [[traditions]]. There is less and less functionality towards community and self-sustaining operations within the community, those agents for indoctrinating or inculcating traditional beliefs that help communities survive, families prosper, and individuals to grow and progress, are missing. And as advancing nations grow, they go through an era where these are stripped away and there is tremendous competition for economic and financial reasons. Surely, these add to the [[quantity]] of life, but they are very detrimental to the [[quality]] of life. And as I see you and visit you in your families, here and throughout the states, I see you yearning for quality of life. You have quite a stretch to work on, you reach in one way for quantity of life and you reach tentatively in the other for quality of life. You have been sold "a bill of goods," literally, by your economic prosperity in this nation that having "[[things]]" gets you happiness. And if you can’t be happy, you become numb by watching your television sets. So these lessons are to assist you in developing quality of life in all regards, for the [[individual]], for the [[family]], and for your [[community]].

As we look upon your society and culture, and your culture now pervades Europe as well as it is now invading technologically developed Japan, it is in some ways usurping their older, cultural [[traditions]]. There is less and less functionality towards community and self-sustaining operations within the community, those agents for indoctrinating or inculcating traditional beliefs that help communities survive, families prosper, and individuals to grow and progress, are missing. And as advancing nations grow, they go through an era where these are stripped away and there is tremendous competition for economic and financial reasons. Surely, these add to the [[quantity]] of life, but they are very detrimental to the [[quality]] of life. And as I see you and visit you in your families, here and throughout the states, I see you yearning for quality of life. You have quite a stretch to work on, you reach in one way for quantity of life and you reach tentatively in the other for quality of life. You have been sold "a bill of goods," literally, by your economic prosperity in this nation that having "[[things]]" gets you happiness. And if you can’t be happy, you become numb by watching your television sets. So these lessons are to assist you in developing quality of life in all regards, for the [[individual]], for the [[family]], and for your [[community]].

You recall that Machiventa spoke last time about sustaining communities. This is a subset of a larger community development, which is [[intention]]al communities, and we spoke about [[intentional communities]] through Mor-gan and Daniel years ago. Intentional communities are communities of individuals and families that have come together, who join in a community for intentional reasons. A self-sustaining community is only one of many types of intentional communities. But the broadest intentional community is a community that sustains life at all levels for the individual and family. Materiality is a minor element of that. You’ll find that economic and financial and material prosperity issue from happy individuals, productive families, and cooperative communities. Doing so, you’ll find there is less competition, no [[war]]fare, no expressions of hostility, with social processes that provide for adjustment of differences, peacefully.

You recall that Machiventa spoke last time about sustaining communities. This is a subset of a larger community development, which is intentional communities, and we spoke about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community intentional communities] through Mor-gan and Daniel years ago. Intentional communities are communities of individuals and families that have come together, who join in a community for intentional reasons. A self-sustaining [[community]] is only one of many types of intentional communities. But the broadest intentional community is a community that sustains life at all levels for the [[individual]] and [[family]]. Materiality is a minor element of that. You’ll find that economic and financial and material prosperity issue from happy individuals, productive families, and cooperative communities. Doing so, you’ll find there is less competition, no [[war]]fare, no expressions of hostility, with social processes that provide for [[adjustment]] of differences, peacefully.

Let us take this subset, self-sustaining community, a bit further. You probably have an [[idea]] what we mean by this. We mean far more than just material sustenance: Houses to live in, infrastructures for communications, water, disposal of waste, garbage pick-up, food, jobs, education. These are only the meagerest degrees or parts of a self-sustaining community. Surely, you can have these things already. There are already many self-sustaining communities in development now in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. Many have come and gone, haven’t they? Why is that? Let us look at the errors, the problems of those communities that have disintegrated. Was it due to lack of food? Was it due to lack of housing? Was it due to lack of employment, education, or religion? No, none of those. Why did they disintegrate? As I was listening in on Daniel and Agatha speaking earlier today, they discerned that one of the primary reasons for the disintegration of communities in the past has been due to failure of leadership. Those societies where there is good leadership have continued.

Let us take this subset, self-sustaining community, a bit further. You probably have an [[idea]] what we mean by this. We mean far more than just material sustenance: Houses to live in, infrastructures for [[communications]], water, disposal of waste, garbage pick-up, food, jobs, education. These are only the meagerest degrees or parts of a self-sustaining community. Surely, you can have these things already. There are already many self-sustaining communities in development now in the [[United State]]s and elsewhere throughout the world. Many have come and gone, haven’t they? Why is that? Let us look at the [[errors]], the problems of those communities that have disintegrated. Was it due to lack of food? Was it due to lack of housing? Was it due to lack of employment, education, or religion? No, none of those. Why did they disintegrate? As I was [[listening]] in on Daniel and Agatha speaking earlier today, they discerned that one of the primary reasons for the disintegration of communities in the past has been due to failure of [[leadership]]. Those societies where there is good leadership have continued.

What is good leadership? Well, there are many answers and you will find them in the [[Urantia Book]]. There is primarily required a selfless dedication to the larger concerns for the [[group]], past the individual [[ego]] needs of the leader. A secondary cause of community disintegration due to inadequate leadership exists when there is no oversight for the watch care of leadership. This means that there is no self-monitoring [[process]] within a successful community for the continued monitoring of leadership, or a process for receiving grievances or complaints from populous community members about leadership that deteriorates. You may have a leader who established a community who did well, had good intentions; and has happened so often, something occurs in the mind of that leader that deflects them from their original selfless dedication. Surely they must have become bored, for they seem to have set themselves upon an agenda of self-destruction, either through [[power]], aggrandizement, [[sexual]] difficulties that violate boundaries of families and relationships, [[material]] gathering at the expense of others, differences in prerogatives between the leader and members so that there becomes a [[caste]] [[system]] between the leader, his family (or her family), and the rest of the population. We could go on, but if you examine the [[belief]] systems of those individuals, who once were good leaders, you’ll find they have become corrupted, lazy, and have lost their selfless dedication and commitment. Now this is not a chastisement I am giving you; this is simply an [[analysis]] of past failures. So, knowing that a successful community is not dependent totally upon food, housing, employment, location, geography or so on, realize that the sustaining community is sustained by something that is unmeasurable and immaterial. Not immaterial in that it does not affect anything, because it surely does affect all aspects of each individual, the family and the community as a whole, but it is not a [[material]] aspect that is measurable, quantifiable, or empirically knowable. We are talking about higher [[values]] that must be operant always.

What is good [[leadership]]? Well, there are many answers and you will find them in the [[Urantia Book]]. There is primarily required a selfless dedication to the larger concerns for the [[group]], past the individual [[ego]] needs of the leader. A secondary cause of community disintegration due to inadequate leadership exists when there is no oversight for the watch care of leadership. This means that there is no self-monitoring [[process]] within a successful community for the continued monitoring of leadership, or a process for receiving grievances or complaints from populous community members about leadership that deteriorates. You may have a leader who established a community who did well, had good intentions; and has happened so often, something occurs in the mind of that leader that deflects them from their original selfless dedication. Surely they must have become bored, for they seem to have set themselves upon an agenda of self-destruction, either through [[power]], aggrandizement, [[sexual]] difficulties that violate boundaries of families and relationships, [[material]] gathering at the expense of others, differences in prerogatives between the leader and members so that there becomes a [[caste]] [[system]] between the leader, his family (or her family), and the rest of the population. We could go on, but if you examine the [[belief]] systems of those individuals, who once were good leaders, you’ll find they have become corrupted, lazy, and have lost their selfless dedication and commitment. Now this is not a chastisement I am giving you; this is simply an [[analysis]] of past failures. So, knowing that a successful community is not dependent totally upon food, housing, employment, location, geography or so on, realize that the sustaining community is sustained by something that is unmeasurable and immaterial. Not immaterial in that it does not affect anything, because it surely does affect all aspects of each individual, the family and the community as a whole, but it is not a [[material]] aspect that is measurable, quantifiable, or empirically knowable. We are talking about higher [[values]] that must be operant always.

Let’s take this analysis to the farther extreme where a society, a community has such high [[ideal]]s, that they become draconian, they become very austere, the [[soul]] and the [[spirit]] of individuals shrivel, and [[creativity]] and variation among individuals is stifled. This is not good either. This does not allow for the expression of the individual for variance of the individual’s growth and development. So when you think of intentional community, it is a community that encompasses the broad [[spectrum]] of all positive behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, practices of individuals, and families in the community.

Let’s take this analysis to the farther extreme where a society, a community has such high [[ideal]]s, that they become draconian, they become very austere, the [[soul]] and the [[spirit]] of individuals shrivel, and [[creativity]] and variation among individuals is stifled. This is not good either. This does not allow for the expression of the individual for variance of the individual’s growth and development. So when you think of intentional community, it is a community that encompasses the broad [[spectrum]] of all positive behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, practices of individuals, and families in the community.

You must think past a planned neighborhood. You have these already. This house sits in a planned neighborhood, yet it is not an intentional community in terms of a sustainable community. People live here in this planned neighborhood because the streets are laid out in an interesting way, houses are within a certain variance of conformity, all the infrastructure is provided, it’s clean, it’s quiet, it’s pleasant—it may not be cheerful*—but it is uniform; and it is planned. This is not an intentional community. The only intention involved in this was to develop a planned neighborhood for [[profit]] motive, to develop barren land into a livable space, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that, in fact, it is quite admirable. [*Note: Refers to a current ego-based leadership conflict in the Home Owner’s Association.]

You must think past a planned [[neighborhood]]. You have these already. This house sits in a planned neighborhood, yet it is not an intentional community in terms of a sustainable community. People live here in this planned neighborhood because the streets are laid out in an interesting way, houses are within a certain variance of [[conformity]], all the infrastructure is provided, it’s clean, it’s quiet, it’s pleasant—it may not be cheerful*—but it is uniform; and it is planned. This is not an intentional community. The only intention involved in this was to develop a planned neighborhood for [[profit]] motive, to develop barren land into a livable space, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that, in fact, it is quite admirable. [*Note: Refers to a current ego-based leadership conflict in the Home Owner’s Association.]

But let us say that you and others want to develop a sustainable, intentional community in the broadest spectrum of thought that you can apply towards a community of let’s say, 100 families, (anywhere from 200-1000 people,) for some of these families will be extended families. If you were to do so, how would you prepare this community? Would you say, "Oh, I know someone who has land, let’s go talk to them and buy it and build houses"? Well great, you’d simply have another planned neighborhood. And someone else says, "Well, we can use the rest of the land to grow food, we’ll have community gardens and we’ll have a common well, a water source, and pretty soon you’re thinking of all the infrastructure of water filtration, wastewater disposal, garbage, recycling, a clinic—a physical clinic, and a mental/emotional clinic where people get help—you get the "[[physical]]" things in order.

But let us say that you and others want to develop a sustainable, intentional community in the broadest spectrum of thought that you can apply towards a community of let’s say, 100 families, (anywhere from 200-1000 people,) for some of these families will be extended families. If you were to do so, how would you [[prepare]] this community? Would you say, "Oh, I know someone who has land, let’s go talk to them and buy it and build houses"? Well great, you’d simply have another planned neighborhood. And someone else says, "Well, we can use the rest of the land to grow food, we’ll have community gardens and we’ll have a common well, a water source, and pretty soon you’re thinking of all the infrastructure of water filtration, wastewater disposal, garbage, recycling, a clinic—a physical clinic, and a mental/emotional clinic where people get help—you get the "[[physical]]" things in order.

Let me take you aside a bit and give you perspective of what Michael was up against. Michael started Nebadon a long time ago. Empty space! He developed the [[energy]] into a [[system]]; planets arrived; life was introduced; whole worlds were occupied by individuals, people. Not just one planet but millions of planets! How long did he work in the planning and development of his local universe? Millions of years! So, my friends, when you go about planning an intentional community, this is no small project of just buying land and building houses. How do you build individuals? That’s the "business" that Michael is in, of building individuals of [[soul]] survivable [[quality]]. Now, how would you do this? And that is not a facetious question! It’s not a rhetorical question! It is a very practical question. It is the fundamental question necessary to ask when you develop sustainable, intentional communities. How will you build an individual, or grow an individual, into soul survivable quality, allowing for all the variation of the individual to express themselves in positive, constructive ways? Well, having read the [[Urantia Book]], you know that inner structures, spiritual structures are already existent—the [[Seven Adjutant Mind Spirits|seven Mind Adjutants]], the eventually arriving [[Thought Adjuster]], a [[guardian angel]] over one individual or many, and now you have [[Teacher Corps|Celestial Teachers]]. You have a mind that is clear and not befogged by misbeliefs, you have a body that is sustainable, has no inherent flaws—and you’re saying, "Wow, that would be really terrific! What about those genetic, congenital issues that we have?" Well, in this community, you would not want them, would you? My friends, in a thousand years, these things will be weeded out. Not all populations will have advantage of those at that time, but it will be a known process of how to raise or how to beget new individuals who have no congenital issues. That’s something for you to work on!

Let me take you aside a bit and give you [[perspective]] of what Michael was up against. Michael started Nebadon a long time ago. Empty space! He developed the [[energy]] into a [[system]]; planets arrived; life was introduced; whole worlds were occupied by individuals, people. Not just one planet but millions of planets! How long did he work in the planning and development of his local universe? Millions of years! So, my friends, when you go about planning an intentional community, this is no small project of just buying land and building houses. How do you build individuals? That’s the "business" that Michael is in, of building individuals of [[soul]] survivable [[quality]]. Now, how would you do this? And that is not a facetious question! It’s not a rhetorical question! It is a very practical question. It is the fundamental question necessary to ask when you develop sustainable, intentional communities. How will you build an individual, or grow an individual, into soul survivable quality, allowing for all the variation of the individual to express themselves in positive, constructive ways? Well, having read the [[Urantia Book]], you know that inner structures, spiritual structures are already existent—the [[Seven Adjutant Mind Spirits|seven Mind Adjutants]], the eventually arriving [[Thought Adjuster]], a [[guardian angel]] over one individual or many, and now you have [[Teacher Corps|Celestial Teachers]]. You have a mind that is clear and not befogged by misbeliefs, you have a body that is sustainable, has no inherent flaws—and you’re saying, "Wow, that would be really terrific! What about those genetic, congenital issues that we have?" Well, in this community, you would not want them, would you? My friends, in a thousand years, these things will be weeded out. Not all populations will have advantage of those at that time, but it will be a known process of how to raise or how to beget new individuals who have no congenital issues. That’s something for you to work on!

Yes, you will need nutrition, nutrition for the mother as she grows this new being inside herself, all the right nutrients at the right time for the right places, to build and sustain and grow this wonderful new creature, and the elimination of detrimental habits and detrimental intake of [[chemicals]] that would harm this new child. So step aside here again or step back and take a look at that. You need pure water. Pure water! Not with chlorine in it, but pure water, available at each house. You need produce that is without detrimental chemicals, and you have yet to figure that out, both concerning application of chemicals to plants and to genetically altered gene [[structure]]s of plants. You are just at the early, early dawn of discovering the advantages and disadvantages, the hazards and benefits of genetically altered produce. So you would have to have farms—truly, you will need farms—to grow good, pure food, economically, profitably, productively. And the individual that comes into the family, what about the pre-natal training for the mother and the father? What do they need to know for their mental well being and for their social well being so this child is raised in a peaceful womb situation? What kind of diet does a child need in the first weeks, first years of its life that will tremendously assist the full capability of development of their minds, their bodies? For every question, there is an answer; for every question, there is a connection and a product and a [[process]] within the community to provide that. And it may require the interconnection of hundreds of communities to provide what you need in each community, an interconnection of healthy communities, intentional communities. So, for our self-sustaining community, developing one becomes an awesome, awesome responsibility, tremendous dedication of many individuals to bring this into existence.

Yes, you will need nutrition, nutrition for the mother as she grows this new being inside herself, all the right nutrients at the right time for the right places, to build and sustain and grow this wonderful new creature, and the elimination of detrimental habits and detrimental intake of [[chemicals]] that would harm this new child. So step aside here again or step back and take a look at that. You need pure water. Pure water! Not with chlorine in it, but pure water, available at each house. You need produce that is without detrimental chemicals, and you have yet to figure that out, both concerning application of chemicals to plants and to genetically altered gene [[structure]]s of plants. You are just at the early, early dawn of discovering the advantages and disadvantages, the hazards and benefits of genetically altered produce. So you would have to have farms—truly, you will need farms—to grow good, pure food, economically, profitably, productively. And the individual that comes into the family, what about the pre-natal training for the mother and the father? What do they need to know for their mental well being and for their social well being so this child is raised in a peaceful womb situation? What kind of diet does a child need in the first weeks, first years of its life that will tremendously assist the full capability of development of their minds, their bodies? For every question, there is an answer; for every question, there is a connection and a product and a [[process]] within the community to provide that. And it may require the interconnection of hundreds of communities to provide what you need in each community, an interconnection of healthy communities, intentional communities. So, for our self-sustaining community, developing one becomes an awesome, awesome responsibility, tremendous dedication of many individuals to bring this into existence.

What kind of an [[education]] system would you provide for children to grow and then to become integrated into their community? Not just integrated as workers, but as parents-to-be, community members-to-be? These are deep questions and we look forward to those individuals who entertain these questions in the larger distribution of these teachings, to engage these questions and to strive to answer them through your group process. And I give you a proviso, not a caveat but a benefit, that when you do so in a group, make sure you invite a Celestial Teacher, a Community Planner—one or two or three. They are available! There is a large cadre existent of community trained individuals, who are doing what we are doing. This is the Teaching Mission and there is a Community Mission as well.

What kind of an [[education]] system would you provide for children to grow and then to become integrated into their community? Not just integrated as workers, but as parents-to-be, community members-to-be? These are deep questions and we look forward to those individuals who entertain these questions in the larger distribution of these teachings, to engage these questions and to strive to answer them through your group process. And I give you a proviso, not a caveat but a benefit, that when you do so in a group, make sure you invite a Celestial Teacher, a Community Planner—one or two or three. They are available! There is a large cadre existent of community trained individuals, who are doing what we are doing. This is the Teaching Mission and there is a Community Mission as well.

Before I change subjects a bit, I wish to strive to answer some of your questions that you have been asking during the last couple of weeks. The primary question that you have asked is, "Why the urgency, why the rush?" Well, there are several answers to that and one is, we are not sitting on our hands, wondering," Oh my gosh, what is Michael going to do to help us with this?" We are fully capable ourselves, we have executive qualities of mind to bring things about, and so we are "pushing your envelopes." We are striving to draw your edges farther out in front of you, and we are not resting. Machiventa has taken this on as his own project, not for Michael, but with Michael. And our Melchizedek corps is active in this. None of us bring these issues to the table to alarm you, but your nation will not stay the same as it is, it will not continue as it is. Neither will other nations. Your world is in a tremendous era of flux and change. If you think this happy era of the prosperous 90’s in America will continue, well, you have had that dispelled during your recent recession. Your nation is recovering and will do well. Do you think this wonderful era of prosperity and abundance for all will continue? No, surely not! And I am not a doomsayer; this is just reality. For example, if you look back upon the 20th Century, your world entered into an economic depression early in the century, then an awesome world war, exited that into a very debilitating world-wide depression, followed by another world war, followed by many wars among nations coming and going, and economic manipulation of nations by large corporations. These will not halt; these will continue, you know that! Don’t hide your heads in the sand, children, yet do not be afraid. You have immense, wonderful tools to do well, and to recover from any minor or major cataclysm. Of all nations on this planet, this nation and the one to the north and other nations that are prosperous, well educated, and have established infrastructures, communications and energy sources will do well.

Before I change subjects a bit, I wish to strive to answer some of your questions that you have been asking during the last couple of weeks. The primary question that you have asked is, "Why the urgency, why the rush?" Well, there are several answers to that and one is, we are not sitting on our hands, wondering," Oh my gosh, what is Michael going to do to help us with this?" We are fully capable ourselves, we have executive qualities of mind to bring things about, and so we are "pushing your envelopes." We are striving to draw your edges farther out in front of you, and we are not resting. [[Machiventa]] has taken this on as his own project, not for Michael, but with Michael. And our [[Melchizedeks|Melchizedek corps]] is active in this. None of us bring these issues to the table to alarm you, but your nation will not stay the same as it is, it will not continue as it is. Neither will other nations. Your world is in a tremendous era of flux and [[change]]. If you think this happy era of the prosperous 90’s in America will continue, well, you have had that dispelled during your recent recession. Your nation is recovering and will do well. Do you think this wonderful era of prosperity and [[abundance]] for all will continue? No, surely not! And I am not a doomsayer; this is just [[reality]]. For example, if you look back upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century], your world entered into an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907 economic depression early in the century], then an awesome [[WWI|world war]], exited that into a very [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(economics)#Great_Depression debilitating world-wide depression], followed by another [[WWII|world war]], followed by many wars among nations coming and going, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(economics)#Greek_Depression economic manipulation of nations by large corporations]. These will not halt; these will continue, you know that! Don’t hide your heads in the sand, children, yet do not be afraid. You have immense, wonderful tools to do well, and to recover from any minor or major [[cataclysm]]. Of all nations on this planet, this nation and the one to the north and other nations that are prosperous, well educated, and have established [[infrastructures]], communications and energy sources will do well.

There is a symbol the Chinese use for chaos, a wonderful symbol. It is also the symbol of opportunity. Only in chaos will you find opportunity without bound, whether as economic, cultural, political or social; it’s the old "break and build" process. It’s what body builders do; break down tissue to build new tissue, but they also sustain themselves with a good diet, high in protein, lots of fluids. And for the spirit body, you must have good beliefs—Truth, Beauty and Goodness—a value system more fully developed and evolved than is existent in your nation at this time. And where will that value system be sustained, and then expand itself? In the individual, my friends! You! You lovely people here, and those who are reading these transcripts, this year, next year, a hundred years from now and longer! In you! It is such a wondrous thing and interesting; it boggles us to see what mere individuals can do in your society. There is what, 275 million, approximately, in this nation? Yet individuals have a tremendous opportunity to change the course of their nation, in ways that are unfathomable. We may aid and guide you, but what you do and what you decide not to do is a powerful influence on your society. So it is most important, dear ones, that you keep in mind and hold high the values that sustain you, are meaningful to you. And do not be afraid to share those with your family, especially new parents, parents who have impressionable children, children who will still listen, and those who have grandchildren. And you also must tell them "why" these values and beliefs work, and share that with them, too. These children are not "dummies!" They are pragmatic; these are hands-on, "doing things" kids! They want to know "why." "Why does this work, Grandpop?"

There is a symbol the Chinese use for [[chaos]], a wonderful symbol. It is also the symbol of [[opportunity]]. Only in chaos will you find opportunity without bound, whether as economic, cultural, political or social; it’s the old "break and build" [[process]]. It’s what body builders do; break down tissue to build new tissue, but they also sustain themselves with a good diet, high in protein, lots of fluids. And for the spirit body, you must have good beliefs—[[Truth, Beauty, and Goodness]]—a value system more fully developed and evolved than is existent in your nation at this time. And where will that value system be sustained, and then expand itself? In the individual, my friends! You! You lovely people here, and those who are reading [[the transcripts]], this year, next year, a hundred years from now and longer! In you! It is such a wondrous thing and interesting; it boggles us to see what mere individuals can do in your society. There is what, 275 million, approximately, in this nation? Yet individuals have a tremendous opportunity to change the course of their nation, in ways that are unfathomable. We may aid and guide you, but what you do and what you decide not to do is a powerful [[influence]] on your society. So it is most important, dear ones, that you keep in mind and hold high the values that sustain you, are meaningful to you. And do not be afraid to share those with your family, especially new parents, parents who have impressionable children, children who will still [[listen]], and those who have grandchildren. And you also must tell them "why" these values and beliefs work, and share that with them, too. These children are not "dummies!" They are [[pragmatic]]; these are hands-on, "doing things" kids! They want to know "why." "Why does this work, Grandpop?"

Let me finish this part by saying that there will be changes that occur in your society, and it is not to anticipate them with fear, but with the prepared, anticipation of producing something worth while out of what comes about. You have fire stations—do they go out and set fires so they can put them out to show their [[function]]? No, of course not. They are there for some anticipated [[tragedy]]. They anticipate it. And so, too, you must anticipate opportunity to build community.

Let me finish this part by saying that there will be [[changes]] that occur in your [[society]], and it is not to [[anticipate]] them with [[fear]], but with the prepared, anticipation of producing something worth while out of what comes about. You have fire stations—do they go out and set fires so they can put them out to show their [[function]]? No, of course not. They are there for some anticipated [[tragedy]]. They anticipate it. And so, too, you must anticipate opportunity to build community.

Your [[archaeologists]] travel to the old country of [[Assyria]], and they dig trenches through these tels, mounds of dirt, layers upon layers of a city that has come and gone, not once or twice, but dozens of times. So, too, you will see this occur in your nation after you have traveled across the [[morontia]]l barrier and look back. How will you have contributed to your new [[society]], your new [[community]], your new [[family]], to your children and your grandchildren? It is important to answer that with a positive response, and we hope you do. It is not that you have to become moral evangels in your educational system, but operate where you are in the small way that you can, and success will grow.

Your [[archaeologists]] travel to the old country of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria], and they dig trenches through these tels, mounds of dirt, layers upon layers of a city that has come and gone, not once or twice, but dozens of times. So, too, you will see this occur in your nation after you have traveled across the [[morontia]]l barrier and look back. How will you have contributed to your new [[society]], your new [[community]], your new [[family]], to your children and your grandchildren? It is important to answer that with a positive response, and we hope you do. It is not that you have to become moral evangels in your educational system, but operate where you are in the small way that you can, and success will grow.

Okay, Let us begin a new topic that is definitely related to your community building, and this is the topic of individual [[difference]]s. This almost assuredly flies in the face of your social, cultural well-being and [[status quo]] at this time in your nation, but hear me out, please. One thing about the future and the process of the time is that everyone, who is here, will arrive in the future with you! You may wish to disregard the uneducated; you may wish to disregard the materially disenfranchised; you may wish to disregard the opposite gender, racial, cultural, nationality differences, but children, you are all going to be there in the future, and those differences will still exist! You can’t bury these issues, social issues by forgetting about them or not looking at them. Your nation is in a difficult situation. It has expressed its arrogance in the world in many ways, at the expense of other people, thinking that, "Well, we’ll be dominant in the future and we will have control of it then." It’s a pretty broad assumption.

Okay, Let us begin a new topic that is definitely related to your community building, and this is the topic of individual [[difference]]s. This almost assuredly flies in the face of your social, cultural well-being and [[status quo]] at this time in your nation, but hear me out, please. One thing about the future and the process of the time is that everyone, who is here, will arrive in the future with you! You may wish to disregard the uneducated; you may wish to disregard the materially disenfranchised; you may wish to disregard the opposite gender, racial, cultural, nationality differences, but children, you are all going to be there in the future, and those differences will still exist! You can’t bury these issues, social issues by forgetting about them or not looking at them. Your nation is in a difficult situation. It has expressed its [[arrogance]] in the world in many ways, at the expense of other people, thinking that, "Well, we’ll be dominant in the future and we will have control of it then." It’s a pretty broad assumption.

Let us speak principally to those individuals, and this is on an individual basis, for this is the only area in which you can positively and constructively make a tremendous contribution. The big social issues even in your local community are often times larger than the individual to resolve. So let us deal with individual differences. Let us once again begin with the child who comes into the world. Some of these children are uneducable, but they have a certain capacity for self-maintenance. Yes, there are children who will come into the world who are uneducable and who are unable to care for themselves, and who, if not cared for, would die. For those individuals, you will find no [[Thought Adjuster]]s, and that is really the qualitative factor that determines who contributes, and who doesn’t in your society, in the future. Were you to know who carried the light of the Thought Adjuster and who did not, you could more easily discern how to provide services to those individuals who do not, and how to hold those individuals who have Thought Adjusters, responsible, or more responsible and accountable for their [[behavior]] in your society. But you are unable to see this.

Let us speak principally to those individuals, and this is on an individual basis, for this is the only area in which you can positively and constructively make a tremendous contribution. The big social issues even in your local community are often times larger than the individual to resolve. So let us deal with individual differences. Let us once again begin with the child who comes into the world. Some of these children are uneducable, but they have a certain capacity for self-[[maintenance]]. Yes, there are children who will come into the world who are uneducable and who are unable to care for themselves, and who, if not cared for, would die. For those individuals, you will find no [[Thought Adjuster]]s, and that is really the [[qualitative]] factor that determines who contributes, and who doesn’t in your society, in the future. Were you to know who carried the light of the Thought Adjuster and who did not, you could more easily discern how to provide services to those individuals who do not, and how to hold those individuals who have Thought Adjusters, responsible, or more responsible and accountable for their [[behavior]] in your society. But you are unable to see this.

Now, I will just cut through the buckwheat, as you say out here in the west, and get to the point. And that is, there is in each individual an inherent capacity for [[expression]] of [[good]], for self-maintenance, for contribution to themselves, to their family, to their community and perhaps, to their society. Each individual does! How to address that? The individual capacity to contribute, or not, must be considered as part of your intentional community. Asking and answering this question ties in with the earlier question we asked, "How do you build an individual of soul survivable capacity?" More to the point, how can you bring that individual into expression of the maximum potential that is inherent in them? That’s through your educational system that begins in the family. In an intentional, self-sustaining community, the educational system reaches right down to the time the child is born, or preferably, even before the child is born, just after the child comes into existence in the womb. When the individual comes into the world as a new baby, oftentimes it is months before parents realize that their child is "okay," or "not okay" and has some inherent learning disability. It may be even into the second year before the parents realize that their child is deaf, and this has occurred. In this intentional society, the primary goal is to bring the individual to the greatest expression of potential inherent within them for the development of a survivable soul. There are only two qualifications: 1) "to develop the inherent potential;" and 2), "help assure the survivability of the soul." The first has to do with measuring the individual’s capacities: Do they [[sight|see]]; do they [[taste]]; do they [[touch]] and feel; do they [[audition|hear]]; do they [[smell]]? Do they have all the five [[senses]]? Those are necessary for the basic education of an average individual. An average individual will continue on into a daycare situation where they will be taught those developmental skills for physical, social, neural, psychological, and so on, as can be taught to them, to develop those inherent potentials within them. And this continues on, through their life until they are separate from the family.

Now, I will just cut through the buckwheat, as you say out here in the west, and get to the point. And that is, there is in each individual an inherent capacity for [[expression]] of [[good]], for self-maintenance, for contribution to themselves, to their family, to their community and perhaps, to their society. Each individual does! How to address that? The individual capacity to contribute, or not, must be considered as part of your intentional community. Asking and answering this question ties in with the earlier question we asked, "How do you build an individual of soul survivable capacity?" More to the point, how can you bring that individual into expression of the maximum potential that is inherent in them? That’s through your educational system that begins in the family. In an intentional, self-sustaining community, the educational system reaches right down to the time the child is born, or preferably, even before the child is born, just after the child comes into existence in the womb. When the individual comes into the world as a new baby, oftentimes it is months before parents realize that their child is "okay," or "not okay" and has some inherent learning disability. It may be even into the second year before the parents realize that their child is deaf, and this has occurred. In this intentional society, the primary goal is to bring the individual to the greatest expression of potential inherent within them for the development of a survivable soul. There are only two qualifications: 1) "to develop the inherent potential;" and 2), "help assure the survivability of the soul." The first has to do with measuring the individual’s capacities: Do they [[sight|see]]; do they [[taste]]; do they [[touch]] and feel; do they [[audition|hear]]; do they [[smell]]? Do they have all the five [[senses]]? Those are necessary for the basic education of an average individual. An average individual will continue on into a daycare situation where they will be taught those developmental skills for physical, social, neural, psychological, and so on, as can be taught to them, to develop those inherent potentials within them. And this continues on, through their life until they are separate from the family.