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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