Cosmic Spirituality: The Path of Soul-Making and Self-Perfecting

Our Creators want us to evolve high-quality souls as we unify our personalities and ascend through the seven psychic circles. We can consciously follow this path through the pursuit of two core practices suggested by the UB: “soul-making” and “self-perfecting”—two phrases coined by our guest, Byron Belitsos, a veteran UB reader. Byron’s discussion in this week's show will be based on his new book, Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation (Origin Press, 2017). This book—which is intended both for readers as well as nonreaders—offers an original interpretation of the UB’s spiritual teachings in the light of today’s developmental psychology, Jung’s concept of the individuation, Ken Wilber’s integral psychology, and contemporary paranormal studies. Byron also finds important parallels between the UB’s concepts of soul evolution and similar ideas in ancient Gnosticism, traditional Christian doctrine, and Buddhist psychology. A new take on soul evolution: The human soul is the largely unconscious harvest of the energetic reality of those human experiences that we generate through our more significant personal decisions. But we can also engage in conscious soul-making. The “sacred triad” and the evolving soul: We can better understand soul-making if we apportion three distinct aspects of self: the soul, the Thought Adjuster, and the unique personality. If we conflate any of these three parts of our “inner triad," we cannot understand the soul. The path of self-pefecting: One day we will achieve perfection as finaliters. You can inspire your spiritual path today by envisioning yourself as a finaliter-in-the-making. Join us as we explore these topics with our friend Byron!