I am Troy R, Bishop and I am the creator and maintainer of The Mystic Scientist Web site and the author of all of the material -- writing, art, and videos -- in its Web pages.

To be found here are insights and inspirations that I have developed from study of The Urantia Book for four decades -- from 1969 until the present -- and wish to make available to those who are interested in them.

New work is constantly being created and added. For example, the video, Glorious Ascent, and its Chinese translation, both of which have been completed and uploaded this week.

A number of Chinese-language-only Web sites are operated and viewed by either Urantia Book enthusiasts or by New Age individuals who are open to Urantia Book concepts. These individuals can now display my videos on their own Web pages by simply copying and pasting a single line of code that is offered alongside the videos.

 
THE following information might prove helpful:

I was born in 1933 in Illinois, where the corn and wheat fields stretch hugely. Life was, and is, kind to me--not in the material sense, but in the larger perspective. My lifelong career is in computers. Currently I am, well, retired--or maybe not.

My writing falls into three groups, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive: 1) inspiration and reflections for seekers, 2) explorations of Urantia Book concepts, and 3) discourses on multilevelate reality.

The topic of "Multilevelate Reality," with its widespread and deep-set extents, might need a bit of introduction, so here it is:

Over the years, I laboriously crafted a conceptual reality template that could hold the Urantia Book reality model and all its implied universal mechanisms, while remaining independent of the Urantia model for its own development.
But even after it was completed, I was never really able to communicate even the outlines of such a vast model to others.

Feeling called to the task of making such a model available to inquiring minds of a future time, one day in March of 1986, with a brisk breeze blowing outside my window, I sat down and began the daunting task of putting my unified view of all reality -- that is, one possible or perhaps even plausible perspective -- onto paper in The Multilevelate Universe. The Introduction was written in a single sitting exactly as it appears in the book now, chronicling the name and essential contents of each chapter to come. The book followed faithfully, completed by the end of December, 1987.

Though couched in visually oriented metaphors and penned with crisp leanness, The Multilevelate Universe, with its vast complexity and new words and concepts necessarily developed in it, made for difficult reading. Therefore I wrote a Urantia Book-oriented primer for The Multilevelate Universe named Starwind, developing one chapter each quarter and mailing it to selected students of The Urantia Book. The primer was also difficult reading--it could not be otherwise, with so vast a subject--so I wrote a series of Urantia Book-oriented tutorial letters on multilevelate reality and mailed these letters to multilevelate reality students of mine who were familiar with Urantia Book concepts. Later I collected these letters into the tutorial book, The Star Hanger. For those persons so inclined, I believe there are useful insights to be gained from the multilevelate reality model, if each such person remembers that, as with all "knowledge," it is only a model, a metaphor of reality.

Troy R. Bishop
August 2011