The Cosmic Citizen

Why do we hate each other? What are the blocks to love and forgiveness? How can we learn to be more loving and tolerant of others? This week, our guest Richard Knox will explore with us the universal reality that forgiveness is stronger and love more powerful than hatred. Richard holds a Master's Degree in clinical & counseling psychology, is a twenty-three year student of comparative religions, as well as having extensive personal experience with A Course in Miracles, Pathwork Guide Lectures (group process), and The Urantia Book. Richard is a troubadour of the spirit and a pilgrim of peace and music, who is a beloved performer and presenter for the Baha'i, Unity, Religious Science and Interfaith communities, as well as many other traditional and new form spiritual communities. He specializes in workshops and seminars in the human potential arena. We hope you will join us for this exploration into the power of love and forgiveness with a special ambassador of both, Richard Knox. To listen to Richard's music and learn more about his work, please visit his website: www.richardknox.net

This week, we will be discussing how we can use meditation and other techniques to change ourselves and our lives in significant and positive ways. Our guest is Damon Kruger, you can read his bio here: http://urantiabook.org/blogs/CosmicCitizen/GuestBios.htm#Kruger. This show will cover how our thoughts affect us, our bodies, our attitudes, those around us and the situations we find ourselves in. We can take responsibility by realizing that we always have a choice and that our choice has a direct effect on our whole being and on our entire situation. This is especially true when there is triune harmony with the powers of body, mind and spirit working together. Damon will address things that can be done to make a change in the three areas of body, mind and spirit and share examples of his own personal experiences using a form of meditation and sound waves that positively affect the brain and enhance the balancing effects that meditation has on the mind, body and spirit. Damon will also be giving plenty of references to authors who directly and indirectly address this topic for listeners to look into and research for themselves. We'll also discuss diet and food intake and how what we eat effects our minds, bodies and spirits. We hope you will join us for this engaging and interesting topic with second generation Urantia student, Damon Kruger.

On this week's show we are discussing the launch of a new International Angel Appreciation Convention scheduled for 11/11/11. This is an event designed for the 11:11 fans as well as Angel fans from across a wide range of Interfaith, religious and numerous other cultural traditions. It is an event designed to create true Interfaith unity, the purpose of which is to acknowledge, celebrate, show gratitude and appreciation for the extraordinary help, spiritual ministry and inspiration of our unseen friends. This grassroots, Interfaith event, will open the door for collaboration among people of almost all faiths who share some form of belief in ANGELS, celestial beings and spiritual friends who offer guidance, love and protection to humanity. Whether we call them Angels, Unseen Friends, Arch Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Spirit Guides, Spiritual Guardians, Midwayers, Avatars, Ascended Masters, Bodhisattvas, or Ancestors; belief in them crosses all cultural boundaries. We know they are guarding over us. The topic of this event will be a non-threatening, open-door event with a wide range of religious perspectives. It's meant to invite us all to come together and share common goals, inspirations, dreams and visions of a better world. By working together in teams to make this happen we will get to experience the reality of spiritual unity. Join us on the Cosmic Citizen for a foretaste of this exciting event and to find out how you can get involved. The event intends to have live streaming video satellite feeds from different cities around the globe to hook up with the hub event in Orlando and groups participating in other regions. We hope you will call the show to share your thoughts, comments and ideas and to let us know if you wish to join the planning or programming team.

In honor of Christmas, we are devoting December to shows that are all about Jesus. This week's show will be of special interest to those who study the Life and Teachings of Jesus. Our guests, David Kantor and Eric Cosh, will share with us their exciting plans to travel to Israel to make a film documentary of the land and travels of Jesus, aka Joshua ben Joseph. During the show we will cover the important goals they hope to achieve, among them: 1. A high definition video companion for Part 4 of The Urantia Book. 2. A resource for use by readers in introducing people to The Urantia Book. 3. An archive of still images and video clips that readers can use in the creation of their own study aids. 4. A new generation of study maps for Part 4 5. A bibliography of selected works which illuminate The Life and Teachings of Jesus as recounted in The Urantia Book. The Joshua ben Joseph project aims to begin an exploration of the world and life of the "true man among men," to illuminate and further contextualize the captivating story which unfolds in Part 4 of The Urantia Book, using the medium of high definition video, still photography, and interviews with knowledgeable archaeologists, historians, and museum curators. The project directly addresses the challenge to be about "the figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from his burial tomb amidst the theological traditions and the religious dogmas of nineteen centuries." We hope you will join us to learn about this important and exciting effort and to find out how you can help. For more information visit: http://www.joshua-ben-joseph.org/

Denver Pearson, who wrote The Sandal Maker under the name of A. Michaelson, has been a reader and dedicated student of The Urantia Book since 1970. The Sandal Maker (http://www.thesandalmaker.com/) is an attempt to gain a better understanding of the teachings of Jesus and to also know how it might have been to actually be on the scene, among the crowds, as Jesus taught his followers, preached the good news and suffered in his last hours on Earth. The story takes place in 70AD, forty years after Jesus' crucifixion, as an elderly Jew and his daughter set out from Cana along the river Jordan trail on their way to Jerusalem which is under siege by the Romans. The old man wants to deliver notes he scribed as a young man who followed the Master and his Apostles. As the old man and his daughter struggle to stay alive on this dangerous journey, he tells her the story in his notes, the mission and teachings of Joshua ben Joseph. Denver Pearson was born in California but raised in New Mexico and calls Santa Fe his hometown. He received his degree in fine arts with minor studies in English, philosophy and secondary education from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. For many years he lived in Colorado where he was very involved with the Urantia community along the front range. As well as being an artist and author, he is also an accomplished musician and songwriter. In 1990 he recorded an album of original songs called “On the Wings of Faith” inspired by The Urantia Book. Many of these songs are now available in video form on YouTube under the heading Urantia Music. We hope you'll join us!

This week's guest is our own Diane Labrecque from Montreal. Diane was scheduled to do this show a few weeks ago, but was delayed en route to a Homeopathy conference in Italy where she was studying an amazing new line of bio-therapeutics called GUNA, http://www.gunainc.com. We all know Diane is deeply spiritual, kind, loving and devoted to Jesus, but what many don't know is that Diane is a dedicated, skilled and highly trained Naturopath, who is certified in Bach Flower Essences, Homeopathic and Holistic Medicine. Diane is an amazing teacher and offers a wealth of information for the whole human being; body, mind and spirit. She has devoted most of her life to learning and teaching natural ways for people to heal themselves. She is always on the cutting edge of natural health and healing. For ten years, Diane's company O'Sauna, in Montreal, http://www.osauna.com, has manufactured the creme de la creme of Infrared Saunas. Diane doesn't just talk the talk, she is a living example of vibrant health, beauty and vitality. We hope you will take advantage of this amazing resource with us by listening and calling in.

This week's show is about those spirit helpers that are near and dear to us. Anthony Finstad has read the Urantia Book for nearly 4 decades. This week's show is based on a successful workshop that he created and he will be presenting it for our listeners. The vast majority of people of faith believe in angels. Urantia Book readers often refer to them as our "unseen friends." The Urantia Book not only provides us with a wealth of information about angels, it also introduces us to a new type of unseen friend that lives midway between the angels and humans, hence their name the Midway Creatures or Midwayers. The authors of the Urantia Book refer to them as our cousins. Our planet has been, and continues to be, greatly influenced by these creatures. They are also known as the 11:11 as their number on this world is 1,111. In this show we will answer questions like: Who are these angel-like creatures? Where do they come from? Are they all our friends? Just what is it that they do and how do they do it? Join us as we explore these intriguing personalities that exist just outside the range of mortal vision.

This week's Cosmic Citizen show will be of special interest to students of the Urantia Book because it is on the topic of starting a religion based on the Urantia Book. Do we need a new Urantia Religion? Urantia book readers who do not belong to other religious organizations have no where to go for ministry and help when it's needed. Some say a religion based on the Urantia Book is inevitable. Some pray that will never happen. Where do you stand? To discuss this topic we have invited Behz Sarmast (link to bio) and Dick Bain (link to bio) to share their thoughts and experiences with us. Both have spent considerable time working on a socialized religion with their primary inspiration being the Urantia Book. Behz is a return guest who has recently led a group through the formation of Urantia Book International Ministries or UBIM, www.UBIM.org. UBIM has painstakingly created a superb rendition of Urantian tenets and philosophy. Dick Bain is new to our show but has been intricately involved in the formation of The Spiritual Fellowship, a Urantian religion he helped to create with Dr. Meredith Sprunger. Can the Urantia revelation uplift the existing religions? Should Urantia Book believers make some part of our movement accessible to personal ministry for each other? Shall we worship together as a group? Will we always relegate our life milestones (marriages, births and deaths) to be officiated by some other religion? We know there are strong feelings on this subject and we'd love to hear them. We invite you to call in and share your opinions, comments and thoughts. Don't be shy!

This week's show will be of great interest to serious students of The Urantia Book. We’ll be doing the show live from Data Connect Corporation in Denver, Colorado, where the board of UrantiaUniversity is meeting. We will talking to the architects of Fellowship in the Field. Emilio Coppola, the Treasurer of the Urantia Book Fellowship, will give us an overview of this fantastic new initiative. The Urantia Book Fellowship is all about disseminating the Urantia Book and Fellowship in the Field is looking for fresh new dissemination ideas. If you have a great idea on how to disseminate The Urantia Book and its teachings, but don't have the money, go to www. Fellowshipinthefield.com and submit your application. The Fellowship is offering a generous grant to help develop the right dissemination idea. Tune in to find out more about this great initiative. We also hope to get one or two of the board members from UrantiaUniversity to give us an update on that important and unprecedented project. Great things are happening in the Urantia community. We hope you'll tune in to find out how you can get involved.

This week we will explore the topic of learning how to love. It's easy to talk about loving others but not so easy to actually do it. Why is it sometimes so difficult to love people, who, for all intents and purposes, we could love and should love? What are the blocks to love? Our guest on the radio show for this Saturday, Octobert 30th, is Andrea Barnes (link to bio), a dynamic and longtime student of The Urantia Book who recently started a study group in California for new readers of The Urantia Book. (BIO) This week’s topic of “Learning HOW to Love Others” is one that she has felt called to delve into more deeply. What are the steps we can take and the tools we need to actually be more loving with others in our lives, not only our ‘enemies’ but even, and especially, our loved ones, family, friends, and work associates? What can we do to make loving more of a natural part of our response system? Humanity has had many prophets and spiritual leaders who have told us that LOVE is the answer. Jesus took things a giant leap forward when he asked us to love our enemies but it can often be challenging to love our friends and in this world of divisions, it becomes even more obvious. Please join us as we explore this topic of learning to love. As always we hope you will call or join the chat to share your experiences and insights on learning to love with us.