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President
Treasurer
Secretary General
Judicial Chair
Membership Chair
Interfaith Chair
Outreach Chair
Finance Chair
Special Projects
Lara Amyx
Larry Bowman
Robert Bruyn
Robert Burns
Gary Deinstadt
Avi Dogim
Stephen Dreier
Janet Falbo
Tony Finstad
Cece Forrester
Marvin Gawryn
Janet Graham
Merritt Horn
Jack Kane
Al Lockett
Charlene Morrow
Dolores Nice
Charles Olivea
Thomas Orjala
Phillip Taylor
Jo Ann Wiedman
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Upcoming General Council and Executive Meetings
Executive Committee - October 21-22 Radisson Hotel, Chicago
- October 24 Radisson Hotel, Chicago
- November 13-14 Budget meeting via conference call
General Council February 11-13, 2011 in Dallas-Fort Worth area
Joint Meeting EC and ISB - October 23 Urantia Foundation Office, Chicago
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Greetings!
It would be a great help if you would review the contact information we currently have for you below.
If you would like any of this information changed, deleted or updated, please email Paula at fellowship@urantiabook.org and she will take care of it for you.
Thank you.
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A Word from the President - August 2010
 84:6.6 Never, even in the
Corps of the Finality, will the creature metmorphose so far as to obliterate the
personality trends that humans call male and female; always will these two basic
variations of humankind continue to intrigue, stimulate, encourage, and assist
each other; always will they be mutually dependent on cooperation in the
solution of perplexing universe problems and in the overcoming of manifold
cosmic difficulties.
How blessed we are to have models of both the feminine and masculine
aspects of deity. How fortunate we are to have information about the Mother
Spirit as well as the Michael Son! We need good spiritual archetypes for both
sexes, since we find ourselves on a planet where women have only begun to emerge
as social and economic equals to men. I am reminded of this lately as members of The Fellowship discuss
dissemination projects, wondering whether we are spreading the book itself, or
the teachings within the book. Some think we should concentrate on spreading the
book to every corner of the earth, and leave the social infrastructure to future
generations. Some think we should spread the teachings without even mentioning
the book. A man in my study group asked, "Are we book salesmen, or a community
of religionists?" He answered his own question, saying that increasingly it
seems we are both.
The conversations remind me of our male-female differences. Half of the
human race has a biologic imperative to spread seeds far and wide, while the
other half is instinctively called to nurture and nourish. If the book is the
seed, and the new reader is the viable life form created, then truly, we need
to concern ourselves with both. New readers are created only through access to
the revelation, but all readers rely on the community of religionists for
ongoing encouragement, support, and camaraderie.
We need to do both -- to spread the revelation and to care for the people
who become engaged in the teachings. A big task, but what else do we have to do
with the time we've been given here?
To Progress! Michelle Klimesh |
We have a few early pictures submitted from this weekend's birthday celebrations for our Creator Son, Jesus.
Next issue we are looking forward to having many more pictures. Send them to snickburns@aol.com with location and names if possible.
  UBLA in Orange County at Mark Erickson's home  RMSF at the Betasso Preserve in the Rockies |
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This Child of Heaven
By Vern Grimsley
The child of heaven, born of earth
Who slumbers at his mother's breast
Is God and man and by his birth
Shall all of humankind be blessed.
This child of heaven, silent here,
Shall one day with a mighty voice
Teach faith to vanquish mortal fear;
Let every human heart rejoice!
This child of heaven, frail and weak
Who slumbers in this midnight hour
Shall one day stand and stride and speak
In Godly, manly mighty power.
This child of heaven, born of earth
Who slumbers at this mother's breast
Is God and man and by his birth
Shall all of humankind be blessed.
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History of The Urantia Papers
By LARRY MULLINS
with Dr. Meredith Justin Sprunger
The
new, updated and enlarged edition of A History of the Urantia Papers is now
available and can be ordered immediately from Amazon or your favorite bookstore.
Here
is the Amazon link:
Also check
out:
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Northern Light Society of Alaska Celebrating 25 Years!
Northern
Light Society of Alaska is celebrating our 25th anniversary on August 29th here
in Anchorage. We were officially chartered on the 1st of September 1985, being
registered as the 17th society of The Urantia Brotherhood. Perhaps some of you
reading this post were among the adventurous souls who journeyed up from the "lower 48" and went fishing with the Alaskans. We have many good memories of
that special event and wish to rededicate our commitment of loving service to
this amazing revelation. We'll have plenty of fresh Alaskan silver salmon in
honor of our silver anniversary.
Our
group began meeting in the beautiful log home of Patsy Hayes back in 1972. We
are gathering there again this August after 38 years of weekly study group
meetings here in Anchorage. Most every week we host an average of twelve
readers. Our group was revitalized by the larger Fellowship community after
several of us attended the IC 08 conference at UCLA. We seek to engage in new
expressions of creative dissemination in this new decade, a period of time that
we anticipate will bring a changing awareness to The Urantia Book and its
teachings.
Please
feel free to come on up and visit us. If not this summer, come join us in the
near future. We have guest rooms available and would delight in your company.
Mixing within our membership is healthy for all of us. Sharing is indeed
Godlike. We don't need to have International Conferences (as much as we enjoy
the larger gatherings) to facilitate productive exchange and mutual
inspiration.
We're
so blessed to be a part of this awesome community of readers.....world wide
brotherhood and beyond.
Peace
& Love
Tony
Finstad ~ President
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Compare sent to you each week
Tom Allen has been a
student of the Urantia Book for more than 35 years. He has created an email
service that he calls "Compare" to
highlight the words of respected authors and statesman compared to teachings
from The Urantia Book. He
always includes a brief bio of the people whose quotes are used in the
comparison. The "Compare" quotes are sent for free, two or
three times weekly, as a service to subscribers.
Tom
told us this about "Compare", "It's
just a hobby of mine that I am blessed to be able to share. It started when I
wrote a paper comparing and paralleling the Big Book of AA and the
Urantia Book. I just got carried away with the concept and started
sending out 'comparisons' daily as I found them. I have always enjoyed good
quotes and have gleaned huge benefits from them, so I take it another step
further by comparing them with similar Urantia Book quotes. Several
people have encouraged me to write a book, but I'm too busy with family and work
life to devote any time to such a tome. Maybe someone else will do it. They
would certainly be welcome to do so. My archive of comparisons goes all the way
back to May of 2007 at www.okub.org/taxonomy_menu/2/36?page=87 ."
Here
is Tom's "Compare" email from July 13,
2010:
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today
we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
--Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist
(1883-1931)
P.1588 - §4 (141:2.1) The night before they left Pella, Jesus gave the
apostles some further instruction with regard to the new kingdom. Said the
Master: "You have been taught to look for the coming of the kingdom of God, and
now I come announcing that this long-looked-for kingdom is near at hand, even
that it is already here and in our midst. In every kingdom there must be a king
seated upon his throne and decreeing the laws of the realm. And so have you
developed a concept of the kingdom of heaven as a glorified rule of the Jewish
people over all the peoples of the earth with Messiah sitting on David's throne
and from this place of miraculous power promulgating the laws of all the world.
But, my children, you see not with the eye of faith, and you hear not with the
understanding of the spirit. I declare that the kingdom of heaven is the
realization and acknowledgment of God's rule within the hearts of men. True,
there is a King in this kingdom, and that King is my Father and your Father. We
are indeed his loyal subjects, but far transcending that fact is the
transforming truth that we are his sons. In my life this truth is to become
manifest to all. Our Father also sits upon a throne, but not one made with
hands. The throne of the Infinite is the eternal dwelling place of the Father in
the heaven of heavens; he fills all things and proclaims his laws to universes
upon universes. And the Father also rules within the hearts of his children on
earth by the spirit which he has sent to live within the souls of mortal
men.
Khalil Gibran (born Gubran Khalil Gubran also known as Kahlil
Gibran), was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of
Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon
mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States
where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his
1923 book The
Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose.
An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool
critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture.
Gibran is considered to be the third most widely read poet in history, behind
Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
For subscribe to
"Compare" send a request to Tom's email: tommykaren@cox.net.
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Great study and resource materials!
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Nobel Prize Ideas
By
Paul Herrick
Nobel
Prizes that were given post 1955 for what the Urantia Book had stated pre-1955.
The
fact of the two hemispheres of the brain was discovered in 1962 and won a Nobel
Prize in 1981. This is the fourth Nobel Prize that I know of so far that was
given for discoveries made since 1955 that were mentioned in The Urantia Book in
1955. The other three are: space temperature is above absolute zero (discovered
1964, Nobel 1978), binary pulsars (discovered 1974, Nobel 1993), and neutrinos
from supernova (discovered 1987, Nobel 2002).
From The Urantia Book
49.5.7 From the
two-hemisphere type of the Urantian cerebral cortex you can, by analogy, grasp
something of the one-brained type. The third brain of the three-brained orders
is best conceived as an involvement of your lower or rudimentary form of brain,
which is developed to the point where it functions chiefly in control of
physical activities, leaving the two superior brains free
for higher engagements: one for intellectual functions and the other for the
spiritual-counter-parting activities of the Thought
Adjuster.
From
science. First discovered in 1962:
LEFT BRAIN
FUNCTIONS: - uses logic
- detail oriented
- facts rule
- words and
language
- present and past
- math and science
- can
comprehend
- knowing
- acknowledges
- order/pattern perception
- knows
object name
- reality based
- forms
strategies
- practical
- safe
RIGHT BRAIN
FUNCTIONS:
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Larry Bowman
 The Urantia Book Fellowship welcomes the newest member of the
General Council: Mr. Lawrence J. Bowman Larry joined the Forum on June 30, 1954, after being
interviewed by Dr. Sadler. He subsequently became a member of the Urantia Brotherhood (currently The Urantia Book
Fellowship) by joining First Society, then Orvonton Society, then as a Member at Large and then as a founding member of
Grand Canyon Society, where he is currently the Secretary. (He says, "seemingly for life.") He hosted a study group from 1980-2004, began attending
Brotherhood/Fellowship conferences in '81 and Summer Study
Sessions in '90. He has served the Fellowship on an International
Conference Planning Committee in 1996, the International Committee and the
Membership Committee and has also served as a Triennial Delegate for Grand
Canyon Society in '91, '97, '03, '06, '09. Larry's desire is to make the Urantia Book as well-known
universally as other religious works, attract younger readers, and sometime to
see a film about the life of Jesus according to the UB, which he thought would
happen before the end of the last century. He says he also expected the Urantia
Book to be better known by now than it is. He also wants to promote the creation
of study groups and societies and help with the publishing of Urantia Book
translations.
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UBIS Announcement of the September Schedule of Courses
The
Registration period is 2 weeks, from September 6 to September 19. Courses begin
on Monday, Sept.
20. To apply for registration in a course, on Monday, Sept. 6
or after, go to
the UBIS website and click
on the word HERE on the
HOME page: select a course and click on the [Apply] button,
then fill in the information on the Application.
A registration "confirmation
notice" will be sent to you containing the additional information you will need
for student participation. You
will be contacted if for some reason your application can not be
accepted.
We are pleased to
announce the following courses for the September
Semester:
CORE CURRICULUM COURSE
TITLE: The
Universal Father
PAPERS: 1, 2, 3,
4, 5
TEACHER/FACILITATOR:
Judy Cosky
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This course will
study in depth the personality, nature, and attributes of the Universal Father,
as well as his relationship to the universe, and his interpersonal relationship
with the individual mortal.
PERSONAL
BIO
Judy lives in Michigan and has been a reader of The Urantia Book
for the past 35 years. She has worked as an educator, therapist, and
healthcare analyst.
TOPICAL STUDY - PARTS II and
III
TITLE: A Study of Seraphim
PAPERS: 38, 39,
113, 114
TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Dorothy Elder
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
It is said of
Seraphim, on p.419: "They love human beings, and only good can result from your
efforts to understand and love them". This course is an in depth study of the
origin, nature and work of the Seraphim, the Seraphic Gardians of Destiny, and
the unique Seraphic Planetary Government on Urantia.
PERSONAL
BIO
Dorothy lives in
Los Angeles and has been a reader since 1968. She has two grown children and
three grandchildren. Dorothy is a retired teacher and enjoys her work with the
Urantia Book Internet School. She has served as UBIS Director since its
formation in 1998.
TOPICAL STUDY - PARTS III and
IV
TITLE: Marriage
and Family Life
PAPERS: 82, 83, 84,
and various sections from 142, 160 and 167
TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Pam Maunakea
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This course will
explore the evolution of marriage, its role in society, and culminate with
Jesus' lessons and Rodan's thoughts on the art of living the ideals of family
life.
PERSONAL
BIO
Originally from
Honolulu, Hawaii, Pam moved to Southern California to attend college in 1973.
She has 2 grown children, a son and a daughter, and has been a reader since
1970. Pam works as a department business manager at a college near her
home.
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The UBIS welcomes
you and invites you to come and join in study and fellowship with our brothers
and sisters from around the world.
In
friendship,
Dorothy
Elder
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Pipeline of Light
by Michelle Klimesh Since my last report, Pipeline of Light volunteers have
placed sixty-nine copies of The Urantia Book into nine countries. Your donations
to the Pipeline helped us deliver books to readers and study groups in Costa
Rica, Colombia, South Africa, the United States, the Philippines, Kenya,
Venezuela, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. Book totals by language this quarter included sixty-one
Spanish and eight English books. These placements bring our Pipeline all-time
totals to 2,648 placed into sixty-seven
countries around the world. We deeply appreciate your continuing financial help. If
you would like to contribute to this work, donations can be made online for the Pipeline of Light efforts
at: http://urantiabook.org/support.htm or by mail to: The Urantia Book Fellowship, PO Box 6631, Broomfield, CO 80021 Thank you so much for your
support! Michelle Klimesh, Pipeline
Coordinator
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The Urantia Book Fellowship
The Urantia Book Fellowship -- founded in 1955 as Urantia Brotherhood -- is an association of individuals, families, and various groups inspired by the teachings of The Urantia Book. The Urantia Book Fellowship supports the study and dissemination of The Urantia Book worldwide and is committed to the ideal of spiritual unity, which embraces individual diversity, as embodied in the teachings of The Urantia Book.
Reader Services and organizational business are managed by the General Council consisting of 36 members elected from the readership. The Council is assisted by an Executive Committee comprised of Council members who manage various working committees of The Fellowship. The Urantia Book Fellowship is a member of the North American Interfaith Network.
For more information, visit About The Urantia Book Fellowship or our home page at www.urantiabook.org
The Urantia Book Fellowship
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