Personality, according to The Urantia Book...

Jun 01, 2009 Mike Rayl - personality...

12. It is one thing which can be added to spirit, thus illustrating the primacy of the Father in relation to the Son. (Mind does not have to be added to spirit.) page 1226 TUB

Personality is a unique gift from god, no two alike, it is our unique contribution to spirit along with our evolving soul...
Whereas, there is only one mind, that we all use, nothing new can be added to mind...
Our evolving soul is filled with our experiences of spiritual value...
It is our unique personality that separates us, each approaching life from a slightly different angle, making life interesting, and adding the spice to life...

I find this all so amazing, and awe inspiring, That God has a divine plan, and we are a significant part of it, God is an equal opportunity God, for us humans... thank You God...

How I found the Urantia Book...

"I found the UB in 1979, while living in Lahaina, on the island of Maui,Hawaii...

A friend Eve, pulled out the UB, started reading it at random, while we were high, from smoking da kine, great Maui buds... it was a really mind blowing experience... at the time I thought it was very mystical... I haven't smoked buds for over 20 years now, I'm high on life...
reality, what a concept... I can not imagine a life without the UB, it is such a major part of my life... I thank God every day, for giving me the Urantia Book... I have been in study groups for over 20 years... I am currently enrolled in the urantiabookschool.org provided free by the Urantia Foundation, and part of the group SPAD on ubron.org that reads 6 pages a day, at that rate we read the UB every year... I listen to the UB on my ipod and computer... this year I have listened to 100 papers already and its only February, way beyond 6 pages a day, i love it so much..."

The rest of the story, as it appears in the book, "how I found the Urantia Book", can be read online at ;

http://www.squarecircles.com/articles/hiftub/hiftub.htm

BORN AND RAISED in Catholicism, by the age of seven, at the time of my first communion, I had already begun to doubt Catholicism’s validity.

Several years later, in 1979, I was studying with the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosicrucians (AMORC) and living in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, when a friend, Linda Gray, started telling me about the Urantia Book. I was always a seeker of truth and I began to read it. For several years thereafter I also studied Unity and Science of Mind. I even converted to Mormonism in 1981, and after the Mormons confiscated my Urantia Book, I bought another one.

For a while I tried to incorporate into my philosophy a little from each of the different teachings. But as I continued to read the Urantia Book, more and more I realized that, for me, this was as close to the truth as anything I had ever studied. Being a mystic, this realization was not easy for me to accept. My greatest battle was in letting go of the concept of reincarnation, in which the Rosicrucians strongly believed. For years I struggled with this. I really loved the AMORC as it had taught me to be open to the truth. I had even moved to San Jose to be closer to the Order, and I studied at the Rosicrucian University.

But finally I arrived at an unswerving belief in the teachings of the Urantia Book. The book always spoke to my heart and it continues to do so.

Once, just for fun, I took a calculator and the calendar and checked the accuracy of the days and dates mentioned in Part IV. They all proved to be correct. That did it for me. Now the Urantia Book is the foundation for my beliefs. Even after having read it several times, the book is always fresh, new, alive, and awe-inspiring.

How I cope with having ALS...

I was DX with ALS in 1999, started having symptoms in 1995...
This is what I do, and it works for me:

First I trust in God, I give it up to him to sustain me, he gives me peace beyond understanding, I know everything will be alright, one day at a time...

Second I choose to have a positive attitude, no matter what...

Third, I cherish every day, i have left, by making every day count, concentrate on what I can do, not on what i can't...

fourth, Cherish my family and friends, don''t hold grudges, forgive all...

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be at the inauguration...

Hey, this is what this inauguration means to me...

Change that is real...

Inclusion, I have ALS, it is so good to be included as a person who has a disability... Barack Obama seems to be truly sincere, that means a lot to me...

Hope, it is a hope that he will lift the ban on fetal stem cells, so i can be treated, where there is no treatment for ALS now in the US... and this treatment is my only hope for recovery...

I would love to fly to DC, to be a part of this historic event, in my power chair, the day the people got their government back...

If you make a donation to help make Barack Obama’s Inauguration a success, you could be part of the once-in-a-lifetime event.

Ten supporters will be selected to join the inaugural activities. If you’re selected, you can bring a guest, and they’ll fly you in and put you up in a hotel for the night.

Make a donation now and be there as Barack is sworn in as the 44th President:

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Thanks!

mike

P.S. you do not have to donate to have a chance to attend, just sign up and tell Barack what this inauguration means to you...

studying the Urantia Book...

Hi All...

I too am reading by listening, its a great way for me to study...

Wow, as always for me, its a whole new experience, like reading it for the first time, i get so much out of it...

I think sometimes, what my life would be like, not having found the UB... I just can't imagine a life without it... I am so grateful to God, for putting in me the desire to seek the truth, and once finding it, recognizing it as truth...

Because of the UB life and death make sense, in a sometime senseless world...

me, friends, family...