Testimonials

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  Good writing, the right tone, filled with information and analysis, sympathetic yet objective. From what you sent I was not entirely sure where you stand on Urantia. I sense that you certainly respect the achievement and are inclined to believe that some kind of inspiration is behind it. I think tha

  t is a good position from which to write. You will not be compelled to explain it away; on the other hand you can understand the skepticism about its origins.”

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  Dr. Richard Bushman, Columbia University

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  “A doctor, William Sadler, and his wife, Lena, assert that for decades they heard Celestial Voices speaking to them each evening, instructing them as to how they and the world they knew began and evolved. Sixty years later another doctor and accredited historian, Sioux Oliva, determined to seek the

  truth behind the Sadlers’ assertions. She did –- and the full story of that investigation is well researched and elegantly rendered here. Do I believe Celestial Voices shared the secrets of the Universe with this couple for decades? If I can accept the miracle of the thumb I am holding up as I write this, I am capable of accepting anything.”

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  Norman Lear

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  Lively, attractive, cheerful and charming, Sioux’s insatiable appetite for knowledge leaves you amazed and eager to learn her latest discovery. Competent, trustworthy, and tenacious, she is a treasured resource!”

  Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy

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  Your book arrived yesterday. I’m doing all kinds of moving-related stuff so I didn’t get a chance to look at it. So last night, when I went to bed, I thought "I’ll read the first chapter before I go to sleep." So I did….but then, I couldn’t stop. It was 2 a.m. when I finished. Sioux, it’s great. The

  re’s so much that I love about it. I love the way you put everything in historical context. You did it so well, and you did it very efficiently. You got a helluva lot across in a very few words. I’m reading and I thought, hey, how does she know all this stuff? Then I remembered: Ph.D., American History. Your depth of knowledge informs the whole book. I remember your telling me about your research, talking about, for example, the eugenics. You did a great job of putting that in context. Your idea to list people and organizations who believed in it was brilliant. You took what seems to us an insane nutball idea, and made us understand how it was such a part of the culture at the time, and c

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  Susan Roy, Historian