The Sadler Project
Copyright © 2025 Matthew Block
Posted here are parallel charts for several of William S. Sadler’s books and other writings. The charts show how Sadler wrote each text.
William S. Sadler (1875-1969) was the central figure in the Urantia Book phenomenon, but he remains an enigma. He apparently destroyed nearly all of his personal and professional files, leaving historians little to go on beyond the surface facts of his life and career and the often dubious stories he told about himself to a tight circle of Urantia Book believers. His most interesting legacy are his numerous books, most of which have not been read by even the most ardent believers, but which—thanks to the parallel studies—reveal much about him.
A remarkable fact is that Sadler, when writing many of his books, used the same techniques of culling and paraphrasing from published texts (which he often didn’t cite) as the purportedly superhuman authors of the Urantia Book did when writing many Urantia papers. Comparative study of the Sadler parallel charts and the UB parallel charts is shedding new light into Sadler’s real role in the writing of the Urantia Book.
"WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD" (1904)
"THE STORY OF OUR BIBLE" (1904-1905)
THE SCIENCE OF LIVING (1910)
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF FAITH AND FEAR (1912)
2. Brain, Mind, and Personality
8. Superstition as Related to Health and Disease
29. Mental Medicine and Moral Hygiene
32. Nature and Cause of Worry
33. The Cure of Worry
35. The Principles of Modern Psychotherapy
37. The Reëducation of the Will
WORRY AND NERVOUSNESS (1914)
5. Chronic Fear or Common Worry
6. Common Causes of Worry and Nervousness
8. Crystalized Fear and Definite Dreads
10. Neurasthenoidia, or Near-Neurasthenia
18. Hysteria—the Master Imitator
28. The Relief of Repressed Emotions
29. Recreation and Relaxation
LONG HEADS AND ROUND HEADS (1918)
Preface
1. & 2. What's the Matter with Germany? and Why Is America In the War?
3. The Prehistoric Heidelberg Race
4. The Early Neanderthal Race
5. The Ancient Cro-Magnon Race
6. First Appearance of the Alpine Round Heads
7. Descendants of the Great European Races
8. "Long-Head" and "Round-Head" Race Competition
9. Long Heads and Round Heads in the German Empire
10. The Thirty Years' War and the Revolution of 1848
11. The Delusion of the "Melting Pot"
12. Nordic Egotism Joined to Alpine Stupidity
13. The German Educational System
14. Prussianized Germany
15. The Kaiser's Dream of World Power
16. Prussian Contempt for International Law
17. "Might Is Right"—The Law of the Jungle
18. The German "Superman"
19. Germany a Menace to the World's Peace and Prosperity
20. Germany a Menace to Science and Art
21. Germany a Menace to the World's Religion and Morals
22. Germany a Menace to American Security
23. Germany a Menace to Civilization
24. The Indictment of Germany
HOW TO REDUCE AND HOW TO GAIN (1920)
RACE DECADENCE (1922)
16. Feeble-Mindedness
24. Desirability of Restricting the Unfit
THE TRUTH ABOUT SPIRITUALISM (1923)
Preface
1. Why is Spiritualism
2. Preparing the Public Mind
3. The Modern Spiritualistic Movement
4. Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism
5. The Psychic Phenomena of Spiritualism
6. The Moral and Ethical Aspects of Spiritualism
7. The Conclusion of the Whole Matter
THE TRUTH ABOUT HEREDITY (1927)
9. Mutations - The Discoveries of De Vries
12. "Pure Line" Inheritance
17. Secondary Sexual Characters
20. Evidences Purporting to Prove the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
24. Heredity and Environment
25. Application of Genetics to Man
THE MIND AT MISCHIEF (1929)
Gault's Introduction
1. What is the Subconscious?
2. The Psychology of Complex Formation
3. The Psychology of Self-Deception
4. Control of the Subconscious
5. Human Emotions, Instincts, and Sentiments
6. Emotion, Repression, and Rationalization
7. Emotional Conflicts
8. Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation
9. The Fear Complexes
10. Worries, Dreads, Obsessions, and Anxieties
11. Fastidious Pain - Psychic Pain
12. The Inferiority Complex
13. The Conscience Complex
THE MIND AT MISCHIEF (1929)
Gault's Introduction
1. What is the Subconscious
2. The Psychology of Complex Formation
3. The Psychology of Self-Deception
4. Control of the Subconscious
5. Human Emotions, Instincts, and Sentiments
6. Emotion, Repression, and Rationalization
7. Emotional Conflicts
8. Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation
9. The Fear Complexes
10. Worries, Dreads, Obsessions, and Anxieties
11. Fastidious Pain - Psychic Pain
12. The Inferiority Complex
13. The Conscience Complex
14. The Feeling of Inadequacy
15. Neurasthenia and Psychasthenia
16. The Reality Feeling - Transference and Projection
17. Dissociation and Double Personality
18. Automatic Writing
19. Telepathy - Mind Reading
20. Hypnotism
21. The Origin and Nature of Dreams
22. Hysteria
23. Juggling With Consciousness
24. Simple Paranoia
25. Spiritualistic Mediums
26. The Spirit of Subconscious
27. Complex-Hunting
28. Appendix
14. The Feeling of Inadequacy
15. Neurasthenia and Psychasthenia
16. The Reality Feeling - Transference and Projection
17. Dissociation and Double Personality
18. Automatic Writing
19. Telepathy - Mind Reading
20. Hypnotism
21. The Origin and Nature of Dreams
22. Hysteria
23. Juggling With Consciousness
24. Simple Paranoia
25. Spiritualistic Mediums
26. The Spirit of Subconscious
27. Complex-Hunting
28. Appendix
PILOTING MODERN YOUTH (1931)
14. Discipline and Punishment
15. Home Weaning of Adolescents
23. The Direction of Youthful Initiative
28. The Religious Aspects of Adolescence
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY (1936)
38. The Sexual Neuroses
53. Schizophrenic Reaction Types
54. Paranoic Reaction Types
60. The Physician as a Personal Counselor
74. Philosophies of Life
LIVING A SANE SEX LIFE (1938)
Preface
1. Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
2. The Biology of Sex
3. The Sex Impulse
4. Masturbation - Autoeroticism
5. Sexual Deviations
6. Sadism, Masochism, and Exhibitionism
7. Homosexualism - Homoeroticism
8. Sexual Neurosis
9. Venereal Diseases
10. The Art of Lovemaking
11. Choosing a Partner - Courtship
12. The Marriage Institution
13. Living the Married Life
14. Husband and Wife
15. The Marital Sex Experience
16. Special Sex Problems
17. Principal Sources of Marital Trouble
18. Contraception - Birth Control
19. The Menopause
20. The Modern Sex Problem
COMMENTS
This book was published in 1938 in two editions—as a two-volume set called The Sex Life Before and After Marriage and in one volume as Living a Sane Sex Life. In 1944 a second edition of the one-volume book was published, with revisions made to four of the twenty chapters. The revisions had to do with deleting information about sexual positions and birth control methods and replacing it with less graphic material. The 1938 and 1944 editions are credited to Drs. William and Lena Sadler, but William alone is listed as author in the 1946 printing of the 1944 edition. Posted here is the full text of the 1938 edition, with parallel charts showing how Sadler (or the Sadlers) wrote it, chapter by chapter.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL (1941)
THE MIDWAYER MESSAGES (1943)
COMING SOON
