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RECENTLY
the heirs of Harold Sherman discovered approximately 250 brand-new
leftover copies of the 1979 edition of The Green Man and His Return,
a book that could be regarded as the first work of science fiction based
on Urantia concepts. Written while the Shermans were attending the Forum
in Chicago in 1946-47 and studying the Urantia papers, this collector's
item (offered at exorbitant prices on the Internet) is now available to
Urantia Book readers at a special price of $15 plus $3 shipping and
handling ($1 extra per additional book) until supplies run out. Send your
check to:
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FOREWORD TO THE 1979 EDITION:
ASTOUNDING, almost beyond belief,
Harold Sherman, sensitive, one of the world’s most renowned lay
authorities on extrasensory perception, wrote two novels in the
years 1946 and 1947, published in Amazing Stories Magazine,
which envisioned the visits to Planet Earth of Space People.
Because Sherman had described his leading character, Numar, as
green complexioned, when sightings of UFOs began to take place,
"little green men" became a part of the literature. This is
still true today—Space People are often reported as "green in
color" But Sherman went far beyond his description of the
appearance of Space Beings. He told of the power of spaceships
to stop car and plane motors, and cause electrical blackouts
which commenced happening a year or so later, after private
pilot, Kenneth Arnold, first reported the sighting of glowing
objects—which he called “flying saucers”—in the night skies over
Northern California,
The first Green Man novel caused such
a sensation in its day, that readers wrote Amazing Stories
editor Ray Palmer demanding a sequel. Sherman responded with
another novel, under the title The Green Man Returns, which was
published in December 1947. In it, he had the Super Being,
Numar, preceded by a Great Light which illumined the entire
heavens, as he returned to Planet Earth with a fleet of his
fellow creatures, landing at the capitol of every country, at a
time when the earth people were in danger of destroying
themselves by atomic warfare. Both novels . . . are filled with
one precognitive incident after another, many of which have
already been transformed from science fiction to fact by actual
happenings. All that remains is for an enactment of the Grand
Finale as depicted in Sherman’s thrilling denouement—the
appearance all over this world of spaceships on a gigantic
mission designed to save the earth population from
self-destruction.
Here, then, gentle reader, is your
opportunity to relive the past, through these remarkable Green
Man novels, and to prepare yourself for the possible future
which may be bringing events that will be destined to affect
your life and the lives of all your fellow humans for all time
to come!
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HAROLD SHERMAN COMMENTS ON THE GREEN MAN,
1979:
As a long time writer of books on
self-help and extrasensory perception, as well as being a
sensitive who has been able, from time to time, to demonstrate
authenticated cases of long distance telepathy, clairvoyance and
precognition, I have had many recorded visions and dreams of
events which have come to pass.
Some time in the year 1945, when Martha
and I were living in Chicago, I had a series of visions wherein I
saw Space Beings, possessed of high intelligence, visiting our
Earth in space ships of different shapes and sizes, for the
purpose of exploration and eventually to fill our skies with large
space vehicles, coming in force, hopefully on a friendly mission
to help Mankind save itself from self-destruction.
These impressions were not of the kind
to write serious articles about, as I knew editors of important
publications would not accept them. Up to that time I had never
written a Science Fiction story but I decided that it would be the
only medium through which I could reach the reading public. I
felt, too, that the employment of humor might be a disarming way
to get serious ideas across, so the first Green Man novel was
born. Its immediate reader response gave evidence that the message
had hit the target. In my sequel, The Green Man Returns, I was
able to "pull out all stops" and present my real vision.
To my knowledge, I was the first one who
mentioned the power of space ships to stop car motors and cause
electrical blackouts. It is possible that many science‑fiction
writers not only possess vivid imaginations but also, when they
concentrate on speculations of the future, actually project
themselves ahead in time and sense events and inventions that are
forming in some higher dimensions.
Knowing of my extensive experience with
telepathy, many have asked me if I have been contacted by any
space people as yet or have tried to communicate with them. I must
truthfully answer no. But, allowing for the existence of higher
intelligence on and about this earth, I would not rule out
eventual communication as a possibility, if it has not already
occurred in some instances.
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