CFU Fundraising Update
I want to take a moment to share some of the energy and excitement coming from The Center For Unity this month. Other than October 2023, when we received $100,000 in a matching fund donation, October 2025 was our best October for fundraising.
In the coming year, we will incur a lot of expense translating many of our websites into more languages. As we serve more people, expenses to maintain our projects increases. With your help and support, we will be able to not only continue our spiritual services to this world free of charge but to expand them to our ever-growing audience of spiritually-hungry people.
By the generosity of time and service of volunteer Gregg Tomusko, we are accomplishing translations for the Urantia Book Pods into many new languages. Gregg writes, "Lively discussions about each paper of The Urantia Book have been created in multiple languages such as Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Portuguese/Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, and Bengali is in progress."
Gregg explains, "The discussions are being created using an AI program called NotebookLM. Multiple steps are run to create and audio file (MP3), taking around six hours of elapsed time to complete fifteen files. The next step, quality assurance, is more difficult requiring someone who is proficient in each language."
"Gabriel has discovered some AI shortcuts for translation, and everyone seems to be enjoying hearing the discussions in their native language. Rick Lyon's dashboard seems to substantiate that more and more nations are listening to these short conversations." UrantiaBookPod.com
"In the early days of Artificial Intelligence, automating and running the same list of tasks over and over was how many of us perceived AI would be used. Who imagined I could give a computer a chapter from a book with instructions in English and it would produce an intelligent and witty conversation in Chinese? Holy future shock, Batman!"
Questions? Contact Rick Lyon (765) 366-7203