I incline toward Chriss' and Kreneep's thoughts on this issue, as far as a Urantia Church is concerned. But a society, well, that's different.
Speaking of which, many years ago the Urantia Book Study Groups were striving to develop into societies, like FUSLA (First Urantia Society of Los Angeles) and there is one in Oklahoma. I am sure they had to go through many hoops in order to be sanctioned. In 1976 I applied for and became a Member-at-Large in the Urantia Brotherhood, an entity that no longer exists, thanks to the great schism. Are the Societies still in existence? Are they still being fostered? How do they compare to the Urantia Church you want to instigate, Michael? One is social based on spiritual, the other is spiritual based on social? Or what?
I have read about the Chaordic Principles and I like them, as far as groups go. The Zooids abide by these kinds of principles. Just as there are some folks who would not be happy living in a gated community, there are folks who would not be happy living in a Zooid Colony. (This refers back to capitalism, imo, where everybody wants their own 40 acres and a mule.) But in order to rule out the defectives and degenerates (if that can be defined) or those who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization, there would have to be natural law and organizational guidelines.
The thing is, though, in matters of the spirit we are all equal. Nobody can be closed out of a spiritual circle, not if we subscribe to the spirit as taught by Jesus when he lived among us. He just says we are to "love one another as I have loved you," and that has nothing to do with signing on the dotted line, tithing, or any of that stuff. He assured Ganid that we don't need another religion. We don't need another church either.
I understand what it is to do battle against that which we believe to be anathema to the spirit. I appreciate the passion. We would not have evolved to this point were it not for those who fought for spirit reality in the face of that which would pull us down, hold us back, or render us dull through standardization and mediocrity. The living water is are alive. It is dynamic. It cannot be contained in a building or in a book or it will die. I would not want to contribute to the crystallization of 5th epochal truth.
_________________ Gerdean O'Dell Author: "Secrets of Promise"
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