Urantia Book Thread
I have not seen any discussion regarding the Urantia texts on these forums and would love to discuss the teachings and other things pertaining to this revelation. I personally find the book to be the most profound work ever to appear on the planet. Skeptics welcome but would love to begin discussing the religious/philosophic/scientific claims of the text.
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I did a bit of reading in it and had a mystic/spiritual/philosopher friend who loved it. It points up for the umpteen millionth time: all the sacred texts and ancient, modern and postmodern type books are attempt and characterizing and explaining The Great Mystery ... often with spiritual and supernatural overtones. That's good. What's not good is claiming exclusivity of truth concerning such wild guesses about the nature of things.
I'd love to get into it but I have Tolstoy's terrific journey thru such domains and Freud's "oceanic feeling versus alienation" material on the table. Too, too good. I bet Urantia is along those lines.
Pleased this thread was resurrected, I had never heard of this book. Listened to quite a bit of the audio version. Will probably return to it. I won't comment too much ahead of reading/listening to the whole book because the author/s state that the book should be read in the context of the whole book. The introductory statements about the nature of deity and the trinity are extremely interesting. The visualisation of the, let's say higher realms, is done vividly. Some of the "place" names come across a little corny, presumably to identify to the reader some conceptual hooks so he is not totally alienated from the narrative. I have not really explored this book enough to make any speculations as to its provenance, which some in the discussion above seem to be able to do without even reading the book at all.
