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3 Reasons Why Motherhood is a Spiritual Journey
/in Trending Now!According to an article on Patheos.com, most people do not consider motherhood to be a spiritual journey. This may be due to physical changes the body goes through, such as weight gain or morning sickness. However, a spiritual journey is defined as the process of pushing past the boundaries that make you comfortable and moving toward growth. Read More
Truthbook.com draws inspiration for this belief from a Urantia Paper: “The mother and child relation is natural, strong, and instinctive, and one which, therefore, constrained primitive women to submit to many strange conditions and to endure untold hardships. This compelling mother love is the handicapping emotion which has always placed woman at such a tremendous disadvantage in all her struggles with man. Even at that, maternal instinct in the human species is not overpowering; it may be thwarted by ambition, selfishness, and religious conviction.” Read More
Happy Mother’s Day!
Is Humanity a Passing Phase in Evolution of Intelligence & Civilization?
/in Trending Now!Oxford University Press recently suggested that In light of the recent spectacular developments in artificial intelligence (AI), questions are now being asked about whether AI could present a danger to humanity. Is humanity a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence and civilization? Read More
The Urantia Book assures us that no matter what may happen in the future with AI, the evolution of the human race will continue. If AI someday makes it impossible for the human race to continue to live here, we will be taken somewhere else, where we CAN live and continue. “If some physical catastrophe should doom the planetary residence of an evolving race, the Melchizedeks and the Life Carriers would install the technique of dematerialization for all survivors, and by seraphic transport these beings would be carried away to the new world prepared for their continuing existence. The evolution of a human race, once initiated on a world of space, must proceed quite independently of the physical survival of that planet” Read More
Religious Involvement, Spirituality, and Medicine
/in Trending Now!Various surveys compiled by The Mayo Clinic, suggest that most patients have a spiritual life and regard their spiritual health and physical health as equally important. Furthermore, people may have greater spiritual needs during illness. They reviewed published studies, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and subject reviews that examined the association between religious involvement and spirituality and physical health, mental health, health-related quality of life, and other health outcomes.
The Urantia Book says: “Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefore and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love.” Read More