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You are hearing the voice of the Angels transmitting to the world a New Message from Godthrough their messenger, Marshall Vian Summers.

As revealed to

Marshall Vian Summers

on November 6, 2008

in Boulder, Colorado

 

It is becoming evident to ever increasing numbers of people that great change is needed if humanityis to meet the challenges of its time. Great change is needed in how governments function, in how

 people behave and respond. Great change is needed in many organizations and institutions to adapt

to a changing set of circumstances in the world.

For great waves of change are coming to the world, great environmental changes. You are facing a

world of diminishing resources; a world whose climate has been affected, generating violent and

unpredictable weather; a world where economic and political instability are increasing, and there is

a growing risk of conflict and war over the remaining resources. Surely, you cannot just hold on to

your preferred way of life, blind in the face of the Great Waves of change.

Many people proclaim the need for change, but they want other people to change; they themselves

do not want to really change. They want to hold on to their privileges and benefits and have more

and lash out at anyone or anything they think will threaten their entitlements and their possessions.

There is a clamoring for change, but who will change, and what will change? People who are

wealthy want to keep their wealth and have more. People who are not wealthy want wealth, and

they need many practical things. And then, of course, there are vast and ever-growing numbers of 

 people in the world who cannot even meet the daily requirements of life. They need reliable and

sufficient sources of food. They need political stability. They need security. They need ethical

governance. The needs are immense and growing. But you must ask yourself: Who will have to

change here? And while you may point the finger at certain people or institutions, if you are reallyhonest in your questioning, you must come down to yourself.

You must assess your real needs, the deeper needs within yourself, and contrast them with your 

 preferences and your desires. If a need is genuine, it stands apart from what you simply want. There

are primary needs, of course—the need for food, water, shelter, safety and security. There is the

need for true companionship, a need to be engaged with other people in meaningful and productive

ways. These are essential needs. They must be met or you cannot function in the world.

Then, of course, there is the need for a greater kind of relationship based upon what you are really

here to accomplish. And that begins to move you into a higher level of needs—the need of the soul,

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the need to find the deeper Knowledge that God has placed within you to guide you, to protect you

and to lead you to a greater life within the world.

There are psychological needs for creativity and productivity, for recognition from others and for 

honest and productive communication. To meet these needs within yourself, you must change. Youhave basic fundamental needs, you have psychological needs, and then you have the needs of the

soul. To meet these needs, you cannot be what your past has shaped you to be so far. You may want

the world to change around you, and you may agitate for this, and perhaps your requests are

genuine, but, fundamentally, you must change, or you cannot meet the needs of the body, the needs

of the mind and the needs of the soul.

You cannot simply demand that the world gives you everything you think you want, for you do not

even really know what you need beyond the basic requirements of life. People say they want

relationship and marriage, but they are not ready. People say they want to know their true purpose

in life, but they are not ready. People say they want meaningful work in the world, but they are not

ready. They have not prepared for this. They cannot have these things being the way they are now;they are not ready. They have not prepared themselves. They have not undergone the real change

that must occur.

Many people want and demand change in the world. They see a genuine need for change, but they

themselves are unwilling to change. They are unwilling to re-evaluate their thinking, their behavior,

their engagements, their beliefs and their attitudes. And so they agitate for change on the outside,

 but they themselves will not change. They are as entrenched in their position as the people they

claim to oppose.

So you have conflict in the world by opposing parties that are entrenched in their views. They are

unwilling to change. People claim they want peace, and they are working for peace, but you see,

they are unwilling to question or relinquish their position that in itself makes peace impossible to

achieve.

Even to adapt to the Great Waves of change that are coming to the world, you will really have to

change the way you think, what you expect of yourself and others, how you live. Real, fundamental

change here is required, just to be able to meet the changing circumstances of your life.

You may change leadership in your government, but that can only effect change to the degree to

which people are willing to change. Policies can change in governance of the nation, but if people

are unwilling to change, unwilling to accommodate change, unwilling to go through the difficultyand the transition to a different set of circumstances, well, nothing really significant will happen.

And when real progress is made, it is because there is a will to change, there is an ability to change

and people who are involved have to change.

So there is a lot of talk about change, but not a lot of real change. To be really responsible here,  you

must look at your life and your beliefs and your expectations and assumptions, to really see what is

going to work in the real world, in the world you see today and in the change you see coming over 

the horizon because it is dishonest to demand change, to expect change, when you yourself are not

willing to change.

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And to say, “Well, I will change if other people change,” that is dishonest. That is placing the

responsibility beyond yourself. That is dishonest. You have to change even if other people do not

change. That is your commitment.

Real change is a change of heart—a change in the way you feel about things; a change in the wayyou see yourself and your life; a change not only in perception, but in what you choose to do as a

result. That is the real change. Otherwise, you are facing a situation where people want to keep what

they have and have more. And whether their needs are authentic or not, that is their position. And

they will elect leaders to the land who they think will give them what they want even if it leads the

nation to ruin.

And any leader who claims that they are a candidate of change really will have to ask people to

change the way they see themselves and have a change of heart. Because that is the level at which

real change takes place. To merely change one's circumstances—to change where one works or 

lives, or even to changes one's relationships, does not effect a change of heart. You can be married

repeatedly and be the same person with the same expectations, the same issues, the same behaviors,the same judgments against others, the same attitudes against yourself. Here you are going through

great effort to change your circumstances, thinking it is going to change your experience

significantly, but there may be no change of heart here—a fundamental change in how you see

yourself and others and what you value.

Without real change, people are entrenched in their position, they are a slave to their behaviors and

their conditioning, and they try to get along with others who are entrenched in their positions and

who are enslaved to their beliefs and social conditioning. And that gives you the world you see—a

world of immense personal compromise, a world of immense tension, a world that is undergoing

constant stress and that is casting humanity on a path of self-destruction. Either you will destroy

yourselves through escalating conflict, or you will simply use up the world's ability to support you

 because real change has not happened yet for enough people.

Real change happens because a deeper Knowledge within you begins to exert its influence on your 

daily awareness. Here a deeper mind is connecting with your surface mind, the surface mind being

the mind that you live with everyday. Somehow, a deeper conscience within you has broken

through the barriers and the avoidance to reach you at the surface. You are having deep feelings of 

regret, deeper thoughts that are shaping and changing your experience of yourself. This is not a

social conscience. This is the conscience that God has placed within you. It is part of a deeper mind

within you—a mind called Knowledge, a mind that is related to your ability to have profound direct

experiences, a mind that will alter the course of your life.

When we say you are experiencing a change of heart, it means you are experiencing Knowledge

within yourself, and you are being impacted by Knowledge within others. This kind of inner 

recognition is what really gives you the power and the awareness to change your course in life at a

real level—not just at the level of appearances, but at a real level. It leads to a deeper evaluation of 

your thoughts, your beliefs, your attitudes, your behavior and your involvements with others. It is

fundamental and it is natural. It is as if you are beginning to experience your real intelligence, your 

real self.

This begins a process where you are no longer a stranger to yourself. You are no longer living at the

surface, according to what society and others expect, according to what you have been taught to

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 believe and conditioned to do. You are beginning to have a real inner experience now, and it is a

 breakthrough if you can stay with it, and it will produce real change—a fundamental change—in

how you experience yourself and what you choose to do with your life as a result.

Sometimes a dramatic and disturbing experience in life can create a change of heart. Sometimes afailure of another who is close to you, or the loss of a loved one, or the failure of your own

enterprise, can create a real change of heart in you. Given normal circumstances, which is what

 people try to maintain, well, there may be nothing that produces a change of heart. You will just go

along trying to get what you want without any real alteration of your thinking or behavior.

Change on the outside requires a change of heart for the individual. Perhaps dire needs will generate

this. And people can act very nobly in the face of crisis, and many people do, but crisis is a very

expensive way to learn, for many people fail and even perish in the face of crisis. Therefore, do not

wait for crisis to create the stimulus, the motivation, to produce a change of heart within yourself,

for that is a situation where many people will suffer and be lost. On a large scale, crisis is extremely

expensive Instead of listening to Knowledge within yourself, you are waiting for life around you tocreate a shock treatment, and that is a very hazardous way of learning. But many people put off the

change that even they know they must make until crisis occurs. And here the risks are very great. If 

humanity does not prepare for the Great Waves of change and alter the course of human behavior 

on a larger scale, there will be crisis. And in the face of crisis on this scale, many people will be

lost; man y people will perish. It is a very reckless and expensive way to learn.

Therefore, it is more intelligent to learn without paying such huge prices, or requiring others to pay

such huge prices. Knowledge within you can guide you through every turn if you will learn to listen

and learn to follow and learn to distinguish Knowledge from the other voices in your mind—the

voice of fear, the voice of desire, the voice of your culture, the voice of accommodation, the voice

of compromise, the voice of condemnation. There is only one true voice within you. Do not wait

until your life is in crisis to change things that you know you must change and have known you

must change. For if you wait until the bitter end, then you will be forced to do things and will have

very few choices, and the cost will be immense. And you will have to pay huge prices to do things

that you could have known and foreseen far sooner, without paying these kinds of prices.

To change before change is forced upon you requires a change of heart, a kind of shift within

yourself—a shift away from living only at the surface of your mind, constantly preoccupied,

constantly busy, constantly caught up in your desires, fears and judgments of others—to learn to

listen to the deeper current of your life, which is speaking to you all the time.

A change of heart also means a change in what you will listen to within yourself and in other 

 people. Out in the world, there is a lot of talking going on, but not much listening. People do not

experience the real communication that is occurring. They choose to remain unaware of the great

needs around them. They choose to live at the surface so that they do not feel pain or discomfort.

They live at the surface so they do not feel they have to take any greater responsibilities in life, or 

effect any change in their thinking or their circumstances. They want the world to change, but they

do not want to change. The problem with only wanting the world to change is that there are other 

 people who disagree with you. Perhaps they want the world to change in a different way, or they do

not want to have things changed that you want to have changed. So now you are in opposition with

others. Now, if you become more deeply involved, you have to deal with struggling with others

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who feel threatened by your desire for change, who feel they will be deprived or diminished

 because of the change that you want to effect, and so you have opposition.

To reach real cooperation, there must be a change of heart. For people to really make sacrifices to

 bring about things that are obviously necessary requires a change of heart. It requires the presenceand the power of Knowledge. It requires a recognition of what is really occurring and the risks and

hazards of not responding to a genuine set of needs.

Here everyone must provide a greater service to the world and to find ways of providing this

without generating war. Here people must listen to others, even others who disagree with them, to

hear what the other person is really asking for and what they are really concerned about. If you both

want the same thing but use different words or have different ideas about how it can be achieved,

you must listen to this. This is very important.

Don't expect other people to have a change of heart if you have not had a change of heart. Don't

require of others what you yourself are unwilling to do. Don't ask others to change if you areunwilling to change. And here you must be willing to change even if they are not willing to change.

That is what will give you the power and the integrity to really re-evaluate your life and to discern a

greater direction for yourself.

All of the energy that goes into judgment and condemnation, complaint, outrage against others, is

energy lost and wasted, energy that could have been brought into a deeper evaluation of your life

and a refocusing on what you yourself must do. People are losing so much of their life force

through complaint and through whining when they themselves are unwilling to make the kind of 

 personal changes and sacrifices that will be necessary to be a force for change in the world. People

are losing their power and their potency over behaviors that produce nothing of value.

It is easier to criticize than it is to create. It is easier to demand and expect things to happen than it is

to make things happen. To give yourself at this level, this requires a change of heart—the things

that you really value, that you really feel are important. You are going to have to go out and make

some things happen. You are going to have to effect some change in your own life and

circumstances. You are going to have to break free of relationships that aren't going anywhere, with

 people who do not share a deeper inclination and a deeper direction that you are now discovering

for yourself. You are going to have to give up the perceived benefits and compromises that hold

you back and keep you right where you are.

What drives you to do this and gives you the power to do this is the power and presence of Knowledge within yourself, for it is not afraid. It is not compromised. It is not a product of your 

social conditioning. It is the great endowment from God. Whether you are religious in your thinking

or not, Knowledge lives within you. Whether you adhere to a religious tradition or not, Knowledge

lives within you. It is the power that God has given you to find your true direction in life, and to

experience this will generate a change of heart—a real change within you.

Here you are not merely wanting, expecting, demanding and complaining, you are putting yourself 

to the task of finding and following a deeper and more profound direction in life. You are serving

those things you know you must serve. Without the mere intention of enriching yourself or giving

yourself prestige or dominance over others, you are serving from a pure motivation. And this gives

you strength, and this gives you determination, and this gives you perseverance of a kind that

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 personal ambition alone could never provide. Personal ambition is driven by circumstances, but

Knowledge is driven by a Greater Power.

While you recognize the need for change in the world around you—the need to change in how

 people live, the change in government, change in how people use the world, change in how people behave according to each other, you must really look at yourself. Are you living the life you were

meant to live? Are you really being honest with yourself about what you are doing regarding your 

activities and involvements with others? Are your relationships built on a firm foundation and upon

a real resonance with one another? Are you engaged in work that will be sustainable into the future,

given the Great Waves of change that are coming to the world? Are you overusing the resources of 

the world? What is your relationship there? Are you honestly engaged with the primary people of 

your life or are these relationships only established for convenience and for personal benefit? Now

you are getting down to the real questions, for which there are no immediate answers necessarily

 because you must live with the questions for the answer to reveal itself and for you to find the

strength to respond to what you are seeing and knowing. This requires real work. It is not an

activity that can be carried on by the lazy or the indolent.

Here even the world is demanding a change of heart. The Great Waves of change are demanding a

change of heart. Your compromised circumstances, your unfulfilling relationships, your poor 

mental and physical health—they are all demanding a change of heart. They are all encouraging you

to come to Knowledge within yourself.

When someone really has a change of heart, it is a remarkable thing. Something important has

occurred. Knowledge is emerging in the individual. They are undergoing a long and confusing

 process of changing their focus and changing the source of authority within themselves. Changing

from their wandering desires and their social conditioning to a deeper power and presence and to a

deeper conscience within themselves.

 Now a person begins to awaken. Now they see that they are really here to do something; and they

must go find out what that is; and they must look at where they are losing energy through mindless

 behavior, through relationships that lack a greater purpose, through meaningless involvements and

through self-destructive behaviors. Now they really have to collect themselves, to regain their 

strength, to build a focus, to mount the effort that will be required to do what is before them to do.

 Now they must become sober regarding their desires and their fantasies. They begin living a real

life.

This is what redemption looks like in the individual. Redemption is not simply changing your  beliefs. It is not simply adopting a different social posture or political viewpoint. That is not

redemption. Redemption is a change of heart at a fundamental level. It is, in essence, bringing your 

intellect into service to Knowledge within yourself because Knowledge is how God influences you,

so you are bringing yourself to God in the most primary and genuine way.

Even if you are not religious, even if you do not attend a church, a temple or a mosque, you are now

 beginning to honor what God has placed within you. And you are willing to follow and to find out

what this means and where it will take you in life.

This is a real change of heart. Here instead of judging and avoiding others, you begin to discern

why they are the way they are and the circumstances that have led them to behave the way they

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 behave. And you see that instead of judgment and condemnation, this deeper recognition shows you

the importance of following Knowledge within yourself, the importance of undergoing a real

change of heart. Without this, people will just continue being the way they are until something

happens to them. And what happens to them might evoke a change of heart, or it might simply

destroy them, either slowly or immediately.

If you look at the world compassionately, it will generate a change of heart. It will evoke this deeper 

conscience, this deeper Knowledge within you, a deeper feeling for yourself and for life and a

deeper regard for others. This takes you beyond the realm of ideas, beliefs, concepts. It takes you

into a deeper experience, begins to open your heart to yourself and to others. Instead of just judging

and evaluating, you begin to feel the condition of other people. You are moved by their courage,

and you are moved by their compromise and their dilemmas. You are moved by their achievements

and by their suffering. You cease to be cold, remote and calculating. This is a change of heart. This

is the real change. It must happen in you. Do not demand or expect it of others if it is not happening

in you. And if it is happening in you, you must give it your attention. You must be there with it.

This is real change. Otherwise, society can be rearranged, different groups can come to power,

revolutions can take place, lives will be lost, crises will occur, but in a sense, the real fundamental

change has not necessarily occurred. A breakthrough has not happened. You are just simply living

under different circumstances. Your circumstances have changed, but you have not changed.

What really produces change is a change of heart in the individual and in enough people to generate

a greater movement, a shift in values, the willingness to cooperate and to work for something

important for the mutual benefit of everyone. All great movements in politics and in cultures have

 been the product of this change of heart. All the great compassionate activities of humanity—the

commitment to restore the natural world, the commitment to meet great challenges in life, the

commitment to serve those in need—this all comes as a result of a change of heart.

Here you are willing to see things, know things and do things that other people do not see, do not

know and do not do. Here you are willing to take on greater responsibilities instead of avoiding

responsibilities. Here you become really engaged in the world instead of holding yourself back.

Here you are put in a position of service to the world, rather than just using it as a resource to fulfill

your desires and your fantasies. It is like living a completely different life. It is a life that gives you

such great satisfaction and value and connection to yourself and to others. Such a different life than

simply being lost in your ideas, unknown to yourself and unknown to others, a life of calculated

 behavior, a life constantly trying to outperform or outmaneuver others to get what you want. You

can see here where corruption emerges and how it is fostered and built. And you can see here alsowhere it is confronted and undone.

Seen from a greater perspective, it is all about Knowledge—the results of connecting with

Knowledge and the results of not connecting with Knowledge, the results of living according to

concepts and a life lived at a deeper more profound level. It is easy to become jaded about the

world; it is easy to be critical and condemning of others. It is easy, and that is why many people do

this. But it is more challenging and more difficult to look beneath the surface, to take the time to

really understand why certain things are happening and to explore how they can be resolved.

You give yourself to this greater involvement because there has been a change of heart. You can

commit yourself to serving in the world and to being in deep relationship with others because there

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has been a change of heart. You can become a force for good in the world, a person who inspires

others, a person who is a real asset to your community because there has been a change of heart.

Somewhere along the line your conscience took the place of your ideas. You made a deeper 

connection within yourself. You felt the power and the presence of Knowledge. You recognizedsomething was really wrong, and you were going to commit yourself to its resolution. No longer 

 just a critical observer of life, now you are a participant. Now you are engaged. And if your 

engagement is governed and motivated by the greater intelligence that God has given you, you will

 be compassionate, and you will be willing to reconsider your ideas and your beliefs in the face of 

the real needs of the world around you.

This is what the world needs. It needs people who are driven and guided by this Greater Power.

This is what you need—to become who you are and to fulfill your greater destiny in the world, a

destiny that was determined before you came here. This is what you need to meet the deeper and

more profound need of your soul.

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