Teacher: Machiventa Melchizedek
Transmitter/Receiver: Daniel Raphael, PhD
Facilitator: Kona Mahu

Session: 17 January 2025 

Centering moment as a Team by Jacques
Jacques: My dear friends, this is the second session from 2025. We are all happy to be here again. We see the world crumbling around us, but we have faith that this team can do good work for the future. So, take a few minutes to quiet and take some deep breaths.

Relax your body, all your muscles, continue to breath deeply, connect to yourself, and see yourself standing in a big beam of light coming from above, going down to the core of the earth like a Merkabah. Connect to your Thought Adjuster, now we will create an electrical circuit to connect all together, mind to mind, heart to heart, soul to soul, Adjuster to Adjuster. We are now all connected and we ask for connection with our Celestial Teachers, Healers, and Watchers from the universe. We stay silent for one minute.

Opening Prayer by Kona
Kona: Christ Michael, Mother Nebadonia, Machiventa, Monjoronson, Sondjah, all those present with us Without Name and Number, we welcome you into the space. We give you our gratitude and appreciation for your contact with us. You're teaching, you’re guiding your lessons, your love. Please be with us today as we receive this message. Help us to receive with our spirit, soul, body, and mind, with understanding and clarity. And also understanding the next steps for each of us in our personal lives and collectively as a team. We thank you for always considering us. We also welcome those who are watching from afar, from the Sea of Glass from other planets and solar systems and galaxies, we welcome you into our space to observe. We feel grateful to be a part of this great cosmos. Thank you, Daniel. You may proceed with Machiventa.

Main Addresses with Machiventa

MACHIVENTA: Good morning. This is Machiventa Melchizedek. You mentioned in your prayer about other planets of Nebadon and other galaxies and so on. I wish to convey to you that this grand experiment of Christ's Michael on Urantia has grabbed the attention of many individuals in the other six super universes. They have access to daily broadcasts, which are like 15-second clips from Nebadon to the rest of the universe. They are particularly curious about the co-creative participation of mortals in the management of a decimal planet. This is highly courageous. Many people have noted in other planets and galaxies. This remarkable change in planetary management schemes.

Everyone in the universe is well acquainted with the 90% of the planets, how they are managed, and this requires the present everyday guidance of Celestial Beings and the Planetary Manager and the Most Highs that are responsible for the governance and planning and actions of those planets. This has garnered much attention, and you will be receiving updates about that in the future as you and we progress in this co-creative adventure to manage this planet.

It is not common for mortals to participate in planetary management, which involves a tremendous educational effort on the part of both celestials and mortals of this planet. That requires that we assist you in developing curriculum for the remediation, healing, and transformation of a planet like Urantia into a well-settled planet. This is why we have, I have, called you to this Experimental Design Team that we have my Friends. The gap that I cannot rectify at this time is that you are not meeting person to person physically in a similar same location every week. This is most unfortunate and not an error but an aggravating condition for the conduct of your team.

MACHIVENTA: "This does not allow you each member to express their great potential for creativity, for interpretation, for discernment and for creative ideas. It does, however, allow you, within the confines of where you live and where you're communicating with the team, to participate with your Guardian, your God, Presence Within You, your Thought Adjuster, and in fact, any Celestial Teacher who you have called upon to be with you during these experiences.

They are most glad to help you. If you have not asked them to assist you, then please ask them. And then, when you're done asking, you would then ask him again, would this be acceptable to you? And they will answer yes or no. And if this has the answer, then you will say, please, proceed with my request. This is very important.

You see, this is not dissimilar from buying a used car. You want to negotiate. You want to come to an agreement, and then you shake hands on it, and then the buyer should always ask, are we done? Are there any other expenses? And so, you, in relationship to Angels and Celestial Teachers and Midwayers, ask some more questions, not as a challenge, not as a conditioning, but as a clarification. You see, mortals are very and highly confused about their role with Celestials, Angels, Midwayers, Melchizedeks, and even with Christ, Michael. We are here to assist you to clarify those relationships, and in so doing we want you to become more effective in the challenges that you experience in a design team that does not meet in person.

We are not stymied about this lack of meeting, but it is a challenge for us to devise a way for you to do that. You would, in fact, have to have a 360 panoramic view of each individual as you meet in your Zoom Meeting. Technologically, this is past your technology's ability at this time, but we anticipate that this will be clarified in the years to come. It would be, so to speak, a holographic presentation of yourselves there in the realm. And you would be able to see individuals' twitches and scratches and ho-hums and getting up to get coffee and take a nature break, and so on.

You would be there present with them in all regards, except for touch and smell. You'd be able to see and know and be with them through this advanced technology. We know this is possible as artificial intelligence will soon be working on this and bring answers to the inventiveness of technological scientists and developers. Okay, let's turn the page on that. Do you have any questions about that at this point?"

Questions & Answers session with Machiventa

Kona: "I have one question, Machiventa, if you don't mind at the beginning, you said, it's not common for mortals to participate in planetary management. And you may have answered this in a previous transmission. And so, I'm just curious as to why it was chosen to have mortals participate this time."

MACHIVENTA: This, too, has been covered. It is important that mortals, particularly on Urantia, rebellious Urantia, participate in the future that they will develop. There is high skepticism among the great majority of mortals on Urantia about the very existence of spiritual beings and their communication with mortals. It is very necessary that this occurs.

In the meantime, as this develops, mortals will become more co-responsible for what they design for the planet that their descendants will live in. This is highly responsible and best done co-creatively. It works most effectively in decimal planets. Whatever is learned here on Urantia for this co-creative process that we are experiencing and developing and let in it evolved, will very possibly be used later on in the 9/10 of the other planets, as a process for bringing about greater responsibility, spiritual development, and social evolution in individuals and organizations on those planets. You see no experience is lost. The experience we gain here will be retained by God the Supreme and held in reserve by Christ Michael and other Creator Sons. They [the Creators sons] are “here” so to speak, by their own communication with Christ Michael to see whatever is developing on Urantia.

We want to advance the spiritual development of those individuals who are not governed from the early stages of civilization to come into our social enfoldment and spiritual upliftment more rapidly. It is not that there is a timeline to be done, but effectiveness is the criteria that we seek in using this process. As you have been told Urantia has a very low percentage of graduates who have chosen to go on to the afterlife and the morontial realm. This must be improved, and this is the dictate that Christ Michael has given to us and the other planets in rebellion. We must improve the quality and number of our graduates. And so it is, that we are hopeful that this co-creative process will bring about more mature, evolved, and developed individuals who aspire to becoming spiritual beings and joining the Father Creator in Paradise. Thank you.

Kona: Thank you so much for that explanation. You've talked about the relationship of humans and their perception, and their unawareness of the celestials. It has been my goal to help reorient human understanding about celestials, to be in a co-creative working relationship as opposed to simple spiritual awe, where they see a tremendous separation between themselves and celestials, as in religious contexts.

My experience has been that humans will think of Angels, Christ and God as very far away, unreachable, unknowable, omniscient, omnipresent, but not able to be in a relationship.

So, could you elaborate on the best way to describe, from the celestial perspective, what the relationship could be? I can describe for people my experience, which is offering a Creator Father, Christ Michael & Nebadonia, but I feel that the perspective of a working relationship works better in an explanation to humans. Is that the right direction?

MACHIVENTA: Yes, you've said it almost exactly right. You see our efforts, particularly co-creatively with you and others who want to participate with us, are to teach you how to have a pragmatic, practical relationship with spiritual beings who have the best at heart and mind and commitment for the spiritual evolution of mortals they associate with. This is Spirituality 101, where you are learning in the design team process how to work with spiritual beings in overcoming your problems personally and socially in your societies.

There doesn't need to be any "mumbo jumbo" or "woo woo" discussions in this relationship. This is pragmatic. If you were a child and you wanted a cookie from your mother, you would go to her, pull on her apron, and ask, "Mommy, can I have a cookie?" Can I have a cookie? And so it is here you are with us, and you are on our apron strings, asking us for assistance in the conduct of your personal lives and societies and so on. You don't need to make it complicated for other people. Most people are well acquainted with the almost facetious conduct of religions in the relationship with the divine. We want to remove that and offer practical steps to improve relationships with themselves, their family, and spirit. Thank you.

Kona: Thank you so much for that clarification. I'm done with my questions. Anyone else at the moment? Okay, Bob has a question, go ahead, Bob.

Bob: I know that we've been meeting twice a week for some time, but I feel we haven't been meeting as the design team itself, as it should be. I know that in the design team we have a social presence continuously helping and guiding us. I feel that we haven't been an operational design team in our work. I know we try to be a design team, but I don't think we've been functioning as one without that social guidance directly on cue.

Also, I feel that we haven't been playing the role of facilitator and inquiring members to the extent that we should be. So, what can we do to better play our roles in the design team instead of just talking about it?

MACHIVENTA: Thank you. This is Machiventa, and thank you for your statements and questions. There is a message here:

Becoming aware of a need is primary for requesting its fulfilment!

Bob, this is what you have done. If you are aware of this situation, Bob, then you need to call a timeout in your team and say, wait a minute, "We're not conducting a Design Team here." If you have a president, that means you have secretaries, treasurers, member dues, and pledges. This is untenable in a design team. This is going backwards to what you know and what you're familiar with, and soon you will end up with a hierarchy, competition, and incompetence as a team. It is necessary that you try to adhere to the format and process of the design team as we have designed it, as Sondjah and Avalah have discussed and shown. Do you understand, Bob?

Bob: I do understand. I will bring this up for the team and see what we can do. From my perception, we've been trying to be a design team, but we haven't been operating or functioning as one. I feel we need to familiarize ourselves with all the different concepts and roles in the design team and have that function more fully as we go forward.

MACHIVENTA: What I'm speaking to is the duties of the facilitator. The facilitator would always want to bring the members of the team into attention to the condition and operation of the team. This is called self-awareness. This one and his wife usually have a statement every 6 months or a year that says, "Well, how are we doing? Any work I need to do?" And that's open for each other. You have a responsibility to say, "Are we on track? Are we on the track that has been designed for our team?"

Aside from that, you work with a tremendous deficit, and we are quite surprised that you have made such successes as you have already, without being present to each other. Congratulations on that.

Let me give you a metaphor; let say, if you wake up with a sore throat and think, "I think I've got the flu or a cold," you are aware of the situation. Similarly, the symptoms of a design team that has gone off the rails is that it soon begins to operate as a committee. That is not productive and disallows the immense creativity of each individual.

I am personally at fault for not providing you with everything you need. However, I am bringing you and appraising you with the wisdom and advice to continue to ask, "How are we doing? Is there anything we're not doing that we should be doing? Are we doing things that are not constructive to our work and are leading us astray?" This self-awareness is essential for the individual and their relationship with their Thought Adjuster. You should ask the same questions of your Thought Adjuster. If you haven't, please do. You want to know where you are short where you are lacking in the skills necessary, and you would ask, your Thought Adjuster "Are there skills that I'm missing that I should have?" In good communication with your Thought Adjuster, you will receive an answer. Of course, for mortal on planet such Urantia, the answer will always be, "Yes” you are short of some skills necessary to advance in your spiritual evolution."

Then you might say, "What is it? Would you bring that to my attention?" In the forthcoming days, you'd become aware of some difficulty in a relationship, in your own thinking, or come to a new mature position in your thinking about your life situation. This is called personal evolution, growth, and maturity. With the growth of mind and self-awareness, you will become aware of more depth in yourself as you wish to grow. Your Thought Adjuster's chore and your Guardian Angel's chore is to bring you aware of where you need to grow socially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I hope that helps. Thank you.

Bob: It does help. At times, we have a facilitator, but sometimes the facilitator is the same person as the consultant. That kind of gets mixed messages, I believe. I think we're running on less celestial input than we should have, and that's where I feel we are kind of falling down. Sondjah works with us to start with, makes a statement and everything, but doesn't interact with us during the dialogue that goes on.

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa. During the session of the team, do you ever ask, Sondjah, how are we doing? Sondjah what's your opinion of our progress so far today? Are we off track? Are we on track?" This is where a Co-Creative Design Team is essential to the social progress of your societies. You have someone, a spiritual being, who is in daily contact, minute-by-minute contact with the Planetary Manager and the Most Highs, to provide you with input in the moment. This is essential.

It is not wrong for the facilitator to work as a consultant. It is essential, though, to be self-revealing when this role change is made. This is a conscious process on the part of the facilitator, just as you witness that this one will sometimes drop out of being a channel for myself and others. He will then identify himself as "this one," speak his own mind to the team, and then go back and announce, "This is Machiventa. Let us continue," and so on. Thank you.

Bob: Sometimes Kona does this as well. I'm trying to get my head around the fact that sometimes she acts as a facilitator and sometimes as a consultant. I feel these roles should be handled by different people. I think she sometimes does that with Jacques or someone else going ahead and facilitating, but we're switching hats instead of having one role, and that is a little confusing.

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa. Thank you for your statement. This is one of the great deficits of having a very small team. It would be highly useful to have a team of 7 to 9 individuals where at least one is fully fluent as a channel [Transmitter/Receiver] and there is a backup for that individual. As the team discusses things, the consultant, which would be the spiritual consultant like Sondjah, would work through the channel and participate equally with all the other members, without interfering greatly. It is important that the consultant and the channel not take over the work of the team. We have seen this occur in other teams that are young and immature.

We are here discussing some of the ongoing functioning problems of teams, large and small. You are struggling to be productive in the face of many operational deficits. This requires great patience on your part, tolerance, forgiveness and the forbearance to continue ahead without dropping out and saying, "The heck with it." You may think that you are, each of you in a tenuous position, but you determine how tenuous that is. It is important that everyone strive to develop a functional team, just as we strive to teach you how each individual must strive during their lifetime to create a functional family, community and society and not be a detrimental influence to any of those realms. It is important that everyone make an ethical and moral effort to improve the conditions of your societies for future generations. This is an all-for-one and one-for-all situation, and this is how it proceeds to the Days of Light and Life. Thank you.

Bob: Our team is not tenuous, most of us are strong and will be here no matter what. But there is one who has dropped out, Maren, because she was hurt a few weeks ago when comments were made about what she had to say. She was very sensitive and invested in what she was saying, and she has not come back to our group. That’s bothers me, but it's important that we not have that repeated. Most of us are strong, and it probably won't happen again, but it grieves me that a young person like Maren was unable to cope with the way things were handled.

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa. This environment of a working design team is not a feel-good society. It is not an easy place to bridge deficits. It requires that participants be fairly mature and whole: mentally, emotionally, intellectually, socially, culturally, and spiritually. Not everyone comes to this forum with those levels of maturity to be able to forbear the seeming injustices they may feel they have received. This is hard work. It requires mature individuals, and not everyone meets those criteria.

I have praised you each individually, often, and as a team, because of your stalwart strength of perseverance to overcome or even abridge the deficits that you feel are occurring in your team. You have the admiration of many thousands of individuals who have been observing these team meetings. I encourage you to remain, to grow, and not necessarily to forgive everything but to hold yourself and others accountable and responsible for performing at their best ability. It is why in such a team, if someone made a snide remark or innuendo that hurt you, you should bring their attention to that, not aggressively, but say, "Hey, that was unkind and not called for. Please address that for me." Thank you.

Bob: Appreciate that, Machiventa. Does that mean that most young people would be unable to be on a team like this? Many young people have a lot of things going on in their minds that we older people have settled more or less. Young people struggle with these things all the time. So, I am thinking Nancy would be rare to have a young person on our design team due to the level of maturity needed. How do we have young people participate in our system and be a part of our organization while maintaining a mature design team? Could you help us with that?

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa. Yes, I'd be glad to. Your team is not one that would be good at this process. Teams with immature individuals need to be physically present with those they are working with. The small nuances of interpersonal communication need to be appreciated in a face-to-face team situation.

In the case of a design team by Skype or Zoom…, when someone rolls their eyes or looks aside, that’s missed. In person-to-person communication, that's a big signal that tells you that the comments just shared don't sit right with that individual. As an observing individual, you would ask, "What's up with that, Joe? You rolled your eyes. I'm just curious. I'm observing that and want to have your thoughts considered."

When you have a personal team meeting weekly in person or a couple of times a week in person, it is a sorting process. It is the sorting of the goats from the sheep. You are all goats. You are strong, you have a strong head, you know which way you want to go. You aren't wishy-washy, you are dedicated, and you are unrelenting in your commitments. You are very strong people therefore; you have sorted yourselves out.

This unfortunate situation with Maren, was a learning situation which we are aware of and have been for some time. We want to discuss these situations with you now. Today's session has taken a different bent than your usual lesson from myself. It includes much more development, structure and stages of evolution. Little by little, you are becoming more and more competent and capable as team members and as a team, even though you meet via this electronic mechanism called Zoom. You are appreciated and congratulated again.

Remember that this is an experimental design team, not a co-creative design team. You have the potential, if you have a competent channel, to tap into the resources of Sondjah on a very regular, almost minute-by-minute basis, but that would be overusing your consultant that way. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Bob: Thank you Machiventa for those comments.

Kona: Thank you, Machiventa, for clarifying all of that. My comment is that as a facilitator, this is a learning moment. What I'm learning is that for some reason, Bob, you didn't feel comfortable bringing this to the team prior to now. That's my concern as a facilitator, and I'm wondering why you didn't bring this to the team's attention in any other meeting. I'm happy to make adjustments if the team says, "Please do this" or "Call me out." I'm not a perfect facilitator, I'm a facilitator in training. Sondjah, before Sondjah leaves, does say, "Call on me every time."

MACHIVENTA: Thank you, and it is a requirement of the facilitator to note things or the absence of those and call members out. As I said, there is a need for gentle, polite confrontation and that goes both ways, always among the members and the roles. Each of you is a very wise experienced individual. You notice that there's no one here under age 30. Therefore, a facilitator can call upon an individual to say, "How are we doing? How's this meeting going so far today? Do you have any reservations or anything we should do? any suggestions?" The "what" question is very important to ask rather than the "why" question, because the "why" question is always a challenge of the thinking of individuals and is confrontational among mortals. Thank you.

Kona: Thank you so much for that, Machiventa. As a facilitator, if I'm asking those questions; what else do we need to do? Is there anything else to bring up yet? and members do not express anything, then I as a facilitator, I'm not psychic, I'm not reading your mind. It's imperative that the members of the team communicate when we check in and say, "What else do we need to do?" We do a check-in every Tuesday. How's everybody doing? There's ample opportunity from the facilitators perspective to give feedback, so if feedback is not being given, then, I can't do anything else. It's imperative that members feel comfortable enough to speak up on their own behalf. Thank you.

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa. You're exactly right. When people fail to bring up things that they notice, they are participating in a codependent relationship, which is highly dysfunctional for individuals and extremely dysfunctional for teams. When a team becomes codependent among the members and the facilitator and among themselves, they might as well go home and have a beer, some take their mind off what has happened. Just as you know codependent relationships fail between parents and children and cause further dysfunction in their children later on. In a team situation, you have to be candid. If you have something on your mind, so, you say so.

It is important, too, as a facilitator, that you think of ways you can rephrase that question. "How's everybody doing?" is so vanilla that you're missing the Spumante and the Rocky Road. You need to ask questions that really buttonhole individuals about what they're thinking. For example, "Jim, we haven't heard from you in a long time. What's on your mind? Have you given up on us? Please reveal yourself. What's going on?" There are questions facilitators need to ask and to develop. This is a practice that is well known among professional facilitators and associations of facilitators. That you in many ways become a parapsychologist to ask questions that are more pointed and request more information and data.

If someone says in response, "Well, I'm doing just fine," you are welcome to ask and say: "That's not enough data for me. I can't facilitate this if everything's just fine." So, you might present yourself as being a little grumpy to people, as I have been grumpy with you on occasion. You are beginning to participate in a real, meaty conversation—a team process that produces results.

I'll give you a rather rank metaphor that this one has used in the past. It's like making meatballs or hamburger patties. If you have a purchase of hamburger that has a lot of fat in it, you warm it up in your hands, grasp it, and squeeze the fat out between your fingers. This fat is unproductive, not flavourful, and doesn't help anybody. As a facilitator, you would want to squeeze the fat out of your team members and yourself. This sounds like a grisly process, but it is emphatic. No pun intended. I wish you well in your experiences and development.

Just as this one sometimes asks his spouse, "As your husband, how am I doing?"—leaving yourself wide open, but on the other end, it commands respect. It commands the respect of the other for your position and willingness to become far more effective as a partner. And that's what I'm striving to do here. It's oftentimes not fun. It's work, and it produces a product that oftentimes shows up within yourself as you go about your day every day that you're not meeting. Thank you.

Kona: Thank you so much for that, Machiventa. I know Jacques, had your hand up. One more thing before, and then I saw Bob, I see your hand again. One more thing I wanted to ask about on this subject is, I also heard Bob say that he believed we needed to consult with Sondjah more. What I would like to ask Machiventa about is the fine line between asking the consultant to step in and give advice and relying upon the consultant to do the work and be present all the time.

I've seen it in other places being codependent on the celestial to give direction all of the time. Which I think Machiventa you made it clear many times, that’s not the purpose of the consultant. We're here to work co-creatively. It’s okay to check in, but the consultant doesn't need to be with us, speaking and telling us what to do all the time. I don't know if you want to make a statement about that, but I feel as a team we have to be careful about expecting the celestial consultant to guide and direct us all of the time. Thank you.

MACHIVENTA: You're exactly right. What this requires is a person-to-person, sit down physically present in a design team, requires a mature, effective Transmitter/Receiver working with the spiritual consultant. There is a lot going on in the mind of the Transmitter/Receiver, between the Transmitter/Receiver and the spiritual being. As the Transmitter/Receiver working with Machiventa, I [Daniel] do not participate or discuss the team’s progress with Machiventa in the silence we share. That is not a good process at all.

As a channel working with a spiritual consultant such as Sondjah in a physically present design team, the Transmitter/Receiver is feeling what’s going on in the team, and the celestial being Sondjah notes that. So, the Transmitter/Receiver doesn't say anything as a team member because that would shortchange the exchange between the spiritual consultant and the team. Nonetheless, the spiritual consultant notes the responses, psyche, and all the stuff that goes on in our being, when we're not talking and not thinking, and even often we are not reacting and Sondjah would note those reactions and respond.

In the case you mentioned, NO, we do not want to develop a codependent relationship or a dependent relationship between the team and Sondjah. What we want to do is have Sondjah the spiritual being raise its hand and make a comment as is needed. Many times, in a team meeting, the intelligence, thinking, process, and logical development of ideas may skip a step that is an essential step. We have noted some instances where Sondjah would raise its hand and say, "Wait a minute, it looks like you skipped a step." So, Sondjah would then ask if anyone would like to hear what they have to say, and almost always, they do. Injecting an essential step that was missed is highly beneficial and totally supportive of the co-creative efforts of the team and planetary management. Thank you.

Kona: Thank you, Machiventa. I would like to go to Jacques, since you had your hand raised a while back.

Jacques: Bonjour Machiventa, thank you for what you said. It's clear that we are an experimental team. I understand Bob's concern because sometimes I wonder as well and understand that sometimes it’s difficult for Kona on Tuesday to start as a Transmitter/Receiver, and then we have work to do. Then, she becomes “Kona”, and Sondjah always says, "I am behind, if you have a question." This is a difficulty for this team because we want to produce results and material. To produce material, we need to sit together and discuss with participation. We are a small team, so we need the help of everybody. I understand Bob's concern, and I’m sure we will discuss it next Tuesday with the team to clarify the point. That's an important step for sure.

MACHIVENTA: This is Machiventa, my friends. I say again that this is an experimental team. The materials you are producing are voluminous. We are discussing process and effect. Outcomes and objective materials are secondary here. The material we are developing with you is procedural. It is team process. It is discovering the foibles, benefits, and potentials of what exists even in a very limited, small experimental team.

Do not shortchange yourselves as being ineffectual and not producing anything. We are noting that you produce a great deal, and the process is most important. Now turn the page on that thought and see what can be produced from that. Eventually, someone will go through these transcripts from our Friday's team and note the process and instructions I have provided to you. They will distil that into a succinct problem-and-answer booklet. This will be vital to the development and publication as a resource for future teams.

We find that the quality of the process we’re doing may be difficult for you, but it is highly productive for us. Thank you.

Jacques: Thank you, Machiventa.

Kona: Thank you so much for that, Machiventa. Yes, I've been reflecting on the fact that you've told us many times that it is about the relationships that we're building and not about the material that we're producing. So, I'm grateful for this opportunity to spend this conversation today about these things. Thank you. Bob, go ahead, your hand is raised.

Bob: Yes, I just wanted to say that this thought solidified until today. So that's why I brought it up today. If I had thought about it earlier, I would have brought it up sooner. Also, I feel that it kind of came together, and Machiventa has been very forthcoming. I had an idea of more of a role for Sondjah, but now I find that I had too much expectation from that role. At the same time, we're told that the Transmitter/Receiver needs to be functional all the time, so it's kind of a balancing act with our small team. I was just wondering... Well, because you said you are gifted in both Transmitting/Receiving and facilitating, you have a double role, and it makes it tough. Functioning as we should is difficult because so much is resting on you, and it makes it difficult to play the dual role. I just hope we can get more people on the team to spread the workload.

Kona: Well, thank you for that, Bob. To be clear, Jacques is really our facilitator for Tuesdays. When he's present, I make an effort to ensure Jacques is the facilitator. If it seems like I'm facilitating, it's because I'm trying to be operational within the team. On Tuesdays, Jacques has the responsibility of being the facilitator and watching the team. We'll be clear about that. I know I play an active role as the facilitator on Fridays, but we'll make more distinction about that. We can have that conversation later today or Tuesday. Thank you for bringing that to our attention.

Group Dialogue & Discussion with Daniel
Daniel: Yeah, so this is Daniel. I cannot participate as a Transmitter/Receiver channel in another team or this team on another day, whether it's Tuesday or Friday. The compromises are too vast and too costly in my work with you, the team, and Machiventa. It would be simply untenable. The only way that I can participate as a team member and channel is in an actual physical team. I know that's very limiting, but that's my standard, and I'm sticking with it.

Kona: Well, and we appreciate that. If we reflect on the difference between Fridays and Tuesdays, we only have our consultant for the first half of the meeting on Tuesday. We have Sondjah for the first part of the meeting. Let's not set a higher standard for Sondjah and myself on Tuesday than what we even have on Friday with Daniel. We know Machiventa is here, and we could ask Machiventa, and I could Transmitter/Receiver, but I'm very specifically the facilitator for Friday. We haven't tried to have consultation with the Celestial once you leave on Fridays. Let's give ourselves some grace about the situation. We are a small team. Like today, there are only five of us out of eight, nine, or ten if we count Seni. We are growing, but at the same time, we are highly functional in comparison to where we were a year ago, especially in our relationships. I'm really proud of this team and how we operate. Personally, I think we do a great job. But I do recognize what's been brought up today, and we'll definitely have more conversation about it.

Sherille: Hey, Kona! Beautiful Kona! Hi, sweetheart. I'm always here. I sit right next to Daniel, and I listen. Your prayer and how you bring the team together is absolutely awesome. Phenomenal job. This is Friday's team, and Machiventa has said this is HIS TEAM. So, we are with you guys 1000% always. Please take that with the sincerity that it's coming out of my mouth.

Kona: Thank you so much, Sherille, for that, I appreciate that so much. We're experimental team, nobody's done this before. We've got thousands of eyes on us from many super universes (as said by Machiventa), right? We definitely need a lot of grace with each other in the process. Thank you for that, Sherille.

Daniel: Welcome. Alright, are we there? From my perspective, that was a tough session, but needed.

Kona: Absolutely. Building relationships.

Daniel: Alright. God bless everybody. Bye-bye.

Group: Be blessed, thank you. Bye-bye.

Machiventa Melchizedek ― Mission Urantia ― 27 ― 17 January 2025 ― Daniel Raphael ― US ― Center for Planetary Management group
Received by Daniel Raphael, Ph.D.
Session: 17 January 2025