Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book

I've read the book a total of 4 times since 2001 and every time I read it I find new
answers. According to The Urantia Book, once we die and we accept the Paradise Career we move forward to the mansion worlds. It says that spirits don't remain on
the planet as ghosts or demons. True?

Do you think anyone in the history of our planet has ever denied the Paradise
adventure?

Would it be ok for me to write a fantasy-like story about God and what I gathered from the Urantia book concerning him and his divine plan so that I can draw people toward the book and its teachings?

A: Yes, every time The Urantia Book is read it offers up new insight â€” your thought patterns improve whenever you spend time with the book and new interpretations of the concepts will always come to mind. That's why studying the book can become a life-long endeavor â€” it never gets old.

Once we die, whether we accept the Paradise career or not, there's no return to earth. Should a choice be made before death not to survive, at death there's nothing to continue on. "Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such communication during the period of a current dispensation." (112:3.7)

There's always been an interest in unexplained phenomena; that's why shamans and medicine men and witch doctors had so much power during the long evolutionary development of humanity and that's why conjurers, psychics, magicians, and slight of hand street performers are still popular today. Under the right circumstances our minds are quite easily deceived and focusing on the paranormal is an excellent example of deceiving oneself.

The easiest way to answer this quandary about paranormal events or any other quandary is to ask yourself what makes more sense, the full range of the logically defined cosmology laid out by The Urantia Book which, in the case of paranormal events includes replete explanation of the soul, its development and rebirth on the mansion worlds, or a convoluted system of beliefs devised in an attempt to explain these otherwise difficult to explain occurrences? Without hesitation I put my trust in the straight forward teachings of The Urantia Book â€” it makes logical sense to me. Just because paranormal events seem to exist doesn't mean that they actually do â€” there are other and better explanations for what may otherwise appear to be real.

You can take classes in developing your psychic ability â€” it's a teachable capability. Some people come by it naturally, others can be taught; it's just another function of mind that can be developed. It's also a venture not sanctioned by TUB nor an avenue that Jesus followed â€” access to the psychic realm is not a requisite for spiritual advancement.

About whether anyone in history has ever rejected the Paradise adventure â€” that's a hard one to speculate upon. It doesn't seem very likely that anyone would willingly choose not to participate but TUB does say that the choice not to survive can be made during this life so I expect that some actually have made and do continue to make that choice. If no soul growth has occurred during a life there's nothing to pass on to the mansion worlds.

Is it all right to write a story about God and what you gather from your study of The Urantia Book? Absolutely. That's one of the primary reasons for having this kind of expanded understanding, so that we can pass it through our own consciousness and help others see things in a new light. It's not even necessary to say "This is what I've got from The Urantia Book" any more than it's necessary to say "This is what I learned in the third grade when we studied Luther Burbank." All knowledge comes from outside sources, it's just how we connect the dots and put ideas together that makes them seem new. However if someone asks where your ideas come from then you'd want to acknowledge that they're from your study of the book so they can investigate for themselves.

Labels: fiction writing, Mansion Worlds, Paradise, paranormal, psychics, survival, The Urantia Book

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

When Will Urantia Be Free From Quarantine?

Q: When will Urantia be free from the quarantine, and when/where will Lucifer's judgement take place?

A: The judgment of Lucifer occurs in the spiritual realm, not in the physical material creation. The quarantine is also a spiritual event and has little if anything to do with material creation. Therefore there is little likelihood that we will know, need to know, or experience anything once it has transpired.

Although this world has experienced great spiritual loss due to the effects of the Lucifer rebellion we as individuals haven't suffered because of it -- God still loves us personally and individually, we still have our ministering angels, the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit still connect with us, we each have an adjuster and we still participate in the ascension career; and we have the gift of the life and teachings of Jesus to guide us.

You may have heard from psychics that the Lucifer rebellion has been adjudicated and that "the circuits are open." Such a claim is intended to justify channeling and other psychic activity and give channelers credibility. But, as you may be aware, The Urantia Book does not support psychic activity as a method of spiritual development and warns against pursuing such mental activity, particularly since psychic activity stems from the subconscious mind and spiritual contact is through the superconscious mind. So what seems real to the psychic may be of some value to that psychic but is of little spiritual benefit to anyone else. It is best to ignore "the circuits are open" claims and to participate in the material life of this planet as a "normal" human being. There are no "inside tracks" to perfection.

Thank you for your question.

Larry Watkins
Truthbook.com

Labels: God, Larry Watkins, Lucifer, psychics, quarantine, Urantia

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Terminology and concepts unique to The Urantia Book

You wrote: "I was reading something about a Avonal son on earth , by the name of Monjoronson I was wondering if that was some really creative thinking or was is it actually real."

A: I think creative thinking is a nice way of putting it. The Urantia Book is rich in new concepts, vivid stories, spiritual and religious revelation which stir, stimulate and excite its readers in profound new ways. Individuals who already have a somewhat tenuous grasp on reality can easily be carried away by their contact with this material since its very design is to expand thinking and enlarge concepts of reality. Individuals who are already psychically sensitive can readily be stirred to flights of greater psychic fantasy as well -- often including the terminology and concepts unique to The Urantia Book in their adventures which give the impression of being factually based in the new reality revealed by the book. This occurs despite warnings against such self-deception provided by the book, an example being here (110:5.5).

Life on this world is challenge enough for those endowed with good heredity, a good mind and emotional stability, provisions that should be available to everyone on a normal world, which we are not. Additional problems arise from self-inflicted abuses, such as with drugs and alcohol that can cause irreparable damage to an otherwise normal person's perceptions. There's little wonder that so much confusion exists among us.

Historically psychic activity has proven to be so unreliable, even though it can stir awe and the emotions, that for the sincerely truth-discerning all psychic claims should simply be summarily rejected; psychic experiences may be meaningful to the person having them but that meaning is of little value to someone else. When genuine contact is made with genuine spirit beings it will occur in such undeniable fashion that it can't be dismissed by cautions against the experiences of the psychic realm.

Your question is a good one that others may appreciate too so and we've added it to our discussion board so that you can have the benefit of the thoughtful responses of our online Urantia Book reader community. You can visit this board and see these responses by clicking here: http://forums.truthbook.com/viewforum.php?f=11. and going to the forum titled "Questions & Answers."

Thank you for your question.
Larry Watkins

Labels: Avonal Son, Larry Watkins, Monjoronson, psychics, The Urantia Book

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

What does The Urantia Book say about pyschic abilities?

Q: What does The Urantia Book say about pyschic abilities?

A: As with some other terms, the use of the word "psychic" in The Urantia Book requires the student of the text to keep the term in context with the topic the book is presenting. When we think of pyschic we usually think of a sense or ability outside of the normal ones or a mystical experience. The Urantia Book speaks of seven psychic circles of spiritual and mental development which don't readily relate to the concept we usually entertain for psychic ability.

I believe that science has proven that all normal minded humans naturally have psychic ability to some degree and that some people have psychic ability more fully developed than others do, just as some people are more musically inclined than others are. There are classes one can take to help develop psychic ability. Still, The Urantia Book warns against over emphasis of or involvement in mystical practices as they tend to lead one away from the path of true spiritual development.

I've extracted several paragraphs from the text that may help explain what The Urantia Book teaches about psychic abilities.

Paper 91 Section 2 Para 2 Page 995 Line 43 Para 8
Both prayer and magic arose as a result of man's adjustive reactions to Urantian environment. But aside from this generalized relationship, they have little in common. Prayer has always indicated positive action by the praying ego; it has been always psychic and sometimes spiritual. Magic has usually signified an attempt to manipulate reality without affecting the ego of the manipulator, the practitioner of magic. Despite their independent origins, magic and prayer often have been interrelated in their later stages of development. Magic has sometimes ascended by goal elevation from formulas through rituals and incantations to the threshold of true prayer. Prayer has sometimes become so materialistic that it has degenerated into a pseudomagical technique of avoiding the expenditure of that effort which is requisite for the solution of Urantian problems.

Paper 100 Section 4 Para 2 Page 1097 Line 36 Para 7
Religious perplexities are inevitable; there can be no growth without psychic conflict and spiritual agitation. The organization of a philosophic standard of living entails considerable commotion in the philosophic realms of the mind. Loyalties are not exercised in behalf of the great, the good, the true, and the noble without a struggle. Effort is attendant upon clarification of spiritual vision and enhancement of cosmic insight. And the human intellect protests against being weaned from subsisting upon the nonspiritual energies of temporal existence. The slothful animal mind rebels at the effort required to wrestle with cosmic problem solving.

Paper 100 Section 5 Para 4 Page 1099 Line 11 Para 2
Most of the spectacular phenomena associated with so called religious conversions are entirely psychologic in nature, but now and then there do occur experiences which are also spiritual in origin. When the mental mobilization is absolutely total on any level of the psychic upreach toward spirit attainment, when there exists perfection of the human motivation of loyalties to the divine idea, then there very often occurs a sudden down grasp of the indwelling spirit to synchronize with the concentrated and consecrated purpose of the superconscious mind of the believing mortal. And it is such experiences of unified intellectual and spiritual phenomena that constitute the conversion which consists in factors over and above purely psychologic involvement.

Paper 100 Section 5 Para 6 Page 1099 Line 25 Para 4
If one is disposed to recognize a theoretical subconscious mind as a practical working hypothesis in the otherwise unified intellectual life, then, to be consistent, one should postulate a similar and corresponding realm of ascending intellectual activity as the superconscious level, the zone of immediate contact with the indwelling spirit entity, the Thought Adjuster. The great danger in all these psychic speculations is that visions and other so called mystic experiences, along with extraordinary dreams, may be regarded as divine communications to the human mind. In times past, divine beings have revealed themselves to certain God knowing persons, not because of their mystic trances or morbid visions, but in spite of all these phenomena.

Paper 100 Section 5 Para 10 Page 1100 Line 4 Para 1
The more healthful attitude of spiritual meditation is to be found in reflective worship and in the prayer of thanksgiving. The direct communion with one's Thought Adjuster, such as occurred in the later years of Jesus' life in the flesh, should not be confused with these so called mystical experiences. The factors which contribute to the initiation of mystic communion are indicative of the danger of such psychic states. The mystic status is favored by such things as: physical fatigue, fasting, psychic dissociation, profound aesthetic experiences, vivid sex impulses, fear, anxiety, rage, and wild dancing. Much of the material arising as a result of such preliminary preparation has its origin in the subconscious mind.

Paper 110 Section 4 Para 3 Page 1207 Line 13 Para 3
Certain abrupt presentations of thoughts, conclusions, and other pictures of mind are sometimes the direct or indirect work of the Adjuster; but far more often they are the sudden emergence into consciousness of ideas which have been grouping themselves together in the submerged mental levels, natural and everyday occurrences of normal and ordinary psychic function inherent in the circuits of the evolving animal mind. (In contrast with these subconscious emanations, the revelations of the Adjuster appear through the realms of the superconscious.)

Labels: magic, meditation, prayer, psychics, The Urantia Book

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