Changes

==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 [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.  

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 [https://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.

And the [[wonderful]] water drop of [[love]] from grandparents is a smoothing agent to the rough side of children’s [[emotions]] and personalities as they come away from school and come away from homes that are fraught with difficulties and [[contention]] and [[competition]], much of which is neither wanted nor desired by them. So in a way, you have begun to build a [[community]]. You as grandparents, grandparents-to-be are the first elements of an extended family, which is the beginning of clan, which is a beginning of community. Community, of course, involves people who are not "family," but you behave towards them as though they were family, in an open, loving way. (Ironically, in this nation and in many countries, many cultures, family is often times a difficult and non-supportive place in which to be – a relationship to escape.)

And the [[wonderful]] water drop of [[love]] from grandparents is a smoothing agent to the rough side of children’s [[emotions]] and personalities as they come away from school and come away from homes that are fraught with difficulties and [[contention]] and [[competition]], much of which is neither wanted nor desired by them. So in a way, you have begun to build a [[community]]. You as grandparents, grandparents-to-be are the first elements of an extended family, which is the beginning of clan, which is a beginning of community. Community, of course, involves people who are not "family," but you behave towards them as though they were family, in an open, loving way. (Ironically, in this nation and in many countries, many cultures, family is often times a difficult and non-supportive place in which to be – a relationship to escape.)

So in community, new [[things]] happen. You have new, broader associations. What we wish you to do is think upon the [[community]] as a larger family of unrelated [[individuals]], and behave accordingly, as though you were grandparents. Loving, caring, somewhat distant, but connected. Not aloof, ever, but connected. In community, this is where you build the [[process]]es of a larger [[society]]. If the community is positive, helpful and contributory to the growth of individuals and families, then you will have growth of more individuals and families that are positive, constructive and functional. (Of course there are always deviants, and we will discuss that in the future.) Always keep a positive influence in mind, thinking not in terms of "what I can get," or "what I can give without return," as though you must get your personal regard and love from others for doing things. No, that would be enmeshment on your part with a larger group of individuals to pay homage to you and appreciate you and accept you. Give with the assumption, the appreciation that you will be given back…sometime. As you have been taught many times in metaphysical churches and situations, you give sometimes without ever expecting return, for when you give to the universe, it returns to you. That’s how the universe works, it is continuous. It is "the [[flow]]," and some of you call this the Tao. And there definitely is a Tao of community and of society. And when cultures have this flow in them, always individuals giving, then there is always receiving. This is how a larger project in the community is achieved with the help of families and individuals — you volunteer. You may be a volunteer fireman; you may be a volunteer home economics agent, or family development and family operation agent in your community. We know this may sound foreign to you, but your society had these community action efforts during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Depression Era] to assist individuals, and then was phased out for [[economic]] reasons by your [[governments]]. But these aids and supports should exist, must exist, to help pass on those skills that are inherent in operant, functional, contributory, constructive families and communities.

So in community, new [[things]] happen. You have new, broader associations. What we wish you to do is think upon the [[community]] as a larger family of unrelated [[individuals]], and behave accordingly, as though you were grandparents. Loving, caring, somewhat distant, but connected. Not aloof, ever, but connected. In community, this is where you build the [[process]]es of a larger [[society]]. If the community is positive, helpful and contributory to the growth of individuals and families, then you will have growth of more individuals and families that are positive, constructive and functional. (Of course there are always deviants, and we will discuss that in the future.) Always keep a positive influence in mind, thinking not in terms of "what I can get," or "what I can give without return," as though you must get your personal regard and love from others for doing things. No, that would be enmeshment on your part with a larger group of individuals to pay homage to you and appreciate you and accept you. Give with the assumption, the appreciation that you will be given back…sometime. As you have been taught many times in metaphysical churches and situations, you give sometimes without ever expecting return, for when you give to the universe, it returns to you. That’s how the universe works, it is continuous. It is "the [[flow]]," and some of you call this the Tao. And there definitely is a Tao of community and of society. And when cultures have this flow in them, always individuals giving, then there is always receiving. This is how a larger project in the community is achieved with the help of families and individuals — you volunteer. You may be a volunteer fireman; you may be a volunteer home economics agent, or family development and family operation agent in your community. We know this may sound foreign to you, but your society had these community action efforts during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Depression Era] to assist individuals, and then was phased out for [[economic]] reasons by your [[governments]]. But these aids and supports should exist, must exist, to help pass on those skills that are inherent in operant, functional, contributory, constructive families and communities.

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 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.

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 [https://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 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.

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 [[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.

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century], your world entered into an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907 economic depression early in the century], then an awesome [[WWI|world war]], exited that into a very [https://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 [https://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 [[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?"

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 [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.

Your [[archaeologists]] travel to the old country of [https://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.