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What Is the Purpose of Life?

June 15, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 51 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Two

What Is the Purpose of Life?

This is a question that has mystified humanity since the beginning of time, but perhaps this is a subject that we are guilty of over thinking. Perhaps the answer is not so complicated after all.

An interesting clue is given in the first chapter of Genesis where we are told that we are created in the image of God. Now, if we are truly in the image of God then our purpose would also be the same as God’s. Of course, the scope of our purpose may not be comparable, but we both love to create things.

Let us take a look at this world God created. The first thing that draws our attention is that life on this world is very difficult, not only for humans, but the animal and plant kingdoms are in a fierce struggle for survival.

Let us focus on humans. We are kind of like chess pieces in the game of life. There’s the white pieces, who are the good guys playing against the black pieces who are the bad guys, or the dark forces that seem to always surface to thwart our moves. One moment we joyously think we are on the verge of subduing all opposition and then the next an unexpected loss surfaces threatening a possible checkmate.

Life does seem to be a lot like chess. There are many types of humans high and low. There are kings and queens, rooks and pawns, and one thing they all have in common is that none of them are safe from the dark pieces that can threaten us at any moment no matter who we are or what our station in life may be.

So, why in the world does God allow life to be so dangerous, full of risk with possible pain and loss? To a lot of people it makes no sense… but, when you consider that we are made in the image of God it makes a lot of sense.

As I said, life that God has created is a lot like a game of chess. And what is perhaps the greatest most enduring game created by humanity?

And why have we created and participate in high risk games and activities such as chess, monopoly, football, hockey, auto racing, boxing and others?

Why don’t we create nice safe games where there is no risk and everyone wins?

The answer is quite simple. Such a game would be very boring. The fact is this. If we create an interesting game that has reasonable risk, but can be won through concentrated effect and achievement, then there is a tremendous prize to be won.

And what is that?

A thrill of joyful accomplishment that cannot be acquired by any other process.

So God created this great game board, called the universe, which is full of risky ingredients such as light and dark, pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, loss and gain. Then he jumps in the universe as a player and, just as you are present in your whole body from head to toe, He is present throughout the whole universe.

BUT… He came to be more than present but to be a player and to win. To help Him win He created us in His image with the expectation that we will assist in winning the game of life, not only for ourselves, but for the One Great Life, which is God.

Let me put it this way. Suppose you were God and all alone living in the great void with nothing to do. What is your greatest problem?

And what is the cure?

Create a universe that will have all the ingredients of a great game. It will be a difficult game, but one you can win if you apply yourself with all the effect you can muster.

When this thought entered God’s head what happened?

A joyous thrill went through the mind of God – a thrill that created a powerful joyous vibration at the prospect of winning.

Today we call this the original Big Bang – which was an explosion of joyous anticipation and planning.

The purpose of each of us is to find our next move in the game of life and then make it and not let a little risk frighten us into indecision.

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Where Did I Come From?

July 14, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 52 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Three

Where did I come from?

Regular Christian thought presents the idea that God created you sometime between conception and birth. Before that time you did not exist.

This is completely untrue.

That which is the essential you was not created but has always existed as a part of the mind of God. When Jesus talked about Himself and His disciples being one with God He was merely admonishing them to become aware of a truth already in existence. That is, each of us is a part of God just as each drop in the ocean is a part of the ocean.

When a drop of water taken from the ocean returns then it is as if that drop is the ocean itself for it merges with all other drops to form a creation much greater than itself.

Unlike a drop of water entering the ocean we do not lose our identity when we realize our oneness with God. Imagine entering the ocean as a drop and experiencing life as if you were the ocean, but then you can leave again as that same drop and explore worlds away from the ocean.

This gives us a glimpse of the reality that we came from.

To further understand take a look at the night sky. What do you see? There are an unlimited number of stars occupying the ocean of space.

How many spaces are there? Do we send rockets in to spaces or just space? Yes, it is just space, singular. There is only one space, just as there is only one God. Space represents God because it is everywhere and contains all things. The mind of God extends through all space including the creations within that space.

In the beginning of each universe there is only space which contains all the thoughts of God. You were a point of intelligence within that mind and sought to know yourself and to be and to become. As you struggled to understand all the possibilities of form you grew in light until you appeared as a point of light, like a star emerging within divine space.

From that point, as the creation of the universe proceeded, you descended down through the worlds of form until, after eons of time, you arrived here on earth where you spend many lifetimes thinking you are separate from God.

Finally when oneness is fully realized and all your dreams apart from God are satisfied it is time to go home and rest until new and different worlds are created to explore.

You had no beginning and will not have an end. There will always be new creations of God to explore, worlds without end.

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Do We Have Free Will?

July 15, 2014July 15, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 53 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Four

Do We Have Free Will?

This is a question that has been debated since the beginning of religion and philosophy.

Those who say we have no free will claim that God knows everything and all events are already known and planned by Him in advance. Since it is already known that you will stub your toe at 9 PM on Tuesday there is nothing you can do to prevent such a happening. Such believers also claim that God knows who will be saved and who will not. Those doomed to hell are in a lock and there is nothing they can do to escape.

When you think about it, this type of thinking makes no sense. For one thing, the all knowing, all perfect God (from the human perspective) is a creation from the minds of men. Perfection is an illusion for what is perfect to one is imperfection to another. God may know how His plan will end but He would have no desire to know all the details, especially about you stubbing your toe.

All lives in the universe have free will which is only limited by their conscious understanding and the limitations of their circumstances. Every day we use our free will to decide what time to get up, to go to bed, what to eat, when to shower, when to study, check our email or dozens of other things. Then there are big decisions such as a choice of a career, a mate, a location to live and others. All these things are in the realm of free will and no one can predict all the choices anyone will make. There are a few obvious choices that are predicable but then sometimes, as humans, we just go out of character and decide something different.

In addition to individual choice there is group choice. If you are a member of a group and they vote on a decision sometimes that decision will not be the one you would have made. The group as a whole makes a choice, but not the individual.

There are many circumstances that limit free will. If you want to buy a car and can afford only $20,000 then your free will is limited to cars that cost that much or less. You seem to not be able to use your free will to buy a $40,000 car.

A Key to happiness and fulfillment in life is to expand your ability to choose so limitations will be removed. If you want the $40,000 car and only think you can buy a $20,000 one maybe you have not looked at all the options. Maybe if you expand your thinking, you can make more money on the side or save money in another area of spending.

There is a lot of truth to this classic poem of Walter D. Wintle.

“If you think you are beaten, you are;

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you’d like to win, but think you can’t

It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost,

For out in the world we find

Success being with a fellow’s will;

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are:

You’ve got to think high to rise.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the one who thinks he can.”

The answer to the question is, yes, we do have free will. While it is true our freedom does have certain limitations we have greater power of decision than we give ourselves credit for.

He who thinks he can has much more freedom to decide than the pessimist.

“Life is tough, it’s tougher when you’re stupid” …….John Wayne

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Will Science Create Life?

July 17, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 54 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Five

Will Science Create Life?

If you ask most religious people if humans will ever create life they will immediately answer to the negative. “Only God can create life,” they say.

If you ask the same question to a non-believer you will get a variety of answers. Some will say, “Yes, it is just a matter of time,” while others are just not sure. Most will think it is a possibility.

So, what is the truth here? Is it possible for scientists to create life or not?

Before we can answer this satisfactory we have to define what life is. Many think that the body is the whole of the life we have and it is not. If science could create a body just like yours it would not be creating life, but a vehicle through which life could express itself.

The life, which is you, lived before the existence of your physical body and it shall live after it disintegrates. Your body is not your life but a vehicle used by the life which is you, just as your car is a vehicle you use that gives you extra power to go places.

The life, which is you, is a part of the life of God and has always existed and will always continue. The various types of lives are interested in exploring this grand universe and in obtaining the best possible vehicle that their consciousness can handle. For some that may be the body of a plant, others an animal and still others a human. In addition to this there are life forms under the earth and on other planets alien to us, but interesting for other lives to explore.

So, what would happen if science created some sophisticated artificial life form like Data on Star Trek? Would it be alive and have a soul?

Unlike Data, who was not viewed as a living creature, such a sophisticated body could draw an intelligent life into it. If a scientifically engineered body was so advanced that it could do things even a human could not do then many lives who live in the spirit world would be interested in using it. If an entity hopped into it then the android would be as alive as you or me.

If you do not think an intelligent spirit could inhabit a machine think again. There are all kinds of stories of dead relatives and friends communicating through phones, computers and signaling through lights.

After all, the human body is merely a very advanced machine. The real miracle is the life which uses it.

So what would happen if we cloned a human? Would it have a soul?

Yes, just as much as you or I have one.

“And if they cloned me would the clone have a personality just like me?”

It would look a lot like you, but it wouldn’t be you. The body would be inhabited by a separate entity from yourself. Because it is not really you, it would look less and less like you as it aged for our appearance is influenced by our consciousness.

In a nutshell the answer to the question is this. Science will eventually create vehicles, or bodies, which life will inhabit, but they will not create life itself. When this occurs, however, they will claim to have created life.

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Are There Accidents or Is Everything Planned?

July 20, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 55 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Six

Are There Accidents or Is Everything Planned?

You hear a lot of people say something like this, “There are no coincidences. Everything is part of a plan, or God’s will.”

On the other side of the coin, non-believers will say, “Life is what you make it. There is no Santa Claus God up there planning everything and dolling out good things to the righteous and bad to evil doers.”

As is often the case neither side has it correct. There are a lot of things that are planned on higher levels, but not everything.

Why?

Two reasons. First it is not necessary to plan everything and, secondly, because of free will it is impossible to do. The only way everything that happens in life could be planned in detail is if there were no free will. And we do have free will. No one knows exactly the content of this chapter until it is written; not even me, and I am writing it.

As I said before, if you want to understand the mind of God look at our own minds and if we want to understand ourselves we should seek to understand God.

Why?

Because we are in the image of God. If we want to know how much God plans ahead we need to look at what we do.

Let us say that I want to build a house. The first thing I do is create or find a plan. In this case it would be a set of blueprints. With these and a drawing of the house in hand I can now visualize pretty well how the plan will unfold.

Next I hire a contractor and proceed with the building. Just as we get started my wife decides some changes are in order. Instead of two and a half baths she wants three and the master bedroom is too small. She wants it bigger with more closet space.

We redraw the plans and proceed. A couple weeks into the project the contractor comes to us and tells us that the changes we made will cost more than expected. We reluctantly agree and I reminded my wife that this extra cost was not part of the original plan.

As we move ahead with building the house a number of unplanned events occurred.

A construction worker fell and broke his leg.

The building inspector was picky and caused several delays.

A hailstorm occurred and damaged some of the building materials.

The price of building supplies went up.

A survey revealed our property line was incorrect and we had to move the location of the fence.

In spite of unplanned events we moved forward and finished the house. “Just as we planned,” we said to ourselves, satisfied with the result.

Yes, the final product turned out as planned but in between the original plan and the finished house, many unplanned events occurred.

This is also the way it is with one’s life. Before you ere born you saw reality with a much wider vision than you do now and planned out a number of things that was to happen in your life in order to achieve maximum benefit and progression.

After incarnating and proceeding with life it will seem that some events in your life and directions you take are a part of some plan that you are supposed to follow. In many cases you will be right. On the other hand, because of free will and bad decisions on your part the overall plan will suffer delays and setbacks. Many things happen that are just caused by a fairly random series of events, but if you follow your inner guidance you will wind up accomplishing your objective set before you were born.

Just like the guy who successfully builds his house despite setbacks, you can have a successful life even though many unplanned events occur that slow you down.

It is of extreme importance that we realize that we have free will and using that will we can overcome all obstacles and accomplish the plans that we set before birth as well as during this life.

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Was there a Big Bang?

August 6, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 56 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Seven

Was there a Big Bang?

Until recent times most religious as well as non religious thinkers thought that we lived in a young universe and earth. Most believed that everything was no more than 6000-10,000 years old.

Then a few hundred years ago some serious scientific research began and intelligent thinkers created a lot of controversy when they started coming up with more ancient dates for the age of the earth.

A step forward was made in 1779 by the Comte du Buffon. By calculating how long the earth would have taken to cool he came up with an age of 75,000 years. This seemed so ancient as to be heresy, but little did he world know how far back more advanced dating would take us.

As dating advances were made the age of the earth was moved back to millions and finally billions of years. They think they now have a pretty accurate age of 4.54 billion years.

The age of the universe went through a similar evolution in dating. Many Bible readers thought that the stars were younger than the earth but scientific dating tells us otherwise, that the universe is much older. Two advances in dating helped scientists determine the age of the universe. The first was a study of the red shift of ancient galaxies. Since they have found galaxies almost 13 billion light years away this means that the universe has to be at least that old. What really helped to pinpoint the age of the universe though was the discovery by Edwin Hubble that the universe is expanding.

They have since calculated and recalculated the beginning point and figure the beginning of the universe happened about 13.8 billion years ago.

The strange thing about science on this issue is that the conclusion of the beginning of everything is just as magical and mystical as the Bible account.

The Bible presents the idea that in the beginning there was nothing and then God snapped his fingers and, like a Big Bang, the heavens and the earth appeared.

Now science says something eerily similar. They say that in the beginning, 13.8 billion years ago, the whole universe existed as a single point no larger than an atom and, for reasons unknown, exploded in a Big Bang into the universe we have today.

So, did everything begin with a Big Bang and what possible explanation is there?

The idea that the universe began with a big bang makes sense for several reasons.

(1) All life that we have studied begins with a big bang. From the time conception begins cell division almost explodes in quantity. Since the universe is seen as being alive with the Life of God then it would fit the Law of Correspondences that it would begin with some point, or originating cell, and multiply into a much larger body.

(2) Scientific studies seem to trace back the origins of the universe to a beginning point 13.8 billion years ago. There is no way to prove this except to say it is seen as the logical conclusion of the best scientific minds.

(3) All things that are observed in the world of form have a beginning and an end. A chair, a fish, a human, a planet all are a part of the world of form and had a beginning and will have an end. It thus makes sense that the largest living thing of all, the universe, had a beginning and will eventually have an end.

That formless part of us, which has intelligence, never had a beginning and will never end.

What Was the Force that Created the Big Bang?

This is perhaps the greatest mystery of the scientific world and none of them have any explanations that goes beyond fanciful unproven theory.

The real answer is simple, yet amazing. Here it is.

There is intelligence in matter. This is not theory but proven fact. If you want proof, look in the mirror. What do you see? You see a physical body made of matter and within this body is what?

Intelligence.

That is, I assume you think you possess at least a degree of this attribute.

You, my friend, are living proof that intelligence does exist in matter.

Now, what science has not yet come to terms with is that there is intelligence inherit in all matter. Just like the life of a human being inhabits a physical body, even so, does the life of God dwell in every part of the universe itself giving it intelligence. Einstein saw that this was so and made many of his discoveries by asking himself what the intelligence of God would do in connection to the laws of the universe.

In the beginning there was indeed a point of concentrated intelligence containing all the knowledge gathered from a previous universe. Within this cellular point was a universe waiting to expand again, projected with intelligent purpose.

Just as the focus of the intelligence of God is presently on the human kingdom guiding it toward higher spiritual development even so, at that time, the Life of God was focused on this point of condensed matter, spirit and intelligence.

Science tells of all the marvelous things that happened during the first seconds of the Big Bang, but for the intelligence involved time was operating on a different level. What we would consider a second of time that occurred during the Big Bang really was as if more than a billion years passed to the operating intelligence. Thus, during the first seconds of the Big Bang billions of years of intelligent progress took place.

The fact that higher intelligence spent billions of years in conscious creation in the microcosm explains why such incredible balance was reached with the positive and negative energies that has mystified scientists who have studied the principles of creation.

What Existed before the Big Bang?

All things that are created have a beginning and an end. The universe itself had a beginning and it will have an end. On the other hand, there are things invisible that have no beginning and no end. Intelligence and creation are endless. Creation has always been and will always be. Before the Big Bang creative Intelligence was at rest in a state of great contemplation. Before that rest there existed another universe and one before that. There has been no beginning to the creative process.

There is no first cause for cause and effect never had a beginning and will never end. The Intelligence of God is manifest in the interplay of this endless cause and effect.

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Questions on the Universe

September 16, 2014 Joseph Dewey

This entry is part 57 of 57 in the series Mysteries

Question Fifty-Eight

Questions on the Universe

Is the Universe Infinite?

No. There is no such thing as anything that is infinite. The universe has a beginning and end in both time and space. If we could travel far enough we could find the end to the universe and if we could see it we would discover that it contains a certain number of galaxies, stars and even atoms. The number of these things is not infinite, but a certain number. Admittedly, it is a pretty huge number.

Are There Other Universes?

Yes. Our universe represents a mere particle in a universe of universes. Its vastness is beyond normal human imagination to comprehend. If we could travel to the edge of the universe we could not see surrounding universes because they are so far away that their physical light cannot reach us.

Is There an Infinite Number of Universes?

It would seem that way as creation to the human consciousness is endless, but there is a number to all things. Only the mind of God knows the total number of particles. If you could find the number of worlds necessary to give every variation possible and supply every possible experience to the evolving life then you could find the number.

Why Did God Create Such Vastness?

He wanted to experience every possibility and since the Universe is his body He is aware of all parts of His being. In order to experience all things He has to create an extremely vast universe of universes. One of our purposes as humans is to give the Life of God a unique experience that He has not had before. This means that your life is meant to be unique. There is not another quite like it anywhere in creation. If you want to please God then get off your behind and do something interesting.

Is There Life on Other Planets?

There is life in all things from the tiniest atom to the Earth, the Sun, the galaxies and the universe itself. Life in the mineral kingdom is far removed from human consciousness as it is asleep to the power to act, but it does respond to outside stimuli. The life that inhabits a planet or star is on a different time reckoning than human and there are thousands of years or more between heartbeats.

Almost all planets have some type of life equivalent to plants or higher. There is life in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and life beneath the surface of barren planets such as Mars and Mercury.

Each planet has a double made of refined matter not visible to our current technology and these doubles are teaming with much more intelligent life than the dense physical ones. Human type life is fairly rare on physical planets but much more abundant on the spiritual doubles.

The time is not too far distant now that we will decode intelligent signals from life on other planets. This will have the immediate effect of expanding human consciousness as a whole. The other event which will stimulate human consciousness is the discovery by scientists of a means to communicate with the dead. Edison thought this may be possible and eventually he will be proven correct.

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