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ART
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  1. UCS ARTISTS' GALLERY
    We are looking for artists who want to display their work here. Enter your art from your "Art" link, connected through your "My Pages" link.

BELIEFS
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  1. BELIEFS
    What do we believe - individually and collectively? Belief tenets and faith groups collated, polls, statements and credos

COMMUNICATIONS
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  1. ARCHIVE
    Every message sent to UCS since February 1998 is online in a searchable and "scrollable" format -- more than 19,000 messages.
  2. MY EMAIL/TOPICS
    Control your UCS Forum participation from this page. Select the topics that interest you, turn your email subscription on and off.
  3. UCS FORUM
    Discussion center, many topics, many thousands of messages online

DESIGN
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  1. COLD FUSION FACT SHEET
    Technical and performance details regarding the Cold Fusion programming language that runs UCS. Check this out - the horsepower will amaze you.
  2. TECHNICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
    The Origin Research Technical Bibliography lists the books that have influenced our vision of science and religion and illuminated networking

MEMBERS
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  1. ABOUT US
    How to reach us, what we're doing right now, who we are...
  2. INTERSPIRIT
    We are building a comprehensive and inclusive spiritual network, sharing resources with many groups.
  3. JOIN UCS
    Become a member of UCS! It's easy, free, and connects you with a beautiful and brilliant and powerful network of great people
  4. MEMBER DIRECTORY
    Find UCS members from all over the world
  5. OPPORTUNITIES
    As UCS continues to grow, there are emerging many opportunities for volunteer participation. We list these here.
  6. PRIVACY POLICY
    UCS is a community built on trust. We will protect your privacy and respect your concerns.
  7. SPONSORSHIP
    We are exploring a variety of options for expanding the development and connectivity of the UCS network.

MY PAGES
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  1. MY ART
    The UCS Art Gallery will be built from links entered here by our artist members
  2. MY BELIEFS
    Where do you stand? What have you learned? What do you believe? What are the fundamental precepts and credos of your faith? Take a position, and let us know.
  3. MY DOCUMENTS
    UCS members can build an extended series of articles, essays, poetry, or "chapters", taking the form of a book.
  4. MY GOALS
    What do you -- or your organization -- hope to accomplish? Where are you going? Share your objectives, and join other UCS members working in the same direction.
  5. MY INTERESTS
    What fascinates you? What holds your attention? What excites you?
  6. MY LINKS
    UCS members can add as many links as they like to this list, sharing everything they have found on the internet they may feel is of interest to us.
  7. MY PAGES
    UCS members have a series of personal web pages, through which they can present themselves to the world and to other UCS members. Create a private journal of personal musings as you grow.
  8. MY PREFERENCES
    Control many aspects of your UCS membership, including which information is displayed on your personal Profile.
  9. MY PROFILE
    UCS members can provide detailed contact information, and keep us updated on how to reach them, addresses for websites, etc. You can put your picture on your Profile if you wish.
  10. MY SKILLS
    Are you an expert? Or just good at something? Tell us about it.
  11. MY WEB SITE
    UCS members have built a network of websites -- well over 600. Add yours to the list, and let us help you grow your site.

SEARCHES AND FUNCTIONS
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  1. SEARCH
    Search the UCS members directory -- by faith, nation, name, keyword, free text, etc.

USER HELP
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  1. BAD EMAIL ADDRESSES
    When an email address begins to "bounce", we have to turn it off. This page lists current bad addresses
  2. CONCEAL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
    You can prevent other UCS members from seeing your email address. This page explains how.
  3. GET YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD
    If you have misplaced your username and/or password, put your email address in the text box and submit. Your login will be sent to your address immediately.
  4. GUIDE TO NAVIGATION THROUGH THE UCS SITE
    How to find things, or get where you want to go. How the menu is designed, and why.
  5. GUIDELINES FOR POSTING
    Userguide and suggestions for using the UCS Forum
  6. INDEX
    The UCS Index is a "dynamic readout" from the database, and will be updated constantly as UCS grows and develops new features - many more to come
  7. MANAGING YOUR UCS EMAIL
    Guidelines and suggestions for managing your email subscriptions -- subscribing/unsubscribing, etc.
  8. PUT YOUR PICTURE ON YOUR UCS PROFILE
    We want to know what you look like! Put your picture on UCS. This page explains how.
  9. UCS KEYNET EMAIL
    Send and receive email to specialized groups built around the UCS Keyword system

VISION
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  1. A PHILOSOPHY OF INTERFAITH HARMONY & UNITY
    Review of a philosopy of intercultural understanding and cooperation
  2. LIGHTWEAVERS
    Informal spiritual fraternity based on "Namaste"
  3. PROGRAMMING THE APOCALYPSE
    Published in Internet Underground (Ziff-Davis) magazine in 1996, this article envisions the emergence of powerful database-driven community network systems
  4. THE PATTERN THAT CONNECTS
    Meditation on electronic networking and "the Coming of the Cosmic Christ", written for Matthew Fox, 1989
  5. THE PHILOSOPHY OF NETWORK COMMUNITY
    By what standards does our highest common good emerge?
  6. THE UNITED RELIGIONS CONFERENCE AT STANFORD
    The URI is a major international interfaith initiative, headquartered in San Francisco. UCS developers work closely with the URI and have built several network systems for them.
  7. THE UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE: A GLOBAL NETWORK
    The URI is growing around the world, interconnecting far-seeing individuals from every tradition and culture. This article discusses their hopes and potentials.
  8. UCS HOME PAGE
    Starting point for UCS members and visitors, introduces our network and vision
  9. UTOPIAN COMPUTER NETWORKING
    1988 Essay on America's New Central Project, a visionary manifesto on coordinating and correlating the "collective wisdom of the human race." 19 pages

WORLD RELIGIONS
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  1. BUDDHISM: A PORTRAIT
    Buddhism as we know it commenced in Northeast India about 500 BC through the teaching of Prince Siddartha Gautama, often known subsequent to his experience of "enlightenment" as Sakyamuni.
  2. CHRISTIANITY
    The origin of Christianity begins in the heart of God. The Divine nature is Love. Love is not something that comes from God. Love is God and God is love. If a Christian were to name the Divine in English, the best term would be simply "God-Love."
  3. FIRST PEOPLES AND NATIVE TRADITIONS
    First peoples see existence as a living blend of spirits, nature and people. All are one, inseparable and interdependent -- a holistic vision shared with mystics throughout the ages.
  4. HINDUISM: A PORTRAIT
    Hinduism is the oldest and perhaps the most complex of all the living, historical world religions. It encompasses an entire civilization and way of life, whose roots date back prior to 3000 BCE.
  5. ISLAM: A PORTRAIT
    The term "Islam" derives from the root letters "s.l.m." ("Ar. Sin, Lam, Mim") which means "to be in peace," "to be secure" and "to be integral, whole." Hence, Islam means one's conscious submission to the Will, Law, and Guidance of Allah.
  6. JUDAISM: A PORTRAIT
    The religion of the people Israel was and is the loving and faithful Covenant devotion to one God who revealed Divine Teaching through the mothers and fathers of the people of Israel (the Patriarchs and Matriarchs).
  7. TAOISM: A PORTRAIT
    Taoism believes "Tao" to be the cosmic, mysterious, and ultimate principle underlying form, substance, being, and change. Tao encompasses everything. It can be used to understand the universe and nature as well as the human body.
  8. THE ARCANE SCHOOL
    The purpose of the esoteric training given in the Arcane School is to help the student grow spiritually toward acceptance of discipleship responsibility and to serve the Plan of the spiritual hierarchy by serving humanity.
  9. THE BAHA'I FAITH
    The Baha'i Faith is an independent world religion now in the 150th year of its existence. It is the second most widely spread religion in the world, with five million members residing in 232 countries.
  10. WICCA: A PORTRAIT
    Wicca is a vital, contemporary spiritual path reviving the ancient, pre-Christian indigenous religion of Europe. It is a life-affirming Earth religion which is both old and new, "traditional," and vibrantly creative.

WORLD SCRIPTURE
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  1. INTRODUCTION
    We live in an ecumenical age. The progress in transportation and communication that has brought all the peoples of the world into one global village has also brought the religions of the world into close contact.
  2. INVOCATION
    We open with representative prayers, taken from the scriptures of the world's religions. They invoke, give thanks, and affirm the efficacious influence of Absolute Reality in human life.
  3. PRAYER
    The passages here discuss the efficacy of prayer and give guidance on how to pray. There are general exhortations to prayer, with the promises that God indeed hears and heeds prayers and that prayer restrains one from evil.
  4. PURITY
    Purity is the counterpart to sincerity. It is prized and sought after in every religion as the foundation for proper action. The religions of China and Japan emphasize that even before exerting effort, a person should purify his or her heart.
  5. THE DECALOGUE
    The moral outlooks of most religions are quite similar. Just as the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, is the basis of Jewish and Christian ethical values, similar lists of ethical principles may be found in the scriptures of most religions.
  6. THE GOLDEN RULE
    The Golden Rule or the ethic of reciprocity is found in the scriptures of nearly every religion. It is often regarded as the most concise and general principle of ethics.
  7. THE NAME OF GOD
    Praising or chanting the name of God is a special form of prayer. In many religions, the excellence of chanting the name(s) of God lies in the mystic syllables which invoke God's purity and sovereign power.
  8. THE TRUTH IN MANY PATHS
    This section gathers passages from various scriptures which affirm that others who do not share the faith of that scripture are also following the way of Truth.
  9. TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR ALL BELIEVERS
    Herein is included the famous parable, found in many sources, of the blind men and the elephant. It teaches the folly of regarding any single religious perspective as absolute and complete.
  10. WORLD SCRIPTURE - HOME PAGE AND CONTENTS
    The UCS World Scripture archive contains the complete text of the 917-page hardbound book, including 4000 scriptural passages from 260 spiritual traditions arranged in 165 themes "common to all religions".
  11. WORLD SCRIPTURE AND EDUCATION FOR PEACE
    Introduction to the methods of World Scripture, and the vision of a common understanding of interspiritual values

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