Urantia

"Urantia" could easily be mistaken as a simple love song if not for the funky title, which is the key to open up this music box with. "Urantia" refers to The Urantia Book, a book on metaphysics and cosmology (or "woo woo spiritual stuff" as some prefer to say it) published in 1955. The book explains that Urantia is another name for Earth, but it presents a view of our home planet very different from what we're normally taught. It teaches that Earth isn't the real reality but is instead a kind of illusory classroom where we come as differentiated beings who emerged purposefully from the undifferentiated source of all existence. We came here to learn and, in this classroom, the people we meet and especially the people we love share a connection that goes beyond this life. It is, in fact, eternal. In the afterlife, The Urantia Book claims, we will again come face-to-face with our family and friends. The theme comes through in this song as Deftones lead singer Chino Moreno smokes the lipstick-stained cigarette of a former lover and assures himself that they will meet again. I'll find you again somewhere, I believe You'll find me somewhere again, I believe But the song seems to be about more than just reuniting with former lovers in the afterlife. Tempt my spirit within my name We crawled in the tomb and release some honey 1800 million ways striving to make it last

This song didn't escape the notice of The Urantia Book Fellowship, who wrote their own analysis of it.

Moreno is hardly the only musician who's been influenced by The Urantia Book. Among those who have mentioned reading the tome are Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, Jerry Garcia, and the King of Rock and Roll himself, Elvis Presley. Guitar legend Steve Vai wrote "Midway Creatures" (from his 2005 album Real Illusions: Reflections) about one of the sections of The Urantia Book.