© 1998 Meredith Sprunger
© 1998 The Christian Fellowship of Students of The Urantia Book
The highest objective of human life enunciated by all of the world religions in various ways is the achievement of God-consciousness and shaping one’s life in harmony with God’s will. This objective is also cited as the greatest achievement of human beings by The Urantia Book.
The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spiritconsciousness — contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness… And God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. (UB 196:3.34)
But what is God-consciousness? Most people tend to think of God-consciousness in terms of an alter ego experience, hearing a voice, or an awareness of another personality presence. Such concepts, in my judgment, give a misleading picture of God’s presence in our lives. The indwelling Spirit of God, the Thought Adjuster, is actually an interior aspect of mind. It is the superconscious quality of mind as opposed to the subconscious, animal heritage of mind. This fragment of God’s spirit is pre-personal in nature and is experienced as a quality of consciousness. When, through our dedicated and persistent will decisions, the Spirit of God is functionally dominant in our consciousness, this superconscious influence is evidenced by certain basic characteristics:
In the cooperative partnership between the indwelling Spirit of God and the human will-mind, there evolves a growing God-consciousness, along with the development of the soul, that culminates in the oneness of the human mind and will with the will of God. At that point in time the human soul fuses with the indwelling fragment of the Spirit of God-usually on the mansion worlds of the Father’s kingdom — and a new universe personality is born.