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KEYNOTES:
Friday Morning
Title: "The New Evolutionary Philosophy, Affinity with The Urantia Book"
Speaker: Steve McIntosh
Steve McIntosh is a well-known author in the emerging integral philosophy movement and a life-long student of progressive spirituality. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Southern California Business School, and since 1955 he has served as founder and president of the Boulder-based consumer products company Now & Zen, Inc. He is also an original member of the "Evolutionary Leaders" group spearheaded by Deepak Chopra. For more on his work, visit www.stevemcintosh.com.
The 2012 Summer Study Session is pleased to welcome Steve as our Friday morning keynote speaker. His 2007 book, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House), as well as his forthcoming book, Evolution's Purpose (Select Books), present a spiritual philosophy of evolution that has many affinities with the teachings of The Urantia Book.
Here are some of the ideas familiar to Urantia Book readers that are also tenets of integral philosophy:
That the beautiful, the true, and the good are the "comprehensible elements of Deity."
That evolution is a technique of creation.
That the phenomenology of the "evolutionary impulse" felt by humans reveals evolution's larger purpose of spiritual growth.
That the world's religions are best understood as "lines of spiritual development."
That The Urantia Book's "seven psychic circles" resonate with the evolutionary stages of consciousness and culture revealed by integral philosophy.
That integral philosophy bears many similarities to the needed "new philosophy" described in The Urantia Book, and may well fulfill at least part of this promise.
That the coming "end of the secular panic" described in The Urantia Book may be achieved through the discoveries of science itself.
In his keynote address, Steve will talk about some of these ideas and how they relate to Urantia Book concepts.
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Saturday Morning
Title: "Marriage, Family Life, and the importance of Fatherhood."
Speaker: Daniel Love Glazer
Daniel Love Glazer was reared a Jew, became an agnostic, then a yogi -- almost a swami. Subsequent to leaving the yogic path, he embarked on a wholehearted search for Truth that resulted in a saving realization of God's love. With this realization came the promise that he would be led into more truth. Shortly thereafter he discovered The Urantia Book, through which he came to know Jesus -- Thanks be to God!
Daniel is now retired and is active as a certified lay speaker and preacher in the Methodist Church. He and his wife, Karen, have two children, Andrew Michael and Rachel Rebecca.
Daniel will talk about the current breakdown of family life in society. In the U.S. today, out-of-wedlock births are at 73% among Blacks, 53% among Latinos, and 29% among Whites. Children in single-parent families are much less likely to graduate from high school, finish college, work for a living, and have a stable family life themselves.
And besides these well-documented social ills, children of broken homes, especially those with absent or defective fathers, are much more likely to be without faith in God.
The Urantia Book tells us that "Marriage has given mankind the home, and the home is the crowning glory of the whole long and arduous evolutionary struggle....The family is the master civilizer. A child learns most of the essentials of life from his family and the neighbors." (Page 913)
"The security of civilization itself still rests on the growing willingness of one generation to invest in the welfare of the next and future generations. And any attempt to shift parental responsibility to state or church will prove suicidal to the welfare and advancement of civilization." (Page 941)
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