The UB has been a real catalyst and fulcrum to my own spiritual progress for 50+ years now. It has been a map of the terrain of the pilgrim’s path forward to Paradise and a detailed schematic of the combined Spirit ministries to me personally (and the same to us all) which gives me the yearn for truth and happiness and the Divine Assurance response that not only inspires me but adds insights for decision making confirmations at the intersections of decision.
This connectivity to the Divine ministry within also comes with the personality, mind, and spirit gravity circuits. All these persons and forces of Deity have delivered a very certain and growing experience of cognitive awareness and recognition. This has delivered more and more maturity and patience and experience to the philosophic perspective gained by the facts and meanings discovered and utilized by prayer and study.
My time unit perspective gained over time has helped me gather more confidence in the uncertainties and unpredictabilities of life to allow me to better navigate the demands and pressures of life. My growing reality response is primarily due to the reality perspective gained by the integrated universe reality detailed in the UB.
Over time, the more I read and study and re-read the Papers the more clearly is the map of the reality terrain AND the personal connection to Deity schematic are made real, which truly assists me in my perspective of choices and destiny and priorities and also the manifold factors and options at each intersection of opportunity and situation and circumstance and my choices become more deliberate and purposeful…..skill and wisdom are natural results of the religious life and faith experience over time.
My perplexions and confusions have lost their power to dominate mind or cause anxiety. Frustrations and disappointments have, over time, become opportunities to learn from and about disappointment and failure and diminish the emotional weights of regret and resentment and have added to my ability to find humor, patience, strength, and guidance.
My spiritization has taught and is teaching me still to let go of any need to predict, manage, or control outcomes. I’ve heard tourists focus on destination and itinerary while travelers focus on the journey and the scenery of their current location. I feel increasingly liberated and unburdened from material distractions and more able to focus on helping those I love and those I encounter without conflict to my own needs.
Truly I have found the UB to accurately describe the tadpole’s adventure in faith and personal religious experience. We must lose all anxiety and learn to trust the Spirit and the Most Highs and gain a more universal perspective of the celestial kingdom and pay attention to the enhancements and enlargements such perspective delivers.
If we do not yet trust God for our salvation and eternal survival and we don’t yet have confidence in the Most Highs to lead our world to Light and Life then we still have much spiritual growth to go to truly experience and expess the Fruits of the Spitit.
Finally, for now, let me acknowledge and verify that the more conscious and deliberate and intentional is my cooperation with the Spirit within, the greater and more certain my progress and confidence. There is great religious progress and faith assurance experience (including birth of soul and soul growth) that is unconscious and less deliberate or intentional based on hope, ideals, aspirations, morality, and God’s secret sauce of love, truth, beauty, and goodness that requires no knowledge or accuracy of beliefs….even children and barbarians have effective faith based religious experience despite all kinds of crazy beliefs and superstitions.
But there are great benefits in conscious cooperation with God within and an awareness of reality which facilitate the personal reality response to maximize growth. My own religious experience and progress has proven to me how many others are also very active in their own ways with their own very personalized spiritization experience.
My personal growth has given me the eyes to see and appreciate the noble efforts of so many others with their own hopes and goodness, so many of them in far worse material circumstances and desperate situations without opportunity but far greater suffering…and I am awed and humbled and inspired by how much love, truth, beauty, and goodness so many demonstrate so much more so than myself.
Tadpoles are mighty and awesome and give me incentive to strive even more everyday to reach my own potential. Far from disappointed in my brothers and sisters I am in awestruck admiration. And they do not yet for the most part have the guiding principles and perspective provided by the UB we share here together. The disappointed, anxious, and impatient among us here are an enigma to me. Why so? It is a form of blindness and spiritual immaturity…no matter any prideful claims otherwise!
Perhaps more progress in their personal religious experience might deliver them the vision and understanding to better appreciate the reality that there are 7 billion souls alive today connected to God same as me, each having their own personal and dynamic religious experience who deserve encouragement and admiration…and not judgement or disappointment or impatience or worry for their souls. I am surrounded everywhere I go by the noble children of God whose light shines upon the pilgrim’s path forward to Paradise. What an adventure!!!
Bradly
16:6.4 (191.7) There exists in all personality associations of the cosmic mind a quality which might be denominated the “reality response.” It is this universal cosmic endowment of will creatures which saves them from becoming helpless victims of the implied a priori assumptions of science, philosophy, and religion. This reality sensitivity of the cosmic mind responds to certain phases of reality just as energy-material responds to gravity. It would be still more correct to say that these supermaterial realities so respond to the mind of the cosmos.
16:6.5 (192.1) The cosmic mind unfailingly responds (recognizes response) on three levels of universe reality. These responses are self-evident to clear-reasoning and deep-thinking minds. These levels of reality are:
16:6.6 (192.2) 1. Causation—the reality domain of the physical senses, the scientific realms of logical uniformity, the differentiation of the factual and the nonfactual, reflective conclusions based on cosmic response. This is the mathematical form of the cosmic discrimination.
16:6.7 (192.3) 2. Duty—the reality domain of morals in the philosophic realm, the arena of reason, the recognition of relative right and wrong. This is the judicial form of the cosmic discrimination.
16:6.8 (192.4) 3. Worship—the spiritual domain of the reality of religious experience, the personal realization of divine fellowship, the recognition of spirit values, the assurance of eternal survival, the ascent from the status of servants of God to the joy and liberty of the sons of God. This is the highest insight of the cosmic mind, the reverential and worshipful form of the cosmic discrimination.
16:6.9 (192.5) These scientific, moral, and spiritual insights, these cosmic responses, are innate in the cosmic mind, which endows all will creatures. The experience of living never fails to develop these three cosmic intuitions; they are constitutive in the self-consciousness of reflective thinking. But it is sad to record that so few persons on Urantia take delight in cultivating these qualities of courageous and independent cosmic thinking.
16:6.10 (192.6) In the local universe mind bestowals, these three insights of the cosmic mind constitute the a priori assumptions which make it possible for man to function as a rational and self-conscious personality in the realms of science, philosophy, and religion. Stated otherwise, the recognition of the reality of these three manifestations of the Infinite is by a cosmic technique of self-revelation. Matter-energy is recognized by the mathematical logic of the senses; mind-reason intuitively knows its moral duty; spirit-faith (worship) is the religion of the reality of spiritual experience. These three basic factors in reflective thinking may be unified and co-ordinated in personality development, or they may become disproportionate and virtually unrelated in their respective functions. But when they become unified, they produce a strong character consisting in the correlation of a factual science, a moral philosophy, and a genuine religious experience. And it is these three cosmic intuitions that give objective validity, reality, to man’s experience in and with things, meanings, and values.
16:6.11 (192.7) It is the purpose of education to develop and sharpen these innate endowments of the human mind; of civilization to express them; of life experience to realize them; of religion to ennoble them; and of personality to unify them.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
