Author Byron Belitsos and The Urantia Book

Author Byron Belitsos has written books discussing the legendary "Urantia Book", a 2000-page tome first published in 1955, which many consider an epochal revelation to our planet for science, religion, and history. "It's a gift to humanity," said Belitsos, explaining that one of the book's chief purposes is to find a way to harmonize religious beliefs into a "unity of spirit and feeling."

Tracing the start of the book to Chicago in 1910, Belitsos said the text was transmitted to an anonymous "contact personality," from highly spiritual beings or "super angels" who hail from the center of our galaxy. "Urantia" is the name the beings ascribed to our planet, which they delineated as the 606th inhabited world of our local system. Mention is also made of a planet lacking an atmosphere, occupied by "non-breathers," that is near to us (probably in our solar system).

Belitsos said that much of the material in the Urantia Book could be considered an "enhancement" of the Bible or "angelic record" of what Jesus did and said. There are also details of rebellious "fallen angels," to which many of our Earthly travails are pinned on. Adam & Eve, according to the book, were "biological uplifters," which every inhabited planet gets at some stage to "intermarry with indigenous beings."

Belitsos is an intrepid universe romancer, and publisher of Origin Press (www.originpress.com) and www.ikosmos.com." As mentioned above, he is the author of the forthcoming book, Romancing the Universe: A Guide to the Mysteries of the Urantia Revelation. Belitsos has coauthored and published two previous books about the Urantia Book, entitled The Center Within: Lessons from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation (1998) and The Secret Revelation: Unveiling the Mystery of the Book of Revelation (2002). Byron has been a student of the Urantia Book for 29 years, and has written and spoken widely on its teachings. Belitsos has a B.A. in intellectual history from the University of Chicago; his graduate studies have embraced humanities, literature, and religious studies and were conducted at Naropa Institute, where he studied with poet Allen Ginsberg, and at University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz) and at the California Institute of Integral Studies.