KRISTEN'S LETTER TO THE JUDGE
6 March 1991
KRISTEN'S LETTER TO THE JUDGE
CIV 91-0325-PHX-SMM
The Honorable Stephen M. McNamee
United States Court House and Federal Building
230 North First Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85025Dear Judge McNamee,
Thank you for allowing me to attend tomorrow's hearing on the telephone. It sounds like they want to use confidential information between J. J. and his lawyer to force J. J. to the stand to speak against me. I would rather speak against myself instead--even if this removes the "burden of proof" from the Trustees.
Legal Aid doesn't cover lawsuits, anyhow--that's what I've been told I'm going to find out tomorrow. Therefore, I decided I will tell you "my side" of this story as quickly as possible, and you can get on with your job. (When you accidentally called me "Miss Miranda" on the phone, I knew you were a judge with fairness uppermost in your--at least unconscious--mind.) And we can leave J. J. out of it.
Last Thursday night (February 28, 1991) 2 gentlemen served me with a complaint from Martin Meyers, head Trustee of the Urantia Foundation. The space that tells how many days I have to reply is blank, but I thought I'd better respond as soon as possible. I called Legal Aid, and the fastest appointment they could give was Thursday, March 7, 1991. They also warned me that they don't "do" lawsuits.
I imagine it is difficult to deal with someone who doesn't know legal language and procedure. However, I will try to be as systematic and brief as possible in stating my "case."
First of all, let me describe to you how perhaps I came to be associated in people's minds as "Miss Concordance of 1990."
Our little study group, the Son Worshipers, in Tucson, Arizona, spent from the summer of 1989 to the summer of 1990 building the "study aid of our dreams." Every word in The URANTIA Book indexed every time it occurred with 12-word strings. This printed out to 2 volumes each 5-inches high, 126 lines per page.
Here's how we created this marvelous study aid. First, we scanned The URANTIA Book into a computer. I didn't have a scanner, but finally located someone with a MacIntosh who was willing to do it. Unfortunately, she watched soap operas while sending pages through the scanner, so she often quit for the day right in the middle of a Paper, and she often skipped pages altogether. Plus, scanners are simply not as accurate as I'd been led to believe. This one left a little tilde (~) or a funny-looking F (Y) when it was pretty sure it didn't have the letter right. Also, it seemed very fond of E, E, I, D, ¥, and O for some crazy reason of its own. But, finally, it was all on disk.
Well, then someone loaned me his MacIntosh computer to edit this mess of disks. But Word Perfect on the Mac simply wasn't as good (then, at least) as Word Perfect for an IBM-type machine.
So the next step became converting these disks into IBM format. Someone with access to the computer labs at Pima College did that for me (I was really a computer illiterate at that time. In fact, just about everything I know about computers I learned just to study our wonderful revelation).
Once I had the disks in IBM format, I took classes at Pima to learn Word Perfect, editing my disks Paper by Paper as I went to class. Editing, of course, became easier and easier as I learned the capabilities of Search and Macros.
It took about 3 months to whip the text into shape. Many scanner-type errors remained, however--such as "I" for "1" in lists. But we were interested in the words only, so let that slide. I took out all the page headers so those words wouldn't appear over and over again. I typed in "Page" so and so at the top of each page. We decided not to index the Table of Contents. And so forth.
Well, then we looked around for a program to pull out word strings. I bought ZY Index, which is a very nice search program for the IBM, and easier to set up than Folio (I could never have set up Folio; I still don't know enough about it--even though I've used it for months now). There didn't seem to be a good search program--we tested out Magellan, Word Cruncher (too complicated), Gofer, etc. We hadn't heard of Folio Views at that time.
Sonar Professional (for the Mac) seemed to be the best search program around. So back to disk conversion from IBM into Mac format. A friend set up his Mac to run all day and all night, pulling out word strings. Slowly we worked our way through the whole alphabet. As he'd finish with one letter-- often 4 MB long--we'd convert the Mac disks to IBM again.
Next, it was time to edit the word strings.
We are now about up to Christmastime, 1989.
Around this time, someone--I don't know who--sent us a copy of Ref Aid, the really great study aid that the Foundation apparently sold 12 copies of at the Maine Conference in 1987. Well, this was the first we'd ever heard of it. But here's what we did. We had Ref Aid up and running on one computer while we worked on the other two. We printed out the word list from Ref Aid, with the number of times each word occurred. (We would have printed out the page numbers, too, but we couldn't figure out how. Ref Aid is a Fox data based program).
So, we'd count down our word strings. If Ref Aid said the word (for example) "bushel" was in The URANTIA Book twice, and we only had it once, we'd find out why there was a difference.
First, we'd go look up the page numbers in the other (Ref Aid) computer, and track down the quotes in the book. If it was Ref Aid's error, we'd make a note of that on the Ref Aid print outs. If it was our error, we'd type in the word string and also clean it up in the original document from which the word strings were pulled. We found more scanner errors that way. And some typos in Ref Aid. (Ref Aid was built from a copy of The Urantia Book that Nancy Johnson--working for the Trustees--had typed in to a computer).
Ref Aid was absolutely invaluable to have. We figured chances were the scanned copy and the typed copy of the book wouldn't glitch on the same word. For example, Nancy naturally typed in "hesitate" on page 1340, and of course the scanner picked up "hestitate." When we found the word "hestitate" in our word strings and looked it up in the book, you can bet we were tickled.
After we were done editing, I sent a copy of the stuff we'd found in Ref Aid that needed correcting to Nancy Johnson. I was a little nervous that she'd take offense at my doing that, but she was most gracious. She had already found and corrected on her own most of the errors I sent her.
The other thing we had to edit out was the word repeated in the margin. We thought that it would be easier to read if the word being indexed just stuck out by itself. So we deleted all the repetitions. That took forever, it seemed. When we were done, we had 65 backup disks, each holding 1.2 MB of information.
Well, then it was time to print. We sold 2 computers and took out a bank loan and bought a Panasonic PX-4450 Laser printer and a big Harris 3-M (40 pages/minute) copy machine. Our dream was to place our Concordance Study Aid in as many places as possible. One in New York, for all the readers there. One in San Francisco. Etc. We didn't realize at that time quite how large it was going to be.
Again, we had no idea what we were getting into. We knew nothing about the darn printer. Struggle, struggle, struggle. What with paper and toner costs (not to mention developer and drum costs which we soon learned about . . .) and just plain bulk of finished product, we wanted to fit it in as little space as possible and still be able to read it. Finally, by fiddling with Word Perfect and with the Printer settings, we got it to accept 126 lines per page and still do binding offset and put in page numbers.
4,575 pages later, it was all printed.
Then we started making copies on the copy machine. We had honestly thought that it was going to take us 10 years to finish this one project. But soon, "in time for the Conference" became our goal. We wanted to have as many finished print-outs ready as possible to take to the Conference and give away there.
Somewhere alone the line, I'd "fallen in love" with the hyphenated words in The URANTIA Book. They are like little poems. So we pulled them out into a file of their own. We also decided to index each part of each hyphenated word separately, as well as the whole word together. That is because I was sure I wouldn't be able to find some things if I had to remember the first part of each hyphenated word. We put the hyphen file at the end of the Concordance, along with the Numbers file.
We also did files on all the Names in The URANTIA Book, Groups (heavenly groups separate from Urantian groups), Places (again divided into heavenly and Urantian), Races, etc. Which meant going through the entire word list item by item and pulling out names, places, groups, etc., into different files. Often, we had to look up a larger context in the book itself ("Is this word a name or a place?"--how much we forget.) But since the Concordance was already so long, we decided not to include those print outs.
Meanwhile, we were working on some other "spin-off" type projects:
1. A list of "Some Changes Between Printings" in The Urantia Book (some of us had noticed that although the primary purpose of the Trustees was to keep the text inviolate, they had indeed changed our religious tome a number of times. They also refused to tell any of us where these changes were--in fact, denied making any. So it became up to us to ferret them out.)
2. A "Readers Still Proofing" file. When there is an inconsistent spelling, or misspelling, or letter that doesn't print correctly, etc. This is what J. J. is so good at finding.
And so forth. Anyhow, you can see we are having a wonderful time. It was a whole new way to study the book. At "The Boulder School for Students of The Urantia Book," (I attended this school for 2 years; it's the only school in the world devoted to the study of The Urantia Book) we outlined each Paper. The point was to do a holistic study, to do a structural overview, to get to the "creative design" that is behind each Paper. Then how does this Paper fit into this group of Papers, and so forth.
A Concordance of every word in the book is a completely different approach to the study. We became convinced that words that only appear ONCE in The URANTIA Book are memory aids to the human mind given by the revelators. Also words that appear only with one meaning, or in one context. Or twice, but in the same sentence, such as "agrees" and "chick." (As in "the great Urantian agreement," whereby God agrees to do everything, man agrees only to believe). That's the only time in 2097 pages that the word "agrees" appears--and it's not that uncommon a word. To me, this is an exciting insight, and I never would have seen it had I not studied the book from this angle. I'm currently working on a URANTIA Book game called "ONCE." It's sort of like a Trivia game, but I like to think of it as a "Non-Trivia" game. The game board is made of models of Edentia, Salvington, etc. and shows our journey to Paradise.
So that's how our little study group, the Son Worshipers, spent our year. We kept hearing about disagreements between the Brotherhood and the Foundation, we received mailings from all sorts of places- -and our response was and still is, "Let's study The URANTIA Book. Let's not waste our time thinking about all these conflicts." I still feel that way.
Anyone who is not against Jesus (and this revelation) is for him (and for this revelation). Perhaps I simplify, but Jesus does simplify life. So, basically, I still see Everyone who loves The URANTIA Book is on the same side. It's like the angels of the churches and the angels of progress. Stability is not necessarily agreement, it's how far apart the poles can be placed. Stability is the platform between poles. And we all fit somewhere on that platform. That's where we all stand, loving this book. I stand on the same platform as the Trustees. We all want good in the universe for and from The Urantia Book.
Well, then came the Conference in Snowmass, 1990. We took a truckload of Concordances and Indexes to Snowmass with us. Ten or 12 boxes of stuff to give away. And give it away we did. What fun. The Index booklets were sort of an afterthought. If you float The URANTIA Book in Word Perfect--all 6.8 MB of it at once--with the page numbers accurately fixed with hard page breaks, and send a word list (of every word in the book) through--Word Perfect will turn out a nice page-number-only Index. So we did that, and made about 50 of those booklets to give away at the Conference.
We were still feeling bad we didn't have something for everyone there when some of the Phoenix people (not J. J.) offered to make more booklets. I think they made (at entirely their own expense) about 75 more. Then they insisted we have the pleasure of sharing them around--they didn't even let themselves be the ones to give them away. I came away from that experience with much love and respect for these people.
Both Mo Siegal and Dave Elders wanted to print the (short, page numbers only) Index. We gave 'em disks and said, "Great, go for it."
At the Conference, both Gard Jameson and Harry McMullan had their laptop computers loaded with their Folio Views infobase copies of The URANTIA Book. I had a chance to see Gard's--and whew--it made our printed out Concordance look like it was made in the dark ages, probably by hand in some obscure cathedral--where it would stay. Our labor of love print-out was OBSOLETE already . . .
I'd mailed sample pages to both Harry McMullan and John Hay, asking if they'd be willing (given a Master Copy) to print it for as many Societies as possible. John had started the school hoping to bring the "fact level" comprehension of The URANTIA Book to a higher level. Having a Concordance of every word in the book seemed right up his alley. John sent a thank you (we gave him 2 complete Concordances as a "thank you" for providing that wonderful Boulder School I mentioned). Harry didn't even reply.
But no wonder Harry didn't want anything to do with our print-out; he had the "real thing"--an infobase search program. We'd only tried to create a print-out because we figured it was "legal" as far as the Foundation was concerned. We'd been using ZY Index all year at home on our own computers--and computers were definitely the way to go. But, at least with a print-out, we figured, people would have something. Clyde's Concordex was, as he said, a good start. The Foundation had said "an exhaustive index" was available in another volume at the end of the Table of Contents to the First Printing--the book was now in its 10th Printing. Readers are "on their own" as far as creating study aids are concerned. We'd been waiting 35 years for that "exhaustive index." Translations, too, actually--but that's another story.
When we got home from the Conference, I started trying to locate the program Gard showed us, Folio Views. ZY Index was OK, but Folio seemed a lot better. For example, in our computer copy of The URANTIA Book, we put hard line breaks at the end of each line just where the book breaks the line (except we kept words together, "per-son" would be restored to being, "person," and so forth). In ZY, the word in front of a hard line break was joined to first word on the next line--something fairly easily fixed, but we didn't discover it for some time and felt it to be a disadvantage. Plus, ZY didn't tell you what page you were on--you have to scroll up or down to find the page number. And you can't edit "on the fly" when you find mistakes in your infobase as you can with Folio.
A friend bought Folio Views 2.0 (which had just come out in July). He didn't know how to work it, so he sent the whole package (which includes a hard-cover book) to me to figure out.
This is now about September. I'd been spending my time since the Conference sending letters to my Concordance people from the Publications Room sign-up sheet. We simply couldn't afford the paper and the toner to make any more books. Our copy machine was about trashed from the copies we'd already made.
But we had found a print shop in Phoenix who would do a minimum of 50 books for 1.9 cents per page--a great price. But no one wanted our print out if it was going to cost them money, it seemed. I must have sent out about 3 different mailings about this. Finally, I started sending anyone who replied at all the Concordance on disk. It was about 65 MB long. I finally learned how to Zip files. Zipped, our Concordance fits on 17 disks (the 1.2 MB size). I figured, even if they never printed it out, at least when people were doing topical studies, or needed to look something up, they'd know they had every occurrence.
So here I was, trying to figure out Folio Views (which seemed impossible at the time), when I received an anonymous package in the mail with The URANTIA Book set up as a Folio Views 1.3 infobase. (The cover letter that came with these disks is what I used as a basis to write our cover letter.) Well, of course, it wouldn't run on Folio Views 2.0, which is all I had.
I'd been sending the book in ASCII and in Word Perfect 5.0 format to the support team at Folio Views to help me try to wrestle it into infobase form. We couldn't do it on the phone--that's when I sent it to them in a couple of different formats. They couldn't even do it then--and they really know all about Folio. Anyway, when the 1.3 infobase arrived, I sent that off to the Folio people. And that converted to 2.0 form just fine.
Well, the 2.0 version of Folio Views has a special "Runtime" disk with it, so that you can attach the infobase of your choice to the Runtime files and there's a complete search package with no further kickback to Folio. Of course, if you want to link (to sound or graphics, for example), or open more than one infobase at the same time (run a dictionary and the Bible while looking stuff up in The URANTIA Book), or edit your infobase, you have to go buy the complete version of Folio Views 2.0. But for a start, and for free, Runtime is great. At least people have something to work with that doesn't cost anything and will do until the Foundation finally gets its perfect copy ready to sell.
So I took the cover letter I'd received with the 1.3 disks and re-worked it a bit to include more instructions on how to work the searches. I'd had such a beast of a time getting to learn my way around Folio myself. (I just learned how to search for specific page numbers just a couple of weeks ago. Even then, I didn't figure it out for myself, I had to be told. It doesn't seem to be in the manual anyplace. I'd been looking up the page in the book, then searching for an exact phrase on that page . . . But all you have to do is type in Page-whatever on the search line. That's "Page-hyphen-page number," and it goes right to your page.)
I should mention, too, that over the course of the next few weeks, I received no less than 3 more full sets of these 1.3 disks from various sources all over the country.
Then I followed instructions and "passed on those disks." What a wonderful service to readers/students of this book, to help them know better this revelation. I sent disks to all the people on my Concordance sign-up sheet at the Conference. Those were people I felt morally responsible for getting a Concordance to. They maybe weren't the "rich and famous" in the movement, but they'd asked for a Concordance from me. They had no idea it was not going to come as a print-out. So, in a sense, they also didn't ask for it. To be precise: I sent a Concordance (in infobase form attached to Runtime Folio Views) disks to everyone who'd asked me for a Concordance--but they hadn't asked me for a Concordance on disk and didn't know that's what they were going to get. But I do feel I owed them a Concordance. And I was very happy to be able to give them this.
I didn't have a title page written for the infobase (although there was one on the 1.3 version), because I didn't know how. (I do now; we have a lovely title page on our computer here at home with musical notes and so forth).
When I finished sending to my Concordance people from the Conference, I felt "done." (Not to mention broke). I finished sending my list by the end of November.
Any disks containing the infobase I've sent out since November have been by request--someone writing me or phoning.
For example, someone named Buddy Conley phoned me. He told me someone (he didn't know who, and it obviously wasn't me--I didn't send out the 1.3 version) had sent him disks with the 1.3 infobase on them, and he'd bought Folio Views to run them. But, of course, they'd sold him version 2.0, which wouldn't run his 1.3 infobase. Would I please send him the 2.0 infobase. I did.
Later, Buddy called back to ask that I provide his friend Jim Mills with disks. (I didn't know why he wasn't willing to help Jim himself). Jim, he said, had a 3 1/2 port on his computer. Well, I'd never chopped the program onto 3 1/2 disks, so I struggled and struggled and after getting it wrong about 6 times (you have to write a little list in the edit mode of Folio plus use the chop utility) finally succeeded. It fit on 3 disks instead of 4.
Well, Buddy calls me up again. Forgot to tell me Jim's 3 1/2 inch port takes only the 720 K size disks, not the 1.4 MB disks. Please send 720 K disks. I do love service projects, but of my own devising--not to have stuff "demanded" of me as if I "owe" Buddy something. I swallowed my annoyance, went out and bought the right size disk, wrote another chop program, chopped it, then paid postage--all to help a "brother." How come I am not surprised to see Jim Mills' address on the handwriting analysis package? How do the angels help that kind of person on the mansion worlds?
That about brings us up to the present. It looks to me like the Foundation has one of "my" sets of disks in the stack (besides the 2 sets solicited for purposes of entrapment by Jim Mills)--the one with no title page mailed from Tucson.
Seeing the Summons from the Trustees is interesting. I am glad to see this evidence of an extensive, grass-roots, spread of the electronic Concordance. Considering how unpopular the Trustees are currently with the readership, how much "ill-will" they have generated these last few years, to have as many as 3 squealers among all the mailings done means there have been a lot of disks sent around. I would be glad to "take the fall" for everybody who has ever shared a disk with a brother or sister if that would mean the Trustees would be satisfied to quit "biting their own" on this issue.
It is a wonderful study aid. I wish I could take more credit for it. I would be proud to have done more (to have been able to do the Reference Lines, or thought of starting the mailings, for instance). However, this definitely seems to be an example of true group effort, perhaps orchestrated by Thought Adjusters and the angels, for no one seems to know who did what or for whom (no little egos are involved taking credit for time and money spent).
Many, many people did something; people all over the country are involved, but no one person did more than anyone else, or spent more than anyone else. Everybody is giving it away to each other for free. There are definitely "no hirelings" in this Garden. And everyone sends it without credit (never a return address). I know I sent mine out with no return address less to be "sneaky" as Mr. Galbut suggested on the phone, but more in the sense of "taking no credit." Anonymous, as in "Urantians Anonymous."
The Trustees seem very interested in "who received these disks." Except for my own list, I can only pass on rumors. I heard someone was working through the whole 1990 Conference Book. I heard someone had a list of FEF Society Officers they were "covering." I heard someone used a list of all the Newsletters. Someone else used the list of all Secondary Publications, works related to The Urantia Book. All those lists seem good--giving a great study aid to people who are really involved in their study of this wonderful revelation. I heard that someone even had the Trustees own list, from when they upgraded their hard drive in Chicago. But maybe they were only saying they wished they could get hold of that. I heard someone was even using the 1987 Conference Book. I heard someone even used the old Brotherhood Directory from 1982.
People often called me, excited, saying things like, "I just received some disks in the mail today--and already I've sent off 18 more copies." Or, "13 more copies." (Those were two calls I remember getting from people whose names I didn't even recognize). I heard about "Computer Parties" happening all over the country--a study group to learn how to use the study aid.
It was obviously an idea whose time had come, to be trite. Nothing can stop the spread of something so right. It is not underselling, or undercutting the sale of anything else currently available from the Foundation. When the time comes that the Foundation gets something ready to sell, people will want to buy the "perfect" copy. They might not invest in it at all if they didn't have a chance to use something similar for free and see how great a research tool this secondary work is.
So that's my part of the story. I'm going to hate being in "group therapy" with the Trustees on the Mansion Worlds. I have never had anything personal against them up to this time, but to continue to sue little people in their own readership instead of, for example, going after the man who is in his 47th printing of plagiarizing and distorting the teaching in our beloved book and making a fortune out of it to boot, is very shoddy, in my opinion. There are former Trustees who will testify that the copyright is not vigorously defended when it comes to people outside the movement violating it, as in the above mentioned case.
I am aware the Trustees feel very strongly that they "own" this book. They list "Foundation Staff" as the author in Books in Print. Ask Martin Meyers on the Witness Stand who wrote The Urantia Book. You have about 200,000 people out here waiting to hear that one.
The Foundation has recently taken actions causing our beloved book to be delisted with 14 bookstore distributors--which means no one can find the Fifth Epochal Revelation to this planet when browsing in a bookstore anymore. It took readers literally years of work to get it listed in the first place. Book distributors, as a rule, don't like to deal with a publisher who only has one book. Now, we're back to square one on that issue.
Many Urantia readers have been sued. Just little people, not the big guys with money. Readers in the past have been afraid to identify themselves to each other, even, through use of such innocent terms as, "Urantia Book Reader," or "Friend of The Urantia Book." They have been afraid to wear their circle jewelry, or sport circle bumper stickers to find each other. But gradually, the reign of fear is ending. Few people are afraid of the Trustees any more. They can hurt us, but they cannot scare us.
And many of us are willing to die for our religion. Yes, Trustees, it is OUR RELIGION, and not just "your" book.
And many of us are willing to die for the right to use the concentric circles. For they are the emblem of the Trinity, the banner of our Father-Brother Michael. Melchizedek wore them when he appeared on Urantia. Those circles have nothing to do with certain litigious types of Trustees in Chicago. I will go so far as to say I firmly believe they had to lie in order to obtain those "trademarks." They had to pose as not a religion. Just as they so pose in this very lawsuit. They consistently call themselves an "educational" something or other. Tell a Christian she/he can't use the cross, or can't own a Concordance of the Bible. Or that the Bible has nothing to do with their religion.
Years ago, there was a great joke going around about the circles. A newspaper reporter shows up at 533 Diversey. "I hear Melchizedek is on the planet; I would like to interview him." And the Trustees reply, "Oh, you can't--we've arrested him. He was wearing our circles."
And so forth.
I helped distribute a study aid for my religion. The Urantia Book is listed in the religion section in the Library of Congress. I have not distorted any teachings, nor made any money, nor competed with the distribution of anyone's product. Students still read their book; they look things up in their computer Concordance.
Now, as far a J. J. is concerned: He really had nothing to do with creating or distributing the Folio disks. We gave him our very first print out (hot off the press) of the 2 volume Concordance. That's what he uses. He had a computer he brought over from Saudi when he moved to Phoenix, but it was trashed going through customs. We insisted he let us try to fix it for him so he could have Folio--but I don't think he even uses it. He's what you call "computer-phobic," as well as computer illiterate. He couldn't make anyone a set of disks if he had to. His talents lie elsewhere. Ask him how many italicized words there are in The Urantia Book. Ask him what word is the most often italicized. He notices stuff like that. He is my friend and knew we were working on this Study Aid, but he simply did not participate in any phase of this project. (Including financial). If you could keep him from testifying against me by using this much more replete statement from me, I would appreciate that.
Concerning myself: I have helped create, compile, distribute, and finance many Study Aids for The Urantia Book. I have sat at booths displaying The Urantia Book. I have transcribed lectures on The Urantia Book given in the 1960's by William Sadler, Jr. (Sadler, Jr. was one of the contact commission; someone sent me--again, I don't know who--30 tape cassettes of Sadler about 8 or 9 years ago). Most of what I have done in the name of religion comes under "shaky" ground as far as the Trustees are concerned. I have been reading The Urantia Book for 22 years now. This big blue book is my life. I don't think I have done anything wrong. I truly don't understand why these Trustees keep suing people when they could be spending that same money on translations of The Urantia Book or even their own computer concordance. They could be building up this movement instead of tearing it down. Read the "Declaration of Trust" for this group to see what their job is. I will enclose a copy in the "exhibits" I will send along to you.
As State Secretary for Church Women United in Arizona (CWU), I have many women--on the Arizona Ecumenical Council, for example, and in CWU--who would be character references for me outside the Urantia Movement, if the Court needs that at any point.
Please let me know if I can help in any further way.
God bless you,
Kristen Maaherra
2332 North Chrysler Drive
Tucson, Arizona 85716
602/326-3699EXHIBITS FROM KRISTEN MAAHERRA
A. The Urantia Book is a religion. Excerpt from "Declaration of Trust." The Urantia Book is also listed under "Religion" in the Library of Congress.
B. What the 3 concentric circles mean. Excerpts from The Urantia Book where the circles are mentioned a total of 4 times.
C. A list of the authors of The Urantia Book. From the Table of Contents of The Urantia Book. Ask any reader who the authors are; you will hear interesting answers--but you will never hear that "the Trustees" wrote it.
D. Who wrote The Urantia Book according to the Trustees. Pages from Books in Print 1990-1991 which list "Foundation Staff" as the author. See also Bob Burton's court records in 1980 when the Trustees claimed another author under oath.
E. What the word "Urantia" refers to. "Urantia" is the name of our planet. We are "Urantians." In the over 1000 times these words are used in The Urantia Book, not even once do they refer to a Foundation in Chicago.
F. Primary Purpose statement of the Trustees ("perpetually preserve inviolate the text of The Urantia Book"). Excerpt from the "Declaration of Trust."
G. Some of the changes between printings the readership has been able to compile. Refer to the various printings of The Urantia Book for confirmation of these changes.
H. Some Copyright issues by various authors.
I. The Origin of The Urantia Book, put out by the (former) Brotherhood.
J. Letter signed by former Trustees.
K. More (cartoon) examples of "goodwill" felt towards the Foundation.
L. CUBS Lawsuit.
M. Trademark Studies done by Ernest Moyer, who has spent this last year becoming versed in Trademark Law.
N. The Trustees failure to defend copyright under gross violation and misuse that has been going on with the Trustees knowledge since 1984.
O. Book Sales Conflicts.
P. Cleaning up Ref Aid. The list I sent to Nancy Johnson.
Q. Excerpt (cover pages and letter "A") of our printed out Concordance to The Urantia Book.
R. Our printed out Index (just words and page numbers, no word strings) of The Urantia Book.
S. The Cover Letter I received with my first set of Folio 1.3 disks.
T. The Cover Letter I made to go with Folio 2.0 disks I passed on. Their Exhibit P is also a letter I passed on. I understand that many people didn't write or re-write their own cover letters, but just made more copies of whatever they'd been sent.
U. Labels I made. Again, these were sent out in "sheets" so anyone could take the master to Alphagraphics to have them printed on label (sticky) paper.
V. Copy of Hearing Notice I received.
W. Copy of my letter asking the Court to set a later date for the Hearing.