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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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