Do you have a Celestial Teacher yet?

Can a huge influx of new teachers from celestial realms inspire us to lives of love and service?  The quest is on via the Teaching Mission, which has grown out of Urantia Book and Lightworker groups to provide spiritual lessons at home gatherings across the U.S. and abroad.

A new wave of human transmitter-receivers (TRs) have verbalized a vast library of celestial teacher transmissions since 1991, and yet they represent only the tip of an empowering iceberg of newly available spiritual guidance. The celestials teach that God-seeking individuals can tap into powerful new energies that will expand their spiritual growth and lead them to their own empowered service in a troubled world.

The author discovers these truths in a journey from skeptic to attuned transmitter of Tarkas and other ascending former mortal teachers, as well as celestial administrators such as Christ Michael, Abraham and Machiventa Melchizedek, and celestial artisans Bakim and Elisha.

In excerpts from celestial teacher meetings across the U.S., readers can trace the planetary “Correcting Time” priorities and visions. The teachers are establishing basic spiritual truths designed to empower service, change the world one person at a time, and ultimately bring forth a spiritual renaissance into an era of Light and Life. They outline an amazing ascension path toward a ‘Be Ye Perfect’ mandate and a usher in a remarkable era of quickening changes, challenges, and opportunities.

JIM CLEVELAND has had a long career in journalism, public relations, publications and marketing. He has a B.S. in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi and an M.A. from the University of Mississippi, along with years of theological and spiritual studies. He is owner and manager of lightandlife.com and its related periodicals, a charter director of The Stillness Foundation, and active with Urantia Book, Teaching Mission and A Course in Miracles organizations. 

We sat in a suburban living room, surrounded by people we didn’t know very well, waiting and wondering if this first-time “channeling” experience would truly be spiritual -- or just bizarre.

The hosts had brought out an assortment of chairs to seat the incoming curious.  Our small readers group, which had been studying the Urantia Book cosmology casually once a month, was being swelled on this night to meet this new celestial  “teacher” that we had supposedly been assigned. 

The Urantia Book is a history and explanation of the universe and our place in it, and purports to be a spiritual revelation transmitted from celestial sources.  But its many study groups are hardly a haven for the crystals and incense crowd.  Reading this complex 2,100-page tome is much more of an intellectual workout.

The transmitted and foundation-published papers are beautifully wrought prose explaining, among other things, the history of our planet, and a full and detailed history of Jesus.  As a cosmological synthesis of our science, philosophy and religion, the book has been studied by scholars and students for years.  Since its publication in 1955, it has never been disproved or discredited.

Though still little known to the mainstream public, the Urantia Book is truly an amazing, illuminating, and inspiring book, worthy of a lifetime of study. I wasn’t interested in any shortcuts to spiritual growth if it involved trances and background music.  Still, being a journalist, I was open-minded and exploratory.

I had heard of channeling but had never read any material.  My knowledge of spiritual paths was limited and I had only a modicum of interest.  I had long ago chosen not to affiliate with either the Baptists or the Catholics in favor of a more personal relationship with God and had found the Urantia Book to contain all the information I needed about the universe and my place in it.  It reconciled evolution and creationism for me and that was the big thing. I was pleased to just accept the reality of a God and intellectualize and speculate about the details of who we are and why we’re here. The Urantia Papers seemed to have all the answers I needed.

But if a “teacher” had been assigned to our group, I wanted to be here for the introduction.  That connection had come from a similar Urantia study group in Indianapolis, a phone call from a member there asking if we wanted a spiritual teacher to be assigned to us. One of our number asked some members, and we basically said: We don’t really know, it’s kind of strange, but why not?

A second call came later, stating that their teacher, “Welmek,” had noted that our assigned teacher, “Tarkas,” desired to make contact with us.

Tarkas?  What kind of name was that? 

Our Indianapolis friends said that we would have to make our own contact with this teacher and learn to speak his lessons to the group ourselves... if we chose to work with him.  Our free wills would always be in charge in the process.  We would be, more or less, conscious. He was simply available to provide dictation if we would verbalize. It required no special status or superhuman state of consciousness. For the human, it would simply be a service to the teachers and the group.