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Q&A - Listener Questions · Urantia Radio

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  Welcome to another edition of the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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  I'm your host Jim, long time reader, student, a fellow
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  traveler and always talking, centered on the Urantia papers,
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  the Urantia book, the 5th epical Revelation.
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  And I know there's a lot of great podcasts out there, but
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  what we're talking about here is the real deal.
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  And it's good to have your attention.
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  And the best thing you can do is to share this podcast with your
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  friends, fellow seekers of truth and hope.
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  You had a great Easter, hope that it was all it was meant to
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  be. I know it was nice to see so
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  much out there, people celebrating in their own way.
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  There was good vibration, no doubt.
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  So I always encourage people to, if you've got a comment or if
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  you are, you know, you've got something on your mind,
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  something you want to say about the show or a question.
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  I've set up a listener comment line which you can go to on any
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  device, a computer or iPad, iPhone, Android and just go to
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  urantiaradio.org, urantiaradio.org and, and you
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  can leave a message. There's a little tab, it's on
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  the right hand side of the screen and it says leave a
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  comment. And that's how you do it.
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  You just click the button and then you can talk into your
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  phone. It'll give you a little bit of a
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  countdown and, and we're going to try something new here, which
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  we've not done before. So this is actually our first
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  opportunity to try something new.
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  Listener comment because I really love hearing from you.
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  I get so many great emails and they're so thought provoking
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  too. And, and this is what it's all
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  about discussion and, and trying to get more and to dig deeper
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  and to get in there and just explore the revelation for
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  everything that it is. And it's so much fun when
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  there's other people involved. So let's listen to this comment
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  from a listener. Let's take a listen.
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  Hi Jim, my name is MiTo and I have a quick question.
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  Sorry if it's loud outside, I'm walking my dog.
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  I was wondering if you have ever had a an experience yourself
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  such as either speaking or talking to an Angel or beard or
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  being or a UFO experience, you know something along those
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  lines. I'm new to the show so I haven't
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  listened to all of them so maybe you have said it before, but
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  thank you all. Right.
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  Well, that's good. Thank you for that.
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  I appreciate the call. The question is, have I had any
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  sort of supernatural experience? Now, I'm not as fortunate as a
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  lot of people, but I've had had a few instances and it's
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  interesting that I hadn't thought about them until that
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  gentleman asked the question. And then a couple of little
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  lights went off in my head about memories.
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  And there were two particular, and they're not very strong
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  memories, but one of them was I was walking in a, in a very, it
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  was evening, I was in Honolulu, the night sky, I could see all
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  the stars. It was a beautiful night.
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  I was away from all the lights walking in this this area, in
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  this field not far from where I lived.
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  And as I looked up, I saw a sort of a triangular light pattern
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  that looked like the bottom of a ship, but it was triangular.
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  It was clearly triangular. And it was it was flying at a
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  very high distance, kind of like we'd see a jet.
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  But I thought it was unusual that I've never seen a
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  triangular pattern, and it was clear and distinct.
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  I didn't think much of it because I know that probably
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  planes fly over Hawaii all the time, but I still felt like it
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  was something unique or different.
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  It wasn't whizzing or anything, but it probably wasn't even that
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  spectacular. But it was one of the few times
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  where I saw something and I said that doesn't look like it fits.
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  Another time I was in Alaska and there was, there's a just below
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  Mendenhall Lake, which is this beautiful lake that's butt up
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  against these mountains and there's glaciers, Mendenhall
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  Glacier for those who've been to Juneau.
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  And not far from that area down towards the the airport, there's
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  an area where all the water comes draining into, out into
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  the Gastono Channel and then out to the Pacific Ocean and during
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  the low tide. Very beautiful, very spiritual
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  place. And one morning and it was in
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  January, very cold, but it was clear, it was crisp and blue and
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  the ice was melting. And I went out and I took a
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  guitar and I was about strumming along just it was the middle of
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  the morning and it was just spectacularly beautiful.
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  And I looked to my left and I saw maybe, maybe 30 yards at
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  most. But it appeared to be a lighted
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  object that was sort of spinning very slowly, almost like a
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  crystal that was it was above ground clearly by a few feet.
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  And this, this, this light apparat, I can't think of a word
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  to describe it, but it was very solemn and it brought get great
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  peace to me. And and of course, I didn't have
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  anything that I could say distinctly what it was, but it
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  again, it felt like it was and it was there for minutes.
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  It wasn't as if it was just light refracting from the ice or
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  something. This was actually there and in
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  my presence for a few minutes and it gave me again, a feeling
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  of warmth and security. And being a long time you Rancho
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  book reader, I was thinking, well, maybe it's some sort of a
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  serif or who knows, maybe a midway or trying to reveal
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  themselves, who knows? I, I don't really, you know, the
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  Urantia book asks us to be very cautious because sometimes what
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  they say, the light can be very blinding.
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  And so I didn't put much more stock into it other than that's
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  about as close as I can come to a spiritual experience.
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  So I haven't been fortunate. I know some people who say
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  they've actually sat and had conversations with angels and
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  spent some other strange things in my life.
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  But again, I'm so pragmatic, almost to a fault.
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  All right, let's listen to this comment.
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  This is from the Urantia org Urantia Radio org comment line.
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  I'm enjoying your podcasts and it's helping me to read the
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  Urantia book and I thank you for that.
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  I do. I don't remember if there was
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  anything about reincarnation in the Urantia book and I'm
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  wondering what if there was anything about reincarnation.
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  Thank you. All right, good call.
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  Great question. I used to get into fights with
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  people that were really into reincarnation.
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  Many religions, particularly Eastern religions, are
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  predicated on that sort of evolving soul.
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  And of course it has influence and Buddha's teachings, or at
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  least the teachings that have evolved.
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  So the subject of reincarnation is interesting because up until
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  I read or found out about the Orangi book, I was open to this
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  idea that if you don't learn your lesson in one life, you get
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  you get another chance. The only problem I had that,
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  well, I had two problems with reincarnation. 1 is of one of
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  which is that if you do get a second chance, you don't have
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  the benefit of the the knowledge of your first life to help you
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  unless you are somehow able to tap into it on a subconscious
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  level. I don't think that's that does
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  that doesn't play square with me.
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  The other is it's a numbers issue.
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  I mean, if everybody is reincarnated, then what did the
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  new, where did the new one come from?
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  And at what point do you get to, you know, go to that next state?
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  Now the irrational book narrative sort of answers the
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  question. Because we do retain our
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  personality. We do retain our memories.
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  Our thought spirit fragment is transcribing our life as it is
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  in real motion, holding on to the spiritual, creating actual
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  spiritual counterparts of your living experience so that when
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  you are in the mansion world, you will overtime start to
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  access some of these older memories.
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  Not not unlike when we are older in our human life.
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  And we can sometimes go back to the earliest point of our life
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  and have a fleeting memory of something that was important to
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  us. A special song that you hear and
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  it evokes a certain memory that you hadn't thought about 50
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  years. You know, that happens a lot.
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  I suspect that the important relationships and and the
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  Urantia book says that specifically we get an
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  opportunity to look up old friends.
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  We get 10 days on our first respite to go to the registry,
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  wherever that is, and we get to look up our relatives, I, I
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  assume, and people that we want to see.
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  Did they did they make it to the other side?
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  But as far as staying in one particular plane of existence,
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  in this case, repeating, you know, in an incarnated way or
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  reincarnated way, The Urantia book does not give credence to
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  this simply because it gives a better that better answer is
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  that it's an ascension process. So your first life here, you
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  live it the best that you can. Aren't, you know, you don't fall
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  to an early death. The greater memories, if they're
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  spiritual, if, if they're wrapped in love or, or if they
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  have meaning, a real value in your life.
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  Well, those stay with you. And the Uranto book is very
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  specific about that very process.
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  You do get to hang on to some of those or many of those wonderful
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  memories and they do play a part in your personality growth.
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  So I hope that answered that question.
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  Listen to this one. Listening to your podcast on
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  Adam and Eve, I was curious when you were talking about the time
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  frame that you would not put the actual date of Adam and Eve's
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  arrival as indicated in the Urantia book, which is I'm sure
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  you know was 37,848 years ago from AD in 1934.
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  Thank you. Oh, he's he's right on that.
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  It's right there at the end of the paper on Adam and Eve.
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  That is true. I don't mention it to people
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  who, you know, they recently came up or some or some source
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  that said that they're thinking that Adam and Eve probably came
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  around anywhere between 50,000 and 150,000 years ago just based
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  on some of the evidence from archaeological digs.
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  And so now that's pretty accurate, but that's also very
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  new. For most of my life I've been
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  taught that Adam and Eve in the beginning of things was probably
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  about 5-6 thousand years ago. And people who hold to that
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  tradition, I don't see any reason to challenge it.
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  And but by the same token I know that Christian faith gets
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  attacked by non Christians for saying that human beings have
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  only been around for 5000 years. Especially when you have all
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  this archaeological evidence that proves that mammal, or at
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  least you know some form of early human has been in
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  existence for at least a million yourself.
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  That's hard to reconcile. Now on the other hand, yeah, I'm
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  fully aware that, you know, the timeline works out.
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  And when you think about all of the kingdoms that evolved
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  between 30,000 years BC and and, and during that up to about
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  12,000, you can you can see that the mind of man started to
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  percolate inventions. Like I say, little kingdoms, you
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  know, the early kingdoms in that Mesopotamia region, the Icadians
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  and, and, and all the different early tribes of of even
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  predating Egypt. Of course, you know, we also
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  know about in in the Bible, the Nodites are referred to of the
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  mighty men of old. And so that mighty men of old
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  period could cover what some call the Anunnaki.
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  But there's definite evidence that the acceleration of mankind
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  started to kick in around the time that the Urantia book says
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  that Adam and Eve joined us here as the material of son and
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  daughter. All right, so let's get this one
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  in and then we'll try to grab a few more.
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  But if you would like to leave a comment on on the Rancho Radio
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  podcast, you can. All you have to do is go to
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  yourranchoradio.org and there's a comment button.
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  And if you've got a question or comment and then I reserve the
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  right to hear these. But if you don't want me to, you
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  better tell me that up front. OK, here we go.
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  Hello Jim, I was just leaving you a message about a podcast.
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  I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Adam and Eve story when
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  they were stopped on the third day out from the first garden by
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  the Seraphic transporters and 3/4 of their children and were
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  taken. I want to see what your thoughts
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  are on on Adam and Eve. The return of Adam and Eve and
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  their children to continue the uplift of this world.
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  To me it was a fascinating story.
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  I had me hooked back in 1983. I'll leave you a couple other
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  ideas to that have been pondering over in my mind.
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  Take care, love your show. Right.
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  Well, that was a heartbreaking event, wasn't it?
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  If you haven't read that part, after the default and Adam and
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  Eve were basically realizing the the plan of Eden was in
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  shattered, it was in tatters and they were in route to the second
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  location that had been chosen by the scouts prior to the
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  construction of of Eden off the coast of Syria.
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  And so there they were, their caravan of a few hundred
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  children. All of them were born when
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  things were going well and they had started to form a community
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  and they knew they were going to have to pick up the pieces in in
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  Babylonia or the Tigris in the year for 80s.
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  And that's what they did. But in route to this second
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  garden for the re establishment of the civilization that they
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  wanted to build, they were contacted.
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  And I can't imagine what that would have been like because
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  what ships do you think about that?
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  What, what would they have been Seraphic transport?
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  Would they have been visible to the human eye?
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  Probably not, but they must have had some materialism to it.
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  Serif and what they as I understand it, they are they in
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  serif, the entity. And then then they are able to
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  shield them as they're moving through space and can can
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  actually attach themselves to energy circuits between I'm
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  assuming Suns. Suns must act as some kind of an
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  energy circuit as well. Not unlike how you have power
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  lines outside your home to transmit digital information, I
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  imagine. But anyway, yeah, what a what a
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  heartbreak for Adam and Eve. Not only were they being evicted
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  from their Britannical paradise, not only where they're having to
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  travel 809 hundred miles to their new home on foot with
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  everything that they own, but and then they lose 3/4 of their
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  children and they're taken. And they're taken to Jerusalem
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  where they are awaiting that eventual day when their father
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  and mother will come after they've exhausted their
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  existence on Earth. And if there is speculation
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  within the community that if Adam and Eve were able to be
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  reinstalled as the planetary Prince, which Michael would have
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  their would have the privilege and the authority to do, then it
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  could be at some point. And this is all speculative, but
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  I've had many conversations with multiple people about this and
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  there is a chance. And it actually specifies in the
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  Urantia book and maybe I'll dig it up here.
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  I think I will dig it up as a matter of fact.
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  And it says that it is possible that they could all come back
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  and they could be the core group of teachers, spiritual advisors
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  that we would need to kick start perhaps another era down the
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  road. That era that maybe they talk
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  about at the end of Revelation where it talks about the New
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  Jerusalem coming down from the sky.
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  And that of course, comes from John the Revelator.
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  And so, and I'm, you know, specifically I'm talking about
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  John Zebedee, one of the longest living apostles.
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  What do you live to be? About 100, right?
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  So there's enough. I'll find the quote.
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  But I thank you for the voicemail and the messages from
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  all these wonderful folks. And again, I would encourage
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  you, we'll do these every once in a while, but I encourage you
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  if you've got a question or a comment, I would love to hear
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  from you. And I know the audience would
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  too. All right, so until then, we'll
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  see you next time. e-mail also your rancherbookradio@gmail.com.
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  Until next time, blessings to you.
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  And we'll see you again here soon on the Rancher Radio
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  Podcast.