The Cosmic Citizen

The guest for this episode of the Cosmic Citizen is David Kulieke, president of First Society in the Chicago area. David will be asked some provocative questions such as; what is our purpose? What is God's purpose for us? And ultimately, what is the purpose of The Urantia Book? David has given other presentations on the purpose of the Urantia Book, and he will provide an informal version of his previous talks. Essentially, our questions will be the springboard for further discussion of his ideas.     This program will be host Andre's final broadcast on the Cosmic Citizen. Andre writes: While I've greatly enjoyed my time as co-host of the Cosmic Citizen radio show, some opportunities have come my way which compel me to step down from my co-hosting role. The Cosmic Citizen is still in the capable hands of Paula Thompson and I'm sure she will take it in interesting and innovative directions.

Please join Pierre Chicoine (Link to Bio)and host, Ann Garner, for an intriguing broadcast, with Pierre answering, from his unique perspective as a scientist and futurist . . . (1) Do new energies exist that will free the world? (2) Is it possible that all infections will end in the next couple of decades? (3) What is the paradigm shift taking place in the human mind? (4) Is this the age of the ending of human trauma?    Pierre is a Urantia Book reader for over 35 years and hosted a study group for 20 years in Anaheim, CA. He is a musician, a futurist and a lover of science, technology and history. He's a husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather    Recognized as one of the pioneers of automated computer designs, Pierre utilized one of his 3d based automation programs to create an interactive, animated 3d trip to all the architectural spheres from Earth to Paradise from his synthesis the teachings from The Urantia Book (www.virtualurantia.com).

This episode of the Cosmic Citizen provides updates to the two upcoming Uantia conferences.     Diane Labrecque will be with us for the first hour to give an update on the wonderful Urantia Family Festival.     For the second hour we will be plugging yet another glorious event; the Urantia Book Fellowship's Intensive Summer Study Seminar. The theme is Cosmic Morality, Living the Gospel. To discuss this year's program is Nick Stefero, a member of the Fellowship's Education Committee who also oversees the Committee's website. Nick will give us the inside scoop on this year's seminar.

Please join Giani Ji Harbhajan Singh Sandhu (Sikh Priest--50 yrs -- link to bio) and host, Ann Garner (link to bio), during our broadcast. Ann has frequently stated, “It has been an extraordinary and enlightening journey to have been involved closely with the Sikh community since the mid 90’s.” Giani Ji and Ann will interact about the origin and history of the 500 yr old religion of Sikhism as well as distilling the teachings of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Holy Scriptures). They will also discuss his recently completed book, "Spiritual Springtime" (which she had the honor of helping him complete).     The following from The Urantia Book has guided Ann in her Interfaith endeavors for many years, "The many religions of Urantia [Earth] are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionist to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than certainty of faith. There is not a religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth." The Urantia Book (Paper 92: Sect 7. Para 3)

On this edition of the Cosmic Citizen, we will hear a moving testimony from Dr. Lawrence Schkade. Dr. Schkade grew up in a strict conservative Christian home and calls himself a recovering fundamentalist. His testimony of how the Urantia Book changed his life can be found on truthbook.com with the title, The Dark Night of my Soul is Ending found here.     Dr. Schkade is a retired academic, and is the person responsible for introducing Ann Garner to the UB. Ann of course is a regular supporter of our program and the host of our offshoot broadcast on Wednesday mornings.     Please join us for what promises to be a most interesting discussion.

Larry Mullins(link to bio), is the President and CEO of UltraSales, Inc., providing management consulting and syndicated marketing programs to retailers nationwide. Larry has written a number of books including, Immature People with Power, How to Handle Them. Joe Girard, recognized as the "world’s greatest salespeson" in the Guinness Book of World Records, said of this book: "If I had read your book before I started I would have reached the top much sooner."    Please join us as we interact about Larry’s latest book, The MetaValues Breakthrough, the first complete presentation of his revolutionary concepts about the self-actualization process. http://www.metavalues.net    The Wednesday study session is co-hosted by Ann Garner (link to bio), and Larry Watkins, both of whom are long time students of The Urantia Book. Topics vary each week as the hosts, along with other readers and special guests, seek to weave concepts into a tapestry of dynamic and applicable principles for daily living.

M. Scott Peck's Work Continues through The Foundation For Community Encouragement (FCE); Director of Programs, Robert Reusing is our guest this week.     Mr. Reusing had the distinct privilege of knowing and working with the late Dr. Peck (best selling author) for more than 25 years. He was trained by Scott Peck in 1985 to facilitate the process called "community building" after having gone through a workshop himself as the Director of an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. Since that time he has worked for FCE with both groups of strangers and organizations world wide to teach and feel true community. With clients ranging from car dealerships, and religious organizations to actual countries FCE has been involved in conflict resolution in Bosnia, Pakistan and the former USSR.     Mr. Reusing will be talking about FCE workshops and facilitator training as well as the "Building Authentic Community" program they have coming up in April, in Buffalo NY.     More information (and registration information for their workshops) can be found on their website at www.fce-community.org.

Guest: Phil Calabrese Science and Religion, Reason and Faith, a mathematician considers the issues. All science is expressed in the language of mathematics. Although the postulates of all science are mental (ideas), mathematics is the only science whose experiments (examples) are also totally mental, not based on sensory measurements as are the experiments of other sciences. As such, mathematicians are in a good position to grasp just where reason & science end and faith & religion go on without them. Too often, materialistic scientists and philosophers have gone over the line by either claiming a philosophical or religious position is scientific, or by claiming that a scientific position is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. For example, physicist Carl Sagan would routinely attribute the "emergence of life" to "purely random events", but that is a philosophical assumption not an implication of the theory of evolutionary, which does not deal with the origin of living things, just their evolution. Today we hear about how life is expected to spontaneously "emerge" with a spark from a mixture of hydrocarbons. We hear that people are completely subject to antecedent causation, that we are just intelligent machines, that "free will" is like a train whistle making a lot of noise but amounting to nothing. This kind of materialistic philosophy masquerading as science gives science a bad name. On the other hand we hear of all too many religious teachers claiming that their religious beliefs need not conform to scientific discoveries where the two domains overlap. For example, recently several prominent candidates for president of the United States proudly denied biologic evolution apparently because The Bible says the world is only several thousand years old not about 4.5 billion years old as discovered by scientific methods. This gives religion a bad name, as though it is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific.

Michael Henderson, English journalist, broadcaster and author, lives in Westward Ho! North Devon. He returned to Britain at the end of 2000 after 22 years in the United States mostly in Portland , Oregon. He also has Irish citizenship. In the United States he contributed articles to newspapers and journals all over the country, did more than 1,000 radio talks and was presenter for commercial, public and cable TV programs. In Oregon he was president of the World Affairs Council, of the English-Speaking Union, and of Willamette Writers, and on the board of the United Nations Association. He was co-founder of Oregon Uniting, a work for racial understanding and a prime instigator of Oregon’s 1999 Day of Acknowledgment of earlier racial exclusion. He has spoken throughout the United States to many organizations, church groups, university departments and service clubs. He has addressed groups around the world as varied as the Rotary clubs of London, New Delhi and Rabaul, New Guinea; the English-Speaking Union branches of Moscow and St Petersburg, New York and Washington, DC, and London; the World Affairs Councils of San Antonio, Texas and Brattleboro, Vermont; the annual meeting of the Governors General of the Caribbean as well as in Parliament House, Canberra, and in the House of Commons. Since returning to Britain he has spoken to dozens of audiences in England, Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . In December, 2009 he spoke on forgiveness at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia and in January 2010 was featured at the Munich International Peace Conference. Please see more complete bio and picture on our guest bios page

Guest: Rev Thomas, a Retired Minister in a Main-Line Christian Denomination.(link to bio), Please join us as we interact with Rev Thomas regarding...     ~ Beginnings of Ministry (16 Yrs Old)     ~ Background in Fundamentalist Christianity     ~ Mission Fields in Early Days as Fundamentalist Christian Minister     ~ Pastoral Years     ~ Discovery of The Urantia Book ~ Impact of The Urantia Book on Philosophy of Living     ~ Emphasis of Minister Following ‘Retirement’