The Science of Well-Being, for Teens

Psychology Professor Dr. Laurie Santos, the psychology professor behind Yale University’s most popular course, recently launched a free six-week version of the class aimed at teenagers, called “The Science of Well-Being for Teens.” It was developed to address rising rates of anxiety, depression and suicide rates for kids between ninth and 12th grade, Santos says. Read More

The Urantia Book says: “And Jesus, laying a gentle hand on his shoulder, said: “No, son, not with words but with longing looks did you appeal to my heart. My boy, to one who loves his fellows there is an eloquent appeal for help in your countenance of discouragement and despair. Sit down with me while I tell you of the service trails and happiness highways which lead from the sorrows of self to the joys of loving activities in the brotherhood of men and in the service of the God of heaven.” Read More 

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Independence and Free Will

Happy Independence Day 2023!  New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect. Free Will is only an illusion if you are, too. Read More

The Urantia Book says: “Self-consciousness consists in intellectual awareness of personality actuality; it includes the ability to recognize the reality of other personalities. It indicates capacity for individualized experience in and with cosmic realities, equivalating to the attainment of identity status in the personality relationships of the universe. Self-consciousness connotes recognition of the actuality of mind ministration and the realization of relative independence of creative and determinative free will.”  Read More

Summer Solstice and The Seasons

The Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere is known as the longest day of the year, This year Wed. June 21, explore why this astronomical event is called the summer solstice and how it is used to measure time. Watch Video  

 The Urantia Book says: “Seasons and temperature variations occur on all sunlighted and sun-heated planets. Agriculture is universal on all atmospheric worlds; tilling the soil is the one pursuit that is common to the advancing races of all such planets.”  Read More