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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. | 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. | ||
| − | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php '' | + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''], chap. 6, pp. 57, 58 |
==God's Creation== | ==God's Creation== | ||
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== Human Emergence into the Greater Community == | == Human Emergence into the Greater Community == | ||
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. | 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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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. | 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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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. | 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. | ||
| − | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php '' | + | |
| + | 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. | ||
| + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''], chaps. 6, 11, 15, pp. 66, 131-32, 197 | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
*Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08 | *Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08 | ||
Revision as of 16:38, 4 November 2011
The world is emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life. Humanity is unprepared. God has sent the preparation.
What is the Greater Community?
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.
The Greater Community is made up of a great diversity of life representing many differnet 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.
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 6, pp. 57, 58
God's Creation
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.
- The New God 2/12/09
...countless races of beings ... live within this Greater Community of intelligent life that comprises the physical Universe in which we live[,] ... all experiencing evolution.
- What Is Creation? 2/4/07
Human Emergence into the Greater Community
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.
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.
From a Greater Community perspective, human beings are all the same.
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.
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.
- Greater Community Spirituality, chaps. 6, 11, 15, pp. 66, 131-32, 197
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.
- Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08
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.
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.
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.
- Entering the Greater Community (May 27, 2011)
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.
- Chapter 7: Competition, Influence and the Mental Environment, Life in the Universe
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.
- Contact with Intelligent Life in the Universe 10/1/08
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.
- The Allies of Humanity II, The First Briefing: The Universe into Which You Are Emerging
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 intereest in this world and by their competitors elsewhere, who would hold these kinds of actions in check.
The region in which you live ... contains approximately five thousand stars. We call this a region because that is how it is delineated.
- The Allies of Humanity II, The Fourth Briefing: The Collectives
Metaphors
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.
- Humanity's Emergence into the Greater Community 7/19/08
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.
- GCS, chap. 11, p. 129
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.
- Living the Way of Knowledge, Chapter 11: Preparing for the Future
Further Study
Greater Community Spirituality (GCS), chapter 6: What Is the Greater Community?