Kristen’s Page
Information directly and indirectly related to the religious persecution of Kristen Maaherra (Michaels) at the hands of Urantia Foundation.
"Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers." [Urantia Papers 134.4.3]
A Declaration
English "I Believe..."
Spanish "Yo Creo..."
Portuguese "Creio..."
Click Here to see other non-English Urantian Truth resources.
Urantia Papers - Bible Harmony pdf file
THE LIFE OF JESUS: A HARMONY
by Merritt HornBibliography pdf file
A Partial List of Some Possible Human Sources Used By the Revelators to Interface with Existing Human Evolutionary Knowledge and Previous Epochal Revelation.Wordlist pdf file, 556k
A List of Words in the Urantia Papers"I'm a Good Catholic" pdf file
How the Urantia Papers Materialized pdf file
by William S. Sadler, Jr.The Origin of the Urantia Book pdf file
by Meredith Sprunger, with charts by Larry Mullins
FINAL UPDATE NEWSLETTER
ON THE URANTIA FOUNDATION V. MAAHERRA LAWSUIT
by Kristen Maaherra, February 14, 2000 (PDF file, 110K)
"If the Urantia community won’t respond to a death threat leveled at one of its members by the “president” of the Foundation – what will open its eyes and ears?"We Lost - Again!
Update - February, 1999
Fraud: "A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain." Sadly, fraud is the least of the Foundation's crimes. Crimes against the souls of believers and potential believers are, in my opinion, millstones around the trustee's necks."Have You Been Duped?"
From Kristen, January, 1999
As of next month (February), the Foundation has spent 8 years and over 4 million dollars suing me... We who know the truth - that the early leaders of the Urantia community printed the text exactly as it was received from the revelators - have an extra responsibility (besides "going into all the world" with the revelation). Now we need to stand up against the sophistries of the Foundation's denial of the revealed nature of the Urantia Papers.AFFIDAVIT
by Meredith J. Sprunger
October 24, 1998
"In regard to outreach efforts by Urantians, the following statement was written by Dr. Sadler under the heading, Distribution of the Urantia Book: 'However, one thing should be made clear: While it is the policy of the Brotherhood to work slowly in the distribution of the book, nothing is done to interfere with the energetic and enthusiastic efforts of any individual to introduce The Urantia Book to his friends and associates.Spectrum -Foundation v. Maaherra
October, 1998
"There are documents that claim the Foundation “protected the text inviolate,” (claims that they never made any changes in the text), and documents that list the changes they made."
Spectrum -Foundation v. Maaherra
pdf file from Kristen's CD
Update from Kristen, November, 1998
"While putting together a documents list for the Joint Pre-Trial Order, I realized that I have Foundation documents - produced by the Foundation in the course of this lawsuit - that "prove" just about anything." ... "Believers in Jesus are called upon to tell the truth; we're expected to tell the truth when we're brought up before the Judges of the people. Citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven are actually commanded to tell the truth.""Defendant's Brief Outline of Her Case"
October 30, 1998
"The Foundation has, throughout its history, used its asserted copyright to intimidate Urantians from utilizing the basic text of their religion. The Foundation has extended its claim of copyright far beyond that to which it reasonably is entitled under the law in an attempt to control the private religious beliefs and activities of Urantians."
Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of law...
By Eric Schaveland
November 1, 1998
"When Jesus' admonition to his followers about not going to law among themselves, was tossed out for a supposed "greater good," the result was a cult whose "the ends justify the means" battle cry could operate in the 20th century legal arena very successfully."
KRISTEN'S LETTER TO THE JUDGE
Read what really happened
March 6, 1991
"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."ON PEACE, VALUES, AND THE STEADFASTNESS OF MO, MARY, AND KRISTEN
by Larry Mullins
August 23, 1998
"The problem is Mo has been steadfast only in taking whatever position served his own ends and agenda at the time. Mary supported Mo when he ran around getting opinions on the covers he was preparing for the Fellowship printing of the Urantia Book. This was the publication that the man who "always supported the copyright" voted in favor of printing. Mo was helping the General Council of the Fellowship to prepare this printing not so long ago. Mary was also steadfast in supporting Mo when he explained, a few years ago, his reasons for not joining the IUA:"Re: Request for Evaluation
by Larry Mullins
More comments on David Kantor's post to the trustees.
August 21, 1998
"This is a very serious matter that cannot be rationalized nor swept under the carpet."A Letter from Phil Geiger and Phil Calabrese
August 21, 1998
"We pray you do a thorough investigation of this matter, report fully to the community, and act appropriately upon the results."Request for Evaluation -by David Kantor
August 21, 1998
"...your effort cannot be advanced through coercion and force, be it legal, psychological, or even physical. If you would be greatest among us you *must* serve us all. In these early years of your efforts I urge you to begin by placing your own house in order that it might adequately support the structure you indicate you wish to create. Neither can you expect to gain the support of the readership for your efforts unless you can honestly and clearly demonstrate the moral, social and spiritual integrity of the foundations upon which you are asking us to help you build."A Call To Conscience -by Terry Kruger
August 21, 1998
"You four Trustees as well as Trustee Richard Keeler, were recently made aware through an email communication, as were hundreds of other Urantians, of serious threats made against the life of David Kantor. ... Now is it incumbent on each of you to demonstrate your commitment to the values we in the Urantia movement hold preeminent; now are you called to determine if Richard Keeler shall be removed from his Trusteeship for just cause. Each of you is hereby afforded opportunity to experientially live the values you have sworn to uphold; and now you are charged before men to carry out such righteousness in the Father's name."
Mo's Letter to Marty
August 17, 1998
"Our job is to spread this inviolate text throughout the world while bringing people closer to God. And we need to get the job done with the young people as well. Our movement is aging and we have yet learned how to attract the youth. Marty, our job is to help one another and get out of each other's way. We have been contacted from another world."Norm's reply to Mo
August 17, 1998
"It'll never go away until you people come clean and get right and do the right thing. Telling the truth would be great for starters. Arrangements have been made to carry the truth about the Foundation's sordid doings well into the next century. This isn't AD 30, and you 'clever corrupters' are not dealing with Abner this time around. The next century and beyond will know the truth."
David Kantor's Response to Lee Armstrong
August 14, 1998
"You attempt to brush off threats against my life as simple misunderstandings. I took them as serious. The statements which I attributed to a trustee were made to me by Richard Keeler minutes after he was on stage doing his unity performance in San Francisco. Among other threats he told me about how much time he spent thinking up ways to have me killed; that he spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to watch me die a slow, painful death. No, I didn't misunderstand this, Lee. In fact, I should point out that following the March meeting in Chicago he referred to this threat once again and said, 'I've decided not to do it -- you don't need to worry about it.'"A Virtually Unknown, Unpublished, and Inviolate Text Of the Urantia Papers...
by Larry Mullins
August 10,1998
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if J.J. could simply write the professor and say the Urantia Foundation is the "Keeper of the Inviolate Text," and certifies that all editorial changes made in the 1955 text are appropriately footnoted or end-noted? In contrast, can you imagine J.J. trying to explain to an academic that: "In later editions 'fewer than ten changes' that 'might be considered more than minor changes' have been made. However, although it is not Urantia Foundation's policy to indicate where these changes occur in the text, they assure us that there were no alterations on the pages in question."? Is a scholar supposed to swallow that? Imagine how the credibility problem will be magnified in 500 years because we simply did not have devoted Keepers of the Text. All we have are fierce and passionate laypersons who are 'Controllers of the Copyright.'"Re: UB Media Committee
August 2, 1998
An important message and reply to Eric Cosh from David Kantor
"A couple of months ago I received what I take as a serious threat to my life by a trustee for my opposition to their program. This same trustee indicated that various ways were being considered for destroying me financially. My former wife was interrogated by a trustee seeking information which could be used to publically discredit me in the movement. I was told point blank by a trustee in a private conversation immediately following one of their performances, "Look, the bottom line is that the Fellowship either supports our trademarks and copyright, or it gets nothing.""UB Media Committee
August 2, 1998
An important message from Eric Cosh
"Why would anyone want to do a joint project with a group of people who are bent on the destruction of our Beloved Revelation?" ... "What we need now is an organization with vision! One that will be large enough to welcome all truth seekers. One that will have representative democracy. One that will fight for an INVIOLATE TEXT. One that will not control but encourage and support its members to make OUR BELOVED REVELATION available to every hungry soul. And most importantly, an organization that will put Jesus of Nazareth & Michael of Nebadon as its leader. Is this asking too much?"A Letter from Kristen to Larry Mason
July 30, 1998
"For the Foundation to claim that the Urantia Papers are NOT epochal revelation, that they are autorevelation, "arranged, selected, edited, and compiled" BY HUMANS, and that the Papers were authored by "Urantia Foundation" (as it says in Books in Print and on the Foundation's original copyright application), I believe, is a default exactly of the magnitude of any of the other defaults of epochal revelation on this planet."DEFENDANT'S OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR A PERMANENT INJUNCTION
By Joe Lewis (for Kristen Maaherra)
July 22, 1998
"The Foundation goes on to request that Ms. Maaherra be enjoined, not merely from infringing the copyright or from assisting others in infringing the copyright, but also in "encouraging others." If an injunction were appropriate in this case, it could govern Ms. Maaherra's conduct in infringing, or in assisting others. However, silencing her speech on the issue implicates her First Amendment rights, and the Foundation has made no argument sufficient to justify such draconian relief."Notes on the Foundation's Injunction Motion
July 9, 1998
by Kristen Maaherra
"I either have to move to a country where I can practice my religion, or I'm going to do time under the Foundation's suggested injunction." ... "The crucial (and very sneaky) part of the motion is the Foundation's intent to bind ANYONE "in active concert or participation" with me. This means, if the Court grants the Foundation's Motion, that Urantians need to defend themselves in court not with the issues of authorship of the Urantia Papers, or issues of Religious Freedom in America, but with issues of whether you know me and were participating in some sort of use of the FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION of which the Foundation doesn't approve or wants to control."Re: An open letter to Kristen
July 11, 1998
Kristen's reply to Marty Greenhut
"The Foundation lied to the copyright office in order to obtain its copyright, and it lied to the courts in order to keep a copyright. ...I believe the Urantia Papers have superhuman authorship. This is my religion. I have stood up for superhuman authorship consistently in all court documents over the last 7 years."RE: Invitation to your party
A public reply from Kristen to Mo
July 10, 1998
"'Do unto others' seems to mean to you that I have to treat you with love, respect, and courtesy while you're filing documents in court against which I must continually defend myself for over 7 years."Were the INSTRUCTIONS CLEAR?
A WHITE PAPER OF INTEREST TO ALL READER-BELIEVERS
"'The Papers were published just as we received them. The contact commission had no editorial authority. Our job was limited to spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.' ...
ONLY ONE EDITION OF THE Urantia Book kept faith with admonitions of the Revelators cited above -- the 1955 printing. This was the only Urantia Book ever printed from the original, unaltered plates. These plates, which are described by the cited history as the "basis for the creation of Urantia Foundation," were ordered destroyed in 1971, less than two years after the death of Dr. Sadler."
Were the INSTRUCTIONS CLEAR? pdfThe 21 "Smoking Guns"
THE 21 "SMOKING GUNS" - STILL UNFOOTNOTED (after 32 years) alterations to the text and collation, made in secret by persons unknown, which exceeded the prime directive limiting changes to spelling, capitalization and punctuation, and which violated the Foundation's Declaration of Trust requiring them to keep the text "inviolate".
"2.2. CONCORDANT OBJECTS: The concordant objects for which the Foundation is created are to perpetually preserve inviolate the text of THE URANTIA BOOK..."
"DUTIES OF TRUSTEES: 3.1. PRESERVATION OF TEXT OF THE URANTIA BOOK: It shall be the primary duty of the Trustees to perpetually preserve inviolate the text of THE URANTIA BOOK..."Unity Not Integrity
by Larry Mullins
"...Mo flatly stated, and emphasized, that he had no knowledge of changes in the text of the Urantia Papers. Since he is now a trustee, and the integrity of the text is the centerpiece of the Declaration of Trust, it is strange that he is unaware that only the first edition of the Urantia Papers, (10,000 copies of the circa 300,000 now in print) was printed without human editorial changes."Comments on "Unity" with the Foundation
July 9, 1998
by Kristen Maaherra
"Judge Schroeder of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Urantia Papers were 'created' — 'transcribed, compiled, and collected' — by the contact commission. This is the record, unchallenged by the Foundation." ... "The Urantia Foundation is standing behind these statements. The Foundation has a copyright on the basis that the Urantia Papers were selected, arranged, edited, and channeled by humans. The Foundation has reduced the Urantia Papers in the eyes of the world to auto-revelation, not epochal revelation. These claims of human authorship constitute the Foundation's copyright."URANTIA FOUNDATION'S MOTION FOR PERMANENT INJUNCTION
June 14, 1998
"From the inception of this litigation, Maaherra has remained steadfast in her belief that it is God's will that she distribute The Urantia Book, and that she has done nothing wrong by following God's will. Id. at 38-39; Second Depo., pp. 35, 39. She continues to assert that there is a higher moral or religious law than man's secular law, and that she was not wrong in distributing the diskettes with the text of the Urantia Papers on them. Third Depo., pp. 65-68."
(Posted here instead of in the "Foundation Section" because it shows Kristen's courage and strength of belief while reflecting badly on the Foundation, in my opinion.)Asking Wrong Questions! Update from Kristen Maaherra
April 7, 1998
"The trustees call it "legalese," but some of us think it is denial of the superhuman authorship, and therefore default of the trust of the fifth epochal revelation. ... 'What exactly does the Foundation believe?' I suggest that the trustees pass a RESOLUTION and record it in the Copyright Office."Who Created the Urantia Papers? Humans or Superhumans?
April 7, 1998
Evidence from Contact Commissioners, etc...
"I can categorically assure you that no humans decided the content of the Urantia Book. The Book is as the revelators gave it to us." "No part of the Urantia Book was ever edited. It has been printed as it was given to our world." "The Urantia Book has not gone through any alterations. It was received in all essential respects just as you now find it, and was written in the English language." "The Urantia Book was published just as we received it in English. There was no editing. Our only jurisdiction had to do with typing, proof-reading and publication." "The Urantia Book was published precisely as it was given to the people of this planet. Not a word has been added or deleted."Phil Eversoul / Re: The UF in SF on 3/20. First impressions
April 1, 1998
"The Foundation has accepted a copyright renewal based on the premise, although not stated in court, that the founders of the Urantia revelatory dissemination (Dr. Sadler, Christy, Hales, Mills, et al.) were liars when they declared that the FER was purely of superhuman authorship. The Foundation's copyright is based on impugning the integrity of these founders. In doing so, the Foundation has instead actually destroyed its own integrity and the basis for its continuity. Those who control the Foundation are actually revolutionaries who destroyed the original premise of the FER. I think betrayal is a very apt word for what they did."An OPEN LETTER TO MO, from Kristen
March 27, 1998
"How can we settle when you're out there lying about me? ... At first, I gave you the benefit of the doubt (since I understand that people often mis-quote others accidentally or for their own purposes). But enough reports of the Foundation's West Coast Tour have come my way that I find it difficult to believe that "everyone" could have misunderstood what was being said."A Reply to Sage Waitts from Kristen
March 26, 1998
"The trustees are actually saying that the Divine Counselor's words, the Mighty Messenger's words, the Melchizedek's words, and - yes, even Jesus' words - are the intellectual property of 5 men. ... The trustees would have us believe that Jesus' words - which are meant to be a gift from God to the BILLIONS of people on this planet for some generations to come - are OWNED by 5 'wealthy' men. ... Are believers in the Urantia Papers so desperate for leadership that we'll let ourselves be duped by 5 men who call themselves 'readers'"?Arizona Lawsuit Update From Kristen Maaherra
March 23, 1998
"The Foundation has no right to give me a license to use the revelator's words. Only the revelators have a right to grant a 'license' to quote them."MO, GARD, AND PURISM
by Larry Mullins
February 27, 1998
"Will we,... in five hundred years have fifty million copies of various English-language Urantia editions produced by Urantia Foundation and STILL no footnotes and STILL no two editions the same? Who will believe such an organization? Especially when official court records show though the early Foundation trustees testified purely to the integrity of the Papers, in the 1990's Foundation trustees waffled for expediency, and lied to maintain their secular controls?"Update On Copyright
February 1998
Urantia Foundation v. Kristen Maaherra
Consider the Bible. There are something like 700 valid copyrights on Bibles. An interpretation of what the Appeal Court might have been thinking is that copyright is good for business, and what's good for business is good for America. Every publisher of the Bible gets a copyright on the creative effort to publish the public domain Bible text. The Foundation gets a copyright because of their Table of Contents, pagination, hyphenation decisions, etc.News Item: From the Times Flatulence Register
December 9, 1997
by Terry Kruger
"The three remaining trustees of Urantia Foundation, publishers of a controversial new-age bible called "The Urantia Book," revealed today that the Foundation's current president, Patricia Mundelius, and trustee Thomas Burns have tendered their resignations without explanation."Retooling for the Future
by David Kantor
December 8, 1997
"It is an unfortunate oversimplification of the real issues to accuse concerned readers of 'shadow boxing with the ghost of Martin Myers.' The IUA and the Fellowship are both grappling with the very real repercussions of years of misguided leadership -- from the continuing lawsuits, the long history of manipulative and secretive functioning of the trustees, to the launching of an alternative readership organization in 1989 intended as a slap in the face to the de-licensed Urantia Brotherhood. I don't think we're going to have much rest until we are willing to clean up this mess and restructure our organizations so that they are no longer reflective of such misguided decision making on the part of so-called leaders."Questions on Pathways, Sedona & Boulder
by Larry Mullins
November 2, 1997
"Consider the Bible. There are something like 700 valid copyrights on Bibles. An interpretation of what the Appeal Court might have been thinking is that copyright is good for business, and what's good for business is good for America. Every publisher of the Bible gets a copyright on the creative effort to publish the public domain Bible text. The Foundation gets a copyright because of their Table of Contents, pagination, hyphenation decisions, etc."An Open Letter from Kristen Maaherra
November 20, 1997
"If the Foundation wanted to settle, they would settle. It's the difference between words and actions. They're still "snarking." ("What I tell you three times is true."-- Lewis Carroll). What they have been doing is telling this Tom Burns story to everyone who mentions settling the lawsuit. I would be glad to settle the lawsuit, if I didn't have to deny Jesus and the revelation to do so."How did we get here? How do we get out?
by Larry Mullins
October 27, 1997
"They have engaged most of our energies - not in the Father’s work, not in our Religion - but in a struggle against one another. We Urantians seem barely able to keep from being submerged and destroyed by their dishonest statements to the world, such as 'the Urantia Book is not a religious Book.'"An Open Letter from Lenny Cowles
October 25,1997
"Now and for centuries to come, when research is done by nonbelievers as to origins, authorship and ownership of the Papers, they will find conflicting testimony. In various documents they will find the author listed as 'The Urantia Foundation,' they will find that the Urantia Papers have been written as a 'work for hire,' they will find them to be a 'composite work.' They will find statements that say the Urantia Foundation invented the word Urantia and Urantian."YOU ARE INVITED! DON'T MISS OUT!
October 20, 1997
"If you missed Foundation attorneys Craig Fochler and Scott Wharton saying things like, 'It's not a religious book,' you might still be able to hear the current Foundation lawyers go that second mile in denying the Banner of Michael."RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ISSUE ADVANCES IN COURTS
by Phil Geiger, on temporary assignment to Urantia
October 20, 1997
"At one point the Judge threatened to clear the courtroom when the Foundation claimed that the banner of Michael was, in effect, a secular trademark. Kristen argued: 'Urantians are getting married under the Banner of Michael because they love Michael, not because they love the Foundation.'"Religious Terrorism
October 17, 1997
"(a) the full extent of the [Asoka Foundation's] activities in providing monetary and other support to Kristen Maaherra to assist her in the litigation with the URANTIA Foundation denoted on the subpoena (the suit);
(b) who donated funds to the [Asoka Foundation] on behalf of Kristen Maaherra to pay for her attorney's fees, and how much each person donated; and
(c) how much money the [Asoka Foundation] to each of the following persons from 1990 to the present date:
1. Kristen Maaherra
2. Eric Schaveland
3. Joseph Lewis
4. The law firm Cleary, Komen & Lewis, formerly know as Cleary and Komen; and
(d) the identity of each person who solicited funds on behalf of the [Asoka Foundation] for the purpose of paying some or all of Kristen Maaherra's attorney's fees, costs and/or other expenses of litigation before or during the pendency of the suit."Urantia readers fight copyright suit
Good reading from the BOULDER DAILY CAMERA (and a nice picture too.)
October 16, 1997
"But is Urantia a religion? ...Chicago's Urantia Foundation says no: It argues that the papers are not religious documents and that it has the sole right to publish them and use the symbol of three concentric circles that have come to represent Urantia thought. ...But Boulder County resident Kristen Maaherra, who is being sued by the Foundation for creating an index to the Urantia Papers, and scores of other readers say unequivocally that Urantia is their religion."Kristen's Motion to Judge Urbom
September 1, 1997
"The Papers were published just as we received them. The contact commissioners had no editorial authority. Our job was limited to spelling, capitalization, and punctuation."Kristen's Petition for Rehearing
Norm sez: Didn't Judge Schroeder understand the case? She wrote: "The answers to these questions, as transmitted to the humans and arranged by them, became the Urantia Papers." Arranged by the humans? Didn't Her Honor read the statements from the Contact Commissioners and early Trustees to the contrary? What about, "The Papers were published just as we received them." (Dr. William Sadler, Contact Commissioner)? If it's true that the papers were published "just as we received them", and if both sides say spiritual beings authored the papers, how then can Judge Schroeder give the Foundation a copyright?The Forum's Questions (To Anyone Who has an "Ear to Hear")
A conversation with Mo -by Kristen
"Why doesn't the Foundation 'hire' some revelators again, and order them to write some more Papers for them? Or, why doesn't the Foundation order some midwayers to testify for them, that they "own" the superhuman revelator's copyright?. . ."The Affidavit
"I am a Urantian believer. I believe the Urantia Papers were authored entirely by celestial beings, and are a divine gift to all the people of our planet."ON DIVERTING US FROM THE TASK AT HAND
by Larry Mullins
"Values are clearly present in the agreement, but not religious values. Money, power, and/or aggrandizement permeate almost every phrase. The survival of the Fellowship, loyalty to the organization, and fear are driving the agreement - not loyalty to values, or principles, or even to the Revelation."Hello Urantians...
by Terry Kruger
"The trial may come. It may not. Anyone who supported Kristen may be branded and rounded up, and shipped off to Keeler's KopyRight Ranch. He may barbecue us all, just as he wishes. He may also choke on his subpoena sandwiches...But one thing is certain. He cannot win the cooperation of his fellows by suing us into his slaughterhouse; and his money cannot defeat the will of our Father, should he find himself fighting against God himself."A Religious Freedom Issue - Heart and Soul
by Rosey Lieske
"Is The Urantia Book not a thing of God's, under the realm of religion -- in fact a religious revelation? How did Congress unwittingly become party to the prohibition and control of our religion beliefs?"How did the Hearing go?
by Kristen
"In this same Court last December 13th, one of the Foundation lawyers had put his face about 2 inches from Joe Lewis's face and shouted at him. And -- just to make Eric look bad to the Judge -- another Foundation lawyer had claimed that they hadn't received stuff that Eric was supposed to have sent them. (Fortunately, Eric had a Post Office receipt signed by the law firm that his package had been received.)"Origin of the Urantia Papers
"How were the Urantia Papers Materialized? The following is (at least part of) the story of the materialization of the Urantia Papers compiled from various sources -- mostly from Doc and Bill Sadler, Meredith Sprunger, forumites, and Bill Hales."
Origin of the Urantia Papers pdf file from Kristen's CDDEFENDANT MAAHERRA'S OPPOSITION TO MOTION
FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
July 10, 1997
"By filing this Motion for Preliminary Injunction with this Court, Plaintiff Foundation is standing behind Judge Schroeder's (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals) ruling that the Urantia Papers were "created" -- "transcribed, compiled, and collected" -- by the "mere mortals" of the contact commission. Instead of objecting to Schroeder's Opinion, Urantia Foundation has made their acceptance of it a Matter of Public Record. Urantia Foundation has defaulted its trust. Like Peter in the courtyard before the cock crowed, Urantia Foundation has denied the revelation.""Lies Become Law"
Reaction to Judge Schroeder's Order from Kristen Maaherra
July 4, 1997
"I have based my life on the Urantia Papers being exactly what they claim to be: a revelation from God -- a gift from God to everyone on this planet -- authored, indited, written, composed, compiled, arranged, created, transcribed, translated, collected, assembled, delivered, transmitted, selected, coordinated, chosen, organized, sponsored, dictated, unified, made meaningful, presented, authorized, mandated, assigned, revealed, portrayed, depicted, commissioned, narrated, requested by, formulated, presented by authority of the Ancients of Days, and materialized by superhumans."Eric Schaveland's Response to Plaintiff's Motion For Preliminary Injunction
June 30, 1997
"Urantia Foundation's motion for Preliminary Injunction should be granted in part. I should be enjoined from placing the entire Urantia Book on the Internet since the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has declared the Urantia Book to be a fraud created by some unknown contact commission and that these human authors are (almost) all liars."Documents of Interest to Urantians
(Kristen's text plus links)
"In August, 1996, the Urantia Foundation sued Eric and me (again!) for copyright and trademark infringement for Eric's Internet Home Page, where Eric had posted a free downloadable copy of the Urantia Papers attached to the FolioViews Search Engine (the same index I was sued for in 1991)."Court Case Updates
(Kristen's text plus links)
"The following documents are from Plaintiff Urantia Foundation's August 27, 1996, lawsuit against Eric Schaveland and Kristen Maaherra."
Court Case Update
Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra and Schaveland
April 1, 1997
"The Foundation tells believers that its job is to "protect" the revelation with these lawsuits. In order to 'protect' the text, the Foundation used copyright law, but in doing so, they had to deny -- over and over -- the true superhuman authorship of the Urantia Papers. In order to 'protect' the word Urantia and the circles, the Foundation used trademark law, but in doing so, they've had to deny -- over and over -- that the word Urantia and the circles refer to the revelation and the Banner of Michael."DEFENDANT MAAHERRA'S BRIEF IN OPPOSITION
TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION AGAINST DEFENDANT SCHAVELAND
March 14, 1997
"The material nature of the Foundation's representation cannot be overstated. The Patent and Trademark Office posed the issue in a clear and unambiguous manner. In crafting its response, the Urantia Foundation knew that if it admitted that 'Urantia' identified a religion, it never would have received a registration for its mark. It chose to deny this fact. Since the representation was made in direct response to a refusal to register, it is clear that the Foundation intended the Patent and Trademark Office to rely on its representation."OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL JUDGMENT
March 11, 1997
"Defendant Kristen Maaherra ("Maaherra"), through her undersigned counsel, opposes the Urantia Foundation's ("the Foundation") motion for partial judgment on the pleadings on res judicata and collateral estoppel grounds."Eric Schaveland's Response Brief to Plaintiff's Motion
March 11, 1997
"Plaintiff is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent my use of the word "Urantia" as part of any address on the Internet and to enjoin me from using the "Banner of Michael" symbol on the Internet. Without my use of the word "Urantia" and the symbol, people won't be able to find or identify my site as having anything to do with my religion. Plaintiff is attempting to control a religion and Urantians' religious activities through misuse of trademark law."Some of the Copyright Claims Made by the Foundation
by Kristen Maaherra
"Works authored by superhumans aren't copyrightable under US copyright law. The following are legal statements made by Urantia Foundation in official documents. If you believe that the Papers are authored by superhuman revelators, you will be appalled by the following Foundation claims - some of which have been finding their way into Dictionaries and Encyclopedias recently."The Significance of The Urantia Book's Origins to a Court of Law
June 6, 1996
by Rosey Lieske
"In the U.S., things of the inner life, or things of divine origin, are left outside the reach of human law. Purposely. This was decided at the very inception of our government in an effort to insure a separation between church and state, and guarantee us religious freedom. in the United States, a book of celestial origin (once the court merely acknowledges those origins-- it is purposely not equipped to sanction them) will translate eventually into a matter considered beyond its legal scope. Considered a matter of religion, governable by God alone. This is what our First Amendment guarantees us. (And this is why the Foundation has remained so doggedly determined to establish a point of human origin for the Urantia Papers. Human origin=Legal human control. Celestial origin=First Amendment protection/No legal human control.) It's that simple."APPENDIX J: HISTORICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE MATERIALIZATION OF THE URANTIA PAPERS
"On February 10, 1995, after a long and difficult legal battle, the Urantia Papers were placed in the public domain. Because of this litigation, a great deal of material that had previously been unavailable was brought to light. The following commentaries are not replete and avoid identifying any individuals by name. They do present those essential facts about the Urantia Papers origin and history that can be reasonably verified by court documentation, exhibits and testimony by reliable and qualified people."Response to Carolyn Kendall's "The Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation"
by David Kantor
January 23, 1996
"It appears to me that you are asking The Fellowship to base policy and decision making on information which the Revelators clearly did not want to survive publication. This view is supported in your own documentation. ... But the statement which I view as perhaps the greatest misrepresentation of reality is the comment, 'If the Fellowship publishes, any hope of reconciliation with readers sympathetic to the Foundation would vanish and the schism will continue indefinitely.' As has been pointed out elsewhere, the social and religious repercussions of Fellowship publication will be the result of numerous choices yet to be made by a great variety of mortals, each of whom is endowed with free will. The fact of publication is not a deterministic metaphysical event which has the power to predetermine the choices of these countless individuals and force a particular outcome."Deposition of Patricia S. Mundelius and Supplemental Declaration of Kristen Maaherra
November 16, 1994
"Basically, I am what is known in Urantia circles as a 'Urantia Book fundamentalist.' What that means is, I'm not really interested in anything that cannot be directly connected with the Urantia Papers. My whole belief system is based on believing that the Urantia Papers are exactly what they claim to be, a revelation authored by superhuman beings who came to Urantia (this planet) for the purpose of bringing us this revelation. The Urantia Papers form the basis of my religious belief." -Kristen Maaherra
OPEN LETTER
March 15, 1994
by Philip Eversoul
"In the name of the Father, the Son, the Spirit, Michael, and the human race, I ask that the Urantia Foundation cease to exist this very moment."THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO ACT AS THE CHURCH OF THE TRUE COPYRIGHT
July 26, 1994
by Philip Eversoul
"The Foundation has demonstrated that it stands ready to deny the Revelation to whatever extent necessary to keep its copyright. It has no regard for the truth that any believer in the Book holds."
AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAAHERRA TRIAL
From: THE PILGRIM: A Tennessee Voice for the Fifth Epochal Readership
January, 1993
"In 1973, about "one generation" after the Urantia Papers were printed, and about 40 years after the Papers were put into English, at a time when, by most reliable accounts, it is believed that the Revelators intended for "control" of the Papers to be letting up, Martin Myers became a Trustee of Urantia Foundation. If he had been a linguist instead of a lawyer, we might have had 20 years of translations. As it is, we have no translations and 20 years of lawsuits."
An Assessment of the Situation at 533
(Originally published as, "How Evil Infected 533")
by Robert Burton - October 1975
"When they published the Urantia Book, they applied, with a sworn affidavit, applying for registration of the copyright, claiming that the Urantia Foundation was the author of the Urantia Book. Everyone who had read the Urantia Book, knew that that was a false claim, and that the Urantia Foundation was not the author of the Urantia Book."
