May God bless America and put the contrarians back on their own planet. Anyone who has been
concerned with the Urantia movement for more than a year knows that the revelation basically appeals
to truth seekers (people searching for the highest source of spiritual reality), and that it has little or no
appeal to most people in other religions - especially Muslims, or for that matter atheists, agnostics and
certain secularists.
In time the book will unify religious belief systems as it has done with many of us - but this requires an
open mind concurrent with readiness on the part of the reader to accept this new information,
otherwise it becomes merely an interesting science fiction book, or worse, something to be feared as
Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths have already experienced. When truth presents itself one has to
be prepared for its acceptance or he must continue to wallow in his own ignorance which automatically
inhibits spiritual growth, thereby contributing to the stagnation of the soul. The biggest mistake in
history was, and still is, the denial of the Divine reality of Michael and the truths he set forth on our
planet some 2000 years ago. The second biggest mistake is to alter his latest revelation by
challenging its authorship and understating its wisdom by supplanting one’s own. The human mind is
hardly a substitute for millions of years of universe experience. You would virtually be pitting less than
100 years of earthly experience against millions of years of accumulated wisdom. The same kind of
people might be making a colossal mistake by elaborating on the teachings set forth in the Urantia
Book when they choose to publish their own altered version leaving out what they deem appropriate.
That is not to say we shouldn’t be writing anything from or about the Urantia book. Ancillary works are,
on the other hand, quite permissible and are encouraged by the Foundation in Chicago. This short
discourse might be considered an ancillary work since some of the information stems from the Urantia
book.
Our Web site is currently taking about 30,000 hits a month; others are taking in far more and most
others far less. Albeit, almost all (a few sites challenge the revelation) are attempting to expose the
teachings to others as presented - we know our destiny is to be “settled in light and life”, so what we do
now is as much for future generations as it is for ours.
We cannot expect individuals who have been indoctrinated and inculcated into life long belief systems,
be they religious or non-religious, to readily give up their intellectual, spiritual and material comfort
zones to embrace something that is entirely foreign to them.
If we add up the hits on all the various web-sites (over 400) we are probably taking over a million hit’s a
month (the Foundation itself takes about 450,000 a month), so while the progress appears slow to
many of us, this would have been beyond the expectations of anyone just a couple of decades ago. So
cheer up folks, the revelation is definitely on the move. We can’t imagine what might happen in the
decades to come, but one thing is certain, eventually we will be settled (basically unified, on the same
page so to speak), with intellectual diversity and only slight differences of opinions, but needless to say
no contrarians, and no animosities, but rather a pervasive understanding of the brotherhood of
mankind where humanity will act civilly, and responsibly to each and all. Prior to that time,
metaphorically speaking, there will be a mass exodus of the contrarians to their own isolated planet;
peace and harmony will be the order of the day, but word of this will have to come to us in another part
of the universe for it certainly won’t be in the near future - until then let’s get on the shtick , as they say
- and let us spread the revelation today.
While the contrarian might assume that the theme of this discourse was the sacrifice of my stock
broker, what I tried to cover was the following: Reality Interpretation - what is real and its association to
what is not. Paralogical Distortions - false cause-effect relationships; Spiritual Awakening - synthesis
of new spiritual facts of life - values; Soul Growth - dependent upon the recognition of new spiritual
realities as they affect moral decision making; Pattern Personality - A type that thrives on distortion;
Origin of Sacrifice - Early man.
Dick Ziglar
2008
THE INVASION OF THE CONTRARIANS
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