Byron Belitsos

Byron Belitsos is an award-winning book publisher who is also an author, editor, journalist, and educator. His recent most recent book is Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation (May 2017). Other recent books include The Adventure of Being Human (2012) and Healing a Broken World (2014). He is considered a leading exponent of The Urantia Book, having spoken widely on its teachings in the U.S. and Europe. He has also trained in Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and is a practitioner in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. He received a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Chicago in modern intellectual history in 1977. His graduate work since then has embraced history, religious studies, psychology, and theology in courses taken at Naropa Institute; the University of California (Santa Cruz); the California Institute of Integral Studies; and Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley. Belitsos was the principal author of the acclaimed One World Democracy (2005), which is based in part on political teachings of the Urantia Revelation. He also edited and published Discovery of Atlantis (2004), a pioneering title noted worldwide whose thesis is derived from teachings in the Urantia Book. After founding Origin Press in 1996, he published numerous titles by well-known authors that have won more than a dozen national prizes, including A Return to Healing—which he coauthored—winner of a Nautilus Gold Award in 2009. Byron was an inaugural member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute and was a board member of the Democratic World Federalists. He lives in San Rafael, California.