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Project Jesus and The Center for Unity · Urantia Radio

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Imagine a group of people from all points across the world
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working to create a four-pronged project.
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That includes a Jesus multimedia Center and museum near the Sea
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of Galilee a virtual meta Universe of Jesus life that you
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can experience as well as have at your fingertips online.
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Which brings all of the facts of his life to you.
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And finally A continuing movie series that takes the stories
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from the life and teachings of the Jesus, And puts them in
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cinema. That is a pretty amazing project
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and that is exactly what the center for Unity project is.
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I'm delighted to have Gabriel Ryan, Berg and Israel who
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formulated the project along with Santiago Neyland.
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Steve marble, Luis Morales, Caribe lash and Rick Lyon.
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All of whom are also students of the Rancho book.
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And each playing a significant part of this Center for Unity
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project, which we will discuss now on the Rancher radio.
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Podcast, let me have everybody introduce themselves so that
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everybody gets an opportunity to introduce themselves to the
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audience. Well, let's start from Rick and
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then you Rick, you can pass it along, introduce everybody and
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your involvement in the center for unity.
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All right, well, my involvement with the center for Unity began.
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Probably in 2014. When I met Gabriel on a hillside
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overlooking, the Sea of Galilee and we actually your answer
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group, there's a tour with Diane labrecque and gave Told us what
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he was thinking about doing there.
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And so we had a brief prayer and started from there.
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So Gabriel has put together a team.
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And, and so all you last fall, it was when I really got
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involved, seriously and things just started rolling since then.
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So I've been a year range book readers since 1978 and really
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started getting involved in the range of activities and 93.
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And I've served in many roles with different associations.
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Ins and fellowship and you. Anyway, I and helped with the
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foundation to. So I've been around for a while
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and seeing a lot of things and I've been involved in a lot of
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projects, but I don't think I've ever seen one that had the
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potential and the way things have come together with all
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this. I've never seen that before.
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So it's something totally new and totally exciting, and I'm
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really pleased to be part of it. So maybe I'll hand it off to you
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then. So my name is Gabriel and I live
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in Israel. I was born Jewish.
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And until I was about 40 years old, no more, I had no
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connection to Jesus and no understanding of anything and
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you're untouchable came into my life.
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And I spent the next seven years, translating it into
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Hebrew, I was baptized in the Jordan and 2014.
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At the same time, I'm a break and I was still busy,
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translating your run check. Back then.
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So I just had vague ideas of something on the Mount of
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Beatitudes and well work, eight years later now.
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And those vague ideas have become for concrete projects.
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All of them are focused on sharing the life and teachings
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of Jesus. With everybody and especially,
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we're targeting young people around the world.
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So I just like ideas and once my relationship with Jesus,
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materialize to the point where I understand, not just in the head
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but in the heart, what it means to have a personal relationship
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with God. So everything I do is centered
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around that and all these projects have that in mind, this
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is what we pray for. I think that using these methods
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new technologies and the information in part four of the
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Rancher book is going to be a bang you know it's like a an
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explosive combination that will touch many hearts and that's
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what we're focused on. Pass it on to Luis Miguel
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miramon. Oh, thank you.
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Gabriel, and hi everyone. It's a pleasure to to be here
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and Jim nice to meet you. Meet you.
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Well I mean, in the Patagonia Argentina, some pretty pretty
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far from all of you and I'm, I'm from Colombia.
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I've been reading the book since 1990 And at least four times and
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I found the book through the JJ Benitez novel story, it's the
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Trojan Horse. Oh, and I found that different
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Jesus and that grabs me. It was, it was something magic
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and II wanted to know more about that Jesus because it was it was
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different That the one picture on my, on my Catholic
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background, you know, and they found it so so so attracted that
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II feel that they need to understand more and some
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somebody says to me that I should follow a link and I
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follow it and I found the UK and the rest is history and it seems
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that I have been transforming my life.
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All the time. And I'm just thinking about
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probably what I should do best if the, if the life is eternal.
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So it's like that, that come to my mind all the time.
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So I I started looking for art. So I become a Celestial Artisan
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in in potentially so I make music You probably have heard me
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before I meet you at tea and I love to make music about the
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ranch a book and and then I'm a specialist on human resources I
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have more than 30 years of experience.
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I'm an expert on on that matter. I'm a professional coach and I
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work. I worked for so many
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organizations and and that has become real Matter on my life
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because his it means for me that my purpose is is intending to 22
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and you're more than this life. So I've been working with
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groups, I will working with teams and I and I help teams
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become better and that that with the, with the lessons of the
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book have brought me here to the Center for Unity after the
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hackathon we had on 20/20. Yeah.
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Well we contact with Gabriel and make a lot of talking and then
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one thing becomes to another and here we are building a trying to
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build a world-class organization.
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That is more than a bunch of readers behind a project.
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But actually we are stepping one step ahead of what the people of
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the relative you book reader can It to understand the book, we
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are doing more of that. We are trying to picture Jesus
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as we as we read it. So I'm very happy and very
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thrill to be here and it's a pleasure to have all you on
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board because we are kind of the same in the same Mission.
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So I'm going to pass to to carry I'm honored to be here and to be
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a part of this team, but see, I have been reading and studying
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the Rancher book for over 30 years.
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My parents posted a study group for about 30 years and my mother
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received the book from my grandmother and her sister.
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I guess you could say I'm third generation.
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Wow. So I've been reading and
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studying as, you know, as best I can throughout my adult life and
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building a career and a family. And I had a business in between
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but I also have a 28-year career with public television, with the
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New Orleans, public television station.
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And yes Productions. Yes, Productions is the
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production Department of wyes. At the 12th.
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Oldest PBS station in the nation so we're 65 years old, and
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thanks to Hurricane Katrina. We now have a forty seven
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thousand square foot facility is probably one of the best in the
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country. We have three floors for
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Studios, you know, top of the line equipment, an incredible
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team and what has opened in the last six months is really
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exciting because we have partnered with Kenny Morrison
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Productions to bring in all the Cutting Edge, virtual reality
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and virtual production into our studio.
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So that's what's really going to be helpful for this project and
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this convergence of talent and staff was going on.
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While I was learning more about the center, Unity and learning
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about the needs and lo and behold, Gabriel Nile spoke about
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this and I said, well it is a possibility.
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We might be able to help it says, you know, continues on and
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in terms of the Cinematic portion of this project.
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So I was able to discuss this with our head of production and
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he was at the same time, bringing in and developing This
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partnership to bring in CGI and fresh will production into our
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studio space. So it's very exciting to be
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working for public television and yes, productions for so long
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and also to be able to bring something to the table here for
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the center for Unity team and to bring Jesus to life.
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And you know, we're honing in. On what stories are the most
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important to start with, with building a framework.
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And we can tell you more about that as we go along.
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But I'm excited to bring in two of my loves and passions
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together. Yeah, that's great hundred
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indeed. And then finally, we have I
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guess it would be the second Square down on the right from
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where I'm sitting, Santiago Santiago.
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Then the gentleman in the center, the Center Square.
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Do you all see each other, the same way, I see each other
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Gabriel's on the upper left now like I'm the Hollywood Squares.
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Do any of you know that TV show you can actually move the
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squares around by dragging and low, okay?
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All right, okay. Yeah.
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Well, you Tim yeah, yeah. Well, thank you Jim.
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My name is Santiago Neil and I'm actually a fan of your podcast.
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I really enjoy your your your program.
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I think it's a very enlightening you have a variety of themed so
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so I enjoy it. A lot means a lot to me.
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Well, I'm a 20 plus years, reader discovered, the ranch
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book around 1999. At that time.
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I was a little bit disenfranchised with the
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Catholic Church. Had been for quite some time.
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You know. There's a there were a lot of
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things that didn't really match up, you know.
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So I was in a search for four meaning, you know, different
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different places that I look for in suddenly the book arrived and
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it presented a new version of Jesus.
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In some of the most are all of the missing pieces that I that I
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had from the from Catholicism really came into San stand.
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It presented a different version that really, really matched my
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heart and matched. What really?
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I mean something that really filled me, you know, it was
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different completely, different version that made sense.
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And I remember I had a little return by mail thing, inside the
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book that I failed, I didn't think nobody was going to
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contact me and I filled in and somebody from the you Ranch
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Association contacted and I started going to presentations,
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then did it? Study group and now I'm here and
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the center for Unity. I've been participating in the
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Mexico Association. I even was there when it was
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charted with back in the day with Kathy Jones and I was I was
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fun and actually I talked to Kathy and he said well anything
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that you need for my part and she said well can you do
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translations and suddenly I was there in the middle of a
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translations and in doing that but doing the other the
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association translation back and forth.
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I'm English and Spanish and and then I started meeting other
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people get gone. I went to the Chicago
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conference. I think that was back in two
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thousand, four or five. I went to Chicago and and then
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we did the hackathon, two years ago, that's where I met.
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Louise, me, I met Gabriel and I got invited to the project a
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couple months ago and it has really been something.
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At my soul needed. You know?
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I mean this is a project that ever since you start reading the
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ranch a book, you want to take it a little bit further, it's
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like, well, we have to reveal this to the world and it's slow.
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Its, it kind of little bit frustrating that you get.
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A lot of people do not know this information.
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It can be so rewarding for them, it can, it can help them so
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much. So when this project came along
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and all the initiatives that we have, all the different things
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that they Center for Unity. It's All about, I was really
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excited and things are starting to move along.
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I feel really blessed to be part of this team, I'm in charge of
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sales and marketing and I'm also helping in the Cinematic part of
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our projects. So really excited to be here
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really excited to be with this theme.
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And like Rick said, and Gabriel said, this is something that we
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want to share with the world, especially nowadays in.
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This is what you've discussed in some of your podcast, with a
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World that we live in and the battle that's been waging right
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now between God and in, the secular world that we have to
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bring the Jesus story in Jesus life to to more people and they
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can really Comfort their souls in there, they can find that
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personal relationship with God that that Gabriel talks about.
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And and I think this is something that will really
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change their hearts and really open their hearts.
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Like, it happened to me. Me where I was fed up with a
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traditional religion, and I found this personal relationship
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with God and I have my own personal relationship,
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relationship and personal religion with him.
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So that's that's my story. Thanks, Santiago, that's great.
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How did, how the heck did you translate nor Alicia deck into
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Spanish? I just, and for that matter
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Hebrew, I mean, I must be a challenge.
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And then finally, sir, the gentleman I'm seeing in the
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middle, I Jim, I'm Steven marble I stand.
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I'm, I'm in California. So I'm sorry, empathize with
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Gabriel and what he does. Anyway.
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Yeah, I was self introduced, I suppose you could say to the
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ranch book in 1972. I kept it by my bedside and so
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solo reader and kept it with me throughout my professional
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career, working in immersive entertainment.
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Tainment. And so it was something I would
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look for connections with others and occasionally, I would meet
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somebody and in the word you Branch who would drop and we
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would suddenly light up and start sharing, but it would be
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in the oddest situations. Once I think one significant,
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one was an 87 at just came up the other day.
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Our yesterday, I was with this fellow who had made the first
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film on The Shroud of Turin and I asked him how he read the
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Rancher book. It says exactly how the Shroud
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was created, and he said he stopped, and he said, you're the
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second person in that is ask me. If I've read the you and I spoke
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in the other was some famous countries country singer from
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Nashville, whose name? I can't remember.
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So, I was really happy to know. There were other you Ranch,
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readers out there besides my Myself and these circumstances I
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kept bouncing into people and 2000.
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I started becoming a student and I'm in the Santa Fe study group
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and its foundation of my life. It was the first thing that
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really made sense to me. As I explored.
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What I was envisioning is reality versus what organized
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religion was telling me was the spiritual Universe out there.
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So I come at it from a cosmic. And what I really appreciate
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about this project is it's taking me into the life of Jesus
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which as a Protestant Christian I walked away from quite a bit,
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when I was younger and be went through a agnosticism into
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spiritual seeking and all of the different traditions and formats
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and then it back to Jesus all the time, back to Jesus.
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And of course, when the ranch book found me, that was the
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biggest example. However, did I read that portion
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of the Urantia book? Yeah, when I was in study group
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but I never have studied it. Now I'm enjoying seeing how it
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fits in the big puzzle pieces of Consciousness that I need and I
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can see the road needs as well. So my professional career is
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mostly an expanded Cinema. That's where I started.
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All going to Cinerama Disneyland as a kid and by the time I got
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in, I wanted For USC Cinema during the days of Lucas and the
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Gang. And, yeah, I being a hippie
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found myself in Idaho instead of Hollywood and raising a family.
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I've got back into filmmaking through teaching children
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filmmaking, then I was teaching deaf children filmmaking and
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then oh suddenly I'm making films again and I got involved.
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I was making eight millimeter films for, you're blowing up to
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16. Mm.
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And cutting them. We're cutting them on an eight
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millimeter flat bed, that was created in MIT and then blowing
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them up to 16 and I graduated from that when and to IMAX and
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we'll friends of mine and myself made an IMAX film called Kronos
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and 1985, and that did quite a quite well, it was nonverbal
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film and later on we also developed a phone, a couple
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films when is Baraka in, the other is samsara.
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And 70. Mm.
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So my background has been in analog film.
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And after I die, then did Back to the Future, the ride at
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Universal Studios that couple of them when in Florida and one in
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Hollywood and I was their senior project manager that was my
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official title. I was the meat and sandwich in
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the sole survivor of those projects.
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So, I got my, I really learned a lot about immersive
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entertainment as we created that project.
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And I went on to do a flying saucer and In China and other
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things like that. A lot of design that didn't get
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produced. You can imagine my experience
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when I finally connected with Gabriel about what they have
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been doing, I wasn't just ecstatic to hear that this was
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happening, especially on the Sea of Galilee.
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And what what this could mean as far as the new theater of a new
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presentation for Jesus and I'm telling Susan Yeah, I'm
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commitments project. I can't tell you how many times
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I went to the center and the dome in Hollywood on Sunset and
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just got it blown away by, then I saw gravity and IMAX a few
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years ago, I think I got kind of dizzy, so I, yeah, that was
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probably the best IMAX film ever made.
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I think that's unbelievable, 2001.
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Yes, that I saw that at the center of the Dome as well.
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So I'm lucky I consider my I'm Such a and you're right about
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the 80s, was the Golden Age of wonderful theater, and I don't
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think that'll ever be like that again.
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So creative. So I got into radio around the
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same time that I discovered the ranch book, which is about 1981.
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It already been a Christian. I didn't have any problem with
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Christianity. I probably wasn't that devout of
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a Christian, but I, but I had the basics and so I always
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thought there would be a marriage one day between radio.
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So I waited I waited. And then when podcasting came
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Out, that's when I realized, that's the way to reach people
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because in radio, it has been taught to me.
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And I've seen it. The people have a real
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relationship with another person.
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It's almost as good as having a best friend and we don't listen
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in public. Most people when they listen to
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a baseball game or a whatever they're listening to they
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listened by themselves or their in their car by themselves and
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they're having that symbiotic relationship with the person.
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So that's what what motivates me having, read the original To
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book probably a thousand times in some parts and at least three
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times from cover to cover, I share the same feelings as you
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guys. It's like you go back and you
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ReDiscover things. You've read him a thousand times
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and you go. Wow, I never saw that before.
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So let's get to the unity project.
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So tell me what you're doing because you've got all these
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different things. You've got the metaverse, which
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is exciting to me. Who wants to take the charge and
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kind of give us an overview. I think I'm going to take that
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question. I'm sharing with you a tree so
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obviously our listeners will now be able to see it but I'm going
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to describe it. We call this the 25-year Vision
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tree because our projects there are four of them and I'll
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mention them by name and explain what they are.
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They're very, very long and quite ambitious so we're taking
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them one step at a time. They're based on the life and
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teachings of Jesus. India Rancho book and a
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wonderful piece of art because it's that cold the untold story
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of Jesus. It's also a book but it's a
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coffee table format book beautifully made, which is a
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synthesis. It's called modern biography of
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Jesus based on Urantia book. And that's what it is.
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So, these two are our main references and, of course, we're
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using the gospels synoptic gospels, or from the Bible.
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Anything authentic that we can use about the life and teachings
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of Jesus. We are trying to synthesize from
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all these sources to create experiences and we are focused
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as an organization On creating experiences that produce
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spiritual transformations. In this tree has a few branches
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and now I'm going to describe to you what those branches are and
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explain what our projects are. So the first is a software
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piece, we call the Jesus metaverse.
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That's a nap, then we have to in-person projects in person.
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Means you're going somewhere, you're visiting a venue.
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One of them is called the Jesus Museum, and that's going to be
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on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
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And we're currently negotiating a lease on the same building
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where right now, you can see that Jesus or the Galilee boat
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and Whole story in and of itself.
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But there is an object that will discover 40 years ago when the
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Sea of Galilee receded. And from the information we have
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from the Rancher book, you can surmise that it is either a boat
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that Jesus Built with his own hands, or was built in the
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Zebedee boat shop. Which means if it's after his
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time, it's something he designed So the Jesus museum is going to
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be an in-person experience, you will see this boat and then you
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will go into a different room, huge room where Stephen is going
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to do his magic and basically bring you back 2,000 years to
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another lifetime. So you can experience and
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witness in person what happened, 2,000 years ago, but then we're
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also going to try to document in in an in-person experience.
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What Happened. Since what happened?
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Because Jesus was here, what happened to you manatee in the
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last 2,000 years but that's why we call it a museum, but it's
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not a regular Museum. It may have some physical
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artifacts and some pieces of Art and archaeology, but that's not
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going to be the main focus. The main focus is going to be a
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personal experience. Now, imagine you take that and
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you bring it to people all over the world where they are.
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So for those who cannot travel to the Sea of Galilee, we're
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going to make an experience called the Jesus experience or
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experience Jesus and that's going to show in main cities
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around the world just like a van Gogh experience and the cling to
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experience. And there's several companies
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that are doing this immersive experience that you about
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different types of our Cysts and other subjects.
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So we're going to do this about Jesus and then that means you
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can walk into a venue somewhere around the world and experience
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something similar to what we're going to show in the museum.
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Let me ask you a question real quick.
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I would imagine there are probably a lot of religious
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churches, Christian groups that are doing something similar or
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know that they would have some sort of, you know, reality
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virtual reality walking through the, you know, Now or do you are
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you aware of any? Well, I live in Israel and there
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is no Jesus Museum here or anywhere else in the world.
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And there is the question is why I don't have an answer to that.
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But it has never been done. And I think the one of the main
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points here is that we're marrying technology with
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information. The ranch a book has a complete
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description of the life and teachings of Jesus from before
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He actually came here to after he left.
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We're going to focus on the time he spent on Earth and there's so
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much information and insights that we can share.
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It has been never done before it hasn't been done before because
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you Rancho students, didn't do it and other people didn't have
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Iran. Triple so this is a first but
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even a Jesus Museum doesn't exist on this planet.
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Yet strange. We have one remote like we have
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one. The NOAA Arc.
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Yeah we do does very well. Yeah okay and there's the Bible
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Museum to in Washington, d.c. a wonderful building.
29:31
It's gorgeous and it's amazing. But there is nothing about
29:36
Jesus. So these two are the experience
29:39
and the museum are our in-person projects and the fourth project
29:45
we call cinematic Jesus. And this is what Kerry and
29:48
Santiago were talking about. So imagine we Can do either
29:53
we're still deliberating what the format will be, but imagine
29:56
you had a 50 episode 45 to 1 hour.
30:00
Each minutes covering the entire life of Jesus in drama, not a
30:07
documentary. But the actual things that
30:12
happen both let's say fictional and the real things so we can
30:17
meet characters that Jesus met and so and we know the
30:23
interaction that happened in Russia book.
30:25
But then we can fictionalize what happened to these people.
30:28
After what happened to Josiah? The blind beggar after the
30:32
Sanhedrin left him alone, what happened to Zacchaeus, that
30:37
basically gave up his fortune after meeting Jesus.
30:40
Happened to the two courtesans that he made in Rome.
30:43
And basically, for the first time in their life, they were
30:46
treated like versus yeah, there's so many backstories, we
30:51
can portray fictionally and then, of course, tell, you know,
30:54
show the son of man and the Son of God and his ark of
30:58
development, explain the things that we see in the arranger
31:01
book, and bring those pages to life and share his decisions.
31:07
Share his challenges, share his relationships.
31:10
It's all based on the stories and the information we have in
31:13
your on Triple J. J Benitez has done that.
31:17
And the result was that thousands of people Luis Miguel
31:22
included and others as well in Latin America because his books
31:26
were never translated to many languages but thousands of
31:30
people that read it in. Spanish says where's this Jesus
31:33
coming from I want to know more and through that they found the
31:37
Rancher book and decided to study it.
31:39
We're About disseminating, the around Chapel, we are about
31:43
sharing Jesus and his life and helping people form a
31:46
relationship with God, but if they are called to read around
31:50
your book, so be it will be happy.
31:54
So cinematic is the fourth fourth piece, imagine a 50
31:58
episode series. A lot of hours of film covering
32:03
the entire story. It will take us years to do, but
32:07
we want to start now and we feel that the Time is right?
32:11
So the center for Unity is a non-profit in Israel.
32:15
It's not an actual center. It's the name of our
32:17
organization in charge of executing all these projects in
32:22
the all the people in this school are working in these
32:26
different projects. And then the worldwide Ministry
32:31
of Jesus is a is a known as an American nonprofit in the United
32:37
States. It's mainly for fundraising.
32:40
And for overseeing the financial aspects of this operation.
32:44
So this is basically an overview why we're doing things.
32:49
What is it that we're doing? If I will just finish by saying
32:53
that in these next 25 years and I think even before that, we
32:58
want to reach 1 billion people and we think that this is
33:03
ambitious but actually doable but just give us an example.
33:06
The serious, The Chosen that started 3 years ago Go.
33:10
They're going to release the third season, in November, the
33:15
first two seasons. We watched more than 400 million
33:19
times for granted. People like me watched every
33:23
episode several times, but there's still a hundreds of
33:26
millions of people who have watched these two seasons.
33:30
They are planning seven seasons. And I think with these four
33:34
projects, we you know, God willing we will reach many, many
33:39
millions. If not billions of people and
33:42
share Jesus bringing out to life from the pages of your
33:47
Lunchable. It's pretty amazing.
33:50
My first question is, how can I help?
33:52
And my second question is, how can the listeners listening
33:55
help? Fundraising, obviously, you need
34:00
money to get this going and to keep it going.
34:04
Where, where are you at with that funding?
34:07
Let me take that question because that's one of my role is
34:10
as fundraising. And yeah, we're fully set up to
34:14
accept contributions and donations.
34:18
Let me start with a little bit of structural organizational
34:20
structure things that Gabriel kind of touched on.
34:23
There is the last year when this really took a Came, it went up
34:28
the next level. We knew we had to have nonprofit
34:32
organizations to do this and Gabriel contacted a law firm
34:36
there in Israel, that had been experience with creating museums
34:39
and that sort of thing. And they helped us create the
34:43
center for Unity, nonprofit organization in Israel.
34:46
And then because of tax issues, we knew we wanted to have some
34:49
way for people like in the United States because you know,
34:51
they get a tax deduction for contributions.
34:56
So we set up the worldwide Ministry.
34:57
Jesus, we had a law firm here, help us with that so that we can
35:01
accept donations through worldwide Ministry of Jesus.
35:04
And then through a grant process, get those at the center
35:07
for Unity to fund our four different projects.
35:10
So that's the relationship between Center for Unity and
35:13
worldwide Ministry of Jesus. But the best way for people to
35:18
help, first of all, is through prayer.
35:21
You know, prayer is the most powerful way of supporting what
35:24
we're doing. And, you know, I think all of
35:27
us, Here and probably most everybody that's listening.
35:29
Knows the power of prayer when all of us pray together for a
35:33
good cause and something that we believe is the will of God are
35:37
all these projects working at the same speed.
35:40
Some obviously have to take longer than others.
35:43
Where are we at with each of the four branches?
35:45
Okay, so I'll take that one. The metaverse is the software
35:49
app we have been spending the last year in building, a
35:56
computer model of the Conditions of Jesus, something that was
35:59
never done before where things are connected to one another, we
36:04
have thousands of data points. And then we can ask this model
36:09
questions, like, you know, how many times Jesus was in
36:13
Jerusalem and what happened each time in which dates was in.
36:18
So instead of searching the pages we want your book, we have
36:20
now a model that can answer that question.
36:23
Or for example, show me all the times that Jesus met Met a
36:28
person. Like what what?
36:29
I called, as he passed by just once and what happened in each
36:34
each one of those signs. Or for example, show me every
36:38
event in which Simon Peter and Jesus were together and show me
36:42
the list of all these events. What happened in each one of
36:45
those and then you can start seeing the relationship between,
36:49
for example, Simon, Peter and Jesus.
36:52
So we have relationships and places and events and times.
36:56
And topics as a big team of people have invested thousands
37:02
of hours in collecting this information, which now we're
37:06
building a software product to display in a database format.
37:11
So you can do research in a study format, that you can
37:15
actually see a sequence of things and learn a topic like
37:21
Jesus on gender equality. Now, there's so much richness in
37:24
the pages of the Rancher book about.
37:26
What was it that he was saying? What was it that he said to
37:30
different people and taught his Apostles?
37:32
What was it that he did? Just like the example I gave
37:35
before no heat treated to prostitutes as children of God
37:40
and gun, it the young men that was beside.
37:43
It was shocked. And that young man came from
37:46
India. His father was very rich, he was
37:48
probably living in the Harem. He saw women.
37:51
Yeah. So he knew the meaning of what
37:54
Jesus was doing and he was shocked and he Was not the only
37:57
one. So obviously Jesus taught a lot
37:59
of things about men and women, marriage family, not to say
38:05
that, you know, he didn't speak specifically about lgbtq but we
38:09
can in fear from the things that he did, what was his thinking.
38:13
So this is just one example, a topic.
38:16
We have hundreds of those. Yeah yeah so that's the software
38:21
called the metaverse. It's the most advanced project.
38:25
The museum we're negotiating Elise and we're actually now
38:28
starting to design it. Stephen and local firm in Israel
38:33
that has worldwide experience in designing museums and venues are
38:40
starting to do this conceptual design.
38:43
So this is advancing Carrie and her team already have been
38:48
producing detailed budgets for films for us, and we're now
38:52
writing the treatment. This is Violence of the film is
38:56
a street, a document that explains the project so we're
39:00
fleshing it out and the experience will be based on the
39:04
museum. So, whatever we do with the
39:05
museum, the derivative of that is going to go into the
39:08
experience. So all four projects are
39:11
advancing The Meta versus the most advanced.
39:14
It's the one that we need. The least amount of resources at
39:18
least Financial Resources for, but we need the most amount of
39:21
hours Force. We've invested thousands of
39:24
hours of ready. My goodness, you know, David
39:29
Cantor released a video. I guess a couple years ago.
39:33
Reimagining Jesus. It is a kind of like that the
39:37
the not the document, not the 50 part series but the metaverse
39:42
where you sort of get the walk through Jerusalem and Israel,
39:47
the way that Jesus did is it sort of like that?
39:50
Like you get to see what it was like back then through his eyes.
39:54
That's a very good question. We're starting with something
39:58
that those meta versus will exist and they're plural but
40:03
they don't exist right now. Not that Jesus one and not the
40:05
other ones. They're being built right now.
40:07
So we're talking a few more years into down the road.
40:11
So the first version of the Jesus metaverse is software app.
40:15
You can run on your browser or on your phone on your tablet.
40:18
You don't need any special special here and it's not going
40:21
to be immersive in that sense, it's going to be experiential.
40:26
But more with media that we have today with videos and art and
40:30
comics, and text and audio, and podcasts and books, and
40:33
articles. So you can think of it, as the
40:37
research mode will be like a Wikipedia on the life and
40:40
teachings of Jesus with a lot of media files and, and hyperlinks.
40:44
So you can jump from one thing to the other and then the
40:47
studies is are going to be a topical introduction.
40:51
And then there's another layer to that product which is the
40:54
community and social layer. Where you can interact with
40:57
other people. And that's this is what young
40:59
people today want. They want to unbundle Faith,
41:04
they want to take a little bit of the church and take a little
41:07
bit of meditation, a little bit of mindfulness and do some music
41:11
and yoga and dancing and find God their own way.
41:15
So our product is going to be part of that Trend.
41:18
Yeah, in the back of my mind, I asked myself, what is the
41:22
Christian world going to do with this?
41:24
Because they're the Ironically, they're the biggest Optical
41:28
obstacle. Go go figure, right?
41:31
But it's because of that Dogma, you know, they want to cling to
41:35
and I don't know how to overcome that.
41:37
I woke up this morning thinking about that.
41:40
There was an article in the paper where a gentleman wrote
41:44
about how we should embrace Christian nationalism which may
41:48
or may not be a good thing. But I think what he's saying is
41:50
that the Christian church has an opportunity here to become a
41:54
more political force. By using the power of
41:57
Christianity. I'm not sure how I feel about
42:00
that. It seems almost like a, okay,
42:02
now we're trying to find a reason to, to exist, aside from
42:07
teaching, the teachings of Jesus, you know?
42:10
But as have you any of you had any blowback from people saying
42:13
you can't do this. Why don't you do the Bible
42:15
instead of the Rancho book stuff like that?
42:18
Yeah, yeah. Can it can I kind of answer the
42:21
head? Yeah well that's that's been one
42:23
of the things that we found her too.
42:25
Actually For a couple pass a couple of months, it's okay.
42:29
And we've actually categorized as you enter book readers and
42:33
Christian, Christian Christian. See you know, and we actually
42:38
try to approach to look for donations and to look for
42:42
contribution and to to make them part of our part of our world.
42:46
But I think like you're seeing, it's a, I don't know, the deeply
42:50
rooted Christians, it's the Bible, and that's it.
42:55
There's no, there's no. No other reason out there and
42:57
actually we had some, some, some people asking us, well, why are
43:02
you saying this book instead of the Bible?
43:05
And so we decided to say, you know, first we have to explain
43:09
what the Rancher book is. They have to understand what's
43:11
in there that it's not contradicting Christianity, but
43:15
expanding it. And really there wasn't any any.
43:19
We didn't find any benefit of trying to get the resources from
43:24
them or trying to get. Involved in here.
43:28
So that's really a question that you see what's going to happen.
43:31
I think that the, the ones that are really ingrained in their
43:34
really sending to their ways, it'll be hard for them to
43:40
participate. I don't know if once we put out
43:42
the information and we have the projects out there and they see
43:45
that this isn't going against Christianity, but expanding it,
43:49
they might open up, but I think it's a little bit of what
43:52
happened with with Jesus in that, but the Gentiles were the
43:56
ones that really took on on his teachings.
44:00
You know, the juice kind of kind of want their went their way.
44:03
You're right. I'm right.
44:05
I think that's going to happen. And I think like we were saying
44:07
this is year to younger people. I look at my I have a three
44:12
kids. I have a 12 year old, the
44:13
seven-year and a three-year-old, which, I mean, I can't just give
44:17
them their, yeah, checkbook at their age, it's too hard for
44:19
them, you know. But I relate what Jesus, you
44:23
know, the Jesus version of Urantia book.
44:26
The really the information from your engine book and I always
44:29
ask myself, when can they have a resource that they can go to on
44:33
their own, and they can really experience this on their own and
44:36
I think this is what we're doing.
44:38
This is putting a very practical way to approach Jesus and I
44:42
think that's that's the number one way and how everybody like,
44:45
Louise me and in the Spanish-speaking world came to
44:48
read the ranch a book, it was really that connection that they
44:51
made with with, Jesus, that brought them to this place.
44:58
I think Kelly had something she wanted to say good Kelly Carrie
45:03
Carrie. Sorry, my apologies.
45:06
Well, from a production standpoint, I can tell you that
45:09
Kenny Morrison director and his team are looking into all this
45:15
and they're really excited about producing something new and
45:20
something different that hasn't been done before.
45:22
There's so much Rich detail that there are looking Into and I
45:27
think that that will you know really resonate and be relevant
45:34
to a lot of folks. So from a production standpoint
45:38
there, also we didn't really talk about this too much but
45:40
there's going to be live actors so it's a convergent of live
45:46
actors along with the virtual production and it allows us with
45:52
such to have so many efficiencies along the way.
45:55
Along the production Journey, it allows the entire team to have
46:00
input along the way as well in advance.
46:04
And, you know, a lot of different approval, nice,
46:09
approval process. It's solid that's part of every
46:11
production, but it's very exciting to.
46:15
They are telling me, you know, to have such new detail and new
46:19
information to produce some very good.
46:22
Anyone else on that question, do you think America is go ahead.
46:27
Go ahead. Gabriel.
46:28
I'll just say that. One quote, from the, from
46:34
Cinema, from Field of Dreams, build it and they will come.
46:38
So we're going to build it and they will come but also more
46:43
practical. We feel that we want to focus on
46:49
the Jesus before Christianity. That doesn't mean anything.
46:54
It doesn't imply anything about Christianity, got it.
46:57
Whoever is Christian, whoever's Jewish wherever's Muslim, they
47:02
can have their own faith. We just want to share this
47:04
person. This the particular life and
47:07
teachings of this person and how the simple truths of his gospel,
47:13
you know, that we are children of God.
47:15
We are loved unconditionally. We are brothers and sisters,
47:19
literally in the spirit. We don't have to think alike.
47:22
Look alike, you don't have to be uniform to be United, right?
47:27
And there's a few other teachings about love and about
47:30
forgiveness that allow anger and about, you know, everything
47:35
being about love, which I think he came a little bit early for
47:39
Humanity, but Humanity needs to catch up.
47:42
We've been catching up technologically wonderfully
47:45
materially. But spiritually, we still have
47:48
some work to do and his teachings are so relevant.
47:52
To myself, you know, 15 years ago I was deeply stuck in the
47:56
material world, no connection to God, deeply lost, deeply
48:01
miserable, and I had to get a few flicks and Flax on the head
48:06
and then on the behind. So that life will turn me
48:10
around. So, I can start asking, you
48:11
know, why, or what, what else is out there that are missing and
48:17
then open up to a relationship with God, there's many people
48:21
who are searching They they are hungry.
48:24
We want to share some spiritual food with them in an appealing
48:27
and accessible way. We're going to translate these
48:30
products to every conceivable language that's a huge product.
48:33
That is what we're going to do that.
48:35
We're going to make it accessible to the hard of
48:37
hearing and the visually impaired.
48:39
We basically want any person on the planet to have access to
48:43
this. The metaverse is going to be
48:45
always free, no ads. We're not going to sell
48:49
anything. We're not going to sell you to
48:50
anybody else. So we do need help building this
48:54
made of herbs. And what I do I just finished by
48:59
saying, remember Jesus before Christianity.
49:02
Jesus was not Christian, he had nothing to do with Christianity
49:07
and most people in the world including myself when you ask
49:10
them and they're not Christians, they will say yes.
49:12
Jesus and Christianity are the same but it's not.
49:15
True Jesus is is Before Christianity.
49:19
So we will focus on that on Jesus before Christianity.
49:25
If I could jump in here without of a personal story, a longer,
49:28
your question. There.
49:30
You know, the relationship of Christians with what we're two
49:34
doing here. And but we had a fellow contact
49:37
us, it was a gospel pastor and Michigan who was interested in
49:41
the metaverse and wanted to know more.
49:42
So I talked to him on the phone for quite a while and told him
49:46
about the meta verse and what it was doing, you know, and I think
49:49
one of the important aspects of the metaverse is it's not just
49:52
an entertainment but it's a tool that people can use.
49:55
Use for in-depth, study of the book.
49:57
You know, you can, you can make all these connections through
50:00
these nodes that gave her was talking about how, our, how is
50:03
everything interconnected who was connected to this event.
50:07
Where is this event? You know, what's what's the
50:10
area? Like, and what's it look like
50:11
and where is it? What's it like today and all
50:13
that kind of stuff? But this pastor once I told him
50:16
what, what the metaverse actually was, he said, you know,
50:20
this is a valuable tool for him as far as creating his sermons
50:25
and Things like that, he can go in there.
50:27
He says I've got a whole Library full of books but I can't find
50:30
what I need when I need it. But you know the way the
50:32
metaverse is going to work, it's going to be very easy.
50:35
He could see that it was going to be very easy for him to go in
50:38
there and dig really deep into any particular topic and find
50:41
the information that he needs to then take that to his
50:45
congregation and he said the other thing.
50:48
The other aspect of the metaverse as far as being a tool
50:52
for in-depth study was that, you know, he has a youth or Youth
50:55
Center where he helps disadvantaged youth.
50:58
He said a lot of them have trouble reading and so, all the
51:01
visual and audio aspect that's going to be in the meadow verse
51:05
will help those young people find and discover Jesus and the
51:09
Jesus that they can relate to. So I think that's a very
51:12
important aspect of the metaphors I can't wait the, the
51:18
movie think, I think is good to this this multiples, multiple
51:22
series. Because I think outside of the
51:24
United States, I think there's much more hunger for this.
51:28
Then within the United States were to embroiled and silliness,
51:32
you know, distractions and bad leadership.
51:35
All the things that we know what is the, what is the thing about
51:42
the Unseen? Father, I remember having a
51:43
conversation with someone On that.
51:46
This was it some point. You could see that we would
51:49
build a temple for worship somewhere.
51:51
Along the Sea of Galilee was that a part of any of this
51:54
Gabriel? Yeah, yeah.
51:56
Actually, this is that idea of building a temple for the
52:03
Unseen. Father was the first thing that
52:05
arrived many years ago, and I think that's going to be part of
52:12
this Vision, but it's not something we're actively.
52:15
Really working on right now in the beginning we thought this
52:18
Museum will have a worship area. I think it should still have a
52:25
worship area, we haven't designed the museum but it's
52:27
easier for for us when we discuss these things with the
52:32
Israeli government to say we're building a Jesus Museum, it's a
52:35
better. It's an easier sell and it's
52:38
also true that we want to build something like this.
52:43
I think the temple will come. We will get the sign that this
52:47
is the right time. We will probably have to buy
52:50
piece of land around the Sea of Galilee for that frankly.
52:54
Right now, nobody stepped up and say Here's 25 million dollars,
52:57
build it for me. If somebody steps up and says
53:00
here's 25 million dollars, build it for me, I will do that.
53:05
But burying the fact that I don't have 25 million dollars.
53:08
That means we have to wait until this is the right time and when
53:12
the finances are there, it's probably going to be a good
53:16
indicator. We can do the museum for a
53:19
fraction of that cost. We can do the metaverse for a
53:22
fraction of that caused the 50 episode serious is going to be
53:26
the most expensive thing because film is film, but it's going to
53:30
be something that will have so much impact because people film
53:35
Fail and people love Cinema. Yeah.
53:37
In Jesus still sales today. Yeah and in books and in films
53:43
because he's drawing people to him and all we have to do is
53:47
lift them up. So this is what we're doing.
53:50
The temple will come. We are.
53:53
It's in my mind. It's what started all of this.
53:57
So I guess I needed to hear that first and then sometime later
54:03
down the road, this will materialize.
54:04
I can tell you another story being in Israel living in Israel
54:08
growing up in Israel. I know the Sea of Galilee very
54:11
well, been there many, many times, there's a whole area, the
54:16
northern part of the Sea of Galilee, which is completely
54:19
empty, its Rolling Hills with nothing, nothing nothing in it.
54:25
And there's one road that drives through it, on the way to the
54:30
other side. And I was driving with my wife
54:32
Sandra several times on that. And I could see I could feel
54:38
that this would be an educational center.
54:41
The years to come beings from all over.
54:45
The universe will come to this planet because they will know
54:49
who Jesus is and then it will come here to find out more about
54:55
this particular world. And what more befitting place to
54:59
build such a center than that place?
55:02
I think the tempo will be the Cornerstone none of that place.
55:06
When is the right time for that? I don't know.
55:09
But we will find out may also be a reflection or when that
55:14
happens will be a reflection of how far we have come.
55:19
Yes, right. Well I know, I know it's going
55:22
to be unbelievable for y'all but we've been here for an hour and
55:26
I want to give everybody an opportunity to say a few things
55:29
about their involvement and any thoughts that you have about the
55:32
Urantia movement. In debt before I do that,
55:36
though, I do have a question for Argentinian friend.
55:39
There has been a lot of discussion that I've had with a
55:41
lot of people about the expansion and explosion of the
55:45
Rancho book in South America, which is a heavily Catholic
55:50
country of lots of little countries that are Catholic.
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What's the explanation behind the reception of the Rancho book
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and say, South America as opposed to Australia, Or other
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places where you have such a heavy Catholic Australia would
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be a bad example. Why is it so popular in South
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America? What's going on there?
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That we don't know what the hell do you mean?
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It's a tough question, you know because well, who knows, I
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think, I think we're passion. Will we have a lot of passion
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for for, for the things we believe in and I think the South
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Some people has these. These eager to believe in
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something greater and and, and once they got into it, they go
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all the way, you know, it's like they don't hesitate at all.
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That's, that's my experience, you know?
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And, and, and particularly, in the, in the, in the, in the
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arantxa community movement. I think that it has been a great
57:02
job. Job of some of people, some of
57:05
the people that are leading the movement in the in the different
57:12
countries organization because we created like a Latin American
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Comedy, a South American community of leaders and we will
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be we will be in working. Like I know say like, Police six
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years, six years from now. And and, and will be will be in
57:39
being very active on helping each other to understand what is
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going on in Colombia. What is going on in Peru Ecuador
57:49
and we all, we all are connected and that helped a lot of people
57:55
to be attracted to most of the Of the of the ways we trying to
58:02
do. So there's a lot of going on
58:05
here because there's a lot of readers who believes in working
58:10
together and and I guess it is growing but only recently.
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Yeah so I don't know how I don't have that many stunts because
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she has a similar perspective. Yeah.
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Yeah. I agree.
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I'm actually from Mexico. I live in Mexico and I think one
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of the the big big thing that happened in the 90s was the
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Trojan horse eBooks by kata-kata Benitez.
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I actually read the book in English.
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I mean, although a Mexican I'm a bit better in English and I had
58:49
American education, but everybody else that I know in
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Spanish-speaking. Got it through the the Trojan
58:57
Horse. Actually some of Of our trustees
58:59
and the foundation, like, Victor Borge, he bred the the Trojan
59:03
Horse and he came through that. So I think this like Gabriel
59:07
said is reflecting on what's going to happen with that with a
59:10
center for Unity and presenting the Jesus story where people can
59:15
relate. This is I mean this is the human
59:17
part where you can relate to and that takes you to the rest of
59:21
the range of books. So I think that's what happened.
59:24
I mean, people knew through the Catholicism of that.
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They were brought up in to They knew Jesus and now they have an
59:30
expanded and more accurate, accurate accurate portrayal of
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Jesus. That really we sounds with them.
59:39
So I think that's that's the key.
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Very good. So thoughts about any closing,
59:45
thoughts about your involvement, what you like to see in the next
59:48
year and we can start with Carrie.
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Yes, thank you. Such a pleasure to be here and
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I've really enjoyed your podcast.
59:57
Jim thank you. Just discovered them really if
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you can believe that. So thank you for all that you're
1:00:02
doing. So you know, I think that what
1:00:08
we're offering, what we're doing is going to resonate with with a
1:00:12
lot of folks. I can just tell you me
1:00:14
personally, you know, my family talking about, you know, young
1:00:19
kids and such going to Norfolk Show non-denominational churches
1:00:24
can be enjoyable and the fellowship with the ladies there
1:00:29
and the you know, the worship praise and worship music is
1:00:33
always nice. So, you know, it is really
1:00:37
enjoyable. Enjoyable to be able to find
1:00:39
your spirituality and so many different areas.
1:00:41
So maybe people can, you know, relate to that.
1:00:46
And what I'd like to express with regards to this virtual
1:00:51
production, which We're kind of like the new buzzwords out there
1:00:54
is seeing is believing so it's just such a convergence of the
1:01:00
live-action and the virtual reality the virtual wall and the
1:01:05
virtual production, it's so many efficiencies where we'll be able
1:01:10
to do things and produce in a much more efficient manner with
1:01:16
a lot of different convergence of thoughts and creatives that
1:01:20
don't have to be physically. One place with such a wide
1:01:25
variety of backgrounds and sets the we can change out basically
1:01:31
within minutes and we can go from 1920s Berlin, you know, to
1:01:36
2022 Anchorage, Alaska to first century, you know Jerusalem you
1:01:41
know within minutes. And so that's like the Holodeck
1:01:45
on Star Trek, you know. Remember the holiday, you know?
1:01:49
Yes computer. Yes, I want.
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Go, 1930. Here we go.
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Exactly. So the team is really excited,
1:01:59
and what we can say here is, you know, seeing is believing.
1:02:03
And I think that's really what we need, right?
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Yeah, it almost yeah. It reinforces, the the visuals
1:02:10
however, that works in the mind and then you feel like you
1:02:13
actually have a memory cohesive memory.
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Rick, any thoughts about again? I know I asked you this before
1:02:21
but Need people, you need more people, you need will, we can we
1:02:26
see anything now, sort of like a teaser on what you've come up
1:02:30
with so far. Is there a place we can go and
1:02:33
maybe get a glimpse of each of these projects and where they're
1:02:36
at now? Yeah, the Jesus made a verse
1:02:40
actually, Gabriel put together real nice prototype of that.
1:02:43
That's out there. I think the best way for people
1:02:46
to do that is go through the website, Jesus metaverse dot org
1:02:49
and you can find links to that those kind of videos and that
1:02:52
sort of thing. So, but the Jesus met of are
1:02:56
certainly our project. That's the most advanced nearing
1:02:59
completion. Okay?
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So years ago I did a a I found a software where I could go back
1:03:06
in time and see If a specific date fell on a specific day and
1:03:11
I calculated, I went through the Jesus papers and I started
1:03:16
saying okay, well, I would look for something that said Jesus
1:03:19
one here on Sunday May 3rd, you know, 22, whatever it was.
1:03:25
And every one of them matched up perfectly to this software that
1:03:28
gives you in the reason I'm asking this is because in your
1:03:32
process of all these projects have you yourself, found
1:03:36
nuggets? A validation.
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You know what I mean? In other words, were you in this
1:03:41
process of putting all these stories together and these
1:03:44
visuals and ideas, where you ever for a moment going, wow,
1:03:48
this is just so rich in detail that it in the parts of what
1:03:52
you're doing. Were you able to gleam even more
1:03:56
validation of the Rancho book? And amazement at the authors who
1:04:00
are able to Midway, ER commission, how they were able
1:04:03
to get so much right in their in their narrative.
1:04:06
Is that mean anything? Any of you sir.
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I think that's I think what you're saying there Jim is
1:04:11
exactly what we're trying to do with the metaverse is help
1:04:13
people reach that you know, I've been around long enough that
1:04:16
those nuggets of verification came for me, long ago.
1:04:20
No the Urantia book. One of the things that's that
1:04:23
really appeals to me is it's the only religious texts or
1:04:28
spiritual texts that names dates and places, you know.
1:04:32
Yeah. We went through as far as
1:04:35
something we were, you know, doing personally several years
1:04:37
ago Go and pulled out all the dates from the ranch ebook
1:04:40
specific dates on this day, such and such happened.
1:04:44
The next day this happened and there's over 300 specific dates
1:04:48
listed in the Ranchi boat. And those are the kinds of
1:04:51
things that people can go into the metaverse and find, you can
1:04:54
find those dates and connect all the dots and all that kind of
1:04:56
stuff. So, go ahead, Karen.
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Well, I was just going to say it's just been exciting for me
1:05:01
personally to see all these seemingly.
1:05:04
Coincidences just popping and happening.
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As I help with this project, I have read a lot of Squire Rush
1:05:14
Nails books over the years on the meaning of coincidences and
1:05:19
he has social media and such he's a television producer that
1:05:23
produced you know some children's educational
1:05:28
programming. Schoolhouse Rock back in the oh
1:05:31
yeah ladies are. So when only public television
1:05:34
at that point was really doing educational TV and he It
1:05:38
compiles, all these little stories back to stories, telling
1:05:42
the story of all these seemingly coincidences that people around
1:05:48
the world will will swear that it's the divine intervention or
1:05:53
Divine help or the angels helping that they, you know,
1:05:55
it's kind of something medical. They never go back in and check
1:05:58
on this and they went and discovered, you know something.
1:06:02
So I've read and enjoyed their delightful of all the stimuli
1:06:07
Incidences. So, for me, personally, we don't
1:06:10
have the time now, but it's been very exciting to feel that I've
1:06:15
been on the right path. As I have experienced some major
1:06:21
coincidences in the process of working with this team and I
1:06:26
look forward to more and, you know, I think that's going to be
1:06:31
a lot of fun as we continue along.
1:06:33
We have a lot of things to keep us busy have teams of people.
1:06:37
People that are ready and looking for work and looking at
1:06:41
how is any of this been impeded by covid and the current sort of
1:06:45
political tension that's going on in the world because we're
1:06:48
all in our different parts of the world.
1:06:50
Trying to coalesce. It has helped, I think covid has
1:06:54
helped. We're gonna make lemonade from
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Lance right? That's right.
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Well, you're we're learning how to work together with teams
1:07:02
around the world and work in a efficient manner.
1:07:06
And You know, we can talk for a long time about that, but I
1:07:10
think that in those regards, I think it's helped the process in
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the team. Well, I want to thank everybody,
1:07:16
Gabriel, and of course, Carrie and Stephen, and Rick and
1:07:21
Santiago and anybody I missed, thank you.
1:07:23
It's been an honor to be here and I want to help I like this
1:07:27
because I wasn't sure it was. First time I've had more than
1:07:30
one person on it, the program. So it worked out nicely.
1:07:34
I could go on forever. And I want to keep track of this
1:07:38
project, so keep me informed. And then I can relay that
1:07:42
information and Rick, any of you that want to come on.
1:07:45
And share any of your own experiences.
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You have an open invitation and I hope that you'll take me up on
1:07:50
it. We're trying to build something
1:07:52
here. I'm shocked that we're not
1:07:54
farther along in terms of awareness of the Rancho book but
1:07:57
I'm not dismayed because I know how rich and complex the book is
1:08:02
and it takes a commitment. You've got to be willing like I
1:08:05
think one of you said you can hand the book to somebody but
1:08:08
they got to want to read it. And they've got to be open to
1:08:11
it, and they've gotta have a hunger for something.
1:08:14
And I tried to tell that to my Kids in my people that I love in
1:08:16
my life and they just you know, I just I'm more amazed that they
1:08:20
don't want to know anyway, I wanted to just thank all of you
1:08:23
for that and again I want to give out a couple of pieces of
1:08:26
information. Call ears a phone number for
1:08:29
you. This is seven six, five three
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six six seven two zero three that's Rick's number Rick.
1:08:36
If you want to help call Rick he'll help you and then you can
1:08:40
be a part of this project. Have you done it?
1:08:42
GoFundMe kind of a thing? Yeah.
1:08:44
Where people can. On and donate on the website.
1:08:47
There, there's a donate credit cards and there's the address
1:08:51
there to send a check. We can accept donations in any,
1:08:56
any form, any any place in the world and it's Jesus metaverse
1:09:00
dot-org. Jesus metaverse dot-org.
1:09:03
I hope you found our time with these wonderful people here on
1:09:05
the Rancher Radio podcast absolutely enthralling and
1:09:09
thanks again to Gabriel 9 Berg Santiago Neyland carry blash.
1:09:13
Steve marble Louis Morales. And of course, Rick Lyon for
1:09:17
helping to put this interview together.
1:09:19
No doubt, it gives me, great joy to see inside this wonderful
1:09:23
project from those who are actually involved.
1:09:25
And I can't wait to see how each of these projects come together.
1:09:29
And what transformative effect, they will have in bringing
1:09:32
people on this planet closer to God through the examination of
1:09:36
his son. And again, for more information
1:09:39
center for Unity dot-org. Rick is also happy to answer any
1:09:43
questions and his number is 7. X5 3667 203.
1:09:49
Again, that number is seven. Six, five, three, six, six,
1:09:52
seven, two zero, three. Such a great experience and I
1:09:56
thank you for stopping by this edition of the Urantia Radio
1:09:59
podcast.