Significant People Gabriel Would Like To Meet

We are living in a time on our planet where the great thinkers, leaders, artists, activists, and others trying to make positive changes need to come together and share ideas and thoughts. There are many people around the world in positions of influence who Gabriel of Urantia respects and would like the opportunity to meet to work together towards creating a sustainable and balanced future of unity without uniformity. This is an invitation to those people listed below:

  • Spiritual Leaders

      • Billy Graham
      American Evangelist
      He is now deceased, but would have liked to meet him
      • Dr. Albert Lincoln
      Secretary General of Bahá'i International
      • Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Adhokshjanand Tirathji Maharaj
      Hindu spiritual leader trying to keep the peace between India and Pakistan. Like most true spiritual leaders, he has been discredited by world corporate press and is little known in American New Age magazines.
      • Kevin Annett
      Advocate for Canadian indigenous people.
      • Khozh Ahmed Noukhaev
      People's choice for the President of Chechnya; see French documentary The Making of a Republic
      • Nelson Mandela
      Now deceased, but would have liked to meet him.
      • Paulo Coelho
      Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
      Wrote the following quote:
      Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.' Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.
      • Pope Francis
      • The Dalai Lama
      • Thich Nhat Hanh
      Buddhist monk and peace activist

  • Activists & Political Leaders

      • Arundhati Roy
      Activist, author
      • Aung San Suu Kyi
      Activist, Burmese politician, and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy
      • Chris Hedges
      Activist, journalist, war-correspondent
      • Dennis Kucinich
      Congressman and former presidential candidate
      • Dr. James Orbinski
      Doctors Without Borders, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
      • Helen Caldicott
      Physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate, she has committed her life to educating others of the dangers of nuclear energy and using depleted uranium munitions.
      • Joseph P. Firmage
      Scientific genius and entrepreneur who challenged the business world with his hypothesis titled The Truth about the evidence of extra-terrestrial visitations to Earth. Co-founder and CEO of USWeb Corporation, the world’s largest Internet consulting firm. USWeb changed his title from CEO to "founder and chief strategist" after he began publicly espousing his beliefs.
      • Leymah Gbowee
      Founding member of the Women in Peacebuilding Program/West African Network for Peacebuilding. She served as the commissioner-designate for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ms. Gbowee is the central character of the award-winning documentary "Pray the Devil Back to Hell."
      • Martin Espada
      Known as the Latino poet of his generation; winner of the American Book Award. He is also a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
      • Michael Moore
      • Millard Fuller
      Activist, founder of Habitat for Humanity
      • Naomi Klein
      Journalist, author and activist against corporate power and globalization.
      • Noam Chomsky
      • Owens Wiwa
      Human rights activist and brother of Nigerian freedom fighter and martyr Ken Saro Wiwa, who Gabriel I wrote "The Freedom Song" for on his Holy City CD. Gabriel received a warm letter of thanks from Owen and family and hopes to meet him in person some day
      • Palagummi Sainath
      Activist, Indian journalist. Exposes the injustices committed against the so called "untouchables," victims of India's long-standing caste system that is still so prevalent today.
      • Ralph Nader
      • Rigoberta Menchu Tum
      Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mayan Advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation for indigenous peoples in the Western hemisphere. Became involved in social reform activities through the Catholic Church at a very young age and was prominent in the women's rights movement as a teenager.
      • Winona LaDuke
      Native American activist and environmentalist.

  • Artists, Musicians, & Others in the Media Industry

    • Musicians
      		•
      Alessandro Baricco
      Italian author and performer. He wrote the theatrical monologue, Novecento, which was made into the film, The Legend of 1900.
      • Ani DiFranco
      Singer, songwriter, activist.
      • Bob Dylan
      • Buffy Sainte-Marie
      Activist
      • Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
      • Davy Spillane
      • Harry Belafonte
      Singer, actor, producer, and human rights activist.
      • Linda Ronstadt
      • Sinead O'Connor
      • Steve MacDonald
      CD - Sons of Somerled
    • Artists, Actors, and Others in the Media Industry
      		•
      Abby Martin
      American media activist and journalist
      • Alan Arkin
      • Anjelica Huston
      • Benicio Del Toro
      Actor and Producer
      • Bill Moyers
      • Billy Bob Thornton
      Actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and musician
      • Dick Cavett
      • Dustin Hoffman
      • Edward James Olmos
      Activist
      • Francesco Tornatore
      Producer; The Legend of 1900
      • George Gallo
      Screen Writer, Producer, and Director
      • Giuseppe Tornatore
      Screenwriter and director; The Legend of 1900
      • Jane Fonda
      Activist
      • Jeffery Rush
      • Jeneane Garofalo
      • Khyentse Norbu
      Director and writer of Travellers and Magicians and The Cup.
      • Kirk Douglas
      • Lara Logan
      South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent.
      • Mel Gibson
      • Melanie Thierry
      Actress The Legend of 1900
      • Peter Coyote
      • Phil Donahue
      • Polly Draper
      Actress and screenwriter; wrote and acted in The Tic Code with Gregory Hines.
      • Richard Branson
      Founder and President of Virgin Records
      • Robert Venosa
      Famous artist of cosmic visions and beings. Venosa is a URANTIA Book reader and Gabriel saw many of the original paintings of celestial beings described in The URANTIA Book when he and Niánn stayed in Venosa’s apartment for one week in Boulder, Colorado while he was away in Europe.
      • Saki Takakoa
      Japanese Actress
      • Sean Connery
      • Sean Penn
      Activist
      • Steven Spielberg
      • Tim Robbins
      • Tim Roth
      • Tom Hanks