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In the 21st century, many people have dropped their belief in Hell. Even the Roman Catholic Church has dropped its doctrine of God imposing a place of torture that lasts for eternity. Of course, most of the Eastern hemisphere’s religious organizations or philosophies had never believed in Hell.

So how are people to be kept in order? What incentive do we have to behave? We teach people to be self serving. What you do comes back to you. Like dropping a pebble in a small pond. Watch ripples undulate from the pebble-drop. But them watch those same ripples repeat back upon themselves, to the very spot where the pebble was first dropped. This demonstrates cause and effect.

See that? Cause and effect. If I do something, the cause, it will come back to me, the effect. This has been understood for thousands of years in the East. Even so much so that the idea of reincarnation has within its insight that a person may have to have repeated lives in order to work out this cause and effect. This is often given the name Karma. This is not punishment. We are simply taught about the Universe being constructed in such a way that what one does, has a very definite effect upon you.

That effect may not happen in the next instant. But it will happen. And the greater or more potent the cause, the larger or more powerful the effect will be.

So, we teach people, actually children from a very early age, that what you do comes back upon you. Do good or well, good will come back upon you. One of my own favorite proverbs, something I made up myself is this: “The evil that men do comes back upon them.”

Of course, the positive is just as true: “The good that men do comes back upon them.”

We teach people to behave by showing them that there is cause and effect, by living this truth ourselves. There is no God telling us we are going to Hell if we don’t behave. We will put ourselves into a hell if we misbehave.

I imagine, however, that this shift is going to be difficult to implement. Religious organizations will have to change drastically. Knowing what I do about religious organizations, this may take generations to happen. In the meantime, more and more Western hemisphere people will turn to Eastern hemisphere philosophies and religions that teach cause and effect.

Is cause and effect self serving? You bet it is. But when we serve ourselves well and know that there are consequences for those actions, then everyone benefits.

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Yet, some religious organizations are complaining about the increased secularization of society. That means that people are turning away from the religious organizations and trying to run their own lives. I say hurray! I say this, hurray, from one who spent his entire adult life, from age 18 until retirement at 61, being responsible to see that folks knew and followed what my religious organization taught. I still remember the day when a woman come to me after a worship service of that organization and said, “You got to tell me what to do. I’ve always relied on the church to do that.” I told her I would not do that. But I could help her find her own way. She was visibly upset with my reply. Shortly, she left the particular religious organization I served.

My point is this: it is time for all humans to begin to make up their own minds. I know that some do not want to do that. Many, maybe even a majority, still want someone else to tell them what to do. I believe people need to decide for themselves.

If people do this, some will say, there will be religious anarchy. There is now. Some will say that people won’t behave if there are no threats of hell. (Threats of hell were deliberately used over the centuries to have people be kept in line.) We have got to come into a new age where people decide for themselves to behave, whatever that means, because it is the best for them to do for themselves. I behave well because that will get me the best for myself.

When you have found happiness within by being in contact with the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe, which is the meaning of life, you will, naturally, want to fulfill that happiness in the world. Find you bliss within and beam that bliss into the world. What do you think would happen if everyone started trying to do this? I think that peace would break out on the earth. I think that sanity would break out on the earth. I think that conservation of all species on this planet would break out. I think that we would have a far, far better chance of surviving the next 100 years as the species we name human.

So, I say, hurray! For the great secularization of society. Let people choose for themselves as they are taught the consequences of their own actions. Let us drift away from religions that tell us we have to do it this way or go to hell. Nonsense. Let us drift toward ideas that teach us we are responsible for our own actions and their consequences. But this is not new with me. Such has been taught and demonstrated for thousands of years.

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The meaning of life, to be happy, means I need to be conscious of this next step I am taking. One of the most difficult mental and spiritual activities I undertake is living in this moment. I know from years of study and more years of experience that this is the only moment I have. My entire life’s journey is contained in the step I take in this, the here and now. Every choice I made, every decision I accepted, culminates in this instant.

So I need to be taking as correct a step as I can. The only way to do that is to be conscious of what I am doing, saying, thinking in this moment. In the process that we call living, each activity I have done in the past leads to this moment. Every possible step I can take in the next moment is a collaboration of all that has occurred in my life from the past. But, neither the past nor the future exist for me in this moment, in this step.

It does not mean I am cut off from the flow of time. It means I have another example of the non-existence of time. For I am free to choose, in this moment, what I will do, given what I have done. Confusing? You bet.

Let’s try this: The past is gone as we measure time. The future has not yet come, as we measure time. What’s left? Of course, this moment. Only. So, everything I am or hope to be is contained here and now, only. Mentally you can see this as someone taking a strip of paper and cutting out a central section of it and discarding the two ends. What is left is now.

Therefore, you are unencumbered by the past, just as the piece of the strip of paper that represents the past is discarded. Similarly, you are unencumbered by the future; that piece of paper is gone as well. So, you make of what is left, this moment, just what you will. You can make it happy. You can make it meaningful. As long as you are conscious of what you are doing. You become conscious of what you are doing instantly by placing your attention on this moment only.

Yes, this is a tough concept to get your mind around. Yet it is so simple. Live in this moment. It is the only moment you have. Make it meaningful. Make it happy. Because you are unencumbered by past or future, you are totally free to make it whatever you want it to be. No matter what is happening in your world, you make this next step your entire life. For it is. And that is one of the insights into the meaning of life, to be happy.

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