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The world is emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life. Humanity is unprepared. God has sent the preparation.
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==What is the Greater Community?==
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''The world is emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life. Humanity is unprepared. God has sent the preparation.''<!--written by a member of The Society-->
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"The Greater Community is the environment in which you live. It includes your world and all the worlds in its vicinity. It is a vast region of space where intelligent life is interacting with each other, representing a great network of relationships  between societies and between individuals in societies, a greater cosmology and a greater universe. For this, it is necessary to have a greater perspective, a greater understanding and a greater religion."
 
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 6, p. 57
 
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"The Greater Community is made up of a great diversity of life representing many different kinds of physical environments and many stages of individual, cultural, political and spiritual development.... "In the Greater Community, there are many worlds where intelligent life has evolved. And there are even more worlds and locations that Greater Community forces have colonized for resource acquisition or to seek new and more safeguarded environments."
 
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 6, p. 58
 
  
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==God's Creation==
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"You live within a Greater Community of intelligent life in [[the universe]]. It is vast, encompassing the entire spectrum of evolution—the evolution of technology, the evolution of societies and the evolution of spiritual awareness and ethics. It is vast and incomprehensible."
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"The physical universe is but a small part of God’s Creation. But this remains for you to learn, and you have a greater journey and a destiny here. But you have to allow your mind to expand, your eyes to open and your ears to hear if you are to gain this greater preparation and understanding."
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<ref name="LiU">''Life in the Universe'', Chapter 1: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/life-universe/intelligent-life-universe Facing a Greater Community of Life]</ref>
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*The New God 2/12/09
 
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"Countless races of beings ... live within this Greater Community of intelligent life that comprises the physical Universe in which we live ... all experiencing evolution."
 
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*What Is Creation? 2/4/07
 
  
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== Human Emergence into the Greater Community ==
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== A physical environment ==
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"Your preparation for the Greater Community represents the greatest and most vital education that can be fostered and extended in the world today. This education is the only thing that will enable you to solve the growing global problems of the world that seem so overwhelming and that your societies seem so incapable of facing and so poorly equipped to resolve."
 
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 6, p. 66
 
  
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"Humanity has never done anything even close to this. So why would it rise to the occasion now? What will give it the strength and fortitude to enable it to achieve something that seems almost insurmountable given human nature and behavior at this time? What will do this is the presence of the Greater Community."  
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"This greater environment into which you are emerging is a [[Physical Environment|physical reality]] governed by physical laws, the [[Nature|laws of nature]] that you are aware of." <ref name="LiU"/>
  
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"From a Greater Community perspective, human beings are all the same."
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"The Greater Community is the environment in which you live. It includes your world and all the worlds in its vicinity. It is a vast region of [[Outer space|space]] where intelligent life is interacting with each other, representing a great network of relationships between societies and between individuals in societies, a greater cosmology and a greater universe. For this, it is necessary to have a greater perspective, a greater understanding and a greater religion."
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 131
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<ref name="greater6">''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 6: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-is-the-greater-community What is the Greater Community?]</ref>
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"The Greater Community represents many different races with different motives. Many of those that you will encounter will not be interested in you at all. They only want to preserve your environment for their own use. Others seek to have a meaningful relationship with you, while some are looking at the possibility of trade and diplomatic relations. However, some wish to exploit you."
 
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, pp. 131-32
 
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"Given current human behavior and understanding, the possibility [of friendship and alliances in the Greater Community] does exist, but it is improbable that this will be your emphasis once you are able to travel beyond the boundaries of your world. There are Greater Community forces even in your solar system who are planning defenses against this occurring. They can keep you from venturing very far without a great deal of effort on their part."
 
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 15, p. 197
 
  
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"[Humanity's] strength, your strength, is that religion has been kept alive in the world. The recognition of God’s power and presence is honored and recognized by many, whereas in most nations in this region of space, religion has either become worship of the state or has disappeared altogether. Here you have an advantage because even the ancient pathways of religion offer the experience of Knowledge. Perhaps this is not emphasized. Perhaps this is not specified in the Teachings, but the individual is encouraged to have a relationship with the Divine and to be responsive to the Divine in most situations. But the religions of the world today cannot prepare humanity for the Greater Community. They are entirely anthropocentric in nature. They are grounded in ancient history. They can barely be relevant in the modern world. They are struggling to do so. They cannot prepare humanity for the great change that is coming to the world and for humanity’s encounter with a universe full of intelligent life."
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"The Greater Community is made up of a great diversity of life representing many different kinds of physical environments and many stages of individual, cultural, political and spiritual development."<ref name="greater6"/>
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*Group Mind 3/18/11
 
  
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"The larger neighborhood of life into which you will emerge, and the forces that you may encounter there, are not inordinately interested in humanity. They do not share humanity’s values. They are not human or even human-like in most cases. But they do share the difficulties of living within a physical reality—difficulties of security and securing resources, the difficulties of competition and all of the inherent problems that civilization poses despite its many benefits."
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"In the Greater Community, there are many worlds where intelligent life has evolved. And there are even more worlds and locations that Greater Community forces have colonized for resource acquisition or to seek new and more safeguarded environments."
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*Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08
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<ref name="greater6"/>
  
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"The Greater Community will alter how you see yourself, how nations here interact with one another and the whole priority of humanity. Its impact can be extremely beneficial if you can understand it correctly.
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== The scope of the Greater Community ==
  
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"For it is the Greater Community that will finally persuade your nations to cooperate, to unite for the preservation of the world and the protection of the human family.
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"The Greater Community is not united. It is diverse and often contentious, yet magnificent beyond what you can now possibly imagine."
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<ref name="pgc1">''Preparing for the Greater Community'', Chapter 1: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community/life-beyond-solar-system What is the Greater Community?]</ref>
  
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"It is the Greater Community that will show you that you cannot afford your ceaseless conflicts here on Earth, and that your resources here are precious, and your self-sufficiency is of the greatest importance."  
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"The physical universe is but a small part of God’s [[Creation]]. But this remains for you to learn, and you have a greater [[Journey of the individual|journey]] and a destiny here. But you have to allow your mind to expand, your eyes to open and your ears to hear if you are to gain this greater preparation and understanding."
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*Entering the Greater Community (May 27, 2011)
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<ref>''The One God'', Chapter 2: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/new-god-revelation The New God Revelation]</ref>
  
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"You are not merely a human being in this one world. You are a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds. This is the
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"Countless races of beings" ... "live within this Greater Community of intelligent life that comprises the physical Universe in which we live" ... "all experiencing evolution."
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physical universe that you recognize through your senses. It is far greater than you can now comprehend. The extent of its
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<ref>''The One God'', Chapter 5: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/what-is-creation What Is Creation?]</ref>
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relationships are far greater than you can even imagine, for reality is always greater than imagination.
 
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You are a citizen of a greater physical universe. This acknowledges not only your Lineage and your Heritage but also your
 
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purpose in life at this time, for the world of humanity is growing into the life of the Greater Community of Worlds. This is known to you, though your beliefs may not yet account for it."
 
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*[[Steps to Knowledge]], Step 187
 
  
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"You have come into the world at a great turning point, a turning point only part of which you will see in your own lifetime. It is a turning point where your world gains contact with the worlds in its vicinity.This is the natural evolution of humanity, as it is the natural evolution of all intelligent life in all worlds.Your world is seeking a Greater Community.This will require that your world’s own internal community become unified.This is also a part of the evolution of all intelligent life in all worlds.You have come here to serve this.There are many levels of service and many
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==Life in the Greater Community==
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things that need to be contributed—on a personal, on a community and on a world level.You are part of this great movement of life, for you are not here for your own purposes alone.You are here to serve the world, and thus be served in return."
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*[[Steps to Knowledge]], Step 190
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"This universe is full of life. It is not that life only exists in remote and rare outposts amidst a vast desert of emptiness. Though there are many, many worlds that are uninhabited and uninhabitable, life has anchored itself and established itself throughout the Greater Community."
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<ref name="pgc1"/>
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"When We use the [term] Greater Community, We are not talking about a unified community, a great brotherhood out there in the universe. We are talking about a vast array of individual cultures and individual worlds that have developed and, to certain degrees, have had to interact with each other. Some of this interaction is peaceful and harmonious. Some of it is contentious and full of adversity."<ref>''Preparing for the Greater Community'', Chapter 3: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community/essential-truths-other-forms-life Essential Truths about the Greater Community]</ref><!--brackets added by MVS-->
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;“Is the Greater Community an evil place or a place without grace?”
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:"Certainly not. It is simply like your world, only far bigger and far more complicated. Therefore, it requires a greater power and a greater presence of mind. This is redeeming for you, for you need this. And the very circumstances that will require it now exist within the world. Look at the Greater Community in a sober manner. You have great friends there. You have allies. There are cultures that have achieved high levels of Knowledge, but they are not the ones traveling all over the universe interfering with other races.” <ref>''Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training'', Step 48:  In the Greater Community, you will not be free.</ref>
  
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==Life in the Greater Community==
 
 
"Outright warfare in the Greater Community, particularly on any kind of large scale, is extremely rare, particularly amongst secure and advanced nations."
 
"Outright warfare in the Greater Community, particularly on any kind of large scale, is extremely rare, particularly amongst secure and advanced nations."
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*Life in the Universe, Chapter 7: Competition, Influence and the Mental Environment
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<ref>''Life in the Universe'', Chapter 7: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/life-universe/power-persuasion Competition, Influence and the Mental Environment]</ref>
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"Humanity has evolved in a state of relative isolation, relative because the world has been visited throughout its history, particularly with the advent of humanity."  
 
"Humanity has evolved in a state of relative isolation, relative because the world has been visited throughout its history, particularly with the advent of humanity."  
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*Contact with Intelligent Life in the Universe 10/1/08
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<ref>''The Greater Community'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/greater-community/intelligent-life-in-the-universe Contact with Intelligent Life in the Universe]</ref>
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"The Universe is full of life. But the Universe is immense. And intelligent life living in the physical manifestation is scattered about a great and vast arena. It is concentrated in some places more than others.... Between these areas of great congregation in the Universe, there are trade routes, great roads that are heavily traveled.... Your world exists in an area of congregation, an area that has many inhabited worlds.... beyond your Solar System."
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*[http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/contents.php ''The Allies of Humanity'' II], The First Briefing: The Universe into Which You Are Emerging, p. 6
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"The Universe is full of life. But the Universe is immense. And intelligent life living in the physical manifestation is scattered about a great and vast arena. It is concentrated in some places more than others." ... "Between these areas of great congregation in the Universe, there are trade routes, great roads that are heavily traveled." ... "Your world exists in an area of congregation, an area that has many inhabited worlds" ... "beyond your Solar System."
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"Because the Greater Community, especially the area in which you live, is a very competitive environment and because there are many Collectives dwelling here, they tend to hold each other in check and will take legal action against one another if necessary should the basic rules of conduct be violated. Therefore, if one Collective sought to take this world by force, it would be countered by other Collectives who have an interest in this world and by their competitors elsewhere, who would hold these kinds of actions in check."
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<ref name="alliestwo">''The Allies of Humanity Book Two'', First Briefing: [http://alliesofhumanity.org/universe-reality-of-nature/ The Universe into Which You Are Emerging]</ref> 
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*[http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/contents.php ''The Allies of Humanity'' II], The Fourth Briefing: The Collectives, p. 40
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"The region in which you live ... contains approximately five thousand stars. We call this a region because that is how it is delineated."
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"Because the Greater Community, especially the area in which you live, is a very [[Competition|competitive]] environment and because there are many [[Collectives]] dwelling here, they tend to hold each other in check and will take legal action against one another if necessary should the basic rules of conduct be violated. Therefore, if one Collective sought to take this world by force, it would be countered by other Collectives who have an interest in this world and by their competitors elsewhere, who would hold these kinds of actions in check."
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*[http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/contents.php ''The Allies of Humanity'' II], The Fourth Briefing: The Collectives, p. 41
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<ref name="aohII4">''The Allies of Humanity Book Two'', Fourth Briefing: [http://alliesofhumanity.org/collectives-in-universe/ The Collectives]</ref> 
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"The region in which you live" ... "contains approximately five thousand stars. We call this a region because that is how it is delineated."
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<ref name="aohII4"/>
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== [[Human emergence into the Greater Community]] ==
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"An emergence into the Greater Community will not be the result of your [[Space travel|journeys into space]] but rather the result of visitors coming to the world. Many of these visitors are in the world today. They represent different organizations and associations. In essence, they are competing for influence in the world."<ref name="pgc1"/>
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==References==
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<references/>
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==See also==
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[[Ancient aliens]]
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[[Collectives]]
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[[Free nations]]
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[[Human emergence into the Greater Community]]
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[[Preparation]]
  
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==Metaphors==
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[[Space travel]]
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"It is as if humanity were a little child coming out of its house for the first time and recognizing it lives in a big city controlled by powerful forces that the little child cannot understand."
 
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*Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08
 
  
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"You are like villagers in a distant forest who all of a sudden find themselves in the midst of greater interactions between exploring and invading nations. Your village will never be the same."
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[[The Intervention]]
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*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 129
 
  
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"It would be like different European nations finding the same rich tropical island hundreds of years ago. They would compete for it because they want it for themselves. And they would want to use the native people, but they are not there for the native people's benefit."
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[[Trade]]
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*Living the Way of Knowledge, Chapter 11: ''Preparing for the Future''
 
  
 
== Further Study ==
 
== Further Study ==
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[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter6.php ''Greater Community Spirituality'', chapter 6: What Is the Greater Community?]
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*[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/greater-community ''The Greater Community'']
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*''[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community Preparing for the Greater Community]''
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*[http://www.newmessage.org/guidelines-for-preparing-for-the-greater-community Guidelines for Preparing for the Greater Community]
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 6: [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter6.php What Is the Greater Community?]
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 18: [http://wp.newmessage.org/greater-community-spirituality-chapter-18-what-is-human-destiny/ What Is Human Destiny?]
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*''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Book I'', Chapter 3: Greater Community
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*''Wisdom from the Greater Community Book II'', Chapter 10: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/extraterrestrial-encounters Greater Community Visitations]
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*''Wisdom from the Greater Community Book II'', Chapter 15: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/concentrated-mind Responding to the Greater Community]
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*''Wisdom from the Greater Community Book II'', Chapter 17: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/forces-good Visitors' Perceptions of Humanity]
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*''Wisdom from the Greater Community Book II'', Chapter 28: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/other-worlds-reality Greater Community Realities]
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*[http://stepstoknowledge.com/ Steps to Knowledge], Steps 157, 170, 187, 189, 190, 199, [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step202-I-behold-the-Greater-Community-today.htm 202], 203, 211, 256, 298, [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step325-The-world-is-emerging-into-the-Greater-Community-of-Worlds-Therefore,-I-must-be-attentive.htm 325], 326.
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*A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAfgk_5afEE concise overview of essential considerations] given by Reed Summers
  
 
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The Greater Community

The world is emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life. Humanity is unprepared. God has sent the preparation.

"You live within a Greater Community of intelligent life in the universe. It is vast, encompassing the entire spectrum of evolution—the evolution of technology, the evolution of societies and the evolution of spiritual awareness and ethics. It is vast and incomprehensible." [1]

A physical environment

"This greater environment into which you are emerging is a physical reality governed by physical laws, the laws of nature that you are aware of." [1]

"The Greater Community is the environment in which you live. It includes your world and all the worlds in its vicinity. It is a vast region of space where intelligent life is interacting with each other, representing a great network of relationships between societies and between individuals in societies, a greater cosmology and a greater universe. For this, it is necessary to have a greater perspective, a greater understanding and a greater religion." [2]

"The Greater Community is made up of a great diversity of life representing many different kinds of physical environments and many stages of individual, cultural, political and spiritual development."[2]

"In the Greater Community, there are many worlds where intelligent life has evolved. And there are even more worlds and locations that Greater Community forces have colonized for resource acquisition or to seek new and more safeguarded environments." [2]

The scope of the Greater Community

"The Greater Community is not united. It is diverse and often contentious, yet magnificent beyond what you can now possibly imagine." [3]

"The physical universe is but a small part of God’s Creation. But this remains for you to learn, and you have a greater journey and a destiny here. But you have to allow your mind to expand, your eyes to open and your ears to hear if you are to gain this greater preparation and understanding." [4]

"Countless races of beings" ... "live within this Greater Community of intelligent life that comprises the physical Universe in which we live" ... "all experiencing evolution." [5]

Life in the Greater Community

"This universe is full of life. It is not that life only exists in remote and rare outposts amidst a vast desert of emptiness. Though there are many, many worlds that are uninhabited and uninhabitable, life has anchored itself and established itself throughout the Greater Community." [3]

"When We use the [term] Greater Community, We are not talking about a unified community, a great brotherhood out there in the universe. We are talking about a vast array of individual cultures and individual worlds that have developed and, to certain degrees, have had to interact with each other. Some of this interaction is peaceful and harmonious. Some of it is contentious and full of adversity."[6]

“Is the Greater Community an evil place or a place without grace?”
"Certainly not. It is simply like your world, only far bigger and far more complicated. Therefore, it requires a greater power and a greater presence of mind. This is redeeming for you, for you need this. And the very circumstances that will require it now exist within the world. Look at the Greater Community in a sober manner. You have great friends there. You have allies. There are cultures that have achieved high levels of Knowledge, but they are not the ones traveling all over the universe interfering with other races.” [7]

"Outright warfare in the Greater Community, particularly on any kind of large scale, is extremely rare, particularly amongst secure and advanced nations." [8]

"Humanity has evolved in a state of relative isolation, relative because the world has been visited throughout its history, particularly with the advent of humanity." [9]

"The Universe is full of life. But the Universe is immense. And intelligent life living in the physical manifestation is scattered about a great and vast arena. It is concentrated in some places more than others." ... "Between these areas of great congregation in the Universe, there are trade routes, great roads that are heavily traveled." ... "Your world exists in an area of congregation, an area that has many inhabited worlds" ... "beyond your Solar System." [10]

"Because the Greater Community, especially the area in which you live, is a very competitive environment and because there are many Collectives dwelling here, they tend to hold each other in check and will take legal action against one another if necessary should the basic rules of conduct be violated. Therefore, if one Collective sought to take this world by force, it would be countered by other Collectives who have an interest in this world and by their competitors elsewhere, who would hold these kinds of actions in check." [11]

"The region in which you live" ... "contains approximately five thousand stars. We call this a region because that is how it is delineated." [11]

Human emergence into the Greater Community

"An emergence into the Greater Community will not be the result of your journeys into space but rather the result of visitors coming to the world. Many of these visitors are in the world today. They represent different organizations and associations. In essence, they are competing for influence in the world."[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Life in the Universe, Chapter 1: Facing a Greater Community of Life
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 6: What is the Greater Community?
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Preparing for the Greater Community, Chapter 1: What is the Greater Community?
  4. ↑ The One God, Chapter 2: The New God Revelation
  5. ↑ The One God, Chapter 5: What Is Creation?
  6. ↑ Preparing for the Greater Community, Chapter 3: Essential Truths about the Greater Community
  7. ↑ Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 48: In the Greater Community, you will not be free.
  8. ↑ Life in the Universe, Chapter 7: Competition, Influence and the Mental Environment
  9. ↑ The Greater Community, Chapter 2: Contact with Intelligent Life in the Universe
  10. ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book Two, First Briefing: The Universe into Which You Are Emerging
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Fourth Briefing: The Collectives

See also

Ancient aliens

Collectives

Free nations

Human emergence into the Greater Community

Preparation

Space travel

The Intervention

Trade

Further Study

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