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The Urantia book
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The Urantia book, which is filled with aliens, but also like Jesus, is kind of like perfectly suited because again, the new age types here, they're not willing to go that far out of the boxes they'd been raised in.
What they say about it
- Publication history and origins“published in 1955 officially”4
- References in business history“happens across a copy of the Urantia book”3
- Critical analysis of content“plagiarized almost word for word”3
The best things said about it
It's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially.
So according to the revelations given by the subject to the contact commission which are eventually bundled into a collection of writing called the Urantia papers, the center of the universe is a perfect well the center of the multiverse.
People who have analyzed the book since after its publication note that large segments of it are plagiarized almost word for word from his other books, including his books about eugenics.
The book goes on to note, biologic renovation of the racial stocks, the selective elimination of inferior human strains will tend to eradicate many mortal inequalities.
After 12 years of editing from like 1942, which is the last transmission, to 1955, they're just editing the papers together. He manages to raise the last $80,000 needed to print a first edition of the Urantia book.
The same year that Mo starts his business, he happens across a copy of the Urantia book in a shop near his house.
Why people recommend it
The Urantia Book is a massive, pseudonymous foundational text that outlines a complex cosmology, alternative history, and theology dictated by celestial beings. The book was discussed on Behind the Bastards in the episode Part Two: The Racist Cult Behind Herbal Tea and on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know in Companies Run by Cults. Ben Bowlin noted the book's publication history in 1955 and its influence on Mo Siegel, the co-founder of Celestial Seasonings. Robert Evans explored the origins of the text, explaining how it emerged from papers produced through a contact commission associated with Dr. William Sadler, whose life the book later framed as having been manipulated by aliens. Evans detailed the book's elaborate cosmology, which places a perfect universe at the center of the multiverse, but he also offered heavy criticism regarding its troubling social doctrines. Citing specific passages from the text, Evans highlighted its rigid racial hierarchies, which ranked the red race above Black and Indigenous populations, and its promotion of eugenic concepts aimed at the selective elimination of inferior human strains to eradicate inequalities. Furthermore, Evans pointed out that researchers have identified extensive plagiarism within the work, noting that large portions were lifted almost verbatim from Sadler's own prior writings, despite the efforts of figures like Lena Sadler and Harold Sherman to publish and distribute the papers to the masses.
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Robert Evans So, they will later the book that comes out of this will later claim that like Sadler's whole life was mani… 16
“So according to the revelations given by the subject to the contact commission uh which are eventually bundled into a collection of writing called the Arantia papers, the center of the universe um is a perfect well the center of the multiverse”
“So, having failed to achieve race harmonization by the Adamic technique, uh, part two, the local universe section of the book tells us, you must now work out your planetary problem of race improvement by other and largely human methods of adaptation and control.”
“So, they will later the book that comes out of this will later claim that like Sadler's whole life was manipulated by these aliens to prepare him for their revelation.”
“And again, this is because it's all written by Dr. William Sadler. Part of why we know this is that, duh, part of why we know this is that people who have analyzed the book since after its publication note that large segments of it are plagiarized almost word for word from his other books, including his books about eugenics.”
“The red man stands far above above the indigo or black race, says paper 51 of the Orantia book, and each succeeding evolutionary manifestation of a distinct group of mortals represents variation at the expense of the original endowment.”
“Um, so the book goes on to note, "Biologic renovation of the racial stocks, the selective elimination of inferior human strains will tend to eradicate many mortal inequalities."”
“William's wife Lena was adamant that the papers had to be published though. So she's a big advocate of like we have to put these together in a book and distribute them to the masses.”
“And after 12 years of editing from like 1942, which is the last transmission, uh to 1955, they're just editing the papers together. He manages to raise the last $80,000 needed to print a first edition of the Orantia book.”
“Um Dr. Sadler actually survived 14 years after the book's publication. This guy lives for [ __ ] ever.”
“And yeah, the fact that the Arantia book, which is filled with aliens, but also like Jesus, is kind of like perfectly suited because again, the new age types here, they're not willing to go that far out of the boxes they'd been raised in.”
“The same year that Mo starts his business, he happens across a copy of the Orantia book in a shop near his house. He later wrote, quote, "I thought it was just the goofiest thing I'd ever read."”
“Um, each bag includes an inspirational message written on the tag, which initially were direct quotes from the Arantia book.”
“So, I will say to I guess his credit, Mo never tried to hide the importance of the Arantia book to Sleepy Time T or its influence in his life.”
“In a 2010 email sent to readers with advanced information and forward-looking perspectives that are not suited for being posted on the website, a follower named Martin Greenhut writes that the trustees have convened a panel on eugenics.”
“I I think it probably was not noticed by most people that like there's genocide. Yeah. Um and again, I I don't I I should honestly to be entirely honest, if you are a sleepy time tea consumer, I don't believe any of your money is going to help this anymore.”
“It's one of those I read this great article by Megan oh gosh what's her full Megan Giller um who again gets the credit for breaking the part of the story that it's connected to Celestial Seasonings”
Ben Bowlin it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially 1
“it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially”
