Adamson Project Journal
[Updated 7/14/07]

The Adamson Project was conceived in September of 2006 when I realized that life had presented me with a special opportunity to participate in the discovery of the civilization that was started by Adamson over 37,000 years ago. The unusual events that led me to this are recounted in the "Get a clue; then FOLLOW IT!" article, found on the Adamson's Civilization page. If you have not read that article yet, it provides important context for the Adamson Project Journal.

Even though my initial vision for working on this project involved reconnecting with high school classmates from Worcester Academy, networking opportunities for developing this project immediately started to surface in Colorado. Excellent connections began to occur very soon after I started speaking to people about my ideas. It soon became apparent that UBtheNEWS would be my primary focus and that reconnecting with high school classmates would just be one facet of the work I would be doing to help find the vestiges of Adamson's civilization.

Notwithstanding that progress on the Adamson Project began in advance of returning to Worcester Academy to look up my former Iranian classmates, the Adamson Project Journal did not become a section on UBtheNEWS until after my initial visit to the Worcester Academy alumni office on July 6, 2007. So the first installment or two of the Adamson Project Journal will focus on some of the earlier developments. But don't worry, things at the Alumni office went very well. We'll get to that in due course of time.

But first let me say. . .

About ten days after I decided to get this adventure started, I was at a worship service led by Pato Banton that was organized because he and his band were in Boulder to play at the Fox Theater. At the worship service I only brought up the topic of my new adventure to a couple people, one of them was Shoshone. Shoshone is a longtime UB reader who I met when I first moved to Boulder in the late eighties.

After I told Shoshone what I was up to, she said she knew a man named Farzien, an Iranian who lived in Greeley, CO (about 50 miles from Boulder). She told me that Farzien's family had lived in the same town in Iran for as far back as they were able to trace their genealogy and that she had already given him a copy of The Urantia Book. Naturally, she suggested that I give him a call. This seemed to me like a pretty good indication that I was heading in the right direction. I followed the clue.

On October 4, 2006 I got through to Farzien. Our first conversation was a bit rough because the phone connection was not very good. We spoke for about a half hour and, notwithstanding the difficulty of understanding his accent as it was being garbled by the bad connection, I think he got a fairly good idea of what I was up to. However, when it came to trying to set up a time to meet in person, I learned that he had travel plans that would delay our eventually meeting by a couple of months. Our first face-to-face meeting in December turned out to be quite the extraordinary event.

In the next installment of the Adamson Project Journal I will go into some of those details.

In the spirit of bringing you a little more up to date, though, I am happy to report that Pato Banton is playing in Cambridge next week at the Western Front. The Western Front was my favorite club when I was a college student in the Boston area 25 years ago. I emailed Pato about UBtheNEWS and to let him know I would be at the show. He is very happy to see the tiny bud of an idea that sprouted ten months ago is now in full bloom. Having just had an extraordinary first encounter with the Worcester Academy alumni office, it is very nice to have Pato in town again to help me celebrate the progress of this undertaking. I find these "little coincidences" to be very inspiring.

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