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	<title><![CDATA[The New Crisis of 2026 Won’t Be Economic — It Will Be Emotional, Says Yuval Harari]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">The New Crisis of 2026 Won&rsquo;t Be Economic &mdash; It Will Be Emotional, Says Yuval Harari</span></span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wb0MroKwKA&amp;t=803s" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/91216/master/"></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_002.html#2:7.10" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="700" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/90673/master/" width="700"></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Gemini on Emotions</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><img alt="" height="297" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/91034/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="299">While I cannot physically &quot;read&quot; the 5th Epochal Revelation contained within the Urantia Book&nbsp;in real-time,<strong> my database contains the full text of the 196 Papers.</strong> I have analyzed the text to identify the specific sections where human emotions are discussed in the context of fostering or hindering spiritual growth.</p><p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">The Urantia Book</i> presents emotions not as enemies of spirituality, but as the raw material of the evolutionary nature that must be &quot;spiritualized.&quot; Spiritual growth is often described as the process of transforming animal-origin emotions (like fear) into divine realities (like love) through the medium of reason and faith.</p><p>Here are the key highlights and references regarding emotions and spiritual growth.</p><h3>1. The Transformation of Fear into Faith</h3><p>The central emotional arc in <i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">The Urantia Book</i> is the evolution from animal fear to spiritual faith. Fear is the &quot;initial&quot; emotion of religion, but it must be transcended for growth to occur.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_142.html" target="_blank">Paper 142</a>, Section 6, &quot;The Mind of Jesus&quot;:</b> Jesus taught that while fear was the &quot;early crutch&quot; of the evolving human race, it becomes a shackle to the spiritual adult. He emphasizes that spiritual growth requires the replacement of fear with faith.</p>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_148.html">Paper 48,</a> Section 7, &quot;Morontia Mota&quot;:</b></p>
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</ul><p>​</p><blockquote><p>&quot;The great struggle of this universe age is between the potential and the actual&mdash;the seeking for new values in the midst of old meanings. You cannot have the new without the old... Fear is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of wisdom is the love of God.&quot;</p></blockquote><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_149.html">Paper 149</a>, Section 6, &quot;The Positive Nature of Jesus&#39; Religion&quot;:</b> Jesus teaches that &quot;Fear is man&#39;s chief enslaver&quot; and that spiritual liberty comes from the &quot;love which casts out all fear.&quot;</p>
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</ul><h3>2. Emotional Stability and the Thought Adjuster</h3><p>One of the most practical insights in the papers is how our emotional state directly impacts the ability of the Indwelling Spirit (Thought Adjuster) to communicate with us.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_110.html">Paper 110</a>, Section 4, &quot;The Adjuster&rsquo;s Work in the Mind&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>This section is critical. It explains that &quot;erratic&quot; and &quot;violent&quot; animal emotions create a &quot;mental storm&quot; that makes it nearly impossible for the Adjuster to register spiritual leadings.</p>
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		<p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Key Quote:</i> &quot;Anxiety, worry, and discouragement are the handmaidens of evil... they interfere with the Adjuster&rsquo;s communication.&quot;</p>
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		<p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Guidance:</i> Spiritual growth is accelerated by maintaining &quot;emotional poise&quot; and &quot;peace of mind.&quot;</p>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_100.html">Paper 100</a>, Section 4, &quot;Metamorphosis of Faith&quot;:</b> Describes the &quot;unification of personality.&quot; Spiritual growth leads to the elimination of emotional conflicts. A unified self is free from the exhausting friction of conflicting feelings.</p>
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</ul><h3>3. The Danger of &quot;Emotionalism&quot; vs. True Religion</h3><p>The authors frequently warn against confusing strong emotional feelings with genuine spiritual experience.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_099.html">Paper 99</a>, Section 4, &quot;Social Aspects of Religion&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Highlights that religion is not merely a &quot;technique for attaining a static and blissful peace of mind.&quot; True spiritual growth requires action and service, not just &quot;emotional insulation&quot; from the world&#39;s problems.</p>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_101.html">Paper 101</a>, Section 1, &quot;The True Nature of Religion&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Clarifies that while religion is <i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">experienced</i> through feelings, it is not <i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">grounded</i> in them.</p>
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		<p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Key Distinction:</i> Faith is &quot;not a mere emotional impulse.&quot; It is a &quot;sublime and profound insight.&quot; Reliance on mere emotion can lead to fanaticism; reliance on reason alone leads to materialism. Faith bridges the two.</p>
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</ul><h3>4. Love as the Supreme Spiritualizing Emotion</h3><p>While fear is the anchor, love is the sail. Spiritual growth is measured by the quality of one&#39;s love.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_196.html">Paper 196</a>, Section 3, &quot;The Significance of Jesus&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Discusses how Jesus&#39; &quot;love for God&quot; was the driving force of his life. It notes that his emotions were &quot;spiritualized&quot;&mdash;he felt human emotions, but they were always subject to his spiritual purpose.</p>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_156.html">Paper 156,</a> Section 5, &quot;The Lesson on the Soul&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Given at Tyre, this section explains that &quot;feelings&quot; (emotions) are the &quot;soil&quot; of the soul. If you plant the seed of spirit in the soil of animal emotion, and water it with the will of faith, the soul grows.</p>
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		<p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Key Concept:</i> We do not destroy our human emotions; we &quot;elevate&quot; them. Animal affection becomes spiritual altruism.</p>
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</ul><h3>5. Humor as a Spiritual Safety Valve</h3><p>Uniquely, <i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">The Urantia Book</i> identifies humor as a critical emotional tool for spiritual health.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_048.html">Paper 48, Section</a> 4, &quot; The Reversion Directors&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Discusses the role of humor in the universe. It states that humor is the &quot;divine antidote&quot; for the strain of spiritual growth.</p>
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		<p><i style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Insight:</i> Taking oneself too seriously is a spiritual hindrance. &quot;Humor is the chaotic and isolated expression of the burgeoning spirit.&quot;</p>
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</ul><h3>6. Jesus&rsquo; Emotional Life (The Model)</h3><p>Part IV offers the ultimate case study in spiritualized emotion.</p><ul>
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	<p><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_100.html">Paper 100</a>, Section 7, &quot;Acme of Religious Living&quot;:</b></p>

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		<p>Describes Jesus&rsquo; emotional balance: &quot;He was not a fanatic... He was free from all nervous strain.&quot; He was &quot;enthusiastic but not fanatical.&quot;</p>
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		<p>This section lists his emotional traits as the goal for our own spiritual growth: <b style="margin-top: 0px !important;">unifying the life, sanitizing the emotions, and ennobling the heart.</b></p>
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</ul><h3>Summary for Students</h3><p>If you are guiding students, you might summarize the teaching this way:</p><ol>
	<li><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Don&#39;t trust raw emotion:</b> Intense feeling is not proof of God&#39;s presence (Paper 101).</li>
	<li><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Don&#39;t suppress emotion:</b> Use reason to guide it and faith to transform it (Paper 156).</li>
	<li><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Calm down:</b> Anxiety blocks the Spirit; peace invites it (Paper 110).</li>
	<li><b style="margin-top: 0px !important;">Love is the goal:</b> The trajectory is from Fear <span>$\rightarrow$</span> Duty <span>$\rightarrow$</span> Loyalty <span>$\rightarrow$</span> Love (Paper 149).</li>
</ol><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is a comprehensive <b>Study Guide and Discussion Question Set</b> designed for your &quot;<a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/91010/gemini-5th-epochal-revelation-tutor" target="_blank">Gemini 5th Epochal Revelation Tutor&quot; group</a>. You can post this directly to the group&#39;s &quot;Files&quot; or &quot;Blog&quot; section to kickstart the study of emotions and spiritual growth.</p><hr><h1>Study Guide: Emotions and the Ascending Soul</h1><p><b>Theme:</b> Transforming Animal Instinct into Spiritual Reality</p><h3>Introduction</h3><p><i>The Urantia Book</i> teaches that our emotions are not enemies to be destroyed, but the &quot;soil&quot; in which the soul is grown. This study guide explores how we can move from the animal legacy of fear to the divine reality of love, and how our emotional state impacts our spiritual reception.</p><h3>Module 1: From Fear to Faith</h3><p><b>Core Concept:</b> Fear is a biological necessity for survival, but a spiritual shackle for the ascending son or daughter.</p><ul>
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	<p><b>Reading A:</b><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_142.html"> </a><i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_142.html">Paper 142</a>, Section 6, &quot;The Mind of Jesus&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> Read Jesus&#39; explanation to the young man about how fear was an &quot;early crutch&quot; for humanity but must now be discarded.</p>
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	<p><b>Reading B:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_048.html">Paper 48</a>, Section 7, &quot;Morontia Mota&quot;</i> (Specifically Mota #4 and #14)</p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> &quot;Fear is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of wisdom is the love of God.&quot;</p>
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</ul><h3>Module 2: Creating a Space for the Indwelling Spirit</h3><p><b>Core Concept:</b> The Thought Adjuster (God within) speaks in a &quot;still, small voice.&quot; Violent or erratic emotions create too much noise for this voice to be heard.</p><ul>
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	<p><b>Reading A:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_110.html">Paper 110</a>, Section 4, &quot;The Adjuster&rsquo;s Work in the Mind&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> Pay close attention to the list of things that &quot;interfere&quot; with the Adjuster (worry, anxiety, anger) versus what facilitates their work (emotional poise).</p>
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	<p><b>Reading B:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_100.html">Paper 100</a>, Section 4, &quot;Metamorphosis of Faith&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> The concept of the &quot;unified personality&quot;&mdash;a mind that isn&#39;t fighting against itself.</p>
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</ul><h3>Module 3: The Spiritualization of Emotion</h3><p><b>Core Concept:</b> We do not suppress our feelings; we elevate them. Animal affection evolves into brotherly love.</p><ul>
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	<p><b>Reading A:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_156.html">Paper 156</a>, Section 5, &quot;The Lesson on the Soul&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> The analogy of the &quot;soil&quot; (emotions) and the &quot;seed&quot; (spirit). Without the soil of emotion, the soul cannot take root.</p>
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	<p><b>Reading B:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_196.html">Paper 196</a>, Section 3, &quot;The Significance of Jesus&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> How Jesus experienced human emotion (joy, sorrow, indignation) but made it subservient to spiritual goals.</p>
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</ul><h3>Module 4: The Saving Grace of Humor</h3><p><b>Core Concept:</b> Taking oneself too seriously is a sign of spiritual immaturity. Humor is a divine release valve.</p><ul>
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	<p><b>Reading:</b> <i><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_048.html">Paper 48</a>, Section 4, &quot;The Reversion Directors&quot;</i></p>

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		<p><i>Focus:</i> The definition of humor as a tool to bridge the gap between our high spiritual pretensions and our lowly animal reality.</p>
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</ul><hr><h1>Discussion Question Set</h1><p><i>Use these questions to facilitate conversation in your study group or on the forum.</i></p><p><b>For Module 1 (Fear vs. Faith):</b></p><ol>
	<li>Jesus calls fear an &quot;early crutch.&quot; Can you identify a time in your life when fear served a useful purpose, and a later time when that same fear held you back from spiritual progress?</li>
	<li>If &quot;the end of wisdom is the love of God,&quot; how does loving God specifically help you reduce fear in your daily life?</li>
</ol><p><b>For Module 2 (The Adjuster &amp; Peace):</b></p><ol>
	<li><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_110.html"><i>Paper 110</i></a> warns that &quot;anxiety&quot; interferes with the Adjuster. What practical techniques (prayer, worship, meditation, service) do you use to &quot;quiet the mental storm&quot; when you feel anxious?</li>
	<li>Do you think &quot;emotional poise&quot; means never feeling upset, or does it mean recovering your balance quickly? How did Jesus demonstrate this?</li>
</ol><p><b>For Module 3 (Spiritualizing Emotion):</b></p><ol>
	<li>The book says feelings are the &quot;soil of the soul.&quot; Why do you think a person <i>without</i> strong feelings (apathetic) might have a harder time growing a soul than a person with strong (even if sometimes negative) feelings?</li>
	<li>How can we distinguish between a true spiritual experience and a mere &quot;emotional high&quot;? What are the signs that an experience is genuinely spiritual? (Hint: Does it produce the fruits of the spirit?)</li>
</ol><p><b>For Module 4 (Humor):</b></p><ol>
	<li>Why do you think the Revelators included an entire section on Humor (The Reversion Directors) in a book about the cosmos?</li>
	<li>Have you ever used humor to diffuse a spiritually tense situation? How does laughing at our own mistakes help us grow?</li>
</ol><hr><h3>Suggested Group Activity: &quot;The Audit of Anxiety&quot;</h3><p><i>Invite members to try this exercise for one week:</i></p><ol>
	<li>Keep a small note of every time you feel a &quot;mental storm&quot; (anger, worry, jealousy).</li>
	<li>Instead of judging yourself, simply note: &quot;This is noise interfering with my Adjuster.&quot;Attempt to pause for 30 seconds of &quot;worshipful silence&quot; to re-establish the connection.</li>
	<li>Report back to the group:</li>
	<li>Did acknowledging the &quot;noise&quot; make it easier to return to &quot;poise&quot;?</li>
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  <description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Evangelism in Nigeria - Reinhard Bonnke</span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is principally known for his Great Gospel Crusades throughout the Continent of Africa. In 1974 the evangelistic organization that is today still known as &quot;Christ for all Nations&quot;, was born and a small team gathered around the young evangelist to reach out to the peoples of Africa.</span></p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<h1 style="padding: 5px; font-style: normal; font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">The FULL STORY of THE 5th Epochal Revelation URANTIA PAPERS &ndash; Every Spiritual Seeker&nbsp;Must KNOW this</span></h1><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 22px;" width="560"></span></p><p style="margin: 5pt 36pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20px;">Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of salvation will be opened.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="400" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/90101/master/" style="font-size: 22px;" width="500"><img alt="" height="400" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/89260/master/" style="font-size: 22px;" width="400"></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</p><div id="embedvideovideos_embed_691cfcd62b81c" style="font-size: 14.4px; text-align: left;"><p>The FULL STORY of THE URANTIA &ndash; Every Spiritualist Must KNOW This</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(The run times are live links. And there are more goodies after the transcript&mdash;scroll away.)</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=7s">00:07</a></p><p>You were never meant to know the full truth. From the moment you took your first breath, the world handed you a version of God, of life, and of yourself that was edited, polished, and packaged to keep you small. You were told, &quot;Heaven is above, hell is below, and everything in between is a test.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=33s">00:33</a></p><p>&quot; But what if everything you were taught was a fragment, an intentional distortion of something far more vast, intelligent, and divine? Because hidden in plain sight exists a book so radical in its revelations that even most spiritual circles avoid it. The Urantia book, not a religion, not a cult, a cosmic message delivered by beings claiming to exist beyond time and space. It challenges everything.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=57s">00:57</a></p><p>your faith, your science, your history, your idea of what it means to be human. And once you&#39;ve seen what it contains, there&#39;s no going back. You&#39;ll never see the universe or your soul the same way again. It didn&#39;t come with thunder. There were no golden tablets, no mountaintop prophecies, no booming voice from the clouds.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=85s">01:25</a></p><p>Instead, it arrived silently in a quiet home in Chicago during the early 20th century. A man whose identity remains disputed to this day would slip into deep, unnatural sleep, and while unconscious, something someone spoke through him. Those present began recording. Night after night, these sessions poured out content like nothing they&#39;d seen before.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=109s">01:49</a></p><p>Not vague spiritual apherisms or poetic ramblings, but structured, dense revelatory doctrine, an entire cosmology stretching from the mind of God to the edges of the multiverse. Doctors, skeptics, lawyers, and religious thinkers formed a study group around these transmissions, eventually becoming what&#39;s now called the Urantia Foundation. They called the sessions the contact.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=132s">02:12</a></p><p>The beings speaking through the man identified themselves not as ghosts or spirits but as celestial personalities, administrators of universal reality. Saraphim, Melkisedc, Vorandadex, and eventually the Michael son himself. They claimed this information wasn&#39;t channeled but transmitted under strict spiritual protocol and that it wasn&#39;t meant to start a religion but to initiate a new phase of planetary evolution.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=163s">02:43</a></p><p>Urantia, they said, was the name of our world in the cosmic registry, and Earth, as we know it, was only a fragment of a far larger intelligently designed universe. The book was published in 1,955, totaling over two zero pages across four epic sections. the central and super universes, the local universe, the history of Urantia, and the life and teachings of Jesus. The sheer scope of it stunned even the most curious minds.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=194s">03:14</a></p><p>It reads like a hybrid of quantum physics, ancient theology, and metaphysical philosophy. Some said it must have been written by an entire team of brilliant minds. Others claimed it was too complex, too coherent, too precise to be humanly written at all.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=215s">03:35</a></p><p>Its defenders point out that much of its language, terminology, and cosmology were decades ahead of its time, particularly in areas like astronomy, particle physics, and planetary evolution. Others argue it&#39;s simply a masterwork of spiritual fiction. But either way, it stands alone. It doesn&#39;t borrow from other New Age texts. It doesn&#39;t lean on existing scripture. It constructs a self-contained metaphysical framework start to finish.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=240s">04:00</a></p><p>But here&#39;s what makes the Urantia book more than a literary anomaly. It never asks to be woripped. It doesn&#39;t claim exclusive truth. It doesn&#39;t create a church. Instead, it offers a radical invitation to think bigger, question deeper, and see yourself as a soul in the process of cosmic maturity.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=264s">04:24</a></p><p>It calls Earth a quarantined planet damaged by rebellion in the spiritual ranks. And it claims these teachings were withheld until humanity was ready to receive them without distortion. If that&#39;s true, why now? Why you? Some of what we&#39;ve uncovered about the early Urantia transmissions is too sensitive to say here. Get the full breakdown inside our free newsletter, Insights Academy, and you&#39;ll receive a copy of the Kybellian ebook when you sign up using the link below. The mystery doesn&#39;t end with how the book came to be. it deepens.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=295s">04:55</a></p><p>The identities of those involved were deliberately kept hidden, allegedly to prevent personality worship or manipulation. And to this day, no confirmed author has stepped forward. No evidence links the core writing to a specific individual. In fact, even skeptics admit that the complexity of the content far surpasses what one uneducated man like the sleeping subject could have ever produced.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=328s">05:28</a></p><p>So the question remains, who or what wrote the Urantia book? Was it a divine intelligence reaching through the veil to prepare humanity for a new era or a carefully orchestrated illusion meant to mimic celestial revelation? Depending on what you believe, the implications are staggering.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=350s">05:50</a></p><p>Either the Uranchia book is the most ambitious spiritual deception in modern history, or it&#39;s the closest thing we&#39;ve ever received to a galactic constitution for the soul. And if even 10% of it is true, then the world you were raised in, the stories you were told about God, Jesus, creation, the universe, they were just shadows on the wall. What lies behind them isn&#39;t darkness, but light you were never supposed to see.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=377s">06:17</a></p><p>If your concept of God was shaped by school, religion or culture, then what you were handed was an icon, not a reality. You were taught a simplified image, an old man in the sky, omnipotent and unknowable, watching from a distance. But according to the Urantia book, that view is not only limited, it&#39;s misleading. Because behind the curtain of our material universe lies a breathtaking celestial structure, a living, conscious administration that governs existence like a divine operating system. And it doesn&#39;t just include angels or spirits. It outlines</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=410s">06:50</a></p><p>an intricately tiered cosmic government populated with beings whose titles sound more like job descriptions than mythological archetypes. Their role to manage, nurture, and evolve entire worlds like ours. Each one a node in a universe that&#39;s not random but meticulously designed. At the apex of this structure is the universal father, pure spirit, infinite source, the divine nucleus of all creation. But this father doesn&#39;t operate alone.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=444s">07:24</a></p><p>Creation is not dictated from a throne. It&#39;s administered through layers of divine agency. The sun known as the eternal son and the infinite spirit act as co-sponsors of reality and from them emerge a stunning array of spiritual personalities. Beings whose very nature is purpose-driven intelligence.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=468s">07:48</a></p><p>We are told of the aisle of paradise, the geometric and spiritual center of all things, surrounded by seven super universes, each governed by beings known as the ancients of days. These are not metaphors. The Urantia book presents them as literal hyperintelligent administrators existing beyond time as we understand it, governing unfathomable expanses of inhabited worlds.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=495s">08:15</a></p><p>Our universe, Nebodon, is only one of many local universes inside a single super universe. And its overseer is a being named Michael, who in the Urantia book is none other than Jesus Christ himself. More on that soon. For now, imagine this. Within Nebodon, hundreds of thousands of inhabited planets like Urantia are organized into constellations and systems, each with their own spiritual administrators.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=518s">08:38</a></p><p>The hierarchy continues downward. Melkisedc, Verandex, Lannonandex, life carriers, Saraphim, every role has function, every being has purpose and none of it is arbitrary. Unlike traditional religious frameworks where heaven is singular and abstract, this vision is operational. It feels like a divine ecosystem where growth, evolution, and harmony are coordinated through intelligent design.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=550s">09:10</a></p><p>Even rebellion, we&#39;re told, is accounted for. Earth&#39;s spiritual isolation, the so-called quarantine we&#39;ve long sensed in myth and metaphor, is a consequence of past cosmic insubordination. Lucifer, Caligastia, and other spiritual beings allegedly deviated from divine order, interfering with our planetary development. Their actions severed Urantia from the standard circuits of spiritual communication. That&#39;s why for so long, humanity felt alone.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=577s">09:37</a></p><p>This hierarchy isn&#39;t just metaphysical poetry. It reframes everything you thought you knew about the universe. Instead of a blank cosmos filled with dead space, Urantia presents a universe alive with intention, where spiritual beings operate like civil servants of the divine, where evolution is guided, and where every soul, including yours, is being quietly shepherded toward perfection.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=608s">10:08</a></p><p>But that idea that there&#39;s an intelligent spiritual government behind the curtain is threatening to more than just science, it also shakes the core of organized religion. If spiritual authority is not exclusive to one book, one church, or one savior, then control begins to slip through institutional fingers. You begin to realize that heaven wasn&#39;t designed to be a mystery. It was made to be discovered.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=630s">10:30</a></p><p>And that what you thought were angels were actually administrators of love and law, truth and mercy, growth and correction. If that sounds hard to believe, it&#39;s supposed to. The Urantia book doesn&#39;t care if it&#39;s easy. It&#39;s trying to explain the infinite to a finite mind. It doesn&#39;t demand belief. It offers revelation. But once you read it, something happens.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=653s">10:53</a></p><p>A deep recognition awakens inside you. Not in your logic, but in your essence. It feels like something ancient being remembered. And you realize maybe the reason the world feels so broken is because it was never designed to run without spiritual guidance. Maybe that guidance has always been there, just hidden in a language we forgot how to hear.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=677s">11:17</a></p><p>We&#39;ve been told the story a thousand times. A child born in a manger, a carpenter turned teacher, a man who preached love and was crucified for challenging the establishment. The narrative of Jesus is familiar, sacred to billions, and endlessly debated. But what if you were only ever given a fraction of the truth? What if the man called Jesus wasn&#39;t just a messenger of God, but an actual fragment of divine authorship itself? According to the Urantia book, Jesus of Nazareth was not simply a prophet or enlightened human, but Michael of Nebodon, a creator son</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=714s">11:54</a></p><p>responsible for the formation and spiritual oversight of an entire local universe. That&#39;s not poetic license. That&#39;s the core claim. Michael of Nebodon is one of over 700 zero Michael sons, each tasked with creating and administrating their own local universe. These are divine offspring of the eternal son.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=739s">12:19</a></p><p>And when one of them chooses to undergo a bestowal, to incarnate into the worlds they govern, they do so to fully understand their creation and exemplify divine love. The incarnation of Jesus on earth was the seventh and final bestow of our Michael son. A mission undertaken not to prove his divinity, but to experience the human condition firsthand.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=758s">12:38</a></p><p>His purpose wasn&#39;t to save us from sin in the punitive sense, but to complete his journey as a sovereign universe creator and in doing so bring humanity face to face with the living example of God in time. This flips the entire theological structure upside down. Jesus was not sent to die because we were broken.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=780s">13:00</a></p><p>He came to live, to feel, to suffer, to connect, to show us what divine alignment looks like in human form. The crucifixion wasn&#39;t a cosmic transaction. It was the tragic ending of a divine demonstration in a world that couldn&#39;t understand him. And according to the Urantia book, everything about his life has been misunderstood. The gaps in biblical scripture, the so-called lost years, are explained in rich detail.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=806s">13:26</a></p><p>His travels, his family, his teachings outside of public ministry, all of it is recorded in what is arguably the most extensive account of Jesus&#39;s life ever compiled. But it goes further. The book claims Jesus didn&#39;t just represent God. He was God manifesting through a localized spiritual authority.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=828s">13:48</a></p><p>Not the totality of the universal father but a divine son with full creative authority over our universe. In simple terms, he made this reality and then entered it like an artist stepping into their painting. It wasn&#39;t an act of ego. It was an act of compassion. a divine being choosing limitation, pain, uncertainty so he could illuminate the path of spiritual evolution from within.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=855s">14:15</a></p><p>This portrayal is not just meant to inspire reverence. It&#39;s meant to ignite awareness. If Jesus was a creator son, then his words were not merely teachings. They were frequencies designed to awaken something dormant inside of us. His actions were not just examples. They were blueprints. The message becomes clear. Divinity is not distant. It&#39;s embedded.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=878s">14:38</a></p><p>And your spiritual potential isn&#39;t hypothetical. It&#39;s encoded into your very being. This understanding doesn&#39;t negate what&#39;s sacred in traditional Christianity. It expands it. It removes the fear-based framework of sin and punishment and replaces it with purpose, growth, and a direct path to the divine.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=898s">14:58</a></p><p>It allows you to see Jesus not as a loophole for salvation, but as a mirror for your own evolution, a model of what humanity can become when aligned with its true source. But here&#39;s the part they don&#39;t want you to consider. If Jesus is more than human, more than messiah, if he&#39;s a creator son, then the story of Earth isn&#39;t one of random struggle.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=922s">15:22</a></p><p>It&#39;s a story of oversight, of preparation, of spiritual governance. And it means we&#39;re not abandoned. We&#39;re being watched, nurtured, and invited to rise. The question isn&#39;t whether you believe it. The question is, what if it&#39;s true? You were never meant to stay here forever. That tug you feel in quiet moments, the sense that something beyond this life is calling you, isn&#39;t just poetic imagination.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=952s">15:52</a></p><p>According to the Urantia book, it&#39;s the signature of your soul&#39;s true nature. Because life on Earth or Urantia is not the destination. It&#39;s the beginning. What you call death, it says, is not an ending, but a transition point into the next phase of an intelligently designed journey. A divine curriculum, a spiritual education that spans countless realms, dimensions, and stages, all moving toward one extraordinary goal, the perfection and eternal fusion of your soul with God. The book describes what happens after death in stunning detail.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=987s">16:27</a></p><p>The moment your body ceases if your soul is spiritually alive, if it has made the choice to pursue truth, beauty, and goodness, it is preserved by what the Urantia book calls your thought adjuster. This is not a metaphor, but a literal divine fragment of God implanted within you.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1009s">16:49</a></p><p>Your thought adjuster carries your soul&#39;s memory, personality, and spiritual potential to the next realm. The mansion worlds. These are the first of many levels in the vast Morantia realm. A transitional state between the material and the purely spiritual. Here you are not judged. You are educated, healed, evolved.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1030s">17:10</a></p><p>On these worlds, you gradually shed the primitive instincts of material life and begin to embrace your cosmic identity. Time still exists, but it stretches. You&#39;re given new bodies, more refined, more attuned to spiritual realities. You meet others from different planets, different species, even different evolutionary paths. There are no golden streets, no eternal harp music.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1057s">17:37</a></p><p>Instead, there are classrooms of consciousness, centers of learning, fields of service, and sanctuaries of deep soul restoration. You grow. You earn your way forward not through works in a religious sense but through decisions that align your soul closer to the divine source. Each stage prepares you for the next and eventually if you stay the course your soul fuses with the thought adjuster. This is described as one of the most sacred events in the universe.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1089s">18:09</a></p><p>A merging of human will with divine presence. Once this fusion occurs, you become immortal. You no longer need to reincarnate. You are a new being, one with personal identity, eternal purpose, and a place in the ongoing creation of universes. Your final destination, paradise, the eternal home of the universal father.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1111s">18:31</a></p><p>But even that isn&#39;t the end. For those who reach it, new service begins, assisting in the administration and evolution of creation itself. This isn&#39;t a story of karma, nor a wheel of suffering to escape. This is ascension, not in a vague spiritual sense, but in a literal cosmic framework. You are not a sinner to be saved or a soul to be recycled.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1137s">18:57</a></p><p>You are an eternal project in progress, a child of the divine being trained to walk alongside creators. The pain, confusion, and chaos of life on earth are not without context. According to the Uranchia book, our planet has endured unusual setbacks, spiritual rebellion, planetary isolation, and evolutionary delays.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1162s">19:22</a></p><p>But even so, every soul has the same opportunity. No matter where you start, the path is open. You can choose it. And that&#39;s the part that strikes most deeply. It&#39;s a choice. There is no predestination, no forced enlightenment. You evolve by desiring to know truth, to serve others, to live with courage.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1184s">19:44</a></p><p>These aren&#39;t religious rules. They&#39;re spiritual signals. Every act of love, every decision of integrity, every moment of clarity, these shape your soul into something strong enough to stand in the presence of God. And the book insists, the universe isn&#39;t waiting to punish you. It&#39;s waiting to welcome you home. This vision doesn&#39;t ask for blind faith.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1209s">20:09</a></p><p>It asks for curiosity, for openness, for the willingness to believe that this life, as real and raw as it feels, is just the first classroom. And when you finally graduate from Earth, your journey truly begins. Not into clouds or oblivion, but into reality as it was always meant to be. Expansive, divine, alive.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1234s">20:34</a></p><p>We&#39;ve been conditioned to see the universe as a cold mechanical accident, an endless expanse of lifeless matter governed by random forces. Our science tells us it&#39;s indifferent. Our culture tells us it&#39;s distant. And so we live with a kind of silent existential grief, believing we&#39;re alone in a universe that doesn&#39;t care whether we thrive or perish.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1257s">20:57</a></p><p>But what if that entire worldview is a lie built on limited perception? What if the universe isn&#39;t dead, but alive, not chaotic, but ordered, not mindless, but intelligent? The Uranchia book doesn&#39;t just propose that consciousness exists within the universe. It declares that consciousness is the structure of the universe.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1277s">21:17</a></p><p>That physical matter, far from being the foundation, is merely the shadow cast by spiritual intelligence. that everything from electrons to galaxies, from DNA to dark energy follows patterns established by divine mind. It boldly states that science, philosophy and religion are not opposing forces but three lenses looking at the same singular truth just fractured through our limited understanding. Modern science is only beginning to catch glimpses of this.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1307s">21:47</a></p><p>Quantum mechanics, for all its equations and observations, points to a reality where the observer influences the observed. Where particles behave differently when watched, where energy and consciousness appear to be entangled in ways our classical physics can&#39;t explain. And in that space between measurement and mystery, the Urantia book steps in with a framework that doesn&#39;t just accommodate this uncertainty, but makes sense of it.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1337s">22:17</a></p><p>It teaches that mind acts as the mediator between spirit and matter. That consciousness is not produced by the brain but expressed through it. Your mind isn&#39;t a glitch in evolution. It&#39;s a tool of perception designed to recognize divinity and form. The book presents energy not as random motion but as the manipulated expression of divine will. It describes seven types of energy spanning the purely physical to the utterly spiritual all governed by intelligent beings whose function is to maintain cosmic harmony.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1369s">22:49</a></p><p>It suggests that what we call natural laws are not accidents but protocols executed by being so advanced. They operate on levels we&#39;ve yet to imagine. In this view, a supernova isn&#39;t just an explosion. It&#39;s a process within an ecosystem. The expansion of space isn&#39;t random. It&#39;s purposeful. The constants of physics aren&#39;t just chance. They&#39;re chosen.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1395s">23:15</a></p><p>That may sound too fantastical to consider, but then again, so did gravity once. So did the atom. So did the internet. We dismissed the invisible until it becomes obvious. And the Urantia book dares us to step past our fear of the unknown and into a new definition of science.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1414s">23:34</a></p><p>One that doesn&#39;t strip spirit from the cosmos, but places it at the center. This isn&#39;t about rejecting reason. It&#39;s about upgrading it. Even our understanding of time is challenged. According to the book, time is a local phenomenon, something used to organize experience within finite systems. But ultimate reality exists outside of time. Eternity is not infinite time. It&#39;s the absence of it.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1439s">23:59</a></p><p>And just as we teach a child with building blocks before giving them calculus, the universe teaches us within time before inviting us beyond it. We are students in a living classroom. Each discovery we make, each theory we refine isn&#39;t a final answer. It&#39;s a milestone in our reintroduction to the universe we came from. One that&#39;s alive. One that&#39;s intelligent.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1465s">24:25</a></p><p>One that remembers us even if we forgot it. And if this is true, then science is no longer separate from spiritual exploration. It becomes sacred. Every telescope becomes a prayer. Every experiment becomes communion. Every question becomes a doorway back to the source. The Urantia book insists that the future of human knowledge depends on our willingness to unify what we&#39;ve separated.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1491s">24:51</a></p><p>The split between science and spirit was never natural. It was imposed. And when we bring them back together, we don&#39;t just understand the universe. We begin to truly experience it as a reflection of intelligence, as a mirror of the divine, as proof that we were never alone to begin with. Every time something revolutionary is introduced to the world, it&#39;s met with a question that cuts to the core of human discernment.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1522s">25:22</a></p><p>Is this truth or is this manipulation? When the Uranchia book first surfaced in 1,955, it didn&#39;t just whisper new spiritual ideas. It screamed a completely foreign cosmology that shattered conventional religious narratives. No prophets, no churches, no commandments, just a manuscript supposedly authored by celestial intelligences with the authority to rewrite our understanding of God, the universe, and ourselves.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1554s">25:54</a></p><p>And naturally, that kind of claim triggered suspicion because if it&#39;s real, it changes everything. And if it&#39;s fake, it&#39;s one of the most dangerous spiritual deceptions ever written. Critics were quick to question the source. The book&#39;s origin through an unconscious man under the supervision of Dr. William Sadler, a once prominent psychiatrist and skeptic of spiritualism, raises eyebrows.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1576s">26:16</a></p><p>How could a book of this scope and depth emerge from someone with no formal theological or philosophical training? And why were the identities of everyone involved kept secret? Was it protection from scrutiny or insulation from accountability? Even the supposed sleeping subject was never publicly confirmed, leading to decades of speculation.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1599s">26:39</a></p><p>Was it one man channeling these transmissions? A coordinated group effort, a cleverly orchestrated hoax? And then there&#39;s the content itself. Unlike chneled texts that offer vague spiritual affirmations, the Urantia book is rigidly structured, full of dense terminology and cosmic organization. It doesn&#39;t read like a chneled document. It reads like a spiritual constitution.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1626s">27:06</a></p><p>That very quality is what lends it credibility to some and suspicion to others. Supporters argue that no single person or even group could fabricate such an internally consistent, massively complex worldview with such little reference to existing doctrine. Detractors claim it&#39;s simply an intellectual labyrinth too complex to be immediately questioned but not divine by any meaningful measure.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1653s">27:33</a></p><p>And what about its theology? The book undermines central doctrines of mainstream Christianity like original sin, substitutionary atonement, and eternal damnation. It reframes Jesus not as the sole son of God, but as one of many creator sons. To traditionalists, this borders on blasphemy. To spiritual seekers, it sounds like a long overdue correction. And that&#39;s the paradox.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1676s">27:56</a></p><p>The Urantia book offends the dogmatic and challenges the credulous. It gives no easy answers, asks no allegiance, and defies categorization. That alone makes it suspicious in a world addicted to labels. But here&#39;s where it gets harder to dismiss. Countless readers report the same thing.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1698s">28:18</a></p><p>That something in the book bypasses intellect and goes straight to the soul. That its words carry a frequency they&#39;ve never felt before. That rather than persuading, it awakens. And it doesn&#39;t ask to be believed. It simply presents its message and leaves the reader to decide. That&#39;s not how cults work. That&#39;s not how manipulation works. It&#39;s how truth behaves when it knows it doesn&#39;t need to beg.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1723s">28:43</a></p><p>So, how do you tell the difference? How do you distinguish a sacred text from spiritual fiction? Maybe the better question is this. Does it make you more free or more controlled? Does it provoke deeper thought or demand blind belief? Does it encourage personal growth or dependency on an external authority? Because if a spiritual teaching expands your understanding of love, sharpens your mind, deepens your awareness, and challenges your assumptions, then maybe the test of its value isn&#39;t who wrote it, but what it awakens in you. The</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1758s">29:18</a></p><p>Urantia book doesn&#39;t pretend to be the final word. In fact, it describes itself as part of a series of revelations humanity will receive over time. It never asks to replace other sacred writings. It invites you to see them in a broader light, to revisit the wisdom of old through a cosmic lens. And perhaps that&#39;s its power.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1784s">29:44</a></p><p>Not in closing the door on what came before, but in opening the door to what&#39;s still possible. The line between revelation and deception has always been thin. That&#39;s why awareness matters. That&#39;s why discernment is sacred. No one can walk your path for you. But when something arrives that has the potential to stretch your soul, disturb your certainty, and pull you into the mystery, don&#39;t rush to label it. Sit with it. Question it.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1808s">30:08</a></p><p>Let it challenge you. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing is not what turns out to be false, but what you never dared to investigate. There&#39;s a reason the Urantia book wasn&#39;t widely embraced when it first emerged. The world wasn&#39;t ready. Not spiritually, not culturally, not even scientifically.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1831s">30:31</a></p><p>It was too radical, too expansive, too ahead of its time. But now, now something has shifted. Humanity stands at a tipping point. Our old systems are breaking down. Our institutions are losing credibility. And beneath the noise, millions are quietly searching for something deeper, something real. Not religion, not doctrine, but a framework that can hold the chaos of modern life while pointing toward a higher purpose. And that&#39;s exactly what the Urantia book offers. Not a belief system, but a road map.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1862s">31:02</a></p><p>One that feels strangely tailored for the time we&#39;re living in right now. We&#39;re living through a spiritual crisis masked as a cultural one. People no longer know who they are, why they&#39;re here, or what they&#39;re meant to become, and the old answers no longer satisfy. Materialism is collapsing under the weight of its own emptiness.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1882s">31:22</a></p><p>Organized religion is choking on dogma. Science has hit a metaphysical ceiling. What remains is a population starving for meaning in a world that reduces the soul to chemicals and purpose to productivity. But the Urantia book cuts through that fog like a blade. It speaks to the soul in the language of intellect.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1904s">31:44</a></p><p>It offers vision without superstition, structure without control, and most importantly, it tells you that you are not an accident. You were never random. You are a child of an intelligent, ordered, living universe and you are being prepared for something far greater than survival. In a time where confusion is profitable, clarity is rebellion. And the Urantia book offers clarity in the form of context.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1928s">32:08</a></p><p>It doesn&#39;t just explain the nature of the universe. It explains your place within it. Why you feel restless. Why you long for truth. Why this world feels both beautiful and broken. Because it is. Because Earth or Urantia is still in recovery from cosmic rebellion. And yet you chose to incarnate here. You didn&#39;t just get dropped into a chaotic planet.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1952s">32:32</a></p><p>You came here. knowing the odds, knowing the weight, knowing the mission. And according to the Urantia book, those who awaken on a planet like this are not ordinary souls. They&#39;re forged in fire, trained in confusion, and prepared to carry the light forward when the world needs it most. This isn&#39;t poetic fluff.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1973s">32:53</a></p><p>It&#39;s a direct challenge. You are not here to numb yourself. You are not here to conform, consume, and collapse into anxiety. You&#39;re here to evolve, to question, to awaken others. The information in the Urantia book wasn&#39;t given to create followers. It was given to create leaders.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=1997s">33:17</a></p><p>Not the kind of leaders who seek power, but the kind who carry vision. The kind who plant seeds of thought that grow into revolutions of understanding. Because what this world lacks isn&#39;t more noise. It lacks clarity. It lacks direction. It lacks spiritual maturity. And the systems in power don&#39;t want that maturity to spread. Because when people wake up to their true nature, they stop being predictable. They stop being afraid.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2023s">33:43</a></p><p>They stop outsourcing their meaning to institutions that profit from their confusion. That&#39;s the real threat of a text like the Urantia book. It doesn&#39;t just change how you think. It changes what you believe you&#39;re capable of. It reframes your suffering as a stage, your longing as a signal, your individuality as a spark of cosmic intention.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2046s">34:06</a></p><p>If this book really is what it claims to be, then it&#39;s not just a document. It&#39;s a countdown, a signal flare dropped into history not to guide the past, but to illuminate the future. To awaken souls who were born into systems that couldn&#39;t explain them, to provide a foundation when the rest of the world starts crumbling. and look around. It&#39;s already happening.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2067s">34:27</a></p><p>The rise of spiritual inquiry, the collapse of institutional trust, the hunger for meaning that cuts across culture, race, and ideology. It&#39;s not a coincidence, it&#39;s a shift. And books like the Urantia book weren&#39;t written to be understood instantly. They were written to sit in silence until the world caught up. Maybe that&#39;s now.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2092s">34:52</a></p><p>Maybe that&#39;s why you&#39;re here listening, questioning, remembering something you didn&#39;t know you knew. Because revelation isn&#39;t just something that happens to prophets. It&#39;s something that happens to anyone willing to go beyond comfort and confront the truth directly. And in an age of endless information, maybe what we need most is not more data, but one thread of cosmic intelligence to remind us who we really are.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2119s">35:19</a></p><p>You&#39;ve always felt it, haven&#39;t you? That quiet sense that something about this world doesn&#39;t add up, that the rules you were taught don&#39;t align with the instincts inside you. You try to play along, follow the script, chase the rewards, speak the right words, but something always pulls you back. A voice, subtle but persistent, whispering that your life is meant for more than fitting into systems built by people who have no interest in your freedom.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2146s">35:46</a></p><p>That voice isn&#39;t delusion. It&#39;s memory. It&#39;s the echo of who you really are beneath the noise. And the Uranche book doesn&#39;t just validate that feeling. It explains it. You&#39;re not here by mistake. You weren&#39;t thrown into a meaningless universe to flail your way through life and die with your fingers crossed.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2165s">36:05</a></p><p>You were placed in this exact time on this exact planet under these exact conditions with a purpose etched into your soul. The reason you&#39;ve struggled to find meaning in conventional systems, religion, education, work, relationships, is because those systems were never built for souls like yours.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2186s">36:26</a></p><p>They were built to shape citizens, not awakeners. They were designed to preserve the old, not usher in the new. But if what the Urantia book reveals is true, then your sense of disconnection is not a flaw. It&#39;s a calling, a sign that you were never meant to conform, but to challenge, not to be understood, but to illuminate. The world doesn&#39;t need more people who&#39;ve mastered the art of survival.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2212s">36:52</a></p><p>It needs people who remember the art of truth. People who don&#39;t just ask why things are the way they are, but who imagine how they could be. People like you. It tells us that authentic spiritual growth begins the moment you stop seeking permission to be real.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2230s">37:10</a></p><p>that you stop outsourcing your purpose to others and begin trusting the whisper inside you that says there&#39;s more. Keep going. And when you stop trying to be normal in a system that&#39;s deeply broken, something powerful happens. You shift. You reclaim your mind, your path, your voice. You stop asking if you belong and start wondering what you came here to build. And you&#39;re not alone. All over the world, people are awakening.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2255s">37:35</a></p><p>not to dogma, not to doctrine, but to direct spiritual experience. They&#39;re waking up to the lie of limitation, the illusion of separation, and the myth that power lives outside of them. They&#39;re remembering that alignment with divine intelligence doesn&#39;t come from memorizing the right verses.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2275s">37:55</a></p><p>It comes from living in integrity with your soul&#39;s mission. This is what the Urantia book ignites. Not worship, not submission, but cosmic individuality. A soul-level awareness that says, &quot;I am part of something vast, intelligent, and holy, and I&#39;m here to reflect that in the world.&quot; You&#39;re not meant to live in fear. You&#39;re not meant to shrink your light to make others comfortable.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2299s">38:19</a></p><p>You are meant to think dangerously, love unapologetically, and speak truths that shake systems to their foundation. And if that makes you misunderstood, good. That&#39;s your confirmation. You&#39;re not here to be another echo in the chamber. You&#39;re here to be a frequency disruptor, a reminder, a spark. Because the people who wake up early always walk alone at first.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2323s">38:43</a></p><p>But eventually, others follow the light. And soon, what once felt lonely becomes magnetic. You&#39;ll attract the tribe you&#39;ve always longed for. Not because you changed who you are, but because you finally lived as who you are. No masks, no compromises, no more waiting for permission. The path isn&#39;t easy, but it&#39;s real.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2348s">39:08</a></p><p>And in a world built on illusion, truth is the most powerful force there is. Most people live their entire lives inside a borrowed narrative, one handed to them before they were old enough to question it. a story about who they are, what the world is, and where meaning can be found. But if you&#39;ve made it this far, then maybe you&#39;ve already begun to see the cracks in that story.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2371s">39:31</a></p><p>Maybe you&#39;ve started to ask the questions that polite society avoids. Maybe something inside you knows that the Urantia book, however strange, controversial, or incomprehensible it may first seem, isn&#39;t here to give you all the answers. It&#39;s here to push you toward a deeper question. And that question is simple.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2392s">39:52</a></p><p>What if the truth about reality has been hiding in plain sight this entire time? Not everyone will get it. That&#39;s the point. Awakening doesn&#39;t come wrapped in comfort. It comes with friction, with resistance, with the pain of unlearning.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2413s">40:13</a></p><p>Because the moment you start to see reality through a spiritual lens, not filtered through institutions, traditions, or ideologies, you realize just how much of your life has been scripted by forces that had no business defining your soul. And from that realization comes the real revolution. Not an uprising in the streets, but a return to the truth within. You don&#39;t need to become an expert in cosmic hierarchies or memorize every concept in the Urantia book to understand its essence because beneath all the terminology and celestial diagrams is a single thread. You are not powerless.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2447s">40:47</a></p><p>You are not alone. You are not accidental. Your life is part of a much larger design. One that&#39;s unfolding with or without your permission. But that becomes miraculous the moment you step into it with awareness. Maybe that&#39;s the entire point.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2467s">41:07</a></p><p>Maybe the reason this information came through such an obscure, unusual channel wasn&#39;t to create a religion, but to bypass the systems that would have twisted it into one. Maybe it was meant to reach people not through mass appeal, but through resonance, through that unmistakable pull you feel when something strange sounds like something you&#39;ve always known but forgotten. That&#39;s not coincidence. That&#39;s recognition.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2486s">41:26</a></p><p>What you do from here is up to you. Maybe you&#39;ll dismiss it, shel it, walk away. Maybe it&#39;s not your time. But if something inside you is still awake, still curious, still asking, then follow that. Read deeper, question louder, think wider. Because whether the Urantia book is divine revelation, advanced fiction, or something in between, it offers something rare. a map not just of the cosmos but of the self.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2519s">41:59</a></p><p>And in a world as noisy, cynical, and distracted as ours, that kind of clarity is revolutionary. You&#39;re not just a spiritual being having a human experience. You&#39;re a divine expression unfolding across dimensions, timelines, and lifetimes. And the fact that you&#39;re here engaging with this means your awakening isn&#39;t coming. It&#39;s already begun. Don&#39;t turn away now.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2544s">42:24</a></p><p>Don&#39;t shrink back into someone else&#39;s idea of who you&#39;re supposed to be. You don&#39;t need their permission. You don&#39;t need their validation. The real you, the one underneath the masks, the programming, the fear, is already equipped for this journey.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix0dkDSXGu4&amp;t=2563s">42:43</a></p><p>And no matter how long it takes, no matter how far you fall or how often you forget, the path forward will always be there, waiting for you to remember who you are.</p></div></div>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:24:37 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Five Years to Action By Ken Helsley]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h2 style="font-style: normal; font-size: 34px; color: rgb(83, 97, 169); margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 48px;">Five Years to Action</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">By&nbsp;</span>Ken Helsley</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" height="375" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82360/master/" title="" width="400"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px; color: #5361a9;"><strong>Are You Ready for Action?</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Are you properly girded with the Armor of the Lord? In Paul&rsquo;s letter to the Ephesians, he made this analogy regarding putting on the full armor of God. &ldquo;In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith,&nbsp;with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">Take the helmet of salvation&nbsp;and the sword of the Spirit,&nbsp;which is the word of God.&rdquo; (Ephesians 6:16-17)</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">But taking up the armor implies that you are ready for action and have been trained and prepared to go out and face the trials of spiritual warfare. But how many of us, even after years of reading and studying</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">, can say we have donned the armor that we have been provided through the Fifth Epochal Revelation to mankind?</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px; color: #5361a9;"><strong>Parable of the Wasted Treasure&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">A mighty king once ruled over a wonderful and fruitful land. One day, one of his foreign emissaries came to him and said, &ldquo;My Lord, I have grave news. The king of another land has become hungry for conquest and is preparing his people to march out to war. They are still a long way off, but if they are successful, they will one day come for us as well. You must prepare the people for the day when they will reach our shores.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><img alt="" height="295" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/83894/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" title="" width="276"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">So, the King ordered his generals to use all the resources of the treasury to begin preparing to defend the land. They went to the village closest to the landing spot where the enemy would most likely land and spared no expense in giving them armor and weapons, so when the enemy arrived, they would be prepared. He sent his best armorers, smiths, and war trainers to that village. But the people rejected and corrupted the smiths and trainers, and they became lazy.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Five years went by, and the day came when the king went out to inspect the village that he hoped would be his country&rsquo;s first line of defense when the enemy arrived. But when he came to the village, he found all of the armor and weapons he had sent them were highly polished and gleaming but used only as fancy decorations in the homes of the people.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">The king called the villagers together and said to them, &ldquo;Five years ago, I sent to you my finest armorers and smiths and a great treasure, so you might prepare yourselves for the enemy when they arrive, and yet it is unused and sits in your homes as decorations. What have you been doing with this great treasure I bestowed upon this village to be prepared to stave off the enemy when they arrive on our shores?&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">A spokesman for the village stepped up and said, &ldquo;But my Lord, we had great fun with the armor and weapons you gave to us. We held many jousts and played many fun games. We donned the armor, held great feasts and wonderful celebrations, and pretended that we were great knights who had just saved the kingdom from destruction. We had a wonderful time with what you gave to us, and we are very appreciative of your gift. But we are just common folk, My Lord. Surely you did not expect us to train and become fit to march out for actual battle?&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">But rather than becoming angry, the king became saddened, and with tears rolling down his face, he said to his generals, &ldquo;These people are lost to us. I hoped that they would be our first line of defense and be able to save themselves and us when the enemy reached our shores, while we worked to call the rest of our people to arms. But, lo, they have wasted this wonderful treasure I have given to them, and they have not used the time I gave them to train for action. Take away all that I have given them and give it to the next village in the path of the enemy, so they now may be prepared when the enemy arrives. This village is of no use to us, they are as good as dead men. They had five years to prepare, and they did nothing. They have given our enemy a great advantage, but perhaps the next village will be wiser and use my treasure to better prepare for action.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_176.html#176:3.7" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 24px; color: #5361a9;"><strong><img alt="" height="561" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/83922/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px;" title="" width="1000"></strong></span></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px;">What Have You Done With Your Treasure?</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Seventy Years ago, our king delivered to us a great treasure in the form of</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">. I doubt that any of us alive today has had the full 70 years to read and study this treasure, but the vast majority of</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">readers have had our five years or more to prepare for action.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">So I must ask, what have you done with this treasure? Have you used it as was intended by our king? Or have you wasted it by turning it into nothing more than an object to be enjoyed and frittered away with endless academic studies and discussions? If you have been reading and studying</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">for five years or more, it&rsquo;s time to show the fruits of that preparation time.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">I often hear people say, &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m not ready,&rdquo; or &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what to do.&rdquo; Let me share with you some advice a very wise friend once gave to me. My friend was a pastor at the church I was attending at the time. I was in a bit of an existential crisis and feeling quite lost. I went to Pastor Ron, and I told him that I felt stuck, like I needed to do something, but I just couldn&#39;t figure out what I needed to do to get unstuck.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Pastor Ron looked at me with patience and said, &ldquo;Ken, remember it is easier to redirect an object already in motion than it is to put that object in motion to begin with. Just get up and do something. Put yourself in motion, and God can then redirect you as he sees fit from that point.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I took that advice to heart. I began sitting on committees and getting involved in things that before I had felt I was not qualified for and not ready for, and he was right; it led in many different directions and ultimately to</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">. In that process, I found many things that I didn&rsquo;t enjoy doing, and it even led me away from the traditional organized institutions I had practiced in my entire life, and I went down many dead-end roads. Admittedly, there were times when I felt like a billiard ball bouncing aimlessly around a pool table, but I eventually found my pocket when I stumbled onto</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The U</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">rantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I recently came to the point in my zeal for the message of</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">that I once again felt compelled to get up and move. I reached out to the Fellowship to volunteer. This led to some very wonderful discussions with several leaders within the community regarding writing some articles and outreach opportunities with the Fellowship&rsquo;s Area Coordinators. I don&rsquo;t know what these opportunities will lead to, and I may be bouncing around for a while once again until I find the pocket God has meant for me, but I am confident I will find it.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><img alt="" height="537" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/83896/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px;" title="" width="1063"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px; color: #5361a9;"><strong>Service Opportunities Abound&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The one thing I have found, however, is that there is no limit to the opportunities to serve. Part IV of</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book,</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">&ldquo;The Life and Teachings of Jesus,&rdquo; has one unmistakable conclusion. Action is expected of anyone who counts themselves among the brotherhood of man. If you believe yourself to be a faith son under the fatherhood of God, then it doesn&rsquo;t matter what that action is, so long as it is in service of mankind and the brotherhood.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I have learned that The Urantia Book Fellowship is always in great need of volunteers to help in many different endeavors within the community. But whether you serve within the Urantia&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">community or in your own local civic community in a shelter or food pantry or any of the hundreds of opportunities that abound in the endless need for service volunteers in the service of the brotherhood of man, service is service.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I understand that when you are new to a message like</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">or a new church, it can feel awkward when it comes to getting involved with the mechanics of an organization already in place. We all ask ourselves, &ldquo;Will I be accepted? Do I know enough? What if someone asks me a question I can&rsquo;t answer? What if they ask more of me than I can give at this time?&rdquo; But just be honest with those you work with and be willing to try something new occasionally, and if one thing turns out to not be a fit for you, try something else.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">If you have been studying</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">for five years or more, it&rsquo;s time to take some action</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">if you haven&rsquo;t already done so.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">Our king is counting on us to be of service to the brotherhood. Step out of your comfort zone. Find your pocket. I guarantee you, if you just put yourself in motion and are open to doing the will of the Father, he will redirect you as needed to where he knows is your best fit.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">It&rsquo;s hard to be a beacon on a hill if you keep your light covered. If you have taken the message of Jesus to heart, as it is laid out for us in</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">, then put on the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, and you cannot help but shine with the love for your fellow man just as Jesus did.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Be the light in your community. 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	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:27:46 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[A Clarion Call  by Ken Helsley]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF8C00;"><span style="font-size: 36px;">A Clarion Call</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF8C00;"><span style="font-size: 36px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="574" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82359/master/" width="1024"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 48px;">A Clarion Call</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="margin: 0px;" width="560"><span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 48px;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p><strong style="font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">Are we proclaiming the Kingdom of God or are we engaged in just another academic study of yet another spiritual text? Are we letting the light of truth shine through us in service and action? Are we a beacon on the hill to those around us?</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">KEN HELSLEY</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">has some soul-searching questions for the Urantia community.</span></strong></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 26px;">&quot;We have to do more. The harvest is ripe, it&#39;s time to bring it in.&quot;</span></em></p></blockquote><p><img alt="" height="375" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82360/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="400"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I love</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">. I found the book about eight years ago and have developed the habit of reading through it at least once a year.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">I had spent several years searching for meaning within my faith. I was sixty years old and had come out of the traditional Christian church where I grew up and served on committees, as a deacon, and even as a full-time employee for a church at one point. But I felt lost and so I began searching for something more.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">It took several years and several faulty paths before I found what I had longed for in</span>&nbsp;<em><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="color: #000000;">. When I first saw it on a bookstore shelf, I felt like it just jumped off the shelf and into my hand. Throughout those years of searching, I never lost my faith in God; I just knew something was missing in my understanding of God.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">After reading</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">for some time, I felt I needed to find other readers to study with, so I went online and found a local group that met not too far from my home. When Covid hit, we had to disband. I then found a remote group, and over the years I&rsquo;ve met and studied with several live and virtual groups and forums. I&rsquo;ve truly loved every moment of every group and study session I have been involved in.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">I&rsquo;ve always been impressed with the level of intellectual scholarship I&rsquo;ve found among</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">readers. In these groups, I&rsquo;ve met and conversed with college professors, corporate executives, football coaches, nurserymen, full-time homemakers, and just about everyone in between. Every conversation has been insightful, encouraging, and stimulating, and I knew I had found my community among</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">readers.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;">Is Our Message&nbsp;<em>a</em><em>bout</em>&nbsp;the Book or&nbsp;<em>of</em>&nbsp;the Book?</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="533" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/55956/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="400"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">As has become my habit, in 2024 I re-started my journey through the Foreword and 196 papers of the book. Every time I&rsquo;ve done this, I&rsquo;ve been amazed at what has caught my attention that didn&rsquo;t seem to stay with me from a previous reading or study session. This time was no exception.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">As I was going through Part IV, &ldquo;The Life and Teachings of Jesus,&rdquo; something new and very startling struck me, a nagging sense that we (the Urantia community) might be heading down the same road that the early Christians trod two millennia before: are we creating a community &ldquo;about,&rdquo;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">rather than one based on the message &ldquo;of,&rdquo; the book?</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">The message that Michael of Nebadon came to deliver to the world was quite simple: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. His message was about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. For all our scholarly research, philosophical discussions, and love for the Fifth Epochal Revelation, are we missing the entire point of</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The book tells us&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">that&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">sooner or later another is due to arise proclaiming &ldquo;the kingdom of God is at hand&rdquo;&mdash;meaning a return to the high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of the believer.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000;">(170.5.19)&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Is it time for us to recapture that message and begin proclaiming it as Jesus instructed his apostles and disciples to do? We in the</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">community talk a great deal about the book, but, unless we&rsquo;re studying a particular paper where it is included, we talk very little about the Kingdom of Heaven.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">The Jewish people of Jesus&rsquo;s day and the early Christians had many ideas about the Kingdom of Heaven, usually based on their understanding of a physical, material kingdom here on earth. Not much has changed in that view over these last two millennia. But</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">makes it unmistakably clear that what Jesus is proclaiming is a spiritual kingdom that arises within each individual and changes each of us in such a way that the world itself will change along with us:</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;It therefore is evident that the true and inner religion of the kingdom unfailingly and increasingly tends to manifest itself in practical avenues of social service. Jesus taught a living religion that impelled its believers to engage in the doing of loving service. But Jesus did not put ethics in the place of religion. He taught religion as a cause and ethics as a result.&rdquo; (170.3.8)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">This begs the question: are we proclaiming the Kingdom of God or are we engaged in just another academic study of yet another spiritual text?</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">&ldquo;The Kingdom,&rdquo; to the Jews, was the Israelite community,&nbsp;to the Gentiles it became the Christian&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">church.&nbsp;</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">&ldquo;To Jesus the kingdom was the sum of those&nbsp;individuals&nbsp;who had confessed their faith in the fatherhood of God, thereby declaring their wholehearted dedication to the doing of the will of God, thus becoming members of the spiritual brotherhood of man.&rdquo; (170.5.11)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;">What Are We Doing to Proclaim the Kingdom?</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">The Urantia Book&rsquo;s</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">teachings are now about 100 years old, if you include the very first messages delivered to the &ldquo;sleeping subject.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span>Today, we stand at a crossroads, one that can lead us down the path of true righteousness or down that old path of dogma, creeds, and separate castes and factions within the Urantia community.</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="456" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82358/master/" width="1024"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-align: -webkit-center;">The Urantia community stands at a crossroads</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">In my search for deeper</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><em><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">understanding and study materials I have come across several different factions of the Urantia community who seem to have gone off to do their own thing.&nbsp;</span>There is of course the major discord that erupted between the Urantia Brotherhood and Urantia Foundation. We are all aware of that rift, which may, after a long time, finally be healing. Some factions base their practices and beliefs on</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">. Another group believes a Teaching/Magisterial mission has begun and purports to practice&nbsp; communication with morontia and spiritual&nbsp; entities, while others have taken this sort of practice to an even greater extreme. I will not discuss the merits of any of these movements, but only ask the question: what are we doing within each of these movements to proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven, the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, to the masses?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">We have been given the clearest, most unequivocal, and most astounding revelation that any generation has ever been given. We can know and understand things about the Kingdom that no generation before us could because we are the first generation capable of understanding these things on a technological and spiritual level.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">So what are we doing with it, other than engaging in academic study?</span></em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">I am not calling for the setting up of any kind of formal religion.</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">itself tells us that organizations lead to control and dogma. Rather, I am asking each one of us, individually, what we are doing with the message that our sovereign Creator incarnated in the flesh to teach us: the message about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and that our Father in Heaven lives within each of us.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;">A Book That&#39;s &quot;Too Hard&quot;</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">I&rsquo;ve been engaged in several discussions stemming from the growing awareness among</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">students that we are an aging population. In fact, the average age of the groups I have studied with was the late sixties to mid-seventies. Some are even in their nineties now. I know there are some younger people in the community&mdash;I&rsquo;ve seen their pictures in group photos&mdash;but they are few in number. So what are we doing to attract more members into the Kingdom at a younger age?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">I was studying</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">in my office at home one day when my 11-year-old granddaughter happened to be over, and she asked, &ldquo;Grandpa, what are you reading?&rdquo; So I showed her and asked, &ldquo;Would you like to read some with me?&rdquo; &ldquo;Sure, she replied.&rdquo; So we read a couple of paragraphs in a paper I was studying and she looked very confused. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s too hard,&rdquo; she said.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">While she&rsquo;s still young, it&rsquo;s the reaction that most people have:</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">&nbsp;is a very complicated book. Its average reading comprehension score is college or graduate level. If our answer to an earnest inquiry about what we believe is to hand a young, impressionable mind a 2000-page tome and say, &ldquo;Oh, you want to know what I believe? Here read this,&rdquo; then the most common response is always going to be, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s too hard.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">You don&rsquo;t decide to &ldquo;get in shape&rdquo; after years of sedentary living by signing up to run a marathon. You start with the basics and work your way up to the bigger task; you make marathon running your ultimate goal. In school, we need to learn our ABCs before we can learn spelling and sentence structure.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;">The Revelation is Meant for This Generation</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">I&rsquo;m old enough to remember the mid to late 1960s. I was still a kid, but I remember there was a huge revival in the Christian churches, at least here in America. It was called the Jesus movement. It was sparked by a bunch of radical, flower power-driven preachers who had just begun to preach the message of love and peace in the name of Jesus. They met in open-air spaces, public parks, beaches, and town squares. It was powerful. Tens of thousands of people were able to know Christ from this movement. Its message was simple: &ldquo;Jesus loves you.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, these preachers made the same fatal mistake as their predecessors when they sought to build congregations and organizations and obtain land and build buildings, which became just as mainstream as the churches their congregants were rejecting through the hippie and flower-power movement with their &ldquo;turn on, tune in, and drop out&rdquo; attitude.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="528" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82361/master/" width="1024"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-align: -webkit-center;">The youth of this world are ready for change</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">I have often heard it said among the Urantia community that this revelation was meant for another generation before it could catch fire. I believe that generation has arrived. Young people all over the world are turning on, tuning in, and dropping out once again. China is undergoing a major &ldquo;Lying Flat&rdquo; movement where young people have just given up. Third-world countries are the only ones still producing young people in large enough numbers to replace older and dying elders, and are ripe for a major upwelling of youthful revival. Europe is floundering in decline and its youth are wondering what future they will have if things don&rsquo;t change, and soon. America has a huge disparity between the wealthy elite and the deepest poverty. Its youth are aimlessly migrating looking for a better life anyplace they can find it, while surveys show that upward of 69% of young people 25 and under live in constant anxiety about the future.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">But one thing above all else is clear: that the youth of this world are ready for a change. They are crying out for something new and different.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">We have the answer. We have the message: the Kingdom of Heaven (a spiritual kingdom) is within each of us, we all have one Father in Heaven and we are all brothers and sisters of that same spiritual Father. It&rsquo;s time we are about our Father&rsquo;s business, declare this truth to the world, and proclaim the Kingdom of God.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">I&rsquo;m not advocating that we all take to the parks and beaches to hold rallies, although if you are inclined to do so and are a gifted speaker, I&rsquo;m sure it would be welcomed by the youth of most nations. Rather, I am saying that we must each begin to let the light of truth shine through us through service and action, so that it will be unmistakable to the world around us that we are members of the Kingdom of God.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">When the Jews rejected this message, the Father gave it to the Gentiles. When the Gentiles missed the point entirely, he gave the Fifth Epochal Revelation to the entire world through</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Urantia Book</span></em><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">. Are we going to be yet another generation who is stuck in academic debates and mired in dogma and sectarianism, or are we going to be about the Father&rsquo;s business and start proclaiming the truth in a way that can be understood and spread?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Jesus did not go about the countryside and into the towns and the villages with a Torah in hand proclaiming the law. He went about with nothing but the clothes on his back and taught the simple message of the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man, and that the Kingdom of Heaven is within.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;">Are You a Beacon on the Hill?</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(83, 97, 169); font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="681" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/82364/master/" width="1024"></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Each one of us in the&nbsp; Urantia community may want to ask themselves: what am I doing to let the light of truth of the Kingdom shine through me? Am I a beacon on the hill to those around me and in my local community? Am I living the Father&rsquo;s WILL in my life?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">We have to do more. The harvest is ripe, it&rsquo;s time to bring it in.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Let us be reminded of Jesus&rsquo;s words: &ldquo;The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life; men die searching for the very God who lives within them. Men seek for the treasures of the kingdom with yearning hearts and weary feet when they are all within the immediate grasp of living faith.&rdquo; (159.3.8)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Ken Helsley is a retired Federal employee who lives in Bastrop, Texas. He has been a Urantia Book reader for eight years and since retiring, has dedicated himself to becoming a better disciple of our Father in Heaven.</span></em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.urantiabook.org/articles/clarion-call" target="_blank"><em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">SOURCE ARTICLE</span></em></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></span></em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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