“I’m going to show you the Garden of Eden, just as the Urantia Book describes it. You’re going to be some of the first people to see this after 34,000 years. And I’m not just saying that, I’m going to prove it” That is how Robert Sarmast opened his presentation to the Urantia Book Los Angeles Society on the afternoon of November 19th. I have to admit I was skeptical but after his presentation, my imagination and interest were so piqued that I’ve gone back many times to just stare at the maps that you can easily find online.

As many of you know, Robert has spent a considerable amount of his life searching for the location of the Garden of Eden as it is described in The Urantia Book. It was only very recently that scientific breakthroughs allowed him to penetrate the great mystery of the Garden’s actual location.

Do you love thinking about our world’s history, and the Garden of Eden in particular? If so, you’ll really enjoy this presentation.

If you want to skip the chitter chatter at the beginning go right to 4:45 

Here are some additional quotes:

(73:5.1) At the center of the Edenic peninsula was the exquisite stone temple of the Universal Father, the sacred shrine of the Garden. To the north the administrative headquarters was established; to the south were built the homes for the workers and their families; to the west was provided the allotment of ground for the proposed schools of the educational system of the expected Son, while in the “east of Eden” were built the domiciles intended for the promised Son and his immediate offspring. The architectural plans for Eden provided homes and abundant land for one million human beings.

(73:3.4) The coast line of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great river that watered the Garden came down from the higher lands of the peninsula and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of Mesopotamia to the sea beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took origin in the coastal hills of the Edenic peninsula, and these are the “four heads” of the river which “went out of Eden,” and which later became confused with the branches of the rivers surrounding the second garden.