Entries by Jim Zigarelli

Unlearning the Right Brain/Left Brain Myth

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Click to Play This Video and put to rest the idea that people are either right-brained or left-brained.

Urantia Book teachings inform us that we mortals are of the “two-brain” type, and that one of the two hemispheres of our brains is concerned with intellectual functions and the other with the spiritual-counterparting activities of the Thought Adjuster. 

“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 evolvement 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-counterparting activities of the Thought Adjuster.” Read more

Is Empathy a Weakness?

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According to NPR, “People tend to think of empathy or caring about other people’s feelings as a good thing, but in some circles, there’s a growing chorus of voices arguing that empathy could be bad.” Read More

Jesus addresses this issue in The Urantia Book using the word sympathy, and empathy is a word that can mean sympathy, sensitivity, and a sense of fellow feeling for another. In his ordination speech Jesus talked about the importance of sympathy. Even though he talked particularly about the importance of sympathy in men and boys, showing tenderness towards others is evidence of a courageous spirit for all of us. “Being sensitive and responsive to human need creates genuine and lasting happiness, while such kindly attitudes safeguard the soul from the destructive influences of anger, hate, and suspicion.”  Read more

The Strange Power of Laughter

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On the website Sapiens.org, an anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt. Read More

The Urantia Book says, “Joyful mirth and the smile-equivalent are as universal as music. There is a morontial and a spiritual equivalent of mirth and laughter.”

Read HERE Urantia Book teachings about the importance of laughter and humor – both in this life, and into our eternal career 

 

Other reference: One of the functions of humor is to help all of us take ourselves less seriously. “Humor is the divine antidote for exaltation of ego.”

Is Compassion Important for Humanity?

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 According to Forbes, “In times of crisis and social unrest, compassionate leadership can unify us as human beings, like a glue that binds us together in times of unrest. Without it, we become lonely individuals, facing challenges alone.” Read More

The Urantia Book says, ”Jesus unfailingly impressed upon his associates that they must “show forth love, compassion, and sympathy.” He early taught his followers that the kingdom of heaven was a spiritual experience having to do with the enthronement of God in the hearts of men. Read More 

How Many Appearances Did Jesus Have after His Resurrection?

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According to Quora, the New Testament records at least 14 appearances of Jesus after his resurrection, with some accounts mentioning even more, including appearances to individuals and groups, over a period of 40 days. Read More

The Urantia Book tells us that Jesus appeared to nearly 1000 people over the course of nineteen (19) separate resurrection appearances. Read More.

The True Easter Story

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The core of the Easter story, as depicted in the New Testament, revolves around the crucifixion, death and subsequent resurrection of Jesus, a pivotal event in Christianity that marks the holiday of Easter. 

But that is just a part of the entire story which is offered in detail in The Untold Story of Jesus, a modern biography from The Urantia Book. You might consider this for friends and loved one’s at Easter time.

Evolution May not be Survival of the Fittest, but Dumb Luck

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“As science delves deeper into the interplay between chance and necessity, one thing becomes clear: luck isn’t an anomaly in evolution. It’s a core feature. Replaying life’s tape — even under identical conditions — would likely yield a world profoundly different from the one we know.” Read More

The Urantia Book corroborates this theory in these very explicit scenarios from our distant past: “You can hardly realize by what narrow margins your prehuman ancestors missed extinction from time to time. Had the ancestral frog of all humanity jumped two inches less on a certain occasion, the whole course of evolution would have been markedly changed.” Read More

Read more about evolution 

NASA’s Solar Probe Closer to Sun than Ever

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NBC News reported that the Parker Solar Probe recently made a fiery dive close to the sun’s surface. Still 3.86 million miles away from the sun, the spacecraft, the size of a small car flies at about 430,000 MPH.  Read More

The Urantia Book includes information about the nucleus of the physical system to which our sun and its associated planets belong as the center of the onetime Andronover nebula. Our sun is 6 billion years old, and we can be assured that our sun is stable and reliable – for the next twenty-five billion years!

“Your own sun has long since attained relative equilibrium between its expansion and contraction cycles, those disturbances which produce the gigantic pulsations of many of the younger stars. Your sun is now passing out of its six billionth year. At the present time it is functioning through the period of greatest economy. It will shine on as of present efficiency for more than twenty-five billion years. It will probably experience a partially efficient period of decline as long as the combined periods of its youth and stabilized function.” Read More

The Earliest Recorded Kiss Has New Twist

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No one knows for sure when humans first figured out that mouth-to-mouth contact could be used for romance and erotic pleasure, but scientists reported recently that people were locking lips at least 4,500 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Science, pushed back the history of the practice by about 1,000 years. Read More

The Urantia Book says: “ The ceremony of adoption consisted in drinking each other’s blood. In some groups saliva was exchanged in the place of blood drinking, this being the ancient origin of the practice of social kissing. And all ceremonies of association, whether marriage or adoption, were always terminated by feasting.” Read More

Archeologists Discover Precursors of Human Writing 

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Archaeologists have identified the precursors of writing in the designs of ancient seals dating back about 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Read the Details

The Urantia Book says the first alphabet was formulated in Dalamatia about 500,000 years ago, in the days of the first planetary prince. Fad, one of the Caligastia one hundred, created the alphabet of twenty-five characters and also a writing system. Sadly, all of this was lost due to the Lucifer rebellion, ending any hope of a universal language for untold ages. Read More

By the days of Adam and Eve, 37,000 years ago, another alphabet was developed by Van and Amadon, reflecting the Andonic dialect. Adam and Eve learned and used this alphabet in the Garden of Eden. Read More