Life and Death
Spirit-consciousness
Spirit-consciousness—contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Urantia Book 196:3.31
Hewett's "Blog" on Mortality and our Universal Father
“Selfhood” is the organizing principle and organism, which emerges as the mind gathers, catalogs, understands, and lives in the phenomena surrounding him/herself through out their lives. The Self (Self hood) is a material finite creature who cannot survive mortal death unless it assumes and pursues a cosmic “Identity”.
“Identity” is transient, potential, constructed, and conditioned by the Self through free will. When the Self chooses the pathway of the Divine Mandate and with the assistance of the Thought Adjuster (spirit), reaches sonship with God (Progressive Perfection Plan), “Identity” reaches cosmic citizenship in the universe.
Progressive Perfection: when the mind (Selfhood) understands and lives into its potential cosmic personality, the cosmic value of Identity will enliven the growth of the soul. The Thought Adjuster has cosmic identity while the temporal human Self strives for cosmic identity and in death will achieve “realization of identity transition” – sonship with his Universal Father. 3-16-14 UBIS COURSE
“Identity” is transient, potential, constructed, and conditioned by the Self through free will. When the Self chooses the pathway of the Divine Mandate and with the assistance of the Thought Adjuster (spirit), reaches sonship with God (Progressive Perfection Plan), “Identity” reaches cosmic citizenship in the universe.
Progressive Perfection: when the mind (Selfhood) understands and lives into its potential cosmic personality, the cosmic value of Identity will enliven the growth of the soul. The Thought Adjuster has cosmic identity while the temporal human Self strives for cosmic identity and in death will achieve “realization of identity transition” – sonship with his Universal Father. 3-16-14 UBIS COURSE
CONTEMPLATING MORTALITY
What if we understand death as a developmental stage — like adolescence or mid-life? Dr. Ira Byock is a leading figure in palliative care and hospice in the United States. He says we lose sight of "the remarkable value" of the time of life we call dying if we forget that it's always a personal and human event, and not just a medical one. From his place on this medical frontier, he shares how we can understand dying as a time of learning, repair, and completion of our lives. ON BEING (Krista Tippett - April 26,2011)
What if we understand death as a developmental stage — like adolescence or mid-life? Dr. Ira Byock is a leading figure in palliative care and hospice in the United States. He says we lose sight of "the remarkable value" of the time of life we call dying if we forget that it's always a personal and human event, and not just a medical one. From his place on this medical frontier, he shares how we can understand dying as a time of learning, repair, and completion of our lives. ON BEING (Krista Tippett - April 26,2011)
DUNBLANE MARCH 13, 1996
Are you going to die? NYT
