I have chosen the domain name, A Urantian Artist Shares, hoping that those of ”like mind” would discover this site and enjoy the unique, creative arts and insights that have come to me since I discovered the Urantia Book in the public library on May 4th 1967.  I have been a student of the Urantia Book since that beautiful day.  I have grown and matured and become a lover of truth and  a devoted student of the Fifth Epochal Revelation.  As I approach my 80th year, I have created this website with a desire to share with those who will appreciate the simple thoughts of an everyday artist and lover of truth, ONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.

  (2090.5) 196:1.4 The common people heard Jesus gladly, and they will again respond to the presentation of his sincere human life of consecrated religious motivation if such truths shall again be proclaimed to the world. The people heard him gladly because he was one of them, an unpretentious layman; the world’s greatest religious teacher was indeed a layman.")

I'm one of the common people, ready to share

Jesus' Revelatory Truths.

I call myself a Urantian artist because I have the desire to be an artist of life.   There are many artists who are more accomplished and skilled than I am, but I am, never the less, a fellow Urantian artist.

It is my desire that my unique creative view of the epochal revelation-The Urantia Book, will enrich your own testimony of its truth and you will read what I share with understanding and have tolerance for our differences.  I used to question the value of my view of the revelation, since I was so different from other students of the book that I had met.  I finally realized that each of our views are different because of our experiences but each of our views are of value.  I am a dedicated member of the Church of Jesus Christ, first of all, and have also received a degree in Religion from the University of Hawaii.  Both my university study and reading The Urantia Book have strengthened  my surety of my testimony that my church is a revealed church which was organized with a purpose to prepare a people to eventually receive the Fifth Epochal Revelation.  Other students look askance at me as they have been so disillusioned by their church experience that they want to discard all institutional organizations.

Yet, in the Urantia Book I read “(1083.1) 98:6.1 While it is true that the institutionalization of religion has usually detracted from its spiritual quality, it is also a fact that no religion has thus far succeeded in surviving without the aid of institutional organization of some degree, greater or lesser.” May I add that after all, the angels of the churches still have a job to do?  “(1092.2) 99:6.2 There is a real purpose in the socialization of religion. It is the purpose of group religious activities to dramatize the loyalties of religion; to magnify the lures of truth, beauty, and goodness; to foster the attractions of supreme values; to enhance the service of unselfish fellowship; to glorify the potentials of family life; to promote religious education; to provide wise counsel and spiritual guidance; and to encourage group worship. And all live religions encourage human friendship, conserve morality, promote neighborhood welfare, and facilitate the spread of the essential gospel of their respective messages of eternal salvation.” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints accomplishes all those purposes and it is a part of my inheritance and I value it more than ever after reading the Epochal Revelation and after my study of world religions.

At the Bishop Museum here in Honolulu, they had a special on the brain.  I read this definition of creativity:

    “ Creativity is one of the brain’s most important skills.  Creativity weaves together old ideas or familiar things in a new way.  Creativity by passes familiar routes of accepted formulas.  The results are fresh insights and new ideas.”

That quote actually helped me understand myself!  I continually have things come to me that compares an earthly thing to a heavenly thing, as it were. I recorded the 12 major comparisons that have come to me in these many years of studying The Urantia Book:

1.  A College Catalog of our Mortal School

2.  A Legal Will & The Father’s Will

3.  The Art of Art & The Art of Life

4.  Franklin Planner-year summary & Jesus’ 36 years

5.  The 70’s blasphemous movie & my Visual Oratorio iMovie

6. 6. The Roles of SPIRIT-A Preliminary Prayer Book of Alliteration                                
   

7.  Computer software & the Spirit gifts in our mind computers.

8. 8. Our Spiritual Experiences and the Classic Religious Experiences
   

9. 9. Birth of a baby and the Birth of the Spirit
   

10 Symphony Program & Jesus’ Revelation Symphony

11 My traumatic spiritual journey & the Exodus from Egypt.

12 iPhone and an iMIND

In my website I will be sharing all but number 11 which is too personal to share at this time.

Number 7 and 9 I will share later on with added pages.

Page 1. This is considered my INTRODUCTORY - WELCOME PAGE.

Page 2. Next is a complete INDEX with links you can click on to go to various pages and then at the top and bottom of each page there are links to go to the next page or the previous page and also back to the INDEX.  I haven’t had time to fix the index yet and it is missing the new pages.  I’ll get to it.

Page 3. I share an imovie that I made of the Bestowal Life and Teaching’s of Jesus Christ.  It is titled:

The Jesus Revelation Symphony.

I pray you will enjoy the sweet message of the good news that Jesus taught and his wonderful life on our earth.  It is an hour and a half movie.

On this same page below the movie you can read about what steps brought me to redo my earlier movie, and it all is a testimony of how our Father in Heaven helps us to fulfill our worthy desires.

I enhance my website throughout with various pieces of art work that I have created or with appropriate photos.

Page 4.  I will share the first paper in the 5th Epochal Revelation:  A beautiful audio about our Father in Heaven- the Universal Father, who has given of himself - HIS DIVINE SPIRIT - to each one of us on this earth. 

Page 5.  I will share the history of my first imovie, which is titled, VISUAL ORATORIO. I think that history will help you appreciate the new movie also.

Page 6. Is about the beautiful Urantia Students conference in Salt Lake City at the beautiful campus of the University of Utah-July 26-July 31.  On this page I have the two presentations that I made at the conference on PDF’s that you can read.  The first was: THE CHURCH THAT PREPARED THE WAY.  And the second was:  IS THE URANTIA BOOK A NEW REVELATION TO THE EARTH? Following that is a candid journal of my days at the conference.

Page 7 is titled MORTAL UNIVERSITY....an honors program to prepare for MELCHIZEDEK UNIVERSITY.  I have shared some insights I hope you enjoy.

Page 8   I am adding two 10 minute movies that I put on YouTube.  The first is titled TRUTH = BEAUTY, and another 10 minute movie titled The Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  Hope you enjoy them.

Page 9. The beautiful powerful testimony of the Apostles, Nathaniel and Thomas, as to the divinity of Jesus Christ. (from the Urantia Book)

Page 10. I wrote a book of alliterations to show the roles of the SPIRIT in our lives.  I have recorded it with illustrations which one can enjoy seeing and reading on the computer or on the iPhone.

Page 11.  I have written a book titled, Priceless Discovery and Fulfillment.  It is not yet published, except for my coil binding copies, but I tell you about it and if you are interested you can write me an email about it.  I so share on the website the beginning of the book: How I discovered The Urantia Book.

Page 12. I share another book titled, Celestial Covenants, Sacred Scholarship, Earthly Education and Precious Purposes.  Again, it is not published, but I tell you about it and you can write me if interested.

Page 13.& 14. Contains a creative “Father’s Will”, written similar to a regular Will, and I hope those who read it will find it insightful and enjoyable.

Page 15. Is the beautiful prayer that Jesus offered in the garden of Gethsemane just before he was arrested.  It is a touching experience to read, which is all about his doing the Father’s WILL.  (It is all a quote from the Urantia Book)

Page 16.  Is my personal description of what is in the Urantia Book which is the 5th Epochal Revelation to the earth. I conclude with the official description of The Urantia Book.

Page 17. This page is presenting my creative thought that the audio papers of the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ are like listening to a beautiful symphony.  So I have titled it, The Jesus Revelation Symphony!  This idea was actually part of the inspiration to redo the movie which I titled the same as this page!

Page 18 is a page on the beauty of Worship with beautiful quotes from Jesus teaching the disciples and Apostles.  I share an  inspiring talk given by a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ which urges the membership to be known by others as a people who love God and their Fellowmen.

Page 19 to 26 I share a summary of a book I wrote titled, THE ART OF ART and THE ART OF LIVING. I was so inspired by what the wonderful philosopher, Rodan, shared with the disciples, that many years ago I started writing my insights on how the ART OF LIVING overlay the ART OF ART that I was so familiar with.  It ended up being a large volume of my art history and philosophy of life for my posterity.  A lot of it is too personal to share on a website, however I am sharing some things of a spiritual value, although personal, which I hope will be appropriate and touch your life for good.  In fact I have many hopes:  ( a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen)

I hope sincere students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation will be uplifted by what I have written. 

I hope that sincere lovers of truth will enjoy the simple vision of an everyday artist.

I hope that members of my revelatory church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, will also discover and read my website and recognize the truth I am sharing and see that it verifies the truth of the church and does not take from the mission and purpose of the church which is so nobly being accomplished.  I have written a book which I may “publish”, in a sense, on a website, to help members of the Church recognize the truths given in The Urantia Book. 

I will hope that my family will someday value the truths shared by their mother and grandmother and perhaps even their sister and cousin. 

Page 27.  I share a creative idea comparing the iphone to an iMIND (INSPIRED MIND)  and the APPS that will help us organize and discipline our minds toward growing more spiritual.  It was done with some humor and fun.  Hope you enjoy the idea.

Page 28.  I share Jesus’ Life Planner that I prepared on Excel.  It really is a testimony of Jesus’ bestowal life mission on this planet.  The Urantia Book was truly given by REVELATION, by those who witnessed his life and were commissioned to record it for our benefit.

Page 29.  I close my sharing with a page titled, How to receive.  I share my email address and suggest how I can share my two books with you, and end with my testimony that the Revelation is meant for all people on the earth to receive and enjoy.  I close with my gratitude dedication of the site.

I hope all who visit this site, A Urantian Artist Shares, will enjoy and find it uplifting spiritually.  I would be grateful to know that there has been value in my sharing: You may communicate with me though this email. UrantianArtist@gmail.com

I invite you to visit my YouTube Channel to view five 10 minute videos about, our Savior, Jesus Christ with truths from the 5th Epochal Revelation, The Urantia Book.  They are titled:

JESUS & THE URANTIA BOOK: TRUTH = BEAUTY (1,524 views as of 8/28/11)

JESUS & “This Transformed Woman” (2,056 views as of 8/28/11)

JESUS’ Second Coming - Urantia Book  (1,318 views as of 8/28/11)

JESUS set apart 12 women as teachers (227  as of 8/28/11 views)

JESUS’ Personality (317 views as of 8/28/11)

http://www.youtube.com/user/UrantianArtist

A Urantian Artist