Podcasts about urantia revelation

Join me as we get to know the folks behind a new global Urantia Book-based initiative called ⁠The UB Read Thru Project⁠, an innovative online effort to bring students of the Urantia Revelation together to read the papers as a global community. Diane Labrecque, Conrad Lavallee, Erica Montgomery and Devon Landis join me to talk about their unique Urantia Book experiences and what this project means to them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/support

Join me as we get to know the folks behind a new global Urantia Book-based initiative called ⁠The UB Read Thru Project⁠, an innovative online effort to bring students of the Urantia Revelation together to read the papers as a global community. Diane Labrecque, Conrad Levallee, Erica Montgomery and Devon Landis join me to talk about thier unique Urantia Book experiences and what this project means to them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/support

In this segment we talked to filmmaker Ryan Herring, discussing his his vision for bringing the Urantia Revelation to "cinematic translation." It's an interesting discussion about searching for the truth, finding it, and then carrying it forward to the next generation of readers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/support

Air Date - 26 October 2023An astounding new claim about Jesus was first made in 1955; that he had commissioned twelve female apostles. Its source was The Urantia Book. Now, a newer source builds on that revelation, unveiling each one of the inspiring stories of these courageous women apostles.My guest this week on Vox Novus, Donna D'Ingillo, is a lifelong student of The Urantia Book and one of the first full-time ministers of the expanded gospel of Jesus based on the Urantia Revelation. A renowned pioneer in celestial contact for more than three decades, she is also the founder and executive director of the Institute of Christ Consciousness. In addition to an extensive spiritual healing and counseling ministry with individuals, she conducts workshops and seminars and hosts popular online sessions each week in which she leads groups in worship, prayer, and global healing. Donna's previous acclaimed books are Teach Us to Love and Divine Mother, Divine Father. Her website is https://www.institutechristconsciousness.org/, and she joins me this week to share her path and amazing new book, The Women Who Loved Jesus: The Untold Story of the Women's Evangelistic Corps.#DonnaDIngillo #VoxNovus #VictorFuhrmanVisit the Vox Novus Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/vox-novus/Connect with Victor Fuhrman at http://victorthevoice.com/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

In our conversation with Chuck Thurston, co-founder of Urantia Book Films, we discuss the general and long term influence of the Urantia Revelation on contemporary society, touching on many topics of major importance having to do with the spiritual welfare of our world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/support

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

The Urantia Revelation actually commenced on February 11, 1923 in Chicago. That is when the Study Group first began to discover an emerging collection of writings which would later become the Urantia Book; 196 individual papers that describe our origins, our history and our destiny as children of a loving spiritual father and Deity whom we call God. Let's discuss.... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-watkins/support

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

The recent violence in the world has prompted me to do some real soul-searching. To this send I find comfort from Paper 3 on the the reason bad things happen and why God allows them to. In this episode, we explore these nine examples laid out in Paper 3, and also a few thoughts on the growth of the Urantia Revelation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-watkins/support

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

Marilynn Hughes founded ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission – Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 75 books, 40 magazines and around 15 CD's on Out-of-Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written and taught about Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out-of-body experiences. She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions extensively, as well as, Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and Individual Schools of Theology, i.e. Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc. Marilynn Hughes was a Staff Writer and Featured Catholic Writer on Suite 101's Online Encyclopedia for several years. The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, 'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages,' in Twelve Volumes. She was featured in the documentary film 'The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary which has been viewed by well over half a million people. She's been included in 'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' (By Constance Heidari, Red Wheel Weiser) and 'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn was invited to speak at the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences Conference (UNITED NATIONS NGO), the International YOG Festival (Bhandari Yogayurved Center, by C.M. Bhandari, Former Ambassador to India) and the London Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution (who choose nine top Global Scientists, Humanitarians and Mystics) to speak about their work. Marilynn has been the object of a Scientific Study on Out-of-Body Experiences and was a subject in several other Research Studies. She spent two years on the original board of 'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, and Marilynn Hughes have co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law) which is included in Volume III of 'The Change,' by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes. Marilynn has joined James Van Praagh and the research team at 'The Afterlife Uncovered' which hopes to produce a documentary and subsequent television series. Although a devout Catholic and loyal to the teaching authority of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields for the purpose of serving all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. (Honorary Doctorate in Divinity and Metaphysics, Certification as Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and Interfaith Ministry). She is also a Fifth Epochal Ambassador for the Urantia Revelation through the Uversa Foundation. 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' is also included in the Global New Age Directories. Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound vision wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels led to the throne of God. In this experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out-of-body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades which began and led the process which changed her life, her career and her focus from then forward.

Joel Garbon has a story to tell about his experience in finding the Urantia Book. A scientist by training but with a keep spirit that leads him in search of the truth, Joel talks about his growth experience and about presenting the Urantia Revelation at a UFO Conference earlier this year. We also discuss the Urantia movement, and ways to present the revelation to those searching for truth. Also we have posted his wonderful Urantia Book presentation at UrantiaRadio.net --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-watkins/support

Desiderata (which means “things desired” in Latin) was written in 1927 around the time the Urantia Revelation first appeared. As a young lad, I stumbled upon Max Erhmann’s poem long before I started reading the Urantia Book. In retrospect Erhmanns' poem seems like Mota, which is described as spiritual philosophy in the Urantia Book. In this episode I examine if there is any connection between the poem and the Urantia revelation. Either way, this episode offers plenty of inspiration. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-watkins/support

Since it is the new year, I thought a good way to start it off would be the sharing of the story of creation, ala the Urantia Revelation. For this one, we explore Paper 8 where we learn about the Trinity, and specifically, about The Infinite Spirit who completes the Trinity picture when "the empty of vaults of space "are astir," on the eve of creation of the true beginnings of the "universe of universes." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-watkins/support

In looking at the first paper in the Urantia Revelation, we learn about God's name and what other worlds call him, and also, we examine the actual process in which our mind survives material death, from Paper 1, section 4. Some of the most beautiful writing to be found anywhere is in these first few pages of the Urantia Revelation. Let's discuss.

This podcast's guest is Byron Belitsos. He is the leading exponent of the Urantia Book with training in philosophy, history and theology. He is the publisher, editor or coauthor of numerous acclaimed and award-winning books, including many related to the Urantia Revelation. He has been a student of the Urantia Book for 4 decades and he has spoken about its teaching at many conferences and on innumerable radio and TV Programs. In this podcast we talk about The Urantia Book and how it relates to the Holy Bible, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, near death experiences, extra terrestrials and even Star Trek. #nde #religion #spirituality

These days one wonders exactly what our government should be doing for us, and what we should be doing as citizens for ourselves. Is there a spiritual pattern, certain things we should consider when steering the good ship of humanity through these torrential waters? The Urantia Revelation offers humanity a blueprint. Here it, from Paper 71.

In this short episode I thought it would be good to do a quick review of what we mean by revelation, and how exactly this book sets itself apart from from spiritual writings or beliefs. If you have ten minutes you can get a thumbnail view of a revelation that spans an eternity.

Tough question. But in the end it is about sharing truth on a level where the person you are talking to is receptive to what you are telling them. The lessons of Jesus are talked about here on this edition of the Urantia Radio Podcast.

In this episode we conclude our four-part series giving a summation, and cursory introduction to the four parts that make up the Urantia Book. Part four deals exclusively with the life and teachings of Jesus. We discuss some of the details found in this section, the people and events that never made it in scripture, but also portray the rich and important factors of Jesus life as a son of man, and how the fourth part of the book brings to a conclusion the underlying premise of the first three parts of the Urantia Book, which is that we are loved by our Creator and we are ascendant children of a spiritual creator who has a divine pln, as shown in the life of his bestowal Son, Jesus of Nazareth.

In the third of our four-part series we learn the history of our world, beginning with the beginnings of our sun, the beginnings of our solar system, the beginnings of life itself; the early beginnings of history, of mankind, and an exhaustive history lesson of our cultures, traditions, religious history, racial history, evolutionary development, and lastly, our future. The 3rd section of the Urantia Book is also more exhaustive than the previous 2 parts, which means we learn much more about our immediate future and also, the spiritual economy of our "unseen" friends of the spiritual world.

In part 2 of our four-part series, we provide a brief overview of what the revelation says in part two of the book, which covers the personalities, places and events which make up our local universe of creation.  This is a look at Christs' domain as a Sovereign Creator Son, who rules his vast local Universe of which we are apart. This podcast explores the process by which our universe came into existence, and of keen interest, what the revelation says about our eternal adventure ahead as ascendant mortals.

A four-part series that looks at each part of the Urantia Book and provides a summary introduction and overview for new readers as well as people who are just curious about the Urantia Book. In this episode we examine Part 1, the Central and seven primary (super galactic) universes and how creation is structured relative to the central universe of Havone, which surrounds God’s home, the Isle of Paradise. All of this presented against the backdrop of the divine relationships that exist among Gods' first generation of divine offspring, these higher spirit and material personalities who serve in the expansion of the Supreme Being.

If you gave me a microphone and the world stage for 15 minutes, what would I say about the world and why do I think the Urantia Revelation can help.  (p.s., Bonus question: Why was Elvis used to end this week's podcast segment?)

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Pato Banton & Antoinette Rootsdawtah are recognized globally, not only as Grammy Nominated International Recording Artists, but also as dynamic frontline advocates of The Urantia Revelation through their Global Outreach Ministry and for their Interfaith work. During their music tours they share The Good News through their inspired songs and have made memorable presentations at the Harvard Divinity School and the United Nations Chapel. They have received many accolades and awards, most recently being presented with the prestigious Unity Earth “Keepers of The Flame” Award. They were also appointed as Goodwill Ambassadors of the Golden Rule by Ambassador Mussie of the United Religions Initiative Africa and they were selected as Members of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. They continue to record and tour the world, conveying a positive and spiritual message. Visit www.PatoBanton.com &  www.facebook.com/groups/patobantonsspiritualfamily Make a donation to America Meditating Radio today. CLICK HERE.  Get the new Your Inner World – Guided Meditations by Sister Jenna. Visit www.AmericaMeditating.org. 

Imagine a world that is lit up with the loving intelligence of the Divine. Where spiritual practitioners realize their identity as evolving beings in an evolving kosmos, a kosmos that is teeming with life including all sorts of of celestial beings, angels, seraphim, and extraterrestrials from billions of inhabited worlds like ours. And that these beings love us, communicate with us, and guide us as we grow toward ever-greater expressions of goodness, truth and beauty. Welcome to The Urantia Book, a spiritual revelation that came into being in the early 20th Century and has inspired generations of adherents since. Today Jeff talks with Byron Belitsos, author of the new book, Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation, about the principles of these deep and beautiful (and controversial!) teachings, and how they can illuminate our spiritual development.

This is Part 2 in a series we're doing on The Urantia Book, a sacred text considered to be a divine revelation of our time by many people. In Episode 44 we did a general overview of this massive body of papers, introducing our listeners to this masterpiece work. Today we're honing in on Paper 100, which addresses many of the questions that seekers have about spiritual growth and progress. What does it mean to be human, having a spiritual experience in the body? Why are we here? How can we understand the role of religion in this world? How do we get off track on these spiritual and religious journies? What is the goal of self realization? Today we look to Paper 100 of 196 for the answers, and raise new questions that The Urantia Book may bring insight to! You can learn more about the Urantia Book here: The Urantia Foundation  

This is Part 2 in a series we're doing on The Urantia Book, a sacred text considered to be a divine revelation of our time by many people. In Episode 44 we did a general overview of this massive body of papers, introducing our listeners to this masterpiece work. Today we're honing in on Paper 100, which addresses many of the questions that seekers have about spiritual growth and progress. What does it mean to be human, having a spiritual experience in the body? Why are we here? How can we understand the role of religion in this world? How do we get off track on these spiritual and religious journies? What is the goal of self realization? Today we look to Paper 100 of 196 for the answers, and raise new questions that The Urantia Book may bring insight to!You can learn more about the Urantia Book here: The Urantia Foundation 

Byron Belitsos, author of “ Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation” is a leading exponent of The Urantia Book with training in philosophy, psychology, history, and theology. He is the publisher, editor, or coauthor of numerous acclaimed and award-winning books, including many related to the Urantia Revelation. A student of The Urantia Book for four decades, he has spoken widely about its teachings, including innumerable radio and TV programs.

A wonderful interview with author Byron Belitsos about his new book entitled " Your Evolving Soul". It is a synthesis of the teachings of the Urantia Revelation and how this helps us on our spiritual journey to evolve our soul.

Aired Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 8:00 PM ET Byron Belitsos - Your Evolving Soul Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Can there be a future in a world that at the present appears so divided and conflicted. Is there a glimmer of hope that the human spirit or soul can evolve and connect with the spirit found in all religions and faith—love? If you think about it, these questions that seem to describe the here and now could have been asked any time in the last 3000 or more years. My guest this evening on Destination Unlimited, Byron Belitsos, says the answer to these questions and more are found within what is known as the Urantia Revelation and that yes, there is hope! Byron is a multiple award-winning author and book publisher, and also an editor and educator. After founding Origin Press (OriginPress.org) in 1996, he has worked with numerous leading authors including Peter Russell, Ralph Metzner, Jim Marrs, Charles Tart, James O’Dea, Timothy Wyllie, Anodea Judith, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Byron is also known as a leading expert on The Urantia Book, and has written, spoken, and given workshops widely on its teachings, including appearances on Gaiam TV and Coast-to-Coast AM Radio with George Noory. He has coauthored or edited five books about the Urantia Revelation, including The Adventure of Being Human II (2013), Healing a Broken World, and The Adventure of Being Human (2011). He joins me to discuss his new book, Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation.

The Transition Years 134:0.1 (1483.1) DURING the Mediterranean journey Jesus had carefully studied the people he met and the countries through which he passed, and at about this time he reached his final decision as to the remainder of his life on earth. He had fully considered and now finally approved the plan which provided that he be born of Jewish parents in Palestine, and he therefore deliberately returned to Galilee to await the beginning of his lifework as a public teacher of truth; he began to lay plans for a public career in the land of his father Joseph’s people, and he did this of his own free will. 134:0.2 (1483.2) Jesus had found out through personal and human experience that Palestine was the best place in all the Roman world wherein to set forth the closing chapters, and to enact the final scenes, of his life on earth. For the first time he became fully satisfied with the program of openly manifesting his true nature and of revealing his divine identity among the Jews and gentiles of his native Palestine. He definitely decided to finish his life on earth and to complete his career of mortal existence in the same land in which he entered the human experience as a helpless babe. His Urantia career began among the Jews in Palestine, and he chose to terminate his life in Palestine and among the Jews. 1. The Thirtieth Year (A.D. 24) 134:1.1 (1483.3) After taking leave of Gonod and Ganid at Charax (in December of A.D. 23), Jesus returned by way of Ur to Babylon, where he joined a desert caravan that was on its way to Damascus. From Damascus he went to Nazareth, stopping only a few hours at Capernaum, where he paused to call on Zebedee’s family. There he met his brother James, who had sometime previously come over to work in his place in Zebedee’s boatshop. After talking with James and Jude (who also chanced to be in Capernaum) and after turning over to his brother James the little house which John Zebedee had managed to buy, Jesus went on to Nazareth. 134:1.2 (1483.4) At the end of his Mediterranean journey Jesus had received sufficient money to meet his living expenses almost up to the time of the beginning of his public ministry. But aside from Zebedee of Capernaum and the people whom he met on this extraordinary trip, the world never knew that he made this journey. His family always believed that he spent this time in study at Alexandria. Jesus never confirmed these beliefs, neither did he make open denial of such misunderstandings. 134:1.3 (1483.5) During his stay of a few weeks at Nazareth, Jesus visited with his family and friends, spent some time at the repair shop with his brother Joseph, but devoted most of his attention to Mary and Ruth. Ruth was then nearly fifteen years old, and this was Jesus’ first opportunity to have long talks with her since she had become a young woman. 134:1.4 (1484.1) Both Simon and Jude had for some time wanted to get married, but they had disliked to do this without Jesus’ consent; accordingly they had postponed these events, hoping for their eldest brother’s return. Though they all regarded James as the head of the family in most matters, when it came to getting married, they wanted the blessing of Jesus. So Simon and Jude were married at a double wedding in early March of this year, A.D. 24. All the older children were now married; only Ruth, the youngest, remained at home with Mary. 134:1.5 (1484.2) Jesus visited with the individual members of his family quite normally and naturally, but when they were all together, he had so little to say that they remarked about it among themselves. Mary especially was disconcerted by this unusually peculiar behavior of her first-born son. 134:1.6 (1484.3) About the time Jesus was preparing to leave Nazareth, the conductor of a large caravan which was passing through the city was taken violently ill, and Jesus, being a linguist, volunteered to take his place. Since this trip would necessitate his absence for a year, and inasmuch as all his brothers were married and his mother was living at home with Ruth, Jesus called a family conference at which he proposed that his mother and Ruth go to Capernaum to live in the home which he had so recently given to James. Accordingly, a few days after Jesus left with the caravan, Mary and Ruth moved to Capernaum, where they lived for the rest of Mary’s life in the home that Jesus had provided. Joseph and his family moved into the old Nazareth home. 134:1.7 (1484.4) This was one of the more unusual years in the inner experience of the Son of Man; great progress was made in effecting working harmony between his human mind and the indwelling Adjuster. The Adjuster had been actively engaged in reorganizing the thinking and in rehearsing the mind for the great events which were in the not then distant future. The personality of Jesus was preparing for his great change in attitude toward the world. These were the in-between times, the transition stage of that being who began life as God appearing as man, and who was now making ready to complete his earth career as man appearing as God. 2. The Caravan Trip to the Caspian 134:2.1 (1484.5) It was the first of April, A.D. 24, when Jesus left Nazareth on the caravan trip to the Caspian Sea region. The caravan which Jesus joined as its conductor was going from Jerusalem by way of Damascus and Lake Urmia through Assyria, Media, and Parthia to the southeastern Caspian Sea region. It was a full year before he returned from this journey. 134:2.2 (1484.6) For Jesus this caravan trip was another adventure of exploration and personal ministry. He had an interesting experience with his caravan family — passengers, guards, and camel drivers. Scores of men, women, and children residing along the route followed by the caravan lived richer lives as a result of their contact with Jesus, to them, the extraordinary conductor of a commonplace caravan. Not all who enjoyed these occasions of his personal ministry profited thereby, but the vast majority of those who met and talked with him were made better for the remainder of their natural lives. 134:2.3 (1484.7) Of all his world travels this Caspian Sea trip carried Jesus nearest to the Orient and enabled him to gain a better understanding of the Far-Eastern peoples. He made intimate and personal contact with every one of the surviving races of Urantia excepting the red. He equally enjoyed his personal ministry to each of these varied races and blended peoples, and all of them were receptive to the living truth which he brought them. The Europeans from the Far West and the Asiatics from the Far East alike gave attention to his words of hope and eternal life and were equally influenced by the life of loving service and spiritual ministry which he so graciously lived among them. 134:2.4 (1485.1) The caravan trip was successful in every way. This was a most interesting episode in the human life of Jesus, for he functioned during this year in an executive capacity, being responsible for the material intrusted to his charge and for the safe conduct of the travelers making up the caravan party. And he most faithfully, efficiently, and wisely discharged his multiple duties. 134:2.5 (1485.2) On the return from the Caspian region, Jesus gave up the direction of the caravan at Lake Urmia, where he tarried for slightly over two weeks. He returned as a passenger with a later caravan to Damascus, where the owners of the camels besought him to remain in their service. Declining this offer, he journeyed on with the caravan train to Capernaum, arriving the first of April, A.D. 25. No longer did he regard Nazareth as his home. Capernaum had become the home of Jesus, James, Mary, and Ruth. But Jesus never again lived with his family; when in Capernaum he made his home with the Zebedees. 3. The Urmia Lectures 134:3.1 (1485.3) On the way to the Caspian Sea, Jesus had stopped several days for rest and recuperation at the old Persian city of Urmia on the western shores of Lake Urmia. On the largest of a group of islands situated a short distance offshore near Urmia was located a large building — a lecture amphitheater — dedicated to the “spirit of religion.” This structure was really a temple of the philosophy of religions. 134:3.2 (1485.4) This temple of religion had been built by a wealthy merchant citizen of Urmia and his three sons. This man was Cymboyton, and he numbered among his ancestors many diverse peoples. 134:3.3 (1485.5) The lectures and discussions in this school of religion began at ten o’clock every morning in the week. The afternoon sessions started at three o’clock, and the evening debates opened at eight o’clock. Cymboyton or one of his three sons always presided at these sessions of teaching, discussion, and debate. The founder of this unique school of religions lived and died without ever revealing his personal religious beliefs. * 134:3.4 (1485.6) On several occasions Jesus participated in these discussions, and before he left Urmia, Cymboyton arranged with Jesus to sojourn with them for two weeks on his return trip and give twenty-four lectures on “The Brotherhood of Men,” and to conduct twelve evening sessions of questions, discussions, and debates on his lectures in particular and on the brotherhood of men in general. 134:3.5 (1485.7) In accordance with this arrangement, Jesus stopped off on the return trip and delivered these lectures. This was the most systematic and formal of all the Master’s teaching on Urantia. Never before or after did he say so much on one subject as was contained in these lectures and discussions on the brotherhood of men. In reality these lectures were on the “Kingdom of God” and the “Kingdoms of Men.” 134:3.6 (1486.1) More than thirty religions and religious cults were represented on the faculty of this temple of religious philosophy. These teachers were chosen, supported, and fully accredited by their respective religious groups. At this time there were about seventy-five teachers on the faculty, and they lived in cottages each accommodating about a dozen persons. Every new moon these groups were changed by the casting of lots. Intolerance, a contentious spirit, or any other disposition to interfere with the smooth running of the community would bring about the prompt and summary dismissal of the offending teacher. He would be unceremoniously dismissed, and his alternate in waiting would be immediately installed in his place. 134:3.7 (1486.2) These teachers of the various religions made a great effort to show how similar their religions were in regard to the fundamental things of this life and the next. There was but one doctrine which had to be accepted in order to gain a seat on this faculty — every teacher must represent a religion which recognized God — some sort of supreme Deity. There were five independent teachers on the faculty who did not represent any organized religion, and it was as such an independent teacher that Jesus appeared before them. 134:3.8 (1486.3) [When we, the midwayers, first prepared the summary of Jesus’ teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the seraphim of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the wisdom of including these teachings in the Urantia Revelation. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus’ day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master’s teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master’s teachings which was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master’s Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus’ teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.] 4. Sovereignty — Divine and Human 134:4.1 (1486.4) The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God — God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them. 134:4.2 (1486.5) The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty — God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man. 134:4.3 (1486.6) If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers. 134:4.4 (1487.1) Religious peace — brotherhood — can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign. 134:4.5 (1487.2) You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself. 134:4.6 (1487.3) The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority — religious sovereignty. 134:4.7 (1487.4) God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren. 134:4.8 (1487.5) But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists. 134:4.9 (1487.6) Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty. 134:4.10 (1487.7) The Urmia religionists lived together in comparative peace and tranquillity because they had fully surrendered all their notions of religious sovereignty. Spiritually, they all believed in a sovereign God; socially, full and unchallengeable authority rested in their presiding head — Cymboyton. They well knew what would happen to any teacher who assumed to lord it over his fellow teachers. There can be no lasting religious peace on Urantia until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth. 5. Political Sovereignty 134:5.1 (1487.8) [While the Master’s teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth — only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world’s religions — his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers — the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East — and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master’s teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.] 134:5.2 (1487.9) War on Urantia will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total — man and mankind. 134:5.3 (1488.1) Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men. 134:5.4 (1488.2) This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time. 134:5.5 (1488.3) Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power — the family — and the final consummation of political growth — the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind. 134:5.6 (1488.4) Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become united, for various reasons, into tribal units — superconsanguineous political groupings. And then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire. 134:5.7 (1488.5) As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding sovereignty become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major wars, world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating wars. 134:5.8 (1488.6) The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the “scaffolding stages” of the previous developments in political organization. And this is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe — the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind. 134:5.9 (1488.7) Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe. 134:5.10 (1489.1) Urantia will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men — mankind government. Internationalism — Leagues of Nations — can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth. 134:5.11 (1489.2) As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind. 134:5.12 (1489.3) Peace will not come to Urantia until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of Urantia create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail — but not until then. 134:5.13 (1489.4) To use an important nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustration: The forty-eight states of the American Federal Union have long enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among themselves. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The forty-eight states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government’s sovereignty is in some way jeopardized. 134:5.14 (1489.5) These forty-eight states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquillity. So will the nations of Urantia begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government — the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas. 134:5.15 (1490.1) The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was created by men and for men. The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. Sometime the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men. 134:5.16 (1490.2) Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status. 134:5.17 (1490.3) With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will — world-wide good will — among men? 6. Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty 134:6.1 (1490.4) If one man craves freedom — liberty — he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW. 134:6.2 (1490.5) Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men, but it will require mankind government to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of human happiness and efficiency. 134:6.3 (1490.6) There shall be wars and rumors of wars — nation will rise against nation — just as long as the world’s political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom. 134:6.4 (1490.7) Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. Global sovereignty will prevent global wars — nothing else can. 134:6.5 (1490.8) The forty-eight American free states live together in peace. There are among the citizens of these forty-eight states all of the various nationalities and races that live in the ever-warring nations of Europe. These Americans represent almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North America they live together in peace. And all this is made possible because these forty-eight states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination. 134:6.6 (1490.9) It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining world-wide peace. If you take every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty. 134:6.7 (1491.1) War is not man’s great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty. 134:6.8 (1491.2) Urantia nations have not possessed real sovereignty; they never have had a sovereignty which could protect them from the ravages and devastations of world wars. In the creation of the global government of mankind, the nations are not giving up sovereignty so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world sovereignty which will henceforth be fully able to protect them from all war. Local affairs will be handled by local governments; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by global government. 134:6.9 (1491.3) World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government — the sovereignty of all mankind. 134:6.10 (1491.4) The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government. 134:6.11 (1491.5) Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended. With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon may a global language evolve, and there will be at least some hope of sometime having a global religion — or religions with a global viewpoint. 134:6.12 (1491.6) Collective security will never afford peace until the collectivity includes all mankind. 134:6.13 (1491.7) The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * 134:6.15 (1491.8) After the death of Cymboyton, his sons encountered great difficulties in maintaining a peaceful faculty. The repercussions of Jesus’ teachings would have been much greater if the later Christian teachers who joined the Urmia faculty had exhibited more wisdom and exercised more tolerance. 134:6.16 (1491.9) Cymboyton’s eldest son had appealed to Abner at Philadelphia for help, but Abner’s choice of teachers was most unfortunate in that they turned out to be unyielding and uncompromising. These teachers sought to make their religion dominant over the other beliefs. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to lectures of the caravan conductor had been delivered by Jesus himself. 134:6.17 (1491.10) As confusion increased in the faculty, the three brothers withdrew their financial support, and after five years the school closed. Later it was reopened as a Mithraic temple and eventually burned down in connection with one of their orgiastic celebrations. 7. The Thirty-First Year (A.D. 25) 134:7.1 (1492.1) When Jesus returned from the journey to the Caspian Sea, he knew that his world travels were about finished. He made only one more trip outside of Palestine, and that was into Syria. After a brief visit to Capernaum, he went to Nazareth, stopping over a few days to visit. In the middle of April he left Nazareth for Tyre. From there he journeyed on north, tarrying for a few days at Sidon, but his destination was Antioch. 134:7.2 (1492.2) This is the year of Jesus’ solitary wanderings through Palestine and Syria. Throughout this year of travel he was known by various names in different parts of the country: the carpenter of Nazareth, the boatbuilder of Capernaum, the scribe of Damascus, and the teacher of Alexandria. 134:7.3 (1492.3) At Antioch the Son of Man lived for over two months, working, observing, studying, visiting, ministering, and all the while learning how man lives, how he thinks, feels, and reacts to the environment of human existence. For t