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Today, millions of people are living
confusing, insecure, and in all too many cases,
very painful and miserable lives
in a very chaotic, rapidly changing world. Confusion
reigns supreme regarding answers to questions such as:
What is the nature of life? Where did
we came from? Why we are here?
and What is our fate after death?
There Isn't Any Solid Foundation:
Our basic human nature, our instinct to survive, compels
us to seek a solid foundation in the physical world here
on planet Earth. Unfortunately, there isn't
any solid foundation. Life is, at best,
fragile and tenuous. Death of our bodies
awaits us all.
Any Port in a Storm: In such a world: What
do we do? Where do we turn for help?
Many people look toward the non-physical world for
answers, and, in so doing, they have turned to
those who claim to have answers of life's unanswerable
questions. They have turned to religious
leaders because these leaders give the impression that
they have the answers. BUT, do they really
have the answers or are they just fellow human also
desperately seeking answers?
Many Have Given Up: Many people have given up trying
to make any sense of all this. They have
stopped looking for solutions and are simply looking for
a way out -- looking for an escape hatch
from life. For many of these people,
believing in The Rapture° is their answer. This
story puts the mind at ease. It gives
the impression that everything is okay, because God is
handling things and they'll soon be in heaven and at
peace forever more.
Are There Any Other Options?
Unfortunately, blindly placing one's fate in the
words of any religious leader, regardless of which
religion he or she is preaching, is like
abandoning the ship simply because a storm is headed
their way. Although our ship appears to be
leaking, all is not yet lost. Here are
a couple of things to consider:
Spaceship Earth is actually a very
strong and sturdy ship. We as humans have
been punching holes in the ship for centuries.
If we turned our attention to supporting each other --
if we focused on fixing the holes -- if we
examine our basic beliefs (and the behaviors those beliefs
dictate), perhaps all is not lost, after all.
Perhaps we simply haven't yet realized that we
live on the bridge between the physical and the
non-physical worlds -- that we are eternal beings
who regularly jump back and forth between these two
worlds -- and what we are experiencing here on
Earth is merely one side of a two-(or more)-sided game.
There are very likely, numerous additional
answers and much assistance available to us from
from the non-physical side of reality. Over
the centuries, humans have received millions of
answers to millions of questions from something non
physical. We call the source God, and we
have made up stories about what God is and isn't and how
He/She/It functions, but in reality, we have no idea
what it actually is or how it functions.
Faith and Reason
Perhaps if we applied a combination of faith and
reason, we could actually turn what appears to be a
sinking ship into the Garden of Eden that it used to be
before humans started treating spaceship Earth like a
disposable diaper. Perhaps
we could apply to our lives the words of ALL the
great masters of life, regardless of what religion
humans have made of his or her teachings. Perhaps
we could apply their collective wisdom and their
expressions of love to answering present-day problems.
Perhaps we could look at topics where beliefs
differ significantly and: 1)
examine the evidence, 2) seek a
consensus about what the evidence indicates is most
probably reality, and 3) agree to
disagree regarding answers to the questions where
consensus is clearly missing.
And what about the
master teachers who are here today? How many
of us are actually listening to any of them?
The Non-solid, Solid Foundation: Perhaps
we could look for and find the non-physical equivalent
of the missing, physical foundation. Here is just
one possibility. Take it or leave it as you
will.
"Physical matter is only a very small part
of reality. Life does not begin at
conception, or at birth, or anywhere else, and
life does not end at death. Humans are not their physical
bodies. Humans are eternal, non-physical,
divine beings who temporarily inhabit physical bodies.
From the overall, spiritual perspective, the death of
the physical body has about the same significance as
taking off a suite of clothes.
God is not a super human
being living above the clouds. God is
consciousness -- a Consciousness is so vast and so
complex that it transcends human understanding.
Humans are also consciousness. God
consciousness and human consciousness are intimately
inter related. We are, by our nature,
spiritual beings. Our spiritual nature. is a
fundamental aspect of everything we are and everything
we do.
Earth life is neither a testing ground nor a
one-time-only stop on the way to heaven or hell.
It is a way for the non-physical part of us to
experience itself in physical form. Heaven
and hell are not physical places; they are states of
being. Original sin is a highly destructive
fairytale. Humans are inherently good.
Everything is a part of and intimately
related to everything else.
An 'Intelligent Creator' created everything we know
about and everything we still don't know about.
The 'Intelligent Creator' is beyond human
knowledge and understanding. Humans are part
of and co-creators with 'God.' Within
the context of life on Earth, we are the creators of our
personal experiences."
The above is a reasonable best guess about the
nature of reality. We don't know with
provable certainty that this perspective is either true
or false.
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So, once again, the evidence tells us
that, right here, right
now, you have an important decision to make.°
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