Articles by Van of Urantia

Reflections on the Superbowl Halftime Show

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
February 10, 2020

I wonder how that show would have been produced if Jesus Christ would have been the producer, or at least would have stood beside the producer while he or she produced the show. I wonder what the wardrobe would have looked like, what the songs would have been. I understand that Jennifer Lopez prayed, with her daughter and others, before she went out on stage, so I wondered why she showed her ...

Wake Up America

Van of Urantia
July 24, 2019

Dear America, The Irish philosopher and statesmen Edmund Burke, around the time of our own Constitution, said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This very well may have been a truth that George Washington and other writers of our Constitution read, before they wrote our Constitution in 1776. It does indeed take good men and women to speak ...

The Times They Are A Changing

Van of Urantia
July 18, 2019

Bob Dylan wrote those words in the 1960s, in reference to political and social changes. Van of Urantia wrote the songs “The End Is Near” and “Wake Up America” in relationship to the times of the tribulation that we are going through now all over the planet, with floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, droughts, wildfires, and much more. We don’t have to ...

2018 Academy Awards Viewpoint

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
March 6, 2018

I believe that on a planet far, far away, in a distant galaxy, in a time light years away of the past, I was an actor, director, and producer of higher-consciousness films. So I have a lot to say about the film industry here on Earth. But for now I’ll try to keep this as basic as possible. In this life I did do some professional extra work in my early thirties, but my main thrust was to ...

The Oscars and the Hollywood Delusion. A New Hope for the Future.

The world needs a culture of the arts based on divine pattern, love, and a sense of community.

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
April 20, 2017

This article is not just about the Oscars, it’s about the unethical practices, immorality, and injustice that is prevalent in all areas of society, which includes the highly influential film and music industry in Hollywood. The movie industry has become very corrupted, with much confusion as to what values should be reflected in motion pictures that would inspire progress in the evolution of ...

The Cost of Being an Activist

Van of Urantia
May 27, 2014

I’m sure that many of the activists in neighboring Arivaca (of Pima County, Arizona) can identify to some extent with this article and my experiences. I am very proud to live in Santa Cruz County—a county that has a good number of activists for a variety of worthy causes. And I want to honor Mayor Garino of Nogales, Arizona for his valiant stance for prayer before the council meetings—a ...

CULMINATION — EVERYTHING IS CULMINATING ON EARTH

Van of Urantia
January 5, 2024

     I’m a reader and teacher of The URANTIA Book, and my public name is Van / Van of Urantia. I had already studied and taught scripture of the Old and New Testaments in the Bible before finding The URANTIA Book. I have also been used as a vessel to bring through the continuation of The URANTIA Book, found in The Cosmic Family volumes. I consider as ...

One God, One Planetary Family

Van of Urantia
October 31, 2023

     500,000 years ago the Planetary Prince Caligastia, a Primary Lanonandek Son, came to Urantia with 100 supermortals, some even from other universes, who were resident on Jerusem, the capital of Satania, our administrative local system. Monmatia is the name of our solar system. There is a huge administrative system of many sectors all the way to Paradise. I am just giving you ...

The Confusion of America

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
February 3, 2023

   For a decade or more, personal and societal moral standards have been dwindling in America. When a country comes to the place where there is not a set of values as a guide for ethical behavior, breakdown of order ensues, eventually ending up with the threat of anarchy. Across the U.S. there is an alarming rate of increase in social and economic inequity, drug abuse, suicides, mental ...

Weather Changes or Mind Changes?

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
December 21, 2021

So what just happened in Kentucky? Why did this apocalyptic tornado hit right there, instead of Hollywood or Washington D.C. or New York or Chicago? Could it possibly be that the narrow religious consciousness manifested that horrible tornado in that area and other tornados in nearby areas? Isn’t it written in Romans 8:29 (King James Version): “For whom He did foreknow, He also did ...

The Simple Truth In Relation To Conspiracy Theories And The Anunnaki

Van of Urantia
January 14, 2019

Millions of people listen to YouTube channels on the Internet. So in a very real way, we have a variety of Internet journalists who affect the mass consciousness of those who listen to them on a daily basis, just like millions of Americans listen to the nightly news through ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox. These two views of reality—independent Internet commentators and mainstream ...

Slander and Free Speech—What Did Our Founding Fathers Really Mean When They Wrote In The Amendment Of Free Speech?

Van of Urantia
January 11, 2018

I do not think our Founding Fathers meant “free speech” to mean use slander, misrepresentation, character defamation, bigotry, and prejudice in general. Contrary to that, the true ideal of free speech is to prevent all communication that is based on prejudice of any kind. The Founding Fathers and their ancestors had suffered in Europe from false accusations and misrepresentation by the...

Democracy: What It Is and What It Isn't in America. Defining Democracy from a Fourth-Dimensional Consciousness.

Van of Urantia
October 24, 2011

The following are definitions of both democracy and republic (from Microsoft Bookshelf ’95). de • moc • ra • cy noun 1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. 2. A political or social unit that has such a government. 3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. 4. Majority rule. 5. The ...

Annual Academy Awards Fourth-Dimensional Review by Van of Urantia

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
March 30, 2023

     I don’t know what’s worse, having Chris Rock slapped by Will Smith or Jimmy Kimmel making a fool of himself by picking on Malala. The Academy Awards are beginning to look like a Congressional meeting:  everybody’s a diplomat, and the next race in line receives all the rewards. Next year it will be the Inuit in Alaska.     I have tried to ...

Is Blood Thicker Than God?

Loyalty is a good thing as long as our loyalties do not override the commandments of God or our own conscience.

Van of Urantia
August 2, 2016

From the beginning of the Lucifer Rebellion around 200,000 years ago, humans—as well as nonhuman mortals and various celestial orders in the system of Satania—have had to make the decision between following God’s ways or rebelling against them, and this has been the way on our fallen world since then.1 The Old and New Testaments of the Bible refer to families at war among each other that ...

Joy, Hope, And A Sense of Future — Where Did It Go In Our Troubling World?

Van of Urantia
April 8, 2016

I am a “Baby Boomer” and grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, with memories of television shows like the one about the Nelson family, which depicted a happy, easy-going American family living the American Dream. When I graduated high school in 1964—even though the Vietnam War was going on and I was stupid enough to try to join the Marines—there was still a sense of the future. There was...

Why the Serial Killings in our Schools

Van of Urantia
October 9, 2015

To stop these senseless serial killings in our schools and other places, I’m going to coin the term “cultural rehabilitation,” for this is what we have to do in our country. We live in a violent country. We see violence in our films, on television, and in the news. We live with the constant bombarding of who did what to whom. Mental illness is not just with the shooters. To a ...

The Consciousness Of Sustainability And Growing Food. Digging The Dirt Out Of Your Thinking Before You Plant One Seed In The Ground.

Van of Urantia
May 23, 2013

I am glad that so many Occupiers all over the country have been taking my advice and trying to start communities and grow food. But sustainable living is not just a physical thing that you do and goals of things to accomplish. Long-lasting and continually evolving sustainable living is a shift in consciousness, a state of being. It is a total lifestyle and a way of thinking and doing that is not ...

Defining a Spiritualution—a Spiritual Revolution—In Reference to the 99% Movement and Occupy Wall Street. What the People Must Do to Win Over the Power Elite.

Van of Urantia
October 20, 2011

Firstly, whenever the poor and disenfranchised—who were abused for years—took to the streets, they were hosed, attacked by the police dogs, beaten with sticks, and pepper sprayed. But now this new 99% movement is not just a movement of poor blacks or other minorities but a combination of white and black races as well as yellow, brown, and red. It is a true racial coalition that ...

What Is Reality? Seeing In Part - The Psychic Circles and Higher Consciousness.

Van of Urantia
September 4, 2014

Great minds—from philosophers to spiritual writers to holy persons (like Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Omar Khayyam, Descartes, Aquinas, and Theresa of Avila of older eras and Kant, Thoreau, Thomas Merton, Krishnamurti, Teilhard de Chardin, Thich Nhat Hanh, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mary Baker Eddy, and Alice Bailey of more contemporary times)—all have had their slant on what they think true ...

The Decoys Of Caligastia To Keep People Away From  The Fifth Epochal Revelation

Van of Urantia
September 25, 2013

     I write this to expose some of the deceptions that Caligastia historically has used, and continues to use now, to discredit both The URANTIA Book and the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (found in The Cosmic Family volumes). Deception through decoy has been a major trick of the fallen Planetary Prince of Urantia (Caligastia) since his fall 200,000 years ago, beginning by him...

True Leaders—Where Can You Find Them? How Can You Identify The False Leaders? Why Do We Need Leaders?

Van of Urantia
July 2, 2012

There is a rift now within the general nationwide Occupy movement between the Declaration (99D) project (who want to set up a New Continental Congress with a new Constitution, mostly organized by a man called Michael Pollok, a New York criminal attorney) and the rest of the Occupy movement, who had a General Assembly meeting in Philadelphia on July 4, 2012, comprised of its many contingencies...

The Higher-Consciousness-Handicapped Presidential Nominees, Our Current Compromising-Consciousness President, And The Need For Both To Lean On Somebody Or Fall

Van of Urantia
January 6, 2012

The Republican nominees who ran for the presidential candidacy in the 2011 and 2012 can also be called “the parade of new souls.” There is a lot to learn about the difference between a new soul and an older soul or starseed, which has taken me authoring two published books (called The Cosmic Family, Volumes 1 and 2) so far to even begin to teach. But for the clarity of this ...

The Truth and Answers About Free Healthcare

True healers and doctors don't work for a paycheck, they work for the care and wellbeing of their patients soul, mind, and body.

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
November 18, 2011

Jesus wasn’t a politician. However, I recently watched both Democratic and Republican debates. I was hoping to watch a third-party debate, but that’s another article. Maybe 10 minutes of the more than four hours of presentations were spent on the need for free national healthcare. And in those 10 minutes, from all of the candidates, I think I understood about 5 seconds of their ...

Occupiers Must Learn How To Use The Creator To Win Over The Power-Elite And Their Soldiers Of Gas-Destruction

Van of Urantia
December 13, 2011

History does not talk much about it (with the exception of the Old Testament and other holy writings of various religions), but most of the prophets and holy men of old have been revolutionaries, including Jesus Christ. Even over the last few centuries, revolutionaries like George Washington, Joseph Smith (of the Mormons), and Gandhi were men who prayed to the Creator for guidance. When they...

The Judicial System: Why It Doesn't Work And How It Can. Occupy The Courts.

Van of Urantia
January 20, 2012

I was a volunteer chaplain at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. I worked at the county jail from 1977 to 1982. I also worked with the pre-trial release program of the Department of Economic Security and accepted prisoners to my halfway house, if I thought I could work with them. Many of these prisoners I got personally involved with. I went to their trials. I learned a lot about the...

Honor, A Forgotten Concept In America

Van of Urantia
February 3, 2021

When we think of any of the Founding Fathers, we think of them as men of honor, which is the quality that seems to be lost in the manhood of American men today. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines honor as: “good name or public esteem : reputation; a showing of usually merited respect : recognition.” I would like to add that honor also is:...

The Big Squeeze Is On, Between Right And Wrong, Between Good And Bad. You Can Hop A Ride On Planet X (Also Called The Adjudicator) Or You Can Hop A Ride On The New Jerusalem. It’s Your Choice. They’re Both Coming To A Local Pickup Location Near You.

Van of Urantia
August 6, 2020

Well, here we are in August of 2020. The summer is half over, and our lives definitely seem to be moving faster towards some kind of inevitable end. The whole world we know seems to be dissolving, and many of us are sensing something accelerating in our lives, like we are being pulled in a direction we have no control over. We all realize that someday we will die, for that is the fate of living ...

Is There Such A Thing As Safe Areas And Protected Areas? Are They The Same?

Van of Urantia
October 11, 2012

To answer the questions posed in the title of this article, you have to ask what are you trying to be safe from—weather catastrophes or invading armies or starvation or wild animals or poisonous insects and other creatures? Often just using good common sense keeps us safe when making decisions concerning certain geographic areas. For instance, if you wanted to be 100% safe from ...

Addendum added - 10/15/2020

Covid-19, From a Spiritual Perspective. How To Keep From Getting It.

Van of Urantia
October 16, 2020

The University of Ascension Science and The Physics of Rebellion (UASPR) has a staff of medical personnel, a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, and other professors and instructors who study science, metaphysics, and spiritual phenomena—not UFOs, etc., but how true spirituality (see The Cosmic Family, Volume 1, Paper 210, in the section called “What Is Spirituality?”) is a tool that ...

Surviving Under Misrepresentation

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
May 19, 2022

Since the misrepresentation by NBC Dateline in 1997 of them falsely implicating myself and Global Community Communications Alliance as a negative alternative religious group—with very strong insinuating pictures of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, implying that we are just like those dangerous groups—in their one-hour sensationalized show they made about our community, for 22 years we ...

It’s Easy To Get Off Track In Your Spiritual Discovery

Van of Urantia
January 12, 2021

I believe in the God of our founding forefathers of the U.S. Many of those men were Freemasons, and though some people say that Freemasons do not really know God, I say they probably know God better than those who say otherwise. Before going into battle, George Washington, a Freemason, would kneel and pray to God the Father and Jesus Christ the Divine Son. Most of the designers and signers of the ...

Who's The Real Parasite

Van of Urantia
March 21, 2020

Well I believe in diplomacy with our allied countries, and in the case of South Korea, they are already a suburb of the United States, so I don’t know why we have to show them we love them anymore, because Parasite does not deserve the 2020 Academy Awards it got, particularly the Best Picture Award. When you put that picture in company with Richard Jewell, Joker, Judy, Ford v Ferrari, The ...

The Office of The President and Free Speech

Whether we agree with the President or not, we all have the responsibility to work in an honest and legal manner to reform policy.

Van of Urantia
February 8, 2016

We may have our likes and dislikes of the person holding the Presidency, but we do great disservice to our country when we disrespect the office that the President occupies, as so many did with the previous President. We don’t have to believe in every doctrine of the new President; as a matter of fact, we don’t have to believe in any of them. But we need to respect the office and not ...

The Occupy Movement In Relationship To George Washington,The Colonists, And How They Won The Revolution

Van of Urantia
November 24, 2011

The Occupy movement—no matter how many protestors—is overpowered by the might of the power-elite’s police force and “weapons of gas-destruction” against the poor and disenfranchised, students, and the once middle class, as the early colonists were by the British empire. Long before the first shot was fired at Lexington—the shot heard ‘round the ...

The Great Controversy Between A Connection To The Forces Of Light Or The Forces Of Darkness

Van of Urantia
July 24, 2013

Many scientists in physics and in other areas of science are finding out that everything is connected. The micro/macro connection is from the smallest atom to the largest star. Great writers throughout history have written about this universal connection, such as Walt Whitman, who said when a leaf drops stars feel it. Since everything is energy, broken circuitry from the source of energy affects ...

It's OK, You Can Buy Now

Van of Urantia
December 14, 2012

After 3,000 Americans were killed on 9/11, that painful memory was still fresh and the healing and reparations were still under way when then-President George W. Bush made his famous speech where he encouraged everyone "to go shopping more." In our profit-driven economy, the big corporations—owned by the 1%—want Americans and the so-called “free world” to be consumers, ...

The White Baby Boomers' and X-Generation's Responsibility. (The Once Middle Class), The Cry of the Indigenous, And The 99% Movement

Van of Urantia
November 2, 2011

When I was a young man in my late twenties, I went to a sweat lodge facilitated by a shaman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was a Taino native from the tribe where Christopher Columbus landed in Central America. I told him about a book I was reading by two white Harvard graduates and pointed out a part in the book that talked about some seagulls showing up over Columbus’ ship and ...

The Five Principles of Planetary Peace and Justice

Van of Urantia
October 1, 2011

1. The rich would give most of their money away that they really don't need to the needy. They would become true philanthropists. The line between the rich and the poor would vanish. A responsible way to do this would be to give increments of money to respected and proven spiritual and church leaders so that they could disperse responsibly to the needy. This is the method Jesus used with the ...

Pseudo Activism And University Students. The Great American Dream Is Over, But Many Millions Of Americans Still Hang On To False Hopes. The 99% Are Beginning To Awaken To The Entrapment Of The False Powers. Is There An Answer To The Future?

Van of Urantia
November 11, 2011

On Saturday my wife and I were driving to the Occupy movement in Tucson that was going to march to the Bank of America to protest. My son and two daughters were there already, as well as several others from our intentional community. We drove past the University of Arizona stadium where the Wildcats football team was playing that day. We saw hundreds of college students walking with six-packs in ...

To Achieve Cultural And Religious Unity In A One-World Government Outside Of The Control Of The 1%, A Global Spiritualution Is The Only Answer

Van of Urantia
August 23, 2012

I personally believe that there should be no borders anywhere on the earth and that we are all planetary citizens, in actuality one planetary family. I coined the phrase in the 1990s: “One God, One Planetary Family.” The power elite or the 1% would want a different kind of one world government for their own greedy and power-hungry reasons, so that negative movement is ...

What’s Going On? Is There A Real Answer?

The Cleansing Process Of The Earth In Relationship To The Cleansing Of Our Souls At This Time Of Pandemic, Social Unrest, Rioting, and Earth Changes

Van (in The Urantia Book, Lucifer Rebellion)
Gabriel of Urantia (author of many spiritual books dealing with Fifth Epochal Revelation)
TaliasVan (music career name)
June 5, 2020

More than twenty years ago in Sedona, Arizona, I began to talk about a spiritual revolution that would be the solution for the ills of our country and the entire planet. Since that time, many have picked up on the idea of a “spiritual revolution” and used it in their own outreaches and ministries to the world, because it is a great concept. But we should not just talk about the ...

There Is Only One Side

Van of Urantia
November 5, 2020

America—(the regathering of the ancient tribes of Israel)—is now at a transition point, which will determine how the rest of the tribulation will go in the next four years on Earth, particularly in America and Western civilization. The forces of the fallen mind have been at war with the forces of the light for 200,000 years now, since the Lucifer Rebellion. But now in America, at this...

One Nation Under Who?

Van of Urantia
December 14, 2020

“One Nation Under God.” Are we? Our Constitution was written by men of God, bound together by the sufferings of their forefathers in Europe over the abuse of authority by so-called “men and women of God,” who ruled with self-righteousness, just like the Pharisees did during the times of Jesus—remembering that it was the so-called men of God (the Pharisees) who ...

Reading and Seeing with Spiritual Eyes — Discerning People Who Try To Become Famous On The Coattails of Famous People

Van of Urantia
December 28, 2020

Unfortunately there are selfish so-called journalists who try to, and often do, make themselves famous on the coattails of great men and women with their derogatory misrepresentation of those individuals. This has happened for thousands of years, and many a good person and their families have been hurt in various ways by such yellow journalism, which really isn’t journalism at all. Yellow ...

A Series On Community Building and Survival In Times Of Economic Crises

by Van of Urantia

Community Living. Creating Subcultures to Survive During the Tribulation

Van of Urantia
February 17, 2012

This article is a response to a member of the arts and labor group of Occupy Wall Street, Nicole Demby’s excellent article titled, “The Fight Against Capitalism” printed in AdBusters, February 15, 2012. Throughout recorded history, and even before that, people lived in communities/tribes and had as many things in common as they could, because tribal living simply ...

Substitutes For Community Living. Modern Society And The Breakdown Of Having All Things In Common, Including Interpersonal Relationships

Van of Urantia
March 9, 2012

With the onslaught (particularly in Western civilization) of modernization, industrialization, and technology, people have become more isolated from each other and from the local community where they may live. At one time in our human history people used to know the names of everyone in the tribe or neighborhood. They ate, played, washed clothes, watched each other’s children, fixed ...

The Loneliness, Stress, Isolation, And Lack Of Human Compassion And Support Of Brothers And Sisters Existing In Urban Life. The Need For Community And Coming Back To Nature.

Van of Urantia
March 21, 2012

We should ask ourselves how many people should comfortably live in close proximity to one another, also in relationship to working and using the same recreation facilities. For instance, New York City has an approximate ten-mile radius (which includes the boroughs) with roughly twenty million inhabitants within that radius. In our extra-large cities of more than ten million people, how big ...

A Series of 3 Articles in Relationship to The Deterioration of The Earth and all its Systems—Climatic, Resources, Food, Economic, and Consciousness

by Van of Urantia

The Occupy Movement Needs To Fuse With The Spiritualution Movement To Win Against The 1%

Van of Urantia
April 27, 2012

I do not think that the Mayans or the ancient Egyptians or Nostradamus or the Hopi or other indigenous peoples or any one spiritual ideology has all the answers pertaining to how the Creator works with humans to accomplish the fight against evil. We can only find these answers in some partial truth in the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation that explains the Physics of Rebellion, published ...

The Invisible War

Van of Urantia
May 9, 2012

For those in the Occupy movement or any activist who is trying to make change within the existing “system” about anything, they can no longer ignore what is happening to global civilization and the planet as a whole—financially, socially, politically, environmentally, spiritually, etc. They cannot ignore any longer the spiritual aspect or the Spiritualution movement that is ...

The “Occupy Movement” Was Actually The Right Name, Because The “99%” Is A Misnomer. The Leftover Middle Class Are The Silent Apathy-ites.

Van of Urantia
May 19, 2012

The “99%” is correct conceptually but wrong in reality, because there are still a great number of middle class, leftover from the good ol’ days, with enough money in the bank for them to feel secure. As a matter of fact, they do not see themselves as part of the 99%. In this article, I will refer to these “couch sitters” as the apathy-ites. They think that people who ...