Editing Marshall Vian Summers (section)

== 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."<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2021 |title=The structure of the New Message from God |url=https://www.wiki.newmessage.org/en/The_structure_of_the_New_Message_from_God |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=The New Message From God Wiki}}</ref> He asserts that these publications are transcriptions from thousands of hours of direct contact with "Unseen Ones," whom he portrays as an [[angel]]ic presence assigned to watch over the Earth.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nugent |first=Addison |date=26 November 2017 |title=Is he God's new messenger? |work=[[Ozy Media]] |url=https://www.ozy.com/provocateurs/is-he-gods-new-messenger/81637/}}</ref> 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 [[extraterrestrial life|intelligent life]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Romain |date=14 January 2015 |title=Vous ne le savez peut-être pas, mais des aliens sont sur le point de nous réduire en esclavage |language=fr |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |url=https://www.vice.com/fr/article/allies-de-lhumanite-394/}}</ref> yet socially dissolute and environmentally compromised.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noory |first=George |date=9 June 2008 |title=ET Interference |url=https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2008-06-09-show/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=Coast to Coast AM |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Salla |first=Michael |date=27 November 2003 |title=Inviting Extraterrestrial Intervention: Collapse of the 'Berlin Wall' or 'Conquest of the Americas'? |url=https://exopolitics.net/ET-Intervention%26Berlin-Wall.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807215253/https://exopolitics.net/ET-Intervention%26Berlin-Wall.htm |archive-date=7 August 2020 |access-date=25 February 2023 |website=Expolitics }}</ref>

{{blockquote|text=A Greater Darkness is in the world. It is unlike anything that humanity has ever faced before. Contact has begun, but it is Contact with a dark purpose. In addition, we are facing converging waves of great change—climate change, environmental deterioration, diminishing food and energy resources and the growing threat of conflict and war.

My message has come from the Angels of the Creator who are urgently attempting to enable humanity to recognize this and to prepare for encountering these new realities with wisdom and sobriety. These are the greatest events in human history, but humanity is unprepared.|author=Marshall Vian Summers<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.newmessage.org/gods-messenger/interview-with-the-messenger | title = An Interview with the Messenger | website = The New Message From God | access-date =  2018-08-09 }}</ref>}}