"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.
