A Fresh Look at the Human Soul
Does it make sense to speak of the human soul in the postmodern world? Can a fresh new inquiry into this topic make a meaningful difference in our personal and social lives? I fervently believe so,...
View ArticleThe Sacred Trinity at the Heart of the Self
I have concluded after four decades of study that the purported celestial authors of the Urantia Revelation performed a colossal feat: they architected a “co-creative” revelatory scripture for the...
View ArticleNear-Death Life Reviews Reveal Our Soul
My personal awareness of the centrality of the soul came early in life, and by sheer happenstance. I started life as both an adventurous and awkward child—I took risks but was prone to freak accidents....
View ArticleCircle-Making: The “Cosmic Circles” of Personal Growth
We all know people who come across as “heady” or nerdy—in fact, to be honest, I’ve been told that I am one of them. These are folks whose intellectual development has proceeded faster than their...
View ArticleWe’re Made of Love—Uniquely So
Conventional society is organized around the apparent solidity of our “egoic self”—how we have to show up in “polite” society in order to get the things we want and eventually make our way into normal...
View ArticleClaims of Revelation: The Origin Story of The Urantia Book
Believers in the mysterious Urantia Book maintain that it is an epochal revelation of supernatural origin that is not the product of human authorship of any sort. As evidence, they point to its...
View ArticleThe Ancient Gnostics and the Revelations of The Urantia Book
The most important sources for our understanding of Gnosticism are the famed Nag Hammadi texts, thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices containing over 50 texts, that were found buried in a sealed jar...
View ArticleGnosticism & The Urantia Book II: Apostle John Versus Apostle Thomas
Elaine Pagels is perhaps the world’s leading scholar in the field of Gnosticism. In her luminous work, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels details a provocative theory of an open...
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