About
The AMOdeus Journal is primarily dedicated to presenting a vision for the evolution of a grassroots, home-based, and ‘chaordically’ networked socio-religious community. Inspired by the Urantia Papers, this could potentially, over time, serve to advance the progressive enculturation of lasting spiritual values into world societies.
While many concepts presented are my constructs (offered with a spirit of loving-service, not authority), I will attempt to properly attribute those of other sources.
Though controversial proposals such as these tend to engender strong disagreements (sometimes due to simple misunderstandings), I believe the potential benefits of socio-religious organization should elicit their careful consideration.
Friendly comments seeking clarifications, suggesting positive refinements, or providing polite corrections are welcome, while the right to moderate feedback is reserved.
I pray our glorious Creator Son and Creative Spirit bless this undertaking, that we may have more workers for our Father’s harvest.
With worshipful love for our Father of All,
Michael Brent Melody
Dear friends,
I’d love to meet y'all, perhaps sometime around a campfire, at a kitchen table, or sharing in worship, remembrance, and service projects. Noting the virtual limitations on personal contact, I’ll try to give a brief sense of myself and why AMO.
Born Sept. 18, 1951 in Lake Charles, LA, I was raised in a family of 7 children in the Baton Rouge area. Like a lot of folks around there, we pretty much held to Roman Catholic religious traditions.
After 15, I abandoned Christianity for the most part and gravitated toward more expanded views of cosmology, psychology, comparative religion, yoga, mysticism, etc. I’ve lived in Louisiana, Hawaii, California, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, and for the last 20+ years in Southwest and North Central Florida.
I have been blessed with two daughters and a son through relationships that did not last, and was wed (in Estes Park @ IC’02) to my loving spouse and friend that some of you may know – Susan Meyers-Melody. Together we have 6 grandchildren, going on 7!
Suffice it to say that I continue to be profoundly influenced by study of the Urantia Papers since my first read in 1980.
Working as a carpenter and contractor while a single parent for 14 years, the closest we came to socio-religious community was with Unity Church. I view the absence of a high-quality, multi-generational, full-spectrum socio-religious support network inspired by the latest epochal revelation as a monumental challenge for loving service, to both individuals and society.
After deep involvement with The Spiritual Fellowship in ’01-’02, fundamental differences regarding Purpose and the implementation of chaordic organizational design principles led me to this work in the direction of a somewhat different goal and methodology.
AMOdeus.net Journal is an ongoing presentation and invitation to comment on various aspects of cultural socio-religious activities which might, or might not, have value in the context of evolving “a new and appropriate symbolism” of mutual support. The private AMO myBB discussion forums are designed to facilitate dedicated co-operative research and development leading toward the formal establishment of Agape Michael Organization, Inc.
Said Jesus, “God is Love.” Glory to God.
In Love, Peace, and Friendship,
M. Brent Melody