© 1991 Madeline Noordzy, Ann Bendall, Dick Bain, Kathleen Swadling, Martin Greenhut, Kaye Cooper, Simon Barber, Patije Mills et al
© 1991 ANZURA, Australia & New Zealand Urantia Association
2 Salisbury Crt, Glen Waverley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 3150.
¶ Contents
- Editorial
- 1991 Conference
- Do You Need a Pilot’s Licence on Jerusem?
- From Our Mailbox
- Mind the Light
- Study Groups
- International News
- Epochal Revolt
- Hitchhiking
- I Dreamt
- Crosswords
Part 2
- Roles and Relationships for Post-Rebellion Urantia
- Opening Doors Within
- Fourth Dimensional Consciousness
- To the Reserve Corps of Destiny
- Proper Terminology in the Pre-Stages of Light and Life and The Aquarian Age
- We Leaves
- Mandates A Brief Introduction
- Love is the Key
- Mind the Light
Six-O-Six is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to promote international good will and understanding between readers of The URANTIA Book
¶ “Thought For The Month”
“And so I give you this new commandment.: That you love one another as I have loved you. And by this will all men know that you are my disciples if you thus love one another.” (UB 180:1.1)
¶ Editorial
We are pleased to be able to publish many of the responses from both Australian and overseas readers to our new format. As expected, some agree with our solution and some don’t.
Overall, however, we have heard from only a small percentage of subscribers. We would love to hear more! We feel that as long as we all view developments of Six-O-Six as evolution, not revolution, then we will continue to broadly satisfy the needs of a diverse readership.
One misconception that is important to clarify is that contributors to Part 2 are by and large URANTIA Book readers, relating their personal experiences and this will continue to be our policy.
The great strength of Six-O-Six is, and will hopefully remain, that of being an open conduit of ideas and points of view from all concerned, with a minimum of editorial interference. “Strength in unity and unity in diversity”. So as Dean Martin used to say at the end of his TV show: “Keep them cards ‘n’ letters rollin’ in!”
Madeline Noordzy
¶ 1991 Conference
When: Labour Day holiday weekend. From Friday 4th to Monday 7th October, with Tuesday 8th an optional extra day.
Where: Canberra YHA (Youth Hostel Association), Dryandra Street, O’Connor.
The conference weekend coincides with the Canberra Springtime Floriade (national flower display) and a trip to the gardens will be incorporated into the program. The YHA backs onto the Black Mountain Nature Reserve which has extensive walking trails. Spring in Canberra can be cold — so rug up.
The conference will officially close on the Monday but Tuesday will be available for those who wish to stay on an extra day.
Accommodation for Monday night will be made available at the homes of readers in Canberra.
Registration forms and further information on accommodation and cost will be included on separate forms with this newsletter.
For more information phone:
Verner Verass (06) 281 4050 — home
Roy Stapleton (06) 2752026 — work
¶ Do You Need A Pilot’s Licence On Jerusem?
I suspect it will not be necessary if we choose to fly by bird, but the mechanical devices are going to need operational instructions. Actually, as I read The URANTIA Book, I get the impression that they are little morontia helicopters, and suspect that there are limited seats on them. Goodness, I hope that they, at least, have room for a navigator, as I get a mental image of me trying to steer the contraption through space with a map upside down on my lap (maybe I will not be left-handed on the mansion worlds) trying to figure out where I am going.
Seeing one can break limbs whilst in morontia form, I can visualize myself and the poor trusting unfortunate who decided to accompany me on my joy flight, bruised and plastered, hobbling out of the Jerusem hospital a few weeks later. Perhaps my apprehensions are unfounded, as I did not note any reference to aircraft disaster statistics in the Blue Book, and we all know that you cannot get killed up there.
Ann Bendall, Nambour, Queensland
¶ From Our Mailbox
¶ Growth And Change
The editorial comments by Neil Francey and Madeline Noordzy open up some important issues that we must face. Over the past two years we Australians sat on the fence and tried to understand the processes occuring to URANTIA Book readers in America. The polarization between the fundamental approach of control, slow and steady, consolidate good basic understanding versus that of the broader, open, cross-pollination, reach-out-to-a-wider-audience approach.
Kathleen Swadling’s excellent article would embrace the thoughts of many Australian readers. (Read that article again to understand the basic principles involved with the conservative, fundamentalist approach.) However, Madeline, as the focus for the Six-O-Six, is able to gauge from readers’ feedback what people want to read. She has taken a courageous stand with some of her editorial comments and to her credit included some stimulating articles, improved production, presentation (some credit also goes to Tony Rudd) and set Six-O-Six on a footing as a respectable international outreach.
Are we at the crossroads for change and natural growth? Here I’d like to quote from the announcement of the newly formed AASUB or Australian Association of Students of The URANTIA Book:
“Another objective is to encourage the social interaction of readers by supporting an annual conference, a national newsletter and to facilitate between readers.” (Six-O-Six Vol 12 No 2 March/April 1991)
Is it time for more than one newsletter? Is it time for more than one association? Is it time for three associations and three newsletters? For Keith Bacon has been reaching out also. Is there room for:
- Six-O-Six international focus and newsletter, Melbourne.
- AASUB National focus and newsletter, Sydney.
- FUSOM Victorian focus and newsletter, Melbourne.
What are your thoughts on the current developments which until recently have been of the one accord?
Can I make a request that this topic be placed on the agenda for the National Conference in Canberra later this year?
Enquiries:
AASUB Secretary: Kathleen Swadling,
7 Walsh St, Narrabeen, 2101. Tel (02) 913-7893
Proposed FUSOM, First URANTIA Society of Melbourne: Keith Bacon, 97 Lindrum Road, Frankston, 3199. Tel. (03) 789-6141.
Ian Esmore, Melbourne
¶ Doing A Service
Well, who would’ve thought my article in Cosmic Reflections would have started such a ruckus? Fact is, I think that you are doing folks in the URANTIA movement a service by airing the ideas of people like Joe Pope, Sananda, etc., so folks are aware of these unusual people and their teachings. Then each person can decide how they wish to react.
It seems that apocalypticism has been with us for a long time. If you remember, the early Christians, because of a mis-interpretation of Jesus’ words, stopped working and banded together in communes in Jerusalem in anticipation of the end times. Paul, fearful that they would starve to death, requested that donations be sent to them, and told them to get back to work. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have several times predicted the end, retreated to caves, then had to come up with a cover story when the end didn’t arrive. Recently, a “prophetess” predicted the end and had her followers build concrete bunkers in the hills of a western U.S. state. A lot of folks fell away when the end date came and went without incident. The list goes on and on. Makes me wonder why seemingly rational, intelligent people would quit their jobs, sell everything and go and live in a cave to become the laughing stock of the media because of some Pied Piper of apocalypticism
Dick Bain, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Study Group — All welcome!
“Fruits of the Spirit”
12 noon Saturday 6th July to 21st September, Warrandyte
Contact Martin McBurney (03) 579 4499
¶ Concerned
We have watched in amazement as the Six-O-Six has unfolded in the past few months. We are students of The URANTIA Book and as such are concerned at the number of “isms” etc. which are creeping into the publication.
We seem to have received a choice of alternate Six6-O-Six’s — i.e. to subscribe to Part I or Part II. We believe there is also another option — to receive neither. We choose the latter, as we believe that we are free to pursue any interest we wish and indeed will do so, but believe also the Six-O-Six should be concerned only with The URANTIA Book and not news of people’s personal communication with angels and the like.
Alex and Jane King, Sydney
¶ Listening
I have recently been exposed to Six-O-Six through my friends Sananda and White Cloud. I want to express my appreciation for your efforts to promote international goodwill and understanding between readers of The URANTIA Book.
I am also writing to extend my support to you for printing the articles regarding our new Planetary Prince, the Caligastia visit and any others about the Planetary Center of Light.
I can imagine the potential ripples of reaction which might be triggered by these articles. I trust readers of The URANTIA Book will call upon the many tools given for discerning truth, for recognizing and comprehending multi-dimensional concepts and for responding to major transitions with as much inner serenity and balanced inner essence as one is capable of mustering.
Kathleen Blue Corn, Camptonville, California, USA
The Mark
of your ignorance is the depth
of your belief in injustice
and tragedy.
What the caterpillar
calls the end of the world
the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
¶ Agree To Disagree
To get away from all the personal tit-for-tat that has been going on lately I would like to start by being a bit more philosophical about the role Six-O-Six has played in the past for readers of The URANTIA Book. It started up as a valuable tool to keep students of The URANTIA Book in touch with one another. People who find The URANTIA Book have a tendency to crave for the company of other readers as there are so many changes they go through and so much for them to understand as they study the book. As many readers are spread out over this vast country, the newsletter has played a vital role in keeping readers in touch with one another, sharing ideas and points of view and announcements of study group and conference activities etc. It was a newsletter which was set up for readers of The URANTIA Book. Now many of those readers have come from incredibly diverse backgrounds. Many have been searching for years for something which satisfies their spiritual yearnings. Many have found that satisfaction through The URANTIA Book — others are still seeking and The URANTIA Book is one of many wonderful works they have stumbled upon. Whatever the current status of each reader, Six-OSix has been a newsletter which services The URANTIA Book component of people’s spiritual quest. The form it was in satisfied all. Anyone wishing to investigate The URANTIA Book found Six-O-Six an assistant to their investigation. However by changing the direction of the newsletter you are catering for anyone and everyone on a spiritual quest of some kind. I have no problem with a newsletter which services this need but I do not feel it is relevant that Six-O-Six becomes a newsletter to service this need without first consulting the entire readership which is made up of people who have been contributing and supporting financially and morally since it first began. The personal attacks which have resulted from this scenario is indicative that a change was imposed rather than discussed.
Kathleen Swadling, Sydney
¶ All Of It
I have been enjoying Six-O-Six for quite a few years. The articles are so bright, intelligent, and stimulating that I often thought of writing to compliment Australians for publishing one of the more interesting and worthwhile journals in our movement. I was elated to read of the formation of AASUB and pray for your Australian Association of Readers and associated fellowship of students to grow “… in the Joy of the realization of sonship”.
It was when I received your Vol 12 No. 1 that I noticed a marked change in the policy of your publication that appears to have resulted from the tumultuous confusion over your having previously published the debate by readers over the efficacy of some tapes having to do with a worldwide disaster. Vol 12 No 1 was like the tabloids that we see at the check-out lines in supermarkets — “Big Foot Captures 12 Year Old Girl in Montana” or “Graveyard Found On The Moon”. I was inclined to send you a request to remove my name from your mailing list just to let you know how disappointed I was with the new direction that you were taking. It seemed as though any outlandish, ego-tripping, misguided material would now be able to find its way into print on your pages under the guise of ‘open-mindedness’. I’m glad, however, that I denied myself the impulsive reaction for I would not have received your next issue with the news of the formation of AASUB, the interesting article by Kathleen Swadling, and the heart-rending letter from Paul Michael Waterman of Toronto, not to mention the bright spot: “Is God a He or a She” which again reminded me of the gift of the Australian spirit that I enjoyed so much about Six-O-Six. I would also like to thank the editors for their frank and open discussion of editorial policy that enabled me to understand you both a little better and the fact that you are working on working together rather than destroy the whole endeavour over a fight.
Martin Greenhut, Monterey, Montana, USA
¶ Good Solution
I think you have come up with a good solution to your problem of the focus of Six-O-Six. This way URANTIA Book readers who have an interest in the other material are not denied easy access to it; and those who are not interested don’t have to sort it out from the URANTIA book related material. Newsletters are similar to study groups in this respect — if you are too expansive in the subject matter, the publication transforms itself into something other than a URANTIA Book newsletter.
Please send me only the first section. I have investigated any number of other channels — including the URANTIA Book readers in New Zealand — and never found anything which rings true as do The URANTIA Book and my own inner guide. As a result, while I’m somewhat open-minded still, my interest in these other sources is lukewarm at best; and I’d prefer you not to spend the money to send me the second part.
Kaye Cooper, Houston, Texas, USA
¶ Polishing Quality
I am just writing to congratulate Madeline and Tony on the last edition of Six-O-Six for its professionalism and courage.
I have enjoyed the extra URANTIA Book material that has crept into Six-O-Six over the last twelve months. Some of it has been inspiring and some of it not so, but it’s always been challenging to what I believe and this I welcome for its polishing quality.
I am a little disappointed by the need to keep this current news separate, but if people do not want to know or would prefer exclusive URANTIA Book issues in their Six-O-Six, then that’s okay. and I hope the method of avoiding conflict is openly received by everyone. The URANTIA Book instructs us to be aware of other people’s spiritual experiences.
We students of The URANTIA Book are connected by a global-cosmic-consciousness that should be strong and loyal enough to overcome any differences, a consciousness that will manifest tolerance that even the angels would admire.
Anyway, keep up the good work and I look forward to the next edition.
Simon Barber, Melbourne
E = C + T
Evolution equals Creation plus Time
¶ No Spoon-Fed Or Censored News
Six-O-Six is a quality newspaper! (I like the idea of the Part I and Part II so that Part II can be skipped by those who are sensitive to the information.)
Because I continue to keep my physical senses open to all information — which is then filtered through my communication with my Thought Adjuster, I feel you are doing a good job in reporting the “news” which comes through your office.
Editing is sometimes a very unpleasant task because readers have the ability to “second-guess” and criticize everything. Since the purpose of newsletters is to share information and personal perceptions and/or opinions, it is right and intellectually healthy to differ in our acceptance of all articles in the news source.
Just because we have The URANTIA Book doesn’t mean that we are all stamped out alike in feelings, intelligence, and abilities to perceive truth. However, because we all have The URANTIA Book and know about our Thought Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth, none of us should be afraid to read and discern truth of any news reporting for ourselves. I for one, would be sorely insulted if I had to have my news “spoon-fed” and censored by any other than my own intelligence guided by my unseen helpers!
Patije Mills, Sarasota, Florida, USA
¶ Appreciating The Delicacy
Thank you for your continuing efforts to link the Australian readers of The URANTIA Book through the Six-O-Six. I appreciate receiving each copy.
I also appreciate the delicate way in which the recent editorial crisis has been handled, as explained in the March/April 1991 edition. Your solution appears to me to embody the teachings of Christ Michael and The URANTIA Book, and is an object lesson to our political leaders in how to resolve conflicts.
Would you please only send me the first section of the newsletter in future, as Part 2 contents strike no chord within me like my reading of The URANTIA Book does.
Mike Taylor, Shepparton, Victoria
¶ Balanced Comments
Just a note to say “Thank you” for all your wonderful work on the newsletter. I really enjoy your comments and find them very balanced. Keep up the good work, we think you’re wonderful.
Heather Johnson, Buchan, Victoria
¶ Support
Just a note to let you know I truly support your work with Six-O-Six. I’m looking forward to receiving the next newsletter via David Glass, especially Sananda’s articles. Although I haven’t had the pleasure of being in the presence of Lao-Tse or Machiventa, I am confident that these personalities are indeed using Sananda’s light body, having experienced deep meditation with both White Cloud and Sananda over ten years ago. Since their move out of California we had lost contact with them while we were busy with the more traditional roles of bringing up baby and the more conservative aspects of the URANTIA movement, i.e. Brotherhood, Society, study groups, etc. About the time of the break-up of the UF/UB we reconnected and about a year later we received the announcement about Machiventa. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed to be something that Sananda and White Cloud had been working on for as long as we had known them and that it finally had come to pass. As far as writing to say that I have experienced either manifestation of Machiventa or Lao-Tse, I cannot. However I will write something about my experiences at a later time once I am able to formulate exactly what it is I do want to share about these experiences or the possibility of them or anything else that seems pertinent to supporting you and your work. I myself have never been one to shy away from controversy when I feel passionately about something and the URANTIA teachings are one of them! I am currently in the process of looking up references to material complements and other subjects in The URANTIA Book to verify what I believe to be happening. I will keep you posted!
Chrissy Smith, Soquel, California, USA
Love
is to the moral nature
exactly what the
sun is to the Earth.
Honore de Balzac
¶ Working Things Out
Some months ago I started receiving your newsletter. Thanks to David Glass, your Six-O-Six connection, I look forward to each new publication. It gives me the opportunity to have a feel for what you folks are thinking and doing down under as UB readers. I hope this experience will allow me to gain some insight to global awareness.
I too have noticed a change in your format, and yes you do seem to be dealing with more subject matter that is referred to around here as ‘New Age’ stuff. some people are simply not open to that way of thinking, some are.
I guess the bottom line is that as the editors, you can do as you please. I know it’s not as simple as that, and sometimes it’s difficult to agree that we will disagree. What pleases me most is that you two are trying to work things out. God’s speed.
Keep up the good work. There are many of us in the U.S. that enjoy Six-O-Six.
Arley Grubb, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
¶ Love
In Answer to Six-O-Six March/April 1991 “Every Now & Zen” — A New Age Yogi’s Lament, by Kirsten McFadden.
Yes, Kirsten, I’m one of those who, in your New Age Lament -
- Sit with my legs entwined — chanting AUM, and go within and find love!
- Study Eastern Religions and their spiritual outlook: — and finds growth — & love!
- Eyes on the tip of my nose, my mind stilled from the outside world and finds — love!
- I visualize the hearts of ALL — and find we are all one in Spirit = love!
- Yes, I finger my rosary or Japamala Beads — and find my heart filled with compassion for you, Kirsten, and all other souls who can’t allow others to be … as they are fulfilling their destiny like you, whether it’s as:
- A Buddhist = love!
- A Zen Master = love!
- A Yogi = love!
- A New Age Aspirant = love!
- A URANTIA Book reader = love!
Through these spiritual outlets I have found myself looking more deeply past the personality and the not-sonice behaviour, to their truth, which is Spirit — Soul — which is part of me and you, Kirsten.
Think only Love. Live only Love. Practice only Love.
Beryl Meyrick, Gladstone, Queensland
¶ Study Groups
For information on study groups, please contact:
Sunshine Coast: Ken Glasziou (071) 942503
Brishane Neil Francey (07) 8494504
Sydney. Kathleen & Trevor Swadling (02) 9137893
Canberra: Nigel Nunn (062) 521491 .
Buchan (Vic). Christopher Billingtion (051) 550025
Melbourne: Madeline Noordzy (03) 5616989
Tatura (Vic). Nestor Borovec (058) 241589
Yanchep (W. A.): Peter & Sue Webb (09) 4570265
¶ Name And Number Of Our Planet
Thank you for separating The URANTIA Book related material from the “broader issues”. In future, please send me only Part I, the part relating to The URANTIA Book. I have a further suggestion. In view of the fact that “Six-O-Six” was originally intended to serve students of The URANTIA Book, and until recently has done nothing other than this, do you not think it sensible to change the name of what is currently “Six-O-Six Part II” to something else, and keep the name “Six-O-Six” for what is currently Part I? The designated number of our planet, and its name as well, for that matter, has never been revealed by any source other than The URANTIA Book, as far as I know, and for many of us who study it, the Fifth Epochal Revelation carries a degree of authenticity for transcending any other work.
Surely the name, and the number of our planet, are more appropriately used in a newsletter designed to serve students of The URANTIA Book than in a forum of “broader issues”.
William Wentworth, Towamba, NSW
¶ Two Parts Unacceptable
I would like to support Neil Francey’s article on reviewing the direction for Six-O-Six. I feel that the separation of our newsletter into two parts is unacceptable to me as a reader as I feel this is not helping to unify The URANTIA Book movement in Australia. If anything, I feel it will divide and confuse the readership.
I therefore think that it is important that Six-O-Six is kept as a unified newsletter under the original structure that Neil set it up to be. I suggest that Part II should be renamed to something other than Six-O-Six. I feel that under the present circumstances the only proper and fair way to rectify the situation is to restore the editorship to Neil Francey or, as Neil suggested in his article, to elect a publications committee which would be affiliated with the newly formed Association.
Trevor Swadling, Sydney
¶ International News
¶ Legal Wrangle
Some readers may have become aware of electronic copies of The URANTIA Book being made on some software called Folio Views database which also includes an electronic concordance. It appears that these have been distributed by Kristen Maaherra from Tucson Arizona. The Urantia Foundation has taken legal action against her and J.J. Johnson who was accused of helping her in the distribution of the disks.
On March 15, 1991, the United States District Court of Arizona issued a Preliminary Injunction Order which not only places restrictions upon the two defendants, but also directs that “all other persons acting in concert or participation with defendant, are hereby…required to…turn over all [electronic] copies of The Urantia Book in their possession.” These same people are required to “Turn over all records referring or relating to the dissemination of infringing databases or disks, including the identities of the persons to whom the infringing materials were disseminated; identify each person to whom they distributed infringing disks or whom they otherwise know or believe to possess such a copy” and “… recall each previously disseminated copy.”
Any reader who wishes to comply should send information or material to the Foundation. Any legal obligation to do so for readers outside the U.S. (or Arizona, for that matter) is problematic for two reasons, either the jurisdiction of the court, or whether readers regard themselves as people who “acted in concert or participation with the defendant” as opposed to being passive recipients. Perhaps it should be a matter of individual conscience rather than legal necessity.
Six-O-Six has received quite a large amount of correspondence about this issue. We hope that the Spirit of Truth operating through the various protagonists will shine forth and a resolution be found. If not, the matter will be dealt with on a more secular level with a final legal court case due to occur next December.
Six-O-Six has received the following correspondence concerning this issue and any reader who is interested in more details can write to us and ask for them.
- Foundation letter.
- Kristen Maaherra letter.
- Excerpts from Court.
- Letter by Ernest P. Moyer on “The Limitation of Copyright.”
- Letter from Terry Paul Kruger, author of “Urantian Sojourn.”
- Letter from Frederick D. Merrill, attorney for J.J. Johnson.
- Letter from A “self-appointed” Arizona Lawsuit Committee.
- Copy of the Preliminary Injunction Order.
- 20 page document entitled “The URANTIA Book Some Changes Since the First Printing.”
Follow-up 8 page document entitled “The URANTIA Book — Readers still proofing.”
Those who wish to obtain information direct from the sources are invited to contact the protagonists:
- Urantia Foundation, 533 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, IL 60614
- Kristen Maaherra, 2332 N. Chrysler Drive, Tucson, AZ 85716
- J.J. Johnson, 2702 E. Cortez Street, Phoenix, AZ 85028
Tony Rudd
Six-O-Six has received a ten page letter written by Mo Siegel in Boulder, Colorado. We do not intend to reprint the letter here, but the following may provide a brief summary. Mo has concerns in four major areas about the Foundation. In the interests of a balanced perspective, Six-O-Six has written to the Foundation to ask for their response to Mo’s allegations. We hope to be able to bring this to you in the next issue, but in the meantime here is what Mo is claiming. Interested readers can write to us for a copy of the complete letter if they wish.
¶ Some Concerns
1. Shutting Down Sales To Bookstores
Mo claims that in August 1990, Urantia Foundation stopped shipping to most U.S. book distributors, whose sales volume accounted for nearly 80% of all URANTIA Books sold.
Urantia Foundation claims they now service bookstores directly but Mo maintains that this is not working. In a survey he conducted in 485 bookstores in 15 major markets, The URANTIA Book lost 51% bookstore availability between the months of October 1990 and January 1991.
2. Financial and Administrative Considerations
The amount of money the Foundation spends on legal expenses is Mo’s second area of concern. In financial years 1988 and 1989, he says The Foundation spent almost $1 million in legal and accounting fees. In 1989 , legal/accounting amounted to 62% of expenditure, while money spent on library placement programmes, money for training leaders and teachers, dollars for study group development, funds for secondary works etc. accounted for 1.5%.
3. Concerns About Protection Of Copyright
Copyright lasts 75 years, hence The URANTIA Book has 40 or so years left under copyright. Mo says that in the interests of ensuring the Book’s protection after copyright expires, there needs to be between one and three million books sold to prevent “unprincipled or deluged religionists with millions of dollars [distributing] a re-authored and rewritten URANTIA Book.” He maintains that the current attempt by the Foundation to limit book sales runs counter to this intention.
4. Questions on Authorship
Mo quotes three instances over the last three years where the Foundation has allegedly assigned human authorship of parts of the URANTIA Book. “While I don’t accuse anyone of intentional wrong doing, honest appraisal to safeguard the revelation requires understanding why lawyers might desire to deny divine authorship” Mo says.
Tony Rudd
¶ “Epochal Revolt”
Right from the beginning we have enjoyed the Six-OSix, and in time we have seen it expand, becoming more interesting, varied and professional. Lately articles with additional information have been published in Six-O-Six, articles not “strictly” deriving from The URANTIA Book. This has caused an uproar amongst some people.
As Neil Francey (co-editor of Six-O-Six) states:
“It appears that Six-O-Six has in recent issues weighted its articles and editorial comments to a particular interest group and away from a strict URANTIA Book discipline. Readers are now having to address a new direction. Is this publication continuing to assist readers evaluate new ideas providing greater insights and understanding? Is it meeting changing needs? As a result, is Six-O-Six enjoying and increasing appreciation by readers or is it becoming too general?”
Irene and Wolfgang Borutta, Melbourne
¶ Hitchhiking
There is an experience to be had by hitchhiking. Compared to the relative neatness of the time schedule associated with punctual transport systems, hitchhiking is arduous and unpredictable. Some would call it unreliable, and it is if you haven’t the time.
In adapting to the time-scale of hitchhiking one experiences travail. Emotional swings can be quite radical. For example, the eagerness and anticipation of adventure which you may think you have at the beginning might soon turn sour as car after car after car drives by and your impatience becomes more acute. Frustration and annoyance mount and all sorts of nasties threaten to leap from the mouth. Unnoticed at first, uncertainty chips away at the stoic intellect.
All of this might be so distressing that the hitchhiker decides to catch a bus. But he might, through a mysterious inner urge which he may simply call “craziness”, continue in this painful exercise. Having set himself a goal, he might simply persevere with the project.
At times I have begged in desperation, danced, showed a leg, acted the clown. Other times I have stared in raw, calm ferocity. Still other times I have smiled in nice “friendliness”. But as the sun passes across the sky and the cars continue by, the hitchhiker’s weariness begins to predominate and the once “eager adventurer” has become a forlorn blob — ha-ha!
It might take a few days, but eventually the hitchhiker arrives at ground-zero within himself. All of his emotive antics exhausted, his attempts at procurement thwarted, his stoicism eroded away, he sits on the side of the road somewhere while going nowhere. And as he sits, he thinks. Seeing his folly, he renounces his gaining ideas. Having done so he continues his journey as an Initiate. Having discovered the “pearl of great price” (Matt 13:456) he discovers patience. Truly it is written:
“Defeat is the true mirror in which you may honestly view your real self.” (UB 156:5.17)
Dave Budgerigar, Jan Juc, via Torquay, Victoria
¶ I Dreamt
I dreamt death cane the other night
And heaven’s gale swing wide:
With kindly grace an angel came.
And ushered me inside.
And then to my astonishment
Saw folk I’d known on earth:
Some I had judged as quite unfit.
Or of little worth.
Indignant words rose to my lips
But never were set free,
for even face showed stunned surprise.
No one expected me!
Anon
¶ Crosswords
Solution To Previous Crossword
Across: 1. Quarantine 5. Midwayers 8. Genius
9. Hanavard 11.Essential 12. Madon
13. Proton 14. Ang 15. Christ
Down: 2. Transition 3. Fisherman 4. Swine
6. Rarest 7. Cup 10. Tempt
This Month’s Crossword
Across: 1. Continental upward shift 3. Capital of Roman Achaia 4. Science of plants and animals
6. Place of worship 7. The ascent of Jesus
9. Pilgrim of time
Down: 2. Who built the Ark 3. Result of high social pressure 6. Nova 8. Nigh
Audrey Morris, Tewantin, Queensland
