Colorado Hosts Annual "Encampment" of New World Religion
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sept 13th, followers of the religious movement The New Message from God will convene in Estes Park for their annual 5-day "Encampment."
Based on the revelations of Marshall Vian Summers, the New Message from God spans 9200 pages of text and 820 recorded "Angelic Encounters." For over 20 years, Marshall Vian Summers has lived in the town of Boulder in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, quietly receiving what growing numbers consider to be the foundational texts of a new world religion.
His revelation experience began in 1983 with a mysterious and shocking encounter in which his mind and voice were "overtaken by an Angelic presence" and he was told to "record." His followers claim that what emerged from his voice then were the first words of a new testament containing an unprecedented revelation for humanity.
Now translated into 15 languages, Summers' revelation has spurred the growth of a "Worldwide Community of the New Message," a diverse religious body with members in many countries.
The 2012 Encampment will see visitors from France, Germany, Spain, Finland, China and Malaysia as well as from across the United States and Canada. Members of the media are welcome to attend, observe the proceedings of the Encampment and interview attendees and the Messenger himself.
The Encampment is a five-day event focused on the revelations and practices that constitute living the New Message from God. Of primary focus are five pillars of being a student of the New Message:
1) Studying the extensive texts and spiritual practices contained in the New Message from God
2) Advocating for a unified world response to climate change, depletion of the Earth's resources and the oppression of women and the poor
3) Sharing the New Message from God with others
4) Giving to support the emergence of the New Message from God in the world
5) Recognizing that Marshall Vian Summers is God's Messenger.
Just as Muslims consider Muhammad the Messenger through which God spoke to humanity, the "Students of the New Message" consider Marshall Vian Summers the messenger through which God is now speaking again. For them, the annual Encampment is the equivalent of the Islamic Hajj, except that at this historic gathering, God's Messenger will actually be present.
Summers claims his "revelations" are not based on Christian or Muslim traditions; however, his revelations state that Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all Messengers and that approximately once every millennium, God sends a message and a Messenger to deliver something new and unprecedented to the human family.
At the heart of the New Message from God is a set of revelations and practices to elevate our experience of the Sacred and the mysterious presence of "Knowledge," or gnosis, which Summers' revelation says lives in the heart of every person and is also at the heart and origin of every world religion.
According to Summers, the purpose of the New Message from God is to help heal the divisions between world religions and to alert and prepare humanity for the "Great Waves of Change" - a set of converging catastrophes resulting from humanity's overuse and misuse of the world, which includes climate change, resource depletion, economic upheaval and environmental collapse.
While the New Message from God has a strong environmental message, it also has a strong set of social proclamations. Summers' revelation claims we are entering the "age of women," a time when "God wills that women rise to the roles of religious leadership and that those who have limited the gifts and expression of women end their oppression; otherwise, humanity will fail in its evolution and development."
These and other "revelations" from the New Message from God will be at the center of the 2012 Encampment. For more information about the Encampment or to receive a one-day press pass to attend, please contact Will Burrows at 1-800-938-3891 or [email protected].
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SOURCE The Society for the New Message from God
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