Byron Belitsos
Biography:
Byron Belitsos is an author, journalist, and publisher. He is the founder and CEO of Origin Press, an award-winning book publishing company. He is also publisher of the website www.ikosmos.com, known as "the Portal for Cultural Creativity." Byron has been a student of The Urantia Book for 29 years, and has written and spoken widely on its teachings.
He has a B.A. in intellectual history from the University of Chicago. His graduate studies have embraced history, literature, philosophy, and religious studies and were conducted at Naropa Institute, at the University of California, and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Byron has coauthored and published two books about the Urantia Book entitled The Center Within: Lessons from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation and The Secret Revelation: Unveiling the Mystery of the Book of Revelation . His forthcoming commentary on the Urantia Book is entitled Romancing the Universe: A Guide to the Mysteries of the Urantia Revelation.
Past Shows:
The Urantia Book
Author Byron Belitsos (website), Thursday's guest for two hours, discussed 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 "enhancemen ... More »
Host: George Noory