Research Projects
Research Projects - a great way to serve
Many readers of the Urantia Papers have chosen to serve by engaging in various excellent projects. These projects have included such things as development of educational materials, organizing conferences, and investigating the origins of the Papers. Much if not all of the work has been voluntary, self funded, and based on the dedication of individuals and small groups.
The Urantia Papers make reference to concepts and facts which could be developed and investigated as major projects. In this section we wish to identify those projects, address their requirement for resources, and generally assist in their coordination.
Projects vary
in scope and have different requirements for expertise and financial
support. In broad terms, they may fall
into categories such as:
- historical and scientific
research;
- expeditions and archeological
research;
- subsequent publications based on
research;
- the dissemination of the
teachings;
- unity programs for peace and
religious tolerance; and
- communication through the arts and the media.
This work will apply information in the Urantia Papers to the rigorous pursuit of knowledge and contribute to evolutionary progress, as we search for an expanded vision of truth.
If you have a great project…
Write and tell us about it. Submit details of your idea and research to date. You may attract interest from others who wish to be involved. If funding is required, a formal submission addressing specific requirements would need to be submitted to interested parties. Please forward details to The Editor.
If you wish to contribute funds to a project…
Advise the criteria on which you are prepared to allocate funds. Funds will be held in trust and administered with propriety and accountability. Contributors are required to apply all aspects of due diligence. Significant projects will have clearly defined objectives, be professionally managed, and outcomes will be fully documented. Please forward details to The Editor.
Projects referenced in the Urantia Papers
There are many quotes in the papers that inspire the imagination, and challenge the adventurous spirit of aspiring mortals. Here are a few to get us thinking.
The
first garden.
…a
long narrow peninsula - almost an island - projecting westward from the
eastern shores of the
The
coast line of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck
connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the
narrowest point. The great river that watered the Garden came down from the
higher lands of the peninsula and flowed east through the peninsular neck to
the mainland and thence across the lowlands of
The Adamic family grounds embraced a little over five square miles [834:3].
…in connection with the violent activity of the surrounding volcanoes and the submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to Africa, the eastern floor of the Mediterranean Sea sank, carrying down beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula [826:6].
The
second garden.
The
only way open was to the east, and so they journeyed eastward toward the then
pleasant regions between the
New
forms of energy.
Light, that is, light without heat, is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of the Deities. And there is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually unknown on Urantia; it is as yet unrecognized [47:1].
The mesotron explains certain cohesive properties of the atomic nucleus, but it does not account for the cohesion of proton to proton nor for the adhesion of neutron to neutron. The paradoxical and powerful force of atomic cohesive integrity is a form of energy as yet undiscovered on Urantia [479:4].
Still
further does the Conjoint Actor display powers which can transcend force and
neutralize energy. Such powers operate by slowing down energy to the point of
materialization and by other techniques unknown to you [101:4].
The
physical controllers are chiefly occupied in the adjustment of basic energies
undiscovered on Urantia. These unknown energies are very essential to the
interplanetary system of transport and to certain techniques of
communication. When we lay lines of energy for the purpose of conveying sound
equivalents or of extending vision, these undiscovered forms of energy are
utilized by the living physical controllers and their associates. These same
energies are also, on occasion, used by the midway creatures in their routine
work [325:7].
We do not fully comprehend the almost endless changes to which physical energy may be subject. In one universe it appears as light, in another as light plus heat, in another as forms of energy unknown on Urantia [472:13].
And
all of these phenomena of atom building and atom dissolution, as in the
highly heated nebulae, are attended by the emergence of flood tides of short
space rays of radiant energy. Accompanying these diverse radiations is a form
of space-energy unknown on Urantia [667:0].
Respiration
of the universe.
The cycles of space respiration extend in each phase for a little more than one billion Urantia years. During one phase the universes expand; during the next they contract. Pervaded space is now approaching the mid-point of the expanding phase…[123:6].
Source
materials.
…we have selected as the basis of these papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them…[17:1].
From the vast store of information made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this purpose. As far as possible I have derived my information from purely human sources. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are superhuman [1343:1].
Music.
…only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true, "melody has power a whole world to transform" [500:6].
Fossils.
These birds are most intelligent, very obedient, and unbelievably affectionate. Such passenger birds have been long extinct on Urantia, but your early ancestors enjoyed their services [590:1].
Landmarks
While pausing for lunch under the shadow of an overhanging ledge of rock, near Luz, Jesus delivered one of the most remarkable addresses which his apostles ever listened to throughout all their years of association with him [1728:1 ,2].
The
home of Jesus was not far from the high hill in the northerly part of
A
crucified person could not be buried in a Jewish cemetery; there was a strict
law against such a procedure. Joseph and Nicodemus knew this law, and on the
way out to Golgotha they had decided to bury Jesus in Joseph's new family
tomb, hewn out of solid rock, located a short distance north of Golgotha and
across the road leading to Samaria [2013:1].
Philosophy
of living.
The world is filled with lost souls, not lost in the theologic sense but lost in the directional meaning, wandering about in confusion among the isms and cults of a frustrated philosophic era. Too few have learned how to install a philosophy of living in the place of religious authority [1098:4].
Life
design.
There are also seven architectural types of life design, fundamental arrangements of the reproducing configurations of living matter. The Orvonton life patterns are configured as twelve inheritance carriers. The differing orders of will creatures are configured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Urantia there are forty-eight units of pattern control - trait determiners - in the sex cells of human reproduction [397:11].
Forms
of Government.
Throughout this epoch there is a gradual lessening of governmental supervision. True self-government is beginning to function; fewer and fewer restrictive laws are necessary. The military branches of national resistance are passing away; the era of international harmony is really arriving. There are many nations, mostly determined by land distribution, but only one race, one language, and one religion [597:1].
Machiventa Melchezidek
It required great determination for Abraham to forego the honors of the Egyptian court and return to the more spiritual work sponsored by Machiventa. But Melchizedek was revered even in Egypt, and when the full story was laid before Pharaoh, he strongly urged Abraham to return to the execution of his vows to the cause of Salem [1019:5].
The teachings of Amenemope were slowly losing their hold on the Egyptian mind when, through the influence of an Egyptian Salemite physician, a woman of the royal family espoused the Melchizedek teachings. This woman prevailed upon her son, Ikhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt, to accept these doctrines of One God [1047:1].
Religion.
But religious leaders are making a great mistake when they try to call modern man to spiritual battle with the trumpet blasts of the Middle Ages. Religion must provide itself with new and up-to-date slogans [2077:6].
The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear - the living gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man [2086:7].
Astronomy.
These
wise men saw no star to guide them to
Mind
Human consciousness rests gently upon the electrochemical mechanism below
and delicately touches the spirit-morontia energy system above. Of neither
of these two systems is the human being ever completely conscious in his
mortal life; therefore must he work in mind, of which he is conscious.
And it is not so much what mind comprehends as what mind desires to comprehend
that insures survival [1216:6, 1217:0].
Throughout the mind functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the parts of intellectual function. Mind, in its essence, is functional unity; therefore does mind never fail to manifest this constitutive unity, even when hampered and hindered by the unwise actions and choices of a misguided self. And this unity of mind invariably seeks for spirit co-ordination on all levels of its association with selves of will dignity and ascension prerogatives [1217:5]
Personality
Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival of the morontial soul [9:1].
Soul
Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature
chooses to "do the will of the Father in heaven," so the indwelling
spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal
and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance
of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual--it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which
is destined to survive mortal death and begin the
Historical
records
A
brief recital of the high points in Hebrew history will illustrate how
the facts of the record were so altered in
Life
implantation
While
these early lemurs evolved in the
Medical
Research
...chemical action and reaction concerned in wound healing
and cell reproduction represents the choice of the Life Carriers of a
formula embracing over one hundred thousand phases and features of possible
chemical reactions and biologic repercussions. More than half a million
specific experiments were made by the Life Carriers in their laboratories
before they finally settled upon this formula for the Urantia life experiment [735:3].
When Urantia scientists know more of these healing chemicals,
they will become more efficient in the treatment of injuries, and indirectly
they will know more about controlling certain serious diseases [735:4].
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