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Index
Cover
Praise for Your Evolving Soul
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Complete Contents
Note to the Reader
Introduction
PART I: Introducing an Epochal Revelation
Chapter 1 / Soul Glimpses: Poetic and Paranormal
John Keats and the “Vale of Soul-Making”
Paranormal Revelations of the Soul
NDE Life Reviews: Nonjudgmental and Multiperspectival
Chapter 2 / The Grand Cosmos: A Universal Theater for Soul Evolution
A Unified Stream of Guidance and Ministry
The Personal Heart of Cosmic Reality
God as Infinite Love Personified and Self-Distributed
The Eternal Trinity and the Origin of Evolution
A Brief Anatomy of the Universe of Universes
The Trinity in Time and Space
The Goal of Perfection in the Afterlife
PART II: Self and Soul in the Urantia Revelation
Chapter 3 / The Synthesis Hypothesis
The Human Soul: An Alchemical Synthesis
Soul Evolution as a Faith Adventure
Faith Marries Potentials to Actuals
Exploring the God of Experience
The Drama of the Evolving Soul
God Fusion: The Ultimate Destiny of the Soul
Chapter 4 / Cosmic Individuation: The Circles of Self-Perfecting
Ideal Conditions for Cosmic Individuation
Circle-Making and the Quest for Selfhood Reality
Traversing the Seven Circles
Jesus and the Two Axes of Self-Perfecting
The Vertical Growth of Value-Consciousness
Quantitative Soul Growth through Seasoned Experience
PART III: A History of Self and Soul—East and West
Chapter 5 / Early Beliefs about Self and Soul
The Invention of the Soul in Primitive Religion
Self and Soul in the Ancient Near East
Soul and Spirit in the Classic Western Religions
The Special Role of Greek Philosophy
Aristotle’s Monistic Concept of the Soul
The Question of the Indestructibility of the Soul
Aquinas on the Aristotelian Self
Saint Augustine and the Human Soul
Chapter 6 / Gnosticism, Eastern Christianity, and the The Urantia Book
Gnosticism and Christian Heterodoxy
Gnostic Myth and the UB’s Revealed History
Eastern Christianity and the Path of Deification
Asian Ideas of Self and Soul
Chapter 7 / Self and Soul in Modernity and Beyond
Modernism and Its Discontents
The Coming of the Integral Age
Integralism and the Urantia Revelation
“Showing Up” with Multiple Perspectives
Wilber and the UB on “Growing Up”
The Lines of Human Development
Which Line of Growth Is Central in Human Development?
PART IV: Foundations of Cosmic Spirituality
Chapter 8 / The Nature of Personality Reality
The Origin of the Idea of Personality in the West
The Riddle of Personhood—Ancient and Modern
Personality as Host, Unifier, and Systematizer
More Paradoxes of Human Personality
Revisioning Personhood with the Urantia Revelation
Chapter 9 / The Gift of the Divine Indwelling
A Grand Meeting of Opposites
Naming and Describing the Inner Divinity
The Inner Betrothal Day
The Felt Experience of the Inner Light
Chapter 10 / Cultivating Contact with Spirit
The Path and Fruition of Disciplined Meditation
God-Consciousness and Intellectual Self-Mastery
Divine Will Is Yoked to Human Will
The Inner Discovery of Life Purpose
Reincarnation on Earth Versus Purposeful Ascension
Chapter 11 / Evolutionary Deity and Cosmic Spirituality
The Grand Project of the Ages
Special Supplement
Section 1 / An Apologia
Section 2 / Key Celestial Authors of the UB
Section 3 / Human Sources for the Urantia Revelation
Section 4 / The Origin Story of the Urantia Papers
Section 5 / The Historicity of Revelation
Appendices
Appendix A / Urantia Cosmology and Current Astrophysics
Appendix B / Mother Spirit and Christ Michael: Local Universe Representatives of the Trinity
Appendix C / Some Core Contributions of Ken Wilber
Appendix D / The Quantum Plenum and Space Potency
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
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