The Cosmic Citizen

The Wednesday topical audio virtual study group is hosted by Ann Garner and Larry Watkins, both of whom are long-time students of The Urantia Book. The discussions encompass spirituality, philosophy, history, geology, anthropology, evolution, cosmology and philosophy. Topics vary each week.    Please join us here each week as we learn to water the gardens of our hearts and to seek truth as well as fact . . . to expand our souls as well as our minds    Hosts and guests biographical sketches can be viewed at http://urantiabook.org/blogs/CosmicCitizen/Bios.htm

We will be presenting another pre-recorded conference plenary speech; this time from Phil Taylor (link to bio). His topic is God-consciousness through Michael.     During the second half of the show, after Phil's speech, our good friend Diane Labrecque (link to bio) will be calling in to discuss the Urantia Family Festival. We've discussed this before on the air, but will be doing so in more detail.

This week on Cosmic Citizen Paula and Christilyn will be interviewing Steve McIntosh (link to bio). Steve is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and the author of the acclaimed book: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2007).     Review: "McIntosh's book is an educational journey through the fundamentals of integral philosophy and a fascinating exploration of some of its most important themes. Carefully researched and tightly argued, this work is an important contribution to a field destined to impact world culture and the direction of human evolution."     The emerging integral perspective provides an enlarged understanding of the evolution of consciousness and culture, leading to realistic and pragmatic solutions to our growing global problems, both environmental and political. Integral philosophy affirms the values and goals of progressive spiritual culture, but also seeks to “transcend and include” the postmodern worldview of the “cultural creatives” through an evolutionary perspective that reveals new insights about the evolution of consciousness.     Steve McIntosh is commonly recognized and a major contributor to the Integral Movement. Please join us for this interesting and informative interview.     Please see Steve's bio on our bio page. There's always a link to the page on the Cosmic Citize Profile.

A discussion with Larry Mullins (link to bio) about his new book, The Metavalues Breakthrough.     This is our second interview with Larry, our first was conducted over a year ago, and it dealt with the history of the Urantia movement. This time, Larry will be taking us into different territory where we'll be discussing things like self-actualization, peak experiences, humanistic psychology, and all kinds of other good things.

Charles Olivea (link to bio) has been married for 43 years to wife, Mary. They live to Santa Fe, New Mexico, because of its appeal along spiritual, ethnic, historical and aesthetic lines. Charles has studied The Urantia Book since 1968 and has tried to integrate its teachings into his life. He knew from the beginning that it constituted living truth and eventually appreciated why this planetary revelation came in book form: essentially, to bring greater clarity and instruction (spiritual wisdom) to our minds. He has have dedicated his life--personally and professionally (he is a teacher)--to its dissemination. Phil Taylor (link to bio) has been a reader of The Urantia Book since 1991, when he found it in college. His passion is service; that's what he speaks about at conferences.