The Cosmic Citizen

This week we continue our study of Adam and Eve and their life in the Garden, Paper 74 of The Urantia Book. Last week Andre and Derek began the study of Adam and Eve, and they completed the first 4 sections: Adam and Eve on Jerusem, Arrival of Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve Learn about the Planet and The First Upheaval. Perhaps we will again be joined by explorer Robert Sarmast. The story of Adam and...

This week we will finally begin our study of Adam and Eve and their life in the Garden, Paper 74 of The Urantia Book. If you've been with us for this study you know we backed up and covered thoroughly the story of the Garden of Eden, Paper 73. That took three weeks and we were delighted to be joined by explorer Robert Sarmast for that series. He promised to return for our study on Adam and Eve. Th...

Last week we continued our study of Paper 73, The Garden of Eden. We had an amazing conversation with our guest, explorer Robert Sarmast. We read only one section of Paper 73 because the conversation of Robert's adventure to find Eden (AKA Atlantis) was simply to fascinating to stop. We read and discussed section 5, The Garden Home, which describes many features of the environs that were prepared...

Last week we hoped to start a study of Adam and Eve and their saga from Paper 74 of The Urantia Book, but we spontaneously decided to back up and study Paper 73, The Garden of Eden. So that is where we began this week. We read half of Paper 73 and will easily finish this week before beginning Paper 74 on Adam and Eve. We read and discussed the first four sections of this wonderful paper, including...

This week we will begin a study of Adam and Eve and their saga in the Garden of Eden, Paper 74 of The Urantia Book. Legends of gods and goddesses who came down to earth exist all over the globe. In the Book of Genesis there are two creation narratives. In the first, Adam and Eve are created by God and instructed to multiply, God fashions Adam from dust and subsequently Eve is created from one of A...

This week we finish our study of Paper 81 from The Urantia Book, The Development of Modern Civilization, featuring Stephen Zendt. Last week we finished reading Section 6. The Maintenance of Civilization. There are 15 separate thought provoking points in one section. Stephen Zendt can now take us closer to understanding what it means to be a torchbearer. Stephen Zendt is a remarkable scholar of the...

This week we continue our study of Paper 81 from The Urantia Book, The Development of Modern Civilization, and we'll be joined by Stephen Zendt. Last week we covered the last two sections, including: 5. Cultural Society and 6. The Maintenance of Civilization. However, we didn't finish section 6, it's just is so broad and deep, one could spend months on just Section 6 and its 15 separate points. St...

This week we continue our study of Paper 81 from The Urantia Book, The Development of Modern Civilization, in preparation for our workshop on the same paper with Stephen Zendt. Two weeks ago we covered the first three sections, including: The Cradle of Civilization, The Tools of Civilization and Cities, Manufacture, and Commerce. We read and discussed how early important events contributed greatly...

On this show today, a REPRISE EPISODE, where returning guest Angie Thurston will share her experience at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), where she recently completed a Master of Divinity degree. Angie will describe how she and her colleague, Casper ter Kuile, became Ministry Innovation Fellows at HDS, where they are now working to build support systems for the rapidly changing landscape of American...

This week we begin the study of Paper 81 from The Urantia Book, The Development of Modern Civilization. This is in preparation for our workshop with Stephen Zendt. Paper 81 proposes that the human race is made up of five basic racial stocks-Andonic, primary Sangik, secondary Sangik, Nodite, and Adamic-each of which could at one time be identified by distinct skeletal types. Biologic evolution may...

Last week we continued our study of Urantia Paper 71, The Development of the State. We have had such a great time studying the thought provoking sociology papers. We've read about the embryonic state and the evolution of representative government. We covered two sections, Section 5 on The Evolution of Competition and Section 6 on The Profit Motive. These sections reiterate that evolved states live...

Last week we continued our study of Urantia Paper 71, The Development of the State, yet another of a series of thought provoking sociology papers. We started with the embryonic state and the evolution of representative government. Last week we read two sections on the ideals of statehood and the features of progressive civilization. These sections reveal that evolved states live according to high...

Last week we began our study of Urantia Paper 71, The Development of the State. It is another of a series of thought provoking sociology papers. We read about the embryonic state and the evolution of representative government. We discussed how the state evolves and what makes it strong and functional. We read that the enduring state must have a common language, mores, and institutions. Strong stat...

This week we start our study of Paper 71, The Development of the State. This paper is as thought provoking and the other sociology papers we've studied lately. It provide amazing insights into how the state evolves and what makes the state strong and highly functional. It says, for instance, that the enduring state must have a common language, mores, and institutions. Strong states are held togeth...

“Let all mankind benefit from the overflow of your loving spiritual ministry, enlightening intellectual communion, and uplifting social service; but none of these humanitarian labors, nor all of them, should be permitted to take the place of proclaiming the gospel.” (Jesus, The Urantia Book, 178:1.11) This week on the Cosmic Citizen we'll explore the Gospel of Jesus with our guests Tom Choquette a...

Merry Christmas from The Cosmic Citizen! Join us, as we celebrate Jesus with the world while exploring historic research and new discoveries on his birth. Although the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25th, many historians, theologians and biblical scholars agree that Jesus most likely wasn't' born on that date in the year AD 1. So when was Jesus born and why was th...

Last week, we continued our study of Paper 70, The Evolution of Human Government. As we have stated before, Paper 70 is a remarkable disclosure of the evolution of human government from universal teachers who have observed worlds and governments evolving since the beginning of time Paper 70 provides us with a keen understanding of how basic human systems of social coordination evolve from basic so...

Last week, we continued our study of Paper 70, The Evolution of Human Government. Paper 70 is a remarkable disclosure that offers humankind a holistic view of the evolution of human government. It's hard for us to see the entire picture, as systems like government evolve over thousands of years. Paper 70 provides us a rare glimpse at the nature of evolution. How something like government evolves f...

Last week, we continued our study of Paper 70, The Evolution of Human Government. This paper is one of those remarkable disclosures that gives humankind a top down view of something that, because we are circumscribed to a minuscule moment in time on this world, is rarely observed by us.  Paper 70 provides an overview of how systems of human government evolve on a material world inhabited by human...

Last week, we began our study of Paper 70, The Evolution of Human Government. This paper is one of those remarkable disclosures that gives humankind a top down view of something that, because we are circumscribed to a miniscule moment in time on this world, is rarely observed by us. That being, the way that systems of human government actually evolve. The fact that there are higher intelligences i...

This Saturday, André and Derek will kick off a study of Urantia Paper 70, The Evolution of Human Government.   To say that this paper is absolutely fascinating would be an under statement! It's extraordinary to learn exactly how systems of government evolve and that most human government on most inhabited worlds evolves in similar and well-defined ways. The preamble to this paper says this:  "On a...

This Saturday, we will conclude our exploration of life on a "not far-distant planet" in our local system of inhabited worlds. Last week, in Part 5 of our study, we continued to marvel at this amazing and unprecedented presentation in the Urantia Revelation. We have enjoyed scrutinizing the similarities and differences between our world and theirs. So far we've covered many of the fascinating feat...

This Saturday, we continue to explore life on a "not far-distant planet" in our local system of inhabited worlds. Last week, in Part 4 of our study, we marveled at this amazing and unprecedented presentation in the Urantia Revelation. Scrutinizing the similarities and differences between our world and theirs. So far we've covered the following fascinating features concerning life on this other wor...

This Saturday, we continue our exploration of a continental nation on a "not far-distant planet" in our local system of inhabited worlds. Last week, in Part 3 of our study, we again marveled at this extraordinary and unusual presentation in the Urantia Revelation, being eager to explore the nuances, similarities and differences between this sister sphere. We recapped their educational system and t...

This Saturday, we continue our exploration of a continental nation on a "not far-distant planet" in our local system of inhabited worlds. Beginning Part 2 of our study, we marveled at this extraordinary and unusual presentation in the Urantia Revelation. We have been eager to explore the many similarities and difference between that world and ours. We read about the home life of the families on th...