About

We’re a small but potent cadre of concerned universe citizens, ambassadors for another place and time;   recommending a higher, brighter world in the here and now. We’re also Urantia Book readers;  if that’s new to you, click the link at the bottom of this page.

Glad you’re here;  so be at home;  read, share your thoughts, come back often.  Remember, we’re still at war with two other nations. Wage peace.  We’ll get through this time just fine;  a new day is dawning.

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PROPAGANDEE— My work background includes film, law, real estate and a couple of short stints in the newspaper biz. My first editorial column (mid ’70s) was called “Staying One Step Ahead of the Future,” a mantram which I try to follow to this day.

My interest in politics began in the 8th grade when, in a debating class, I was randomly assigned to argue the case against Vietnam by a Catholic nun right out of The Blues Brothers. This was followed by a term as freshman class president at an all boys Catholic prep school, where I was asked to leave for engaging in various radical activities like growing my hair long, attending anti-war protest rallies, and having sex on the weekends.

After graduating high school in 1970, I forgot to go to college and found myself living naked on a beach on Maui for five months instead. There I underwent a nine week long dysentery cleansing diet, turned vegan, and learned some elementary yoga and meditation. My reading list included “The Impersonal Life,” “Autobiography of a Yogi,” various works on Zen, and something called “The Urantia Book” (TUB).

Suspending my disbelief about TUB’s claim to be an “epochal revelation,” I immersed myself in its teachings about pattern. The synaptic imprint on my brain was apparently profound, as I have been an inveterate dot connector ever since.

I take my blogging name “Propagandee from Jacque Ellul’s classic 1965 book “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes” (still in print). Before blogging on my own, I offered comments (and still do) on a number of progressive blogs, including Glen Geenwald’s Salon site, Digby’s Hullabaloo, Firedog Lake, Daily Kos, Eschaton, and TPM. I started my own site, Blogsofear.com last year, but find the community potential of UrantianSojourn (US) a far more exciting prospect to engage.

I am single, somewhat retired, and live on the left coast.

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MICHAEL HART— Just an American guy with a little PTSD. A life-long independent, I’ve never been able to vote for a single republican, though I’m sure there were one or two worthy of my vote. I was a political cartoonist for the Colorado Daily for twelve years, and wrote and illustrated a cartoon strip called SOS for five years; it was the best way to talk back to Reagan George H W Bush for the ugly things they did to America. Naturally, I made a shitload of money which I parlayed into this blog-writing thing.

I read The Urantia Papers in the early seventies while the world was still obviously under the influence of “spiritual pressure from above.” It was a heady time;  not all my friends survived.  I’ll give them a proper ration of shit in the next world.  For now, we’d better take back our government from the crooks and liars— I don’t care who you say you’re affiliated with— if you’re a lying, greedy, valueless, corrupt piece of shit who’s managed to entrench yourself behind political, financial, or ecclesiastical power, you don’t belong in our government, and you’re going down.  Values like honesty, integrity, truth, beauty, and goodness must inform our future choices, must be manifested in our voices;  dare to live, work, and love life, become the change you want to see.

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TERRY KRUGER— The only Terry Kruger born and raised in Springfield, IL.  Transplanted to Boulder, CO after a stint with the Navy in Vietnam and a degree in Fine Arts from Illinois State University. I paint, write, work, photochop, pray, and worship in Boulder, Colorado with my brilliant spouse, Carol.

It’s beyond my knowing why more of us don’t ask who they are, what they are, where they are, and why they are here;  why they never glimpse the beauty, or sense the world of spirit, why they have no need for a personal cosmology;  why they never quite awaken from the dream world of material reality.

Pay attention to that hunger in your soul— and everybody has that hunger unless it’s purposely snuffed out.  Find out why you’re here.  Discover where “here” is;  learn where you are going.  It takes transformed people to transform the world;  put revelation between your ears, and then for the love of God, get on with it.

If you haven’t yet discovered the spiritual dimension, Epochal Revelation can introduce you to a whole new dimension of reality.  The reality of Spirit.  Nothing can remain untouched, of course, since the Indwelling Spirit radiates like the sun, from the deepest, most real part of you— your soul.  When you start living there, are directed from there by the God of Love, whose Spirit inhabits the mind, reality changes.

Life on the World of the Cross is, at times, like riding a raging behemoth; it can be crazy, frightening, heartbreaking, and joyful, all in the same day; but it’s your choice whether you merely hold on for dear life, or learn to master it and enjoy the ride.  There are, of course, innate difficulties in simply sharing the news of such an amazing phenomenon as Epochal Revelation with anyone, whether they be lovers, or strangers, friends, or foes;  but frankly, have you got anything better to do?  We intend to share that revelatory perspective with a sense of humor and in stride with the challenges of living on Urantia.  That is why this blog is here.

Let My People Know.