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This week I interview Richard, the designer of Frightshow Classics, a line of d100-based horror adventures available on DriveThruRPG, and created in the spirit (and system) of Pacesetter's Chill 1e and the Cryptworld. If you're looking for easy-to-run stories that offer a great 70s/80s/Kolchak the Night Stalker vibe, look no further… Join our friendly Discord: https://discord.gg/5AtydRUDjX Subscribe on to our podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fluffncrunch Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@fluffncrunchpod Subscribe to our email list: https://forms.gle/VaFtxXjkzRSqwFi39 Get Fightshow Classics on DriveThruRPG: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/23052/yeti-spaghetti-and-friends Chill 1e Action Table: http://tinyurl.com/2s49mvxt --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fluffncrunch/message

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When it comes to shopping for food and supplements, one crucial skill is the ability to decipher nutrition labels. Despite ridiculous labeling laws, it's like the Wild West out there, making it incredibly difficult to understand nutrition labels.   In today's episode, I dive into the top 14 marketing claims on product labels that are often meaningless and misleading. Plus, I'll share tips on what you should keep an eye out for when navigating the grocery and supplement aisles.   In this episode, I discuss: 01:25 - All Natural Label Claims 02:07 - Fat Free or Low Fat Labels 03:34 - Fortified with Vitamins and Minerals 04:37 - Gluten Free 05:33 - Great Source of Vitamins 07:50 - Grass-Fed and Pasture-Raised 10:25 - Heart Healthy 11:18 - No Sugar Added 13:54 - Non-GMO 14:59 - Organic 17:36 - Plant-Based and Vegan 18:54 - Sugar-Free 20:30 - Artificial Sweetener 21:06 - Vegetarian Fed 23:14 - Tips for Healthier Grocery Shopping   Learn more from Michael Kummer: Use code “primalshift” to save 15% on your order at https://shop.michaelkummer.com/ Website: https://michaelkummer.com/ Instagram: @mkummer82   Resources for label claims: All Natural The term “all natural” is completely meaningless and does not signify whether a product or its ingredients are healthy. Examples of “all natural” compounds you wouldn't want in your diet include arsenic, E. coli, lead, gluten, linoleic acid and phytoestrogens.   When I see products with this label, I view it as an indication that the brand is trying hard to make an unhealthy product look healthy. As a result, I recommend you steer clear of such products unless you're an experienced label reader. Fat-Free (or Low Fat) The terms “fat-free” and “low fat” are misleading labels that many people associate with healthy products because there is still a misconception that fat (particularly saturated fat and cholesterol) is terrible for your health.    As discussed in this article, saturated fat is actually good for your health. It doesn't clog your arteries, and it doesn't increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.    While I have no issue with certain (naturally) fat-free foods, such as sweet fruits, I recommend staying away from most processed foods that are labeled as fat-free.    After all, removing fat from a product almost always means adding sugar — fat-free yogurt being a prime example.    I recommend buying plain, full-fat products made with A2 milk if you like yogurt. We make our own yogurt using full-fat milk from 100% grass-fed cows. Fortified (Cereals, Crackers) Many parents feed their kids fortified foods in an effort to ensure they get an adequate amount of micronutrients. The problem is that junk food that has been “fortified” with synthetic vitamins (that the body can't absorb) is still junk food. I'm specifically referring to cereals or crackers.   In other words, if the food you feed your kids isn't naturally nutrient-dense, you shouldn't be providing it in the first place. Remember, most processed foods contain inflammatory ingredients, such as grains, nuts, seeds and vegetable oils that can damage the delicate lining inside the gut and cause chronic inflammation among other issues. Additionally, the body poorly absorbs synthetic minerals and vitamins added to fortified foods and most of them end up in the toilet.   Meat, fat and organs from responsibly raised and wild-caught animals, pastured egg yolks and raw dairy are naturally rich in nutrients and do not require fortification. But if your kids are like mine and don't like the taste of organs or are sensitive to dairy or eggs, consider sneaking them into meatballs or patties (we have been successfully doing that with ours) or offering them freeze-dried beef liver capsules.    Our six and eight-year-olds get a whole serving of liver every day in the form of freeze-dried liver capsules.  Gluten-Free None of the products I consider to be fit for human consumption — responsibly raised animals, pastured eggs, raw honey and sweet fruits — are natural sources of gluten. In other words, you'll likely only see that label on processed products you shouldn't be eating on a regular basis anyway.    Regardless, a “gluten-free” designation can be helpful for those who suffer from celiac disease. The problem is that many people who don't have celiac disease equate “gluten-free” with healthy, which is often not the case.    For example, gluten free cookies that contain almond flour and vegetable oil aren't any healthier than those made with wheat flour and butter. In fact, I'd argue that wheat flour is healthier (though not healthy) than a combination of almond flour and vegetable oil, since the latter combo has twice the potential to irritate your gut and negatively impact your metabolism.   Of course, like I said above: if you have celiac disease and even trace amounts of gluten can set off an allergic reaction, the label gluten-free is meaningful. But even in that case, I'd argue that buying only products that are naturally gluten-free is the better (and healthier) option than buying products that were made gluten-free. Great Source of Vitamins While gut microbes can produce certain micronutrients, we need to obtain many of them from the food we eat. As a result, consuming nutrient-dense foods is vital for optimal health.    However, many micronutrients exist in various forms in nature, and not all of those forms are readily absorbable.   For example, meat (and in particular, organ meat such as liver) contains retinol, a highly absorbable and bioavailable type of preformed vitamin A.    Plants, on the other hand, have beta carotene and other precursors of vitamin A that are poorly absorbed and not very bioavailable. The same goes for iron, vitamin K and other micronutrients.   So if you see products at the grocery store that claim to be an excellent source of certain vitamins or minerals, know that there's a good chance the body will poorly absorb the nutrients contained in those foods.    Examples include spinach (non-heme-iron, Vitamin K1) and carrots (beta carotene).   The best source of vitamins and minerals is organ meat from ruminant animals and, in particular, liver. That's why I decided to launch a line of freeze-dried organ meat supplements to offer readily-absorbable nutrients to those who don't like the taste or texture of fresh organs. Grass-Fed When we buy beef or meat from other ruminant animals, we try to find grass-fed options because grass (as opposed to grains) is those animals' appropriate diet.    The thing is that all cows are fed grass at some stage of their life. For example, after being weaned from their mother's milk, calves have to eat grass to properly develop. But after that developmental period, most of them are moved to a feedlot to fatten up on grains.   As a result, brands can claim their products — including meat, milk and cheese — are grass-fed, despite the fact that the animal was eating GMO grains (including corn and soy) for the majority of its life.   Kerrygold — a popular brand that sells “grass-fed” butter and cheese — uses this misleading tactic. A judge recently ruled that the company can continue using the grass-fed label because they're not saying their products are 100% grass-fed.   The moral of the story is that the term grass-fed doesn't mean much. Instead, look for products that come from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished and pasture-raised animals. My 100% grass-fed beef liver capsules fall into that category.   The brands we trust for 100% grass-fed products include White Oak Pastures, Maple Hill, Alexandre Family Farms (not all their products are 100% grass-fed) and a bunch of local farms here in the Atlanta area. If you live near me, reply to this email and I'll hook you up with some names. Healthy Ingredients (heart healthy) The USDA says whole grains are healthy. Advocates of plant-based diets claim that eating plants is healthy. And some people think that “everything in moderation” is a good adage to live by.    I don't agree with any of those assessments, but it illustrates that the word “healthy” on a food label may not mean anything because there is no universally accepted definition of what healthy means.   I'd say that most products that claim healthy ingredients on their label are trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't know what “healthy” means.   I recommend being critical of products that use terms like “healthy ingredients” on their label. Chances are the product actually contains unhealthy ingredients. No Added Sugar Added sugar (together with seed oils) is one of the main factors contributing to the deteriorating health of our society. As a result, products that contain no added sugars are often (but not always) better than those that have them.   However, it's essential to understand that a bag of potato chips made with inflammatory vegetable oils is bad for you, even if it doesn't contain added sugars.    The same applies to fruit juices.    For example, apple juice — with or without added sugar (much like most other liquid carbohydrates) — is unhealthy because it raises your blood glucose levels aggressively while providing relatively limited nutritional value.    Additionally, there's a trick that some brands use to add sugar without having to declare it as such. I'm referring to the use of fruit juices, which don't count as “added sugars” as far as labeling laws are concerned, but are still sugar. Non-GMO For produce, the label “non-GMO” means that the seeds of the plants used to make the product weren't genetically modified (e.g., for better resistance to pests). However, it doesn't mean that the plants weren't modified using traditional cross-breeding techniques or selection.   For example, the wheat we grow today (even the few non-GMO varieties that are left) has very little in common with the ancient grains our ancestors may have consumed thousands of years ago. The problem is that with every genetic change we make, we also introduce new types of proteins that our bodies are not accustomed to. As a result, we increase the likelihood of allergic reactions or sensitivities.   The same principle applies to other plants, including fruits and starchy tubers. Tubers that grew hundreds or thousands of years ago were less sweet and much more fibrous, so they were undoubtedly not the staple that modern tubers are.   The bottom line is that “non-GMO” is a step in the right direction, but it's not the holy grail of food. Also, non-GMO junk food is still junk food.   On a side note, if a food is labeled as organic, it's automatically non-GMO as well. Organic We buy organic fruits and vegetables whenever possible because we want to limit our exposure to chemicals. However, most people don't know that organic doesn't mean “chemical-free.”    The USDA maintains a list of allowed chemicals farmers can use to grow organic produce, and many of them aren't good for your health.    In other words, by buying organic produce you get exposed to fewer chemicals than when buying conventionally grown produce, but you won't escape those toxins completely.   The other trick some organic brands use is to grow fruits (especially berries and leafy greens) in water rather than soil to reduce the need for pesticides. Unfortunately, healthy soil is one of the most important factors in growing nutrient-dense food, and replacing that with liquid plant food isn't the same thing.    As a result, you can expect the organic berries you find at Costco, Whole Foods and other places to be significantly less nutrient-dense than those organically grown in soil.   Here's the thing: we like berries but we don't eat them because of their nutrients (we get those from organ meats). We just eat them because we like how they taste. And as long as they're free of most toxins, we're OK with that.   On a side note, we grow a good portion of the berries we eat in our backyard without using any chemicals (organic or otherwise). Pastured/Pasture-Raised Until a few years ago, I thought that pasture-raised also meant 100% grass-fed. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Some brands make pasture-raised claims even if the animals didn't spend their entire lives on a pasture. But even 100% pasture-raised animals may have had access to grain-based feed.   For products containing the meat or milk of ruminant animals, it's best to look for 100% pasture-raised and 100% grass-fed labels.    For pork and poultry, the label pastured is a good indication of appropriate living conditions. However, it doesn't mean that the animals weren't fed a diet that may negatively impact your health (and that of the animal).    For example, virtually all pigs and chickens in this country are fed a diet heavy in corn and soy, increasing the inflammatory omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid ratio in their fat tissue.    That's the main reason we limit our pork and chicken intake.   On a side note, White Oak Pastures (where we buy a lot of the beef and chicken we consume) recently stopped feeding their chickens corn and soy, and their pigs are next on the list for this welcome upgrade! Plant-Based/Vegan Unfortunately, many people still believe that consuming plants is good for our health. As a result, plant-based products are considered healthy.    The truth is that the opposite is usually the case, because many plant-based processed foods (e.g., cooking oils, sausages or fake meat patties) are filled with unhealthy ingredients, including seed oils.    Just compare the ingredient list of a Beyond Burger patty (25 ingredients) with a regular pattie (one ingredient), and you'll realize what I'm talking about.   As a result, I avoid processed foods that are labeled vegan or plant-based. Instead, I always choose 100% grass-fed meat over fake meat; animal fats (such as tallow or butter) over vegetable oils; raw honey over maple syrup; and raw milk over nut, soy or oat milk.   PS: Maple syrup is OK to consume but isn't better or healthier than raw honey. Sugar-Free If you follow a low-carb diet or try to avoid sugar, the term “sugar free” might sound appealing. Unfortunately, it doesn't always mean you're buying a healthy product.   For example, FDA labeling guidelines allow brands to claim the product has no sugar if it has less than one gram per serving. While that may not sound like a big deal, it could mean that the three packs of “zero sugar” sweetener you pour into your coffee have, in fact, almost three grams of sugar. That's almost a tablespoon.   The second problem with sugar-free products is that brands often substitute sugar for artificial sweeteners, such as sucralose, that are known to negatively impact both the microbiome in your gut as well as your glucose metabolism.   The bottom line is that not all sugar-free products are good for your health, and you need to read the label carefully to understand what sugar substitutes were used instead. Vegetarian Fed (Chickens, Pork, Eggs)  Seeing the label “vegetarian fed” on a carton of eggs makes me giggle, because it's an honest admission that the chickens were fed a diet that's inappropriate for the species.    Chickens are insectivores, and while they can also extract nutrients from plants, it's not their ideal diet.   Unfortunately, there aren't any commercial alternatives (that I know of) regarding chickens, pork and eggs.    In other words, the best you can do is look for eggs that were fed a corn and soy-free diet.  

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George Will on changing minds over 50 years of column-writing and how the Overton Window shifted in baseball

For 23 days Vivid Sydney literally transforms Sydney into one huge dazzling nighttime canvas of light as the city's iconic landmarks, historic buildings, the bridge and gardens are illuminated in brilliant colour. The city becomes a wonderland of light-art and in a sense points us to the Great Source of Light and Life – Jesus Christ. 

In this episode Michael talks to Lisa Peterson about her awesome open house process. Lisa started her career in Real Estate in 2017. She attended a Ninja Installation in 2022 and has been coaching with Windermere Coaching for a year. She is in the Maple Valley 4 corners office. She has very consistent business and she attributes it to being accountable for here daily actions. She also has a great process when it comes to working her open houses weather it is her listing or not. By raising the bar and going above and beyond for her clients she is able to do what only 6% of our industry is willing to do. If you would like to contact Lisa she can be reached at lisapeterson@windermere.com or calling her at 253-455-6769 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coachingmin/support

- Toyota Losing Money in the U.S. Market - Ford Credit Launches Ad Campaign - Mine Waste a Great Source for EV Materials - BYD YangWang Targets Mercedes G-Wagon - Who Needs Lithium? Not BYD's Sodium Batteries - New Renault 5 is All Electric - Toyota Taco Gets Hybrid Option - Amazon Operating 3,000 Rivian Vans - Genesis Unveils GV80 Coupe Concept - AM Radio on the Way Out

- Toyota Losing Money in the U.S. Market - Ford Credit Launches Ad Campaign - Mine Waste a Great Source for EV Materials - BYD YangWang Targets Mercedes G-Wagon - Who Needs Lithium? Not BYD's Sodium Batteries - New Renault 5 is All Electric - Toyota Taco Gets Hybrid Option - Amazon Operating 3,000 Rivian Vans - Genesis Unveils GV80 Coupe Concept - AM Radio on the Way Out

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Bill Gates is credited with the quote that “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”  Let's face it.  Nobody likes to deal with customers who are mad at you.  Especially when they are emotionally charged.  In this week's episode, Mike & Blaine discuss the challenges of dealing with an unhappy customer and how you can turn this situation into a win-win for everyone involved.Today's Beer:Mike: Neighbour Pat's Moose Drool Brown AleBlaine: Half Acre Beer Company - Deep Space IPA@HalfAcreBeerWatch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/h-ar2MQK5-YListen to all our episodes at: https://www.mikeandblaine.com/podcastcashflowmike.comdryrun.com#smallbusiness, #cashflow #finance #beer #friends #entrepreneur #smbs #craftbeer Support the showCatch more episodes, see our sponsors and get in touch at https://mikeandblaine.com/

Show 179 - Eye Dollar Tree! - 3rd February 2023 2023 Ted Salmon and Aidan Bell Contributions and Feedback Aidan Bell 2023 Acting Showreel Daniel Bemis on Migraine Buddy Jim Fowl on Pee & See: Water Reminder Chris Kelly on the Anker 737 PowerCore 24K Power Bank - Reviewed by Steve Litchfield. UGreen Nexode 100W USB-C GaN Charger - Reviewed by Steve Litchfield Tefal EasyFry Precision 2-in-1 Digital Air Fryer - Instruction Manual - Salter Alternative Daniel Bemis on Schlage Encode Lock - AmazonUK Steve Litchfield on EasySleep White Noise Machine MiiR Insulated Coffee Carafe Chris Clayton on Wandrd Prvke 31L Photo Bundle Sedona Orange Camera Bag Paul Williams on Anker Power Bank 521 Magnetic Portable Charger Ian Watson on Multi-zone Electric Blanket I Wonder Who Bought It Amazon Basics 15-Mode Bread Maker Ted's Top Tips How to turn AAA Batteries into AAs Jubaopen Adapters Still Using Noco Genius G750UK Battery Maintainer OptiMate 4 Cheap as Chips (under a tenner) Brackit "Chocolate Block" Wire Connectors Daniel Bemis on Spring Plates (and now, also Snowman ones)! IKEA is a Great Source for Cheap Dinnerware I Want One of Those! Szempty Lithium Rechargeable AA Batteries Here's a Simple EDC Multi-tool that you can Clip to Anything VS-01 Upright Vinyl Record Player Listen to Vinyl Anywhere with Victrola's Revolution GO Cord-Free Turntable Room 101 Google Assistant asking follow-up questions Flintshire Motorcycles Ian Barton on Amazon Gold Star Chris Kelly

One of the best ways to find words that your prospects will understand is to use the words your audience uses. Do NOT use industry jargon because they don't understand. Translate your jargon OR just use their words in your marketing. Josh shares a couple of pretty funny stories to drive home this point: The Double Wave and How to Outrun Age. Listen to this episode and learn more about all of the ways Josh and his team can help you. Then you should connect with Josh at GoSocialExperts.com

One of the best ways to find words that your prospects will understand is to use the words your audience uses. Do NOT use industry jargon because they don't understand. Translate your jargon OR just use their words in your marketing. Josh shares a couple of pretty funny stories to drive home this point: The Double Wave and How to Outrun Age. Listen to this episode and learn more about all of the ways Josh and his team can help you. Then you should connect with Josh at GoSocialExperts.com

Where to Look for Leads #442 Great Source of all Leads Stay awake to the news Keep up on social Seek referrals from clients Attend networks coffee and tea   At the conference greet old friends At the social, introductions Referrals from client Resource library and network events Leads are to be found all around   Knowing there are no prospects without leads Listen  Look All is a well that never goes dry Infinite the opportunity They are there for the seeking.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, earning references, upselling, marketing, lead generation, copywriting, and most important the right selling mindset. Stop fearing sales and embrace it. Learn the selling secrets for non-sellers and start making a difference today. Here is the entire back catalog of episodes in the sales podcast.  Look here https://www.salesbabble.com/sales-podcast-free-advice/ This is a production of Habanero Media https://habaneromedia.net

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to God and the Higher Planes. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts.By the time she became a mother of three young children her visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused. and the messages to become clear and true. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source of God, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen.She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self.Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and messages. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her newly found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved, who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others.Thousands of people have witnessed these spirit portraits through church services and private work proving human conscious survives death. Beautiful angels, faces of loved ones, symbols and scenes are drawn.Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...Could a Bad Thing Happen to me?, discusses how to cope with grief and fears.The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published.Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She was host and producer of her own radio program, "Spirit Connections". These archives are still free to hear.Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, an intuitive spiritual counselor, mentor,True spirit artist and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 35 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance, Holy Spirit and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angelic Spiritual portraits.Websiteangelstoguideyou.com/home

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to the Higher Spheres. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts. By the time she became a mother of three young children, the visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused and the messages to become clear. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen. She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self. Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and images. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her new found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna Voll knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others. Thousands of people have been touched by these spirit portraits through church services and private work. Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...could bad thing happen to me?, and deals with how to cope with grief and fears. The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published. Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She also is host of her own internet radio program, "Spirit Connections". Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, and an intuitive spiritual counselor, and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 15 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angel Portraits. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Today on the podcast we have the amazing Psychic Medium, Animal Communicator, Best Selling Author , Spiritual Teacher and Finder of Lost Pets, Medium Mari!

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to the Higher Spheres. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts. By the time she became a mother of three young children, the visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused and the messages to become clear. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen. She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self. Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and images. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her new found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna Voll knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others. Thousands of people have been touched by these spirit portraits through church services and private work. Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...could bad thing happen to me?, and deals with how to cope with grief and fears. The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published. Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She also is host of her own internet radio program, "Spirit Connections". Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, and an intuitive spiritual counselor, and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 15 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angel Portraits. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to the Higher Spheres. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts. By the time she became a mother of three young children, the visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused and the messages to become clear. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen. She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self. Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and images. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her new found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna Voll knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others. Thousands of people have been touched by these spirit portraits through church services and private work. Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...could bad thing happen to me?, and deals with how to cope with grief and fears. The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published. Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She also is host of her own internet radio program, "Spirit Connections". Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, and an intuitive spiritual counselor, and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 15 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angel Portraits. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to the Higher Spheres. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts. By the time she became a mother of three young children, the visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused and the messages to become clear. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen. She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self. Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and images. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her new found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna Voll knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others. Thousands of people have been touched by these spirit portraits through church services and private work. Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...could bad thing happen to me?, and deals with how to cope with grief and fears. The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published. Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She also is host of her own internet radio program, "Spirit Connections". Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, and an intuitive spiritual counselor, and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 15 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angel Portraits. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Donna Voll has always been connected to the spirit world. Some of her earliest clairvoyant visions, sometimes frightening and often unexplained, came to her during childhood. These visions were difficult to comprehend as a small child, but her mother helped her use prayer to keep her visions directed to the Higher Spheres. As she matured, she experienced premonitions and prophecies that confirmed her spiritual gifts. By the time she became a mother of three young children, the visions became more prevalent. She began a course of study into spiritual development, which allowed the clairvoyant visions to become focused and the messages to become clear. She also understood the need for prayer and meditation to truly hear her Higher Self and the connection from the Great Source, Holy Spirit. She understood God speaks to all of us through this means. We only have to listen. She helps others by teaching, as well as by bringing them messages from their Higher Spirit for guidance and comfort. Information about loved ones is received by connecting with your Higher Self. Once during a meditation, she was suddenly impressed to draw faces and images. Having never had art training, she was amazed at the art that poured through her. It was months before she shared her new found gift with anyone. Then one day, impressed by spirit, she gave a certain picture to another woman, who was overjoyed. She cried, remarking that the drawing was a portrait of a young man she loved who had passed away. A message accompanied the portrait that revealed he was fine and close to God. After that day, Donna Voll knew that her Spiritual Gift should be shared in order to help guide and comfort others. Thousands of people have been touched by these spirit portraits through church services and private work. Donna received her degree in Early Childhood education, served as a pre-school teacher, and has recently written and illustrated two children's stories. The first published work, entitled Tell Me...could bad thing happen to me?, and deals with how to cope with grief and fears. The second book, What's a MuchMore?, written in collaboration with her husband, is a story about children learning to appreciate themselves and others. It is currently in the process of being published. Donna is a sought after guest on many radio stations. She also is host of her own internet radio program, "Spirit Connections". Rev. Voll is an ordained minister, certified clairvoyant, and an intuitive spiritual counselor, and has served numerous churches throughout the United States and Canada. For the last 15 years she has been teaching practical meditation, spiritual philosophy and spiritual development, which focuses on the importance of trusting the individual's own inner guidance and the recognition of one's Higher Self. Donna is internationally known for her knowledge and teachings in Angel Studies and presents an intensive seminar on the Angelic Realm. She also does extensive spiritual counseling, blending her teaching techniques with her intuition and unique gift of Angel Portraits. For Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - for more information visit http://www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

'The Right Morning Routine can be a Great Source of Power' This one is pretty self-explanatory but read that one again... Now, imagine the opposite. Because that's also true. 'The Wrong Morning Routine can be a Great Source of [Insert Negative]' Negative = Chaos / Depression / Distruction / Unhappy / etc Keep Striving! Stian

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Monica Lewis - Director of Product Management at LinkedIn joins Alan as they talk about the very high unemployment rates around the world right now because of coronavirus. LinkedIn did a survey and 84% of those surveyed said that they feel there is stigma around being unemployed and ⅔ of them think that stigma is impacting them getting hired to a new job. They talk about how LinkedIn is a great source for finding mentors who can help you find the job you are looking for or help you overcome some problem you are having with your company. Monica explains how Linkedln has a tool that can help you figure out the steps in getting the job or career that you are looking for. If you are wanting to hire people, you can signal on your LinkedIn profile that you are searching for new employees.  Monica says how great it is that LinkedIn is a social networking site that is able to focus on businesses, being professional and being a safe community. They have seen a huge increase in traffic on their site, due to the pandemic.  Alan dives right in with Scott Schilling - Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Bee Konnected. They talk about how Scott’s company, Bee Konnected, is all about making connections and new opportunities. They talk about how Scott’s site uses algorithms, like on dating sites, to match you up with people who can help you the most. Scott talks about how they are hearing a lot of great success stories right now, because more and more people are working remotely and using the site to connect with other people and to learn from them.  They discuss various training programs on the site that can train you for a new career or retrain you in how to excel at your current job. They talk about a great webinar service that they offer through the site for a small subscription fee. They talk about how the pandemic has affected nonprofit organizations. Scott talks about how fear is something that has to be manufactured. In order to get into fear, you have to get out of your present, and get into an imagined future. He says that faith is the reverse of fear. You have to have faith in a better future. Scott says that we need to be physically distant from others right now but not socially distant.  [00:00:00] Unemployment Stigma with Monica Lewis [00:06:18] Linkedin a Great Source for Help [00:11:30] Linkedin Professional and Safe [00:18:20] Scott Shilling Making Konnections [00:25:57] Retrain to Excel [00:33:24] Jura Coffee; Physically Distant Not Socially Distant

2020 has been an unusual and difficult year for many, and we understand that the full repercussions of what we have all been through are still to be felt - but with summer now distant and the glory of autumn in full flow, we continue with a healthy amount of discussion on some of our favourite horticultural topics, bringing a little dose of the garden to your daily lives.As 2020 draws towards the festivities of Christmas, the garden becomes a great source of decoration for the house - holly, conifers, pine-cones and dried fruits abound can be used to make beautiful traditional wreathes and swags for the front door, balustrades and mantelpiece. Saul has a good chat to Lucy who creates all her estates decorations every year and she describes how she does it and how much joy it brings her at this time of year.Twitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulLucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Monica Lewis - Director of Product Management at LinkedIn joins Alan as they talk about the very high unemployment rates around the world right now because of coronavirus. LinkedIn did a survey and 84% of those surveyed said that they feel there is stigma around being unemployed and ⅔ of them think that stigma is impacting them getting hired to a new job. They talk about how LinkedIn is a great source for finding mentors who can help you find the job you are looking for or help you overcome some problem you are having with your company. Monica explains how Linkedln has a tool that can help you figure out the steps in getting the job or career that you are looking for. If you are wanting to hire people, you can signal on your LinkedIn profile that you are searching for new employees.  Monica says how great it is that LinkedIn is a social networking site that is able to focus on businesses, being professional and being a safe community. They have seen a huge increase in traffic on their site, due to the pandemic.  Alan dives right in with Scott Schilling - Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Bee Konnected. They talk about how Scott’s company, Bee Konnected, is all about making connections and new opportunities. They talk about how Scott’s site uses algorithms, like on dating sites, to match you up with people who can help you the most. Scott talks about how they are hearing a lot of great success stories right now, because more and more people are working remotely and using the site to connect with other people and to learn from them.  They discuss various training programs on the site that can train you for a new career or retrain you in how to excel at your current job. They talk about a great webinar service that they offer through the site for a small subscription fee. They talk about how the pandemic has affected nonprofit organizations. Scott talks about how fear is something that has to be manufactured. In order to get into fear, you have to get out of your present, and get into an imagined future. He says that faith is the reverse of fear. You have to have faith in a better future. Scott says that we need to be physically distant from others right now but not socially distant.  [00:00:00] Unemployment Stigma with Monica Lewis [00:06:18] Linkedin a Great Source for Help [00:11:30] Linkedin Professional and Safe [00:18:20] Scott Shilling Making Konnections [00:25:57] Retrain to Excel [00:33:24] Jura Coffee; Physically Distant Not Socially Distant

➤ Learning From Mistakes ~ Experience as a great source for learning - a short interview with seminar presenter Jean Moroney. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show.

Having a consistent process for your project production is a must to maximize your job profits. If you're tired of getting those phone calls from the job or angry customers you'll want to listen to my interview with Tim Faller. Tim has consulted on production with hundreds of construction companies and we discuss his best practices for reducing slippage and making more profit on every job. “The money is made in the sale. It's production's job to protect it.” What you'll hear in this episode: The two main reasons Tim gets called: Remodelers call him with issues regarding slippage, inefficiency, or labor issues - issues pertaining to where they may be losing money. More companies are calling because they want to get their processes in place and working smoothly in preparation for transitioning to new ownership in the next 5 years, or they want to prepare and be ready for a recession. Problems are usually due to a lack of communication and commonly have to do with the handoff of information from sales to production. The lack of information is typically the reason why production struggles and isn't as efficient as it could be. What Tim is hearing is that the field staff feels like they are not getting enough information to do their project effectively. Lack of management of a client is also an issue that Tim sees. The contractor controls the flow of the work, the start time, the materials selections, etc. Tim shares a story that reflects how critical processes are. Salespeople should have a checklist that is completed for every job. The checklist should be created by the production team. Checklist considerations should include what the salespeople need in order to SELL the job, and what production needs in order to PRODUCE the job. These are often two very different things. Tim suggests a meeting between the foreman and the lead installer with the sales team, and get the turnover of 3 or 4 jobs at a time.  They can read everything that's in the paperwork.  What's NOT in the contract?  Who are the clients? How do they think? Who will be home during the day? How do they make decisions? What are some of their fears? What are some of the access issues we might have? What are the problematic spots that we might run in to? Prepare for challenges and be ready. For example, how many layers of shingles will we be stripping? How much rot damage should we be prepared for?  These kinds of questions help bridge the gap between the sales team and production, and prevent the negative divides. The physical hand off of information from sales to production is important. The lead on a job should check and confirm all materials before the project starts. It's possible that this task might be done 3 or 4 jobs ahead, so that we're all working on this. This is one of those areas where the lead on the job can double-check for accuracy and request any extra items that might be needed, and take responsibility for making sure that the right materials are on the job site. Somebody else can order it all, somebody else can make sure it gets delivered at the right time, but a checklist of items and physically seeing that all materials are ready to be delivered to the job site are an effective handoff. Consider having a pre-stocked trailer on site that allows them to have extra nails, extra caulk, extra flashing, etc. so that they don't have to run off and leave the job. This can be “indirect costs” for budget purposes.  Debrief - don't just shrug off an issue after the job is done. When you see a problem, get your team together for a post-mortem meeting and discuss what can be done to ensure that problem doesn't happen again. Dave shares the process he uses in roofing. One of the biggest challenges a company faces is getting away from the “it is what it is” thinking. If you have the correct culture in your business, everybody's working toward the same goal. Tim provides some tips on managing the client's expectations.   Connect with Tim! Tim's Website Tim's Email Tim is Starting a Peer Group for Specialty Companies For More Info: Remodeler's Advantage Subscribe & Listen to the Power Tips Unscripted Podcast! Great Source of Information! Power Tips Unscripted Podcast Resources / Links: Download My FREE 1-Page Business Plan Text me @ (510) 612-1450 - Say Hi! I would love to hear your feedback, pros & cons! **Please leave me a review on iTunes!** ~Please Share My Podcast With Other Contractors~   The Roofer Show Sponsor Info Need Help Answering the Phone Or Online Chat? Use Ruby Receptionists!! Click here and use the code Roofer50 for a special discount! https://www.callruby.com/roofershow Or Call Ruby at (844) 326-7829 Check out the app!! —-> Dave's Listeners Get a 21-Day Money Back Guarantee

November 3rd, 2019 - The Great Source of Joy - Matthew 13 & Luke 15 - Nicole Unice by Saratoga Federated Church

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Having a consistent process for your project production is a must to maximize your job profits. If you're tired of getting those phone calls from the job or angry customers you'll want to listen to my interview with Tim Faller. Tim has consulted on production with hundreds of construction companies and we discuss his best practices for reducing slippage and making more profit on every job. “The money is made in the sale. It's production's job to protect it.” Show Highlights: The two main reasons Tim gets called: Remodelers call him with issues regarding slippage, inefficiency, or labor issues - issues pertaining to where they may be losing money. More companies are calling because they want to get their processes in place and working smoothly in preparation for transitioning to new ownership in the next 5 years, or they want to prepare and be ready for a recession. Problems are usually due to a lack of communication and commonly has to do with the handoff of information from sales to production. The lack of information is typically the reason why production struggles and isn't as efficient as it could be. What Tim is hearing is that the field staff feels like they are not getting enough information to do their project effectively. Lack of management of a client is also an issue that Tim sees. The contractor controls the flow of the work, the start time, the materials selections, etc. Tim shares a story that reflects how critical processes are. Salespeople should have a checklist that is completed for every job. The checklist should be created by the production team. Checklist considerations should include what the salespeople need in order to SELL the job, and what production needs in order to PRODUCE the job. This is often two very different things. Tim suggests a meeting between the foreman and the lead installer with the sales team, and get the turnover of 3 or 4 jobs at a time. They can read everything that's in the paperwork. What's NOT in the contract? Who are the clients? How do they think? Who will be home during the day? How do they make decisions? What are some of their fears? What are some of the access issues we might have? What are the problematic spots that we might run in to? Prepare for challenges and be ready. For example, how many layers of shingles will we be stripping? How much rot damage should we be prepared for? These kinds of questions help bridge the gap between the sales team and production and prevent negative divides. The physical handoff of information from sales to production is important. The lead on a job should check and confirm all materials before the project starts. It's possible that this task might be done 3 or 4 jobs ahead so that we're all working on this. This is one of those areas where the lead on the job can double-check for accuracy and request any extra items that might be needed, and take responsibility for making sure that the right materials are on the job site. Somebody else can order it all, somebody else can make sure it gets delivered at the right time, but a checklist of items and physically seeing that all materials are ready to be delivered to the job site are an effective handoff. Consider having a pre-stocked trailer on site that allows them to have extra nails, extra caulk, extra flashing, etc. so that they don't have to run off and leave the job. This can be “indirect costs” for budget purposes. Debrief - don't just shrug off an issue after the job is done. When you see a problem, get your team together for a post-mortem meeting and discuss what can be done to ensure that the problem doesn't happen again. Dave shares the process he uses in roofing. One of the biggest challenges a company faces is getting away from the “it is what it is” thinking. If you have the correct culture in your business, everybody's working toward the same goal. Tim provides some tips on managing the client's expectations. Links: For Tips, Strategies, and Free Downloads! The Roofer Show Text Dave @ (510) 612-1450 - Say Hi! I would love to hear your feedback, pros & cons! Please leave me a review on iTunes!   UPCOMING CONFERENCE! 2019 Remodelers Summit September 24-25 in Orlando, FL “Evolution: The Art of Growth” Remodelers Summit UPCOMING CONFERENCE! 2019 Production Conference September 26 in Orlando, FL “Team Building” Production Conference   CONNECT WITH TIM Website: The Tim Faller Show Email: tim@remodelersadvantage.com Tim is Starting a Peer Group for Specialty Companies For More Info: Remodelers Advantage Subscribe & Listen to the Power Tips Unscripted Podcast! Great Source of Information!  Power Tips Podcast The Roofer Show Sponsor Info: Need Help Answering the Phone Or Online Chat? Use Ruby Receptionists!! Click here and use the code Roofer50 for a special discount! Call Ruby Or Call Ruby at (844) 326-7829 Check out the app!! —-> Dave's Listeners Get a 21-Day Money Back Guarantee

The Gospel Of Luke: A Joy-Filled Journey With The Son Of Man The Inauguration Of The Gospel Of Grace, Part 3 Luke 3:15-22 Pastor Sam Cirrincione NOTES: The Great Scope of the Gospel of Grace (v. 1-2a) The Great Source of the Gospel of Grace (v. 2b-6) The Great Preparation for the Gospel of Grace (v. 7-9) The Great Product of the Gospel of Grace (v. 10-14) The Great Focus of the Gospel of Grace (v. 15-17) - The Superiority of Jesus - The Baptism of Jesus - The Judgement of Jesus The Great Faithfulness of John (v. 18-20) - The Diligence of John - The Impartiality of John - The Courage of John The Great Affirmation of Jesus (v. 21-22) - The Baptism of Jesus - The Holy Spirit on Jesus - The Father's Voice to Jesus

This is a continuation of Podcast 142, talking about what it means to “Believe It In,” as was taught over 50 years ago by Neville Goddard, a teacher and lecturer based in Los Angeles during the last century.If you haven't listened to Podcast 142, hop back there now and we'll see you back here for the conclusion of how we steer our outcomes through our imaginations combined with plugging into our Great Source.Here's a link to the “Believe It In” article and a YouTube video of one of Neville's talks:http://realneville.com/txt/believe_it_in.htmEnjoy the Journey,ThomasThe post Podcast 143 – Neville Goddard – “Believe It In” – Part 2 appeared first on Subconscious Mind Mastery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a special request from our Facebook Group, which if you haven't joined is here and we would love to have you:https://www.facebook.com/groups/326454274525793/?ref=bookmarksThe request was to elaborate on an article written many years ago by Neville Goddard, who was a prominent teacher of the imagination and thoughts becoming our reality. He lived in LA and taught mostly in the 50's 60's and 70's of the last century.This request took me a lot deeper, and in this podcast and in the next in Podcast 143, we unpack not only how to “Believe It In,” but how we are part of the Great Source from which all things come, and by connecting with that Source, we can draw to ourselves all that we need and want from that Great Supply.Here is the “Believe It In” article by Neville Goddard and a short lecture from YouTube to just expose you to more of his work:http://realneville.com/txt/believe_it_in.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2L-BwWcA50Enjoy the Journey,ThomasThe post Podcast 142 – Neville Goddard – Believe It In appeared first on Subconscious Mind Mastery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident (1077.1) 98:0.1 THE Melchizedek teachings entered Europe along many routes, but chiefly they came by way of Egypt and were embodied in Occidental philosophy after being thoroughly Hellenized and later Christianized. The ideals of the Western world were basically Socratic, and its later religious philosophy became that of Jesus as it was modified and compromised through contact with evolving Occidental philosophy and religion, all of which culminated in the Christian church. (1077.2) 98:0.2 For a long time in Europe the Salem missionaries carried on their activities, becoming gradually absorbed into many of the cults and ritual groups which periodically arose. Among those who maintained the Salem teachings in the purest form must be mentioned the Cynics. These preachers of faith and trust in God were still functioning in Roman Europe in the first century after Christ, being later incorporated into the newly forming Christian religion. (1077.3) 98:0.3 Much of the Salem doctrine was spread in Europe by the Jewish mercenary soldiers who fought in so many of the Occidental military struggles. In ancient times the Jews were famed as much for military valor as for theologic peculiarities. (1077.4) 98:0.4 The basic doctrines of Greek philosophy, Jewish theology, and Christian ethics were fundamentally repercussions of the earlier Melchizedek teachings. 1. The Salem Religion Among the Greeks (1077.5) 98:1.1 The Salem missionaries might have built up a great religious structure among the Greeks had it not been for their strict interpretation of their oath of ordination, a pledge imposed by Machiventa which forbade the organization of exclusive congregations for worship, and which exacted the promise of each teacher never to function as a priest, never to receive fees for religious service, only food, clothing, and shelter. When the Melchizedek teachers penetrated to pre-Hellenic Greece, they found a people who still fostered the traditions of Adamson and the days of the Andites, but these teachings had become greatly adulterated with the notions and beliefs of the hordes of inferior slaves that had been brought to the Greek shores in increasing numbers. This adulteration produced a reversion to a crude animism with bloody rites, the lower classes even making ceremonial out of the execution of condemned criminals. (1077.6) 98:1.2 The early influence of the Salem teachers was nearly destroyed by the so-called Aryan invasion from southern Europe and the East. These Hellenic invaders brought along with them anthropomorphic God concepts similar to those which their Aryan fellows had carried to India. This importation inaugurated the evolution of the Greek family of gods and goddesses. This new religion was partly based on the cults of the incoming Hellenic barbarians, but it also shared in the myths of the older inhabitants of Greece. (1078.1) 98:1.3 The Hellenic Greeks found the Mediterranean world largely dominated by the mother cult, and they imposed upon these peoples their man-god, Dyaus-Zeus, who had already become, like Yahweh among the henotheistic Semites, head of the whole Greek pantheon of subordinate gods. And the Greeks would have eventually achieved a true monotheism in the concept of Zeus except for their retention of the overcontrol of Fate. A God of final value must, himself, be the arbiter of fate and the creator of destiny. (1078.2) 98:1.4 As a consequence of these factors in religious evolution, there presently developed the popular belief in the happy-go-lucky gods of Mount Olympus, gods more human than divine, and gods which the intelligent Greeks never did regard very seriously. They neither greatly loved nor greatly feared these divinities of their own creation. They had a patriotic and racial feeling for Zeus and his family of half men and half gods, but they hardly reverenced or worshiped them. (1078.3) 98:1.5 The Hellenes became so impregnated with the antipriestcraft doctrines of the earlier Salem teachers that no priesthood of any importance ever arose in Greece. Even the making of images to the gods became more of a work in art than a matter of worship. (1078.4) 98:1.6 The Olympian gods illustrate man’s typical anthropomorphism. But the Greek mythology was more aesthetic than ethic. The Greek religion was helpful in that it portrayed a universe governed by a deity group. But Greek morals, ethics, and philosophy presently advanced far beyond the god concept, and this imbalance between intellectual and spiritual growth was as hazardous to Greece as it had proved to be in India. 2. Greek Philosophic Thought (1078.5) 98:2.1 A lightly regarded and superficial religion cannot endure, especially when it has no priesthood to foster its forms and to fill the hearts of the devotees with fear and awe. The Olympian religion did not promise salvation, nor did it quench the spiritual thirst of its believers; therefore was it doomed to perish. Within a millennium of its inception it had nearly vanished, and the Greeks were without a national religion, the gods of Olympus having lost their hold upon the better minds. (1078.6) 98:2.2 This was the situation when, during the sixth century before Christ, the Orient and the Levant experienced a revival of spiritual consciousness and a new awakening to the recognition of monotheism. But the West did not share in this new development; neither Europe nor northern Africa extensively participated in this religious renaissance. The Greeks, however, did engage in a magnificent intellectual advancement. They had begun to master fear and no longer sought religion as an antidote therefor, but they did not perceive that true religion is the cure for soul hunger, spiritual disquiet, and moral despair. They sought for the solace of the soul in deep thinking — philosophy and metaphysics. They turned from the contemplation of self-preservation — salvation — to self-realization and self-understanding. (1078.7) 98:2.3 By rigorous thought the Greeks attempted to attain that consciousness of security which would serve as a substitute for the belief in survival, but they utterly failed. Only the more intelligent among the higher classes of the Hellenic peoples could grasp this new teaching; the rank and file of the progeny of the slaves of former generations had no capacity for the reception of this new substitute for religion. (1079.1) 98:2.4 The philosophers disdained all forms of worship, notwithstanding that they practically all held loosely to the background of a belief in the Salem doctrine of “the Intelligence of the universe,” “the idea of God,” and “the Great Source.” In so far as the Greek philosophers gave recognition to the divine and the superfinite, they were frankly monotheistic; they gave scant recognition to the whole galaxy of Olympian gods and goddesses. (1079.2) 98:2.5 The Greek poets of the fifth and sixth centuries, notably Pindar, attempted the reformation of Greek religion. They elevated its ideals, but they were more artists than religionists. They failed to develop a technique for fostering and conserving supreme values. (1079.3) 98:2.6 Xenophanes taught one God, but his deity concept was too pantheistic to be a personal Father to mortal man. Anaxagoras was a mechanist except that he did recognize a First Cause, an Initial Mind. Socrates and his successors, Plato and Aristotle, taught that virtue is knowledge; goodness, health of the soul; that it is better to suffer injustice than to be guilty of it, that it is wrong to return evil for evil, and that the gods are wise and good. Their cardinal virtues were: wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. (1079.4) 98:2.7 The evolution of religious philosophy among the Hellenic and Hebrew peoples affords a contrastive illustration of the function of the church as an institution in the shaping of cultural progress. In Palestine, human thought was so priest-controlled and scripture-directed that philosophy and aesthetics were entirely submerged in religion and morality. In Greece, the almost complete absence of priests and “sacred scriptures” left the human mind free and unfettered, resulting in a startling development in depth of thought. But religion as a personal experience failed to keep pace with the intellectual probings into the nature and reality of the cosmos. (1079.5) 98:2.8 In Greece, believing was subordinated to thinking; in Palestine, thinking was held subject to believing. Much of the strength of Christianity is due to its having borrowed heavily from both Hebrew morality and Greek thought. (1079.6) 98:2.9 In Palestine, religious dogma became so crystallized as to jeopardize further growth; in Greece, human thought became so abstract that the concept of God resolved itself into a misty vapor of pantheistic speculation not at all unlike the impersonal Infinity of the Brahman philosophers. (1079.7) 98:2.10 But the average men of these times could not grasp, nor were they much interested in, the Greek philosophy of self-realization and an abstract Deity; they rather craved promises of salvation, coupled with a personal God who could hear their prayers. They exiled the philosophers, persecuted the remnants of the Salem cult, both doctrines having become much blended, and made ready for that terrible orgiastic plunge into the follies of the mystery cults which were then overspreading the Mediterranean lands. The Eleusinian mysteries grew up within the Olympian pantheon, a Greek version of the worship of fertility; Dionysus nature worship flourished; the best of the cults was the Orphic brotherhood, whose moral preachments and promises of salvation made a great appeal to many. (1080.1) 98:2.11 All Greece became involved in these new methods of attaining salvation, these emotional and fiery ceremonials. No nation ever attained such heights of artistic philosophy in so short a time; none ever created such an advanced system of ethics practically without Deity and entirely devoid of the promise of human salvation; no nation ever plunged so quickly, deeply, and violently into such depths of intellectual stagnation, moral depravity, and spiritual poverty as these same Greek peoples when they flung themselves into the mad whirl of the mystery cults. (1080.2) 98:2.12 Religions have long endured without philosophical support, but few philosophies, as such, have long persisted without some identification with religion. Philosophy is to religion as conception is to action. But the ideal human estate is that in which philosophy, religion, and science are welded into a meaningful unity by the conjoined action of wisdom, faith, and experience. 3. The Melchizedek Teachings in Rome (1080.3) 98:3.1 Having grown out of the earlier religious forms of worship of the family gods into the tribal reverence for Mars, the god of war, it was natural that the later religion of the Latins was more of a political observance than were the intellectual systems of the Greeks and Brahmans or the more spiritual religions of several other peoples. (1080.4) 98:3.2 In the great monotheistic renaissance of Melchizedek’s gospel during the sixth century before Christ, too few of the Salem missionaries penetrated Italy, and those who did were unable to overcome the influence of the rapidly spreading Etruscan priesthood with its new galaxy of gods and temples, all of which became organized into the Roman state religion. This religion of the Latin tribes was not trivial and venal like that of the Greeks, neither was it austere and tyrannical like that of the Hebrews; it consisted for the most part in the observance of mere forms, vows, and taboos. (1080.5) 98:3.3 Roman religion was greatly influenced by extensive cultural importations from Greece. Eventually most of the Olympian gods were transplanted and incorporated into the Latin pantheon. The Greeks long worshiped the fire of the family hearth — Hestia was the virgin goddess of the hearth; Vesta was the Roman goddess of the home. Zeus became Jupiter; Aphrodite, Venus; and so on down through the many Olympian deities. (1080.6) 98:3.4 The religious initiation of Roman youths was the occasion of their solemn consecration to the service of the state. Oaths and admissions to citizenship were in reality religious ceremonies. The Latin peoples maintained temples, altars, and shrines and, in a crisis, would consult the oracles. They preserved the bones of heroes and later on those of the Christian saints. (1080.7) 98:3.5 This formal and unemotional form of pseudoreligious patriotism was doomed to collapse, even as the highly intellectual and artistic worship of the Greeks had gone down before the fervid and deeply emotional worship of the mystery cults. The greatest of these devastating cults was the mystery religion of the Mother of God sect, which had its headquarters, in those days, on the exact site of the present church of St. Peter’s in Rome. (1080.8) 98:3.6 The emerging Roman state conquered politically but was in turn conquered by the cults, rituals, mysteries, and god concepts of Egypt, Greece, and the Levant. These imported cults continued to flourish throughout the Roman state up to the time of Augustus, who, purely for political and civic reasons, made a heroic and somewhat successful effort to destroy the mysteries and revive the older political religion. (1081.1) 98:3.7 One of the priests of the state religion told Augustus of the earlier attempts of the Salem teachers to spread the doctrine of one God, a final Deity presiding over all supernatural beings; and this idea took such a firm hold on the emperor that he built many temples, stocked them well with beautiful images, reorganized the state priesthood, re-established the state religion, appointed himself acting high priest of all, and as emperor did not hesitate to proclaim himself the supreme god. (1081.2) 98:3.8 This new religion of Augustus worship flourished and was observed throughout the empire during his lifetime except in Palestine, the home of the Jews. And this era of the human gods continued until the official Roman cult had a roster of more than twoscore self-elevated human deities, all claiming miraculous births and other superhuman attributes. (1081.3) 98:3.9 The last stand of the dwindling band of Salem believers was made by an earnest group of preachers, the Cynics, who exhorted the Romans to abandon their wild and senseless religious rituals and return to a form of worship embodying Melchizedek’s gospel as it had been modified and contaminated through contact with the philosophy of the Greeks. But the people at large rejected the Cynics; they preferred to plunge into the rituals of the mysteries, which not only offered hopes of personal salvation but also gratified the desire for diversion, excitement, and entertainment. 4. The Mystery Cults (1081.4) 98:4.1 The majority of people in the Greco-Roman world, having lost their primitive family and state religions and being unable or unwilling to grasp the meaning of Greek philosophy, turned their attention to the spectacular and emotional mystery cults from Egypt and the Levant. The common people craved promises of salvation — religious consolation for today and assurances of hope for immortality after death.* (1081.5) 98:4.2 The three mystery cults which became most popular were: (1081.6) 98:4.3 1. The Phrygian cult of Cybele and her son Attis. (1081.7) 98:4.4 2. The Egyptian cult of Osiris and his mother Isis. (1081.8) 98:4.5 3. The Iranian cult of the worship of Mithras as the savior and redeemer of sinful mankind. (1081.9) 98:4.6 The Phrygian and Egyptian mysteries taught that the divine son (respectively Attis and Osiris) had experienced death and had been resurrected by divine power, and further that all who were properly initiated into the mystery, and who reverently celebrated the anniversary of the god’s death and resurrection, would thereby become partakers of his divine nature and his immortality. (1081.10) 98:4.7 The Phrygian ceremonies were imposing but degrading; their bloody festivals indicate how degraded and primitive these Levantine mysteries became. The most holy day was Black Friday, the “day of blood,” commemorating the self-inflicted death of Attis. After three days of the celebration of the sacrifice and death of Attis the festival was turned to joy in honor of his resurrection. (1082.1) 98:4.8 The rituals of the worship of Isis and Osiris were more refined and impressive than were those of the Phrygian cult. This Egyptian ritual was built around the legend of the Nile god of old, a god who died and was resurrected, which concept was derived from the observation of the annually recurring stoppage of vegetation growth followed by the springtime restoration of all living plants. The frenzy of the observance of these mystery cults and the orgies of their ceremonials, which were supposed to lead up to the “enthusiasm” of the realization of divinity, were sometimes most revolting. 5. The Cult of Mithras (1082.2) 98:5.1 The Phrygian and Egyptian mysteries eventually gave way before the greatest of all the mystery cults, the worship of Mithras. The Mithraic cult made its appeal to a wide range of human nature and gradually supplanted both of its predecessors. Mithraism spread over the Roman Empire through the propagandizing of Roman legions recruited in the Levant, where this religion was the vogue, for they carried this belief wherever they went. And this new religious ritual was a great improvement over the earlier mystery cults. (1082.3) 98:5.2 The cult of Mithras arose in Iran and long persisted in its homeland despite the militant opposition of the followers of Zoroaster. But by the time Mithraism reached Rome, it had become greatly improved by the absorption of many of Zoroaster’s teachings. It was chiefly through the Mithraic cult that Zoroaster’s religion exerted an influence upon later appearing Christianity. (1082.4) 98:5.3 The Mithraic cult portrayed a militant god taking origin in a great rock, engaging in valiant exploits, and causing water to gush forth from a rock struck with his arrows. There was a flood from which one man escaped in a specially built boat and a last supper which Mithras celebrated with the sun-god before he ascended into the heavens. This sun-god, or Sol Invictus, was a degeneration of the Ahura-Mazda deity concept of Zoroastrianism. Mithras was conceived as the surviving champion of the sun-god in his struggle with the god of darkness. And in recognition of his slaying the mythical sacred bull, Mithras was made immortal, being exalted to the station of intercessor for the human race among the gods on high. (1082.5) 98:5.4 The adherents of this cult worshiped in caves and other secret places, chanting hymns, mumbling magic, eating the flesh of the sacrificial animals, and drinking the blood. Three times a day they worshiped, with special weekly ceremonials on the day of the sun-god and with the most elaborate observance of all on the annual festival of Mithras, December twenty-fifth. It was believed that the partaking of the sacrament ensured eternal life, the immediate passing, after death, to the bosom of Mithras, there to tarry in bliss until the judgment day. On the judgment day the Mithraic keys of heaven would unlock the gates of Paradise for the reception of the faithful; whereupon all the unbaptized of the living and the dead would be annihilated upon the return of Mithras to earth. It was taught that, when a man died, he went before Mithras for judgment, and that at the end of the world Mithras would summon all the dead from their graves to face the last judgment. The wicked would be destroyed by fire, and the righteous would reign with Mithras forever. (1082.6) 98:5.5 At first it was a religion only for men, and there were seven different orders into which believers could be successively initiated. Later on, the wives and daughters of believers were admitted to the temples of the Great Mother, which adjoined the Mithraic temples. The women’s cult was a mixture of Mithraic ritual and the ceremonies of the Phrygian cult of Cybele, the mother of Attis. 6. Mithraism and Christianity (1083.1) 98:6.1 Prior to the coming of the mystery cults and Christianity, personal religion hardly developed as an independent institution in the civilized lands of North Africa and Europe; it was more of a family, city-state, political, and imperial affair. The Hellenic Greeks never evolved a centralized worship system; the ritual was local; they had no priesthood and no “sacred book.” Much as the Romans, their religious institutions lacked a powerful driving agency for the preservation of higher moral and spiritual values. While it is true that the institutionalization of religion has usually detracted from its spiritual quality, it is also a fact that no religion has thus far succeeded in surviving without the aid of institutional organization of some degree, greater or lesser. (1083.2) 98:6.2 Occidental religion thus languished until the days of the Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics, but most important of all, until the times of the great contest between Mithraism and Paul’s new religion of Christianity. (1083.3) 98:6.3 During the third century after Christ, Mithraic and Christian churches were very similar both in appearance and in the character of their ritual. A majority of such places of worship were underground, and both contained altars whose backgrounds variously depicted the sufferings of the savior who had brought salvation to a sin-cursed human race. (1083.4) 98:6.4 Always had it been the practice of Mithraic worshipers, on entering the temple, to dip their fingers in holy water. And since in some districts there were those who at one time belonged to both religions, they introduced this custom into the majority of the Christian churches in the vicinity of Rome. Both religions employed baptism and partook of the sacrament of bread and wine. The one great difference between Mithraism and Christianity, aside from the characters of Mithras and Jesus, was that the one encouraged militarism while the other was ultrapacific. Mithraism’s tolerance for other religions (except later Christianity) led to its final undoing. But the deciding factor in the struggle between the two was the admission of women into the full fellowship of the Christian faith. (1083.5) 98:6.5 In the end the nominal Christian faith dominated the Occident. Greek philosophy supplied the concepts of ethical value; Mithraism, the ritual of worship observance; and Christianity, as such, the technique for the conservation of moral and social values. 7. The Christian Religion (1083.6) 98:7.1 A Creator Son did not incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and bestow himself upon the humanity of Urantia to reconcile an angry God but rather to win all mankind to the recognition of the Father’s love and to the realization of their sonship with God. After all, even the great advocate of the atonement doctrine realized something of this truth, for he declared that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.” (1084.1) 98:7.2 It is not the province of this paper to deal with the origin and dissemination of the Christian religion. Suffice it to say that it is built around the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the humanly incarnate Michael Son of Nebadon, known to Urantia as the Christ, the anointed one. Christianity was spread throughout the Levant and Occident by the followers of this Galilean, and their missionary zeal equaled that of their illustrious predecessors, the Sethites and Salemites, as well as that of their earnest Asiatic contemporaries, the Buddhist teachers. (1084.2) 98:7.3 The Christian religion, as a Urantian system of belief, arose through the compounding of the following teachings, influences, beliefs, cults, and personal individual attitudes: (1084.3) 98:7.4 1. The Melchizedek teachings, which are a basic factor in all the religions of Occident and Orient that have arisen in the last four thousand years. (1084.4) 98:7.5 2. The Hebraic system of morality, ethics, theology, and belief in both Providence and the supreme Yahweh. (1084.5) 98:7.6 3. The Zoroastrian conception of the struggle between cosmic good and evil, which had already left its imprint on both Judaism and Mithraism. Through prolonged contact attendant upon the struggles between Mithraism and Christianity, the doctrines of the Iranian prophet became a potent factor in determining the theologic and philosophic cast and structure of the dogmas, tenets, and cosmology of the Hellenized and Latinized versions of the teachings of Jesus. (1084.6) 98:7.7 4. The mystery cults, especially Mithraism but also the worship of the Great Mother in the Phrygian cult. Even the legends of the birth of Jesus on Urantia became tainted with the Roman version of the miraculous birth of the Iranian savior-hero, Mithras, whose advent on earth was supposed to have been witnessed by only a handful of gift-bearing shepherds who had been informed of this impending event by angels. (1084.7) 98:7.8 5. The historic fact of the human life of Joshua ben Joseph, the reality of Jesus of Nazareth as the glorified Christ, the Son of God. (1084.8) 98:7.9 6. The personal viewpoint of Paul of Tarsus. And it should be recorded that Mithraism was the dominant religion of Tarsus during his adolescence. Paul little dreamed that his well-intentioned letters to his converts would someday be regarded by still later Christians as the “word of God.” Such well-meaning teachers must not be held accountable for the use made of their writings by later-day successors. (1084.9) 98:7.10 7. The philosophic thought of the Hellenistic peoples, from Alexandria and Antioch through Greece to Syracuse and Rome. The philosophy of the Greeks was more in harmony with Paul’s version of Christianity than with any other current religious system and became an important factor in the success of Christianity in the Occident. Greek philosophy, coupled with Paul’s theology, still forms the basis of European ethics. (1084.10) 98:7.11 As the original teachings of Jesus penetrated the Occident, they became Occidentalized, and as they became Occidentalized, they began to lose their potentially universal appeal to all races and kinds of men. Christianity, today, has become a religion well adapted to the social, economic, and political mores of the white races. It has long since ceased to be the religion of Jesus, although it still valiantly portrays a beautiful religion about Jesus to such individuals as sincerely seek to follow in the way of its teaching. It has glorified Jesus as the Christ, the Messianic anointed one from God, but has largely forgotten the Master’s personal gospel: the Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of all men. (1085.1) 98:7.12 And this is the long story of the teachings of Machiventa Melchizedek on Urantia. It is nearly four thousand years since this emergency Son of Nebadon bestowed himself on Urantia, and in that time the teachings of the “priest of El Elyon, the Most High God,” have penetrated to all races and peoples. And Machiventa was successful in achieving the purpose of his unusual bestowal; when Michael made ready to appear on Urantia, the God concept was existent in the hearts of men and women, the same God concept that still flames anew in the living spiritual experience of the manifold children of the Universal Father as they live their intriguing temporal lives on the whirling planets of space. (1085.2) 98:7.13 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]

The Seven Superuniverses (164.1) 15:0.1 AS FAR as the Universal Father is concerned — as a Father — the universes are virtually nonexistent; he deals with personalities; he is the Father of personalities. As far as the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit are concerned — as creator partners — the universes are localized and individual under the joint rule of the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits. As far as the Paradise Trinity is concerned, outside Havona there are just seven inhabited universes, the seven superuniverses which hold jurisdiction over the circle of the first post-Havona space level. The Seven Master Spirits radiate their influence out from the central Isle, thus constituting the vast creation one gigantic wheel, the hub being the eternal Isle of Paradise, the seven spokes the radiations of the Seven Master Spirits, the rim the outer regions of the grand universe. (164.2) 15:0.2 Early in the materialization of the universal creation the sevenfold scheme of the superuniverse organization and government was formulated. The first post-Havona creation was divided into seven stupendous segments, and the headquarters worlds of these superuniverse governments were designed and constructed. The present scheme of administration has existed from near eternity, and the rulers of these seven superuniverses are rightly called Ancients of Days. (164.3) 15:0.3 Of the vast body of knowledge concerning the superuniverses, I can hope to tell you little, but there is operative throughout these realms a technique of intelligent control for both physical and spiritual forces, and the universal gravity presences there function in majestic power and perfect harmony. It is important first to gain an adequate idea of the physical constitution and material organization of the superuniverse domains, for then you will be the better prepared to grasp the significance of the marvelous organization provided for their spiritual government and for the intellectual advancement of the will creatures who dwell on the myriads of inhabited planets scattered hither and yon throughout these seven superuniverses. 1. The Superuniverse Space Level (164.4) 15:1.1 Within the limited range of the records, observations, and memories of the generations of a million or a billion of your short years, to all practical intents and purposes, Urantia and the universe to which it belongs are experiencing the adventure of one long and uncharted plunge into new space; but according to the records of Uversa, in accordance with older observations, in harmony with the more extensive experience and calculations of our order, and as a result of conclusions based on these and other findings, we know that the universes are engaged in an orderly, well-understood, and perfectly controlled processional, swinging in majestic grandeur around the First Great Source and Center and his residential universe. (165.1) 15:1.2 We have long since discovered that the seven superuniverses traverse a great ellipse, a gigantic and elongated circle. Your solar system and other worlds of time are not plunging headlong, without chart and compass, into unmapped space. The local universe to which your system belongs is pursuing a definite and well-understood counterclockwise course around the vast swing that encircles the central universe. This cosmic path is well charted and is just as thoroughly known to the superuniverse star observers as the orbits of the planets constituting your solar system are known to Urantia astronomers. (165.2) 15:1.3 Urantia is situated in a local universe and a superuniverse not fully organized, and your local universe is in immediate proximity to numerous partially completed physical creations. You belong to one of the relatively recent universes. But you are not, today, plunging on wildly into uncharted space nor swinging out blindly into unknown regions. You are following the orderly and predetermined path of the superuniverse space level. You are now passing through the very same space that your planetary system, or its predecessors, traversed ages ago; and some day in the remote future your system, or its successors, will again traverse the identical space through which you are now so swiftly plunging. (165.3) 15:1.4 In this age and as direction is regarded on Urantia, superuniverse number one swings almost due north, approximately opposite, in an easterly direction, to the Paradise residence of the Great Sources and Centers and the central universe of Havona. This position, with the corresponding one to the west, represents the nearest physical approach of the spheres of time to the eternal Isle. Superuniverse number two is in the north, preparing for the westward swing, while number three now holds the northernmost segment of the great space path, having already turned into the bend leading to the southerly plunge. Number four is on the comparatively straightaway southerly flight, the advance regions now approaching opposition to the Great Centers. Number five has about left its position opposite the Center of Centers while continuing on the direct southerly course just preceding the eastward swing; number six occupies most of the southern curve, the segment from which your superuniverse has nearly passed. (165.4) 15:1.5 Your local universe of Nebadon belongs to Orvonton, the seventh superuniverse, which swings on between superuniverses one and six, having not long since (as we reckon time) turned the southeastern bend of the superuniverse space level. Today, the solar system to which Urantia belongs is a few billion years past the swing around the southern curvature so that you are just now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are moving swiftly through the long and comparatively straightaway northern path. For untold ages Orvonton will pursue this almost direct northerly course. (165.5) 15:1.6 Urantia belongs to a system which is well out towards the borderland of your local universe; and your local universe is at present traversing the periphery of Orvonton. Beyond you there are still others, but you are far removed in space from those physical systems which swing around the great circle in comparative proximity to the Great Source and Center. 2. Organization of the Superuniverses (165.6) 15:2.1 Only the Universal Father knows the location and actual number of inhabited worlds in space; he calls them all by name and number. I can give only the approximate number of inhabited or inhabitable planets, for some local universes have more worlds suitable for intelligent life than others. Nor have all projected local universes been organized. Therefore the estimates which I offer are solely for the purpose of affording some idea of the immensity of the material creation. (166.1) 15:2.2 There are seven superuniverses in the grand universe, and they are constituted approximately as follows: (166.2) 15:2.3 1. The System. The basic unit of the supergovernment consists of about one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds. Blazing suns, cold worlds, planets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suitable for creature habitation are not included in this group. These one thousand worlds adapted to support life are called a system, but in the younger systems only a comparatively small number of these worlds may be inhabited. Each inhabited planet is presided over by a Planetary Prince, and each local system has an architectural sphere as its headquarters and is ruled by a System Sovereign. (166.3) 15:2.4 2. The Constellation. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an architectural headquarters sphere and is presided over by three Vorondadek Sons, the Most Highs. Each constellation also has a Faithful of Days in observation, an ambassador of the Paradise Trinity. (166.4) 15:2.5 3. The Local Universe. One hundred constellations (about 10,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a local universe. Each local universe has a magnificent architectural headquarters world and is ruled by one of the co-ordinate Creator Sons of God of the order of Michael. Each universe is blessed by the presence of a Union of Days, a representative of the Paradise Trinity. (166.5) 15:2.6 4. The Minor Sector. One hundred local universes (about 1,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a minor sector of the superuniverse government; it has a wonderful headquarters world, wherefrom its rulers, the Recents of Days, administer the affairs of the minor sector. There are three Recents of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities, on each minor sector headquarters. (166.6) 15:2.7 5. The Major Sector. One hundred minor sectors (about 100,000,000,000 inhabitable worlds) make one major sector. Each major sector is provided with a superb headquarters and is presided over by three Perfections of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities. (166.7) 15:2.8 6. The Superuniverse. Ten major sectors (about 1,000,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a superuniverse. Each superuniverse is provided with an enormous and glorious headquarters world and is ruled by three Ancients of Days. (166.8) 15:2.9 7. The Grand Universe. Seven superuniverses make up the present organized grand universe, consisting of approximately seven trillion inhabitable worlds plus the architectural spheres and the one billion inhabited spheres of Havona. The superuniverses are ruled and administered indirectly and reflectively from Paradise by the Seven Master Spirits. The billion worlds of Havona are directly administered by the Eternals of Days, one such Supreme Trinity Personality presiding over each of these perfect spheres. (167.1) 15:2.10 Excluding the Paradise-Havona spheres, the plan of universe organization provides for the following units: (167.2) 15:2.11 Superuniverses. . . . . . . . . . . . 7 (167.3) 15:2.12 Major sectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 (167.4) 15:2.13 Minor sectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 7,000 (167.5) 15:2.14 Local universes . . . . . . . . . 700,000 (167.6) 15:2.15 Constellations . . . . . . . . .70,000,000 (167.7) 15:2.16 Local systems. . . . . . . . 7,000,000,000 (167.8) 15:2.17 Inhabitable planets . . 7,000,000,000,000 (167.9) 15:2.18 Each of the seven superuniverses is constituted, approximately, as follows: (167.10) 15:2.19 One system embraces, approximately. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 worlds (167.11) 15:2.20 One constellation (100 systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000 worlds (167.12) 15:2.21 One universe (100 constellations) . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000,000 worlds (167.13) 15:2.22 One minor sector (100 universes) . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000,000 worlds (167.14) 15:2.23 One major sector (100 minor sectors) . . . . 100,000,000,000 worlds (167.15) 15:2.24 One superuniverse (10 major sectors) . . .1,000,000,000,000 worlds (167.16) 15:2.25 All such estimates are approximations at best, for new systems are constantly evolving while other organizations are temporarily passing out of material existence. 3. The Superuniverse of Orvonton (167.17) 15:3.1 Practically all of the starry realms visible to the naked eye on Urantia belong to the seventh section of the grand universe, the superuniverse of Orvonton. The vast Milky Way starry system represents the central nucleus of Orvonton, being largely beyond the borders of your local universe. This great aggregation of suns, dark islands of space, double stars, globular clusters, star clouds, spiral and other nebulae, together with myriads of individual planets, forms a watchlike, elongated-circular grouping of about one seventh of the inhabited evolutionary universes. (167.18) 15:3.2 From the astronomical position of Urantia, as you look through the cross section of near-by systems to the great Milky Way, you observe that the spheres of Orvonton are traveling in a vast elongated plane, the breadth being far greater than the thickness and the length far greater than the breadth. (167.19) 15:3.3 Observation of the so-called Milky Way discloses the comparative increase in Orvonton stellar density when the heavens are viewed in one direction, while on either side the density diminishes; the number of stars and other spheres decreases away from the chief plane of our material superuniverse. When the angle of observation is propitious, gazing through the main body of this realm of maximum density, you are looking toward the residential universe and the center of all things. (167.20) 15:3.4 Of the ten major divisions of Orvonton, eight have been roughly identified by Urantian astronomers. The other two are difficult of separate recognition because you are obliged to view these phenomena from the inside. If you could look upon the superuniverse of Orvonton from a position far-distant in space, you would immediately recognize the ten major sectors of the seventh galaxy. (168.1) 15:3.5 The rotational center of your minor sector is situated far away in the enormous and dense star cloud of Sagittarius, around which your local universe and its associated creations all move, and from opposite sides of the vast Sagittarius subgalactic system you may observe two great streams of star clouds emerging in stupendous stellar coils. (168.2) 15:3.6 The nucleus of the physical system to which your sun and its associated planets belong is the center of the onetime Andronover nebula. This former spiral nebula was slightly distorted by the gravity disruptions associated with the events which were attendant upon the birth of your solar system, and which were occasioned by the near approach of a large neighboring nebula. This near collision changed Andronover into a somewhat globular aggregation but did not wholly destroy the two-way procession of the suns and their associated physical groups. Your solar system now occupies a fairly central position in one of the arms of this distorted spiral, situated about halfway from the center out towards the edge of the star stream. (168.3) 15:3.7 The Sagittarius sector and all other sectors and divisions of Orvonton are in rotation around Uversa, and some of the confusion of Urantian star observers arises out of the illusions and relative distortions produced by the following multiple revolutionary movements: (168.4) 15:3.8 1. The revolution of Urantia around its sun. (168.5) 15:3.9 2. The circuit of your solar system about the nucleus of the former Andronover nebula. (168.6) 15:3.10 3. The rotation of the Andronover stellar family and the associated clusters about the composite rotation-gravity center of the star cloud of Nebadon. (168.7) 15:3.11 4. The swing of the local star cloud of Nebadon and its associated creations around the Sagittarius center of their minor sector. (168.8) 15:3.12 5. The rotation of the one hundred minor sectors, including Sagittarius, about their major sector. (168.9) 15:3.13 6. The whirl of the ten major sectors, the so-called star drifts, about the Uversa headquarters of Orvonton. (168.10) 15:3.14 7. The movement of Orvonton and six associated superuniverses around Paradise and Havona, the counterclockwise processional of the superuniverse space level. (168.11) 15:3.15 These multiple motions are of several orders: The space paths of your planet and your solar system are genetic, inherent in origin. The absolute counterclockwise motion of Orvonton is also genetic, inherent in the architectural plans of the master universe. But the intervening motions are of composite origin, being derived in part from the constitutive segmentation of matter-energy into the superuniverses and in part produced by the intelligent and purposeful action of the Paradise force organizers. (168.12) 15:3.16 The local universes are in closer proximity as they approach Havona; the circuits are greater in number, and there is increased superimposition, layer upon layer. But farther out from the eternal center there are fewer and fewer systems, layers, circuits, and universes. 4. Nebulae — The Ancestors of Universes (169.1) 15:4.1 While creation and universe organization remain forever under the control of the infinite Creators and their associates, the whole phenomenon proceeds in accordance with an ordained technique and in conformity to the gravity laws of force, energy, and matter. But there is something of mystery associated with the universal force-charge of space; we quite understand the organization of the material creations from the ultimatonic stage forward, but we do not fully comprehend the cosmic ancestry of the ultimatons. We are confident that these ancestral forces have a Paradise origin because they forever swing through pervaded space in the exact gigantic outlines of Paradise. Though nonresponsive to Paradise gravity, this force-charge of space, the ancestor of all materialization, does always respond to the presence of nether Paradise, being apparently circuited in and out of the nether Paradise center. (169.2) 15:4.2 The Paradise force organizers transmute space potency into primordial force and evolve this prematerial potential into the primary and secondary energy manifestations of physical reality. When this energy attains gravity-responding levels, the power directors and their associates of the superuniverse regime appear upon the scene and begin their never-ending manipulations designed to establish the manifold power circuits and energy channels of the universes of time and space. Thus does physical matter appear in space, and so is the stage set for the inauguration of universe organization. (169.3) 15:4.3 This segmentation of energy is a phenomenon which has never been solved by the physicists of Nebadon. Their chief difficulty lies in the relative inaccessibility of the Paradise force organizers, for the living power directors, though they are competent to deal with space-energy, do not have the least conception of the origin of the energies they so skillfully and intelligently manipulate. (169.4) 15:4.4 Paradise force organizers are nebulae originators; they are able to initiate about their space presence the tremendous cyclones of force which, when once started, can never be stopped or limited until the all-pervading forces are mobilized for the eventual appearance of the ultimatonic units of universe matter. Thus are brought into being the spiral and other nebulae, the mother wheels of the direct-origin suns and their varied systems. In outer space there may be seen ten different forms of nebulae, phases of primary universe evolution, and these vast energy wheels had the same origin as did those in the seven superuniverses. (169.5) 15:4.5 Nebulae vary greatly in size and in the resulting number and aggregate mass of their stellar and planetary offspring. A sun-forming nebula just north of the borders of Orvonton, but within the superuniverse space level, has already given origin to approximately forty thousand suns, and the mother wheel is still throwing off suns, the majority of which are many times the size of yours. Some of the larger nebulae of outer space are giving origin to as many as one hundred million suns. (169.6) 15:4.6 Nebulae are not directly related to any of the administrative units, such as minor sectors or local universes, although some local universes have been organized from the products of a single nebula. Each local universe embraces exactly one one-hundred-thousandth part of the total energy charge of a superuniverse irrespective of nebular relationship, for energy is not organized by nebulae — it is universally distributed. (170.1) 15:4.7 Not all spiral nebulae are engaged in sun making. Some have retained control of many of their segregated stellar offspring, and their spiral appearance is occasioned by the fact that their suns pass out of the nebular arm in close formation but return by diverse routes, thus making it easy to observe them at one point but more difficult to see them when widely scattered on their different returning routes farther out and away from the arm of the nebula. There are not many sun-forming nebulae active in Orvonton at the present time, though Andromeda, which is outside the inhabited superuniverse, is very active. This far-distant nebula is visible to the naked eye, and when you view it, pause to consider that the light you behold left those distant suns almost one million years ago. (170.2) 15:4.8 The Milky Way galaxy is composed of vast numbers of former spiral and other nebulae, and many still retain their original configuration. But as the result of internal catastrophes and external attraction, many have suffered such distortion and rearrangement as to cause these enormous aggregations to appear as gigantic luminous masses of blazing suns, like the Magellanic Cloud. The globular type of star clusters predominates near the outer margins of Orvonton. (170.3) 15:4.9 The vast star clouds of Orvonton should be regarded as individual aggregations of matter comparable to the separate nebulae observable in the space regions external to the Milky Way galaxy. Many of the so-called star clouds of space, however, consist of gaseous material only. The energy potential of these stellar gas clouds is unbelievably enormous, and some of it is taken up by near-by suns and redispatched in space as solar emanations. 5. The Origin of Space Bodies (170.4) 15:5.1 The bulk of the mass contained in the suns and planets of a superuniverse originates in the nebular wheels; very little of superuniverse mass is organized by the direct action of the power directors (as in the construction of architectural spheres), although a constantly varying quantity of matter originates in open space. (170.5) 15:5.2 As to origin, the majority of the suns, planets, and other spheres can be classified in one of the following ten groups: (170.6) 15:5.3 1. Concentric Contraction Rings. Not all nebulae are spiral. Many an immense nebula, instead of splitting into a double star system or evolving as a spiral, undergoes condensation by multiple-ring formation. For long periods such a nebula appears as an enormous central sun surrounded by numerous gigantic clouds of encircling, ring-appearing formations of matter. (170.7) 15:5.4 2. The Whirled Stars embrace those suns which are thrown off the great mother wheels of highly heated gases. They are not thrown off as rings but in right- and left-handed processions. Whirled stars are also of origin in other-than-spiral nebulae. (170.8) 15:5.5 3. Gravity-explosion Planets. When a sun is born of a spiral or of a barred nebula, not infrequently it is thrown out a considerable distance. Such a sun is highly gaseous, and subsequently, after it has somewhat cooled and condensed, it may chance to swing near some enormous mass of matter, a gigantic sun or a dark island of space. Such an approach may not be near enough to result in collision but still near enough to allow the gravity pull of the greater body to start tidal convulsions in the lesser, thus initiating a series of tidal upheavals which occur simultaneously on opposite sides of the convulsed sun. At their height these explosive eruptions produce a series of varying-sized aggregations of matter which may be projected beyond the gravity-reclamation zone of the erupting sun, thus becoming stabilized in orbits of their own around one of the two bodies concerned in this episode. Later on the larger collections of matter unite and gradually draw the smaller bodies to themselves. In this way many of the solid planets of the lesser systems are brought into existence. Your own solar system had just such an origin. (171.1) 15:5.6 4. Centrifugal Planetary Daughters. Enormous suns, when in certain stages of development, and if their revolutionary rate greatly accelerates, begin to throw off large quantities of matter which may subsequently be assembled to form small worlds that continue to encircle the parent sun. (171.2) 15:5.7 5. Gravity-deficiency Spheres. There is a critical limit to the size of individual stars. When a sun reaches this limit, unless it slows down in revolutionary rate, it is doomed to split; sun fission occurs, and a new double star of this variety is born. Numerous small planets may be subsequently formed as a by-product of this gigantic disruption. (171.3) 15:5.8 6. Contractural Stars. In the smaller systems the largest outer planet sometimes draws to itself its neighboring worlds, while those planets near the sun begin their terminal plunge. With your solar system, such an end would mean that the four inner planets would be claimed by the sun, while the major planet, Jupiter, would be greatly enlarged by capturing the remaining worlds. Such an end of a solar system would result in the production of two adjacent but unequal suns, one type of double star formation. Such catastrophes are infrequent except out on the fringe of the superuniverse starry aggregations. (171.4) 15:5.9 7. Cumulative Spheres. From the vast quantity of matter circulating in space, small planets may slowly accumulate. They grow by meteoric accretion and by minor collisions. In certain sectors of space, conditions favor such forms of planetary birth. Many an inhabited world has had such an origin. (171.5) 15:5.10 Some of the dense dark islands are the direct result of the accretions of transmuting energy in space. Another group of these dark islands have come into being by the accumulation of enormous quantities of cold matter, mere fragments and meteors, circulating through space. Such aggregations of matter have never been hot and, except for density, are in composition very similar to Urantia. (171.6) 15:5.11 8. Burned-out Suns. Some of the dark islands of space are burned-out isolated suns, all available space-energy having been emitted. The organized units of matter approximate full condensation, virtual complete consolidation; and it requires ages upon ages for such enormous masses of highly condensed matter to be recharged in the circuits of space and thus to be prepared for new cycles of universe function following a collision or some equally revivifying cosmic happening. (171.7) 15:5.12 9. Collisional Spheres. In those regions of thicker clustering, collisions are not uncommon. Such an astronomic readjustment is accompanied by tremendous energy changes and matter transmutations. Collisions involving dead suns are peculiarly influential in creating widespread energy fluctuations. Collisional debris often constitutes the material nucleuses for the subsequent formation of planetary bodies adapted to mortal habitation. (172.1) 15:5.13 10. Architectural Worlds. These are the worlds which are built according to plans and specifications for some special purpose, such as Salvington, the headquarters of your local universe, and Uversa, the seat of government of our superuniverse. (172.2) 15:5.14 There are numerous other techniques for evolving suns and segregating planets, but the foregoing procedures suggest the methods whereby the vast majority of stellar systems and planetary families are brought into existence. To undertake to describe all the various techniques involved in stellar metamorphosis and planetary evolution would require the narration of almost one hundred different modes of sun formation and planetary origin. As your star students scan the heavens, they will observe phenomena indicative of all these modes of stellar evolution, but they will seldom detect evidence of the formation of those small, nonluminous collections of matter which serve as inhabited planets, the most important of the vast material creations. 6. The Spheres of Space (172.3) 15:6.1 Irrespective of origin, the various spheres of space are classifiable into the following major divisions: (172.4) 15:6.2 1. The suns — the stars of space. (172.5) 15:6.3 2. The dark islands of space. (172.6) 15:6.4 3. Minor space bodies — comets, meteors, and planetesimals. (172.7) 15:6.5 4. The planets, including the inhabited worlds. (172.8) 15:6.6 5. Architectural spheres — worlds made to order. (172.9) 15:6.7 With the exception of the architectural spheres, all space bodies have had an evolutionary origin, evolutionary in the sense that they have not been brought into being by fiat of Deity, evolutionary in the sense that the creative acts of God have unfolded by a time-space technique through the operation of many of the created and eventuated intelligences of Deity. (172.10) 15:6.8 The Suns. These are the stars of space in all their various stages of existence. Some are solitary evolving space systems; others are double stars, contracting or disappearing planetary systems. The stars of space exist in no less than a thousand different states and stages. You are familiar with suns that emit light accompanied by heat; but there are also suns which shine without heat. (172.11) 15:6.9 The trillions upon trillions of years that an ordinary sun will continue to give out heat and light well illustrates the vast store of energy which each unit of matter contains. The actual energy stored in these invisible particles of physical matter is well-nigh unimaginable. And this energy becomes almost wholly available as light when subjected to the tremendous heat pressure and the associated energy activities which prevail in the interior of the blazing suns. Still other conditions enable these suns to transform and send forth much of the energy of space which comes their way in the established space circuits. Many phases of physical energy and all forms of matter are attracted to, and subsequently distributed by, the solar dynamos. In this way the suns serve as local accelerators of energy circulation, acting as automatic power-control stations. (172.12) 15:6.10 The superuniverse of Orvonton is illuminated and warmed by more than ten trillion blazing suns. These suns are the stars of your observable astronomic system. More than two trillion are too distant and too small ever to be seen from Urantia. But in the master universe there are as many suns as there are glasses of water in the oceans of your world. (173.1) 15:6.11 The Dark Islands of Space. These are the dead suns and other large aggregations of matter devoid of light and heat. The dark islands are sometimes enormous in mass and exert a powerful influence in universe equilibrium and energy manipulation. The density of some of these large masses is well-nigh unbelievable. And this great concentration of mass enables these dark islands to function as powerful balance wheels, holding large neighboring systems in effective leash. They hold the gravity balance of power in many constellations; many physical systems which would otherwise speedily dive to destruction in near-by suns are held securely in the gravity grasp of these guardian dark islands. It is because of this function that we can locate them accurately. We have measured the gravity pull of the luminous bodies, and we can therefore calculate the exact size and location of the dark islands of space which so effectively function to hold a given system steady in its course. (173.2) 15:6.12 Minor Space Bodies. The meteors and other small particles of matter circulating and evolving in space constitute an enormous aggregate of energy and material substance. (173.3) 15:6.13 Many comets are unestablished wild offspring of the solar mother wheels, which are being gradually brought under control of the central governing sun. Comets also have numerous other origins. A comet’s tail points away from the attracting body or sun because of the electrical reaction of its highly expanded gases and because of the actual pressure of light and other energies emanating from the sun. This phenomenon constitutes one of the positive proofs of the reality of light and its associated energies; it demonstrates that light has weight. Light is a real substance, not simply waves of hypothetical ether. (173.4) 15:6.14 The Planets. These are the larger aggregations of matter which follow an orbit around a sun or some other space body; they range in size from planetesimals to enormous gaseous, liquid, or solid spheres. The cold worlds which have been built up by the assemblage of floating space material, when they happen to be in proper relation to a near-by sun, are the more ideal planets to harbor intelligent inhabitants. The dead suns are not, as a rule, suited to life; they are usually too far away from a living, blazing sun, and further, they are altogether too massive; gravity is tremendous at the surface. (173.5) 15:6.15 In your superuniverse not on

Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim (298.1) 27:0.1 PRIMARY supernaphim are the supernal servants of the Deities on the eternal Isle of Paradise. Never have they been known to depart from the paths of light and righteousness. The roll calls are complete; from eternity not one of this magnificent host has been lost. These high supernaphim are perfect beings, supreme in perfection, but they are not absonite, neither are they absolute. Being of the essence of perfection, these children of the Infinite Spirit work interchangeably and at will in all phases of their manifold duties. They do not function extensively outside Paradise, though they do participate in the various millennial gatherings and group reunions of the central universe. They also go forth as special messengers of the Deities, and in large numbers they ascend to become Technical Advisers. (298.2) 27:0.2 Primary supernaphim are also placed in command of the seraphic hosts ministering on worlds isolated because of rebellion. When a Paradise Son is bestowed upon such a world, completes his mission, ascends to the Universal Father, is accepted, and returns as the accredited deliverer of this isolated world, a primary supernaphim is always designated by the chiefs of assignment to assume command of the ministering spirits on duty in the newly reclaimed sphere. Supernaphim in this special service are periodically rotated. On Urantia the present “chief of seraphim” is the second of this order to be on duty since the times of the bestowal of Christ Michael. (298.3) 27:0.3 From eternity the primary supernaphim have served on the Isle of Light and have gone forth on missions of leadership to the worlds of space, but they have functioned as now classified only since the arrival on Paradise of the Havona pilgrims of time. These high angels now minister chiefly in the following seven orders of service: (298.4) 27:0.4 1. Conductors of Worship. (298.5) 27:0.5 2. Masters of Philosophy. (298.6) 27:0.6 3. Custodians of Knowledge. (298.7) 27:0.7 4. Directors of Conduct. (298.8) 27:0.8 5. Interpreters of Ethics. (298.9) 27:0.9 6. Chiefs of Assignment. (298.10) 27:0.10 7. Instigators of Rest. (298.11) 27:0.11 Not until the ascending pilgrims actually attain Paradise residence do they come under the direct influence of these supernaphim, and then they pass through a training experience under the direction of these angels in the reverse order of their naming. That is, you enter upon your Paradise career under the tutelage of the instigators of rest and, after successive seasons with the intervening orders, finish this training period with the conductors of worship. Thereupon are you ready to begin the endless career of a finaliter. 1. Instigators of Rest (299.1) 27:1.1 The instigators of rest are the inspectors of Paradise who go forth from the central Isle to the inner circuit of Havona, there to collaborate with their colleagues, the complements of rest of the secondary order of supernaphim. The one essential to the enjoyment of Paradise is rest, divine rest; and these instigators of rest are the final instructors who make ready the pilgrims of time for their introduction to eternity. They begin their work on the final attainment circle of the central universe and continue it when the pilgrim awakes from the last transition sleep, the slumber which graduates a creature of space into the realm of the eternal. (299.2) 27:1.2 Rest is of a sevenfold nature: There is the rest of sleep and of play in the lower life orders, discovery in the higher beings, and worship in the highest type of spirit personality. There is also the normal rest of energy intake, the recharging of beings with physical or with spiritual energy. And then there is the transit sleep, the unconscious slumber when enseraphimed, when in passage from one sphere to another. Entirely different from all of these is the deep sleep of metamorphosis, the transition rest from one stage of being to another, from one life to another, from one state of existence to another, the sleep which ever attends transition from actual universe status in contrast to evolution through various stages of any one status. (299.3) 27:1.3 But the last metamorphic sleep is something more than those previous transition slumbers which have marked the successive status attainments of the ascendant career; thereby do the creatures of time and space traverse the innermost margins of the temporal and the spatial to attain residential status in the timeless and spaceless abodes of Paradise. The instigators and the complements of rest are just as essential to this transcending metamorphosis as are the seraphim and associated beings to the mortal creature’s survival of death. (299.4) 27:1.4 You enter the rest on the final Havona circuit and are eternally resurrected on Paradise. And as you there spiritually repersonalize, you will immediately recognize the instigator of rest who welcomes you to the eternal shores as the very primary supernaphim who produced the final sleep on the innermost circuit of Havona; and you will recall the last grand stretch of faith as you once again made ready to commend the keeping of your identity into the hands of the Universal Father. (299.5) 27:1.5 The last rest of time has been enjoyed; the last transition sleep has been experienced; now you awake to life everlasting on the shores of the eternal abode. “And there shall be no more sleep. The presence of God and his Son are before you, and you are eternally his servants; you have seen his face, and his name is your spirit. There shall be no night there; and they need no light of the sun, for the Great Source and Center gives them light; they shall live forever and ever. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things have passed away.” 2. Chiefs of Assignment (300.1) 27:2.1 This is the group designated from time to time by the chief supernaphim, “the original pattern angel,” to preside over the organization of all three orders of these angels — primary, secondary, and tertiary. The supernaphim, as a body, are wholly self-governing and self-regulatory except for the functions of their mutual chief, the first angel of Paradise, who ever presides over all these spirit personalities. (300.2) 27:2.2 The angels of assignment have much to do with glorified mortal residents of Paradise before they are admitted to the Corps of the Finality. Study and instruction are not the exclusive occupations of Paradise arrivals; service also plays its essential part in the prefinaliter educational experiences of Paradise. And I have observed that, when the ascendant mortals have periods of leisure, they evince a predilection to fraternize with the reserve corps of the superaphic chiefs of assignment. (300.3) 27:2.3 When you mortal ascenders attain Paradise, your societal relationships involve a great deal more than contact with a host of exalted and divine beings and with a familiar multitude of glorified fellow mortals. You must also fraternize with upwards of three thousand different orders of Paradise Citizens, with the various groups of the Transcendentalers, and with numerous other types of Paradise inhabitants, permanent and transient, who have not been revealed on Urantia. After sustained contact with these mighty intellects of Paradise, it is very restful to visit with the angelic types of mind; they remind the mortals of time of the seraphim with whom they have had such long contact and such refreshing association. 3. Interpreters of Ethics (300.4) 27:3.1 The higher you ascend in the scale of life, the more attention must be paid to universe ethics. Ethical awareness is simply the recognition by any individual of the rights inherent in the existence of any and all other individuals. But spiritual ethics far transcends the mortal and even the morontia concept of personal and group relations. (300.5) 27:3.2 Ethics has been duly taught and adequately learned by the pilgrims of time in their long ascent to the glories of Paradise. As this inward-ascending career has unfolded from the nativity worlds of space, the ascenders have continued to add group after group to their ever-widening circle of universe associates. Every new group of colleagues met with adds one more level of ethics to be recognized and complied with until, by the time the mortals of ascent reach Paradise, they really need someone to provide helpful and friendly counsel regarding ethical interpretations. They do not need to be taught ethics, but they do need to have what they have so laboriously learned properly interpreted to them as they are brought face to face with the extraordinary task of contacting with so much that is new. (300.6) 27:3.3 The interpreters of ethics are of inestimable assistance to the Paradise arrivals in helping them to adjust to numerous groups of majestic beings during that eventful period extending from the attainment of residential status to formal induction into the Corps of Mortal Finaliters. Many of the numerous types of Paradise Citizens the ascendant pilgrims have already met on the seven circuits of Havona. The glorified mortals have also enjoyed intimate contact with the creature-trinitized sons of the conjoint corps on the inner Havona circuit, where these beings are receiving much of their education. And on the other circuits the ascending pilgrims have met numerous unrevealed residents of the Paradise-Havona system who are there pursuing group training in preparation for the unrevealed assignments of the future. (301.1) 27:3.4 All these celestial companionships are invariably mutual. As ascending mortals you not only derive benefit from these successive universe companions and such numerous orders of increasingly divine associates, but you also impart to each of these fraternal beings something from your own personality and experience which forever makes every one of them different and better for having been associated with an ascending mortal from the evolutionary worlds of time and space. 4. Directors of Conduct (301.2) 27:4.1 Having already been fully instructed in the ethics of Paradise relationships — neither meaningless formalities nor the dictations of artificial castes but rather the inherent proprieties — the ascendant mortals find it helpful to receive the counsel of the superaphic directors of conduct, who instruct the new members of Paradise society in the usages of the perfect conduct of the high beings who sojourn on the central Isle of Light and Life. (301.3) 27:4.2 Harmony is the keynote of the central universe, and detectable order prevails on Paradise. Proper conduct is essential to progress by way of knowledge, through philosophy, to the spiritual heights of spontaneous worship. There is a divine technique in the approach to Divinity; and the acquirement of this technique must await the pilgrims’ arrival on Paradise. The spirit of it has been imparted on the circles of Havona, but the final touches of the training of the pilgrims of time can be applied only after they actually attain the Isle of Light. (301.4) 27:4.3 All Paradise conduct is wholly spontaneous, in every sense natural and free. But there still is a proper and perfect way of doing things on the eternal Isle, and the directors of conduct are ever by the side of the “strangers within the gates” to instruct them and so guide their steps as to put them at perfect ease and at the same time to enable the pilgrims to avoid that confusion and uncertainty which would otherwise be inevitable. Only by such an arrangement could endless confusion be avoided; and confusion never appears on Paradise. (301.5) 27:4.4 These directors of conduct really serve as glorified teachers and guides. They are chiefly concerned with instructing the new mortal residents regarding the almost endless array of new situations and unfamiliar usages. Notwithstanding all the long preparation therefor and the long journey thereto, Paradise is still inexpressibly strange and unexpectedly new to those who finally attain residential status. 5. The Custodians of Knowledge (301.6) 27:5.1 The superaphic custodians of knowledge are the higher “living epistles” known and read by all who dwell on Paradise. They are the divine records of truth, the living books of real knowledge. You have heard about records in the “book of life.” The custodians of knowledge are just such living books, records of perfection imprinted upon the eternal tablets of divine life and supreme surety. They are in reality living, automatic libraries. The facts of the universes are inherent in these primary supernaphim, actually recorded in these angels; and it is also inherently impossible for an untruth to gain lodgment in the minds of these perfect and replete repositories of the truth of eternity and the intelligence of time. (302.1) 27:5.2 These custodians conduct informal courses of instruction for the residents of the eternal Isle, but their chief function is that of reference and verification. Any sojourner on Paradise may at will have by his side the living repository of the particular fact or truth he may wish to know. At the northern extremity of the Isle there are available the living finders of knowledge, who will designate the director of the group holding the information sought, and forthwith will appear the brilliant beings who are the very thing you wish to know. No longer must you seek enlightenment from engrossed pages; you now commune with living intelligence face to face. Supreme knowledge you thus obtain from the living beings who are its final custodians. (302.2) 27:5.3 When you locate that supernaphim who is exactly what you desire to verify, you will find available all the known facts of all universes, for these custodians of knowledge are the final and living summaries of the vast network of the recording angels, ranging from the seraphim and seconaphim of the local and superuniverses to the chief recorders of the tertiary supernaphim in Havona. And this living accumulation of knowledge is distinct from the formal records of Paradise, the cumulative summary of universal history. (302.3) 27:5.4 The wisdom of truth takes origin in the divinity of the central universe, but knowledge, experiential knowledge, largely has its beginnings in the domains of time and space — therefore the necessity for the maintenance of the far-flung superuniverse organizations of the recording seraphim and supernaphim sponsored by the Celestial Recorders. (302.4) 27:5.5 These primary supernaphim who are inherently in possession of universe knowledge are also responsible for its organization and classification. In constituting themselves the living reference library of the universe of universes, they have classified knowledge into seven grand orders, each having about one million subdivisions. The facility with which the residents of Paradise can consult this vast store of knowledge is solely due to the voluntary and wise efforts of the custodians of knowledge. The custodians are also the exalted teachers of the central universe, freely giving out their living treasures to all beings on any of the Havona circuits, and they are extensively, though indirectly, utilized by the courts of the Ancients of Days. But this living library, which is available to the central and superuniverses, is not accessible to the local creations. Only by indirection and reflectively are the benefits of Paradise knowledge secured in the local universes. 6. Masters of Philosophy (302.5) 27:6.1 Next to the supreme satisfaction of worship is the exhilaration of philosophy. Never do you climb so high or advance so far that there do not remain a thousand mysteries which demand the employment of philosophy in an attempted solution. (302.6) 27:6.2 The master philosophers of Paradise delight to lead the minds of its inhabitants, both native and ascendant, in the exhilarating pursuit of attempting to solve universe problems. These superaphic masters of philosophy are the “wise men of heaven,” the beings of wisdom who make use of the truth of knowledge and the facts of experience in their efforts to master the unknown. With them knowledge attains to truth and experience ascends to wisdom. On Paradise the ascendant personalities of space experience the heights of being: They have knowledge; they know the truth; they may philosophize — think the truth; they may even seek to encompass the concepts of the Ultimate and attempt to grasp the techniques of the Absolutes. (303.1) 27:6.3 At the southern extremity of the vast Paradise domain the masters of philosophy conduct elaborate courses in the seventy functional divisions of wisdom. Here they discourse upon the plans and purposes of Infinity and seek to co-ordinate the experiences, and to compose the knowledge, of all who have access to their wisdom. They have developed a highly specialized attitude toward various universe problems, but their final conclusions are always in uniform agreement. (303.2) 27:6.4 These Paradise philosophers teach by every possible method of instruction, including the higher graph technique of Havona and certain Paradise methods of communicating information. All of these higher techniques of imparting knowledge and conveying ideas are utterly beyond the comprehension capacity of even the most highly developed human mind. One hour’s instruction on Paradise would be the equivalent of ten thousand years of the word-memory methods of Urantia. You cannot grasp such communication techniques, and there is simply nothing in mortal experience with which they may be compared, nothing to which they can be likened. (303.3) 27:6.5 The masters of philosophy take supreme pleasure in imparting their interpretation of the universe of universes to those beings who have ascended from the worlds of space. And while philosophy can never be as settled in its conclusions as the facts of knowledge and the truths of experience, yet, when you have listened to these primary supernaphim discourse upon the unsolved problems of eternity and the performances of the Absolutes, you will feel a certain and lasting satisfaction concerning these unmastered questions. (303.4) 27:6.6 These intellectual pursuits of Paradise are not broadcast; the philosophy of perfection is available only to those who are personally present. The encircling creations know of these teachings only from those who have passed through this experience, and who have subsequently carried this wisdom out to the universes of space. 7. Conductors of Worship (303.5) 27:7.1 Worship is the highest privilege and the first duty of all created intelligences. Worship is the conscious and joyous act of recognizing and acknowledging the truth and fact of the intimate and personal relationships of the Creators with their creatures. The quality of worship is determined by the depth of creature perception; and as the knowledge of the infinite character of the Gods progresses, the act of worship becomes increasingly all-encompassing until it eventually attains the glory of the highest experiential delight and the most exquisite pleasure known to created beings. (303.6) 27:7.2 While the Isle of Paradise contains certain places of worship, it is more nearly one vast sanctuary of divine service. Worship is the first and dominant passion of all who climb to its blissful shores — the spontaneous ebullition of the beings who have learned enough of God to attain his presence. Circle by circle, during the inward journey through Havona, worship is a growing passion until on Paradise it becomes necessary to direct and otherwise control its expression. (304.1) 27:7.3 The periodic, spontaneous, group, and other special outbursts of supreme adoration and spiritual praise enjoyed on Paradise are conducted under the leadership of a special corps of primary supernaphim. Under the direction of these conductors of worship, such homage achieves the creature goal of supreme pleasure and attains the heights of the perfection of sublime self-expression and personal enjoyment. All primary supernaphim crave to be conductors of worship; and all ascendant beings would enjoy forever remaining in the attitude of worship did not the chiefs of assignment periodically disperse these assemblages. But no ascendant being is ever required to enter upon the assignments of eternal service until he has attained full satisfaction in worship. (304.2) 27:7.4 It is the task of the conductors of worship so to teach the ascendant creatures how to worship that they may be enabled to gain this satisfaction of self-expression and at the same time be able to give attention to the essential activities of the Paradise regime. Without improvement in the technique of worship it would require hundreds of years for the average mortal who reaches Paradise to give full and satisfactory expression to his emotions of intelligent appreciation and ascendant gratitude. The conductors of worship open up new and hitherto unknown avenues of expression so that these wonderful children of the womb of space and the travail of time are enabled to gain the full satisfactions of worship in much less time. (304.3) 27:7.5 All the arts of all the beings of the entire universe which are capable of intensifying and exalting the abilities of self-expression and the conveyance of appreciation, are employed to their highest capacity in the worship of the Paradise Deities. Worship is the highest joy of Paradise existence; it is the refreshing play of Paradise. What play does for your jaded minds on earth, worship will do for your perfected souls on Paradise. The mode of worship on Paradise is utterly beyond mortal comprehension, but the spirit of it you can begin to appreciate even down here on Urantia, for the spirits of the Gods even now indwell you, hover over you, and inspire you to true worship. (304.4) 27:7.6 There are appointed times and places for worship on Paradise, but these are not adequate to accommodate the ever-increasing overflow of the spiritual emotions of the growing intelligence and expanding divinity recognition of the brilliant beings of experiential ascension to the eternal Isle. Never since the times of Grandfanda have the supernaphim been able fully to accommodate the spirit of worship on Paradise. Always is there an excess of worshipfulness as gauged by the preparation therefor. And this is because personalities of inherent perfection never can fully appreciate the tremendous reactions of the spiritual emotions of beings who have slowly and laboriously made their way upward to Paradise glory from the depths of the spiritual darkness of the lower worlds of time and space. When such angels and mortals of time attain the presence of the Powers of Paradise, there occurs the expression of the accumulated emotions of the ages, a spectacle astounding to the angels of Paradise and productive of the supreme joy of divine satisfaction in the Paradise Deities. (304.5) 27:7.7 Sometimes all Paradise becomes engulfed in a dominating tide of spiritual and worshipful expression. Often the conductors of worship cannot control such phenomena until the appearance of the threefold fluctuation of the light of the Deity abode, signifying that the divine heart of the Gods has been fully and completely satisfied by the sincere worship of the residents of Paradise, the perfect citizens of glory and the ascendant creatures of time. What a triumph of technique! What a fruition of the eternal plan and purpose of the Gods that the intelligent love of the creature child should give full satisfaction to the infinite love of the Creator Father! (305.1) 27:7.8 After the attainment of the supreme satisfaction of the fullness of worship, you are qualified for admission to the Corps of the Finality. The ascendant career is well-nigh finished, and the seventh jubilee prepares for celebration. The first jubilee marked the mortal agreement with the Thought Adjuster when the purpose to survive was sealed; the second was the awakening in the morontia life; the third was the fusion with the Thought Adjuster; the fourth was the awakening in Havona; the fifth celebrated the finding of the Universal Father; and the sixth jubilee was the occasion of the Paradise awakening from the final transit slumber of time. The seventh jubilee marks entrance into the mortal finaliter corps and the beginning of the eternity service. The attainment of the seventh stage of spirit realization by a finaliter will probably signalize the celebration of the first of the jubilees of eternity. (305.2) 27:7.9 And thus ends the story of the Paradise supernaphim, the highest order of all the ministering spirits, those beings who, as a universal class, ever attend you from the world of your origin until you are finally bidden farewell by the conductors of worship as you take the Trinity oath of eternity and are mustered into the Mortal Corps of the Finality. (305.3) 27:7.10 The endless service of the Paradise Trinity is about to begin; and now the finaliter is face to face with the challenge of God the Ultimate. (305.4) 27:7.11 [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]