Webb Telescope Spots Chain of 20 Galaxies

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The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a chain of 20 galaxies, dubbed the Cosmic Vine. It stretches 13 million light-years across and dates back to just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging models of early galaxy clustering. Read More

According to The Urantia Book, “In the not-distant future, new telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Urantian astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space. At the same time these more powerful telescopes will disclose that many island universes formerly believed to be in outer space are really a part of the galactic system of Orvonton.” Read More

The Collapse of Youth Mental Health in the Era of Smartphones & Social Media

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The Anxious Generation is a book about the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. Read More    

The Urantia Book references this important topic several times. Click Read for Each Paper

“There is real danger in the combination of restlessness, curiosity, adventure, and pleasure-abandon characteristic of the post-Andite races.” Read

“The advancing ideals of family life are leading to the concept that bringing a child into the world, instead of conferring certain parental rights, entails the supreme responsibility of human existence.” Read

“Whosoever causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.” Read

“Security of civilization itself still rests on the growing willingness of one generation to invest in the welfare of the next and future generations.” Read



Does God Want Us to Work?

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Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers and is observed the first Monday in September but how does work relate to religious belief? Does God want us to work? 

The Urantia Book offers some answers: Remember that “The will of God can be done in any earthly occupation. Some callings are not holy and others secular. All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led…” During the course of one’s job, each encounter with another can become meaningful if we have dedicated our lives to living the will of God. In each encounter, we have an opportunity to either raise that person up to a higher spiritual level, or to allow that encounter to succumb to triviality.  Click to Read More

Humans Emit Visible Light that Vanishes When We Die  

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An extraordinary experiment on mice and leaves from two different plant species has uncovered direct physical evidence of an eerie ‘biophoton’ phenomenon ceasing on death, suggesting all living things – including humans – could literally glow with health, until we don’t.” Read More

Also, “There is a characteristic light, a spirit luminosity, which accompanies this divine presence, and which has become generally associated with Thought Adjusters. In the universe of Nebadon this Paradise luminosity is widespreadly known as the “pilot light”; on Uversa it is called the “light of life.” On Urantia this phenomenon has sometimes been referred to as that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” Read More

James Webb Telescope Detected the Unimaginable

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Imagine staring into a mirror that doesn’t just reflect light, but time itself—peering not at your own face, but into the infancy of the universe, when existence was still wrapping itself around its first breath. That’s precisely what the James Webb Space Telescope was built to do. But what it found when it looked deeper than anything before it… wasn’t infancy. It wasn’t the cosmic cradle. It was a contradiction. A cosmic impossibility. And what it saw—what it revealed to us—has not just stunned astronomers… it has shaken the very skeleton of modern physics.

The Urantia Book says, “The God of Action functions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One billion perfect spheres flash into existence. Prior to this hypothetical eternity moment the space-energies inherent in Paradise are existent and potentially operative, but they have no actuality of being; neither can physical gravity be measured except by the reaction of material realities to its incessant pull. There is no material universe at this (assumed) eternally distant moment, but the very instant that one billion worlds materialize, there is in evidence gravity sufficient and adequate to hold them in the everlasting grasp of Paradise.” Read More

Are We Hardwired to Believe in God?

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Scientists are mapping specific brain regions to understand how the brain conceives of the divine. The question of how the brain might be “hardwired” for spirituality has captured the interest of many investigators who have established careers in fields as different as neurology, theology, and neuroscience and spawned the new discipline of neurotheology. Read More

 

 The Urantia Book says “It lifts man out of himself and beyond himself when he once fully realizes that there lives and strives within him something which is eternal and divine. And so it is that a living faith in the superhuman origin of our ideals validates our belief that we are the sons of God and makes real our altruistic convictions, the feelings of the brotherhood of man.” Read More 

The Untold Story of Jesus

Was Jesus Real?

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“When it comes to the question of the Historical Jesus, myth and fact often blur together.” Read More

From Truthbook.com, “It is remarkable that, after more than 2000 years, the name of Jesus and the teachings of Jesus – however scant they may be in Scripture – still survive and still influence the civilizations of mankind. Everyone – even the skeptic – knows the name of Jesus. But the world still struggles to definitively accept that Jesus was truly real. In Part IV of The Urantia Book, The life and teachings of Jesus, we have eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus. If you doubted before, your doubts will be erased.” Read More

July 4th & The Urantia Book on Freedom

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The Urantia Book is so much more than religion. You might be surprised with what you will find. For example, on the subject of Freedom: “Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.”  Read More.

Read our topical study on Freedom HERE



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