Welcome to Dear to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger a little bit later on. My guest will be on the show. Peter Benson is here today and we're going to be talking about tensor energy tools and energy tools for ascension and cosmic. I'm going to throw that in. Cosmic and conscious living because that's what I'm all about. By the way, for those of you watching YouTube, youtube.com slash Debbie Daschinger, I'm wearing one of his magnificent pieces. And we're going to be showing you lots and talking about this. So join us. And if you're listening to the podcast and want to see more, you can also hop over to youtube.com slash Debbie Daschinger. And this show has been nominated for two People's Choice podcast awards for a web award. We are listed in Welp Magazine as one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year. And we won the C.O.V.R. Award for the best radio and podcast show recently. This show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here in Access Consciousness. 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He discovered his angelic origins as part of Archangel Michael's army of light and guided by Archangel Michael and ascended masters. Peter was introduced to the tensor technology and its healing properties. He conducted research that led him to build his first tensor rings, crystals, infused pendants, Merkaba, healing, coils and more. Peter is an international public speaking and the CEO of energies of service and is powerful. Copper healing and grounding tools are inspired by and channeled from the quantum field of creation. His handcrafted products are carefully attuned energetically to help people heal, balance and live in harmony with their resonance field. They are energy tools for ascension and conscious living. You can learn more at his website, go to energiesofservice.com and I welcome Peter Benson to Dare to Dream. It's so great to have you here. Oh, thank you Debbie for having me on. It's a privilege, it really is. And working with you has been a lot of fun. We work with you too. So we think that, you know, what you do is fantastic and it's helping us dramatically. So thank you so much for everything you do. That's so kind, that's so kind.  And when you and I had our own private Zoom session and you were taking me through what you did, I felt like it was mind blowing. So before we even show people, before we even do a show and tell about your magnificent creations, can you explain the work, explain what you create and explain the service you offer? Okay. Well, as you described, yes, I woke up probably about eight years ago and I started going through the process of awakening and understanding reading and reading books left and right, trying to understand what's going on. And from that point on, I started finding different things that was really clicking with me. Michael Newton, Brian Weiss, that gave me an introspect on life after death, life between life beyond life. And that from there, I found Slim Sperling and he's talking about these tensor rings and it's life energy. He called it, he called it life energy and he was quoted as saying in his books, it could be chi or whatever we wanna label it, it's basically life energy. So I started understanding what he was doing and he open sourced his process and everything he did. So basically there are people around the world utilizing this technology and building tools out there which is absolutely phenomenal. It's not locked away, it's not behind a copyright, so everybody can utilize the tools. The interesting part was when I first started making them, they weren't working. So I had to go through growth and understanding. It took me about six months to make a good ring that would actually work, but that was constant work on myself. So I had to bring my vibration to a higher place before the tools could work. So yes, everybody can go out and make them, but your intention and your vibration has to be high enough to create the tool.  So you have to be there to make them. So if you're in good intention, yeah. So it's entirely plausible. So that path got me into making the actual larger tensor rings, a small tensor rings and all the different versions of the tensor rings. In my first real experience with the tensor rings being powerful and how much they could be influential was working with what they call the Tiwatuakon or the Solomon's Cubit. And that one actually changes the color of sound. So that one. It changes color of sound. I'm all about sound frequency. So what explain this? So what this one does is it amplifies audio, changes its frequency and attunes it. So tensor technology will neutralize disharmonic frequencies.  It will tune them back in and actually amplifies.  It literally gets that loud. It turns your crystal balls into a much louder tool. What we found was when you spool up the ball, it takes a little bit to actually spool it up. But once it's actually at resonance, it stays at resonance for a lot longer as well. So it was really interesting. So I was doing this and I was working with a lady who was doing sound baths and I gave her four rings to experiment with. She played with them for two days and she texted me back, can you make me 10 more?  So she had 14 balls.   So that was my real exposure to how much influence these tensor rings can have on even physical objects. I mean, there's stories about how Slim Spurling and his ring was actually physically healing people. But for me, those were anecdotal because that's all reports in another book. So I'm like, I understood that and I appreciated everything that was coming through. But until I fully experienced it myself, I was just like, wow, this is incredible. So yeah. Okay. I wanna finish with that sound piece because you may or may not know I do music and I do sound healing, right? I sing, I play a hang drum, I play the gong, I play jambi drum. And so we don't use crystal balls. So what else can this sound ring be used for with sound? It's sound. It doesn't matter. You can stand in, we can get you a ring that's big enough for you to stand in and it changes your sound. You can get the big enough ring to put it underneath your gongs and it will change the sound of the gong. You can do anything with them. That's literally because the tensor rings create a field. So if you're looking at this is a ring, right? And the energy comes out both sides like a flashlight. So if you stand inside that ring, it's you're in that vortex of energy and it comes out, it spirals out. So that flashlight of energy is not way of flashlight. It's actually a vortex of energy coming out of it. And then there's an energy film in the middle that changes everything as well. So there's all kinds of different ways you can utilize these tools. And what you mentioned a couple of success stories. You said anecdotal because it was in somebody's book and I really appreciate that. You're looking for the proof yourself. And with your creations, Peter, what has happened? Tell me some A story, a couple of stories because I'm super curious. What has happened for people by virtue of using your products? It varies depending on what products they are. If you had like the anklets, usually you wear them in pairs, one on each leg. But we were literally, we were at a conference in Vegas a couple of years back and this one lady came up to the table and she was literally out of balance so far. It wasn't even funny. But she was trying to keep a higher vibration. We ended up giving her an ankle only on one leg. And she literally was walking balanced after that and she felt normal. So one side of her was fully grounded and ready to go. The other half of her was trying to get off planet or something because she was just not grounded. So she utilized that to actually help ground her. So that was one of the ones I actually seen. I've had people who are very much energy sensitive to the point where they have issues going into conferences and they have to prepare themselves mentally, physically and everything, take a couple of Advil before they go or a muscle relaxer just because it's so much energy that they're not ready for it.  And they all of a sudden, you can just feel their demeanor just relax. And it's just like they're not overloaded anymore. So the anklets literally cap your energy torus so that blocks the energy from coming in. So it's really interesting. We've had this happen many, many, many times with people and that's really interesting to watch. And the same thing happens with the pendant that you're wearing, which is Archangel Michael. And that one is, that one has like a pendant that creates a energy shielding effect just like the anklets, but different in a form. So the anklets cap your energy torus. The Michael pendant creates a shield just above your emotional field. So if you understand the energy in the way our body has layers, we have the physical body, you have emotional layer and then that it creates like an almost a barrier just above that and it blocks you from other people's energy. So that creates a shielding there, but it also has three other crystals in it that create a calming effect, a clearing of your energy and the turk and the green mica, which is a heart healing. So that helps you, you know, help clear your emotional field all the time when you're wearing it. So you get multiple cleansing and calming and shielding all at the same time. So when you wear it, it's just impactful. A lot of people put it on and it's like, ah, that just feels good. You know, it just, it's relaxing. It's like, instead of having, going for a drink after work, you put that on. It's just like, oh, that just feels much better. Yeah. I haven't taken it off. I don't know, maybe I've had it three weeks. I put it on and the exact descriptors, what you just said, I was immediate. Oh, and you know, when you describe, it's very interesting when you say people need protection because there's lots of reasons sensitives need protection. You could be working with people and want to clear your energy. I'm somebody who I found when I would go speak at events, attend events, but mostly speak. You know, there were often hundreds of people and I'm on stage and I love it. I'm a great connector and I love people, but there was something energetically for me. It was a lot when I would get off stage and people would want to come speak to me and, you know, just being in the room with hundreds. And I'm thinking for folks like myself in a situation, well, I don't care if it's a wedding and there's hundreds of people or whatever the event may be, but if they are going to a mall, any of that is overwhelming to you in airport. It sounds like these anklets could just really be protective and grounding and create some kind of a shield so you don't have to absorb that. Yeah, it's very much, that's an accurate statement. It does help you protect. Now I've talked to many, many people that are working on themselves and, you know, they're advanced, they feel they're advanced, they understand everything. They create their own shields. They create their own layered protection. Every morning they get up and they do it. And that's perfect. And I really, I applaud all that work and effort because that's a lot of work and effort to go into all that. What these allow you to do is actually have an external version of that shielding. So if you get distracted in any way, shape, or form and your mental state gets brought down to a lower level, you know, stress or anything going on with family or something like that. And all of a sudden you just lose your focus. Now your shields are dropping. But if you're wearing the tools, you're protected anyway. So there's a lot of times where it's like, I do agree that we can do it ourselves. And I do agree, and one of the things I say with these tools is these are basically training wheels for energy. Basically help you understand what your energy feels like without being bombarded all the time. Remember that feeling. And then you can create that on your own. But we need to actually get past when the world we're living in right now, there is a distraction at every other second. There's a distraction on the news every two seconds here. And whether it's this way or that way, up to or down there's distractions everywhere. So that's what I'm trying to say. It's like these allow us to actually stay in our own energy without having to really worry about losing our shielding or protection. And I know a lot of people don't like saying you need protection. It's like yes and no. We need to be able to understand what our own energy feels like, right? So that when we're when we involve ourselves with other people, like you were saying when you're speaking on stage, you are literally the focus of however many beings are in that room. Now they're all drawing energy from you because you're on stage and you're presenting. This is the nature of what's going on. Now, if it's a good speech and you're doing very well the energy is gonna be transferring to you. And it gives you a high or a very much enthusiastic energy form. And then afterwards, then you have all the people combining on you. And then you have all that like a compression of that energy. So it's just like, yeah, you need protection and you have to keep your shields up. Absolutely. Even while you're trying to formulate the answers to everybody's questions. Yeah, yes. And I wanna say ever since I put this on people stopped me everywhere. I was in Costco the other day shopping going down an aisle with the giant cart. And this woman came up to me and she said, oh my God, I just have to tell you that's spectacular. And I've had other people say, there's actually a place where we're doing our next sound healing. And the woman who runs the place said, where did you get that? What is that? And it's almost like people can feel it. It's visually stunning. And it's not even right now on YouTube. It's not do, but we're gonna show them. You'll show them from your end in a little bit. So you can't see how stunning this is, but it's stunning, let me tell you. And you don't feel it. It's so light. It looks like it's heavy. It's so light. So yes, this woman as well said, where do I get it? Where do I get it? So talk about that. Where can people go to look into these, maybe see some descriptions, some pictures, understandings of what's available? Yeah, you can go to the website energiesofservice.com, energies and plural, IESofservice.com. Once you're on there, you can click on individual pendants or Anglic. And the description in there is about, it's like, what are you looking for? This could be your solution. And look through the different ones because they all have different solutions and different purposes. We still have two more pendants to publish up on the page. I'm still working through the imaging and to clear up the white box stuff. So you can see the pendants clearly. But yeah, I know we're still working on all that. But everything on the website is basically has what this will do for you. This is what it has in it. This is the attributes of that particular pendant or Anglic. And this is what you can expect out of it. And a lot of times I'll put in there, it's like, this is anecdotal evidence. This is what people have already experienced. Your experience will vary depending on what your energy is. And that has always been my thing. It's just like the tools are energetic regardless of who you are or where you are. So if you put it on and not feel it, that's fine. Because you know what? They're going to do the work that it was actually designed to do. And a lot of times when people, it's like, well, I feel like I've got all this and it's like, what the problem is when I put the pendant on, I didn't feel anything. That's perfectly fine. The difference is now you've actually created barriers to you feeling the energies because you've been, you were probably born super sensitive and you automatically learned of how to suppress that feeling. So when you put something on that's actually protecting your energy, your body will let the shields down over time and you can actually take it off and understand, oh, that's how that felt. Okay, now I understand better. And it'll help you understand who you are and versus the other energies around you. Because a lot of times people will feel very fuzzy because they've actually just blocked it all out and their own personal shields will just basically create this barrier of energy that protects you, but it just feels fuzzy. And I don't feel it. I don't feel it. I don't feel it. And it's like, uh-huh, yeah. But I've had people say that to me and then an hour or two later after wearing that exact pendant, Archangel Michael, he goes, and this is actually a YouTuber with 600,000 viewers. He wears it all the time. And I talked to him like an hour later and he's like, I feel great. Absolutely loves it. And he hasn't taken it off since the same thing with you. It's like the energy that it actually allows you to feel and allows you to be more relaxed and understand everything. They're very powerful tools. Yeah, I sleep in mine. I shower in mine. Sorry if I'm not supposed to, but I do. Oh no, that's perfectly fine. And it's that comfortable. I just wanna say, you know, so all very unexpected and, ah, it's same. I put it on and just went, you know, first of all, it looks great with everything. And I love kind of big superpower pieces. So I love that. And I just wanna show folks real quick because when I received the package, I was a little blown away. First of all, top class act. You get the most stunning box. I'm not even gonna show you the box, but you get this silk satin pouch that comes with it that's got his company logo on it. It's really gorgeous. You get an extra chain just in case, which I thought was very kind. Of course, you get his card. And then this amazing, I mean, this is such a beautiful box. It's just all done so, so, so well.  The whole thing is beautifully done from start to finish. I was so grateful to get this.  It's like, boom. Did you ever in your life envision you creating products like this that would heal people and change lives?  And now I'm working in the semiconductor industry and I'm engineering technician. So that's what I do. And basically when my life shifted, that was many years ago, I started looking at different things and as things started to come around, I started understanding more and more became understandable. And actually, it was a Gertjeff actually said, it's like your frequency of being will allow you to understand the different frequencies and different information based on those frequencies. And the higher the frequency, the more tangible, when I call it the meteor, the information is and the better, to help you understand how things are. So when I got out as a mechanic, I didn't understand hardly anything. I was like very 3D, you know, love muscle cars and all kinds of stuff and getting in technical and stuff like that. I get into engineering and I'm really good with that. So understanding the mechanics and now understanding more systems and protocols, I was able to actually start building these tools and understand the process is a lot easier for me because of my history. So all this stuff actually is really interesting. And as I raise my vibration, more information comes through and the more information comes through, the clearer some of the stuff gets. I'm still waiting for more information on some of the new tools coming in because we have some star seed pendants coming. We're still waiting on which crystals are gonna be in those. But yeah, it's one of those things. It's like, it's interesting. Gertrude, if we used to say that's like, you can actually say every single person in a room will have a different definition of a single word. So basically if you say the word man or the word book, somebody will have a different definition to it based on their being. You know, it becomes very grounded or it becomes very, very much a higher version of the way you reference those words. So when Vivian talks or when I talk, the wording comes out in a high vibration so people can understand it in that vibration. And when you're looking at these tools and people see them, those people are ready for that type of information because they're looking at it going, wow, that's amazing. They can see it for what it is. They don't understand it completely because they've never seen it before but they're looking at it and it draws them in. And the energy of it alone, yeah. Just so people know Vivian Chavez is Peter's wife. She is the Octurian hybrid healer extraordinaire who's been on this show before.  What is the transition? Did something happen that caused this awakening in you? A major life shift, let's just say, things changed about 2016, 2017 where my life was literally, it got to the point where it was falling apart and it kinda like, when you hit ground, now you can see things differently. You only hit the bottom. So we hit the bottom and after that, some life changes had to happen in order of things from move on. And I started understanding things and things started shifting and my energy started to increase and I started understanding things a little bit better. And things from there actually got, if things started to fall in place, more synchronicities, heavy life changes happened back then. So things had to actually change. So yeah. And then Archangel Michael and his ascended masters, talk about that. What is that relationship about? Well, what's happened to me is I've had a bunch of people that are very much connected to higher realms basically come up and basically say, oh, you're under Michael. You're under Michael, you're under Archangel Michael. So, and then I've actually done a Kaushik record read to find out from one person who's very, very gifted at it. She came out and basically says, yes, you're from the angelic realm. So I'm basically angelic source. And I did a whole bunch of lifetimes in Alpha Centauri and then I've done thousands here trying to help the planet. So I've been around the block a few times here on earth. But the energy of the angels, I didn't even understand what that meant until after that shift started happening and getting into the energy fields of what Vivian was doing and what she, you know, because she's a teacher and a healer in a lot of the folks that work with her and around her that are working in the same, you know, in the same environment.  And I'm like, I'm okay. And as of the last year or two, I've been getting pretty clear channeled messages, especially for Vivian that have been pretty powerful and very accurate. And so this work you're doing, and you showed us that blue tensor ring and you talked about the giant rings and their capabilities. So some of what I understand tensor rings do is grounding, balancing chakras, recovering soul aspects or soul shards. Can you talk about what is that technology? What does it manifest? Okay. So the tensor technology is actually a very simple technology. No power source required because it has actually been tested and verified as a room temperature superconductor. And it was tested at Lockheed Martin and another lab through slim spurling back years ago. And what it is is basically one wire and then at one copper wire that's folded back over on itself. So you have energy going in both directions. And then it's basically twisted and then cut to the specific length. So it has to be twisted clockwise for a positive energy. And it has to be one wire folded over in order to keep the energy flow. And this was actually something that if you go back that everything, I believe everything in nature has a positive and negative end to it. So if you take a tree, it has a grounding in which would be a negative and a positive end at the top of the tree. So when they were actually making their spiritual huts and stuff like that, they would do, they would go base to top, base to top, base to top on tree logs all the way around. And it would create an energy vortex just using wood. So this was something that's been known for a very, very long time.  It created an energy field going in one direction and then an energy field going in the opposite direction. So it created a two-way energy vortex. And with the clock-wise twist, it created a positive energy vortex on both sides.   And through Slim's book, he actually has a chapter in it where somebody was experimenting or just kidding around and put the negative side to his heart and it stopped his heart. Why would you experiment? And then he flipped it over and then they flipped it over, put the positive side on and his heart started again. But yeah, don't mess with them, don't, yeah. The dark side might have cookies, not exactly a good thing. But yes, it's the tensor rings themselves are all based on the length of wire that they're cut into. It's like looking at an old radio dial when you're turning the dial, you have the different frequencies along the line and they're all a little bit longer on wavelength, right? So 88 megahertz or 107 megahertz, right? So one of them is longer than the other. One of them shorter than the other.  And at that point, that ring has power and different length gives you different energy. The unity ring, which we're talking about which is the grounding and balancing of your chakras and pulling in soul shards. That one came to me specifically right around the same time I met Vivian. That one was a channeled message to me and it's like, okay, do this. I'm like, okay, I made that one. It's like, I didn't understand that. Wasn't really energy sensitive on that end at that point. And then Vivian experienced the energy of it and she goes, wow, and this is grounding, this is done. And then it was grounding and balancing a chakras was right up front, but was kind of a more mysterious thing was the soul shard aspect coming in. So it's really interesting. And then we found that the energies of the different tensor rings, some of them basically equate to the energies of chakras. So we were able to actually utilize basically a full chakra set of tensor rings. So your Solomon qubit, we're talking about changing the color of sound. There's your throat chakra right there. That's how you communicate your communication. So that one there helps you open your communication channels and changing the way you speak and giving you more of a powerful voice. So yeah, that one's actually very powerful in that way. You know, as you're saying this, I can't help but think, and maybe I'm late to the game, but I'm envisioning healers working with these and having people lay on them for each of the chakras or put them, you know, shamans do this by the way, I work with a shaman and she'll do this with stones and things. So I'm picturing your various tensor ring products on the different chakras and like how incredible that could be for healing. Yes, it's exactly right. What Slim Spurling would do is actually in the Vesca Pisces type overlap. So you'd have two rings overlap and then out of third one that overlap the two and then put them underneath them like the working tables you would do Reiki energy work or massage therapy on and you'd put the rings on the floor and they would literally be inside that vortex the entire time. I'm so getting goosebumps when you say this. This is so powerful. And you know, earlier, Peter I should have said something then but you had the blue ring in the very beginning you were showing us as an example and you were trying to explain how like a flashlight the light can go this way, the light can go the other way and then you turned it right side up and then you said, and there's a column of light and I am telling you I saw light come through it as you did that. I'll be very interested when Vivian sees this if she sees the same but that it was quite powerful. So then you give this example of putting these rings under a table while someone's being worked on and or even if you just use them for yourself and you're meditating. Oh yes. I'm feeling it. That's all I could say. This feels powerful like the possibilities. The power of these rings is very, very much incredible. We have one that's actually a green one. It won't show up real good because the green screen behind me. Yeah, yeah. But the green one here, this one is actually working with the heart. So this one actually works on the heart chakra, higher heart, emotional field in your etheric body. That one we have big ones, you know, big, big ones and we put them underneath our chairs when we're at conferences and Viv's doing readings and stuff like that and we had it happen twice where somebody would literally come down and sit in the chair and literally jump out of that chair within 10 seconds because all of a sudden, whatever they were trying to suppress emotionally was coming out and they were literally about to just go, yeah, it's because the tensor rings, that one wants to help purge you. Oh wow. That's an emotional ring. That one wants to purge especially if you have something on the surface. It will help you literally work through that emotional trauma immediately. And we had one lady who was, her son had passed, I think it was like 60 days prior and she sat down in the chair and she literally got back out of it because she was gonna start bawling. And we took the ring out so she could sit down and work with Viv but it was like, yeah, that's what the ring will do.  Is scalar and tensor technology somehow connected? Lems Berling equated it with that. I don't know for sure, but in his book he actually said it could be scalar, it could be energy or chi or he was like, could be tacking on, he said all these, in his book he had like seven different energy sources in a row and he's like, it could be any one of them, we're not really sure. And how does the Merkaba play into all this? Well, what I do is if you look behind me in the image, I have copper pyramid, right? So we do Giza pyramid, which is the really wide base, this one is 10 foot by 10 foot and it's about six and a half feet tall. And what we do is we hang the Merkaba up in the top near the top, you can barely see it here in that image, but you can see it. There's a crystal, rose quartz crystal ball at the bottom of it. And when we put the Merkaba inside the pyramid, the healing energy and the most type of energy shielding that the pyramid creates is multiplied by about 10 fold by adding a Merkaba to it. And then you can tune it by changing the crystal. So if you want hard energy, you have rose quartz. If you want clearing, you put selenite. You wanna purge electromagnetics, get yourself a shungite one or, you know. And then you put the Merkaba into the jewelry? No, that's a different energy field. So what I, the Merkabas themselves actually create an energy field for your healing environment. You can hang it in your healing room or wherever you want. And it actually creates a field of energy that's actually quite wide. You put it in the pyramid and it amplifies the pyramid like crazy. Okay, and do you sell those? Yes, they're not on the site yet because we're rebuilding. We lost a lot of stuff on our website. We're trying to rebuilds completely. So we have to get all the tensor rings up, the Merkaba up, the healing coils up and. Cool, and for people just in case you don't know, I think most people do just in case you don't know the Merkaba is related. It comes from the Hebrew word meaning chariot. Isn't that beautiful? A chariot or a vehicle. And also to find like light spirit body because of the words it was talked about in the book of Ezekiel. And it has to do with sacred geometry and spiritual healing. So Mer, M-E-R equals light, Ka equals spirit and Ba equals body. So it is a vehicle for those. And so I hear you saying, Peter, that you use the technology such as what you have behind you to charge them, to super charge them. And then so I just have to say, cause like all these possibility downloads are coming into me cause I'm even thinking for me, like if you hold a retreat and you place these rings and Merkaba's in a room with the people you're working with for the day or the weekend, what that could do healing wise. I'm thinking about people such as myself who like to do UFO contact work. Do you think that would help? Sure. Yeah. Well, all these tools are pretty much all intention based tools. So you can put an intention on the Merkaba to project a welcome wagon for those of the light that are coming around and basically make you invisible to anybody that would do you harm. That kind of those kinds of intentions you can utilize. I think you touched on it but I'm not sure if you covered it. I've heard multiple speakers talk about the Merkaba as our body. So basically we are basically walking around in a high speed Merkaba spinning. That's cool. Really? Yeah. People have actually described that to me like that. I'm like, oh, that's an interesting way of looking at it. It goes, well, according to what the energy is, it's like, yeah, that we actually are a spinning Merkaba of light. I love that. With our partners. I did too. I thought that was pretty cool. I don't know, but it's just interesting. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it makes it really, I just feel like it's exponential. And of course now this is making sense that your tools are called the tools for ascension and conscious living. I gotta say and cosmic living. Cosmic, gotta have it. Yes. Because we are in like it or not folks, we're in the midst. The ascension's happening right now, right? It's going on. And it's very interesting. I was just listening to this woman, a really genius spiritual, she's a scientist, but very spiritual talking about all the things happening with resonance and with bodies that are literally happening now. She was saying people are going to the ER constantly about heart stuff or like wondering what's going on with their heart. There are people who are having stomach problems or distension. There are a lot of rashes. People unexpectedly are having people whose hair is falling out. Now, not like men and women are suddenly gonna go bald. I don't mean that at all, but I have to say I'm one of those who in the past two weeks, I'm like, are you serious? Well, and I have a ton of hair and I can't believe what's in my hands. So the bodies are doing their best to keep up. There's nothing to be alarmed about.  And so when I hear you talk about this, I'm thinking, this is actually like important for our lives right now and for helping us through this time. Yes, so I'm gonna do two quick stories. One of them is the Archangel Metatron Anklets and how they came to be. I got the channeled message from Metatron to create the anklets, creating it using a tensor ring. It has to have these five crystals in it and then it has to be covered in a copper mesh and then sealed up. Took me about a year and a half to get them working and together and viable so they wouldn't completely fall apart or break down. So it took a while to get them working. But then I didn't actually do anything with it. I got the design down and I got everything good. Got really busy with life and then just moved on. Vivian had a dream state vision of what was really interesting. It was these three super high vibration, 100-foot ET beings that were standing in this environment and they were standing in their own portal so they could stay in that environment. And then they had three representatives, there were three women in front of them and they were talking to Vivian and through the interpreters, the three women in front, they told Vivian, tell Peter it's time. He has to make them now. So the message from Archangel Metatron is to actually, for the frequency, so the crystals themselves along with the tensoring, create a field to protect your energy. So as we go through this, we're going to be needing this energy shielding. Now, for those that are ready for it and need to actually have this protection, we're going to be losing our electromagnetic field. The Earth's magnetic field is dropping. We're going through a cycle. We're going through it right now. And the scientific data shows it. We started losing our electromagnetic field in the 1850s and we're down at least 25% now. So that's why we're starting to see, if you've looked in the news, we've had not just green aurora, we've had pink aurora. The pink aurora is the energy coming into the atmosphere at a lower, closer to the ground, creating different glows. It's like creating a different neon sign. You have different, different air molecules glowing. So these are going to help us protect our energy field and help protect us energetically. So this is what it was, as intended to bring in here. This is why I'm doing this. It's like, this is supposed to help people. If you're working on yourself or need help or you're even in a corporate environment, you need to protect your energy field from everybody else. Because not everybody is maintaining their kumbaya because people are just losing their mind at times. They really are. So you need to protect your energy from others. And it's like, when I talk about the tools, I keep on saying the word energy, but that's what they are, they're energy tools. They're designed to create energy and protect energy. They're messages from the angelic realm. They just are, and they're here to help. Well, and I resonate so deeply with somebody who had a similar, it's very interesting. I've never met anyone like you. And I had a similar experience where two very reputable people who were doing readings for me said, you are originally of the Elohim. And the first person I thought, what? Rushed it off. I thought that's pretty lofty, second person. And like, these are pretty serious respectable people. And that was it. I just decided I surrender, I accept. And so to hear you two have this story of this deep connection with the angels, I just so appreciate it. I also appreciate your choice to come here on this planet so many times because this is not, earth is not easy.  Yeah, it's just one of those things. It's like you're saying, it's like, what am I doing here? But you have to look at it from a, if you look at it from, because I work in the council on the other side. So I'm not on the non-judgmental council when you pass over. That's what I do. So it's kind of interesting when you look at it from a different point of view, look at it from, okay, we're now climaxing over eight billion, reaching billions of people now. Billions and billions of souls are on this planet. And all of a sudden, we're going through this transition timeframe. Not everybody's gonna make it to the other side. Not everybody is meant to. You have to figure souls came in to experience what they experienced, right? So some come in to experience the beginning of the ascension process. Some people come in just to get that. I mean, cause we're going through our trials right now. We're being tempted and pushed by every political mean, whether it's media, whether it's social media, news, doesn't really matter. We're getting pushed by every single thing. And you have to actually go into yourself and realize what is true. It forces you to really go inside and understand. So if you think of it, if you're coming in here as a younger soul, this is going to force your learning curve to an exponential speed by coming in here. So that's why we have so many souls coming in. Whether they make it or not is irrelevant. The soul came in to learn. And if they're going through, they're going through the cheat sheet, whatever it is of life to come into a planet under ascension, they're here to do that. But there's gonna be a lot of people here that are gonna need to be awake and aware and protected when we go through this so that we can help the people that are lost when they get to the outside. And what in earth are we doing here on earth? Well, we have big shoulders. Our souls agreed and contracted to do this. And we're here to help and be of service. So I know we have just a short amount of time left. Is it possible to see even quickly a few of your pieces? Yes. Oh, that would be yummy. Okay, let me switch to the camera here. I'm gonna put up the archangel. This is the Michael. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit on that so you can see it a little bit better. And this is the one I'm wearing so folks can understand really how gorge this is. So it has down in the bottom in the middle is the shielding crystals. And then you have your turquoise on the left-hand side which is the calming on top of many other attributes turquoise has. Then you have your green mic on the other side which is the heart healing. It's similar to, it's like the masculine version of rose quartz. So you have that to help heal your heart chakra but also the masculine side because of the detrimental thing on the patriarchy we've dealt with over the last few thousand years. It put the masculine to the point where it's more detrimental than positive. So it helps heal the masculine side of the heart there. Then you have the selenite in the middle. So that's what the power of this dependent is because the tensor rings create not only that floodlight energy coming out the vortexes it actually has a film in the middle of those rings similar to like blowing bubbles. So the crystals that are actually in the middle of that bubble field if you wanna call it that layer of energy are amplified and then projected into you and out from you in those columns of light. So that's why it's so much more powerful. So if you wanna carry turquoise, selenite and green mic in your pocket, that's fantastic. This is going to take the small amount of crystals in there and amplify the daylights out of that power. So you don't have to carry as much. That's why I create custom ones for people too. So you can put that in there. Okay, so the next one here, I'm gonna put in here. This one is not on the website yet, but this one is coming and this one is designed to be a post-traumatic stress healing pendant. Now this one has all the crystals that the Archangel Michael has. So it has the shielding, the calming, clearing and healing but it also has another 10 crystals in there that are designed specifically for post-traumatic stress and just dealing with traumas or stress or anything in that line, even if it was like dream state stress. This pendant here is a crazy powerful pendant and I've been wearing it ever since I made it because I absolutely love it. It keeps my, because of my water sign, my emotions tend to go up and down because I absorb other people, their emotional state, not necessarily their energy, but their emotional state. When people get excited, I get there and, you know, teary, I get teary, this is what it is. It's more of a mirror neuron response on that. But this here allows me to stay very flat and stable when it comes to the energies of that. So this is one I'm trying to get to, you know, first responders, firefighters, police, military, veterans. So this is my goal is to get these out there. We actually shipped the first one to a police officer in Boston this week. So that'll be interesting to see how that one goes. Just an FYI, my brother does a podcast called First Responders, true story. So I'll make sure he watches this. Yeah, no, I'd love to have, if he does a podcast with that, I'd love to get this on there because the first responders, they have been, you know, because of the political environment over the last few years, they have been beaten up pretty heavily. And I really feel that they need help, especially energetically, in order to put, I mean, basically when they're out doing their thing, their energy is always under bombardment just by their nature of their job. So this will help protect them and shield them in that way. So yeah, this one is about to go up on the website. I already have someone waiting for me to put it up there to purchase one. So this is gonna be amazing. Yeah, they, if you can't see it here, let's see if I get it to glow a little bit. It glows white on the outside and glows blue in the middle. So when you're wearing it at night, it will glow. It's really kind of fun.  It's awesome, makes people pay attention to it. So that's that one. And then we have the next one, which is a very much a personal tool. This one is the multi-dimensional. This one has all the crystals, the exact same crystal set as the Archangel Michael. The difference here is, as we discussed, these are three completely different tensor rings than the Michael. This one will create a shielding effect, keep your energy calm, clear and all that. But now you have the smaller ring in the middle is the unity ring.  The second ring is a galactic, which is your crown chakra. And that opens that chakra up. So that one connected to your higher self. Then the outside ring is the third eye, which is your a reman qubit. So between those three, you're opening up your third eye, your crown chakra, and the unity ring we've actually found out that it's actually more of a star chakra, keeping your body in alignment, keeping you grounded.  So those three, when you put this pendant on, it will literally open up your higher chakras. You start wanting to travel. It's hard to stay in your body. Right, this is the one I was looking at first. I was like, oh, yummy, astral travel and all of that. And I was very excited, but you said, no, you won't be able to sleep with this one on. You, yeah, you'd have to modulate that. And I thought the Archangel Michael sounded better for my being. You could sleep with this one. It'll help you do travel and it'll keep you protected. And you can do meditations with it and stuff like that, but it's not a daily driver. You can't wear it all day. This one's gonna keep your body, it's gonna keep your energy kind of like wanting to go out. So when we're here doing our work, we can't do that, we have to stay in our body. So. Genius. Well, while you show us the next one, if you don't mind just mention, I know February 10th through the 13th, Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, you're going to be there. You will have a booth and show us the next one while you talk to us. Yep, I gotta grab one down. Go ahead. Yes, I'm gonna be doing. Bev and I will both be at that expo, which is gonna be interesting. Cool, all right. So this one is the Archangel Metatron Pendant. So this one is the straight up shielding. It is based off of the anklets themselves. So when you put this one on, you tend to feel, if you all of a sudden you'll get a quiet energy feeling. So it's kind of quiet energetically, but you'll feel warm because it actually isolates your energy field and it creates such a strong shielding effect to your body. It starts resonating in your body until your energy starts balancing out underneath it. So that's this one here, yeah. Yeah, it's stunning. And the rope, the blue rope corresponding with the blue stones is magnificent. And while you show us the next one, Peter, show us the next one. This is Dare to Dream. What do you next dare to dream? Future dreams, future goals. All right. Oh, I love when the light hits this one and you can see the green. That's amazing. Yes, this one is the Green Micah in Selenite. This one is the Arc Healing Pendant. This one is extremely powerful trying to deal with energy of emotions that are clogged up. So the center will glow green and the outside will glow white. Amazing, it looks like- So it has a green Micah in the Selenite and the other side, yeah. Yeah, okay. And then we'll cover this real quick and then I think we gotta wrap up here. This is the Archangel Metatron Anklet. So this is the Anklet you would put on. It goes down and I basically, I wrap my sock over it, I put them on every day. And right now they're, this is the most recent design. They're very much protected so the copper is not gonna get damaged or anything like that. And we still have the five crystals that are in here, in here. So you don't see them because it's inside the copper mesh. And again, folks, if you're listening to this on podcast, I highly, highly recommend you go to youtube.com slash Debbie Dashinger, spell it D-E-B-B-I, Noe, D-E-B-B-I, D-A-C-H-I-N-G-E-R dot com. Well, that's my website. YouTube.com slash Debbie Dashinger, forgive me. A lot of websites and URLs, but the point is you can see this magnificent work and we haven't covered all of it. I know he's rolling out a few pieces we haven't talked about. So what are you next steered a dream, Peter? What are your future dreams and goals? We need to get the products up on the webpage so that the webpage and actually represent the work, the body of work that we have. But the next thing coming is going to be the star seed pendants. So we're going to end up working on creating a star seed set. I think we're going to be doing a small subset up front for the major star seed environment, star seeds that are here.  And we're going to get the bigger ones out of there, Plady and what they're going to do is we're going to be creating them with a tensor ring that will actually vibrate to what they need and have the crystals in there to what they need. And then we're going to actually have it inscribed in there for a light language or some sort of energy in it. It's going to be laser etched into the pendant so that the energy of what that of the transmission forum is going to be there. So that's what's coming. This is amazing. Amazing. And then we're also working on a entity ward, being able to actually etch into the pendants and entity ward so the entities cannot enter your field. So you could be under attack and it won't even come near you. Thank you for the amazing work you do and for continuing to expand and grow and allow and receive and then deliver to us such spectacular pieces. I know I'm so grateful. This is probably the first of a few. I mean, sound things. It's incredible what you're doing and what you're capable of. So I'm just so proud of you. And thanks for joining us today. And I know there's more to come. Absolutely. Thank you, Debbie. My pleasure. Yes. For folks who are really like chomping at the bit, you can go to energiesofservice.com, Peter Benson out of Arizona, creating these fine tensor ring healing technology. And I end the show with this quote. It is a Chinese proverb. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation on the weekly Dear to Dream with Debbie Dashinger show. And next week on the show, I am featuring the singer, Sarah Hudson. Sarah is a light worker, a multi-platinum songwriter, vocal producer and icon. Sarah Hudson, a member of the Electropop band, Ultraviolet Sound is also Kate Hudson's first cousin. Her godparents are Hudson's mom, Goldie Hawn and Steven Tyler. Remember, don't just dare to dream, dare to turn all your dreams into your reality. And during this time of great ascension and conscious living, there are tools, such as what I'm wearing and what you can wear that will help you at energiesofservice.com. Be well and prosper.


Good evening, everyone, and I would like to thank my hosts, of course, the Australian National University, the US Embassy in Canberra, and the US Studies Center for bringing me here. It's always fun to talk about a controversial topic, so I look forward to all of your questions and comments. In November 2011, of course you all know that President Barack Obama announced that his administration would shift its strategic focus away from the wars of the Middle East to the Asia Pacific. And this new strategic balancing, rebalancing or pivot to Asia, as it came to be called, has evolved. It has come to include a mix of diplomatic, economic, and security-related initiatives. It really was not initially a comprehensive, coherent strategy. In fact, I would say that there was really no strategy document that was guiding the implementation of strategy. But it really has evolved into being much more coherent. My organization, CSIS, was actually tasked, the Defense Department commissioned an independent assessment of US force posture in Asia under the mandate of Congress. And CSIS was asked to produce a report that was released last year, and it focused on how to align US force posture to overall US national interests in the Asia Pacific region. And so that study primarily had a military focus, but my colleagues who were engaged in that study told me they went looking through the drawers of the Pentagon for the strategy document and didn't find one. But the origins of this strategy, I think in the rethinking and the rebalancing, can be traced to really before President Obama took office. I know that Secretary of National Security advisor Tom Donilon is quite fond of telling the story that advisors to the president before he was actually inaugurated would get together and talk about what their priorities would be after they took office. And they asked the question, where is the United States underweighted? Where is the United States overweighted? And it's very clear that the United States has spent a great deal of resources and energy in the Middle East and was very much underweighted in Asia, which was increasingly the most economically dynamic area of the world. Now, although I use the terms rebalance and pivot interchangeably, most US officials do prefer the term rebalance. But the word pivot really, I think, sort of took on the life of its own in Washington. Even President Obama has used it. It's generally considered to represent an abrupt move. So if you're pivoting in one direction, then you're pivoting away from something else. And our European friends and allies in particular did not like the term pivot because they felt that they were being short-shifted. And I think even our allies in Asia felt, well, if we could abruptly pivot in one direction, then we might pivot away. And we still hope that that won't happen, although there I think still some uneasiness that exists throughout the Asia-Pacific region. But I think also it's important to underscore that the pivot or rebalance was not just from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific or the Indo-Pacific, but even perhaps more importantly, is a rebalance from north to south within the Pacific. And that is that we have been so concentrated, especially militarily, but also to some extent diplomatically on northeast Asia. And there has very much been an emphasis now on southeast Asia in this region and the broader Indo-Pacific. And I'll talk a little bit more about that later. So I'd like to discuss a little bit about some of the individual components of the rebalance strategy. And I'm going to start by talking about the economic component, which I think is a very underappreciated part of the U.S. rebalance to Asia. 60 percent of American exports go to the Asia-Pacific region. And by 2025, Asia is projected to account for almost half of the world's economic output. It is certainly clear when President Obama came to power and was facing the global financial crisis that he had to think about where the United States was going to look to to increase our exports and to increase American jobs. And President Obama announced in March of 2010 that the United States would seek to double its exports to $2 trillion in five years. And this further highlights the importance of the region to the United States economically. The economic component, actually, of the pivot, in my view, evolved very slowly. The Obama administration really didn't have a trade policy per se for the first couple of years. But it has evolved to put a great deal of emphasis on the Trans-Pacific partnership. And the United States is working with other Asia-Pacific economies, including Australia, to create the TPP based on a shared commitment to high standards, eliminating market access barriers to goods and services, and addressing 21st-century trade issues and respecting a rules-based economic framework. This is very much a platform for regional economic integration. It is not, of course, the only platform that are being developed. There are others, ASEAN plus three, China, Japan, Korea, many bilateral FTAs and the RCEP. But these are not mutually exclusive, not necessarily in competition either. I think that all can contribute in various ways to promoting trade and regional economic integration. Another economic component of the U.S. rebalancing strategy to Asia is to become more involved in the economic life of the region and support very specific economic projects. And I'm just going to mention a couple of those. The U.S. established the Lower Mekong Initiative, which seeks to strengthen cooperation in the areas of environment and health and education, infrastructure development in the Lower Mekong region. There's also a food security project in Myanmar. And the United States is also seeking to promote trade with some of our important partners such as ASEAN, where we have created what we call the E3, the expanded economic engagement that is designed to expand trade, investment ties, create new business opportunity, and jobs in all 11 countries. I want to move now to talk a little bit about the diplomatic components of the rebalancing strategy. And I think that the most important of these is really multilateral regional institution building. And in my mind, this is one of the newest parts of U.S. policy towards the region. Of course, the United States has been a member of APEC. We've been participating in the ASEAN Regional Forum. But under the George W. Bush administration, there was a discussion within government about whether or not to join the East Asia Summit as it was established. And the decision was made that the United States would stand apart from that organization and be an observer and see what happened and determine sort of later whether or not we should become a member. And when the Obama administration took office, there was a very early decision made that the United States should be involved in shaping the institutions of the region. And so the United States signed the TAC and then joined the East Asia Summit and wants to basically leverage these institutions to promote adherence to international laws and norms, respect for freedom of commerce and navigation, and commitment to resolve disputes peacefully and without the threat of coercion. Of course, the United States also established the U.S. ASEAN Summit. So regional institution building has been a critically important part of the rebalancing strategy and will remain so going forward. Secondly, and I won't go into all of these at length because there are other things that I want to talk about, but I'll just sort of briefly outline what some of these components are, strengthening our alliance, our alliances in the region, Australia, of course, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand, increasing diplomatic coordination and strengthening our security cooperation. The third component is forging deeper partnerships with emerging powers and India and Indonesia, I think are the most important in this regard. The fourth component I will speak at greater length about because that is strengthening our ties with China. And I think that there has been a great deal of misunderstanding, including in China itself, about China's role within the rebalancing strategy. Certainly, the United States seeks to build a constructive relationship with China while shaping China's rise. And I want to say first, we've heard from many senior U.S. officials that the United States strategy towards China is not one of containment, although there are many people in China that seek to characterize U.S. intentions towards China as suppressing its rise, seeking it to prevent it from realizing what Xi Jinping has called the Chinese dream, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The containment strategy as implemented against the former Soviet Union doesn't in any way apply to China. We have massive trade with China. We have, of course, enormous immigration and people-to-people contacts. U.S. presidents, including President Obama, web welcome Chinese emergence as a successful, prosperous and peaceful nation. And I think it's important to note that a containment strategy, if the United States ever wanted to have one against China, could never succeed. There is no country in the region that would want to get on board such a strategy, least of all China's neighbors, who very much benefit and continue to benefit from China's economic rise. China is almost every Asian nation's largest trading partner, including Australia's. And so for the United States, in order to achieve the objectives of our overall rebalancing to Asia, we have to get China right. Or we will not have close relations with our partners and our allies. Moreover, I would argue that the United States itself needs a stable, productive, and cooperative relationship with China. I referred earlier to our national security adviser Tom Donilon, who was given two major speeches on the U.S. rebalancing strategy. The first one was last November, which he gave at my institution at CSIS. And in both of these speeches, he identified cooperation with China as one of the pillars of the U.S. rebalancing strategy. Getting along with China, working together where our country's interests overlap are truly imperative to advancing broader U.S. interests. And I know that here in Australia, there has been a debate over the recent defense white paper and the different languages that was used in 2009 regarding China and the language that is used in the current white paper. And I must admit that what I read through this current white paper, what really struck me is that a lot of the language that's used regarding China really echoes that used by the United States and indeed by President Obama. Both the United States and Australia welcome China's rise.  Neither of us views China as an adversary. And our policies are aimed, as your white paper says, at encouraging China's peaceful rise and ensuring that strategic competition in the region does not lead to conflict. The U.S. and China relationship is really unique in many ways. It is indeed both cooperative and competitive. I remember in 2007 there was a report on the, it was the Colbert report, one of our great comedians that satirized China and called China a frenemy, both a friend and an enemy. And there's really a great deal of truth to that characterization. The U.S. and China are extremely interdependent economically. We share many interests in common, but we remain quite, I think, wary of each other's long-term ambitions as well as intentions. The most worrisome aspect of the U.S.-China relationship, I think, from the American point of view, is in the military realm, although also in the economic realm. But I want to talk about the military realm first. It's this emerging struggle between China's development of capabilities to deny the U.S. access to the region, to the seas around China in a crisis, and the U.S. determination to ensure access, to come to the aid of our allies, if needed, to operate in the region with our Navy and our Air Force in order to defend peace and stability in the region. And I think this really began in the mid-1990s, but it's a far more serious competitive aspect of our relationship now that China's military modernization has made much more progress. China is shifting from a land power to a sea power. It is paranoid about foreign intervention, which is explained by its history of invasion by foreign powers in the 19th and 20th centuries, a period that China refers to as its century of national humiliation. Now that China is wealthier, it wants to be a stronger military, it wants to have a stronger military so it can defend its interests. And this is a major point of the 18th Party Congress work report as well as the recently released defense white paper in China. So I also want to mention in the economic sphere, we have, again, U.S. and China, very interdependent. We have a great deal of trade. United States has an enormous amount of investment in China. I will spare you the figures. But we have a growing problem on the cybersecurity area and cyber espionage, where we have entities in China that are stealing intellectual property. And so our president has called for a level playing field with China. And U.S. companies are not the only companies to suffer from that kind of challenge from China. And indeed, the United States is working closely with our allies and friends in the cybersecurity area. Another worrisome problem is China's assertive behavior in the region. We really saw this begin in about 2009, where China was seen to be putting greater pressure on some of its neighbors, particularly those with which it has territorial disputes. I believe that this in part resulted from an assessment at the time in China that the United States was facing a great deal of pressure economically, is the global financial crisis. U.S. power was seen by many as having peaked and potentially in decline. And I think that there was some hubris in China about narrowing the gap very quickly with the United States and some testing of the waters and putting pressure on some of its neighbors, some of which are U.S. closest allies. And the example that I would point to was in 2010, when there was an arrest of a Chinese fisherman by the Japanese and the Chinese sought to curtail the export of rare earth minerals to Japan. It turned out, I think, to be a rather counterproductive action. But we saw similar economic coercion used by China against the Philippines last year in the Scarborough Shoal incident. And so I think there are worries in the United States about how China's going to use this great leverage that it has over other countries, particularly in the economic realm. So I want to speak very briefly about the military elements of the rebalancing strategy, which many people believe are the sort of core of the rebalance, but I think it's just a portion of it. And as I said, the United States Navy sailed over and under the seas without challenge for centuries and is determined to maintain its access to international waters and preserve freedom of navigation for all seafaring nations. And so the U.S. is seeking a broader distribution of forces in this region while maintaining presence, of course, in Japan and Korea. We are enhancing some of our access arrangements in our presence in Southeast Asia and here in Australia. We are increasing the flexibility of the U.S. defense posture, again to ensure that the U.S. forces can operate freely and strengthening our partners capabilities. And that is a very critical part of the rebalancing strategy to work with other nations, provide more training and more exercises. One example is in the Philippines, which is a country that has been very internally focused in terms of seeing its threats and recently is looking now more outward, wanting to have more situational awareness to maintain a defense of its own waters, including its for its fishermen. So of course, President Obama announced here that a marine expeditionary unit would rotate through Australia. And of course we are beginning to deploy literal combat ships in Singapore, up to four of them. We deployed the first one a few, I think, weeks ago. And U.S. forces are talking with the Philippines also about rotational presence and enhanced access. And our defense secretary at the Shangala Dialogue last year declared that the percentage of our Navy ships deployed in the region would increase to 60% by 2020. That's in that increase, I think, of about 22 platforms. We should note that Chinese ships will probably, by 2020, increase to three or four times that number. Our Air Force capabilities will also increase in the Asia Pacific. And while budget cuts for U.S. military deployments will certainly take place in other parts of the world, and we can talk about sequestration, if you wish, though it would certainly put me to sleep. President Obama has pledged to not reduce money spent for defense in Asia. So if I were to sum up what the United States is doing in this region militarily, I would say the overarching goal is to win the peace. So as President Obama stated, I'm here in Canberra, U.S. goals in the region are to sustain a stable security environment and a regional order rooted in economic openness, peaceful resolution of disputes and respect for universal rights and freedoms. To achieve these goals, the U.S. is clear that we have to have greater economic engagement, we have to strengthen the multilateral architecture here in this region and our partnerships, use more of our soft power, in addition to executing a military rebalance. As I said today, almost every country in the region is somewhat apprehensive about China's rise. Every country in the region, I think virtually every country wants closer ties with the United States. This is something, again, our national security advisor, Donald, refers to as the demand signal in the region. It had many, many leaders, senior officials, come to Washington, talk to our president, our secretary of state and our secretary of defense and urge the United States to be more present in this region because there is uncertainty about China's growing power even as no country wants to have to choose between the United States and China. Probably the most important foreign policy goal of the 21st century is to figure out how to work together coexist with China in the Asia Pacific region. This is a great challenge for the United States. It is extremely important that the U.S. cooperate with China in the region. No country has risen to great power status as rapidly as China has in its history. It rivals and surpasses the rise of the United States in the early part of last century. But China's rise is different in many respects. China rises to great power status with still a very large percentage of its population living in poverty with a determined set of economic goals and objectives and still some ambivalence about what sort of role it wants to play on the international stage. I think we continue to see China's leadership as basically insecure, concerned potentially not only about threats externally but perhaps even more importantly threats internally. But I do want to underscore again the United States welcomes China's rise but we do hope that it will emerge in a peaceful way. Not threaten the interests of its neighbors and contribute in positive ways to addressing regional and global problems. One of the challenges that we face with China is that it actually, I think it continues to be a rather selfish or self-centered power. China has risen or is rising to greatness very quickly and is very concerned about meeting its own goal of building comprehensive national power. Again, the Chinese dream, the resurgence of China as a nation and is very reluctant to take on greater responsibility regionally and globally. And ironically, although some people again say the US wants to exclude China or we want to contain China, the reality is that we have been trying to encourage China to take on greater responsibility and some of you may have heard in the prior administration under George W. Bush, his deputy secretary of state, Bob Zelik at the time, encouraged China to be a responsible stakeholder. And that's something that even though we don't use that language now under the Obama administration, probably that's because new presidents and officials come to power and they hate to use the same lexicon that was used by their predecessors but the reality is in private Obama administration officials continue to use that goal in dealing with China. We want China to be a responsible stakeholder. We would like to see China act in ways that will strengthen the international system rather than undermine it. We hope they will assume greater responsibility, especially for promoting stability in this region. China has in fact been freeriding in some ways on others and so we hope that they will contribute more. I think America's vision is for a China that integrates into the global community in such a way that there are shared norms, values and procedures. And I think that there is willingness and openness in the United States to continue to modify and perfect, improve the international system with China as a participant in that process. And that's something that I think US officials are always conveying to Chinese officials as well. So this is very much a work in progress. And I would close by saying that the importance that the United States attaches to the relationship with China is very clearly demonstrated by a decision that was just made by President Obama and announced a few days ago to have an early summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Initially, the plan had been that our two presidents would not meet until September on the sidelines of the G20. And there were many experts in Washington, including myself, who strongly advocated in early meeting between our presidents. It is important, I think, between any two countries to have a rapport between leaders, but particularly between the US and China, because China is really very much of a top-down system. And if you can have a consensus between your leaders, you can give clear instructions to your bureaucracies, identify some things that you're going to work on, then this can really build momentum. And so I think it's especially important early on in since Xi Jinping will be ruler in China for 10 years. And Obama, of course, is serving his second term in office, there is so much that we really need to do together with China. There is no problem in the world, as I think President Obama said in his first term, that can be solved exclusively by the US and China. But whatever problem there is out there, global climate change, proliferation, certainly North Korea and Iran being two very important examples, the US and China need to work together in order to help to address those problems. And so I'm very much reassured that a decision has been made for our two presidents not to just meet for an hour on the sidelines of a multilateral meeting, but to sit down for, I believe it's a day and a half of meetings in California, a real in-depth discussion about all of the issues in our bilateral, regional, and indeed, increasingly global relationship. And I think that it will have the effect of not only strengthening the US relationship, but also perhaps reassuring people around the world and countries and leaders that the United States takes this relationship very seriously and that we understand that the rest of the world is watching that this is a relationship that we need to manage well. And so with that, I'm happy to take your questions. Thank you.


The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition is one of the most exciting science events in the UK. I want to become a physics professor, so this has helped me a lot. I thought scientists were always going to spuck up guys in the lab coat today. It's just showing me the great world. It gives you the chance to talk to real scientists from all over the country about their research. You'll even be able to take part in their experiments. People usually think it's boring and science is science, but this really lets you see how interesting it is. You get to try things out for yourself and you get lots of free things afterwards. But don't worry if you can't make it in person, because this year the Royal Society is bringing the exhibition to you through its website. You'll be able to do pretty much what everyone else can do at the exhibition. You can meet scientists by watching their profile videos, play the exhibition games and even ask the scientists questions about their work. It's a fantastic opportunity here to see so many people so excited about science and seeing to sort of share their knowledge with other people. Science doesn't have to be outside of everybody's reach. It's something which anybody can do.