Marshall Vian Summers Explained

Marshall Vian Summers
Birth Date:28 January 1949
Birth Place:Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation:Religious leader, Author, Spiritual teacher, Prophet
Language:English
Nationality:American
Period:1983–present
Subject:Spirituality, Exotheology, Prophecy, Extraterrestrial life, Destiny, Purpose in life, Relationship, Inner peace
Movement:Worldwide Community of the New Message from God
Notableworks:Steps to Knowledge
Spouse:Patricia Summers
Children:Reed Summers
Website:Marshall Vian Summers

Marshall Vian Summers (born January 28, 1949)[1] is an American religious leader and spiritual teacher[2] who offers retreats, online broadcasts and events[3] in the United States and abroad. He is the author of numerous books[4] and podcasts, and is the founder of The Society for the New Message, a religious nonprofit organization established in 1992 which supports and makes available his books and teachings. He is the central figure within a new religious movement with an emphasis on the implications of exotheology for human evolution.[5] Summers and his followers designate themselves the Worldwide Community of the New Message from God.[6] His books are the basis for their beliefs and guiding principles, which break down categorically into warnings of extreme change[7] and outside threat;[8] and gifts of spiritual blessing[9] and preparation[10] for living in a world in decline.

Biography

Marshall Summers grew up in an Episcopal family without much emphasis on religion. After studying music and English at the University of California, Berkeley, he became a teacher of the blind and claimed he began to develop sensitivity to "inner guidance," or gut feeling of knowing, that would lead him to go into the wilderness of the American Southwest to experience an encounter with what he related to as an Angelic Presence that instructed him to record messages that have come to be referred to as divine revelation.[11]

Beliefs

A prolific writer, Summers publishes on several platforms, in print and online, a collection of writings organized in a series titled "The One Book."[12] He asserts that these publications are transcriptions from thousands of hours of direct contact with "Unseen Ones," whom he portrays as an angelic presence assigned to watch over the Earth.[13] The content of the material is regarded as a (or the) "New Message from God," which posits a time of impending dire crisis for humanity—on the threshold of emergence into a highly competitive Greater Community of intelligent life,[14] yet socially dissolute and environmentally compromised.[15]

Summers compares the situation of humanity as it anticipates contact with, and exploration of, its limits in the universe to that of native peoples wherever they are taken by surprise by explorers seeking resources in their land.[16]

Messenger from God

The New Message from God is at once both a set of teachings with claims of divine authority[17] and the new religious movement that promotes these teachings. It is entirely based on the work of Summers, who is granted elevated status as "the Messenger"[18] on the basis of these teachings. Summers and his adherents represent[19] that he is a prophet on the order of the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad, in receipt of an unworldly communication having salvific power for individuals and for the planet among others in a populated universe.[20] Summers has recorded these communications on tape,[21] the transcription approaching ten thousand pages.[22] Key components of this communication include warnings of an incursion upon Earth called the Intervention,[23] and pronouncements about the future involving global upheaval[24] and interaction between the human race and extraterrestrials which, Summers claims, are from "the Greater Community."[25]

In 1992, to support the promulgation of his message in print and via broadcast, Summers founded The Society for the Greater Community Way of Knowledge, trading as The Society for the New Message from God, a 501(c)(3) religious non-profit organization which is both publisher of Summers' books and recordings (under the imprint New Knowledge Library) and a religious order. Mr. Summers' son Reed assists him, especially in communications, finding an audience among those with these shared interests: "Full Disclosure of the ET phenomena, Divinely Connected Channelers, [Secret Space Program] experiencers, Energy Healers, SSP Con Men, Authors of Off-Planet Subjects, State Secret Whistleblowers, precious Starseeds and all of us who have difficulty finding like minded people who see huge changes on the Horizon [who are] awakening to the spiritual nature of Reality."[26] [27]

The New Message Sanctuary in Boulder, Colorado, USA, a gathering place for The Society, broadcasts services via the Internet and since 2012 has presented its materials on line, as part of a free school claiming 2902 students and 112 countries represented,[28] a ready answer to criticism in regards to capitalizing off the Word of God.[29] The use of a Kickstarter campaign for the launch of a book on cosmic themes (capitalizing on the 2017 eclipse over the U.S.) is notable as an example of the interplay among technology, popular science and belief in the twenty-first century.[30]

Recordings

Except for The Allies of Humanity,[8] which Summers contends were transmitted from extraterrestrial beings present in the physical (and not extra-dimensional, yet in concordance with Mr. Summers' "divine" source),[31] Summers asserts his writings come through his will, mind and tongue in collaboration with a divine source.[32] The resulting voice is recorded by him, then transcribed and published.

The majority of the content of Summers' publications was purportedly composed in these collaborations, whether allegedly sourced from extraterrestrial entities in physical reality or angelic beings on a plane beyond the physical.[33] These recordings are claimed to differ from Mr. Summers' normal manner of speaking, which supposedly validates their origin outside himself.[34]

Publications

Translations

Portions of the New Message have been translated from English into 34 other languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Kiswahili, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese.[36]

See also

External links

Organization and structure

The New Message from God

New Knowledge Library

Social media presence

(and as self)

The New Message from God on Facebook (and as self)

on twitter

Books by emphasis

Steps to Knowledge

The Great Waves of Change

The Allies of Humanity

Critiques

Foreword Reviews: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing 1999

Marshall Vian Summers at Apologetics Index under the topic 'UFOs and Aliens' 2008

Fansites

Mystery of Ascension

Real Aliens

The Declaration of Human Sovereignty

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 9 April 2022 . Messengers - New_Message_from_God_Wiki . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210118222958/https://www.wiki.newmessage.org/en/Messengers . 18 January 2021 . 25 February 2023 . The New Message From God Wiki.
  2. Web site: Teachings.
  3. Web site: Events. 19 May 2023 .
  4. Web site: Books.
  5. Web site: Summers . Reed . 5 January 2018 . (PRIVATE) The Alien Agenda Mysterious Radio Interview with Reed Summers . YouTube.
  6. Web site: About the Spiritual Community of the New Message from God . 25 February 2023 . The New Message From God.
  7. Book: Summers, Marshall Vian . Great Waves of Change. Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead . 2009 . New Knowledge Library . 978-1884238611 .
  8. Web site: The Allies of Humanity: Disclosing the Extraterrestrial Presence . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230210045825/https://www.alliesofhumanity.org/ . 10 February 2023 . 25 February 2023 . The Allies of Humanity.
  9. Book: Summers, Marshall Vian . Secrets of Heaven. Mystery Teachings of the Angels . 2013 . New Knowledge Library . 978-1884238161.
  10. Book: Summers, Marshall Vian . Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing . 1999 . New Knowledge Library . 1884238165 .
  11. Jason Hawes & J.V. Johnson interview with Reed Summers on Beyond Reality Radio. "Reed Summers Discusses the New Message and Its Implications" February 13, 2018. Retrieved 2018.08.09.
  12. Web site: 3 March 2021 . The structure of the New Message from God . 2023-02-25 . The New Message From God Wiki.
  13. News: Nugent . Addison . 26 November 2017 . Is he God's new messenger? . .
  14. News: Gonzalez . Romain . 14 January 2015 . Vous ne le savez peut-être pas, mais des aliens sont sur le point de nous réduire en esclavage . fr . .
  15. Web site: Noory . George . 9 June 2008 . ET Interference . 2023-02-25 . Coast to Coast AM . en.
  16. Web site: Salla . Michael . 27 November 2003 . Inviting Extraterrestrial Intervention: Collapse of the 'Berlin Wall' or 'Conquest of the Americas'? . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200807215253/https://exopolitics.net/ET-Intervention&Berlin-Wall.htm . 7 August 2020 . 25 February 2023 . Expolitics.
  17. Web site: Ott . Daniel . 13 September 2008 . Interview with Marshall Vian Summers . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152536/http://theedgeam.com/interviews/Marshall_Summers_09.13.08.mp3 . 27 January 2019 . 15 October 2015 . The Edge Broadcast.
  18. Web site: Bonnet . Gordon . 24 May 2013 . The New Holy Writ . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230103165352/https://www.skeptophilia.com/2013/05/the-new-holy-writ.html . 3 January 2023 . 2023-02-25 . Skeptophilia . en.
  19. Web site: Samuel . Sigal . 2017-08-30 . Why Are Some People Attracted to New Religions? . 2023-02-26 . The Atlantic . en.
  20. Web site: 9 February 2012 . God, Cosmic Consciousness and Civil Rights . 2012-10-26 . BlogTalkRadio.
  21. Web site: Lee . Iain . 1 November 2017 . The Late Night Alternative with Iain Lee: Bonus Podcast - Reed Summers . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200130132926/http://talkradio.co.uk/funny/late-night-alternative-iain-lee-bonus-podcast-reed-summers-17110120502 . 30 January 2020 . 25 February 2023 . talkRADIO.
  22. , May 31, 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
  23. Web site: Webre . Alfred Lambremont . 4 January 2018 . Reed Summers & Allies of Humanity: "Interdimensional craft in Spain transmits message to humanity" . 25 February 2023 . YouTube.
  24. http://podcaster.fm/podcasts/viewEpisode.aspx?podcastitemid=3862164&title=Marshall+Vian+Summers The 'X' Zone with Rob McConnell
  25. Web site: Montaldo . Joe . 14 June 2012 . U.F.O. Undercover, Interview with Marshall Vian Summers . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029183649/http://media.podcastingmanager.com/64024-83474/Media/ufo-undercover-061312-Marshall-Vian-Summers.mp3?ref=rss . 29 October 2013 . MP3 . 25 February 2023 . media.podcastingmanager.com.
  26. http://www.whyisthistrue.com/about-me/ Denny Hunt profile
  27. Web site: Hunt . Denny . 4 December 2017 . Interview with Reed Summers . 1 February 2018 . YouTube.
  28. Web site: 12 October 2017 . School Overall . 2023-02-25 . The New Message from God . en-US.
  29. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/51azb5/my_name_is_marshall_vian_summers_and_i_am_a/ Reddit AMA with Marshall Vian Summers
  30. News: Koren . Marina . 17 August 2017 . Is the Solar Eclipse a Message From God? . . 25 February 2023.
  31. http://www.veritasradio.com/guests/2018/01jan/VS-180125-rsummers.php Veritas Radio interview with Reed Summers, January 25, 2018
  32. Web site: 10 January 2013 . Edition 101 - Marshall Vian Summers . 25 October 2016 . The Unexplained With Howard Hughes.
  33. News: Austin . Jon . 9 December 2017 . 'GOD'S MESSENGER' Rocky Mountains 'recluse' claims to be prophet - with new announcement . The Daily Express . 25 February 2023.
  34. Web site: Teaching Archives . 2023-02-25 . The New Message from God . en-US.
  35. Book: Summers, Marshall Vian . Relationships and higher purpose . 2011 . Society for the New Message from God . 978-1-884238-88-8 . 2nd . Boulder, CO.
  36. Web site: Translations . www.newmessage.org . 13 July 2018.
  37. Web site: Translations of Steps to Knowledge – the Book of Inner Knowing . 25 February 2023 . The Book of Inner Knowing.

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