A History of the Urantia Papers

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A History of the Urantia = Papers
by Larry=20 Mullins
A collection of reference documents corresponding to endnotes = in the=20 print media edition.
Compiled by David = Kantor.

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Analysis=20 of Printings of The Urantia Book: Publisher's Changes, 1955-1999 =
By=20 Merritt Horn, January 2001

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[9= 1:3.5](997,=20 par 3) is a reference system for quotes from The Urantia Book. The = numbers in=20 brackets indicate [Paper:Section.Paragraph] and the numbers in = parentheses=20 indicate (Page, paragraph)

CHAPTER ONE:

1. THE MIND AT MISCHIEF, by William S. Sadler, M.D., F.A.C.S.; = Funk &=20 Wagnall's Company, New York and London, 1929, page xi
[See Appendix to "The Mind at Mischief"]

2. IBID. page 332.

3. IBID, pages 382,383,384. .

CHAPTER TWO:

1. A full biography of Dr. Sadler is beyond the scope of our book. = However,=20 a few highlights of his life were gleaned from a paper written by = Meredith=20 Sprunger after Dr. Sadler's death, and an article in PERVADED SPACE, a = newsletter published by Chicago Urantian David Kulieke, Spring, 1979. = Born in=20 Spencer, Indiana, 1875, as a boy Sadler was not allowed to attend = public=20 school after the death of his sister, because his parents were afraid = that he=20 would also catch a communicable disease. So it was that he received = most of=20 his formal education from his parents and tutors, and through his own=20 initiative. He showed early signs of skill as an orator, and because = of his=20 remarkable knowledge of the Bible he was called the "boy preacher" at=20 fourteen. He was also a remarkable salesman, selling health foods for = John=20 Harvey Kellogg, brother of W. K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg = cereal=20 empire. At twenty, as director of a Chicago Medical Mission, Sadler = engaged in=20 teaching, speaking, and working with skid row people. He initiated and = edited=20 a magazine which reached a circulation of 150,000 copies.

His theological training took place at the Moody Bible Institute. = He met=20 Lena Kellogg in 1893, when she was a student nurse. They married in = 1897. The=20 Sadler's lost their first son a few years later, who died at the age = of 11=20 months. Soon after that, both Sadlers decided to become doctors, and = attended=20 different medical schools. This was virtually William Sadler, Sr.'s = first=20 formal education. After a few years as a successful surgeon, he = decided to=20 become a psychiatrist. After passing the required examination, he went = to=20 Europe (circa 1911) and studied with Freud in Vienna for almost a = year. He=20 told Dr. Sprunger that he was a member of Freud's "fair-haired boys ' = club"=20 along with Jung and Adler, meeting weekly with Freud for informal = debates. All=20 three men were to later break with Freud, Dr. Sadler going on to = become the=20 "father of American Psychiatry" and recognized in the International = Who's Who=20 as a "pioneer in the popularization of preventative medicine." For all = of his=20 accomplishments, Dr. Sadler told Meredith that he considered his most=20 important contribution to the world to be his leadership of a = little-known=20 group called the "Forum," which received the gift of the Urantia = Papers from=20 celestial beings and published it as The Urantia Book.

For more information on Dr. William S. Sadler, see:

Pe= rvaded=20 Space, "A Self-Made Renaissance Man," Vol 2, No 4, Spring = 1979
Kulieke, = Alvin=20 L. and Sprunger, Meridith J., "Memorial Service for Dr. William S. = Sadler,"=20 Unpublished manuscript, 1969
Sprunger, = Meredith J., "Dr. William S. Sadler," Unpublished manuscript, = 1989
Sprunger,= =20 Meredith J., "Some Notes on the Life of Dr. William S. Sadler," = Unpublished=20 manuscript, 1989
Vonne=20 Meussling, G., "Dr. William S. Sadler: Chautauqua's Medic Orator," = excerpt=20 from an unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, 1970

Photographs of Dr. Sadler:

Dr. = William=20 S. Sadler, circa 1914
Dr. = William=20 S. Sadler, posing, circa 1914
Dr.=20 William S. Sadler, circa 1950
Dr. = William=20 S. Sadler, teaching in Chicago, circa=20 1960

2. The term "superconscious" is used in the Urantia Papers to = describe=20 the higher reaches of human consciousness, above the conscious level = and=20 distinct from the subconscious mind. The idea of a superconscious mind = has=20 been hinted at by a few scientists such as Abraham Maslow, Roberto = Assagioli,=20 and Dr. Barbara Brown. The Urantia Papers propose a fully operational = mind=20 that functions above the level of human consciousness and impinges = upon the=20 highest reaches of human thought by means of religious insights and = spiritual=20 values (or what Dr. Maslow termed Metavalues):

"But there is also a domain of prayer wherein the = intellectually alert=20 and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact = with the=20 superconscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the = indwelling=20 Thought Adjuster." [91:2.= 6](996,=20 par. 4)

"Prayer induces the human ego to look both ways for = help: for=20 material aid to the subconscious reservoir of mortal experience, for = inspiration and guidance to the superconscious borders of the = contact of the=20 material with the spiritual, with the Mystery Monitor." [91:3.= 5](997,=20 par 3)

"Most of the spectacular phenomena associated with = so-called=20 religious conversions are entirely psychologic in nature, but now = and then=20 there do occur experiences which are also spiritual in origin. When = the=20 mental mobilization is absolutely total on any level of the psychic = upreach=20 toward spirit attainment, when there exists perfection of the human=20 motivation of loyalties to the divine idea, then there very often = occurs a=20 sudden down-grasp of the indwelling spirit to synchronize with the=20 concentrated and consecrated purpose of the superconscious mind of = the=20 believing mortal. And it is such experiences of unified intellectual = and=20 spiritual phenomena that constitute the conversion which consists in = factors=20 over and above purely psychologic involvement." [100:5= .4](1099,=20 par.2)

3. THE HISTORICITY OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Meredith J. Sprunger, = Paper=20 revised December 18, 1993, page 3. [See = "Meredith=20 Sprunger's Notes on the Origin of The Urantia Book"]

4. IBID, page 3.

5. IBID, pages 3-4.

6. IBID, page 1.

7. CHICAGO, A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY by Bill Harris, Crescent = Books,=20 New York, 1989, page 15.

8. IBID, page 15.

CHAPTER 3

1. THE MIND AT MISCHIEF, by William S. Sadler, M.D., = F.A.C.S.; Funk=20 & Wagnall's Company, New York and London, 1929, page 383. [See = Appendix to=20 "The Mind at Mischief"]

2. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, = New York,=20 1976, pp. 61 and 62. [See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 61 of "How to Know What to Believe] Sheman=20 substituted fictional names for the characters in his narration. = Kristen=20 Maaherra rewrote this narrative and replaced the fictional names with = the real=20 names. [See "Pipeline to God" with real names inserted.] =

3. It is difficult to establish a birthdate for Bill Sadler, = Jr. The=20 Urantia Book Fellowship Website contains an excellent timeline of = events=20 related to the Urantia Movement. The date there is given as 1908, but=20 indicates some dispute exists about this. It is believed Bill Sadler's = Marine=20 Corps records erroneously show 1906 as his birthdate because he lied = about his=20 age in order to enlist.

4. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, = New York,=20 1976, pp. 58-96.
[See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 58 of "How to Know What to Believe]

5. THE CONJOINT READER, Interview by Polly Friedman, Summer, = 1993, page=20 3. In addition to Carolyn's verification, the basic facts in the = "first=20 contact" narrative were developed from Sherman's information, = cross-checked=20 against and modified by Meredith's information and my recollections of = discussions I had over the years with Clyde Bedell and Berkeley = Elliott. Clyde=20 joined the Forum with his wife Florence in September, 1924, at the age = of 26.=20 Clyde Bedell was closely involved with the Urantia Movement until his = death in=20 January, 1985. Berkeley Elliott was a close friend of mine who had = many candid=20 conversations with Bill Sadler, Jr. in the late fifties and early = sixties. I=20 developed the dialogue between the various individuals in the seminal = contact=20 with some artistic license. It was based upon a composite of the = sources above=20 and is a plausible dramatization that fits the known facts.
[The Hales' Interview]

6. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, New = York, 1976,=20 page 62. However, we may never know exactly how Dr. Sadler = and Dr.=20 Lena first encountered the sleeping subject and his wife. David Kantor = has=20 heard a different version, and wrote this note to me: "My = understanding is=20 that the wife of the sleeping subject was a medical patient of Lena = Sadler's=20 and that when she described to Lena the curious sleeping problems her = husband=20 seemed to be having, Lena suggested that they get Dr. William involved = due to=20 his interest in and knowledge of psychic phenomena." This story has = plausible=20 features to it. We know that Dr. Sadler sought to protect the identity = of the=20 sleeping subject, and therefore the beginning of the story which set = the scene=20 in the version he told Sherman and Carolyn may have been fabricated = for this=20 reason. If so, the 1908 dating of the meeting, based upon the = residences of=20 the Sadlers, may be suspect.
[See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 62 of "How to Know What to Believe] =

7. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, = New York,=20 1976, page 63.
[See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 63 of "How to Know What to Believe]

8. IBID., page 64.

9. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a = Contact=20 Commissioner.] Undated, page 7.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

10. I became associated with Clyde Bedell in 1968, when he = lived in=20 Santa Barbara. At the time, Clyde had become known as one of the great = retail=20 advertising experts of all time. He wrote a book on retail advertising = in the=20 1930's that was used as a college text book. Our common interest was=20 advertising. As stated earlier, Clyde gave me my first Urantia Book, = an=20 original 1955 printing.

11. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, "by a Group of Urantian=20 Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960", pp. = 5-6. The=20 Forum seated about fifty people, and this would indicate a turnover = factor of=20 ten over the approximately twenty years of functioning. In other = words,=20 although a few stalwarts such as Clyde Bedell stayed the distance, the = average=20 Forum-member lasted only two years. [See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

NOTE ON HISTORIES: [See the exhibits on following four = pages]. I am=20 using two different "histories" of the Urantia Movement for some = specific=20 information. For clarity, I identify them as History One and History = Two.=20 History One is a short historical narrative of 14 pages. The cover = of this=20 document states that it was written by a "Group of Urantian = Pioneers,=20 assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960." A copy of this = document, with the word "Sadler" written across the cover, was given = to me=20 by Dr. Sprunger. It contains editing and remarks that were probably = written=20 by Dr. Sadler. History Two was authored by one or more anonymous = individuals=20 and was submitted to a court in 1994 in behalf of Urantia Foundation = during=20 a copyright litigation against Kristen Maaherra.

Although Urantia Foundation and others continue to refer to = this=20 document as "written by Dr. Sadler," it almost certainly was not. = After=20 careful examination, the 30 page document appears to be the long = lost,=20 unfinished "history" of Emma Louise Christensen. This history was = known to=20 exist, but could not be found after her death in 1982. "Christy," as = she was=20 known, apparently used History One as a template, inserted a few = pages=20 authored by Dr. Sadler but never published, and added her own = observations.=20 The History Two document, as submitted to the Court, had no cover = page, but=20 began with what was "page 2" of History One. The pages were = obviously=20 renumbered, in some cases having two conflicting page numbers. = History Two=20 is a hybrid that is obviously the product of an inexperienced writer = and=20 editor. Dr. Sadler was an accomplished author. There are awkward = shifts from=20 second to third person, and long passages refer to Dr. Sadler in the = third=20 person. In one place (page 7) the writer inserted a comment: "The = doctor=20 continues his narrative:" Dr. Sadler never wrote about himself in = this=20 manner. The information in History Two is helpful, but must be = regarded with=20 some caution and weighed against other information. A copy of the = original=20 court submission was supplied to me by Kristen = Maaherra.

12. AN INTERVIEW WITH CLYDE BEDELL, conducted by Barbara Kulieke, = The=20 Study Group Herald, December, 1992, page 12. =
[See=20 Barbara Kulieke's Interview with Clyde Bedell]

13. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, = New York,=20 1976, page 65. Both Meredith and I separately recall hearing, along = the way,=20 the story of Dr. Sadler's memorized questions. [See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 65 of "How to Know What to Believe]

14. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO = - =20 [Compiled by a Contact Commissioner, Undated] page 5. Dr. = Sprunger=20 records the comment somewhat differently: "If you people realized what = a high=20 spiritual source you are now associating with you would stop making = these=20 puerile investigations to detect fraud and would ask some significant=20 questions about the nature and reality of the universe." [See = Affidavit, page=20 318].
[A = History=20 of The Urantia Movement (Two)]

15. URANTIA BROTHERHOOD BULLETIN, Special Memorial Edition, = Spring,=20 1982, page 1.

16. Bill Sadler, Jr. describes the encounter with the = "electrifying=20 personality" in a tape made in Oklahoma City, dated 2/18/62. However, = he=20 states in the same tape that incidents between 1924 and 1928 that he = will=20 relate on the tape are "hearsay."
[See = transcript=20 of this tape recording]

17. CONSIDERATION OF SOME CRITICISMS OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Dr. = William S.=20 Sadler, a paper produced in 1958, page 19. There is plausible but = unverified=20 testimony that Lena used her connections with the American Red Cross = to get=20 Bill Sadler, Jr. released from the Marine Corps early. It is believed = she=20 wanted him to become involved in the Revelation. The date of his leave = from=20 the Marines and his reading of the Papers (that were available at the = time)=20 was not given in Dr. William Sadler's reference. 18. Dr. Lena Sadler = did not=20 make it to the publication of the book. She died August 1, 1939, at = the age of=20 64. [See=20 "Consideration of some Criticisms of The Urantia = Book"]

19. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a = Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 5. Also on the Oklahoma City tape dated = 2/18/62=20 Bill Sadler, Jr. attributes the remark: "Now they have asked for it. = Let's=20 give them questions that no human being can answer!" to his father. = [A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)]=20

CHAPTER FOUR

1. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 7.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

2. IBID., page 7.

3. IBID., page 7.

4. IBID., page 8.

5. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 1. Ms. Kendall is the = daughter of=20 Forum member Clarence N. Bowman, and was employed as a receptionist at = the age=20 of 19 by Dr. Sadler, and worked from 1952 to 1954 and in 1957. She has = held=20 many offices in the Urantia Brotherhood. Her husband, Thomas A. = Kendall was a=20 trustee of Urantia Foundation 1963-1983, and its President = 1973-1983. [The=20 Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

6. Meredith J. Sprunger, personal disclosure. He told me that = Dr.=20 Sadler disclosed this information to him.

7. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE, by Harold Sherman, = Fawcett, New=20 York, 1976, pp. 66-67.
[See= =20 "Pipeline to God," page 66 of "How to Know What to = Believe]

8. IBID., page 67. Sherman gives the number of pages of the=20 manuscript as 472.

9. IBID.

10. IBID.

11. THE HISTORICITY OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Meredith J. = Sprunger, page=20 5. Also, Dr. Sprunger disclosed this in video interviews with the = author,=20 taped by Eric Cosh the CEO of Paradigm Productions, Phoenix, = AZ.
[See=20 "Meredith Sprunger's Notes on the Origin of The Urantia Book" by = Meredith J.=20 Sprunger.]

12. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 1.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book = Revelation]

13. Sworn deposition of Helen Carlson, Chicago, June 29, = 1994.

14. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 9. The reference in the History: "after = being=20 interviewed by the officers" is not clear. The reference may be to the = Contact=20 Commission, since there is not any record of actual "officers." Clyde = Bedell=20 told me he was interviewed by Dr. Sadler.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

15. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a = Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 9.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

16. THE HISTORICITY OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Meredith J.=20 Sprunger, page 5.
[See = "Meredith=20 Sprunger's Notes on the Origin of The Urantia Book" by Meredith J.=20 Sprunger.]

17. Meredith Sprunger, telephone conversation with the author = October=20 16, 1999.

18. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 1.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

19. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, "by a Group of = Urantian Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, = 1960", page=20 6. [See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

20. THE HISTORICITY OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Meredith J. = Sprunger,=20 page 5. -also- BIRTH OF A REVELATION by Mark Kulieke, second edition, = 1992,=20 page 14. Also see Chapter Six of this book.
[See = "Meredith=20 Sprunger's Notes on the Origin of The Urantia Book" by Meredith J.=20 Sprunger.]

21.HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 24. Also see sworn affidavit of Meredith = J.=20 Sprunger, October 24, 1998, (pp 315 -320). Also, in a nearly = decade-long=20 litigation, Kristen Maaherra marshalled and documented compelling = previous=20 sworn testimony by Contact Commission members and Urantia Foundation = officers=20 to support this issue. This testimony established legally uncontested = facts.=20 See Chapter 7, Note 21 for additional information on this = testimony.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

22. Meredith Sprunger has disclosed in taped interviews that, by = some=20 means, the Contact Commission was once allowed to "listen in" on a = celebration=20 of the Midwayers when they received permission to materialize Part IV, = The=20 Life and Teachings of Jesus. (See Chapter Six, page 115). Obviously = the=20 technique to do this transcended using the vocal mechanism of the = sleeping=20 subject. Bill Sadler, Jr. maintained that once the Papers started = coming=20 through there "was not much interaction with the 'sleeping subject'."=20 Fellowship website: (archive/history/h_timlin_2.htm, May 19,1999). = However=20 they may have been received, Christy evidently took notes of all=20 administrative verbal contacts with the revelators after she joined = the=20 Contact Commission, and is probably the "stenographer" referred to in = The Mind=20 at Mischief.

23. The Urantia Book Fellowship Website discloses in its = timeline=20 that: "Guidelines established by the revelatory commission" required = that at=20 least two contact commissioners were to be present when any verbal=20 communications were taking place. David Kantor discloses he received = this=20 information from Christy and Carolyn Kendall. Meredith Sprunger told = me that=20 all contacts he knew about had at least two Commissioners present. The = website=20 also discloses that Contact Commissioners were required to "leave the = room" if=20 any physical objects were required to be moved or manipulated by the = unseen=20 Midwayers. It was divulged to the Commission that witnessing such = effects=20 would be too "psychologically disturbing" for the mortal observers. It = should=20 be noted that the establishment of these "guidelines" signalled the = formal=20 engagement of the unseen "Revelatory Commission." Up to this point all = contacts had been with Midwayers and "student visitors." The actual=20 transmission of revelatory material ended in May, 1942. The celestial=20 Revelatory Commission was replaced in 1954 by a "Midwayer Commission." = See=20 Chapter Seven.

24. HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by = a=20 Contact Commissioner, Undated] page 21. [A = History of=20 The Urantia Movement (Two)]

25. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE, by Harold Sherman, = Fawcett,=20 New York, 1976, page 69.
[See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 69 of "How to Know What to Believe]

26. BIRTH OF A REVELATION by Mark Kulieke, Second = Edition,=20 1992, page 14.

CHAPTER FIVE:

1. Dr. Sadler is known to have begun, but never completed, a = history=20 of his own. These pages may be from that document. It is possible Dr. = Sadler=20 delegated the history project to Christy.

2. HISTORY TWO, [prepared by a Contact Commissioner], = undated, pages=20 2-4. Note that a "twenty year pre-education process" would set the = date for=20 the first contact all the way back to 1904-5. This of course would = support the=20 belief that the process began much earlier than Dr. Sadler stated in = The Mind=20 at Mischief. [A = History of=20 The Urantia Movement (Two)]

3. HISTORY TWO, [prepared by a Contact Commissioner], undated, = page 2.=20 [A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

4. URANTIA BROTHERHOOD BULLETIN, Special Memorial Issue, = Spring 1982,=20 page 1.

5. URANTIA, THE GREAT CULT MYSTERY by Martin Gardner was the = source=20 for the exact dates of death of the various Commissioners. Gardner is = a good=20 researcher of factual material such as dates. However, Gardner's book = is, in=20 the author's opinion, non-objective, inconsistent, relies upon mixed = premises,=20 and is bluntly prejudiced against the Revelation. Any religious belief = could=20 be attacked and ridiculed by means of the unfortunate techniques Mr. = Gardner=20 used to attack the Urantia Papers. Also see Chapter Seven, endnote = 4.

6. HISTORY TWO, [prepared by a Contact Commissioner], = undated, page=20 4. [A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

7. IBID., page 4.

8. IBID., page 4.

CHAPTER SIX

1. The "Forword" had not yet been materialized, it came later = as we=20 shall see.

2. In Chapter Three it was documented that Bill Sadler, Jr. = began to=20 seriously examine the Urantia Papers when on leave from the Marines. = At that=20 time (as previously documented) he was cautious about them, and asked = his=20 father whether anyone was "making money" from the phenomenon. In an = audio tape=20 made in Oklahoma dated 2/18/62, Bill Sadler presents a theory about = how the=20 Urantia Papers were materialized (See Chapter Five). He also states = that the=20 information he relates about the period 1924 - 1928 "is hearsay." He = gives=20 this date twice, and also refers to being "in Nicaragua fighting a = revolution"=20 in the twenties. This period seems to define the dates of his Marine = Corps=20 enlistment. The World Book Encyclopedia confirms that American Marines = were in=20 Nicaragua during this period, calming a revolution and supervising = elections.=20

3. Deposition of Helen Carlson, Chicago, June 29, 1994.

4. Meredith Sprunger video interviews, also BIRTH OF A = REVELATION by=20 Mark Kulieke, Second Edition, 1992, page 16.

5. Meredith Sprunger video interviews, also BIRTH OF A = REVELATION by=20 Mark Kulieke, Second Edition, 1992, page 16.

6. JJ Johnson points out that, for whatever reason, the = citation for=20 Part III is presented in brackets [ ], while the citations for Parts I = and II=20 are not.

7. Audio tape made in Oklahoma, dated 2/18/62.
[See = transcript=20 of this tape recording]

8. Personal letter from JJ Johnson September 29, 1999. JJ supplied = other=20 key elements of information for this history.

9. HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a = Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated ] pp. 18-19.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

10. AN INTERVIEW WITH CLYDE BEDELL, Conducted by = Barbara=20 Kulieke in 1983, The Study Group Herald, December, 1992, page = 1.
[See=20 Barbara Kulieke's Interview with Clyde Bedell]

11. A MONOGRAPH ON A VITAL ISSUE CONCERNING THE URANTIA = BOOK AND=20 MOVEMENT by Clyde Bedell, 1/81, page 25.
[See Clyde Bedell's Monograph]

12. JOHN 21:25.

13. A COMMENTARY ON THE ORIGIN OF THE URANTIA BOOK by = Meredith=20 J. Sprunger, 6/13/91, page 5.
[See=20 "A Commentary on the Origin of The Urantia Book"]

14. IBID., page 5.

15. HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by = a=20 Contact Commissioner, Undated] page 22.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

16. HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by = a=20 Contact Commissioner, Undated] page 21.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

17. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by = Carolyn B.=20 Kendall, Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 8.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

18. HISTORY of the URANTIA MOVEMENT TWO - [Compiled by a = Contact=20 Commissioner, Undated] page 24.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)] =

19. IBID, Page 21.
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)]=20

CHAPTER SEVEN

1. LETTER FROM CLYDE BEDELL TO WILFRED KELLOGG, OCTOBER, 1933. = This=20 letter can be examined on the Fellowship website: http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/kellogg_letter1= 033.htm

2. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, by a Group of = Urantian=20 Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960, page = 6.=20 [See "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

3. David Kantor reports that it was his understanding that = once the=20 contract was signed for the production of the plates, the Contact = Commission=20 was told that there would be no more questions tendered and the work = of the=20 Forum in this regard was finished. It continued on only as a Sunday = study=20 group, although many members continued to refer to the group as the = "Forum"=20 and themselves as "members." Until The Urantia Book was published, new = members=20 of the Sunday study group also preferred to identify themselves as = "Forum"=20 members, even though the Forum as such ceased to exist on May 31,=20 1942.

4. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE, by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, New = York, 1976,=20 pp. 66-67. On pages 70-72 Sherman gives an account of Thought = Adjusters that=20 is totally inaccurate. He also questions why the Jesus Papers were = added, when=20 the book "made no mention of Jesus as such?" (Recall that at the time = he met=20 Dr. Sadler, about July of 1941, the text was virtually completed. = Within ten=20 months it would be frozen and deemed ready to typeset). Sherman's = hasty=20 reading failed to detect that, as previously stated, Jesus is = mentioned in The=20 Urantia Book as early as page 30, and 20 additional times before we = reach page=20 100. Michael is mentioned on page 8 as "Christ Michael--Son of Man and = Son of=20 God, and 16 additional times before page 100!) [See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 66 of "How to Know What to Believe]

Harold Sherman's book was a principle source of information used by = Martin=20 Gardner in his own book "Urantia - The Great Cult Mystery," which was = an=20 unfortunate blanket rejection of any possibility the Urantia Papers = have=20 revelatory content. Gardner's chapter on his two key sources, Sherman = and=20 Harry Loose, (pages 135-160), has to be read to appreciate how far = afield=20 these men's "psychic" ideas were. Gardner also used information he = gathered=20 from Sherman's widow, Martha Sherman. Gardner, who rejected and = ridiculed=20 information from esteemed Urantians like Dr. Sprunger, reports without = comment=20 Harold Sherman's "out-of-body" trips to Jupiter with a scientologist, = and=20 Harry Loose's ability to make a handkerchief fly from a dresser into = his hand=20 several feet away. (This was reported to Gardner by Martha Sherman, = page 139.)=20

Gardner reports on pages 149-150 of accusations by Kellogg's = daughter that=20 Sherman had asked her to steal the plates of The Urantia Book so he = could=20 copyright it as the author and make a movie of it. (The plates were = stored in=20 an R. R. Donnelley & Sons vault in Crawfordsville, Indiana). He = tells of a=20 letter from Loose to Sherman in which Loose praises a new book of = Sherman's:=20 "The Dead are Alive" as a "masterpiece." Gardner discloses that = Sherman=20 described his first meeting with Loose as the "most inspiring" hours = of his=20 life. Finally, Gardner closes his chapter by publishing a final letter = written=20 by Sherman to Dr. Sadler. The letter was filled with bizarre = accusations and=20 rhetorical questions. Gardner solemnly reports that "there is no = evidence"=20 that Dr. Sadler replied to the letter. On page 407 of his book Gardner = tells=20 us that a letter from ex-policeman Loose to Sherman speculated that = the death=20 of Dr. Lena Sadler had caused "something to happen" to Dr. Sadler's=20 personality. (Loose may have been a psychiatric patient of Dr. Sadler, = as=20 Gardner reports on page 136). Finally, Gardner tells us on page 407 = that his=20 own "dear wife" thought his book, "Urantia, the Great Cult Mystery," = was a=20 "total waste" of his energies.

5. The text of this letter (according to Sherman) is recorded on = pages 73=20 -75 in HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE, by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, New = York,=20 1976.
[See= =20 "Pipeline to God," page 73 of "How to Know What to = Believe]

6. CLYDE BEDELL'S 1942 PETITION, page two. The letter or = petition in=20 its entirety can be examined on the fellowship website:

http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/bedell_petition.htm<= /FONT>

7. A RESPONSE TO A THINLY DISGUISED ATTACK ON THE URANTIA BOOK by = Clyde=20 Bedell, a paper dated September 5, 1976 pp. 2-9. We do not know the = specifics=20 about the proposed structure of the organizations mentioned in Clyde's = account. In this paper he expresses his own disagreement with an = oligarchical=20 lifetime tenure of Foundation Trustees (page 15). He continued to = oppose this=20 structure until his death. Regarding commercial motives, Clyde points = out that=20 "no one, neither Dr. Sadler nor his family, nor any Urantians to my = knowledge,=20 have ever made profit from the Urantia Book" (page 9). Clyde follows = this=20 comment with this statement: "Even today, the frugal Foundation is = largely=20 supported by Urantian contributors, so the Book can continue to be = sold at a=20 price that makes it one of the greatest book bargains on Earth." = (Clyde's=20 emphasis).

In subsequent years, general contributions dwindled, and the = financial base=20 of Urantia Foundation shifted to a few wealthy contributors and to the = Book=20 itself. The price of The Urantia Book soared. Clyde strongly opposed = these=20 price increases, and began referring to the Book as a "rich man's = Bible." The=20 price remained high until 1995, when Pathways published an exact = replica of=20 the 1955 printing and sold it for less than half of the price of a = Foundation=20 printing. The Foundation responded with a competitive price reduction. = Today=20 Urantia Foundation is believed to be almost totally supported by = revenues from=20 Book sales and the personal donations of the Trustees = themselves.
[See Clyde's "A Response to a Thinly Disguised Attack on The = Urantia=20 Book"]

8. HOW TO KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE, by Harold Sherman, Fawcett, New = York,=20 1976, page 85
[See = "Pipeline=20 to God," page 85 of "How to Know What to Believe]

9. A RESPONSE TO A THINLY DISGUISED ATTACK ON THE URANTIA = BOOK by=20 Clyde Bedell, a paper dated September 5, 1976 page 13.
[See Clyde's "A Response to a Thinly Disguised Attack on The = Urantia=20 Book"]

10. COMMENTARY ON THE ORIGIN OF THE URANTIA BOOK by Meredith = Sprunger,=20 6/13/91, page 5.
[See=20 "A Commentary on the Origin of The Urantia Book"]
Also = HISTORY=20 TWO, prepared by a Contact Commissioner, undated, page 24.
[A History of The Urantia Movement = (Two)]=20

11. I drew supplementary information for the printing = processes of=20 the time from a 1958 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia. I also=20 interviewed two retired gentlemen from the original Donnelley Company = plant in=20 Crawfordsville, Indiana. Both men, a Mr. Krohn and a Bart Paddock, = live in=20 Crawfordsville. Krohn was a press supervisor and Paddock a plate = department=20 manager at the time of the second printing. Both men agreed the M-1000 = press=20 would have been used to print The Urantia Book. It was a huge old = German=20 press. I also interviewed Dr. Sprunger's son-in-law, Greg Young (now a = minister), who worked on the M-1000 Press in 1969, a year or so after = the=20 second printing. Greg, a reader of the Book, said he understood the = press had=20 been used to print The Urantia Book before his arrival. Greg said it = was also=20 used to print Reader's Digest Condensed Books (as well as the = magazine). Both=20 Krohn and Paddock had made the same observation. Greg also commented = that the=20 M-1000 was also used to print The World Book Encyclopedia. It so = happened that=20 I had acquired a 1958 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia over ten = years=20 ago in Oklahoma for a couple of dollars, purely as a curiosity. That = set of=20 books stayed with me, and has proven very valuable in explaining the = press=20 methods of the circa 1955 period. By remarkable coincidence, The World = Book=20 Encyclopedia mentions, in its article on printing, that one of the = printing=20 methods presented was the same as had been used in printing the = encyclopedia=20 itself. After talking to Greg, I looked again at the pages in the=20 encyclopedia, which featured several photographs of printing methods, = a=20 pressman, platemaking and so on. In small print below the photos was = the=20 credit: "R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co."! Also see Chapter = Nine.

12. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by = Carolyn B.=20 Kendall, Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 4.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

13. POSTING by URANTIA FOUNDATION on their website (http://www.urantia.org/newsinfo/strs.htm) in = 1999, under=20 the title Setting the Record Straight: "The last typescript, which = probably=20 had a number of errors, was destroyed after the text was plated, = cross-checked=20 and believed to be free of mistakes." The syntax of this statement is = somewhat=20 strange, in that the procedure should logically have been = "cross-checked,=20 believed free of mistakes, and plated." There is no reason given for = the=20 assumption that the original text probably had a "number of errors." = It had=20 been read and checked over by the Forum for several years. In = addition, the=20 text had been destroyed after the plates were made; there was no way = to=20 establish whether or not the manuscript used by the typesetter was the = source=20 of what was later believed to be errors.

14. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 5.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

15. Meredith Sprunger, personal letter to me, September,=20 1999.

16. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn = B.=20 Kendall, Paper distributed January 18, 1996, pp. 4 - 5. "Proofed by = Oppy" may=20 be a typographical error in Carolyn's paper. It may have referred to = "Poppy,"=20 which was Christy's favorite name for Dr. Sadler. [The Plan for The Urantia Book = Revelation]

17. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 5. Carolyn discloses that = this=20 information was obtained verbally from Christy. Carolyn's comments are = very=20 similar to the comments by a "second generation Urantian" posted by = Urantia=20 Foundation on their website in mid 1999 under: "Setting the Record = Straight"=20 point #7.
[ The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

18. Letter from Trustee Emeritus James Mills to Ken and Betty = Glasziou,=20 March 5, 1991. Mills' comment that: "Apparently, the most potent = source of=20 error would lie at the point of the linotype operator" was imprecise = and=20 misleading, but apparently was what he was told. The ultimate = responsibility=20 for errors and typos lies with the client. A "press proof" is always = provided=20 the client so one final check can be made of the copy before it is = etched and=20 cast as a plate.
[See reproduction of this letter in its = entirety]

19. THE CREATORS by Daniel J. Boorstin, Random House, = New York,=20 1992, pp. 63-64.

20. (REFERENCE CHAPTER FOUR). HISTORY TWO, prepared by = a=20 Contact Commissioner, undated, page 24. Dr. Meredith Sprunger has = repeatedly=20 stated that Dr. Sadler was emphatic that there was no human editing of = the=20 1955 printing. (See Affidavit, pp 316-320). Clyde Bedell told me he = would=20 stake his life on it, and his wife Florence was equally convinced of = the=20 integrity of the first printing. Kristen Maaherra and Eric Schaveland = also=20 collected several dozen supporting comments from various sources and = submitted=20 them as exhibits for the defense in nearly ten years of litigation = instituted=20 against them by Urantia Foundation. Here are a few excerpts: Emma = Christensen:=20 "I can categorically assure you that no humans decided the content of = The=20 Urantia Book. The book is as the revelators gave it to us." (Exhibits = 8, 10=20 and 16.) Thomas Kendall, Trustee: "The Urantia Book is arranged and = assembled=20 exactly as revealed." (Exhibits K-1 and 750.) James C. Mills, Trustee: = "As to=20 the semantics employed, we had no control over them. We reproduced the = text=20 exactly as received. We are pledged to preserve it inviolate, and will = do so."=20 [Exhibit 510] William M. (Bill) Hales, First President of Urantia = Foundation:=20 "The Urantia Book was published just as it was received in English." = There was=20 no editing. Our only jurisdiction had to do with typing, proofreading, = and=20 publication." (Deposition of W. Hales, page 19, line 24, continued on = page 20,=20 lines 1-3.)
[A History of The Urantia Movement (Two)]=20

CHAPTER EIGHT

1. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall, Paper=20 distributed January 18, 1996, page 4. There are a number of similar=20 commentaries on the world political situation of the time that have = surfaced=20 in written form. Most of these are very questionable. However, this = particular=20 story regarding an intention to defeat Communism was given to Dr. = Sprunger by=20 Dr. Sadler, and I also heard it from Clyde Bedell and Berkeley = Elliott.=20 However, David Kantor is very doubtful about the veracity of this = story. He=20 believes such a casual comment about human affairs would have been a = violation=20 of the revelatory mandate. [The=20 Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

2. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 2. Also statements by Dr. = Sprunger in=20 video interviews. [The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

3. Very probably the original tapes and negative films were = also in=20 storage. In the old monotype process described in Chapter 7, the = typesetter=20 did not cast the type directly, there was a two stage process. His = keyboard=20 punched holes in a paper tape, which was then fed into a caster. = Reference for=20 this information was the 1958 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia.=20

4. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, by a Group of Urantian = Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960, page 9. = The=20 actual wording of the Declaration of Trust, page 8, is also "to = perpetually=20 preserve inviolate the text of THE URANTIA BOOK . . ." David Kantor = has=20 pointed out that the term "inviolate text" does not appear in the = Declaration=20 of Trust or the Histories. The Trust uses the term "original text" = when=20 referring to the plates and the 1955 printing. Urantia Foundation uses = the=20 term "inviolate text" generically to refer to any version of the text = of the=20 Papers they may publish. This will be discussed in Chapter Nine. [The = last=20 sentence of the original History One document read: "One of the = objects for=20 which the Foundation was created was to preserve perpetually inviolate = the=20 text of the Urantia Book and to disseminate the principles, teachings, = and=20 doctrines of the Urantia Book."] Dr. Sadler apparently changed = "perpetually=20 preserve" to read "preserve perpetually" and circled "doctrines," = recommending=20 its deletion stating: "the U. B. seems to me to avoid using these = words."=20 [See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

5. BIRTH OF A REVELATION by Mark Kulieke, second edition, = 1992, page=20 24.

6. See David Kantor's timeline on the Fellowship website, for = 1951 and=20 1952, http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/message112251.htm=20 where this message is reproduced. In "THE PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK=20 REVELATION," by Carolyn B. Kendall, on page 3, Carolyn produces the = same=20 "message" with an instructive omission. The missing statement is: = "When, as,=20 and if, the Midway Commission fails to communicate with the Trustees = of the=20 Foundation for a period of three years, then shall such Trustees deem = that the=20 affairs of the Urantia Book are wholly and exclusively in their hands = and=20 under their jurisdiction." This omitted sentence clearly supports = those who=20 believe special celestial guidance for the Trustees ended in 1955, = with the=20 message: "You are now on your own." See Chapter Nine for a full = discussion of=20 the issue of continuing special celestial guidance. Also see the = Epilogue for=20 additional discussion of the questionable use of apocryphal = "messages," and=20 how they have too often had the appearance of being edited to support = a=20 political, philosophical, or legal position.

In this case, "THE PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION" = (dated=20 January 18, 1995) was submitted to the members of the Fellowship = General=20 Council in an effort to persuade them to reconsider their vote to = publish The=20 Urantia Book, which was then in the public domain. With her paper, = Carolyn=20 also wrote a cover letter to the Councilors. Some of her comments are=20 interesting. She writes: "Regardless of how one might wish the old = messages=20 would go away, the fact is that they did exist, they did exert a = powerful=20 influence and they are still relevant" . . . "As a former Forum = member, I was=20 constrained by promises not to discuss the origin of the book or = anything that=20 happened before publication."
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

Whether the old "messages" are relevant or not may be = arguable. What=20 is difficult to understand is Carolyn statement that she was a "former = Forum=20 member." According to History One (page 6) and History Two (page 10), = the last=20 meeting of the Forum took place on May 31, 1942, when Carolyn was = about ten=20 years old. In 1951, what she joined was the Sunday study group. = Carolyn was 23=20 when The Urantia Book was published. Also see the Epilogue, where = Carolyn's=20 History: "The Golden Years," is discussed. The same critical passage = is=20 omitted in that document.

7. IBID, page 3.

8. April, 1992 paper titled AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH: = PRINCIPLES,=20 PATTERNS, AND STRUCTURES IN THE URANTIA BOOK AND RELATED SOURCES by = Carolyn=20 Kendall, page 9.
[Ad Hoc Committee Report by Carolyn = Kendall]

9. CONSIDERATION OF SOME CRITICISMS OF THE URANTIA BOOK by = Dr.=20 William S. Sadler, a paper produced in 1958, page 1.

10. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, by "a Group of = Urantian=20 Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960," page = 14. [See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

11. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 4.
[The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

12. AFFIDAVIT of Dr. Meredith Sprunger, dated October 24,=20 1998. (See pp: 316 -320).
[See Meredith Sprunger's affidavit]

13. BIRTH OF A REVELATION by Mark Kulieke, second edition, = 1992, page=20 24.

14. WITNESSES TO A REVELATION by Polly Friedman, Summer, = 1993, page=20 4.

15. A MONOGRAPH ON A VITAL ISSUE CONCERNING THE URANTIA BOOK AND = MOVEMENT=20 by Clyde Bedell, January, 1981, page 19. Also Clyde Bedell personally = related=20 the story of this message to me. Dr. Sadler reported the message to = Dr.=20 Sprunger, and added the comment about the sudden severance of the = connection:=20 "They didn't even say goodbye."=20 [See "Monograph on a Vital Issue" by Clyde=20 Bedell]

CHAPTER NINE

1. BIRTH OF A REVELATION by Mark Kulieke, second edition, 1992, = page 24.=20 However, the "Forum" had passed into history long before, on May 31, = 1942,=20 when they were informed no further questions would be entertained. = (See=20 History One page 6 and History Two page 10). The Forum was then = replaced by a=20 Sunday study group.

2. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, "by a Group of Urantia = Pioneers,=20 assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960," page 13. In her = "Report=20 to the Ad Hoc Committee" Carolyn Kendall provides the information that = there=20 were 71 students. She believes there were 17 diploma students in 1960, = History=20 One states there were 14.
[See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

3.April, 1992 paper titled AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH: = PRINCIPLES,=20 PATTERNS, AND STRUCTURES IN THE URANTIA BOOK AND RELATED SOURCES by = Carolyn=20 Kendall page 29.
[Ad Hoc Committee Report by Carolyn = Kendall]

4. URANTIA, The Great Cult Mystery, by Martin Gardner, Prometheus = Books,=20 New York, 1995, pages 98 and 100.

5. IBID., pp. 40-43. Also, Meredith Sprunger provided = some=20 background information. Clyde Bedell's quote was taken from THE = PLANETARY=20 PRINTS, Spring 1985, page 35.
[See Planetary Prints, Spring 1985, Page 35]
[See=20 entire Spring 1985 issue of Planetary Prints]

6. HISTORY TWO, prepared by a Contact Commissioner, undated, page = 21. [A = History of=20 The Urantia Movement (Two)]

7. The intra-office memo by Bill Sadler, Jr. was quoted by = Carolyn and=20 Tom Kendall in their RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S REPORT TO = READERS OF THE=20 URANTIA BOOK, June 21, 1990, page 2. As previously noted, Christy told = David=20 Kantor that one of the rules of the revelation process was that at = least two=20 Contact Commissioners had to be present for any communications to = take

place.

8. The PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION, by Carolyn B. = Kendall,=20 Paper distributed January 18, 1996, page 5. She gives the source for = these=20 comments as her husband, Thomas Kendall, who was a trustee of Urantia=20 Foundation from 1963-1983, and its president from 1973-1983. [The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation]

9. IBID., page 5. Carolyn says this statement is her personal = opinion.

10. IBID., page 5. Carolyn gives as her source Richard = Keeler,=20 Trustee and President of Urantia Foundation. Merritt Horn reports this = action=20 was not taken. (See Appendix D).

11. According to the Declaration of Trust: "A Trustee = Emeritus shall=20 have no rights, duties or powers hereunder, but that name shall be = given such=20 a person only as an expression of his past services as a Trustee." = However,=20 Christy's duties and dominance were apparently not curtailed by this=20 stipulation. (See Appendix F).

12. It was some time before Urantia Foundation seemed to be = awakened to=20 the fact that such changes were made. It was stated in Urantian News,=20 November, 1991: "From time to time the Trustees have authorized = changes which=20 corrected spelling, grammatical, or printing errors. The current = Trustees are=20 also aware of a few changes to the text undertaken in the second = printing.=20 These were changes made necessary because of incomplete proofing of = the first=20 printing." However, in reality the "Trustees" do not seem to function = as a=20 cohesive group in making observations and decisions about the text. I = had=20 personal conversations with three current Trustees in 1998, and none = of them=20 seemed aware of exactly what changes had been made in the text. They = seemed=20 confused about how they are to police the content of the Book when = they are,=20 for all practical purposes, insulated from the printing process. = Moreover,=20 they expressed little interest in the problem.

The Trustee's duties, their oath, and the Declaration of Trust not=20 withstanding, the culture at 533 that established a resident inner = circle=20 within the inner circle in the late sixties still seems to prevail. = The=20 Trustees, in general, are titular personages and have never had a = hands-on=20 relationship with the preservation of the original text after 1955. = The=20 Trustees generally remain passive about the content of the various = versions of=20 The Urantia Book that are being printed. At this writing, no less than = three=20 different supposedly "inviolate" versions of the original text are = being=20 published by Urantia Foundation, none of which actually agrees with = the=20 original 1955 text that the Foundation is supposedly "preserving." =

13. This information was obtained from phone conversations I had = with Mr.=20 Krohn and Mr. Paddock, on October 26, 1999. Both of these gentlemen = are now=20 retired, and live in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

14. A RESPONSE TO A THINLY DISGUISED ATTACK ON THE URANTIA = BOOK by=20 Clyde Bedell, a paper dated September 5, 1976, page 13.

15. In a letter to JJ Johnson dated May 11, 1976, Clyde = expressed=20 knowledge of specific typographical problems between the 1955 printing = and=20 later printings. In a later note (October, 1977) to JJ he suggested = ways to=20 obtain a 1955 printing, copies of which were already becoming = difficult to=20 find.

16. Meredith Sprunger personally disclosed this observation = to me.=20

17. A MONOGRAPH ON A VITAL ISSUE CONCERNING THE URANTIA BOOK = AND=20 MOVEMENT by Clyde Bedell, March, 1981, pp. 18-19. [Emphasis in = original] [See "Monograph on a Vital Issue" by Clyde = Bedell]

18. HAVES AND HAVE NOTS by Mortimer J. Adler, Macmillan = Publishing=20 Company, New York, 1991, pp. 116-117.

CHAPTER TEN

1. These "famous people" included Sholem Asche, Ralph Bunche, = Norman=20 Cousins, Aldous Huxley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Edward Teller. THE = FELLOWSHIP=20 BULLETIN, Winter, 1992, page 1.

2. Harold Sherman claims that he and his wife had interested Sir = Hubert=20 Wilkins in the Forum, but this seems to be one of his flights of = fancy.=20 Dr. Sadler wrote in a March 17, 1959 letter to Reverend Adams = (Appendix B):=20 "From a standpoint of general science, I think the studies of the late = Sir=20 Hubert Wilkins were the most extended and exhaustive. For a period of = twenty=20 years he periodically spent time in Chicago going over the Papers. He = would=20 work weeks at a time, ten hours a day. . ." This must have been = prepublication=20 since Wilkins would hardly have gone to Chicago to study the Papers if = he had=20 a book, and the activity could not have begun until 1935 at the = earliest,=20 seven years before Sherman got involved. Also, Dr. Sprunger has stated = that=20 Dr. Sadler told him he consulted Wilkins in the early days.

3. AFFIDAVIT OF MARTIN MYERS, May 24, 1993.

4. SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE URANTIA BOOK, April = 1990,=20 page 22
[Special = Report=20 to Readers of The Urantia Book ]

5. CLYDE BEDELL gave me this letter along with some other=20 correspondence in 1984, a few months before his death.
[See reproduction of Clyde's letter]

6. VERN GRIMSLEY MESSAGE EVALUATION by Hoite C. Caston, June = 17,=20 1984, page 10. (Mr. Caston has declined our request for permission to = make a=20 copy of his copyrighted report available to the readership.)

7. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 7.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

8. Letter from Dr. Paul D. Knott to undisclosed readers, November = 20,=20 1983.

9. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 8.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

10. IBID., page 8.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

11. URANTIA BROTHERHOOD BULLETIN, Spring, 1982, page 5.

12. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 8.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

13. TO BE (upset) OR NOT TO BE by Clyde Bedell, "Read to a = Boulder=20 meeting, the evening of 10/27/83, after the people had been given a = half-hour=20 or so scare talk urging the storage of food, water, etc., the = preparation for=20 each family member of a big kit to take to fall-out shelters, upon = alarm,=20 etc.," pages 3 and 5.

14. VERN GRIMSLEY MESSAGE EVALUATION by Hoite C. Caston, June = 17,=20 1984, page 206. (Mr. Caston has declined our request for permission to = make a=20 copy of his copyrighted report available to the readership.)

15. IBID., page 28.

16. IBID., Appendixes.

17. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 8.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

18. IBID., page 8.

19. IBID. Tom is referring to an episode he recorded on page = 6 (The=20 date of the astounding incident was approximately November, 1980): = "TAK:=20 [Thomas A. Kendall] After the Board of Trustees meeting the next = Saturday,=20 Christy and Martin had read a message to me which had allegedly come = to her=20 earlier in the week. It said: 'Do not become involved in long, drawn = out=20 discussions with Mr. Weiss. Read page 840.' [NOTE: Jacques Weiss was a = Frenchman who translated The Urantia Book into French and then = published it in=20 1962 after obtaining permission of Urantia Foundation.] 'I interpreted = the=20 message, as did administrative assistants, Scott Forsythe and Michael = Painter,=20 to mean that we were not to get bogged down in lengthy negotiations. = It may be=20 concluded that the other Trustees interpreted this message to mean we = should=20 not get involved in any negotiations. Page 840 had to do with = Caligastia's=20 plot. The meaning of this reference is also open to question." From = this=20 passage written by Foundation supporters Carolyn and Thomas Kendall we = may=20 reasonably arrive at two remarkable conclusions. First, Martin Myers = bought=20 into, and apparently encouraged, Christy's channeled "messages." = Second, that=20 these "messages" had not only evidently dictated the alteration of the = original text of The Urantia Book since 1967 (as previously = documented), the=20 purported contents of these "messages" were routinely weighed when = Urantia=20 Foundation established its policies!
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

20. IBID., page 7.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

21. THE FUTURE OF THE FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION by Meredith J. = Sprunger, a paper dated 2/10/93, page 1.
[The Future of the Fifth Epochal = Revelation]

22. The 1955 printing of The Urantia Book has a statement at = the end=20 of the Contents of the Book, just before the Foreword: "(An exhaustive = index=20 of The Urantia Book is published in a separate volume.)" The = Revelators had=20 approved of the project years before. When Maaherra was sued 35 years = later,=20 the comprehensive index was still unpublished.

23. HISTORY OF THE URANTIA MOVEMENT ONE, by a Group of = Urantian=20 Pioneers, assisted by Members of the Contact Commission, 1960, page = 10. [See=20 "History of the Urantia Movement" (one)]

24. THE FUTURE OF THE FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION by Meredith J. = Sprunger, a paper dated 2/10/93, page 1.
[The Future of the Fifth Epochal = Revelation]

25. IBID., page 1.

26. IBID., page 1.

27. THE CONJOINT READER, Publication of the School of = Meanings and=20 Values, Santa Monica, CA, Summer, 1993, page 10. [The Hales' Interview]

28. IBID., p age 3.

29. The essential material for this section was taken from, = and based=20 upon THE FUTURE OF THE FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION by Meredith J. = Sprunger, a=20 paper dated 2/10/93.
[The Future of the Fifth Epochal = Revelation]

30. PLANETARY PRINTS, Rocky Mountain Urantia Society of = Denver,=20 Spring,

1985, page 26.
[See Planetary Prints, Spring 1985, Page 26]
[See=20 entire Spring 1985 issue of Planetary Prints] =

EPILOGUE

1. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 2.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

A 1958 memo by Bill Sadler, Jr. refers to the "defunct contact=20 commissioners."
[See = Bill=20 Sadler's memo]

2. June 21, 1990 Report by Thomas A. and Carolyn B. Kendall, = titled:=20 RESPONSE TO URANTIA FOUNDATION'S SPECIAL REPORT TO THE READERS OF THE = URANTIA=20 BOOK AND COMMENTS ON OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, page 2.
[See = Tom and=20 Carolyn's report]

3. Harry Loose is a key source of information for the = author of=20 Birth of a Divine Revelation. He appears three times in Index = of=20 Birth of a Divine Revelation (which, like the book, is poorly = organized=20 and confusing): as Harry J. Loose (4 references), Harry Loose (20 = references),=20 and as simply Loose (33 references). Sherman and Loose were a good = team. Loose=20 claimed he could fly around in his astral body and appear thousands of = miles=20 away at will, and Sherman (according to Gardner's book) claimed he = could take=20 out-of-body trips to Jupiter. The two carried on a correspondence = denigrating=20 Dr. Sadler, which was the source of much of the negative information = in=20 Birth of a Divine Revelation. Mr. Gardner wrote that Harold = Sherman " .=20 . . wrote more that 25 books about ESP, pk, prerecognition, = poltergeists,=20 animal ESP, dowsing, ouija boards, UFOs and so on. One of his books = tells how=20 to tape-record voices from the dead." The author of Birth of a = Divine=20 Revelation seems to continually favor the testimony of = self-proclaimed=20 psychics Harold Sherman and Harry J. Loose to that of esteemed = Urantians Dr.=20 Meredith Sprunger, Dr. William S. Sadler, and Clyde Bedell.

4. VERN GRIMSLEY MESSAGE EVALUATION by Hoite C. Caston, June 17, = 1994,=20 Appendixes.

5. IBID., Appendixes.

Other documents intimately related to this=20 study:

Letter from Harold Sherman to Dr. William S. Sadler, August = 8,=20 1942

Unity -- Not Uniformity, by Martin Myers; June = 1973.=20 The key document which has guided subsequent Urantia Foundation policy = making=20 including the formulation of the IUA charter.

One Hundred Years = of=20 Revelation: A [sic] Historic Perspective by Barbara Newsom and Carolyn = Kendall=20 for Urantia Foundation. Originally published as "The Golden Years," = March 25,=20 2000 by Urantia Foundation on the occassion of the celebration of = their 50th=20 anniversary.

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