Barry Bedell -- Is this book for real? Learn about The Urantia Book which claims that our planet's name is "URANTIA".

In 1990 Timeless Voyager Radio was contacted by Barry Befell who had study groups that met and discussed the URANTIA book. Bruce Stephen Holms took on the task of interviewing Bedell and allowing him to explain the concepts in the book.

The exact circumstances of the origin of The Urantia Book are unknown. The book and its publishers do not name a human author. Instead, it is written as if directly presented by numerous celestial beings appointed to the task of providing an "epochal" religious revelation.

As early as 1911, William S. Sadler and his wife Lena Sadler, physicians in Chicago and well known in the community, are said to have been approached by a neighbor who was concerned because she would occasionally find her husband in a deep sleep and breathing abnormally. She reported that she was unable to wake him at these times. The Sadlers came to observe the episodes, and over time, the individual produced verbal communications that claimed to be a "student visitor" from spiritual beings. 

This changed sometime in early 1925 with a "voluminous handwritten document," which from then on became the regular method of purported communication. The individual was never identified publicly but has been described as "a hard-boiled business man, member of the board of trade and stock exchange."

WARNING: During the interview Bruce asks Barry plenty of questions which begin to make this 2000+ page book a tiny bit more understandable. This interview will definitely make any religious people rather uncomfortable as well as most who are looking for a “broader” understanding of the cosmos and its apparent plethora of advanced “beings”.