#The Urantia Book

[kalahs-beautiful-realm]

Quote from, The Urantia Book.

[personalplanchette]

Reading about The Urantia Book and caught this sync in the wild

[birdman83]

About The Urantia Book

The Urantia Book is a spiritual and philosophical text that claims to provide a comprehensive explanation of the history and destiny of humanity, the nature of God, and the workings of the universe. The book was first published in 1955 and was purportedly written by multiple celestial beings who provided their teachings through a human intermediary known as the "Sleeping Subject."

The Urantia Book is divided into four main parts, each containing numerous papers that cover various topics related to the universe and human existence. Part I discusses the nature of God and the organization of the universe, while Part II focuses on the local universe in which humans reside. Part III provides a historical overview of humanity's development, from the origins of life on Earth to the rise of civilization, and Part IV details the life and teachings of Jesus.

The teachings presented in the Urantia Book are eclectic and draw on a variety of spiritual and philosophical traditions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book emphasizes the importance of personal spiritual growth and the cultivation of a loving relationship with God.

Critics of the Urantia Book argue that its teachings are unverifiable and lack empirical evidence to support their claims. However, supporters of the book maintain that it provides a profound spiritual and philosophical framework that can enhance one's understanding of the universe and human existence. Overall, the Urantia Book remains a unique and controversial spiritual text that continues to attract a dedicated following.

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

[talonabraxas]

Solstice Solar System Stargate. Dec21-22. Talon Abraxas

Between us here in our solar system and Milky Way centre lies the Sagittarius Cloud, a group of stars including the cluster M24, the Urantia Book locates M24 in their cosmology as the HQ of our pizza slice of the galaxy where Seraphim Angels aid the transfer of Souls to star systems.

Pre-Founder Galactic Centre StarSeeding energetic templates from Central Sun, came to fruition in Lyra.

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Galactic Centre Administration - Inhabits the centre of a galaxy and are those Elders termed Masters and Celestial Beings. These Elders travel between galaxies and help where necessary and have the capability to influence and direct Source plan for continued evolution.

ET groups like the Galactic Federation (real one), Guardian Alliances etc come under their wing.

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Wingmakers claim that by tuning into our GC we 'enter the galactic centre tributary zone', thereby gaining access to what they termed 'encoded sensory data streams', inspiring new forms of creativity, in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and more.

While the Galactic Feds and Guardian Alliance groups focus more on a 'rescue mission'.

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Numerous groups of out-of-body explorers have transported themselves to our GC, including the Monroe Institute, their 'STARLINES program' focuses on establishing and strengthening the link between Earth and the Galactic Core.

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Back in the 1500s our earth aligned the GC on Dec 14th, Nostradamus's birthdate.

144 years ago the alignment was on the 16th, Alice Bailey's birthdate

Around 2222 the alignment from our Earth thru our Sun to GC will take place exactly at the Solstice.

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We've been providing evidence, for decades, that the, local to earth Solstice, takes place at the point where the solar ecliptic intersects the galactic equator *at the all-important Stargate Portal angle of 60deg, the conic angle of a golden ratio spiral.

--Grayham Forscutt

[michaelofnebadon]

Religious Renewal

Remember that the Michael Revelation is considered revelatory by its adherents, and its teachings have inspired spiritual seekers worldwide. Whether one agrees with its content or not, exploring its spiritual insights can be thought-provoking and enriching. 

The Michael Revelation integrates concepts from science, philosophy, and various religious traditions to offer a comprehensive framework for understanding the universe and our place within it. It emphasizes the idea that all religions contain truth and that they play a crucial role in the spiritual evolution of humanity.

The Revelation's portrayal of Jesus provides a detailed account of his life and teachings, emphasizing his universal message of love and brotherhood. 

The Michael Revelation encourages readers to seek spiritual growth through love, service, and the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness, suggesting that these values are the essence of true religion.

The Michael Revelation is a sevenfold revelation and includes his personal writings and discourses given to the apostles of the 1st century and the 21st Century,  the Urantia Book text given by the Divine Personalities coming from Uversa with a commission to enlighten the race and who serve to exalt and elevate and ennoble all lives, The Golden Scripts of Christ Michael, A Course in Miracles text, the Pathwork Lectures of the Host of Nebadon Administration who are ascended and free, and the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara present a unique and expansive narrative of Jesus Michael's life and teachings, including a detailed account of his faith.

According to this revelatory gospel, Jesus' faith was not rooted in tradition or mere intellectual assent; rather, it was a deeply personal and spiritual experience. His belief in God was characterized by a profound trust and a serene confidence, unaffected by the trials and tribulations of mortal life.

The Michael Revelation describes Jesus' faith as the result of the insight born from the divine presence within him, known as his indwelling Adjuster. This faith was not a passive acceptance but an active and dynamic force in Jesus' life, shaping his understanding of God as a loving and caring Father, with whom every individual could have a personal relationship. The portrayal of Jesus in this Revelation emphasizes his role in elevating the concept of God to a more intimate and accessible level, encouraging believers to view themselves as children of a divine parent. This perspective on faith is intended to inspire a living and experiential belief, transcending dogmatic formulations and theological debates. It suggests that faith, as exemplified by Jesus, is a transformative and empowering force, capable of guiding individuals through the complexities of life with grace and certainty.

The Revelation presents a complex cosmology, including the figure of Michael of Nebadon, who is revealed as the sovereign spiritual Father Son Representation for our local universe named Nebadon. According to the text, Michael is a title given to a Creator Son, an Order of divine beings responsible for the creation, preservation, nurturing guidance, maturing, and progressive evolutionary advancement and administration of a sector of the cosmos. 

The Revelation describes Michael's seven bestowals, or missions, among various forms of life in the universe, culminating in his final bestowal as Jesus of Nazareth on Earth, which is referred to as Urantia in the Revelation. This narrative is intended to provide deeper insights into the nature of divinity and the process of spiritual governance in the universe as given by the Revelation. It's a unique blend of spirituality, philosophy, and universal meanings and elements that has intrigued readers and scholars since its publication.

The teachings about Michael of Nebadon aim to bridge the gap between human understanding and divine wisdom, offering a perspective on how celestial beings interact with and guide the evolutionary progress of worlds and their inhabitants. 21st Century Revelation of Michael Of Nebadon

[newlyfaithfulhumanity]

The Sovrnty Foundation

fides spes caritas

Faith, Hope, and Charity in the rehabilitation and restoration and reordering of the Universal Planetary Government.

The United Ministry of the Paradise Sons of the Original Mother Son of Paradise dedicated to guiding the individual evolutionary experience of the individual and the planetary sphere.

The Michael Revelation is a sevenfold revelation and teaching which includes:

1. Jesus Michael's personal writings and discourses given to the apostles of the 1st century.

2. The Michael Of Nebadon Archival Library of the 21st Century.

3. The Urantia Book text given by the Divine Personalities coming from Uversa with a commission to enlighten the race and who serve to exalt and elevate and ennoble all lives.

4. The Golden Scripts of Christ Michael.

5. A Course in Miracles text.

6. The Pathwork Lectures of the Host of Nebadon Administration who are ascended and free.

7. The Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara with the Sons and Daughters of Nebadon present a unique and expansive teaching array and a narrative of the Royal Road of Transformation Ascendancy.

The Sevenfold Cosmic Viewpoint of the Paradise Trinity to Enhance all Meanings, Values, and Vision:

1. The Universal Father:

   - The Michael Revelation describes God as the Universal Father, emphasizing a personal relationship with each individual.

   - God's love is unconditional, and He is accessible to all through the indwelling presence of the Thought Adjuster (a fragment of God within each person).

2. Eternal Progression:

   - The Michael Revelation and its teachings emphasize that life is a journey of eternal progression.

   - Mortals evolve spiritually through experiences, choices, and growth.

   - The goal is to attain perfection through alignment with divine will.

  3. The Supreme Being:

   - The revelatory cosmology introduces the concept of the Supreme Being, an evolving deity.

   - The Supreme is the sum total of all finite experiences and the unifying force in the grand universe.

   - Mortals contribute to the Supreme's growth through their decisions and actions.

4. Spiritual Realities:

   - The Sevenfold Michael Revelation discusses various spiritual realities, including angels, celestial beings, and the afterlife.

   - Angels serve as ministering spirits, guiding and assisting humans.

   - The soul survives physical death and continues its journey in the morontia realms.

5. Cosmic Citizenship:

   - The Michael of Nebadon teachings emphasize that we are citizens of a vast cosmic family.

   - Our spiritual growth contributes to the harmony of the universe.

   - We participate in the cosmic brotherhood of beings from diverse worlds.

6. Jesus Christ Michael:

   - The Michael Revelation presents an expanded narrative of Jesus' life and teachings, as well as, revealing the 21st century bestowal mission and ministry of Michael.

   - Jesus Michael is portrayed as both divine (the Son of God) and human (the Son of Man).

   - His mission, was and still is, to reveal the Father's love and show the way to eternal life.

7. Personal Religious Experience:

   - The Michael Revelatory Perspective encourages personal religious experience.

   - It values inner communion, worship, and the pursuit of truth.

   - Each person's spiritual journey is unique and significant.

2025. The Sovrnty Foundation

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

Hello Mara,

I wanted to know what your opinions are on Buddhism, judaism, islam, or any other belief systems. Not long ago I’ve found your account and you write a lot on Christianity however you did mention in one of your posts that you would not consider yourself a “Christian” per se (I might be wrong). You are also interest in Scientology and was wondering if you are interested in other beliefs?

Hope you have a wonderful day!

hey anonymous; (drawing from a letter i wrote to a ko-fi supporter today, thank you ko-fi supporter!)

i write about christianity often because i am Haunted by the Specter of Christianity -- it:s baked into me! as is leesburg, as is florida, as is a family fascination with getting suckered into fancy alien books like URANTIA;

but, for other beliefs, outside of Scientology and Christian-Science i:m not very interested in "actively pursuing," with an asterisk for Judaism*, being that i feel like unless you:re outright born into it then there is little point in having an interest in it (but i:d be lying if i said i wasn:t influenced by Zohar and Chabad); Zoroastrianism is really neat to me from the clean/unclean element divisions; i think Palo is one of the pure in-illusion representations of chiral idol worship and really like it for that; i studied islamic art history for a bit and it really left an impression on me via iconoclasm and anti-idolatry belief and depicting god non-representationally; Shinto is pretty neat but sort-of so blurred into Buddhism that it:s hard to figure out what it is -- but reading a bit about the Old Shamanistic traditions of it are neat to me; Buddhism i:d get these morning lessons from Iris (my ex! she studied/studies it), and have a lot of her little Buddhist knowledge-points drilled into my head (but otherwise i don:t really care for it; this is super dismissive of me: sometimes Buddhism seems like the thing people turn towards because Christianity is too lame and typical -- BUT, i was forced to read Siddhartha in highschool and i:d be lying if it didn:t leave a big impression on me growing up, and Iris sort-of reinforced the lessons of it -- my dismissiveness aside it:s neat but it:s so broad it:s hard for me to have thought on it); generally "i like religion and think they are all interesting," but i mostly don:t "care" (defined specifically here as: wanting to involve myself with) for them outside of finding context maps related to chirality;

it:s one of my favorite things to read about; picked up a bunch of mormon texts from a thriftstore lately and want to read some of Joseph Smith writings and prophecies (i have a soft spot for prophets); take care; happy sabbath (it:s orsday sabbath).

[bills-bible-basics]

Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Graphic 07 #WashedInTheBloodOfTheLamb #WashedInTheBlood #BloodOfTheLamb Visit https://www.billkochman.com/Graphics-Library/ to see more. "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse283.html "Cleansed and Made White Through Jesus" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse249.html "Jesus Bore Our Sins on the Cross" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse146.html "Justified and Made Righteous Through Jesus" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse045.html Article: "Are You Clean Every Whit?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/evrywit1.html "Jesus is the Author of the New Covenant" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse188.html Article: "The Blood Atonement : In Jesus' Own Words": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/atonemt1.html Article: "The Urantia Book: An Attack on the Blood Atonement!": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/urantia6.html Article: "Backsliding, Divine Chastisement and the Divine Agreement": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/backsld1.html Article: "Is Jesus the Only Begotten Son of God?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/melchiz1.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/washed-in-the-blood-of-the-lamb-graphic-07/?feed_id=217875&Washed%20in%20the%20Blood%20of%20the%20Lamb%20Graphic%2007

[sovereignhumanity]

Connection with Reality

Prayerful worship is not a process of getting your way but rather a program of taking God’s way, an experience of learning how to recognize and execute the Father’s will.

It is entirely true that, when your will has been truly aligned with his, you can ask anything conceived by that will-union, and it will be granted. And such a will-union is effected by and through Jesus Michael even as the life of the vine flows into and through the living branches.

When there exists this living connection between divinity and humanity, if humanity should thoughtlessly and ignorantly pray for selfish ease and vainglorious accomplishments, there could be only one divine answer: more and increased bearing of the fruits of the spirit on the stems of the living branches.

When the branch of the vine is alive, there can be only one answer to all its petitions: increased grape bearing.

In fact, the branch exists only for, and can do nothing except, fruit bearing, yielding grapes.

So does the true believer exist only for the purpose of bearing the fruits of the spirit: to love man as he himself has been loved by God.

The Farewell Discourse The Vine and the Branches Urantia Book

[kalahs-beautiful-realm]

From, The Urantia Book

[holycityoflove]

The Divine Perfection Plans

The Eternal Son is in everlasting liaison with the Father in the successful prosecution of the divine plan of progress: the universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures. And, in divine faithfulness, the Son is the eternal equal of the Father.

The Father and his Son are as one in the formulation and prosecution of this gigantic attainment plan for advancing the material beings of time to the perfection of eternity. This project for the spiritual elevation of the ascendant souls of space is a joint creation of the Father and the Son, and they are, with the co-operation of the Infinite Spirit, engaged in associative execution of their divine purpose.

This divine plan of perfection attainment embraces three unique, though marvelously correlated, enterprises of universal adventure:

The Plan of Progressive Attainment. This is the Universal Father’s plan of evolutionary ascension, a program unreservedly accepted by the Eternal Son when he concurred in the Father’s proposal, “Let us make mortal creatures in our own image.” This provision for upstepping the creatures of time involves the Father’s bestowal of the Thought Adjusters and the endowing of material creatures with the prerogatives of personality.

The Bestowal Plan. The next universal plan is the great Father-revelation enterprise of the Eternal Son and his co-ordinate Sons. This is the proposal of the Eternal Son and consists of his bestowal of the Sons of God upon the evolutionary creations, there to personalize and factualize, to incarnate and make real, the love of the Father and the mercy of the Son to the creatures of all universes. Inherent in the bestowal plan, and as a provisional feature of this ministration of love, the Paradise Sons act as rehabilitators of that which misguided creature will has placed in spiritual jeopardy. Whenever and wherever there occurs a delay in the functioning of the attainment plan, if rebellion, perchance, should mar or complicate this enterprise, then do the emergency provisions of the bestowal plan become active forthwith. The Paradise Sons stand pledged and ready to function as retrievers, to go into the very realms of rebellion and there restore the spiritual status of the spheres. And such a heroic service a co-ordinate Creator Son did perform on Urantia in connection with his experiential bestowal career of sovereignty acquirement.

The Plan of Mercy Ministry. When the attainment plan and the bestowal plan had been formulated and proclaimed, alone and of himself, the Infinite Spirit projected and put in operation the tremendous and universal enterprise of mercy ministry. This is the service so essential to the practical and effective operation of both the attainment and the bestowal undertakings, and the spiritual personalities of the Third Source and Center all partake of the spirit of mercy ministry which is so much a part of the nature of the Third Person of Deity. Not only in creation but also in administration, the Infinite Spirit functions truly and literally as the conjoint executive of the Father and the Son.

The Eternal Son is the personal trustee, the divine custodian, of the Father’s universal plan of creature ascension. Having promulgated the universal mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” the Father entrusted the execution of this tremendous undertaking to the Eternal Son; and the Eternal Son shares the fostering of this supernal enterprise with his divine co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit. Thus do the Deities effectively co-operate in the work of creation, control, evolution, revelation, and ministration—and if required, in restoration and rehabilitation. ~Urantia Book © 2024 Sovrnty. All rights reserved.

[plutoprophecy]

Celestial Seasonings, the sleepytime tea company, was founded by a cult who followed a book called "The Urantia Book" the book is supposedly like. Meant to be extraterrestrial knowledge. If I remember correctly the book is basically just eugenics and racism "cleverly" disguised as a story about 6 races, those being "red orange yellow green blue and indigo" ?? I think ?? It's been a while since I've looked into it but yeah ! (<< Very interested in cult things)

what da hell that's so awful :(

Thank u for sharing that but good lord. Poor bear

[sweaterkittensahoy]

You asked for some info on tea cults, so though someone already dropped a bit of info: the two tea brands I know of to definitely be cults/founded by cults are Yogi Teas and Celestial Seasonings/Sleepytime Tea. It is also worth noting that both have a more reduced integration with their cults than they did at founding, though doubtless the influence is still present.

For the record, I use ublock origin, so if you don't, some of these websites may be annoyingly laden with ads. Also, I spent like ten minutes pulling the quickest stuff I could find, but it should be a good launch-point. That said:

Oops! Everything You Love Funds a Cult - on the prevalence of cults in American products, including tea.

Yogi Tea was founded by Yogi Bhajan. Info on him: Forum post compiling evidence and claims | Article discussing Yogi Bhajan and another company initially founded and run by his cult

Celestial Seasonings has ties to the Urantia Book, a Christian cult: Food & Wine dot com article | Inverse dot com article

There ARE large, non-cult-affiliated (as far as is currently known) brands, but many also have weird vibes, little to no information on their founders' beliefs or associations, or no longer exist. Tazo, for example, was founded by Steven Smith, who advertised it as the "reincarnation of tea" and himself as a "tea shaman" (little further information is easily accessible). It was purchased by Starbucks but still exists as a brand. Teavana, previously a very large and widespread tea company, was purchased by and subsumed into Starbucks, its storefronts closed.

Others, like Bigelow, seem fairly normal insofar as they appear to be WASP-founded and passed down through family lines like most big American businesses. Very little information is available for many of the founders of these companies, beyond names and generic brand-friendly blurbs.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for this!

I've read a lot about cults, and getting people to buy products from nice young people is a really easy way to bring in cash and also recruit, so it's not surprising that some products have this history. I just didn't know about tea being one of them.

[eldritchboop]

45 Rare Supernatural Books - Ghost Stories and Mysteries

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The Book on Mediums: Guide for Mediums and Invocators by Allen Kardec (1861)

The Spirits' Book by Allen Kardec (1857)

Life In The World Unseen by Anthony Borgia (1878)

The Urantia Papers (1955)

Book Of The Damned by Charles Fort (1919)

The Human Atmosphere (1911)

True Irish Ghost Stories - J. D. Seymour (1914)

The Night Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1847)

Unveiled Mysteries (1914)

Ancient Mysteries and Modern Revelations (1910)

Wanderer In The Spirit Lands by Franchezzo (1896)

Scenes Beyond the Grave. Trance of Marietta Davis - M. Davis (1859)

Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales From the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore - M. L. Lewes (1911)

Coming Of The Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle (1922)

True Ghost Stories - H. Carrington (1915)

Complete Hypnotism Mesmerism Mind Reading And Spiritualism (1903)

Contact with the Other World (1919)

Vampire His Kith And Kin (1918)

Spiritism in its Simplest Expression: Summary of the Spirits' Teachings and their Manifestations by Allen Kardec  Ed note: Still in print; this is a link to a preview.

Spiritualist philosophy, the spirits' book - containing the principles of spiritist doctrine on the immortality of the soul, the nature of spirits and their relations with men - A. Kardec (1875)

Experimental Investigation Of The Spirit Manifestations (1855)

From India To The Planet Mars (1900)

Lives of the Necromancers (1834)

Hypnotism Magnetism, Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics and Magnetic Healing (1910)

My Experiences While Out Of My Body (1915)

Phantasms of the Living, Vol. 1 (1886)

Phantasms of the Living, Vol. 2 (1886)

The Philosophy of Mystery (1841)

Tales Of The Dartmoor Pixies (1890)

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)

The Phantom World Or, The Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, etc. (1850)

Experimental Spiritism - A. Kardec (1874)

The Soul of Things by William Denton (1871)

Vedanta Philosophy - Five Lectures on Reincarnation - A. Swami (1902)

Reincarnation - A Study of Forgotten Truth - E. D. Walker (1888)

Fairy Circles Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites and Hobgoblins by Villamaria (1877)

The destiny of the soul. A critical history of the doctrine of a future life - W. R. Alger (1878) A Book of Ghosts - S. Baring-Gould (1904)

Ghost land, or, Researches into the mysteries of occultism - W. Britten (1876)

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits (1992)

Historic ghosts and ghost hunters - H. A. Bruce (1908)

How to Speak with the Dead; a Practical Handbook - Sciens (1918)

In ghostly Japan - L. Hearn (1900)

Scottish Ghost Stories - E. O'Donnell (1911)

Some Haunted Houses of England - E. O'Donnell (1908)

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Did You Know…?

In 1969, some Rocky Mountain hikers and herbalists based out of Colorado founded Celestial Seasonings. It became an overnight success when it released Sleepytime Tea in 1972, and it remains the most profitable tea outfit in North America. The face of Celestial Seasonings, co-founder Mo Siegel, sought inspiration from much more than the rugged natural environment around him in Boulder; he relied on the controversial 2,000-page tome The Urantia Book to develop everything from the company's name, to its inspirational marketing quotes, to its inter-office practices.

First published in 1955, The Urantia Book is a theosophical text whose anonymous author shares divine transmissions he received from aliens about the true nature of the universe. In reality, movement leader and psychiatrist William Sadler, whose intergalactic ideas were inspired by the Seventh-Day Adventist movement, probably wrote the book. Deeply rooted in white supremacy and eugenics, the book describes white-haired, blue-eyed aliens named Adam and Eve who arrive on every planet to "purify" it...

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