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LETTER to the FRONTLINE HEROES: Viganò on COVID, Abortion, and Destruction of the Family

Written by  + Carlo Maria Viganò

MEDITATION 2

| Jesus-Style Meditation (previous) | Meditation or Mysticism? | Stillness Practice Is Not In The Urantia Book | Stilled Mind Meditation Is Lacking | Dangerous Ground | Transcendental Meditation vs. Jesus-Style Meditation | Keeping Up with Evolving Words |

Jesus-Style “Meditation”:
What the word really means! (Continued:)

“Worshipful Meditation” vs. Thought-Stilling Techniques

When all self-centered desires are lacking, prayer transforms into worship, “sublime thinking” into “superthinking” (ref. 1616 D). Otherwise they are identical where they overlap. At the point worship begins we basically just hang on for the ride, but this does not mean that our minds are quiet or without thoughts. Far from it. Our Thought Adjuster is “conducting” the worship.

For us at this time (in this state) “worship is effortless attention, true and ideal soul rest, a form of restful spiritual exertion” (1616 D).

This is because while the thoughts we have then seem to be our own, they are actually being produced -- not without our own unconscious distortions (see 1786 D) -- by our Thought Adjusters and the Spirit of Truth. Cause these thoughts to cease and communication stops!

“If one is disposed to recognize a theoretical subconscious mind as a practical working hypothesis in the otherwise unified intellectual life, then, to be consistent, one should postulate a similar and corresponding realm of ascending intellectual activity as the superconscious level, the zone of immediate contact with the indwelling spirit entity, the Thought Adjuster.” (1099 C)

“Ascending intellectual activity” is diametrically opposed to the stillness-minded intellectual inactivity practiced in Eastern Religion-style meditation.

The only place in the whole URANTIA Book where anything at all in the nature of non-intellectual functioning, passive-minded contemplation is advanced, which I have been able to discover, is where we are instructed by Jesus that after we have made our prayers to the Father, we should “remain for a time in silent receptivity to afford the indwelling spirit the better opportunity to speak to the listening soul” (1641 A). Notice that the spirit speaks to the soul, however, and not to the mind or consciousness of the praying person. This is quite different from hearing “voices”. This is neither prayer nor worship, and it is not “meditation”. It is a few moments of quietude to be imposed before quitting! It is to augment the transition into worship over time, so that one who now merely says his prayers will later be able to continue them on into worship, which is the goal. Ideally the transition of the moment is seamless, we simply segue from the one into the other. The line between prayer and worship is self-interest. (ref. 65 D)

Admittedly the doorway to mental quietude is cracked open by Jesus’ instruction, but hardly wide enough to admit the full panoply of Eastern-style meditation! Actually all that Jesus is saying is that we should shut up and listen for a moment after praying before returning to our ordinary thoughts and activities. There is no indication whatsoever that we can expect to be, or should become aware of any aspect of this particular transaction between our soul and Thought Adjuster, but as we more and more become our souls, that is, as we personally grow over time to identify ourselves with our higher self, the more we should obviously be able to “hear”:

“The material and mortal reality of the self transcend[s] the temporal limitations of the physical-life machine and attain[s] a new expression of a new identification in the evolving vehicle for selfhood continuity, the morontia and immortal soul. (1218 D)

This evolution of one’s soul/self identification cannot be achieved by any short-cut methods, including thought-stilling techniques! Jesus knew:

“the futility of the Caligastia method of trying to get ahead of the natural, slow and sure way of accomplishing the divine purpose.” (1521 A)

“Never, in all your ascent to Paradise, will you gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the established and divine plan by short cuts, personal inventions, or other devices for improving on the way of perfection, to perfection and for eternal perfection.” (864 C)

Quite plainly we are taught that:

• “There is no other technique [than prayer] whereby every man, regardless of all other mortal accomplishments, can so effectively and immediately approach the threshold of that realm wherein he can communicate with his maker … with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.” (1000 A)

   

   

• “The ideal prayer is a form of spiritual communication which leads to intelligent worship”(1618 D).

   

   

• “When Jesus taught his associates to pray in the spirit and in truth, he explained that he referred to praying sincerely and in accordance with one’s enlightenment, to praying wholeheartedly and intelligently, earnestly and steadfastly” (1640 C).

Jesus’ instruction for a receptive moment after prayer does not appear to apply to people who are at the point of entering from prayer into worship, but rather to those whose spiritual communications seldom if ever rise to the level of worship. It appears to be a method of preparing a worshipful attitude of mind over time. This directive was presented in a list of sixteen instructions (beginning on page 1638) concerning -- except for this last point in the list -- prayer. Jesus brought that subject from the sub-level of (1) “conscious and persistent regard for iniquity”; through (3) “opening the God-man communication”; to the few moments (“a time”) of (16) “silent receptivity”. Then he touches upon the higher level of a beginning understanding of worship, which, unlike prayer, is not described in detail there. We are told that while he did teach more at this point, “not many … could fully encompass his teaching”. We should understand that Thought Adjusters at that time had not yet been universally bestowed, so worship -- including understanding of the subject -- might have been particularly difficult for these people, even though they were twenty-four of Jesus’ closest followers. This event took place, after all, during his first preaching tour of Galilee. Not long before this they were unable to grasp even more than a few of the conceptual differences between prayer and worship which Jesus attempted to teach them (ref. 1616 B). It should not be overlooked, either, that although they did have the presence of the physical Jesus, he could not be with them 24 hours a day or in their minds when they prayed, worshipped, or meditated. The Spirit of Truth would not be poured out until after Jesus’ departure.

For ourselves, if we access this now universally available spirit resource, worship should come much easier -- it is obviously a stage or ability which must be attained before “worshipful meditation”, or Jesus-style meditation can take place. But stilling one’s thoughts is hardly the way to open the door to the “realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking”.

Meditation or Mysticism?

We are indeed told that mysticism, as the “technique of the cultivation of the consciousness of the presence of God” -- which is virtually identical to the 1934-1935 definition of the word -- “is altogether praiseworthy” (1000 A). But that “however favorable may have been the conditions for mystic phenomena, it should be clearly understood that Jesus of Nazareth never resorted to such methods for communication with the Paradise Father” (1100 A), and “the direct communion with one’s Thought Adjuster, such as occurred in the later years of Jesus’ life in the flesh, should not be confused with … so-called mystical experiences” (1100 A). And, as well, that when mystical practices “lead to social isolation and culminate in religious fanaticism, they are all but reprehensible. (1000 A).

We are clearly and most specifically warned by The URANTIA Book that “under no circumstances should the trancelike state of visionary consciousness be cultivated as a religious experience” [this “mystical state” is defined therein as “diffusion of consciousness with vivid islands of focal attention operating on a comparatively passive intellect” -- in short, thought-stilling, so-called “meditation”] (1099 D). Rather than using the “mystical” approach -- regardless of how “praiseworthy” -- “the more healthful attitude of spiritual meditation is to be found in reflective worship and the prayer of thanksgiving”. (1100 A)

Prayer, Jesus said, “is designed to make man less thinking but more realizing; it is not designed to increase knowledge but rather expand insight”(1616 C). That is, we begin to realize the truth-content of the thoughts which are formed in our minds by the work of the Spirit of Truth and our Thought Adjusters, yet which seem to be our own -- again, this hardly implies a quiet mind! It is, we are told quite plainly, our “thoughts” that lead us “Godward”. “The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man … in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking” (1104 D - 1105 A). The intellect is active during worshipful meditation -- “Jesus-style meditation” -- but we are no longer in charge. This does not mean that the thoughts (as opposed to “voices” etc.) which we perceive can be expected to be entirely free of our own, personal, distortions -- they cannot! Yet these distortions will become minimized over time as we continue with the process of spiritualization (or more precisely, “morontialization”).

Stillness Practice Is NOT In The URANTIA Book

If Jesus’ instruction to pause receptively did somehow refer to Eastern-style, stilled intellect, passive-mind “meditation”, why are we not clearly informed of this either there or elsewhere in The URANTIA Book? Why would it be presented virtually as a secret and hidden instruction only to be made understandable by purported spiritual communications -- channellings, a phenomenon that has been associated with dissociation -- which The URANTIA Book did not apparently foresee, but which were to take place before even the century of its reception had passed, thus effectively outdating essential truths of a millennial or bi-millennial (1,000 or 2,000-year) revelation in less than sixty years?

While it is true that the contact personality (ref. 865 A), who was instrumental in the reception of The URANTIA Book, transmitted early materials by way of something like “channelling” (before the Urantia Papers and their prototypes were physically materialized), it should be clearly understood that by all reports he made no special preparation of his mind or self before being so-used by the revelators, and that he was unconscious and unaware (asleep) during the whole procedure. According to those who were present and recorded these night-time sessions, he did not even know anything had happened until told about it when he regained consciousness. His experience had nothing to do in any way with any kind of “meditation”.

Neither were there apparently any direct benefits to the sleeping individual from the night-time sessions. Exactly how his mind may have been used by supernals in downloading and printing-out (materializing) the hardcopy text of the Papers, is completely unknown, although secret, human technology developed only after the Urantia Papers were received and published -- is believed to exist whereby a sleeper’s visual cortex (where dreams are pictured) can be accessed wirelessly for both input and display by a remote computer. My guess is that supernals used something way beyond our possibly ahead-of-the-state-of-the-art, materialistic, secret technology to employ the sleeper’s mind like a word processor, in which he pictured the text in his own default font: pencil handwriting. This seems more realistic than Bill Sadler’s (William Sadler’s son’s) idea of an invisibly-held pencil actually writing the pages out in forged longhand, to account for the fact that they were in the subject’s own cursive script. (It was so much in his own hand that he was reported to have joked that his bank balance was in danger.)

Nor should we overlook the fact that beyond his being “favorably constituted” (ref. 1258 A), his was “one of the highly experienced Thought Adjusters of his day and generation”. And that even aside from being unconscious during the actual process, at other moments the contact personality was “consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure” and exhibited a “passive reaction to, and inactive concern towards, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind” of his especially versatile Adjuster. This is described as a “rare” and “fortuitous” reaction, which was highly favorable to the individual from the standpoint of “health, efficiency, and tranquility” (ref. 1209 A).

Notice that it was his attitude which was favorable, not the experience of transmission, and that the information received by the channelling-like activities were superseded by materialized Papers -- hard copies in black and white -- which being thus received contained less mentally-imparted distortions than those which probably (if they impinged upon and thus been tinged by his imagination or dreams) would have colored the earlier product of channelling-like activities utilizing the sleeping contact personality’s vocal apparatus (see 1208 A) unless they were using him like a hand puppet and bypassing his mind completely. But if they were doing that, why was his extremely versatile Thought Adjuster needed: just to stand aside while he was “possessed”? Even then, such “possessions” are not likely to be complete and total. Personality distortions would still seep through. Obviously the room for such distortions is much greater in cases where the channeller is just trying to keep up with some sort of inner, vaguely heard “dictation”.

It should also not be ignored that Dr. Sadler used every art and artifice at his command to “debunk” the channelling-like activities as well as the materialized Papers and “instructions” or “mandates”, which were also received. He made sure that no known means of trickery was involved. Such safeguards have been entirely lacking in regards to the Teaching Mission (TeaM) and other purported communications, such as those of Emma “Christy” Christensen after the middle 1950s when the “you are on your own” message was received -- thus ending direct supernal contact and supervision -- and of Vern Grimsley in the early 1980s immediately following Christy’s death. In all of these cases there has been no objective look at the possibility of technological or other trickery, or -- as in the case of Vern Grimsley -- more than a superficial look at psychological explanations … at least none by the actual participants or their supporters, who all, decidedly unlike Sadler, seem to take everything at face value!

Again, we need to ask why exactly those phenomena which passive-intellect meditation induces would be precisely those which we are told that Jesus-style meditation does NOT include: “leadings, voices, [and] visions” (2089 B)? and "feelings or emotions”, which do NOT lead us Godward, according to The URANTIA Book.

While the practice of passive-intellect meditation was little-known in America at the time the Papers were indited into English, it was not unknown; and it had been prevalent in India and elsewhere for at least hundreds of years. This was not some new concept for which the world was in no way ready, which needed to be later revealed by way of auto-(or continuing) revelation. Why would there be only such a meager indication that it was so if Jesus’ instruction for a quiet, receptive pause at the completion of prayer were indeed a reference to thought-stilling meditative practices? We are told that the revelators used:

“more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and meanings … assembled from God-knowing mortals of the past and present” (17 A).

Why -- if it is as important as some claim -- was such a purportedly valuable process excluded except, perhaps, for hints in a revelation which makes so many things so plain and which repeats key concepts almost ad infinitum? Even this confusion about the definition of “meditation” would not exist if the context of the book were observed. It explains it all very well, indeed! The problem arises only because the meaning of the word itself changed, causing people to encounter the word with a wrong idea about it already fixed in their minds, or as a result of being directed to the word by channelled purported spirits as “proof” that meditation is considered important by the supernal revelators, in an attempt to justify stilled-mind practices! Since there are rewards from (therefore reinforcing) semi-trance states (see below), simple classical conditioning makes the practice difficult to give up once started. And The URANTIA Book teaches that “it requires a great and noble character, having started out wrong, to turn about and go right. All too often one’s own mind tends to justify continuance in the path of error when once it is entered upon” (1981 D).

If, in fact as we are informed, the supernal revelators were mandated by their superiors to utilize existing expressions even where these more or less distorted the truth which they represented (ref. 1 C) -- almost the very first words in The URANTIA Book -- what possible reason could have caused the revelators to give such short shrift -- hardly more than a passing honorable mention, if even that -- to further elucidation of the Eastern religion’s method of passive-mind meditation? If that was what the Master had in mind? Rather, isn’t the truth contained in this idea: Jesus spent the “long hours of that night of meditation” “thinking, thinking”? Not zoned-out in a semi-trance state listening to “voices” and feeling “love”? Not only are we warned against such purportedly “religious” experiences, and told that they were not part of Jesus’ religion, but now more and more they are being proved to be productions of the electro/chemical anatomical apparatuses in the brain -- meat-reactions of the brain, predictably evocable by scientific tweaking!

The subjective feeling of “awareness” or lack-of-trance in such states can be deceptive as well. Hypnotists report that subjects whom objective measurements assure them have been put into in trances often afterwards refuse to believe it, even though the subjects also followed the hypnotist’s “suggestions” while apparently -- as also assessed by the experienced hypnotists -- hypnotized. The problem is that the trance state is not necessarily easily discernable from within. And to compound the problem of subjective recognition it is merely semi-trance states which The URANTIA Book warns can be spiritually dangerous. These are more than likely even less discernable than full, hypnotic trances! But we know when our mind is “comparatively passive”, and when our awareness is focused only upon “vivid islands” and not our wider consciousness. Outwardly this condition may only be signaled by widely dilated pupils, which apparently are known to accompany elevated alpha wave levels. It has been discovered that the more these states are entered into, the longer they will persist, carrying over beyond the period of meditation, even into day to day activities.

Elevated alpha levels also indicate that the mind is highly suggestible and lacking in abilities of discernment and cognition (you naturally experience this state just before falling asleep -- which fact in itself is evidence that the alpha-state is closer to the subconscious, dream-state, than to the superconscious “mountaintop of intellectual activity” which is the area of immediate contact with the indwelling, spirit God-fragment within us). We are quite likely soon to be overwhelmed with new knowledge in this area when more results of the ongoing international, cross-discipline mapping study of the brain are brought to public awareness.

Stilled Mind Meditation Is Lacking

This is not to say that Eastern-style, so-called, “meditation” has to be considered harmful in and of itself. Scientific scrutiny has apparently observed beneficial effects from its practice. The URANTIA Book in no way condemns it for promoting better health and release from stress. What it does warn is this:

“Under no circumstances should the trancelike state of visionary consciousness be cultivated as a religious experience” (1099 D).

The supernals explain that this “mystical state” (known more scientifically as “alpha-state”, so-

named because of the predominance of alpha waves produced therein by the brain) “gravitates consciousness toward the subconscious rather than in the direction of the zone of spiritual contact, the superconscious [the “realm of ascending intellectual activity”]”(1099 D). Like prayer, it also obviously can access the “subconscious reservoir of mortal experience” for “material aid” (997 C), but the danger is that “visions and other so-called mystic experiences, along with extraordinary dreams, may be regarded as divine communications to the human mind” (1100 A). The experiences themselves may be no more harmful than dreams, but they should not be believed!

Chart showing alpha brain-waves

On the other hand, this does not mean that we should jump right into Eastern Religion’s so-called “meditation” for non-religious purposes without exercising any caution. Some scientific studies have indicated a harmful effect. Also, The URANTIA Book says that “the factors which contribute to the initiation of mystic communion are indicative of the danger of such psychic states” (1100 A). And the listed factors include “dissociation”, a psychological term indicating a certain kind of loss of touch with physical/mental reality, or parts of it. Dissociation is associated with not only channelling, but with both multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia as well. The trancelike state comprising stilled-mind practices itself may be dissociative, and should be thoroughly understood if it appears in any way to be a:

“diffusion of consciousness with vivid islands of focal attention operating on a comparatively passive intellect” (1099 D).

I have not personally attempted stilled-mind practice, and probably won’t. Neither must I kill someone to accept that murder is wrong! The warnings in The URANTIA Book have been put there for one reason only, so that we can benefit from them. A word to the wise should be sufficient! They are ignored at one’s own risk of courting disaster. While such dangers cannot stop spiritual progression, they can seriously retard it!

“Dangerous Ground”

Truth can be lost when new meanings come to substitute for former, earlier concepts and where the old meaning is meant the use of such words without proper explanation will always cause confusion. The URANTIA Book’s supernal authors were obviously aware of the fact of the evolution of language -- even school kids understand it in principle. Therefore they also presented descriptions of the meditative practices which were to be AVOIDED:

• “Diffusion of consciousness with vivid islands of focal attention operating on a comparatively passive intellect” (1099 D).

   

   

• “Mental dissociation to the level of abnormal mental manifestations” (1100 A).

   

   

• “Psychic dissociation” (1100 B)

But if these other dangers can be avoided it is entirely true that Jesus-style “meditation” is highly desirable -- we are actually challenged:

“to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor [Thought Adjuster] that dwells in the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness -- contact with the divine presence” (2097 A) …

… almost the last words in The URANTIA Book. However while pursuing this goal which they call the “great challenge to modern man”, they also warn us to keep in mind that:

 

 

1. “It is dangerous to entertain the idea that every new concept originating in the human mind is the dictation of the Adjuster. More often in beings of your order, that which you accept as the Adjuster’s voice [or the voice of a spirit entity] is in reality the emanation of your own intellect. This is dangerous ground … ” (1208 D)

    

    

2. “It is hazardous to attempt the differentiation of the Adjuster’s concept registry from the more or less continuous and conscious reception of the dictation of mortal conscience.” (1208 C)

    

    

3. “It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life.” (1208 C)

    

    

4. “The great danger … is that visions and other so-called mystic experiences [e.g., “leadings”, “visions”, “voices”, and other “abnormal mental manifestations”], along with extraordinary dreams may be regarded as divine communications to the human mind.” (1099 C)

    

    

5. “There is a great danger associated with the habitual practice of religious daydreaming; mysticism may become a technique of reality avoidance … ” (1099 D)

    

    

6. [And also:] “There is a certain danger associated with overmuch private praying which is corrected and prevented by group praying, community devotions. [Because] when prayer becomes overmuch aesthetic, when it consists almost exclusively in beautiful and blissful contemplation of paradisiacal divinity, it loses much of its socializing influence and tends towards mysticism and the isolation of its devotees.” (1001 A)

The URANTIA Book also teaches that:

• “It is sometimes possible to have your mind illuminated, to hear the divine voice that continually speaks within you … But your unsteady and rapidly shifting mental attitudes often result in thwarting the plans and interrupting the work of the Adjusters … this ministry is also greatly retarded by your own preconceived opinions, settled ideas, and long-standing prejudices.” (1199 C)

   

   

• “In varying degrees and increasingly as you ascend the psychic circles (ref. 1209 B), sometime directly, but more often indirectly, you do communicate with your Adjusters.” (1208 D)

   

   

• “While the voice of the Adjuster is ever within you, most of you will hear it seldom during a lifetime. Human beings below the third and second [psychic] circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire, in a supreme situation, and consequent upon a supreme decision.” (1213 C)

   

   

• “With the vast majority of Urantians (earth-mortals) the Adjuster must patiently await the arrival of death deliverance: must await the liberation of the emerging soul from the well-neigh complete domination of the energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent mortal nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters.” (1213 A)

   

   

• “You are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co-operation that your indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly to the human mind. Even when they do find it possible to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolving mortal soul, this spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. Many a new religion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, imperfect, misunderstood, and garbled communication of the Thought Adjusters.” (1207 C)

With all these leadings, voices, misunderstood and garbled communications, dreams, and dangers, what are we to do? The URANTIA Book provides the answer:

“In scrutinizing mental situations, safety lies only in the prompt recognition of each and every thought and experience for just what it actually and fundamentally is, disregarding what it might have been.” (1199 C)

That is, if an inner voice says, for example, for us to go to such and such a place, or if we dream of such a place, we are advised NOT to conclude, “My Thought Adjuster may be (or even worse, is) telling me to go there”, but that “it was nothing more or less than the content of an inner voice or a dream … period!” Then it becomes simply another source of ideas (which is probably all it is anyway) which should be treated like any other suggestion -- according to its real value, or our best estimate thereof. We might well also keep track of the success/failure rate of emanations from that particular source. Does it prove to be trustworthy over time?

• “The human mind may perform in response to so-called inspiration when it is sensitive either to the uprisings of the subconscious or to the stimulus of the superconscious. In either case it appears to the individual that such augmentations of the content of the consciousness are more or less foreign.” (1000 D)

   

   

• “These are problems which will have to be solved through individual discrimination and personal decision. But a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster’s expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder [blunder!] into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity.” (1208 C)

   

   

• “This is dangerous ground, and every human being must settle these problems for himself [or herself] in accordance with his [or her] natural human wisdom and superhuman insight.” (1208 D)

The secret of Jesus’ unparalleled religious life was his:

“consciousness of the presence of God; and he attained it by intelligent prayer and sincere worship -- unbroken communion with God -- and not by leadings, voices, visions, or extraordinary religious practices” (2089 B) …

… such as are often produced by stilled-mind, so-called “meditation” techniques, and which are supposed to be, according to its proponents, valuable religious experience!

“However favorable may have been the conditions for mystic phenomena, it should be clearly understood that Jesus of Nazareth never resorted to such methods for communion with the Paradise Father. Jesus had no subconscious delusions or superconscious illusions.” (1100 B).

Transcendental Meditation vs. Jesus-Style Meditation

One of the most popular forms of passive-mind, so-called “meditation”, Transcendental

Transcendental Meditation master, Marahrishi Mahesh Yogi.

Meditation or TM, is in fact pitched in conformity to The URANTIA Book warning against the use of such trancelike, “mystic” states for the purpose of religious experience:

“Transcendental Meditation is not a religion -- it is a technique … It supports all religions because it releases stress and purifies the mind, body, and emotions of the person who practices it.” (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation: Revised and Updated Edition, by Robert Roth, 1994, Donald Fine Inc. New York)

Many benefits attributed to TM, however, are also said to be attainable from prayer and worship, or Jesus-style meditation. Rodan explained how we absorb energy during spiritual communion. He also said that:

“on every mountaintop of intellectual thought are to be found relaxation for the mind, strength for the soul, and communion for the spirit. From such vantage points of high living, man is able to transcend the material irritations of lower levels of thinking -- worry, jealousy, envy, revenge, and the pride of immature personality. These high-climbing souls deliver themselves from a multitude of crosscurrent conflicts of the trifles of living, thus becoming free to attain the consciousness of the higher currents of spirit concept and celestial communication. But the life purpose must be jealously guarded from the temptation to seek for easy and transient attainment … ” (1778 B)

Jesus (in modern terms supplied by midwayers) compared prayer to “recharging the spiritual batteries of the soul”, and worship to “tuning in the soul to catch the universe broadcast of the infinite spirit of the Universal Father” (1621 C). It provided “true and ideal soul rest”, he maintained, and that “the strain [stress] of living should be relaxed by the restfulness of worship” (1616 B). “Kingdom … believers,” he said:

“must increasingly learn how to step aside from the rush of life -- escape the harassments of material existence -- while they refresh the soul, inspire the mind, and renew the spirit by worshipful communion” (1739 D).

Notice that “worshipful meditation”, as taught and practiced by Jesus, provides something that TM does not claim: it benefits the soul! Jesus-style meditation improves the whole personality, rather than just being limited to its corporal/mental parts. This is NOT to say that proponents of non-TM brands of passive-mind meditation do not, unlike the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, claim spiritual benefits as well -- many do. The question is whether we should believe them or The URANTIA Book!

Keeping Up with Evolving Words see Comment

 

JESUS STYLE MEDITATION:

What the word really means!

“Meditation” Definition: Old vs. New

The URANTIA Book uses the word “meditation” in it a number of times. And Jesus speaks of “the value of meditation” (2047 D). There is, however, much confusion today as to the exact meaning of the word. Not only that, but it appears that The URANTIA Book actually warns against the practice of a form of “meditation” which is not only prevalent today, but which after the book was written and published became the word’s whole definition in may peoples’ minds. In other words, Jesus seems to be advocating what The URANTIA Book specifically warns against.

The Word Has Changed In Meaning

 

All URANTIA Book readers should understand that in 1934-1935, when the Papers which became The URANTIA Book were supernally indited into a “circumscribed language of the realm” (English) the word “meditation” did not mean what we now recognize as Eastern Religion-style, thought-stilling, inward-looking, so-called “meditation”! That idea had not yet found an enduring terminology in English, although “contemplation” was sometimes used (as in “contemplating” one’s navel, which practice The URANTIA Book links to self-hypnosis (ref. 987 B)). The concept was still pretty much confined to India and the East. It was only after the book had been published for at least a decade that the new meaning took over the word and left its previous definition behind. At that time various celebrities and others had began to popularize mind-stilling practices of “meditation”, and it was this use of the word which caught on.

The 1936 edition of the two-volume Webster’s Universal Dictionary of the English Language defines the word “meditation” as:

Jesus-style meditation requires active thought

“1. The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; mental reflection; often, specifically, thought devoted to religious subjects.”

Its synonyms for the verb, “meditate” are: “Study, ponder, consider, ruminate, revolve, contemplate, intend”. And the definition in a 1955 single volume desk dictionary -- the year The URANTIA Book was first published -- is the same.

Jesus-Style Meditation

 

That the use of the word “meditation” contains the idea of dynamic thought is clearly illustrated in the following incident in Jesus’ life as related in The URANTIA Book:

“That night Jesus did not sleep. Donning his evening wraps, he sat out on the lake shore thinking, thinking until the dawn of the next day. In the long hours of that night of meditation Jesus came clearly to comprehend that he never would be able to make his followers see him in any other light than as the long-expected Messiah” (1532 A).

Jesus spent the “long hours of that night of meditation” “thinking, thinking”!

 

And in another incident, immediately following his baptism at the hands of John the Baptist, Jesus had come to clearly and fully recall and comprehend his bestowal charge and all of the far-flung relationships congruent with his superhuman identity. Therefore he immediately retired to the hills “for a season of quiet meditation so that he could think out the plans and decide upon the procedures for the prosecution of his public labors” (1513 A). When Jesus “meditated” he planned and decided and thought! This meditation period lasted forty days. Jesus-style meditation consists of having thoughts … not stilling them! The thoughts are just directed Godward until -- sooner or later -- God takes over the direction, both “adjusting” and “controlling” them.

The URANTIA Book says that “one should postulate a … realm of ascending intellectual activity as the superconscious level, the zone of immediate contact with the indwelling entity [of God], the Thought Adjuster.” (1099 C)

It is this active-mind form of meditation which Jesus says has “value”, which the philosopher, Rodan, learned from Jesus, and says that Jesus “constantly practiced” and “faithfully taught”. Rodan calls it “worshipful meditation” (wherein Jesus went “off so frequently by himself to commune with the Father in heaven”), and he claimed that it is a technique for “gathering strength and wisdom for the ordinary conflicts of living, [and] also appropriating the energy for the solution of higher problems of a moral and spiritual nature” (1774 A-B), which he said is to be found on “every mountaintop of intellectual thought”, where “the very best that is resident in man’s nature” is called forth. (1778 B)

 

“So few mortals are real thinkers!”

What It Is and Is Not

 

When The URANTIA Book says: “One of the great troubles with modern life is that man thinks he is too busy to find time for spiritual meditation and religious devotion” (2077 B) , it is NOT referring to isolating, inward-viewing, thought-silencing, so-called meditative practices, but simply and sincerely talking things over with God! For it also says:

“The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent material nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; (1313 A).

 

The “worship” part of “worshipful meditation”, the term by which Rodan refers to Jesus-style meditation, is one of three levels of cosmic mind insight which are “constructive in the self-consciousness of reflective thinking” (my emphasis). The URANTIA Book laments that “it is sad to record that so few persons on Urantia (earth) take delight in cultivating these qualities of courageous and independent cosmic thinking.” (192 B)

Look, if you will, with me at the deeper meaning of the following sentence: “Man can never wisely decide temporal issues or transcend the selfishness of personal interests unless he meditates in the presence of the sovereignty of God and reckons with the realities of divine meanings and spiritual values” (1093 A). Nearly every important term in this sentence indicates ACTIVE thinking or expression: “wisely decide”, “reckons with”, “divine meanings”. These activities cannot be performed with thought-stilling techniques!

We are taught that the “more healthful attitude of spiritual meditation is to be found in reflective worship and the prayer of thanksgiving” (1100 A). What are we being told here? Meditation is similar to, or included in, “reflective worship” and the “prayer of thanksgiving”. Here the idea of reflection is used in its ordinary sense, and hardly refers to “universe reflectivity” (the “unique and inexplicable power to see, hear, sense, and know all things”) which mortals cannot experience on their own (refs. 105 A and 202 C).

The 1936 dictionary defines this use of the word “reflect” as:

“3. To turn or throw back the thoughts upon anything; to revolve matters in the mind; to think seriously; to ponder; to meditate, especially with regard to conduct.

 

“4. To pay attention to what passes in the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness”.

Its synomyms are “consider”, “contemplate”, “ponder”. Definitions 1 and 2 (not given here) refer to non-mental types of reflection (as of light by mirrors, etc.).

 

At the same time that we worship and pray, we must pay attention to what is happening in our minds. In all likelihood the level of our understanding will be upstepped during this process, and we become “inspired” with the new, or higher spiritual concepts which we have “discovered”.

“All such inner and spiritual communion is termed spiritual insight. Such religious experiences result from the impress made upon the mind of man by the combined operations of the Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth as they function amid and upon the ideas, insights, and spirit strivings of evolving sons of God.”(1105 A)

 

“The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man … in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking”

Upstepped Thinking

 

“You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and the Adjuster”

 

What we must understand about worship, which The URANTIA Book by the way, refers in one place to as “superthinking”, is that we only assent to worship, and that it is actually “conducted” by our Thought Adjuster on our behalf. Therefore if we are to derive the highest benefits from this transaction we need to pay attention to what is going on! Jesus taught that we “worship God by the aid of the Father’s indwelling spirit and by the illumination of the human mind through the ministry of truth” (1641 A). What is important about this is that we “are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of [our] own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of [our] soul and the Adjuster (1207 A). That is, during worship the thoughts we perceive seem just like our own but they are being “conducted” by our Adjuster and they are the “illuminations” of the Spirit of Truth.

 

“Why not allow the Adjuster to spiritualize your thinking?”

 

And that is why we need to be reflective, to be conscious of what is going on in our minds, and to seriously ponder what we learn by observing what appears to be our own thinking -- in fact, we cannot tell them apart. The Thought Adjusters interface with our highest thinking. This same phenomenon takes place when one writes about spiritual values as a service to one’s fellows. It is also reported to take place during the preaching of extemporaneous sermons. Writing and speaking, after all, are not much more than projections of our inner reality. And we can hardly serve our spiritual siblings if our truth is not made outwardly manifest in the material world. Jesus taught that when his followers would be brought before judges that the “spirit will teach you in that very hour what you should say to your adversaries” (1912 D). The phenomenon is hardly to be limited to court cases, but includes all forms of “witnessing” or verbal/written service of the communication of truth to ourselves and to our siblings in God’s family:

“The contact of the mortal mind with its indwelling Adjuster, while often favored by devoted meditation [note: 1934-35 definition applies], is more frequently facilitated by wholehearted and loving service in unselfish ministry to one’s fellow creatures.” (1000 B).

 

Religious ecstasy, of the type said to be produced by thought-stilling techniques, may indeed be permissible when it results from sane antecedents (ref. 1000 C), but notice that although “the god-knowing believer increasingly experiences the ecstasy and grandeur of spiritual socialization on a universal scale” (1985 B), that Jesus, who represented the perfect human (ref. 1103 C and 1511 B), only had “rare moments of emotional ecstasy” (1807 B). Likewise notice that true prophetic visions are definitely and specifically NOT “trancelike ecstasies”. (1000 C)

Words

 

Also, although The URANTIA Book teaches that words themselves are not always necessary to prayer, which The URANTIA Book, by the way, terms “sublime thinking”, it is nevertheless almost inconceivable that words may be dispensed with in the case of prayers of thanksgiving! Sometimes prayers are little more than heartfelt groans. But how do we thank God for what we have received without words? And how can we reflect or ponder without words? The URANTIA Book says that “words are irrelevant to prayer”. But it also adds that “they are merely the intellectual channel in which the river of spiritual supplication may chance to flow.” And it explains that “God answers the soul’s attitude, not the words” (1002 B). We can gain more insight into the meaning of that statement where we are told in the first part of The URANTIA Book that “it is the motivating thought, the spiritual content, that validates [prayer]. Words are valueless” (85 A).

This does not mean that words, or other mental/aural symbols of thought content, can be dispensed with by quieting the mind artificially any more than a riverbank may be demolished and the river expected to flow. What is being said about the lack of value of words is possibly better expressed in Jesus’ instruction that prayers are not “rendered more efficacious by ornate repetitions [or] eloquent phraseology” (1640 C). The way this inner communication works seems to be that “if anything originates in your consciousness that is fraught with supreme spiritual value, when you give expression to it, no power in the universe can prevent its flashing directly to the Absolute Spirit Personality of all creation.” But “the content of any petition which is not ’spirit indited’ can find no place in the universal spiritual circuitry” (84 D). That is, it is the content that matters, but nevertheless it must be “expressed”, that is, put into words, thoughts. The specific words one uses to do this are not at all important in themselves. Obviously there is no need for words to be spoken out loud in personal prayer or worship.

Again, we are taught that “the word value of a prayer is purely autosuggestive in private devotions” (1002 B). That is, we learn from our prayer and worship. The spirit indites concepts “fraught with supreme spiritual value” in our consciousness and within our minds we hear the words which comprise them as our own “thinking”. These words are not “important” per se in that they only serve to communicate those values to ourselves, not to God. But as we express them, their content flashes directly to the Paradise Father.

“ Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein thought in concepts, not words”

 

Whatever feelings we may experience during any form of meditation are likely to be deceptive:

“The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man, not by feelings or emotions, but in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking. It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward” (1104 D)

Those who appeal to other than intellectual experience of divine contact as evidence thereof are in direct conflict with this teaching.

 

It is true that some people (Albert Einstein was said to be one) apparently do not have their thoughts in words but in complete concepts. But this abnormality might only be suited to tightly-woven abstract logical systems such as mathematics. Nevertheless this is still indicative of intense intellectual activity in which mental quietude plays no substantial part.

“Worshipful Meditation vs. Thought-Stilling Techniques” (Continued:)

 

 

 

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Profound Personality

I want to start a movement

Well it's nothing new you see

I want to take and put being human

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To the casual observer

we are just along for the ride

things appear beyond our control

No matter what we may have tried

But to others there is a consensus

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No order is to tall Peace upon our planet

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that we can do this

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With a missile or a gun

The question you must answer

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I'm not talking protests

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Signs will never do a thing

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Transcendental Meditation

To quite our troubled mind

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Inner strength we all would find

No mantra's or chant's to use

Just quite time alone

Twenty minutes twice a day my friend

And your skills you'll start to hone

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Humans being humane once again

Don't let fear or doubt stop you

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Start today to yourself just say

Just do it don't ask how

And as each and everyone

Quiet's their blazing mind

Fires of inspiration

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and as we share together

Our collective consciousness

A better place on earth will birth

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To each and everyone of you

Even those who cannot hear

The time for change approaches

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Forgive and but don't forget the things

That have controlled you in your past

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or your unloving mother

or the abuse you once have had

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The 5G War — Technology versus Humanity

Exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) radiation is an ever-growing health risk in the modern world. The Cellular Phone Task Force website1 has a long list of governments and organizations that have issued warnings or banned wireless technologies of various kinds and under various circumstances, starting in 1993.

A long list of organizations representing doctors and scientists are also among them, including an appeal for protection from nonionizing EMF exposure by more than 230 international EMF scientists to the United Nations in 2015, which notes that:2

“Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines.

Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system,3,4,5 learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plant and animal life.”

A call for a moratorium on 5G specifically was issued in September 2017 by more than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries,6,7 “until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry,” noting that “RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment,” and that “5G will substantially increase exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc. for telecommunications already in place.”

In an article8 on the Environmental Health Trust’s website, Ronald Powell, Ph.D., a retired Harvard scientist of applied physics, notes “there is NO SAFE WAY to implement 5G in our communities; rather there are only ‘bad ways’ and ‘worse ways,'” and rather than argue about who should have control over its deployment, we should focus on preventing its employment altogether.

Health Concerns Over 5G Abound

Wall Street analyst Sunil Rajgopal recently warned mounting health concerns may delay the implementation of 5G, Fortune magazine reports.9 Some countries have already taken steps to slow 5G deployment due to health risks, Rajgopal notes. The question is, can it be stopped?

5G testing was recently halted in Brussels, Belgium,10 and Switzerland is delaying its 5G rollout in order to create a system to monitor radiation.11 Syracuse, New York, is also attempting to set up some safeguards and has “negotiated the right to conduct on-demand safety inspections of 5G antennas,” to allay public concerns.12 According to Forbes:13

“In New Hampshire, lawmakers are considering establishing a commission to study the health impacts of 5G networks. And Mill Valley, Calif., near San Francisco, last year banned new 5G wireless cells.”

Many other areas, however, have chosen to trust the Federal Communications Commission and the wireless industry trade association, CTIA, which has created a “Cellphone Health Facts” website citing research showing no risk. However, if you believe the FCC is assessing health risks, you’d be wrong.

At a recent senate commerce hearing (above), the FCC admitted that no 5G safety studies have been conducted or funded by the agency or the telecom industry, and that none are planned.14,15 In a speech given at the National Press Club in June 2016, Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman and prior head of the wireless industry lobbying group, made the agency’s stance clear when he said:16

“Stay out of the way of technological development. Unlike some countries, we do not believe we should spend the next couple of years studying … Turning innovators loose is far preferable to letting committees and regulators define the future. We won’t wait for the standards … “

In light of the more than 2,000 studies showing a wide range of biological harm from EMFs, assurances from the FCC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that wireless radiation exposures, including 5G, is safe, seem disingenuous at best. As noted in a recent Counterpunch article:17

“Telecom lobbyists assure us that guidelines already in place are adequate to protect the public. Those safety guidelines, however, are based on a 1996 study of how much a cell phone heated the head of an adult-sized plastic mannequin. This is problematic, for at least three reasons:

• living organisms consist of highly complex and interdependent cells and tissue, not plastic.
• those being exposed to radiofrequency radiation include fetuses, children, plants, and wildlife – not just adult male humans.
• the frequencies used in the mannequin study were far lower than the exposures associated with 5G.”

What Level of EMF Can Humans Withstand? 

EMF exposure at many biological impacting frequencies, such as those that run cellphones and Wi-Fi, has increased about 1 quintillion times over the past 100 years.18,19 Unfortunately, EMF exposure is so widespread these days, it’s virtually impossible to conduct controlled population studies anymore, as no population is truly unexposed or unaffected. This lack of a control group makes it very difficult to determine what the real-world effects are.

That said, one controlled exposure study has been done, revealing it’s nowhere near as harmless as people think. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were two populations in the United States — rural and urban. Urban areas were by and large electrified, while rural areas were not electrified until around 1950.

Dr. Sam Milham, an epidemiologist, painstakingly analyzed mortality statistics between these two populations over time, clearly showing there was a wide difference in mortality from heart disease, cancer and diabetes between these two groups. Then, as rural areas became electrified, the two curves merged.

Today, we not only live and work in electrified surroundings, we’re also surrounded by microwaves from wireless technologies. Soon, 5G may be added to the mix, making exposures all the more complex and potentially harmful. As noted by Counterpunch:20

“5G radiofrequency (RF) radiation uses a ‘cocktail’ of three types of radiation, ranging from relatively low-energy radio waves, microwave radiation with far more energy, and millimeter waves with vastly more energy …

The extremely high frequencies in 5G are where the biggest danger lies. While 4G frequencies go as high as 6 GHz, 5G exposes biological life to pulsed signals in the 30 GHz to 100 GHz range. The general public has never before been exposed to such high frequencies for long periods of time.”

Health Concerns Linked to 5G Exposure

The added concern 5G brings is the addition of the millimeter wave (MMW). This bandwidth, which runs from 30 gigahertz (GHz) to 300GHz,21 is known to penetrate up to 2 millimeters into human skin tissue,22,23 causing a burning sensation.

This is precisely why MMW was chosen for use in crowd control weapons (Active Denial Systems) by the U.S. Department of Defense.24 MMW is also used in so-called “naked body scanners” at airports.25

Research has shown sweat ducts in human skin act as receptors or antennae for 5G radiation, drawing the radiation into the body,26,27,28,29,30 thereby causing a rise in temperature. This in part helps explain the painful effect. As noted by Dr. Yael Stein — who has studied 5G MMW technology and its interaction with the human body — in a 2016 letter to the Federal Communications Commission:31

“Computer simulations have demonstrated that sweat glands concentrate sub-terahertz waves in human skin. Humans could sense these waves as heat. The use of sub-terahertz (millimeter wave) communications technology (cellphones, Wi-Fi, antennas) could cause humans to percept physical pain via nociceptors.

Potentially, if 5G Wi-Fi is spread in the public domain we may expect more of the health effects currently seen with RF/ microwave frequencies including many more cases of hypersensitivity (EHS), as well as many new complaints of physical pain and a yet unknown variety of neurologic disturbances.

It will be possible to show a causal relationship between G5 technology and these specific health effects. The affected individuals may be eligible for compensation.”

MMW has also been linked to:32,33,34,35,36

• Eye problems such as lens opacity in rats, which is linked to the production of cataracts,37 and eye damage in rabbits38,39
• Impacted heart rate variability, an indicator of stress, in rats40,41,42 and heart rate changes (arrhythmias) in frogs43,44
• Pain45
• Suppressed immune function46
• Depressed growth and increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria47

As noted in a recent Gaia.com article:48

“Many scientists understand that the electromagnetic radiation leaking through the doors of our microwave ovens are carcinogenic, and therefore, can cause cancer. Most of these scientists also believe that these waves are mutagenic, meaning they change the DNA structure of living beings.49

The launch of 5G will be similar to turning on your microwave, opening its door, and leaving it on for the rest of your life. There’s good reason why hundreds of scientists are taking action against the wireless industry.”

Understanding EMFs’ Mechanisms of Harm

As explained in my 2017 interview with Martin Pall, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and basic medical sciences at Washington State University, the primary danger of EMFs in general is that it causes excess oxidative stress that results in mitochondrial dysfunction.

According to Pall’s research,50,51,52,53 radiofrequency microwave radiation such as that from your cellphone and wireless router activates the voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) located in the outer membrane of your cells.

According to Pall, VGCCs are 7.2 million times more sensitive to microwave radiation than the charged particles inside and outside our cells, which means the safety standards for this exposure are off by a factor of 7.2 million.

Low-frequency microwave radiation opens your VGCCs, thereby allowing an abnormal influx of calcium ions into the cell, which in turn activates nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide which react nearly instantaneously to form peroxynitrite54 that then causes carbonate free radicals, which are one of the most damaging reactive nitrogen species known and thought to be a root cause for many of today’s chronic diseases.

For an in-depth understanding of peroxynitrites and the harm they inflict, see “Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite in Health and Disease”55 — a 140-page free access paper with 1,500 references written by Dr. Pal Pacher, Joseph Beckman and Dr. Lucas Liaudet.

One of its most significant hazards of peroxynitrite is that it damages DNA. The European REFLEX study published in 2004 revealed the nonthermal effects of 2G and 3G radiation are actually very similar to the effects of X-rays in terms of the genetic damage they cause.56

Your body has the capacity to repair that damage through a family of 17 different enzymes collectively called poly ADP ribose polymerases (PARP). However, while PARP work well, they require NAD+ for fuel and when they run out of NAD+ they stop repairing your DNA.

This in turn can lead to premature cell death, since 100 to 150 NAD+ molecules are needed to repair a single DNA strand break. NAD+ is central to maintaining cellular and mitochondrial health, so the fact that PARP consumes NAD+ to counteract EMF damage is an important concern.

Cancer Is Not the Primary Health Risk of EMF

The voltage in your body appears to play a significant role in health and disease. Your body’s production of electricity allows your cells to communicate and perform basic biological functions necessary for your survival. However, your body is designed to operate at very specific levels and frequencies.

It seems logical that being surrounded by man-made EMFs that are 1 quintillion times higher than the natural EMF environment of the Earth may interfere with your DNA’s ability to receive and transmit biological signals.

While the controversy over EMF damage has centered around whether or not it can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, this actually isn’t your greatest concern. Since the damage is strongly linked to activation of your VGCCs, it stands to reason that areas where VGCCs are the densest would be most vulnerable to damage.

As it happens, the highest density of VGCCs are found in your nervous system, your brain, the pacemaker in your heart and in male testes. As a result, EMFs are likely to contribute to neurological and neuropsychiatric57 problems, heart and reproductive problems.

This includes but is not limited to cardiac arrhythmias, anxiety, depression, autism, Alzheimer’s and infertility. Indeed, this is what researchers keep finding, and all of these health problems are far more prevalent and kill more people than brain cancer.

What’s more, seeing how many are already struggling with electromagnetic hypersensitivity, saturating cities and suburban areas with MMW radiation will undoubtedly make the problem more widespread, and make life unbearable for those already feeling the effects of wireless radiation.

Most Recent Media Ploy to Detract From 5G Concerns: Blame the Russians

In a recent Medium article,58 Devra Davis, Ph.D. — a well-respected and credentialed researcher on the dangers of cellphone radiation — highlights a recent media trend: Write off scientists warning about 5G dangers as “untethered alarmists … linked to Russian propaganda.”

“Could it be a coincidence that following on the heels of the NY Times story, the Wall Street Journal and the UK Telegraph have echoed the same smear of guilt by association,” she writes,59 adding:

“These otherwise credible media sources ignore the substantial body of science pinpointing hazards of wireless radiation and 5G detailed in independent journalistic investigations that have appeared extensively in media throughout Europe and been covered by major networks …

Could the failure to report these critical 5G issues and correct misleading information regarding health effects of wireless and 5G in the New York Times have anything to do with the their new joint venture with Verizon in 5G journalism, or the fact that the Times board of directors includes officials from Facebook, Verizon, Media Lab, and other stalwarts of the telecom industry, while Carlos Slim, head of some of the largest telecom firms in the world, has downsized and now owns just 15 percent of its stock?”

Davis also points out a clear difference between American and Russian scientific expertise with regard to EMF:

“The history of research on the environmental and public health impacts of radio frequency microwave radiation (‘wireless radiation’) reveals some uneasy parallels with that of tobacco.

In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists who showed the harmful impacts of tobacco found themselves struggling for serious attention and financial support. The validity of their views was only accepted after the toll of sickness and death had become undeniable.

For health impacts from wireless radiation, a similar pattern is emerging. Each time a U.S. government agency produced positive findings, research on health impacts was defunded.

The Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Environmental Protection Agency all once had vibrant research programs documenting dangers of wireless radiation. All found their programs scrapped, reflecting pressure from those who sought to suppress this work.

Russian’s 50 years of research on electromagnetic radiation since the Cold War has led to their clear understanding that this exposure does have biological effects. The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection issued a 2011 Resolution60recommending persons under 18 not use a cell phone.”

Brain Cancer Risk Is Likely Real

While heart disease, dementia and infertility overshadow the risk of brain cancer, the possibility of cancer still remains, and may be a far more significant concern for young children who are growing up surrounded by wireless technologies than we realize.

The fact is, we won’t know for sure whether in utero and early cellphone use will increase brain cancer rates until a decade or two from now when today’s youths have grown up. Mounting research suggests cellphone radiation certainly influences your risk, and there are a number of compelling anecdotal reports that are hard to ignore.

In her article,61 Davis mentions Robert C. Kane, a senior telecom engineer “had willingly served as a guinea pig for Motorola and other companies developing new wireless technologies in the 1980s.”

He developed a type of malignant brain cancer the National Toxicology Program later confirmed was a side effect of cellphone radiation exposure (see video above). The NTPs results were published in 2018. Before his death in 2002, Kane published the book, “Cellphone Radiation — Russian Roulette,”62 in which he stated that:63

“Never in human history has there been such a practice as we now encounter with the marketing and distributing of products hostile to the human biological system by an industry with foreknowledge of those effects.”

FCC Is a Captured Agency That Cannot Be Trusted

Davis also highlights another crucial problem, namely the fact that the FCC has been captured by the telecom industry, which in turn has perfected the disinformation strategies employed by the tobacco industry before it. She writes:64

“… [I]n 2015 a Harvard expose tracked the revolving door between the FCC and the telecom industry and concluded that the FCC is a captured agency and that ‘Consumer safety, health, and privacy, along with consumer wallets, have all been overlooked, sacrificed, or raided due to unchecked industry influence.'”

The book in question is “Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission Is Dominated by the Industries It Presumably Regulates,” written by investigative journalist Norm Alster.65

As just one example, before his role as FCC chairman, Wheeler headed up the CTIA, which is the lobbying group for the wireless industry, which explains his commentary on 5G and why the FCC doesn’t believe in studying its health risks and “won’t wait for the standards.”

The book also shows how the telecom industry is manipulating public opinion by undermining the credibility of scientists that speak of dangers, cutting funds for research, publishing manipulated studies showing no harm and claiming “scientific consensus” of no harm when no such consensus actually exists. Naturally, the telecom industry also spends millions of dollars lobbying the FCC on issues that might impact its bottom line.66

5G Threatens Weather Prediction

Interestingly, aside from potential health ramifications, a global 5G network will also threaten our ability to predict weather which, in addition to putting civilians at risk will also jeopardize the Navy.67 According to a recent paper68 in the journal Nature, widespread 5G coverage will prevent satellites from detecting changes in water vapor, which is how meteorologists predict weather changes and storms.

Davis quotes69 Stephen English, meteorologist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts: “This is the first time we’ve seen a threat to what I’d call the crown jewels of our frequencies  — the ones that we absolutely must defend come what may.”

Alas, the FCC ignores such concerns and, according to Davis, “weather experts within the U.S. government are being muzzled.” In a recent letter to the FCC, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., urge the agency to rein in the expansion of wireless communications in the 24 GHz band for this reason.70

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The Urantia Uganda Epochal Revelation Outreach is proceeding with great enthusiasm in Uganda the Pearl of Africa. This blog is to give an update on recent events.

A teacher in Uganda Gumpi Andrew Cohen has not only engaged in an extensive study of the revelation but has also began to introduce these new revelations to his students after regular school hours. Helping them to integrate the revelation with their studies in the bible.

These young people are now inviting him to come to their families and villages to teach them about the Urantia Revelations.

Twelve hours ago he wrote on the Urantia Uganda Facebook Group and posted these images.

Gumpi Kaharwa Andrew Cohen
New Member · March 17 at 5:06 AM · Public
TO DAY I HAVE VISITED A NEW SCHOOL WHERE I SHARED THE NEW REVELATION.

On March 17th there was a meeting about the New Revelations in the Office of Wilmat Development Foundation about the way forward in Uganda and throughout Africa with the new revelation. He called and spoke with Monica and I during this meeting. Matte wrote on the Urantia Uganda Facebook Group and posted these images.

​Wilmat Development Foundation
March 17 at 1:03 PM · Public
URANTIA FAMILY 
Today our office was graced to host Mr. Andrew Amanya one of the eldest Urantia readers in Uganda and Africa at large. A lot of things were discussed concerning the upcoming ventures and conferences to be held in Uganda the Pearl Of Africa.
#EnrichingCommunity
#UrantiaConference2020
#TheWordIsLife

On March 27th 2020 Gumpi Andrew Cohen wrote on the Urantia Uganda Facebook Group and posted these images.

Gumpi Kaharwa Andrew Cohen
New Member · March 17 at 3:06 PM · Public
STUDENTS TRYING TO RELATE THE NEW REVELATION WITH THE BIBLE.

ADDRESSING ANOTHER TEAM OF STUDENTS.
ABOUT THE NEW REVELATION

On March 11,2020 Andrew wrote to me in an email.

Teaching the new revelation is proving to be so interesting to me! As I teach my own students every day after normal class lessons in the evening hours.

After teaching I give them chance to explain their understanding of the new book as they call it.

I also give them chance to ask questions which I answer to their certification as a function of learning.

My student asked what I learned from the story of Moses on paper 96/ 1058.

After teaching them.

 "This is a bout service and commitment, unity, and self awareness."

I also asked her how our community would be if we had such leaders around us!

She then requested me to organise a lecture with her family members and the community a round her family.

On March 18th Faith Anthony wrote me on Messenger.

Yes at school but me and my religious friend at school we want to start new Bible teaching. As I am waiting to start the Urantia teaching also
WED 2020 03 18 3:50 PM

On March 19th Faith Anthony wrote me on Messenger and sent these images.

Hey,
Father, I Managed to receive The Urantia Book I would like to say thanks
Thurs. 2020 03 04 12:45 AM

There will be a meeting of the Urantia Uganda Planning Committee on April 4th at the Jinja City Hotel from 10:00AM  to 12:00 PM Uganda Time zone. In preparation for the August Conference The Great Urantia Source has already shipped 38 Urantia Books which have recently arrived in Jinja Uganda with other shipments expected soon. 

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A ZOOM Meeting will be held also with team members from far away places. 

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