For over forty years, Marshall Vian Summers has been receiving and recording a vast revelation about humanity’s future — our emergence into a universe of intelligent life and the great waves of change converging on our world. His is a life of extraordinary encounter, solitary dedication, and an urgent mission that is only now being recognized by the world. This is his story.
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
1949–1970s
Marshall grew up in the Berkeley area of California. From an early age he experienced a connection to nature and an inner sensitivity that he couldn’t explain. At UC Berkeley he studied music and English, but something else was pulling at him — a feeling that his life was meant for something he couldn’t yet see.
Late 1970s
After graduating, Marshall became a teacher for blind children and adults. Working with those who navigated the world without sight, he began to develop and trust a deeper form of knowing — an inner guidance that would later prove central to everything he would receive and teach.
1981
In the fall of 1981, at age 32, Marshall had a direct encounter with an unseen presence — a voice of unmistakable clarity and authority. He was instructed to begin receiving and recording a Message for the world. He did not fully understand what this meant. He only knew he had to respond.
1982–1990s
For nearly two decades, Marshall worked in near-total seclusion — receiving, recording, transcribing, and compiling an enormous body of revelation. Supported by only a few close individuals, he had no public platform and no certainty of where this was leading. The work demanded everything: patience, sacrifice, and a willingness to continue without recognition.
1999–2000s
In 1999, Steps to Knowledge was published — a 365-step spiritual practice for developing the deeper intelligence within each person. It won the Year 2000 Book of the Year award for Spirituality. Marshall began presenting publicly, including at MUFON conferences, speaking about the reality of contact and humanity’s emergence into a greater community of life. The Society for the New Message was established to steward and share the growing body of work.
2001–2012
Beginning in 1997 and continuing into the 2000s, Marshall was asked to receive by this mysterious source a separate set of communications — not from the Angelic Presence that he had come to trust and know as the source of his ongoing revelations, but from a group of free races residing in our region of the galaxy who had come into the proximity of Earth and were observing the situation in our world. Published as the Allies of Humanity briefings, these transmissions described the nature of the extraterrestrial intervention underway on Earth and what humanity must do to preserve its freedom, sharing hard-earned wisdom from their worlds, which had experienced and thwarted similar attempts at intervention and takeover. This body of work would become one of the most direct and unflinching accounts of contact ever presented.
2012–2023
The New Message — comprising over 10,000 pages of revelation — was made freely available online through the New Message website and free School, reaching students in over 100 countries. Marshall continued to receive new teachings and to present through live broadcasts, recordings, and events. The body of work grew to encompass not only contact and world change but a complete theology, a path of spiritual development, and a vision of humanity’s future in the universe. The teachings are translated by volunteers into dozens of languages, reaching across the globe to people of all walks of life.
2024–Present
Today, at 77, Marshall is more active and urgent than ever. The converging crises he has spoken about for decades are now visible to everyone. Disclosure is advancing and the presence of non-human intelligence operating in our world with their own intent is becoming an increasingly pressing matter to growing numbers of people. The world is finally waking up to the reality of Contact. The Emerging Worlds series represents the full scope of his message — seven realities that reframe everything happening in our world and what it demands of each of us. Through Cosmic Intel, Marshall continues to share insights and recordings directly from his home — live, unproduced, and arising from the same contact that began in 1981.
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