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"Today and tomorrow and the day after, great activity is underway and will be underway to establish a network of influence over the human race by those who are visiting the world for their own purposes." <ref>''[[The Allies of Humanity]] Book One'', Second Briefing: [http://alliesofhumanity.org/the-challenge-to-human-freedom/ The Challenge to Human Freedom]</ref>
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"Who you surround yourself with represents your chief influences. Just as a political leader will surround themselves with a group of advisors who have great bearing on that individual’s decision-making and perception, you as an individual surround yourself with people who will become your chief advisors and influences. Even if you do not wholly respect or agree with their views, they will still have great bearing on your own. This is the power of influence in the mental environment."<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/freedom-from-manipulation Freedom From Manipulation] (October 7, 2008)</ref>
  
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==Three Areas of Activity==
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"The first area of activity of the visitors is to influence individuals in positions of power and authority. Because the visitors do not want to destroy anything in the world or harm the world’s resources, they seek to gain influence over those whom they perceive to be in positions of power, within government and religion primarily. They seek contact, but only with certain individuals. They have the power to make this contact, and they have the power of persuasion. Not all of those they contact will be persuaded, but many will be. The promise of greater power, greater technology and world domination will intrigue and incite many individuals. And it is these individuals with whom the visitors will seek to establish a liaison." <ref name="AOHi1">''[[The Allies of Humanity]] Book One'', First Briefing: [http://alliesofhumanity.org/the-extraterrestrial-presence-in-the-world-today/ The Extraterrestrial Presence in the World Today]</ref>
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"We are adamant that students of Knowledge become very conscious of their influences. What is influencing you? Often this question is seen as a limitation of your personal freedom, but it is more a form of protection for you because as your mind begins to open, you become much more vulnerable. Here you are more easily persuaded, and until your powers of discernment have grown strong, you can be influenced in all kinds of directions. You are less shielded now. You are more open. Therefore, it is important that you become more discerning and more attentive."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 28: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/using-power-good Using Power for Good]</ref>
  
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"The second avenue of activity, which is perhaps the most difficult to consider from your perspective, is the manipulation of religious values and impulses.... Many people want to give themselves to anything they think has a greater voice and a greater power. Your visitors can project images—images of your saints, of your teachers, of angels—images that are held dear and sacred within your world. They have cultivated this ability through many, many centuries of attempting to influence each other and by learning the ways of persuasion that are practiced in many places in the Greater Community. They consider you primitive, and so they feel they can exert this influence and use these methods upon you."<ref name="AOHi1"/>
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"The third area of activity ... is to establish the visitors’ presence in the world and to have people become used to this presence. They want humanity to become acclimated to this very great change that is occurring in your midst—to have you become acclimated to the visitors’ physical presence and to their effect on your own Mental Environment. To serve this purpose, they will create establishments here, though not in view. These establishments will be hidden, but they will be very powerful in casting an influence on human populations that are near them."<ref name="AOHi1"/>
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"Knowledge is a very pervasive kind of influence. You cannot trace its impact on others, nor can you follow the direction in which it will travel, whom it will contact and how they will respond."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 2, Chapter 15: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-2/concentrated-mind Responding to the Greater Community]</ref>
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== Influence over the impressionable and sensitive ==
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Children "are extremely impressionable and sensitive, and so they pick up all of the powerful influences in the mental environment—the environment of thought around them. And because they are helpless and have not the strength yet to determine their own awareness and their own boundaries, they are open to all of these forces and influences."<ref>''Love and Relationships'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/love-and-relationships/raising-children Raising Children]</ref>
  
 
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[[Greater Community influence]]
  
 
[[Mental Environment]]
 
[[Mental Environment]]
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[[The Pacification Program]]
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[[Intervention deceptions]]
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==Further Study==
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*'' Building the Foundation for a New Life '': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/building-the-foundation-for-a-new-life/harmful-influences Harmful Influences]
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step113-I-will-not-be-persuaded-by-others.htm Step 113]: "I will not be persuaded by others."
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*[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/freedom-from-manipulation Freedom From Manipulation] (October 7, 2008)
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*[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/freedom-from-addiction-and-obsession Freedom from Addiction and Obsession] (January 23, 2009)
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"Who you surround yourself with represents your chief influences. Just as a political leader will surround themselves with a group of advisors who have great bearing on that individual’s decision-making and perception, you as an individual surround yourself with people who will become your chief advisors and influences. Even if you do not wholly respect or agree with their views, they will still have great bearing on your own. This is the power of influence in the mental environment."[1]

Directives

"We are adamant that students of Knowledge become very conscious of their influences. What is influencing you? Often this question is seen as a limitation of your personal freedom, but it is more a form of protection for you because as your mind begins to open, you become much more vulnerable. Here you are more easily persuaded, and until your powers of discernment have grown strong, you can be influenced in all kinds of directions. You are less shielded now. You are more open. Therefore, it is important that you become more discerning and more attentive."[2]

Influence for good

"Knowledge is a very pervasive kind of influence. You cannot trace its impact on others, nor can you follow the direction in which it will travel, whom it will contact and how they will respond."[3]

Influence over the impressionable and sensitive

Children "are extremely impressionable and sensitive, and so they pick up all of the powerful influences in the mental environment—the environment of thought around them. And because they are helpless and have not the strength yet to determine their own awareness and their own boundaries, they are open to all of these forces and influences."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Freedom From Manipulation (October 7, 2008)
  2. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 28: Using Power for Good
  3. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 15: Responding to the Greater Community
  4. ↑ Love and Relationships: Raising Children

See Also

Greater Community influence

Mental Environment

The Pacification Program

Intervention deceptions

Further Study

  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 113: "I will not be persuaded by others."
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