Urantia Study Group

This is a great place to study the Urantia book and discuss it openly with other students of the book and truth in general. All questions are welcomed and honestly answered. This study group has been meeting here since 1984. We meet the first three Mondays of every month, taking a break on the fourth Monday. If there are five Mondays in any given month, we skip the fourth and meet on the fifth Monday as well. We take a break around 8:30 PM for snacks and tea, then resume the reading of the book until the remainder of the session. This study group reads the book in a linear fashion. Currently, we’re reading the Life and Times of Jesus. We try to at least read one paper per session, but sometimes we get to discussing the book or other subjects that we might not even get through a paper. However, there are no rules as to how we go about studying the book. We are all searching and whatever we need to discuss, whether it be the current paper or world affairs, it doesn’t really matter. I find it exciting to be able to openly discuss ideas or contemplate theories based on things I’ve read in the book. Since there is no organized religion based around the book, we are all equal in our approach to understanding the book. Meaning that everyone’s point of view is valid. That is why we openly discuss the book, even in mid-​sentences of the reading of the book. I cherish the ability and the privilege to have (in my opinion) such a high degree of learning, as far as spirituality and the approach to God. No where else have I felt so free to explore these ideas without someone trying to impose their point of view or dictate a form a hierarchy already established. We all come with the understanding that we are all children of God and all humans on this planet are our brothers and sisters. Therefore, no one is above another, for God is no respecter of men. One of my favorite quotes of the Urantia Book says…
«And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the religions of authority, they compromise the sovereignty of personality, debase the dignity of self-​respect, and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the personal quest for truth, the exhilaration of facing the perils of intellectual discovery, the determination to explore the realities of personal religious experience, the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of spiritual faith over intellectual doubt as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence – man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him.» Paper 155 section 5