Jan. 18, 2023
Inside the Urantia Book
My introduction to people who are new or are not familiar with te Urantia book, this brief overview delves into four key questions
What is The Urantia Book?
Where did it come from?
Why is it important?
Why should I read it?
Enjoy!
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Well we're going to do something
new and different this time on
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the Rancho podcast, for those
who are listening to the
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podcast.
We're actually doing a video
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version and we're going to call
this series inside the Urantia
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book.
And my intention is to introduce
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people who are just now hearing
about the book and maybe want to
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know a little bit about it and a
little bit about me, I've been a
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reader for a long, long time.
And I've had a podcast now.
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Now for a few years and in every
podcast which you can find at
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your Ranch radio dotnet, I
tackle issues in the book having
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to do with current life.
The way things are going in
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society, new discoveries that
are made that substantiate the
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Rancho book and I just want to
go over a couple of things.
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This time, I wanted to get at
least four points to you, which
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I think are pretty interesting.
Now, I'm just too laid-back guy,
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I am not a preacher and I don't
claim to have any kind of
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affiliation with with any church
or any belief system.
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I don't I mean I believe in the
Divinity of Christ and I believe
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that all human beings are
endowed with the spirit and that
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we all have potential and that
there is a great life ahead.
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This life is also extremely
important and will probably
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prove to be one of the more
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point.
It's where we learn the
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rudiments of morality and ethics
and how to get along, how to
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treat people and how to serve
one another, you know, no other
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animal species thinks about any
of those things, they simply
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exist as they were born and they
have their characteristics and
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they just do what they do
without questioning.
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But human beings were different.
You know, we have, will we have
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choice?
We have self-determination, we
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have wisdom.
Well, some of us anyway, and we
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are always exploring.
We're always looking for
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something.
We're always building better
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things.
We're always trying to figure
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things out and manipulate, and
make our life better and more
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pleasurable.
And along the way.
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And our human history, we've
been giving we've been given
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glimpses of Truth just enough
that we can understand but also
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that help us to become better at
being human beings.
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And so I thought, what I would
first do is just explain to you
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what the Rancho book is.
It's a 2,000 page book.
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It's divided into four parts.
It's about 196, separate
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individual, Essays or papers and
each one of those specific
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papers.
It's almost like a history book.
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It Starts from the very
beginning of things and then it
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moves along a linear time scale
to eventually the appearance of
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human beings.
And then it also gives us a
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glimpse into two things, one
where our Earth is headed.
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As the species and what we can
expect in the future.
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And to what's ahead for each of
us in our own personal spiritual
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journey that we are destined to
go to a specific place.
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And but that's not the last
place we'll go to the the
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overall presentation of the
Urantia book is that there is a
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huge Universe of multiple
universes and multiple kinds of
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life forms.
And we represent one specific
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type of What they call a sending
Sons.
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We are ascending human beings or
as science likes to call a
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sentient human beings but we are
sending we're becoming more
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intellectual more spiritual with
each life that we take up in
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this journey.
So, the Urantia book is
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basically the story of that it
simply tells us what we can
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expect in this journey and what
is expected of us as well, in
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terms of personal behavior and
conduct.
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And the way that we think, you
know, one of the things I like
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about the Rancho book is that
the authors put a lot of
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emphasis on thinking the quality
of thinking and the quality of
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thinking can only be improved.
By the choices that a person
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makes in their life, whether
they read, whether they are
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constantly seeking for new
knowledge, if they make a choice
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and their quality of thinking
improves, generally speaking
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that person's life also
improves.
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And and I think I've seen a lot
of examples in this smart people
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got there because they made
decisions that made them
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smarter.
So, the Rancho book to me, You
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know, I don't want to call it a
religion because there's no
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formality.
There's nothing that you do, you
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don't even have to adhere to
believe, any of the Rancho book
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is true if you're worried about.
You know, resurrection and
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having a soul, the Urantia book
very plainly states that we all
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have the spirit of God in us and
it's up to us to make that
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connection and to develop that
connection and have that
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connection carry us into the
next life.
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So where did it come from?
Well, no one knows who exactly
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wrote it but we do know that
each of the papers has a
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signatory, a being a personality
States that they are responsible
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for that specific paper.
Now if you read the book that
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each of the personalities is
actually explained, So, for
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example, the first five papers
are written by someone who
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refers to themselves as a Divine
Minister.
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Now, what is the Divine
Minister?
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Well, if you read in the first
part of the Rancho book, where
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it gets to those groups of
personalities, it explains who
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they are, where they came from,
what their role is, and then you
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understand.
Okay?
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Well, that's why this person was
assigned to write this
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particular paper.
So for example, Ample, you have
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some papers, some sections of
the book that are written by
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seraphim.
Angels one is actually written
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by solonian who claims to be the
angel, that spoke to Eve and
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Adam in the Garden of Eden.
So, there's other books papers
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that are written by various.
Melchizedek's one is written by
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a Melchizedek who is still
really important in the
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government of our world, even as
we speak.
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So where did it come from?
Well in the 1920s this man, a
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well-known doctor psychiatrist.
Had a patient who talked in his
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sleep.
And during the treatment or
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observation of this patient,
they refer to as the sleeping
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subject.
There were conversations that
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were had of a high order and the
subject, informed the dr.
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Sadler and his wife, dr.
Lana, Sadler that there would be
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a forthcoming Revelation and it
appeared over a period of time
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in handwritten form and it would
appear at this person's house
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and They tried to, you know,
obviously the first thing you
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think of is the person wrote it
or someone this person knows
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wrote it, but that was never
made clear.
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There was never any credit taken
by any human being and so taking
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at face value, the book, authors
say that it's a revelation and
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its intended to advance
Humanity.
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So, we have to judge it on that
premise alone.
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Why is it important?
Why is the Rancho book
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important?
Well, you know, if you look
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around, it's easy to see that
we're transitioning from one
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stage of existence to another
You know, 100 200 years ago is
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not that long when you think of
the fact that intelligent man or
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civilized man's been around for
about four or five thousand
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maybe 10,000 years.
But this particular period of
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time is much different.
From any other previous time,
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things move very slowly up until
about the 1820s and then things
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started to accelerate really
really fast and because of that,
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I think that while we might be
intellectually, prepared, maybe
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even physically prepared.
We may not be spiritually.
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Morally, or ethically prepared,
because we're not, we're not
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able to see the big picture.
Of what's at stake of what else
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is out there of where we're
headed.
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But we're supposed to be doing
as a species where as a society
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we have all these differing,
opinions, and Views.
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And there's, you know,
geopolitical dominance.
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There's war and there's, you
know, we just went through a
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pandemic which is probably the
first time in modern history
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that we all went through it
together and we were able to
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communicate with each other and
communicate what was happening.
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You know, the events of the last
20-30 years were unprecedented
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in human history.
So it is my belief that the
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revelator's, those who sponsored
and mandated the book felt that
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it was necessary for us to have
this new information, not only
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about our humble beginnings but
also the beginnings of the
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universe and also projecting
outward and forward what our
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responsibilities are as a human
race.
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And you could take that on
Merit, you know I always say to
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people don't take my word for
it, you know read the book.
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Alright.
And then my final statement, why
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should anyone read it?
Well if if you're trying to get
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a sense of what could be true,
and you really want to know that
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this world isn't in vain or if
you want to have a better
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relationship with the Divine
Creator or if you want to learn
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more about the life and example
of Jesus or learn about our
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human history and how societies
evolved or if you want to get a
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glimpse as to what a possibility
could exist for us, moving
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forward, Then you're not going
to be disappointed with the
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ranch.
I booked it, the pros, the
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articulation the depth, the
grammar, the the style.
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It's just a pleasurable
experience.
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When you read the book you
actually do sort of feel like
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You know wow whoever wrote this
know what they were talking
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about, at least that's been my
experience.
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So, but as people will tell you,
it's something that I've been
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carrying with me for a long,
long time.
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Since I was a young guy, 20
years old and I've never stopped
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reading it since And if you're
wondering, if there's a church
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or any kind of a group, there
are a group of readers
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worldwide, and a lot of them
have started to form their own
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organizations, but it's not a
requirement, it's no church,
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they don't have ministers, they
don't have, they don't even have
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teachers, they have people that
you can call and go to study
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groups and you can all Talk
Amongst yourselves.
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But there's no real
organizational structure outside
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of the association's and the
organizations that that are
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doing social events.
I just had a guy on my show not
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long ago, who took the book to a
symposium by academics of
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science or religion in the
United States.
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And he introduced the air at
your book to the scholarly types
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because so little Known about
the book even though it's been
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around for gosh you know little
over almost a hundred years.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so I hope that I was
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able to answer some questions
and I hope that you will share
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this with others.
And if you have any questions,
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my contact information, your
Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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and we'll see how this goes and
if people enjoy it and they like
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it, perhaps we can Venture on
down the road with these video
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gas in the meantime.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so I hope that I was
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able to answer some questions
and I hope that you will share
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this with others.
And if you have any questions,
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my contact information, your
Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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and we'll see how this goes and
if people enjoy it and they like
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it, perhaps we can Venture on
down the road with these video
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gas in the meantime.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Well we're going to do something
new and different this time on
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the Rancho podcast, for those
who are listening to the
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podcast.
We're actually doing a video
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version and we're going to call
this series inside the Urantia
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book.
And my intention is to introduce
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people who are just now hearing
about the book and maybe want to
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know a little bit about it and a
little bit about me, I've been a
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reader for a long, long time.
And I've had a podcast now.
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Now for a few years and in every
podcast which you can find at
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your Ranch radio dotnet, I
tackle issues in the book having
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to do with current life.
The way things are going in
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society, new discoveries that
are made that substantiate the
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Rancho book and I just want to
go over a couple of things.
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This time, I wanted to get at
least four points to you, which
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I think are pretty interesting.
Now, I'm just too laid-back guy,
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I am not a preacher and I don't
claim to have any kind of
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affiliation with with any church
or any belief system.
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I don't I mean I believe in the
Divinity of Christ and I believe
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that all human beings are
endowed with the spirit and that
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we all have potential and that
there is a great life ahead.
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This life is also extremely
important and will probably
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prove to be one of the more
Resting, but it's a starting
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point.
It's where we learn the
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rudiments of morality and ethics
and how to get along, how to
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treat people and how to serve
one another, you know, no other
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animal species thinks about any
of those things, they simply
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exist as they were born and they
have their characteristics and
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they just do what they do
without questioning.
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But human beings were different.
You know, we have, will we have
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choice?
We have self-determination, we
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have wisdom.
Well, some of us anyway, and we
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are always exploring.
We're always looking for
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something.
We're always building better
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things.
We're always trying to figure
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things out and manipulate, and
make our life better and more
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pleasurable.
And along the way.
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And our human history, we've
been giving we've been given
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glimpses of Truth just enough
that we can understand but also
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that help us to become better at
being human beings.
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And so I thought, what I would
first do is just explain to you
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what the Rancho book is.
It's a 2,000 page book.
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It's divided into four parts.
It's about 196, separate
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individual, Essays or papers and
each one of those specific
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papers.
It's almost like a history book.
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It Starts from the very
beginning of things and then it
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moves along a linear time scale
to eventually the appearance of
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human beings.
And then it also gives us a
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glimpse into two things, one
where our Earth is headed.
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As the species and what we can
expect in the future.
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And to what's ahead for each of
us in our own personal spiritual
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journey that we are destined to
go to a specific place.
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And but that's not the last
place we'll go to the the
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overall presentation of the
Urantia book is that there is a
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huge Universe of multiple
universes and multiple kinds of
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life forms.
And we represent one specific
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type of What they call a sending
Sons.
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We are ascending human beings or
as science likes to call a
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sentient human beings but we are
sending we're becoming more
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intellectual more spiritual with
each life that we take up in
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this journey.
So, the Urantia book is
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basically the story of that it
simply tells us what we can
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expect in this journey and what
is expected of us as well, in
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terms of personal behavior and
conduct.
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And the way that we think, you
know, one of the things I like
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about the Rancho book is that
the authors put a lot of
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emphasis on thinking the quality
of thinking and the quality of
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thinking can only be improved.
By the choices that a person
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makes in their life, whether
they read, whether they are
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constantly seeking for new
knowledge, if they make a choice
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and their quality of thinking
improves, generally speaking
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that person's life also
improves.
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And and I think I've seen a lot
of examples in this smart people
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got there because they made
decisions that made them
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smarter.
So, the Rancho book to me, You
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know, I don't want to call it a
religion because there's no
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formality.
There's nothing that you do, you
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don't even have to adhere to
believe, any of the Rancho book
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is true if you're worried about.
You know, resurrection and
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having a soul, the Urantia book
very plainly states that we all
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have the spirit of God in us and
it's up to us to make that
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connection and to develop that
connection and have that
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connection carry us into the
next life.
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So where did it come from?
Well, no one knows who exactly
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wrote it but we do know that
each of the papers has a
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signatory, a being a personality
States that they are responsible
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for that specific paper.
Now if you read the book that
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each of the personalities is
actually explained, So, for
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example, the first five papers
are written by someone who
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refers to themselves as a Divine
Minister.
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Now, what is the Divine
Minister?
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Well, if you read in the first
part of the Rancho book, where
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it gets to those groups of
personalities, it explains who
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they are, where they came from,
what their role is, and then you
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understand.
Okay?
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Well, that's why this person was
assigned to write this
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particular paper.
So for example, Ample, you have
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some papers, some sections of
the book that are written by
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seraphim.
Angels one is actually written
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by solonian who claims to be the
angel, that spoke to Eve and
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Adam in the Garden of Eden.
So, there's other books papers
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that are written by various.
Melchizedek's one is written by
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a Melchizedek who is still
really important in the
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government of our world, even as
we speak.
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So where did it come from?
Well in the 1920s this man, a
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well-known doctor psychiatrist.
Had a patient who talked in his
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sleep.
And during the treatment or
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observation of this patient,
they refer to as the sleeping
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subject.
There were conversations that
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were had of a high order and the
subject, informed the dr.
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Sadler and his wife, dr.
Lana, Sadler that there would be
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a forthcoming Revelation and it
appeared over a period of time
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in handwritten form and it would
appear at this person's house
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and They tried to, you know,
obviously the first thing you
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think of is the person wrote it
or someone this person knows
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wrote it, but that was never
made clear.
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There was never any credit taken
by any human being and so taking
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at face value, the book, authors
say that it's a revelation and
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its intended to advance
Humanity.
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So, we have to judge it on that
premise alone.
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Why is it important?
Why is the Rancho book
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important?
Well, you know, if you look
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around, it's easy to see that
we're transitioning from one
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stage of existence to another
You know, 100 200 years ago is
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not that long when you think of
the fact that intelligent man or
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civilized man's been around for
about four or five thousand
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maybe 10,000 years.
But this particular period of
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time is much different.
From any other previous time,
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things move very slowly up until
about the 1820s and then things
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started to accelerate really
really fast and because of that,
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I think that while we might be
intellectually, prepared, maybe
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even physically prepared.
We may not be spiritually.
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Morally, or ethically prepared,
because we're not, we're not
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able to see the big picture.
Of what's at stake of what else
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is out there of where we're
headed.
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But we're supposed to be doing
as a species where as a society
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we have all these differing,
opinions, and Views.
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And there's, you know,
geopolitical dominance.
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There's war and there's, you
know, we just went through a
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pandemic which is probably the
first time in modern history
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that we all went through it
together and we were able to
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communicate with each other and
communicate what was happening.
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You know, the events of the last
20-30 years were unprecedented
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in human history.
So it is my belief that the
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revelator's, those who sponsored
and mandated the book felt that
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it was necessary for us to have
this new information, not only
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about our humble beginnings but
also the beginnings of the
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universe and also projecting
outward and forward what our
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responsibilities are as a human
race.
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And you could take that on
Merit, you know I always say to
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people don't take my word for
it, you know read the book.
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Alright.
And then my final statement, why
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should anyone read it?
Well if if you're trying to get
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a sense of what could be true,
and you really want to know that
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this world isn't in vain or if
you want to have a better
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relationship with the Divine
Creator or if you want to learn
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more about the life and example
of Jesus or learn about our
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human history and how societies
evolved or if you want to get a
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glimpse as to what a possibility
could exist for us, moving
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forward, Then you're not going
to be disappointed with the
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ranch.
I booked it, the pros, the
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articulation the depth, the
grammar, the the style.
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It's just a pleasurable
experience.
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When you read the book you
actually do sort of feel like
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You know wow whoever wrote this
know what they were talking
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about, at least that's been my
experience.
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So, but as people will tell you,
it's something that I've been
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carrying with me for a long,
long time.
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Since I was a young guy, 20
years old and I've never stopped
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reading it since And if you're
wondering, if there's a church
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or any kind of a group, there
are a group of readers
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worldwide, and a lot of them
have started to form their own
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organizations, but it's not a
requirement, it's no church,
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they don't have ministers, they
don't have, they don't even have
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teachers, they have people that
you can call and go to study
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groups and you can all Talk
Amongst yourselves.
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But there's no real
organizational structure outside
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of the association's and the
organizations that that are
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doing social events.
I just had a guy on my show not
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long ago, who took the book to a
symposium by academics of
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science or religion in the
United States.
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And he introduced the air at
your book to the scholarly types
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because so little Known about
the book even though it's been
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around for gosh you know little
over almost a hundred years.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so I hope that I was
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able to answer some questions
and I hope that you will share
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this with others.
And if you have any questions,
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my contact information, your
Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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and we'll see how this goes and
if people enjoy it and they like
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it, perhaps we can Venture on
down the road with these video
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gas in the meantime.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so I hope that I was
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able to answer some questions
and I hope that you will share
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this with others.
And if you have any questions,
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my contact information, your
Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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and we'll see how this goes and
if people enjoy it and they like
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it, perhaps we can Venture on
down the road with these video
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gas in the meantime.
Thanks for stopping by.
