The Cosmic Citizen

This week we will be interviewing a return guest, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, Donald M. Ware, on his considerable experience with the UFO community. Donald Ware has studied UFOs since he saw seven alien vehicles over Washington, DC on July 26,1952. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University in 1957 and an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1972. After serving his country as a fighter pilot, staff scientist, test manager, and teacher, he retired from the Air Force at the end of 1982. Donald is considered an authority on the UFO phenomenon and has lectured all over the world. He served as State Director and Eastern Regional Director for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and since 1993 has been a Director of the International UFO Congress, www.ufocongress.com. He is now on an Advisory Board of the Exopolitics Institute trying to move formal interaction with those from other planets to an unclassified level below that of MJ-12. His search for truth has led to physical, mental, and spiritual interactions with the larger reality represented by the alien presence. Fifteen papers documenting his findings while seeking truth are at: www.freewebs.com/donware Don is also a student of The Urantia Book and has introduced the book to hundreds of people. He says, “I purchased the Urantia Book at a UFO conference in about 1990. I used it as an occasional reference in my studies of the larger reality of our alien visitors. It remained on the bottom of my reading stack, because I had reason to read many smaller books first. During my meditation on New Years resolutions for 1999 I knew I had to move that book from the bottom to the top and not read any other book until I finished it cover to cover. My only regret is that I did not read it sooner.” Donald is sure to challenge what you think you know about ETs. Please join us for this unique look at the UFO phenomenon.

Did you know that a Harvard study once found that all health professions except nursing do more harm than good? So says this week's guest, Dr. Richard Biek, MD MPH. Dr. Biek has some very interesting and unconventional ideas about Western medicine. He has been a student of the Urantia Book for 50 years. After studying medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago, Richard went to work as a medical missionary in Ghana, West Africa, immediately following a brief residency at University Hospital in Wisconsin. In addition, Dr. Biek holds a Masters in Epidemiology and has served as Deputy Commissioner of Health in Wisconsin, Chief Medical Officer in Chicago, Lieutenant Colonel and Senior Medical Officer for the 33rd Infantry Brigade and Chief Medical Officer for City of St. Louis. In Africa, he was often the only working doctor for 220,000 people. It was there that some of the myths about Western medicine came unraveled for him. While his dream has always been to improve community health it has become obvious to him that political correctness is more important than overcoming disease and death and Medicine has been eclipsed by dollars, government jobs and votes. Dr. Biek now works as free-lance self care consultant, making home visits that help individuals find their unique, infinite and eternal potential to become happy, healthy and soul-satisfied while saving thousands a year on health care. He teaches nutrition as the best way to effect long term wellness and robust health and touts a simple, commonsense, permanent escape from recurrent bad emotional reactions. Join us for this interesting and unorthodox look at health and well being.

This week's guest is our own Diane Labrecque from Montreal. Diane will be calling us via a Homeopathy conference in Italy where she has been invited to study 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. 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. Diane will also announce a special event she is planning in honor of Easter 2011. To learn more about Diane, please visit these sites: * Featured Alumni at the Institute of Holistic Medicine. Diane's company profile at O'Sauna: http://www.osauna.com/a_propos_en.html.

We are pleased to have Patricia & Thomas Strawser as our guests for this week's program on The Cosmic Citizen. Thomas J. Strawser is an international engineer with a master’s degree in psychology. Divorce, alcoholism, and numerous losses in his life led him to seek practical solutions to his despair. Combining his spirituality and knowledge of psychology with his engineering know-how, Thomas discovered profound happiness and peace of mind through the process he calls Spiritual Engineering. His journey of transformation led him to his equally matched and gifted life partner, Patrica. Together they share the transforming power of their program Spiritual Engineering with thousands in seminars around the world. The Strawsers have agreed to come on our show this week and talk about their partnership. They are a remarkable couple in their service of joint ministry. They teach that the relationship with self (integrity, self-respect , personality unification etc) is the fundamental building block for healthy relationships with other people. We could easily cover a whole series of shows on relationships and hopefully in the very near future we will. For tomorrow's show, we will have Patricia and Thomas for the first half of the show because they are busy with book signings for their important new book, Spiritual Engineering - The New Science for Happiness and Extraordinary Relationships. We will leave the lines open for callers during the second hour. Please stay tuned for more updates on Thomas and Patricia, their book, this topic, and their crucial insight into staying together for a relationship that is satisfying and harmonious, rather than out of obligation, responsibility or a sense of duty.

Doug Paggit will be our guest speaker this week to discuss his new book, Church in the Inventive Age. He is a widely respected leader in the Emergent Christian movement as the founder of Solomon's Porch, a "Holistic Missional Christian Community" in Minneapolis, MN, he has received a wide array of media coverage. As one of the founders of The Emergent Village, a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Rev. Paggit has also be a co-founder of JoPa Productions, where he and Tony Jones have produced several emergent conferences, Christianity21, Big Tent Christianity, as well as other workshops and seminars, including their popular program: Social Media Bootcamp for Pastors and Ministry Leaders, a one-day workshop that will cover Ministry uses of blogging, Facebook, Twitter which we also hope he will discuss with us on this program. Doug sometimes refers to himself as a "Social and Theological Entrepreneur" since he runs a several businesses, a non-profit organization as well as his prolific writing, speaking and radio hosting career, we think it is not an inappropriate title.

Malcolm Locke (link to bio) has been a student of The Urantia Book since 1973, when he stumbled on it in an occult bookstore. At first he could make little sense of it, but gradually began to understand its meaning and to realize that it must be what it claimed, the creation of celestial personalities and a direct revelation to humankind about God, the order of the universe, the history of the planet, and the teaching and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.     Recommending the book to friends, he realized that its bulk, put the teachings it contains out of the reach of some. He decided to write a compendium of The Urantia Book, called The Urantia Revelation: the Structure and Meaning of the Universe Explained, now out from Bascom Hill Books in Minneapolis, MN, and available at http://urantiarevelation.com. Without betraying the refinements of thought in The Urantia Book, this 340 page book restates in simple, clear language the story that The Urantia Book tells. Its many charts and maps further help understanding. Here at last is an vade mecum for The Urantia Book that will guide every reader through its complexity.     Link to Barnes and Noble     Link to Amazon.com

The Urantia Book states that angels are the gift of the Divine Mother to all the universe of universes. This week we will be continuing our exploration of Angels and how they help and minister to human beings. Several guests have agreed to call in and offer their amazing angel experiences. If you have had an experience with angels, we invite you to call and share that with us. In honor of the Divine Feminine and because World Literacy Day is on September 8th, the first 30 minutes of our show we will feature a special guest Sue Tennant. Sue is a longtime student of the Urantia Book and has been instrumental in the creation of the FreeSchools World Literacy Project: http://www.freeschools.org/ Here is another link to their introductory video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hTbdHmlTs Please join us for this important show.

Charles Laurence Olivea (link to bio) was raised in New York City and received his second Masters from St. John's College, at Santa Fe, where he now lives with his wife of 43 years. Charles is a professional educator who has been inspiring students for 41 years. Charles started reading and studying The Urantia Book in 1968, and attended his first study group in 1970. He believes anybody could benefit from dipping into it and highly recommends reading it from cover to cover. Abraham Lincoln is his moral and intellectual role model. He has studied extensively Lincoln's speeches and writings to better understand what it is to be an American and how to use power while avoiding the corruption of power. He says that he loves the quality of Lincoln's mind: especially his use of reason, as well as his moral character. Martin Luther King is Charles' spiritual role model mainly because of his capacity to act and forgive his enemies. Charles says, "This Fruit of the Spirit of MLK's -- forgiveness -- lead me to forgive my own enemies. Because of him, Jesus came more alive for me when I was a young man." Charles is ever the teacher and ever the student. The subjects of great interest to Charles are history, religion, spirituality, national and international politics, and art history, with a special interest in eugenics, race, biology, and ethics. He has pursued a special interest in angels since childhood and has collected hundreds of images of Angels in human art. He has, of course, been engaged for a number of years in studying them. He recalls praying to his Guardian Angels from an early age. There are few that we know of who could speak more poignantly to the nature of Angels and Angelic ministry than could Charles. We hope you will feel free to call in during the second hour of the show and ask Charles any questions you may have about angels.

Due to personal circumstances, guest Robert Venosa is unable to join our Wednesday broadcast. We know that there were many reader gatherings for Jesus' birthday last weekend. We invite you to call in and share the joys of your local celebration! Hosts, Ann Whitehead Garner (Link to bio), Dr. Chris Halvorson (link to bio), and James Woodward (link to bio) will recap their own experiences and interact with callers regarding the topic of recognizing spiritual occasions.

We are celebrating the birth of our beloved Master, Jesus of Nazareth, The Savior Jesus Christ, The Teacher Joshua ben Joseph, and discussing the impact of his birth here on our world, (Urantia, Urth) Earth more than 2000 years ago. This is one of the holidays that all Urantia Book student celebrate through out the world, regardless of what religious tradition we come from, we all gather together to celebrate August 21st. -0007 (BC) 08/21/-0007. Join Paula, Christilyn and guest speakers Dave Tucker, and Preston Thomas (link to bio) All those other believers who are celebrating the day with their local groups are invited to call in to the show. Please try to keep your greeting brief, since we have many parties happening who might call in, as well as many believers in Jesus who have been invited to join us for the program this weekend.