(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

If you accept that the purpose of life is to find out who we truly are so that God, in a moment of our enlightenment, can meet God… If you accept that for that meeting were the multiverse and all life forms created…

Then it follows that our cravings, or desires, for things other than God are what bring on our suffering and keep us reincarnating lifetime after lifetime, on a plane that features disease, old age, and death.

We’re attracted to the physical plane and physical pleasures and here we remain.

Our aversions are no different than our cravings. They are things we don’t want, which we push away from ourselves, in favor of things we do want – and we’re back to the same system or cycle that we go through.

Do we need guides? All of creation features guides to help the pilgrim, as Paul Beard likes to call us. (1) Archangels, angels, ascended masters, guardian angels, twin flames, family … everyone in the afterlife is either helping or instantly available to help us progress.

What we think of as progress, and what we welcome as feeling better is actually us in the process of returning to God, brightly shining and not at all a prodigal son.

The prodigal son is only a feature of graduation from the Third Dimension where we have “wasted” our time pursuing materiality rather than seeking the One.

Grasping pleasure and avoiding pain, we remain ignorant of the purpose and goal of life. Our ignorance adds to our cravings and aversions keeping enlightenment from us.

But now, in this higher Fourth Dimension, we have returned, no prodigal son. We’re spiritually wiser if perhaps materially poorer, having learned that “we can’t take it with us.” … And no longer wanting to….

However, the love we experience above and beyond this dimension is enough to keep us moving in a straight line thereafter, at least towards more love but at best towards our meeting with destiny, our meeting with the One.

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Any one sentence above could be taken and expanded. Everything I’m writing may be seen as dealing with either the cravings, the aversions, or the ignorance, beyond which lies the paradise we seek and which we are building.

So, do we need organized religion? I have never had it in my life since I was fourteen so I’m not a good one to answer that question. We need organized meditation retreats. We need guidance and, sometimes, rescue. We need help sometimes in finding the way.

And many people will always seek comfort in collective or communal gatherings. However, we will find, after the Wave of Love, (2) that what we seek from organized religion we will have found within – an eternal artesian well of love in our hearts. There may be no more drive to sit and listen to someone in a pulpit after we’ve found that well in ourselves.

Footnotes

(1) Paul Beard, Living On. How Consciousness Continues and Evolves After Death. New York: Continuum, 1981.

(2) See: