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Mystery of origin
There is a controversial mystery surrounding the origin of the Urantia Papers, its authors and its material.
In one story there is a person who received the material from spirit beings while asleep. This individual is said to have been "wholly unconcerned" about the entire affair.
Dr. William Sadler, a surgeon, psychologist, and skeptic of the supernatural and paranormal, was the attending physician of the mysterious "sleeping subject" and it was through this unexplained means that the celesital authors worked.
The Sadlers and other Contact Commission members, now all deceased, claimed that the papers of the book were physically materialized one by one over approximately a twenty year period from the mid 1930's to just before its first printing in 1955.
Actually, that's all hogwash, the book is actually said to be a hodgepodge of plagiarism and Dr. Sadler's own racist leanings. In fact, he wrote/plagiarized the whole thing himself:
Critics have claimed that several of Dr. Sadler's published books, including "Long Heads and Round Heads, or, What's the Matter with Germany?" (1918), "Race Decadence: An Examination of the Causes of Racial Degeneracy in the United States" (1922) and "The Truth About Heredity" (1927) reveal him to be a racist and a proponent of eugenics. Similar themes of eugenics are also prevalent in the Urantia Book.
Modern Urantia researchers such as Matthew Block have identified plagiarism in Sadlers published works. For example, Sadlers 1938 book "The Sex Life, Before and After Marriage" adapts material directly from Havelock Ellis "Psychology of Sex: A Manual for Students" published in 1933. Accusations of plagiarism have also been made against the Urantia Book, and an extensive list of plagiarized sources was published by Block in 1994.
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