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Answer 1:
Yes, the underlying premise from most of the "The Urantia Book" is a linear view of the cosmos, complete with many hierarchies and specifics. In the last section of the "The Urantia Book", the "Life & Teachings of Jesus," Jesus makes a reference to this linear sequence of time which implies it is not true. I have used the entire last section of the parables of the life of Jesus with some ACIM students as a more expanded and closer approximation of the demonstration of divine principle than the Gospels of the Bible. Yet I would describe ACIM as the next deeper step toward experiencing the present moment, the Kingdom of Heaven within, which transcends all linear descriptions and metaphors. ACIM might for some seem to be experienced as a continuation from the last section of the "The Urantia Book" in that ACIM gives the practical tools for the mind to finally experience the reality of love by first seeing the unreality of linear time and space. The UB makes reference to another revelation that was yet to come.
I spoke with UB scholars at the first ever Urantia/ACIM conference at a conference center near Loveland, OH, in 1992, and back then a UB scholar said she believed that this reference was made to point to ACIM. Work with ACIM transcends the stepping stone of the "The Urantia Book" in terms of metaphysics by constantly pointing to the present moment as a gateway to eternity. For some the UB can be a step from the Bible to the Course. ACIM focuses on the necessary steps to forgiveness of illusion and awakening from the dream of the cosmos. ACIM, unlike the UB, teaches a nondualistic approach to God and truth, Which is forever pure oneness. I honor all the tools and steps the Holy Spirit uses in the Great Awakening, and both books were very helpful in my Awakening 'process.'
Answer 2:
Urantia (particularly the last section) is a good stepping stone to ACIM, and ACIM is a very direct reflection of the singularity of mind and aims at transcending all dualistic, linear concepts (including the history of the past: the cosmos). I spoke at the first ACIM/Urantia conference (in Cincinnati) and addressed the "The Urantia Book" as a tool: a book of parables (Life & Teachings of Jesus) shedding light on Divine Principle (which ACIM points to very directly). Used under the guidance and instruction of the Holy Spirit, the "The Urantia Book" will not become another ego distraction of "studying the error" or "maintaining hierarchies." Oneness is extremely simple, and far beyond all parables. Stories have their place, yet they vanish in the light of love, the silence beyond the words and images. For those that have the ears to hear, let them hear. Rejoice in love!
Love eternally,
David