The Book of Urantia contact group

Record summary

The Urantia Papers emerged from a Chicago circle that reported communications from celestial personalities, with material allegedly received through a sleeping or unconscious human subject and recorded by participants. The text developed during the early and mid-twentieth century, although formal publication occurred later in 1955. It matters for comparing trance communication, anonymous authorship, editorial secrecy and cosmological synthesis. Researchers must distinguish the prepublication contact group from the later Urantia Foundation and avoid treating the text’s cosmology as independently verified.