How I got started on TUB. (The Urantia Book)

I got TUB from a friend who very adamantly encouraged me to read it, two years before I was ready and disgustingly shelved it with no intention of ever reading it or even picking it up again.

Then a couple of things happened I was looking for information of Magnetic Energy with the intent of seeing if I could discover how to create a device that generated more energy than it used to create it by perhaps capturing magnetic energy from the Earths magnetic field.

A different friend said, "I think the Urantia Book says something about that." I told him I had the book and it seemed phony to me. He said he was amazed by how it spoke about scientific discovers before they happened. It got my interest again, I glanced at it again looking for anything on magnetic energy. While looking I noticed the Papers on Adam and Eve and The Lucifer Rebellion and started reading and while I had never heard anything like that before, it made more sense than the Biblical Story.

I read about Andon and Fonta. A millions years ago. Again matched recent scientific discoveries of that time. Again I was interested because it made sense.

Then My father died and I had a tremendous desire to find out more about our spiritual nature and Everything I had seen up to that time left me feeling like there was more to it AND SOMEBODY SHOULD NO ABOUT IT.

If they could write about Jesus' first 13 years of life and the last 3, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING SOMEWHERE ABOUT the missing years. I read new incomplete translations of ancient writings that had been recently discovered , and that had just come out about that time. Like Thomas' Gospel. Lost books of the Bible. Modern purported revelations about Jesus. Universal truths like those contained in Hesse's wrings and Gibran's writings and other historic and historical fiction writings. Still I couldn't find anything that satisfied me. I KNEW there must be something, somewhere. It can't be lost. And then after expressing my frustration to my friend who have given me TUB earlier, he said, "Why don't you just read Part IV on the Life of Jesus. It has those Lost Years of Jesus in it. Just read it. What do you have to lose"

I started Part IV and was reading about the bestowals of Michael and was thinking to myself what is all this CRA*. I almost put it down again. Then I said to myself OK so they Call Jesus Michael, I read a little more and let's see what happens. It got into stuff I was familiar with fro the bible. Gabriel’s visitations, Joseph and Mary's relatives, A historical perspective of the times that sounded very convincing . Then it was talking abut what people were thinking, HOW CAN IT DO THAT. I was starting to become more interested in the story so I resigned myself to read it as if it was fiction.

That was it! I was had. The things it said, the way I was moved, The outrageousness and presumptiveness of what it was saying and claiming as truth by revelation. The audacity. These must have had to be an extremely intelligent group of people to write this in this way, so consistent, so moving, so perplexing. IT WAS GOOD. I thought about teachings about Jesus, Movies about Jesus, Books about Jesus. THIS WAS THE BEST STORY about Jesus that I had EVER read or experienced in any media. And it just seem so possible, so plausible, It made so much sense. This is what it REALLY COULD HAVE BEEN LIKE!.

I was hooked. I wasn’t really ready to receive the book when I did. But the book didn’t give up on me. EVERYBODY is ready for the BOOK. Because EVEN if they reject it. They can’t escape the Truth it contains. That Truth the LIVING TRUTH will follow them all the days of their lives UNTIL that time that they are ready to see it.

Get the book, the Name Urantia, The truth as we live it, out there anyway you can. If’s it’s done negatively as in some YOUTUBE videos it will gain more name recognition by being absorbed by the truth as presented by those to negate the negative image of the book.

Translate it into every language of the world. The most well known ones first, than the lesser known ones. When the world is ready, TUB or the Truth it conveys, will be in the World waiting for those of the world to find it. And when they do find it with a sincere truth searching heart, they will soon KNOW they have found the NEW TEACHING of Eternal Value. IMHO.