Hello Bonita, Andre, and Bradly!
Let me try to reply to each of you within this one reply, offering ideas along the way…
I will get back to the subject of reincarnation, but I am wondering (Bonita) how you currently view the harmony between destiny and free will (or rather free choice, which I thought was the same thing until I recently read a good book called “The Revelation of Ramala” which explains how/why there is a significant difference). I’m also curious if the Urantia book makes a similar distinction between freewill and free choice. By the way, have all of you noticed how carefully/thoroughly the Urantia defines/explains words/ideas?! And how awesome that the Urantia book shows exactly which parts of the Bible are true/accurate, and which parts are not so true/accurate – and each time, the Urantia book make perfect sense, such as what happened after the baptism of Jesus – some big differences between the two books!
But (Bradly), I don’t totally dismiss the Bible, for as the Urantia book indicates, it too was a revelation when its various parts were originally being written. I fully realize the Bible is not nearly as pure as it once was, for even when people try to preserve original meanings and connotations, things are lost when translating from one language into another. That I’m certain is a current challenge for the Urantia Foundation as well. If you go with a literal word-for-word translation, you may lose the spirit of the message, and it will likely be quite an awkward reading. If you try to capture the spirit of the message in the most common languages today, you run the risk of losing original meanings of words. But with the Bible’s history, you also had various church leaders selectively choosing what would be included in the Bible. Thus, even the Bible refers to the book of Enoch within the “book” of Jude, the book of Enoch is NOT included in the standard Bibles.
(For all, including Andre)… as we seek truth and learn, we should appreciate how knowledge builds upon previous knowledge, and be aware that our gradually-increasing capabilities of understanding/grasping truth is taken into consideration by those more advanced beings who are revealing layers of truth to us in stages. Consider how we as individual humans gradually learn about basic astronomy, such as “the sun rising and the sun setting”. Adults say it that way to young children because that is all they can typically understand about astronomy at a young age. However, when we grow older and learn about astronomy in school, our teachers explain how the Earth revolves around the Sun, and not vice-versa; thus in reality, the Sun is not setting or rising. But when we first learn that, I don’t recall anyone claiming that adults lied to us about the sun “rising and setting”; likewise, I now choose to view the relationship between the Bible and the Urantia book in a similar way, with the Urantia book greatly explaining (and enhancing our understanding of) the Bible. Truth should ideally be revealed in stages that correspond to our gradually-increasing levels of understanding. Throughout much of modern human history, most people were uneducated and illiterate, orally passing along information for many generations; hence it was absolutely necessary to present truths often in the form of children stories, like the biblical story of Adam and Eve. But notice the time period when the Urantia book was provided by various advanced/celestial beings – science was firmly established worldwide, and many people globally had become relatively educated. And don’t be surprised if someday in the distant future that another revelation will be needed for humanity, but isn’t that a natural part of human evolution – a natural consequence of continual learning?!
By the way, one of the most impressive/intriguing things about the Urantia book is how it gives so much detail about what individuals were thinking when they made important decisions, like what Jesus contemplated shortly after his baptism, and like what Adam and Eve were thinking before and after they “fell from grace” by changing the original plans that they had agreed upon. And the Urantia book even gives the how and why it is known what Adam and Eve thought and felt – because the same being(s) who presented the Urantia papers on that topic was/were there (at that time in the presence of Adam and Eve)! As you can see, excitement about some topics causes me to take detours 
Now about reincarnation, I did a google search for “Urantia” & “reincarnation” and one of the weblinks that showed up was from the Urantia Book Fellowship – something very good produced by Dean White. I was pleasantly surprised when I reached last paragraph of his comments on reincarnation… “After exploring some of these questions I am now more inclined to answer questions about reincarnation with a more positive statement about many lifetimes in an ascension plan similar to reincarnation, or with an affirmation that Urantia [book] does allow for experiences of previous lives. It certainly challenges us to search for enhanced perspective on all our conflicts.” That closely captures the overall point I was hoping to make in my prior posts, but here is an added thought from me – suppose metaphysical literature for the past 100 years has actually succeeded in explaining real processes from particular SIMPLE/GENERAL perspectives, while the Urantia book also succeeded in explaining real processes from it’s particular COMPLEX/SPECIFIC perspectives, the latter one not necessarily nullifying the former one – that is what I am currently considering about reincarnation, similar to how I view the relationship between the Bible and the Urantia book. And yet again, I would like to share some ideas that I have recently been thinking of after reading a book about Multiple Personality Disorder (which has since been renamed), regarding the relationship between the conscious human awareness (and the on-the-surface ego personality) and the subconscious awareness (and the below-the-surface ego personalities), and how that may be related to our perceptions of reincarnation, but it will take a while to explain my ideas in depth, and it is 3am my time, so to sleep I must soon go!
Good night and good day – until next time…Michael
