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The Evidence
There can never be material evidence for the spiritual. By its very nature spirituality cannot be quantified. Spirituality can only be verified by the subjective inner experience; your own personal response to spiritual phenomena.
Some things are self-evident through observation, such as the fractal patterns of the universe. However, in looking at the planet from the outside, it is necessary to have some evidence, even if it is just a narrative account without material proof. So what evidence do I have for some of the claims I make regarding beings and civilizations not of this planet?
There is only one material source that I sincerely believe as coming from an extra-terrestrial origin, and that is The Urantia Book. This complicated tome has been in print for over half a century and has been much misunderstood and even maligned. There are many people who refuse to read the book in its entirety because of the academic bias on things that are outside mainstream conceptual frameworks. Plus, reading and understanding the book requires decades of time and study, and not just an open mind, but a mind that is conversant and comfortable with both spiritual and scientific themes equally.
These are the reasons I hold the information in The Urantia Book to be true and valid:
1. Logic. It makes a lot of sense and enhances and expands the concepts in most major religions and philosophies. It sheds scientific light on mysticism and spiritual insight into science.
2. It works. Although it is not a how-to book, there are ideas and concepts in the book that can be verified through personal experience. When the concepts are fully understood, there is a rightness about them.
3. The details and the scope of thought dealing with vast expanses of time and space are not equaled anywhere.. There are things discussed here that humans have not even thought about, as reflected in the literature and media of world history. If a person says that he comes from a mythical place, the thing that would distinguish that person's account from a fictitious one would be details. The details in The Urantia Book regarding things which no human should know are so fine and intricate that it gives immense credence to the information. There are answers here that people have not even formulated questions about, concepts that humans could have no background for even conceptualizing.
4. The thing that is the most impressive and adds the most to its credibility are the high values that are introduced. There is nothing in the finest philosophical, spiritual and religious books that I know of that come close to the standard of values portrayed in the book. This, above all, is the most meaningful, as these value concepts resonate in the inner core of our being.
In writing The Whole Universe Book, I used the concepts and the basic premises of The Urantia Book as a foundation and layered pertinent information from human sources as well as adding my personal insights gleaned from the Source to create a wider framework for understanding our place in the universe.
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