[tmtranscripts] NET #25, Sept. 25, 2017

[Roxanne Andrews]

PR

*New Era Transition #25 – Societal History; Reserve Corps of Destiny –
Sept. 25, 2017*

*Machiventa Melchizedek and Sondjah Melchizedek*

Topics:

Sondjah’s greeting

The history of our socialization

The intention to use the 7 core values as we proceed

Reasons for past failures in our social organizations

Learning to adapt to future needs

Essential organizational development process

Failure of the past as lack of unified means

Question regarding presentation to a university

The holism of the 3 pillars of support

The pieces must fit together

Question on the Reserve Corps of Destiny

Accepting projects on their own merit without endowments

Sondjah’s method of working with our group

Sondjah’s closing statement

TR:  Daniel Raphael, PhD

Team members present:  Roxanne Andrews, Craig Carmichael, Doug Dodge and
Liz Cratty

Invocation

*September 25, 2017*

*MACHIVENTA:*  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.

*Sondjah’s greeting*

*SONDJAH:*  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.

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.

*The history of our socialization*

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.

*The intention to use the 7 core values as we proceed*

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.

*Reasons for past failures in our social organizations*

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 *adapt *to the future, and to the circumstances that
are occurring.

*Learning to adapt to future needs*

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.

*Essential organizational development process*

Machiventa has reviewed with you several times what it takes for
organizational development to be complete.  There must be a *vision of the
organization in the future*, and that vision must be couched in those 7
values; there must be a *statement of intention* 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 *a mission statement*.  This is something that is quite
normal for most organizations to have.  What is behind that mission is
an *operational
philosophy that incorporates both the vision intention with the mission*.
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 *the mission fulfilling what actually will be done*.
In many ways, the organization of Christ Michael and the Triumvirate
incorporates all those same specific actions or developments of
organization.

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 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.

*Failure of the past as lack of unified means*

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.

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.

*Question regarding presentation to a university*

*Liz:*   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?

*The holism of the 3 pillars of support*

*SONDJAH:*  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.

*The pieces must fit together*

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 *‡* —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.

*‡ *Note from Daniel:  Sondjah is referring to the illustration at the end
of this session.

*Liz:*  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.

*Question on the Reserve Corps of Destiny*

I have a question that is more of a curiosity nature, and I don’t know if
you would entertain this.  In our *Urantia Book* 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?

*SONDJAH:*  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 *Urantia Book* 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?

*Liz:*  Yes it does!  Very interesting reflection and I thank you for that.

*Accepting projects on their own merit without endowments*

*SONDJAH:*  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?

*Liz:*  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.

*SONDJAH:*  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?

*Liz:*  Yes, thank you.  I take that as a promise of assistance from the
celestials and that is welcome news.

*SONDJAH:*  Then you are reading between the lines.  No promise is implied.

*Liz:*  Thank you very much, Sondjah; it’s wonderful to have you with us.

Sondjah’s method of working with our group

*SONDJAH:*  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.

Are there other questions?

*Liz:*  I have no further questions.

*Craig:*  [Let us know he joined us late, but I couldn’t understand his
phone transmission clearly.  He did not have a question, however.]

*Roxie:*  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 21st 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.

*Sondjah’s closing statement*

*SONDJAH:*  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.

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.

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See next page for the illustration and explanation of the

“Priorities of Decision-Making in a Sustainable Society.”

The following was excised from, “Designing Socially Sustainable Democratic
Societies,” page 88-89.  This document is available as a downloadable PDF
from



https://sites.google.com/view/danielraphael





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Second, decision-makers of all organizations need to understand the
hierarchy of decision-making that supports the social transcendence of
their host societies as shown in the illustration below.

[Note:  The illustration is not possible in the email format.  Please refer
to the original document in the attachment.]

[image: ILLUST - Priorities-Decisn-Mkg JPG]


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.

*Ö*  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.

*Ö*  *Societal sustainability is not possible until organizations become
responsible participants in the symbiotic relationship that supports
societies, communities, and the individual/family.*  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*:*  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.

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