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Dear readers of The Urantia Book,

Thank you for your interest in taking a course at UBIS. The current semester is now in session. If you are considering applying for one of the courses next semester, we ask you to read carefully the following information.

Thank you in advance,

Georges Michelson Dupont
UBIS Director

A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF A UBIS COURSE

A typical UBIS course is 10 weeks long and is divided into 3 main periods:

1. The 1st week pre-course: After registration, the student answers the roll call, introduces himself to the class and reads the introductions from the other students. The student receives guide lines for the course from the Teacher.

2. The 8 week course: The study period is divided into 4 periods of 2 weeks each.

• The 1st week the Teacher posts 6 questions. The student is requested to log-in and to answer to 3 of the 6 questions.
• The 2nd week is the discussion week. The student is requested to log-in and to post comments and ideas.

The 2 week-long period is repeated 3 more times making a total of 8 weeks.

3. The 1 week-long Summary week: During this week, the student receives a summary assignment and a questionnaire. It is requested that the student answer both.

COMMITMENT

Each UBIS course has been designed for either introductory, intermediate or advanced students. Before you subscribe, please ask yourself if you have the interest, the time and the commitment to follow the entire session, which is 10 weeks long and requires a weekly minimum commitment of 5 hours.

The teacher/facilitators are all volunteers and have dedicated a large amount of their time preparing the courses. It is expected that each student attend the course regularly. Should you not be sure of your ability to fill the requirements of the course, please refrain from registering and let someone else register. You can always attend a future course. UBIS offers courses 3 times a year.

Thank you for your cooperation.

1. COURSE TITLE: Angels - Our Living Ladder from Chaos to Glory

   COURSE LEVEL: Intermediate

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: Beginning with the Primary Supernaphim on Paradise, our course of study will descend the living ladder of spiritual ministers down through Havona, Orvonton, Nebadon and ending on Urantia with the Destiny Guardians who live so near and do so much for us.

   PAPERS: Paper 26, Paper 27 - Section 1 and 7, Papers 28, 38, 39, and 113.

   TEACHER/FACILITATORS: Betty and Ralph Zehr
   Ralph and Betty have been readers since 1968, and are the parents of two children with three grandchildren. Ralph is a retired radiologist and Betty a retired reading specialist. They live in upstate New York.

2. COURSE TITLE: The Ministry of Divine Sonship to the Ascending Mortals of Time and Space

   COURSE LEVEL: Advanced

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course we will learn of the magnificent careers of the Paradise Sons of God, The Trinitized Sons of God and the Local Universe Sons of God. We will see how these supernal beings lovingly serve and facilitate the inward progress of the ascending mortals of time toward our Havona destination and eventual Paradise goal.

   PAPERS: 20, 21, 22, and 35

   TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Dennis Sword
   Dennis has been a Urantia Book reader for over 25 years. He has participated in local study groups and as a student of the UBIS school. Dennis lives in Hillsboro, Oregon with his extended family and enjoys travel and exploring the Northwestern wilderness.

3. COURSE TITLE: The Creative Mother Spirit

   COURSE LEVEL: Intermediate

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will pursue an understanding of our Local Universe Mother Spirit and her multidimensional creative and loving contributions to our evolutionary growth.

   PAPERS: 34, 36, 37, and 38

   TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Marta Elders
   Marta, a student of the Urantia Book since 1970, hails from southern New England where she raised her two sons and still lives with her husband. She is presently a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Connecticut.

4. COURSE TITLE: The Wisdom of the Melchizedeks - A Study of Religious Living

   COURSE LEVEL: Introductory - Intermediate

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Melchizedeks, as local universe Sons of God, serve as teachers to the evolutionary planets. This course is a focus on their insights into dynamic religious living and spiritual growth.

   PAPERS: 100, 101, 102, and 103

   TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Linda Barton
   Linda lives in New York State with her husband and has several grandchildren. She is retired from a large computer company. Linda has been reading The Urantia Book for several decades.

5. COURSE TITLE: The Son of Man: A Focus on the Human Jesus (ages 14 through 29)

   COURSE LEVEL: Introductory

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: Living on Urantia, Jesus was both human and divine, the Son of Man and Son of God. In this study we will focus on Jesus, the Son of Man, from ages 14 through 29.

   PAPERS: 126, 127, 128, 129

   TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Susan Flacks
   A children's librarian living in Trenton, NJ, Susan is married and has one son. She discovered the Urantia Book in 1974, in a college library, and has been reading it ever since.

6. COURSE TITLE: Time and Space

   COURSE LEVEL: Advanced

   COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores the origin and nature of time and space, limitations of time-space creatures, transcending time and space, and how the time-space viewpoint differs from the eternity viewpoint.

   PAPERS: 11, 12, 118, 106, and 130: Section 7.

   TEACHER/FACILITATOR: Stacey Jackson
   Stacey is eight classes away from a Bachelor of Science in Space Studies at American Military University. She lives in Tennessee, has a master's degree in ministry, and has been a devoted Urantia Book reader since 1998.

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