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I have read this book cover to cover several times in my life. It is the most awsome book I have ever read. I shook hands with the author in a private meeting.
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I would like to attest to the following.
I first read UTF in 1977. The book struck home in no uncertain terms. I have re-read it and re-read it so many times now I have lost count. I determined at that time to embark upon the path of the scientist-philosopher. I approached all of the statements in the book with the expectation that they were false until proven true. I can say that after 29 years of applying the precepts to be found in the UTF, I have found no harm from them and have benefited greatly. I am able to look back 29 years now and appreciate my evolution, small though it is, lowly though it is. I have a stronger and more positive Mind now than I did back then. I have more awareness of everything around me in the universe. I am able to form theories about Truth and to formulate subjective mental experiments that prove or disprove those theories based upon the tests of time, outcome, and repeatability. This has been the most important book of my life.
It has come to my attention that some others who read this book and became more closely involved with Richard were hurt by him to varying degrees, both emotionally and economically. I have read testimony as regards problems associated with his sexuality. I am truly sorry that others were harmed by his imperfections and faults. I only spent a part of a day with him, listened to one Sunday meeting at which he presided, and had a dinner with him. Since he is deceased now, and since some or all of his specific prophesies have now been deleted from this edition of the book, perhaps no one else will be harmed by him.
I recommend this book to all. I have visited both Stelle and Adelphi, and found the most wonderful people on the planet at each place. Stelle is a place where alternate, earth-friendly technologies are implemented quite readily. I think the community of Adelphi is even more important now that Richard has passed on. I believe that they will keep the Ultimate Frontier alive and in publication, and provide a place where those who wish to live by its precepts can gather together in community.
I am sure that it would be great to live in the same neighborhood as others who practice the Lemurian Philosophy.
Remember to read this and all philosophies critically. Devise your own tests and see if the philosophies withstand the test of time, experience, knowledge (soul) growth and outcome.
The best means to soul growth and evolution is in tiny increments, one step at a time, through gradual character uplift. That theory is presented in this book, and I attest to its validity.
My best wishes to you in your evolution.
Michael
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I was a Stelle Group member in the mid 1970's, and although I don't espouse the philosophy these days, there was a byproduct of the Ultimate Frontier that was positive. That was the community of Stelle, inhabited by a group of very sincere and dedicated people.
By and large, they held themselves to a higher standard than did the founder, who I met once and found extremely creepy. This was during his period of exile from the group; turns out that exile was well justified.
So, regardless of whether you find the Lemuria and Atlantis material loopy, and you feel the leader was another David Koresh-like charlatan, there was good that came out of discovering the book, and that good was a community that survived despite all the upheavals.
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Richard Kieninger (RK) Eklal Kueshana), author of Ultimate Frontier (TUF), died in March 2002. He first wrote and published TUF in '63. He presented what is, at its core, a very beautiful yet idealistic philosophy, but also threw in some cataclysmic predictions and an alternative, maybe warped, view of history and metaphysical trivia. Over the years, he has edited and changed various things in TUF. In later editions RK removed some of the predictions/dates, especially when these did not happen. These changes were made in the context of direct quotes of physical in-person conversations that RK allegedly had with human beings who were "Brothers" in a "Brotherhood" working toward uplifting humanity.
Anyhow, to me, the whole TUF/RK/Stelle enterprise is a lot like the movie, "Meet John Doe," made in the late 30's, with young Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. Barbara has been fired from a newspaper, and in her last column, she makes up a story about a "John Doe" who is out of work, down on his luck, and protests the state of civilization and wants to jump off the city hall building at midnight on Christmas Eve. Anyhow, with this lie, the paper actually re-hires Barbara, hires Gary Cooper to be "John Doe," and eventually starts a "John Doe"/"love thy neighbor" movement that sweeps the country. One theme of this movie is that good things can come from a lie.
TUF, in my opinion, is a work of fiction. RK plagiarized the Lemurian Fellowship lessons in writing TUF, and wrote himself a major role in the whole undertaking. With RK's physical death in March 2002, he can no longer have a major role and wreak havoc in other people's lives. Thank God!
However, there are many many good people in Stelle now, doing many good things. If you want to learn more about these good things, just go to your search engine and punch in terms, such as Stelle community or Center for Sustainable Community. The good people who have done good things in Stelle in past and present have done so, in spite of RK and his dramas.
To give you some context, I read TUF in 1980, it was the 2nd edition 1970. I lived in Stelle from 1983-88 and owned a duplex in Stelle as an investment property from 1993-99. I do think that the community in general was less uptight in recent years and certainly I think the majority of the good people in Stelle were much less wrapped around RK and his various issues in the later years.
Read TUF, if you want. Just read it cafeteria style, taking what you want and leaving the rest. You can leave most of the RK stuff since he's dead now.
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When I read this book back in the Middle Seventies I was taken in by this New Age False Christ. His original organization was in southern Illinois, called the Stelle Group. Apparently he is no longer associated with the Stelle Group.
He claims association with the Ascended Masters and White Brotherhood both Satanic in origin.
I heard him personnaly speak in 1975 when he made false prophecies about coming world catastrophic events in 1977 - obviously they didn't happen.
His group and others like it are New Age deceivers taking advantage of the gullibility of those seeking spiritual enlightenment and not knowing where to look.
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