The benefits of reading the Urantia Book

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Re: http://ubannotated.com/main-menu/animat ... ekli-tepe/

UBtheNews' updated Gobekli Tepe Report, by reference to 49:5.19, highlights a rarely acknowledged reality of human existence:
gland-facilitated "inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity" seem to provide for reception of information from higher sources
... even via "channeling".

"3. Spirit-reception series. There are three groups of mind design as related to contact with spirit affairs. This classification does not refer to the one-, two-, and three-brained orders of mortals; it refers primarily to gland chemistry, more particularly to the organization of certain glands comparable to the pituitary bodies. The races on some worlds have one gland, on others two, as do Urantians, while on still other spheres the races have three of these unique bodies. The inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity is definitely influenced by this differential chemical endowment." (49:5.19)

See also: http://www.theub.org/part-ii.html#P049_5_19

Rod

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Re: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 87681.html

"Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee hope so, and have completed
building equipment they are to test this summer which may allow us the first glimpse of a
parallel universe which could be identical in many ways to our own, with mirror particles,
mirror planets and possibly even mirror life."

If God pervades that parallel universe, life might be mirrored but such a universe
would be the residence of beings having a unique spark of God within - not "mirrored".
Such is the nature of God.

Besides, the mirrors we know only reflect one reality.

Rod

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Re: https://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=2275

"This has been slow - a back and forth thing. But now they are beginning to see that it is encroaching
upon the Whitford Lines, at 40 degrees. It is maybe 200 miles away. When it hits that line it will snap,
causing anything from a pole reversal to a crustal displacement. This could happen ... in minutes."

A physical earth change that has potential to complement this message:
http://board.1111angels.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28493

Rod

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More about poles reversal ...

Re: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... s-science/

"Based on the magnetic fingerprints locked into ancient rocks ... over the last 20 million years,
magnetic north and south have flipped roughly every 200,000 to 300,000 years ...
The last of these major reversals occurred about 780,000 years ago"

Re: https://www.livescience.com/18426-earth ... -flip.html

"Our technology definitely would be in danger, however. Even now, solar storms can damage satellites,
cause power outages and interrupt radio communications. "These kinds of negative influences
clearly will increase if the magnetic field and thus its shielding function became significantly weaker,
e.g. during a reversal, and it will be important to find mitigation strategies"

"One additional worry is that a weakening and eventual reversal in the field would disorient
all those species that rely on geomagnetism for navigation, including bees, salmon, turtles, whales,
bacteria and pigeons. There is no scientific consensus on how those creatures would cope."

Say what Bacteria need a magnetic compass to navigate
I thought bacteria just needed something warm, moist, and tasty.

Rod

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"But the continent richest in natural deposits and the most advanced mechanical equipment
will make little progress if the intelligence of its people is on the decline. Knowledge can be had
by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience
and by men and women who are innately intelligent. Such a people are able to learn from experience;
they may become truly wise." (81:6.13)

Interestingly, it's easy to assume (incorrectly) that a nation's intelligence will only increase
because of advances in nutrition, medicine, health care, education, communication, transportation.
However, the media are continually presenting examples* suggesting that such national decline
is "just around the corner" ... if not already in our faces!

* Food eating contests, risky camera selfies, proliferation of marijuana (it's not health food
and smoke is harmful to lungs), sporting events designed to injure (e.g., boxing), etc.

See also: http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P081_6_13

Rod

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Re: POET VP and POETism designs in:
http://aitnaru.org/images/Pi_Fork_n_Lute.pdf

Is it possible ...
the UB's concentric circles were meant to reflect sqrt(2) concentricity
(not equidistant concentric circles like a target). Who can tell

Where does the UB define the geometry of these circles?

Rod

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Re: http://board.1111angels.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28842

UB 51:2.3 seems to relate to this 1111angels message ...
and hints that the dematerialized humans will resurrect with new bodies (since it's impossible to transport humans such distances so fast?). And this hints that the transported humans may not remember their previous life entirely (as when moving to Mansonia). Thus, not at all like moving to another country on 606!

"If physical catastrophe should doom the planetary residence of an evolving race, the Melchizedeks and the Life Carriers would install the technique of dematerialization for all survivors, and by seraphic transport these beings would be carried away to the new world prepared for their continuing existence." (51:2.3)

See also: http://www.theub.org/part-ii.html#P051_2

Or ... all of 51:2 could suggest that a re-materialized human
will exist as their former material being.

Rod

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Humor regarding the Course In Miracles (CIM) and the Urantia Book (UB) ...

"The future impact of any differences perceived in the preference of these pathways to greater spirituality was effectively explained late one night at a UB conference years ago: When arriving at the Mansonia Departure terminal, those supporting the CIM must board the black bus with white stripes and those supporting the UB must board the white bus with black stripes; those unfamiliar with the CIM and the UB may board either bus. Your bus will depart at 12:01 AM from parking stall 606."

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... scientists

"Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid human-monkey embryo – with the experiment taking place in China to avoid 'legal issues'.
Researchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells.
It is said the creature could have grown and been born, but scientists aborted the process."

Most likely, any other-than-human creature will identify with spiritual capacity as long as its brain can host the "mystery monitor" (Thought Adjuster) sometime after birth and its brain can respond to the influence of the Adjutant Spirits. Many different creatures exist in the universe, but continuance of life after death is dependent on development of a soul that can survive death.

And this hints that robots will never identify with spiritual capacity until their "brains" can host the Thought Adjuster.

Rod

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WDJT.org was allowed to expire since it was a link to:
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#WDJT "What did Jesus teach?",
a collection of all that Jesus taught as presented in the Urantia Book.

Every item has a link to the UB text where presented.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... scientists
and my previous comment:

robots will never identify with spiritual capacity until their "brains" can host the Thought Adjuster.

... and it's quite unlikely that an AI brain (eraseable/replaceable electronics)
could ever host the Thought Adjuster.

Rod

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Re: https://www.ozy.com/acumen/xis-crackdow ... ears/95719

"Communist parties around the world — and China’s is no different — thrive on their monopoly as the only large organized groups in the societies they govern. Religious groups, especially if they’re growing, represent a challenge to that hegemony."

This hints that the UB might be (reasonably) well-received in China if it's not perceived as part of an organized group, especially one that's growing. Neither would association with Christianity (by perception) be helpful at this time. Currently, in Xi's China, if you have Christianity (and other Western religions), have it to yourself.

Rod

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Re: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Urantia_Book

"This learning resource is part of the School of Theology
and is being organized as a typical Urantia Book study group at Wikiversity."

Apparently, has been waiting for more development ...

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/ch ... ldren-book

"Chinese officials changed 'when a star falls, a soul goes to be with God' in 'The Little Match Girl'
by Hans Christian Anderson to read: 'when a star falls, a person leaves this world.'"

However, a seriously electronic nation should know that stories as first written remain
in other parts of the world. In decades past, history could be rewritten but no more
"You shall know the truth ..." (if that's your desire).

Rod

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This morning's meditation ...

The Jesus most desired, most accessible, and most needed by humanity today, humanity that has no awareness of "Michael of Nebadon", "Creator Son", "Universe Mother Spirit", et al., is the Joshua ben Joseph before his resurrection. What preceded and followed Joshua's life distracts from the elevating story of divinity once incarnated two thousand years ago ... for those not yet prepared to envision an infinite universe of perfect administration with descending Sons of God and teeming with personal angels.

"To you, Mary, I bring glad tidings when I announce that the conception within you is ordained by heaven, and that in due time you will become the mother of a son; you shall call him Joshua, and he shall inaugurate the kingdom of heaven on earth and among men." (122:3.1)

Perhaps, it's time to refer to the Jesus of the UB by his pre-Christianity name, Joshua (ben Joseph) ...
for the UB's "Life and Teachings of Jesus" is all about this Joshua.

See also: http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#WDJT "What did Jesus teach?"

Rod

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Re: http://board.1111angels.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28883

"Recently when listening to the Damascus Scribe I was informed that the world of cannibals described above is unlikely to survive.
I’m rather certain that this world is mentioned in the Urantia Book as one that is worst off than our planet."

There's no mention of such a world in the UB, but Paper 89's discussion of cannibalism
seems to hint that this could have been the rare evolutionary progression on a planet:
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P089_0

Rod

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Re: https://time.com/91081/what-science-say ... -genetics/

"There is indeed a biological basis for race. And it is now beyond doubt that human evolution is a continuous process
that has proceeded vigorously within the last 30,000 years"

"Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is a biological basis for race, despite the official statements to the contrary of leading social science organizations. An illustration of the point is the fact that with mixed race populations, such as African Americans, geneticists can now track along an individual’s genome, and assign each segment to an African or European ancestor,
an exercise that would be impossible if race did not have some basis in biological reality."

From the UB ...

"And now [500,000 years ago], among these highland Badonites there was a new and strange occurrence. A man and woman living
in the northeastern part of the then inhabited highland region began suddenly to produce a family of unusually intelligent children.
This was the Sangik family, the ancestors of all of the six colored races of Urantia." (64:5.2)

Obviously, "30,000 years ago" is not even close to "500,000 years ago" ... and explains why modern anthropology struggles
with the missing links (evidence) of racial evolution in this LONG-occurring racial amalgamation.

See also: Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races of Color
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P064_0

Post Mortem:
The UB will not be accepted as evidence of planetary racial history until DNA (or whatever) further reveals the Sangik ancestors. Except for serious discussion of race evolution - over hundreds of thousands of years - by open and inquiring minds, the topic of "race differences"
will remain very controversial.

Rod

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Re: https://time.com/91081/what-science-say ... -genetics/

"human evolution is a continuous process that has proceeded vigorously within the last 30,000 years"

Of course "vigorously" since Adam and Eve, despite their default, contributed to human evolution
(albeit anthropologists will never be able to explain how DNA suddenly improved):

"Adam and Eve arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago." (74:0.1)

See also: Paper 74 - Adam and Eve
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P074_0

Rod

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OMG So much is known now about the history of human genes ... like this:
https://www.genome.gov/dna-day/15-for-1 ... s-ancestry

"Genomic studies like these have allowed us to examine human genomes from around 500,000 years ago when our ancestors
(the species Homo sapiens) were diverging from other similar species, such as Homo neanderthalensis or Neanderthals."

We might even finesse "Homo sapiens were diverging" into "the Sangik children suddenly appeared."

Rod

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Creative but subtle Andon and Fonta humor ...

"Her parents always preferred wooded land with streams and gentle forest creatures,
but his parents liked the tall treetops with distant views and invigorating breezes."

See also: Paper 63 - The First Human Family
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P063_0

Rod

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By page 50 of "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived" (Adam Rutherford, 2017), still Chapter One ("Horny and Mobile"), I've learned that this book is not so reflective of the UB's complete history of the races. However, by page 50 I suddenly realized that genetics recognizes only two genders: male and female, as evidenced by the X/X and X/Y chromosome pairs.

Genetically speaking, an X/X and an X/Y gender can "make nice" in the biological barnyard hay to procreate ... regardless of their preferred gender identification: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/ ... ook-users/

Rod

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Re: http://ubannotated.com/wp-content/uploa ... al-JJJ.pdf

"At conception the child is described by the revelators as a ‘human life’ and after birth as a 'human being.'"

An enlightening, "must read" article about human life (as revealed by the UB)!
Intriguing word, this "being", suggesting that birth activates the reality of being
... and there's so much more in this Position Paper

Also, two conceptions are certain: the first, leading to mortal birth and "human being" status;
the second (after adjuster indwelling) qualifying "human being" for a future Mansonia birth
(after mortal soul exists and survival after death is not rejected).

It seems quite logical that the adjuster would not arrive until the child is fully prepared for its indwelling.
And personality bestowal would be a later part of that preparation, considering that personality has greater value
for interaction with other personalities (child would need to be ready to function as a personalized being).

Which suggests that one's first moral decision is more significant when it involves another personality,
as "egoism, altruism" in this quote infer: "Moral choosing is usually accompanied by more or less moral conflict.
And this very first conflict in the child mind is between the urges of egoism and the impulses of altruism."
( http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P103_2_7 )

Tip: To see Urantia Book references, such as 83:8.5 (930.1), 102:5.1 (1123.7),103:2.1 (1130.6),
go to respective UB Part and search for Paper:Section.Paragraph. as 103:2.1. (include ending period):

Part I - http://www.theub.org/part-i.html#P001_0
Part II - http://www.theub.org/part-ii.html#P032_0
Part III - http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P057_0
Part IV - http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P120_0

Rod

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Quick synthesis of quick research ...

Much is known now about DNA, but the greater reality is that human beings are much more than physical characteristics. Ongoing DNA research is beginning to discover this, explaining why "race" is more and more inclusive of identifiers other than physical. The UB's presentation of race was authored many decades ago when race was a more physical perspective.

Rod

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(PDF is still available from this site) ...

The UB reformatted as a PDF file with no page breaks between Sections:
http://aitnaru.org/images/Urantia_Papers.pdf

Click on Paper number in Table of Contents to go to that Paper.

Rod

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Conjecture about the UB's "races" ...

Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(hum ... orization) and ...

"5. The angels of the races. Those who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times." (114:6.9)

The many and highly controversial human categorizations, well researched in the Wikipedia article, clearly suggest that "race" is a poor focus for identifying a group of people in this modern era. Whereas, the UB's revelation of "Angels of the Races" clearly intimates that a human categorization of lasting value occurred by an evolutionary point in time long ago ... sufficient to justify "conservation of the evolutionary races".

Obviously, any public discussion now of the UB's "races" is destined for the genome graveyard (antiquated research and beliefs). Even future DNA discoveries are not likely to reveal much about the Angels of the Races' conservation efforts. On the other hand, we might be taught more after the arrival of the pending Magisterial incarnation ... especially if new Adamic uplifting is planned.

Speaking of the Andites ...

"But of the Andites who navigated the Pacific of long ago none but the one hundred and thirty-two ever reached the mainland of the Americas." (78:5.7)

Re: https://www.thoughtco.com/pacific-coast ... way-172063

"The Pacific Coast Migration Model is a theory concerning the original colonization of the Americas that proposes that people entering the continents followed the Pacific coastline, hunter-gatherer-fishers traveling in boats or along the shoreline and subsisting primarily on marine resources.

The PCM model was first considered in detail by Knut Fladmark, in a 1979 article in American Antiquity which was simply amazing for its time. Fladmark argued against the Ice Free Corridor hypothesis, which proposes people entered North America through a narrow opening between two glacial ice sheets. The Ice Free Corridor was likely to have been blocked, argued Fladmark, and if the corridor was open at all, it would have been unpleasant to live and travel in."

So ... if only two rabbits can populate, 132 can "invade" ... in undulating waves!


Postscript ...

"Mankind on Urantia must solve its problems of mortal development with the human stocks it has — no more races will evolve from prehuman sources throughout all future time. But this fact does not preclude the possibility of the attainment of vastly higher levels of human development through the intelligent fostering of the evolutionary potentials still resident in the mortal races." (65:3.6)

Whereas this quote suggests that an "Adamic uplift" would not occur via human mating with Adamic progeny, for example, it does not preclude the possibility that the Magisterial team would implement "intelligent fostering of the evolutionary potentials" (re: DNA modifcation).

Rod