Global Community Communications Alliance Member Profile
Kamon
Up until my 27th year I was kind of a wild creature. I grew up in the mountains of Wyoming with a cowboy stepfather who liked to drink and fight. My mother was a horse woman, a true outdoors person. We lived about 50 miles from town and up until high school my main companions were wild animals and horses.
Because of the way my stepfather treated me as I was growing up I felt that to have any worth in his eyes and in the eyes of the world I would have to be tough and a good fighter, coupled with the fact that when I moved to town to start high school the town kids would tease me and chase me home from school. When I finally got fed up with it all, I began to train myself to be a fighter. I took wrestling and boxing in school and studied every book in the library I could get my hands on that dealt with martial arts.
At nineteen I joined the army and became a paratrooper. I fought in the revolution in the Dominican Republic with the 82nd Airborne and in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne. I was wounded and sent to Okinawa where I spent the rest of my time in the military living with my karate teacher and his family and becoming adept in martial arts.
When I got out of the army I moved to Puerto Rico, became a bouncer in nightclubs and casinos and taught martial arts to the croupiers. I fraternized with many dangerous and nefarious men and women. I thought I was pretty cool. Then God set a stumbling block before me and by His grace and mercy saved my life.
I had been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and I suddenly began to get very sick. I lost circulation to my extremities and my joints locked up on me. This was the beginning of a wake up call for me. I began a serious search trying to understand what was happening to me and to understand the meaning of life. I began devouring books on spirituality and metaphysics. I prayed, fasted, and stood on my head.
I moved back to Wyoming and tried to farm, but my body and mind were in such pain and turmoil that it wasn't working very well. My wife (at the time) became fed up with my pain, hearing about God all of the time, and with the general intensity of my quest. She left me taking my 3 year old daughter with her.
I moved to Hawaii, living off the land and the sea. I couldn't work. The ends of my fingers began to rot off with the bones sticking out of the ends of them. I managed to make necklaces out of sea urchins and shells and flutes out of bamboo. I traded them for food and other necessities.
I became addicted to pain pills. My heart and body were broken, and I came dangerously close to suicide. It was then, in my darkest hour that God again rescued me.
I met a young woman on the beach who invited me to her church to meet Jesus. I thought to myself, "Well, I've studied all these books on the occult and metaphysics and spirituality. I've done yoga. I've fasted and none of it has done me a darn bit of good when the chips were down so I might as well try this before I die."
I went to that little church. I gave my heart and soul to Jesus. I was transformed. The Spirit of Truth spoke to me saying, "This is the way." I was still in pain. I was still sick, but I knew I had taken a quantum leap in my spiritual growth and that there was light at the end of the tunnel.
I began to read the Bible constantly. I went around to many of the various churches and denominations hungrily listening to what the preachers and parishioners had to say about Jesus, Christianity, original sin, the blood of Jesus, the devil and other related topics. I asked the questions that nobody seemed to be able to answer to my satisfaction. The Bible I felt was a wonderful tool, but it was obvious to me that it was a long way from the whole story. I never had a doubt about Jesus being the Son of God or the fact of his divinity, but there were many questions in my heart and mind that were left unanswered. I found myself still unfulfilled and thirsting for higher truth.
And so, I continued my search. It is true that "when the student is ready the teacher will appear". It was then that The URANTIA Book came into my hands. As soon as I began to read it, I knew without a doubt that it was a divinely mandated revelation and that it contained the expanded truths that I had been yearning for, for so long. I devoured it (all 2000 + pages), and have now been a student of The URANTIA Book for about 20 years. It became another quantum leap for me in my understanding of God and His creation and of my place in it. I experienced a tremendous expansion in my heart, mind, and soul as I began to grasp the cosmology of the master universe and the beauty and diversity of our Heavenly Father's creatures, human and non-human, material and semi-material, spirit celestial and divine.
My life and health began to change for the better. I acquired a position as a caretaker of a small cattle ranch and macadamia nut orchard in Hawaii and in a few years I was able to purchase a lodge in the mountains of Wyoming where I had grown up. I spent the summers in Wyoming teaching people how to get closer to our Earth Mother and trying to share the higher truths about our Heavenly Father and His creation that I had learned from my life's experiences and from The URANTIA Book . I spent the winters in Hawaii doing basically the same thing. It seemed that I had the best of both worlds, but something was missing. I continued to experience psychic agitation and spiritual conflict.
As I observed what was happening to our precious earth with the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons; the creation and release of countless tons of toxic wastes into the environment, poisoning our water and air; the rapid depletion of natural resources, particularly the stripping of the great forest, the lungs of the earth; the severe and irreparable damage to the protective ozone layer; and on and on, my heart felt as if it were being torn from my chest and a great rage and sense of helplessness welled up in me when I thought of the millions of abused and hungry children and the multitudes of innocent and decent people who are suffering under the yoke of Caligastia (the devil) and the forces of darkness and the greedy and iniquitous men and women who are so willing to sacrifice this planet and its people for the sake of their self-aggrandizement and pocketbooks. As I contemplated the destruction of our beautiful planet and the breakdown of the moral and spiritual ethics of the people therein, it seemed obvious to me that we had passed the point of no return on this world and that the many prophecies of the end times were indeed coming to pass.
Yet, again God reached out His hand to me. I received a letter from Machiventa Melchizidek stating that as of 1989 he had been established as Planetary Prince of Urantia and that the implementation of human divine administration was beginning to unfold at the First Planetary Sacred Home in Sedona, Arizona. He said that by the authority of Jesus, Christ Michael, the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star had been given to the humans Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase, and that the continuation of the Urantia Papers were coming through Gabriel of Urantia who is the only audio fusion material complement on this planet to Gabriel of Salvington - the Bright and Morning Star.
Needless to say, these were some very bold claims. I thought to myself, if this is real, praise God, hooray, great, wonderful, but if it is not then, it is truly a dark and terrible thing to make these claims in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Michael.
I knew that the only thing for me to do was to go immediately to Sedona to try and ascertain for myself the veracity of this information. I decided (in my arrogance and pride) that if I discerned that these claims and their perpetrators were false that I would put an immediate stop to it all. When I arrived in Sedona and met Gabriel and Niánn, and other members of the community of Global Community Communications Alliance, I was immediately impressed with their humility, intelligence and sincerity; and as it says in the scriptures "by their fruits ye shall know them" -- I knew them.
Again, the Spirit of Truth spoke, saying, this is real, this is the way, these people are who they say they are. I read The Cosmic Family, Volume I and was convinced that this was indeed a continuation of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. ( The URANTIA Book itself states quite clearly that it is not a finished revelation, nor can any revelation this side of Paradise be complete.)
I have now been here almost six years; and I have never met a group of more sane, intelligent, sincere, and courageous men and women committed to serving God and to overcoming their lower patterns in order to reflect His light and represent His human divine administration on earth.
It is not easy to be here for this truly is spiritual boot camp and we truly are God's Green Berets on this planet, but we live and love, and work together in joy and harmony in a "union of souls" with a common purpose and for the common good of all mankind, and I wouldn't be anywhere else.
Kamon,
Minister
Vicegerent Elder
to Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase and the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star