Friday’s Team – Session Friday 08 Nov 2024

Present : Daniel Raphael, Sherille Raphael, Kona Mahu, Marthe Muller, Juan Ramirez, Bea Ngai, Steffen Patrick, Bob Wilson, Seni Liava’a, Jacques Reverseau

TR, Daniel RAPHAEL, Facilitator : Kona MAHU

Opening Prayer

Prayer by Marthe

Discussion on the U.S. Presidential Election and Divine Planning

Machiventa: Good day, my friends. So, you have weathered through the United States Presidential election one more time. Many of you are enjoying this aspect of who is in office, and many of you have reticence about that selection by the American people. Yet the American people have spoken. How do you interpret this? This is something that you must ask yourself and get to the root of it. There is more to the root of it than the appearances that you see in the polls.

Team Dynamics and Interpersonal Development

This has been an important field of analysis for us to assess who is capable and who is not. It is not a black-and-white situation, as people who come to the team are neither black nor white, ON or OFF. This is much more of a continuum, a graduation of participation, of commitment, and so on. You will see many more people throng to your teams. It is there that you must be the mature individuals, and so you will act on behalf of us, with our guidance to you personally, each of you, to be of assistance to the newcomers.

It is not that you are going to be a psychotherapist with a Design Team. No, you will simply attend to the etiquette and graces of interpersonal relationships. And it’s okay, it’s fine if you raise your hand one day and say to Betty or someone, “That’s not going to work for me. Let me explain.” And so, you will explain why it’s not working for you. And of course, you must understand yourself when you say those things. This is the background information that you need for yourself. How are you participating in the Team? What are you doing to assist others to participate in the Team, and so on?

This is not a place for “know-alls”. This is a place for people who are flexible, adaptable, and willing to learn from the environment. Even those negative comments give you something to learn about what works and doesn’t work. The defining criteria of what works and doesn’t work is if it produces outcomes that are in agreement with Christ Michael’s messages as Jesus. And, as you know, agreement with the seven values, and particularly the ethics and morality of those values. This, in essence, is the “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” equality.

You have been studying the seven values in detail. Equality is the primary factor of etiquette and morality. It is the means by which social interaction can take place where compromise and positive outcomes can be approached and put into place for all parties involved in the issues. You may think that Life is not an issue of Equality, but, my friends, on the moral level it most certainly is. You may think that Growth is not an issue of Equality, but certainly this is the potential that you want to unlock in other people as you would for yourself and your children. And so, you go on to Quality of Life and Life, Equality, Growth, and Quality of Life. You wish to have everyone have an equal Quality of Life as you do, and perhaps better. If you live in a third world country, where you are unemployed and your children are ill, you definitely want to know what a better quality of life is all about. And so, you want the improvement for yourself and for your children and for your neighbours as well.

When people are at this dis-ease, you will note that when people are ill at ease and dis-eased socially and emotionally, they will act out as you are seeing in the American democracy now. People are not settled. As you know, the hierarchy of needs, as Abraham Maslow has said, once you satisfy one set of needs, more needs arise. He said that those come from drives. We call them the human motivations, those constants of human existence. Seven modes of those constants with interpretations

that people give them, either good interpretations or poorly working misinterpretations, depend on their own value system and their own attitudes and prejudices.

Your minds are astir, aren’t they? I am going to step aside for your questions and come forward as you present them, to answer your questions. You may discuss any aspect of these elections from emotional to otherwise. Thank you.

Question and Answer Session: Expressing Frustration and Seeking Clarity

Kona: Thank you so much, Machiventa! And yes, I acknowledge that my mind is definitely astir. Thank you for acknowledging that. Does anyone have questions for Machiventa at this time? Right, Machiventa, I’m gonna give you my greatest frustration. I had a meeting with another T/R yesterday who saw very clearly, at least in her vision, that Trump’s election is part of Christ Michael’s Correcting Time. I get he’s “a change agent”, but personally, as a person trying to uplift values, I feel very betrayed in the moment, and frustrated, angry, and hurt. It’s hard to maintain a sense of moving forward with values, knowing that somebody who lacks them is in such a powerful position. If you could help us understand that better, I would appreciate it.

Machiventa: Certainly. First, I would ask, towards whom is your frustration directed? Is it towards us for not taking control?

Kona: No, I don’t expect the celestials to step in and intervene. I think my frustration is living in a country where people would choose to elect someone who has a criminal background and a horrible reputation for what he has done to women without any repercussion. That’s very disheartening.

Self-Reflection on Expectations and Beliefs

Machiventa: All of us can thoroughly understand your situation. Again, we go to the schematic, and the outcomes were not what you desired, were they? And so, we look to your expectations. Your expectations were not… What’s the word… equanimical in that expectations in this situation could be that your expectations would be fulfilled, and you would have the person elected who you had wanted. Or, on the other hand, your expectations may be knowledgeably knowing that perhaps the opposite would occur, which is the case. And so, we look to your beliefs. What were your beliefs that set you up for those expectations, and for this disappointment of your expectations?

This is where you would need to sit down with yourself with pencil and paper, and write down your beliefs about what you expected. Then, draw a line under that and write your assumptions. What were you assuming would occur? What were you assuming would come to be and be expressed with positive expectations and outcomes? This step is very important. This step is incredibly important for you to find. No pejorative interest here in saying that you would be aware of your emotional maturity and the veracity of your intellectual capacity to understand the full breadth of what occurred.

You are mortal, dear, and so you must forgive yourself for those foibles, and realize that somehow you had a misinterpretation of the true seven values, and you may want to write those down as well.

Yes, this is tough homework. It is really tough homework, because you are going to be digging around in the basements of your mind, examining old file drawers that you had totally forgotten held your assumptions, and where you got them, where you learned them. This is very important. And so, you in your mind, and you, being a very intelligent person, have the capacity to understand where you got those values, those interpretations of those values, and your beliefs and assumptions. Then, in your higher mind, you must go forward and tell that child, that adolescent, the truth about what you were told. Because now, dear woman, you are an adult, fully adult. You have been around for what, six decades or so, and so you understand what the world is about, and surely you know what you were thinking, and why you have brought these thoughts into being.

You are not a fool, you are not naive. You need to reconcile those differences, however, with your disappointment now. Reconcile them, knowing that you have the capacity to understand fully as Christ Michael and Nebadonia understand the situation—you truly do. You have a Fragment of God within you that you can rely upon to guide you through this analysis process. And I use you as an example, Kona, for you as an example to others who are listening and who are reading. This is an important process. It is one of the most difficult, authentic self-examinations you can ever ask yourself to do. Here you become confronted with your little mind and your big mind, your will mind, which is the will mind of your soul and of your Thought Adjuster and of your guardian angel.

You in this triad can come to wonderful understandings of how you come to have these beliefs that cause you so much emotional anguish at this time. I don’t apologize for being stern with you or giving you tough assignments. This is a process of growing, and we truly need toughened individuals, not with leathery souls or leathery emotions, but with thoughtful anticipation of right outcomes. When you can participate as a full and whole being. Thank you so much.

Kona: Thank you, Machiventa. Does anyone else have a comment or question for Machiventa?

Jacques: Kona, you said that you’ve heard that Trump could be an agent of change for the Correcting Time. This reminds me of a story I experienced two years ago when Putin invaded Ukraine. A colleague of mine said Putin is an agent of change for Christ Michael, and I did not really share this view. I was part of this group, and I was rejected from this group because I said I did not agree. So, I pondered this view, and then I said, why could he be an agent of change?

Now I ponder the view of what Machiventa said. Why could Trump be an agent of change? In Europe, we do not have the same sensibilities that you have in the US with your election, but still, Trump will have a strong effect on European society, for sure. I don’t see it as dramatic as it could be because I suspect that Trump, because he won this election with a good level, maybe he will do good things. Who knows? I don’t know. So, I have no real idea of good or bad for him. I say we will see. My position is, I see hope, maybe. That’s my position.

Analysis of Political Change Agents

Machiventa: This is Machiventa Melchizedek, your planetary manager. Let us go back to what Jacques has just said. He was forced out of the other group because he did not share the view that Putin was going to be a change agent. And so, the same has been said of the current elected official, Mr. Trump, that he is, too, a change agent.

Now, here’s the point of this, and that is a very important question to ask. It is an honest one. It is sincere, and is poignant, and actually very prudent to ask. And the answer is this: yes, both of these men are change agents. They’re going to create an amalgamation, a coalescing of interests into one focused interest for individuals, for families, communities, whole societies, and nations. And that is this: that you must take the future in your own hands, not violently, but you take it into your own hands to create solutions that will last.

You see, the agony of this planet, of this civilization of yours, has lasted over 20,000 years. If we call the existence of your civilization 20,000 years old, the anguish has existed for 20,000 years. There have been no plans made by anyone for supporting the existence and survival of your democratic nations, or your societies, or your civilization. This is homework that needs to be done on a planetary basis. This is one of the topics of planetary management that we wish to support and to have individuals discuss philosophically and then pragmatically, and so on.

You see that these two individuals, if you agree with them and support them, are on a course that will create immense civilizational change. You are forgetting that I have told you that this time now is the opening of a nexus of huge proportions, that there are at least a thousand, if not tens of thousands, of vectors that are coming together at this single point of time. This nexus could last a year, five years, ten years, but nonetheless, the new vectors that are spawned by this nexus will be immense to heal your world.

Would it be immensely important for you, as individuals, to participate in the planning for a stable civilization and democratic society? That’s where you are. You have the skills. You have the interest of spirit, you have the support of Christ Michael, and now you have the mechanics, the social, cultural, interpersonal, and intrapersonal capabilities and knowledge to do exactly this. And so do not dismiss these individuals as simply evil. Yes, they may be evil. But now it is your turn to interpret this situation in positive terms. That is one suggestion for you.

Bea: My impression of what happened in the US elections is that people prioritized their own individual and family needs over the values of the leader. Is this close?

Machiventa: This is Machiventa. Sweet Bea, you are totally 100% correct. This points out the reasons why we are teaching you about planetary management and societal management. We wish that all of you would become cultural and social architects and engineers and team leaders to put into practice those things which you are now learning through us and through the manuscripts that Avalah has provided to you.

It is important that you understand that this small, focused self-interest is one of the very problems of America, and is a problem that has developed over the decades and the last century and a half in this nation, and it has infected many other nations as well. Materialism comes down to “me.” I want this, I want that, I want this to occur. And I want those people I vote for to arrange it so that they are powerful, and I can have what I want. Yes, Bea, you have certainly pointed out the difficulties of voting in a selfish nation.

It is now up to those people who wish to come together to build the plans that will survive, create the survival of this nation’s culture, its democracy, and its existence into the future—not just an existence of surviving, but a thriving existence. And this, you know, as we know, must include the tenets and precepts of Christ Michael as Jesus. It is what you want to see for your neighbours, as you see for yourself. Thank you so much for your question.

Kona: Thank you, Machiventa. Thank you, Daniel.

Communication Platforms and the Spread of Information

Steffen: We talked about, in a previous session, we talked about communication platforms. And I think what Kona was talking about, I think, is a lot of us have lost hope and trust. We’ve lost hope that something good was going to happen, and we’ve lost trust in our fellow Americans to make good decisions. And part of it is not their problem. It’s not their fault. In the same way that back in the 1930s, the maniacal person from Germany mastered the communication systems at the time—he was actually the first person to broadcast television and so forth. Well, people like Musk and Trump, and so on, and so forth, Steve Bannon, and so on, have all taken over the communication platforms.

And as we talked about, communication is probably the most important thing in the world. If I give you everything, and I keep just communications, I can have everything back because that controls the flow of armies and money and everything. So, the question is, what can we do to counteract that? Or is it even important?

Machiventa: My dear friend, yes, it’s vitally important, and you have been working at this tentatively, and we will assist you in working more furtively. We wish that you can now consider the content. Let us say that you have an internet communications platform that is dedicated to the positive, to the constructive, to the social evolution of your nations and of your civilization. What would you put in there? Would you put in exhortations, commands, commandments, the shoulds and oughts? No, you would not. What would you want to do?

I and my team have many ideas, and we hope that you do, too. We are not going to lead you in these topics of the content and of the fields. Now, you know, and we know, that when you go to a website, one such as one of the major news companies, they have many pages, many interests. They have probably a dozen, two dozen, three dozen topical areas that you can research. And so, you would want to begin with the communications platform.

Now we’ve been through this before, and I know you know it by heart. It’s just a matter of consciousness being aware. So, what is the intention of this communications platform? And, above all, what is its philosophy? You can get to missions later on. And what is the vision? One sentence, 15-20 words would be more than adequate. And so, you would then begin to work on this, and on these things you must be united. You must be in agreement, for if there is disagreement on the philosophy, then it will not work well.

You will realize that many decades ago, this one received advice concerning his writing when he was in college, and that is, when you write, write in virtues, write in terms of that which is solid and will last. Those things which will not turn over, those quality items of human behaviour which are the pearls of life and living of superlative performance. And so, you could have everything on one page. And if you end up with a paragraph of your philosophy that is 60 words long, you’re out of bounds. Make this simple. Make it simple so that simple people can understand it and appreciate it. They may disagree, but they will understand it. And so, you would want to have these as not higher-minded platitudes, but the actual practices of life, and living philosophically, but through practical means. And that will be what your missions will be all about. Thank you.

Steffen: Yeah, I just, I appreciate that, thank you very much. I’ll just admit it’s a little disheartening to know that people are so susceptible to hearing what they want to hear, and people who are so willing to lie to them about it. There was so much misinformation leading up to the central election that it was just stunning. And it seems like as long as that’s allowed to persist, it’s really hard to defend against, and especially like you’re saying, violence is certainly not the key, and neither is better lies on the other side. So, if one of them is working with the truth, the other one is just flooding the zone with lies, and they have the communication platforms. It is easy to feel a little

hopeless about it, and I’m not saying that I do, and I take everything that you’ve said to heart. But I can understand how people would feel that. Anyway, those are my thoughts. Do you have anything to say about that?

Machiventa: A lot, thank you, I apologize for playing my fiddle, but the music you want to hear begins in the family.

Steffen: It does without a doubt.

Machiventa: Let me continue, please! You see, this project we’re working on with you minimally, minimally, is 20 years. Most of you are going to be gone then. And so, we want to recruit younger ones, those idealists who have something like this in mind. How would you change the trajectory of American thought from that which you stated, accepting that which people want to hear and want to act on? How would you begin to do that in 20 years? You want to back it up further. How about 5 years? What would you do? You’d want to begin with those positive people who are akin to you in thought, word, and deed and spirit. You must realize as well that this is a dividing point.

Remember when the pilgrims left the sinful city, and the woman turned back and looked, and she turned into a pillar of salt? That’s pretty much metaphorically what is occurring now—that people of the negative ilk are solidifying their positions, and they will not move from it. The only flexibility you have are with those who think as you do, who believe as you do, who have hopes as you do.

Where is their hope? Our hope for your civilization is in your children and their children, and the children after that. And so, what would your first mission be after you do your philosophy and intention and mission and vision, and so on? Wouldn’t it be marketing? Wouldn’t it be people who want to know what you’re up to, and who would like to agree with that, to take notice of what develops in your program development? Very simple—market to the people who, like you, who like spirit, who like doing God’s will in their community. These may be Jesus people. These may be Bible thumpers, but they want hope. They are of a belief that God will save them, and truly they will save them in you, as you express the God presence within you outwardly to others.

You are now living in the emotional vestiges of what is left from the election, and you have our support and our condolences. For you, this is a death, and so this is the death dirge that you are hearing among your friends. You must have the assurance that you would say to yourself when you are in a dire physical situation that you cannot change.

Well, I’m out of control of this. So, I just leave it up to Machiventa and Christ Michael and Nebadonia, and the Most Highs, and everyone who can make this a change for the betterment. When you think you were in control, you were not. If you think you have power, you don’t. You have influence, and that’s basically all you have. The first chore is to convince yourself, influence yourself, to think positively, and give yourself the empowerment to do what is right and what is good. This is a mental health exercise, my friends. The opposite side of that is depression and removal from yourself from the flow of society—not by suicide or not by moving to another country, but simply just withdrawing from anything positive or negative. This is the death of silence. Thank you.

Steffen: Thank you, Machiventa, that makes perfect sense and the thing I care most about is creating Family Learning Centers and passing this on to the next generation. Thank you for that.

Kona: Bea had also made a comment to Steffen. This is why we need the Family Learning Centers so that people are properly educated and equipped with the ability to discern. So, she had made that statement right before Machiventa reaffirmed. So, thank you for that, Bea.

Steffen: And Bea, Caitlin [my wife] and I had a conversation about that yesterday, and that’s exactly what we’re talking about is that people have lost the ability to discern, and the only way that we can do that is to restore it in exactly the way that you’re saying. So, 100% agree with that.

Daniel: This is Daniel. There’s your community. There’s your topic. What is dear to all of us? Our children, our family, ok! We care about our children. We want to help them plan their futures. We want to discipline them in a manner so that they gain their own self-discipline, and so on. So, it looks to me like you’ve got the message, you’ve got the community, you’ve got the population. And I know what the recommendation to me was so many years ago. The universals—you want to epitomize; you want to point out the universals of life. And one of the universals of life is the next generation, our ability to live ourselves and our children. So, I truly believe this is good advice for the platform.

Now, I can’t give up too much here, but Machiventa is speaking to a topic that is dear to him—both the family and national communication and international communication. And to present it in a way that carries over from those of us who pass to those of us who remain, and to teach our children how to themselves do the same for their children.

Now, remember, many people who are on the negative side aren’t raising their children very well. They are raising clones—cultural clones, ideological clones, and so on. And so, this is something that we can’t change directly, but with patience and over time, and a good program, we can surely do it. And those of you who are creative, those of you who have creative moments, whether that is at the kitchen counter or outside hoeing your garden, use those and keep a notebook beside you to take notes.

Last night, I was fast asleep, but around 9:30, I got up. I didn’t want to get up and write this down, but I did, and this was a message from someone: there are no plans now that exist for sustaining the survival of our nation, societies, or our civilization. You are the beginning people who are going to do this. And if we don’t, then the societies our children inherit from us will be weak, incapable, and error-bound. And that’s Daniel talking, so, Hallelujah! Anything else?

Bea posted this on the chat: “The election was one point in time. Nothing major changed between November 4th and November 5th. So, you keep doing what you’re doing. There’s still a lot of hope.” That’s Bea’s comment.

Kona: My comment is, I feel like I’m at the bottom of the mountain that you’re sitting at, Daniel, and have this whole mountain to climb. I have the equipment, but I’m still learning how to use it, and I’ve got to get there at some point, you know, and take a lot of people with me up the mountain. It just feels like it’s a little overwhelming.

Daniel: Have you read Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher?

Kona: I have not.

Daniel: He said, a journey of 20,000 miles begins with the first step.

Kona: Correct, got it.

Daniel: All Machiventa is asking you to do is take the first step.

Kona: Take the first step. Got it. Marthe? Please go ahead.

Marthe: Thank you. I just wanted to remind us of a sentence that appears in the Urantia Book. I don’t know if it’s paper 111, but it says, “Endowing humans with free will implies inevitable tragedy.” [The reference is Urantia Book, Paper 110:0:1 “The endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship.”] And so, I think if we, as humans, are depressed or disconcerted, imagine what Spirit must feel, having designed inevitable tragedy at every turn, watching us make decisions that are so far unaligned with Spirit. So, all I feel is just enormous admiration for Spirit that allows us, that knows so much better than us, and allows us to make such poor decisions, and gives us billions of years in which to learn to make better ones. It’s just—I guess I’m just astonished by the wisdom of Spirit to allow us to become better over time, and we obviously are disappointing most of the time. So, I guess I just wanted to say that.

Final Reflections and Closing Remarks

Bob: As I say, I was disappointed with the elections also, but I just say we have to be resilient and not be beaten down by this. We have to be able to work around it and work through it, and do the best we can to change things for the better.

Daniel: Dark time to shine, all right, well, God bless everybody! I think we will take an exit. Any last comments?

Kona: Just thank you, Daniel, for sending out your new manuscript, and we appreciate all of your work and dedication to the road ahead. Thank you.

Daniel Raphael: Those are now on my website, that Google website, and I will be posting them to academia today. Thank you.

Group: Bye, Daniel and bye, Sherille, thank you all.

End of the discussion with Machiventa and Daniel

Then the group discussed what was said and discussed how to proceed with the newsletter and the creation of a website.