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Lena, also a medical doctor, were gifted people having leadership and intellectual qualities that were eminently suitable for the task ahead. They had one other fantastically advantageous attribute. They were medically qualified and had a keen interest in the new science of psychiatry that completed the requisite qualities to become trusted doctors, friends and advisors to the "Sleeping Subject" whose emerging nocturnal performances were about to become a source of worry and anxiety to a distraught wife. How it really was that these two essential sub-units did come together will ever remain a mystery.
About fifteen or so years after the first encounter, Dr Sadler2 admits that great changes of attitudes had been induced almost unconsciously in their group. He lists them as:
1. New concept of a far flung cosmos.
2. Millions of other inhabited worlds
3. Introduction to scores of different and varied echelons of celestial personalities.
4. Confirmation of evolutionary origin of humankind--even of an evolutionary cosmos
5. Intimation of multiple Creator Deities
6. Tentative testing of our theologic concepts. Patient determination of how far we might possibly go in the direction of modifying our theologic beliefs and philosophic opinions.
7. Without realizing it, over a period of twenty years, our fundamental religious beliefs and attitudes had been considerably changed.
8. We had been familiarized with such terms as the First Source and Center, Havona, superuniverses, and the Supreme Being--but we had but meager ideas as to the real meaning of these names.
9. We had also heard such words as Master Spirits, outer space, and Power Directors. But again we understood little as to their meaning. We also learned about numerous orders of angels.
10. We heard about Thought Adjusters, but our concept of the meaning of the term was vague and indefinite.
11. We had acquired a fuzzy concept of the morontia level of existence--but we never heard the word morontia used until the Papers started.
12. The midwayers were very real to us--we frequently talked with them during our varied "contacts." We quite fully understood that the secondary midwayers supervised the contacts.
13. We heard some things about the Lucifer rebellion, but got little information about Adam and Eve.
14. We gained the impression that there were special reasons for Jesus bestowal on Urantia, but we had little or no idea as to the nature of these unrevealed reasons.
15. We listened to occasional references to Jesus' life and teachings--but they were very cautious about the introduction of any new concepts regarding Michael's Urantia bestowal. Of all the Urantia Revelation the Jesus Papers were the biggest surprise.
16. While we did not hear the term "Corps of the Finality," we did pick up a hazy idea that Paradise might be the destination of surviving mortals.
Later in his Paper, Dr Sadler stated, "As the Revelation progressed we came more fully to appreciate how we had been prepared for the vast alteration of our religious beliefs by these preliminary contacts…" However the subject matter for this training period was not the revelation. It also appears that matters associated with the life and teachings of Jesus were deliberately avoided.
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