Some Informations and Related Additions in new-phase back in 2011 and 2012         Many of the revelations and ideas in the original 2011 book and the 2012 Essay were first written in those former years–there are many ideas mentioned then in them which are repeated previously in other sections on this website.  And the older Book and Essay contain more small mistakes, plus a few minor examples of mistake-making and memory-difficulties (typical symptoms of 27 years of author’s primary-progressive Multiple Sclerosis) 2-3 years ago.                                                                                                          (Back in the last decade, this author [Mike Stofka] first wrote 4 short books about the spiritual area from June 2002 to June 2008–the first book (published in 2004) was titled “The Plan”, the second (in 2005, and then slightly-revised in 2008) was titled “Further” . . . but, expectedly, all 4 books had–in their first chapter or introduction–the same four short BELIEFS about God. That reflects the 8-century-long, taken-for-granted emphasis on beliefs back then … also, that fact indicates that this author had no idea last decade of the switch from an 8-century-long emphasis of “beliefs” to emphasis of “helpful acts”; it wasn’t till years later [2011] that I realized there had been a switch-in-phase recently.                                                                                                                                                     First, the 2012 Essay has many similar materials as in the 2011 Book … but it’s much briefer, and it was written as just an essay (not another book) so it could be entered online (which can now possibly be read worldwide in 71 different languages … that reflects another switch, a [“transition”] from emphasis of the 5-century book-publishing method to an emphasis on an online-method of communication). And thirdly, the 2011 book and this subsequent website reflects the beginning of a transition in a spiritual-subject–obvious in the first 6 sections of the later (2013) website–to the transition toward rational, logical understandings in this spiritual area rather than the many different beliefs which formerly existed across the planet. An indicative example is that the 2011 book only contained only one of the word logical–but after Dec. 2013 there were 50 words on this; they usually replaced related synonyms.The transition from books to online- info was first mentioned in the website’s introduction.                                                         (The earlier Book and Essay are also being put here to reflect the minor, gradual increase in a few years of this author’s consciousness (the slightly-different 2011or 2012 levels of consciousness could make these earlier writings more understandable for older readers than the website’s 2013-2014 explanations. This author’s level of consciousness eventually led to increased awareness over the next three years after 2008 to the likely, very short & simple System. That simple-system-idea was initially brought up in the first sentence of the 2011 book.)

_________________________________________________________________________                                 The 2011’s Book’s Introduction                                       

First, This Consideration: If, after reading this book, some readers–older ones, and teens–decide to reject this new system (or feel committed to previous traditional beliefs), that’s understandable … because, after all, “It’s Early Yet”–the previous phase lasted from about 1225 AD till around 2000 AD; this new phase, with its simple system, could take up to 200 years to be agreed with and used by people in many places around the entire planet Earth. The major aspect of this simple divine system is behavioral–taking actions to help others get through life.                                                                                             So, using some of your energy to help others would be a smart move for the future advancement of the soul inside you–charity toward others has been around for millennia (but in this 4th phase it’s much more noticeable and important) … regardless of your mental and spiritual acceptance of this simple new system.                                            The front cover’s picture contains an example of the change in emphasis in this new human phase from the primary emphasis of the previous phase (beliefs)–that switch is further-indicated in the first essay of Chapter 2.                                                           There are times when things that were mentioned earlier in this book are described again, but phrased and described somewhat differently each time. It is the author’s hope that a revised description of a particular item will resonate more with the reader than maybe it did the first time.                                                                                                                   The amazing thing is the totally unexpected connection between the scientific data discovered since 1960 and God’s existence and outside-of-time eternality. This led to a large number of connected items throughout the book to the relationships between that present understanding . . . and what, for centuries, was strictly a matter of belief only.                                                                                                                                                     It is reasonable that when a species has progressed far enough (like on Earth, by the late twentieth and early twenty-first century) so that it has become capable of developing technological equipment and scientific understandings . . . it then learns about the simple rational divine system; it makes sense that there’s a switch in an intelligent, self-conscious species from an emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on rationality.

In the billions of galaxies we now know are in our universe, scientists have estimated that there are sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe. It is rational that if only one in a million of those planets contains (or has contained, or will contain) an  intelligent species, that would still add up to an estimated quadrillions (15 zeroes) of  such planets; if only one out of a billion planets had, has, or will have intelligent life, there would be trillions (12 zeroes) of such planets.                                                                           Another similar explanation: When self-conscious and intelligent species, rarely–but occasionally–exist on certain planets in the universe, and have reached the technological ability to confirm that the universe actually consists of millions or billions of galaxies, and communication is possible from various places throughout that planet . . . word starts to circulate throughout that planet of what the simple divine system consists, and how species can achieve soul-advancement. After a 775-year beliefs phase, Earth has reached that point. Its 4th phase–focused on actions–is beginning in this century.                            The scientific and technological advances in the last 50 years or so don’t PROVE that this simple divine system is completely accurate (that can’t happen)–they just support the “makes sense” aspect of this System-description, and support the idea that a new phase for humans is beginning.                                                                                                       The words “likely“ or “probably” are usually used in the book to describe the assumptions about the beliefs that many humans have had for centuries, or describe items which can’t be observed (and thus proven) … such as “disbelief in God’s existence would likely make this simple system hard to accept,” “such choices likely lead to soul-advancement,” (the previous phrase “such choices” refers to helpful behavioral ones) and “Roughly 13.7 billion years ago, God likely created a huge universe,” etc. This website focuses on explaining the new 4th phase, and the reasons for a switch to it now.                                                       The gap between scientific institutions (many have been around for generations) and religious institutions (most of which have been around for centuries or millennia) will not be reduced by this book soon. But a goal in this book is to provide a connection between science and spirituality resulting from the scientific data of the last half-century; and thus hopefully reduce the gap between some individual   scientists and some individual religious people–then, hopefully, there will be a reduction of the gap between scientific and spiritual institutions too … during generations in the future.                                                    In order for this helpful, simple system to spread across and be embraced by lots of people worldwide in different cultures, it has to leave out mysterious details about God’s nature–since those rely on beliefs, not ACTIONS . . . and beliefs vary so much; whereas actions are either good or bad for everyone, in all cultures.                                             Even a person’s disbelief that God exists doesn’t prevent future soul-advancement if that person helps others get through life, but it has one major disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence could make this simple system hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a rejection of the importance of helping others through actions.                      This book-text mostly sticks with a rational explanation . . .  except for the minor beliefs, and the two likely methods of God, in Chapter 3 (these were all included to indicate back-up to the 1960s scientific data that supports the “outside of time” aspect of God–and the simplicity of this universal system.

On The Cosmic Scale                                                                                   Roughly 13.7 billion years ago, God probably created a huge universe. It consists of both physical, non-eternal creations and non-physical, eternal creations (such as souls) by the eternal deity . . . and that huge universe could well have at least trillions of habitable planets.

On The Human Scale                                                                                              The purpose is for some of those creations–such as human beings–to use their current physical selves to aid other physical selves get through this life on Earth. In order to achieve this helpfulness, a balanced approach is necessary, wherein one uses good judgment in deciding when to emphasize one’s own survival . . . and when to be kind.

Chapter 1 — A 4th Human Phase Now Makes Sense                                          

Phases                                                                                                                     Historically, there have been 3 lengthy phases on Earth–before this 4th one, which began around 2000. Initially, there was the hunter-gatherer phase (when speech began), which lasted through the early millions of years until around 10,000 BC;  that was followed by the 2nd phase–in which people began living in one place year-round, relied on agriculture, formed towns, cities, societies, had wealthy people and warfare, and political people or entities which strove for power. That’s also when people began writing . . . and forming religions. That phase lasted till around 1225 AD.                                                                        The beliefs-emphasis phase, the third one: Beginning around 1225 AD, humans in Europe began gradually emphasizing beliefs more. The switch in emphasis was most obvious by 1517 AD, when the Reformation began with Martin Luther. During the next few centuries,  there were many more Protestant sects formed–helping people out through actions had various levels of importance in each one, but each of those sects emphasized beliefs first. Increasingly, people tried hard to convert others to the system they believed in; that was normal back then.                                                                         The eight centuries the previous phase lasted was an understandable length of time back in the previous millennia.  But it’s sensible at this point that this new 4th phase might take only about 200 years to reach around our planet–and be somewhat exercised throughout the entire planet–since now almost every place on Earth can be easily communicated to with this short, simple system . . through things like the Internet and phones.

The Present 4th Phase                                                                                              Because both scientists and spiritual people often see their two categories of reason and faith as opposites, it’s worth describing a little-recognized similarity between  people’s brains in both of those two groups.                                                               Millions of years ago, when the human brain was apparently evolving, the existence of opposites became a part of every brain: A simple example is that back in the early paleolithic area, most people probably lived in jungles–so they had to carefully watch out for large carnivores . . . but could usually relax somewhat if the large animal they saw was herbivorous.

Because of the little-recognized similarity between the brains of both scientists and spiritual people, only the factors about God’s existence and sole eternalness are emphasized in this book (other than the minor beliefs, and God’s likely methods, in Chapter 3, which support aspects of this simple system) … since God’s existence and eternalness have been indicated by scientific data in the last half-century–and thus can be somewhat connected to the spiritual beliefs in God’s existence and eternalness.

A new aspect of human existence that’s occurred in the last 54 years is the increasing fact that–because of the advance of technology and scientific discoveries–the extent to which the common human brain factor of opposites can now no longer be easily applied–as has always been the case before now to just belief in God’s existence vs. its supposed opposite–the “knowings” (associated with science by advocates of science). The total difference between beliefs and knowings was assumed by many people throughout the last few centuries. Here’s the factor which depicts that likelihood: Many scientists nowadays claim that the existence of evolution has been PROVEN (but, again, that’s not actually possible, if the entire scientific method devised in 1620 by Sir Francis Bacon is adhered to. It declared that something which happened early on our planet, prior to human ability to observe and therefore prove its truth, is not provable … based on that rule in the 1620’s scientific method,  an item which is not provable can only be “pointed to.”). But there’s a good reason why many scientists nowadays lean toward the idea that human evolution has also been proven–very, very large amounts of provable data have been accumulated about many lower species than humans on Earth over the recent past decades… that provable data does repeatedly POINT TO the very likelihood of evolution. An early example after the theory of evolution was the observable (and therefore provable) evidence of natural selection in a smaller species in England: Lighter-bodied moths gradually died out there as the darker environment increased during the industrial revolution; and after about 150 years, there were no more lighter-bodied moths in England. This observable fact was first fully described in scientific literature around 1900, about 41 years after the theory of evolution was first explained to the general public, and about 18 years after Darwin’s death. It supported the concept that the fittest members of a species survived, and therefore indicated the correctness of the idea of natural selection–a key component of the evolution theory.                                                                                         The largest estimate of the universe’s current size is 156 billion light years. In a universe which has only existed for about 13.7 billion years, that’s roughly 10-11 times faster than the speed of light (the estimate of the universe’s current size varies a lot, from one astronomer to another, and in different institutions … and there are also many variable estimates of the initial rate of expansion in the “Big Bang,” ranging from approximately the speed of light to much faster).                                                                The two prior conclusions–the non-eternal aspect of the universe, and it’s very fast, initial expansion–do POINT TO the existence of God. But its connection to species-evolution is this: Provable, observable data POINTS TO the truth of evolution … but in this case the observable data “points to” something which then relies also on another “points to” item–which indicates the existence of God. In evolution there’s only one “points to” item … while the existence of God requires two “points to” items.           The scientific and technological data which grew during the second half of the 20th Century is a major “Why Now?” factor … those observations results in the fact that the existence of God now extends beyond the former  faith-requirement. That current data significantly “blurs” the centuries-old standard application of opposites to a faith in God’s existence vs. scientific knowings. However, the need for two “points to” items about the existence of God (the “Big Bang”  theory, and then the estimated rapid expansion of the universe early in the first second)–rather than the many “points to” items which apply to evolution–indicates that “belief” about God’s existence is also important. A major reason why that’s important was first said in the Introduction, and that reason is here repeated: Even a person’s disbelief that God exists doesn’t prevent soul-advancement if that person helps others get through life, but it has one major disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence would likely make this simple system hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a rejection of the importance of helping others through actions. Here’s a summary of the reasonable, probable, original set-up: Before the universe was created, only the eternal God existed–the scientific “Big- Bang” theory supports that belief–afterwards, souls which likely originated in some way inside God were reincarnated over and over as physical beings in that universe. This system’s task is for humans is to use their physical energy to prudently choose certain people (particularly non-relatives), and then help them get through their lives–such choices likely lead to soul-advancement. If, instead, humans choose to harm others, those choices probably lead to backward soul movement, and “automatic justice” (such as mental or physical disability, probably in a future life or lives … at birth, or sometime during one’s life–in the physical being that the reincarnated soul is inside). The “automatic justice” part of this system is brought up again in the third chapter. It doesn’t get talked about at length until that chapter later in the book; because the specific details about each soul are un-knowable by humans–they occur in the non-physical realm. According to this system, the final goal of human souls is eventual soul-reunification with the eternal God, and thus an end to the possibilities of uncertainty, pain, and  stress in physical, planetary lives … this is led to by helping others. The reunification-item is certainly a belief, but it makes sense that there would be an eventual important simple goal to strive for in a simple divine system across the universe. More info about the “Big Bang” theory … This indicated that only God–not our universe–was eternal. That scientific data supports the idea that God’s existence includes having the only eternal existence. Subsequently, the word “eternal” is defined more and more prominently in dictionaries as “outside of time”–and most dictionaries didn’t previously define “eternal” as being “outside of time”… since it was commonly believed that our universe was also eternal, and obviously we who lived there weren’t “outside of time”– so a definition of eternal recently began including or emphasizing the phrase “outside-of-time” … or that phrase has moved up a lot in the definition in some dictionaries since the 1960’s. ________________________________________________________________________ There is at this time a lot more atheism throughout the world. An explanation of the worldwide increase in atheism is well-explained by this: People’s brains have evolved to emphasize opposites–so the concept is that either the God people have believed in for centuries exists, or doesn’t. If that particularly-described God–the centuries-long-belief  in God–doesn’t exist, then the total opposite is believed–that there is NO God.           But the present increase in atheism leads to this explanation: The way to reduce the growing atheism around our planet is to recognize that the existent God is NOT the God which people have believed in for centuries, and the God that atheists DIS-believe in… it’s a Being which created a rational system for intelligent species–like humans–throughout what’s now known to be a vast universe.                                            It’s sensible that a God in an eternal present–who would create a vast universe–would come up with a brief, rational system, in which intelligent beings on planets throughout those galaxies would eventually be alerted about the reality faced by them–and all the other intelligent beings–throughout the huge universe. This could likely be best accomplished by having God’s system first proposed on a particular planet when that planet had reached the point in which this simple approach could be communicated to intelligent beings everywhere across the entire planet. Atheism is a belief held by some individuals who are, like all humans, “inside time.” Now that we define “eternal” as “outside of time,” since the 1960’s scientific data began accumulating– the belief that our universe is also “inside time” … but now that evidence indicates that the universe is about 13.7 billion years old, we humans can now see that an eternally-present God outside of time  CAN be all-good  –even though it’s obvious to humans–when looking at occurrences on planet Earth–that the realities “inside time” aren’t all-good. But the probable divine system–in which reincarnated souls inside humans can move “forward” spiritually by helping others get through their lives via supportive actions … wouldn’t be set up by a God “INSIDE TIME”; because there’d be no droughts, illnesses, starvation, etc., etc. in a system set up by an all-benevolent, all-good God, “inside time.” There also wouldn’t be the implementation of positive and negative automatic justice on many “inside-time” physical beings (in which reside eternal souls); so there wouldn’t be the soul-advancement method which is a major factor in this system … because other people wouldn’t need help. ________________________________________________________________________ It’s commonly thought by historians that the Age of Reason began in England around 1558. Previously mentioned was the increasing development of technology and science during the latter 4 centuries of the 3rd phase–a good example of that is the progressing technological improvement in telescopes, so one “Why Now?” factor are these brief historical items about telescopes and astronomy… Back when Ptolemy lived (Circa 90 A.D till Circa 168 A.D.) he stated around 150 A.D. that Earth was the center of heaven and the universe.  Each planet in our solar system had to have a very complicated rotation resulting from his observations for this to be true, but this concept–that Earth was the center of the universe–held sway among almost all people for at least 1400 years. In 1543 Copernicus released the book “De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of The Heavenly Bodies) on his deathbed; in which he stated that our Sun (not the Earth) was the center of the universe. It is thought that his deathbed-release of the book resulted from his fear that he would be tortured after an earlier release … for sacrilegiously claiming that the Sun was the center.  His claim was backed up, after the invention of the telescope, by Galileo around 1611. Then, apparently in the late 1600’s, it was established that even our system’s sun was also not the center of the entire universe, but only of our solar system. However, the relatively slow progression of the telescope’s development in the 17th through 19th centuries is indicated by this fact: Even as late as1920, there was a debate in which a scientist claimed this often-believed fact back then … that the universe had only 1 galaxy–the Milky Way. But the technological advances in humanity over the 20th Century are further indicated by this following factor: Many photos of those galaxies were taken in the 1990’s and 2000’s by the Hubble telescope, which was on a spacecraft that traveled around Earth.

                                              (Logical item)                                                                        There were many other technological and scientific advancements in the 2nd half of the 20th Century–which provided many humans with certainty, instead of the previous reliance by many humans on beliefs … two brief examples are the carbon-dating which began around 1950, which was a big boost to archaeological findings; then in 1953 the description of DNA formation in the human body by the two scientists Francis Crick and James    Watson.                                                                                                                                                                          Chapter 2                                                                                          Switch To An Emphasis On Helpful Actions                        Back in the 1950s, the standard order of  belief and behavior was, for many residents in the U.S., “Faith, Hope, Charity.”                                                                              But now that the scientific discoveries and data began accumulating very strongly in the 1960s, that order of emphasis is similar, but reversed–it now needs to be “Charity, Hope, Faith.” It’s worth mentioning a factor–one’s action of charity should be mostly rather prudent, in choosing recipients. The faith aspect–in a universe that we now know has billions of galaxies–applies initially to God’s existence, but scientific discoveries have had two “points to” items which support God’s existence. And that aspect doesn’t come first anymore (it’s important–butjust as 50 to 60 years ago charity was seen as important, but not totally essential). Now the action of charity–helping others to get through life, partly because the world population is so huge at this point–comes first.                                                                                                   (Logical Item)                                                     A reason to prudently take action that helps others get through this life is because that covers you in case you discover after death that you did have an incorrect belief during your previous physical life. You will likely have a successful future life, even if you didn’t believe in your previous life that there was going to be a future physical life.                                                                                                                                                                           (Related Quotes)

This is something author James Meredith wrote back in 1869: “A human act once set in motion goes on forever to the great account.” The “great account” mention is obviously a belief item back then, but his description of the importance of an act fits with the transition nowadays from beliefs to action.                                                      Here’s a much older quote: “When you seek happiness for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” It’s estimated that the quote first showed up around 750 BC. This ancient quote very thoroughly coincides with the key aspect of a simple system for the entire universe created by a God in an eternal present. In this new system, in which a balance between looking after oneself and looking after others is sought, there is one practical change in this ancient statement: The beginning of it would be “When you only seek happiness for yourself …”                                                                                                                                             (Related, Logical Item)                                                 Kindness for the most part only toward family members and other relatives throughout the present life would probably result in fairly average future conditions of one’s soul, in terms of both the length of the relaxing stay of the current ego-self in the spirit world, and the circumstances of one or more of the future physical lives. The vast majority of people are born into situations in which things like their talents and financial circumstances are fairly average, because in a past life or lives they were kind toward close relatives, and didn’t harm–but neither did they likely give much aid to–non-family members. The reason helping relatives feels so natural–while helping out non-related people is ofter considered unnecessary–is because human beings found over time during the first 2 human phases that it increased their own physical survival … it thus became an innate part of humanity. This is further added to by the fact that taking care of family members is an innate practice of almost all species–it increased their physical survival too.  Another confirmation is the fact that kindness toward relatives is an action usually done even by people who, during their lives, choose to harm non-relatives. A much more advantageous future, and advancement of one’s soul–rather than just likely survival in one’s present life–would likely be experienced by people who wisely and practically chose to spend some of their energy helping non-related individuals get through life.                                                                                                                                   (Connection)                                                                   There was a major factor in Jesus’ emphasis during his life (and probably also in his past soul-lives, but only the eternally-present, all-knowing God would know when that was the case). That frequent choice by him is also the primary major factor in this actual divine system–helping others get through life: Examples are the Good Samaritan parable, and the miracles done by God–through the extremely soul-progressed Jesus–on things such as disabilities in people. And then, in addition to lots of the human-preferred beliefs (such as the centuries-long assumption that Earth was the center of the universe), the helping-others-get-through-life emphasis was passed on in the Christian religions that followed Jesus’ life. His life wasn’t perfect (which somewhat explains why his adolescence and twenties wasn’t mentioned in the Gospels)–only God is perfect–but Jesus’ life was very excellent, and he greatly “got the job done”–helping people, and encouraging other humans to do the same in his lifetime and for centuries afterward. 

                                       (Related quote)                                                            There is a short quote by a guy named Joseph Roux, in 1886, in an old book called Meditations of a Parish Priest, in the book Thesaurus of Quotations: “Let us prefer, let us not exclude.” It is reasonable that a person who believes in God prefers others who also believe in God; however, because the key aspect of the divine system is not belief,  but ACTIONS to help others get through life, rather than beliefs–it is unfair in the system to automatically exclude those people who have an atheistic belief.                                                             (Helpful Acts Item)                                                     A possible advantage to choosing an occupation that can help others (like medical aid, physical therapy, psychological help, or one of the many other vocations which involve service) is that such occupations can make a difference, but don’t guarantee soul-advancement–they create a situation in which one is constantly, conveniently, faced with the possibility of making wise judgments to “go the extra mile” in giving benefits to people.  Here’s a simple example: If one is a barber, that person gets paid for helping people appear better; people who come to his or her shop. However, that person can sometimes choose to drive somewhere else to give haircuts to people who can’t drive to the shop (people who are disabled or elderly or have no car) … that choice probably leads to some soul-advancement.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          (Logical  factor)                                                                The “His Mysterious Ways” essays in the Guideposts magazines of 2001 to 2007 illustrate the fact–many times–of examples of how God helps people, or helps people help other people. Those essays, which contain various apparent God-doings, strengthen the idea that one major point of our human existences is to help others get through their lives.                                                                                                 There are at least 2 indicators in the “His Mysterious Ways”essays in the Guidepost issues of 2001 to 2007, that God was apparently backing up Jesus big-time–including one from February 2006,  in which a fire set deliberately on an old house for training a crew in Alabama would not ignite only one room–the room in which there was a portrait of Jesus; when that portrait was removed, the fire burned the room immediately. How come God was backing up Jesus? Here’s a reasonable answer: Jesus was maybe the first soul-container on Earth who was about to achieve reunification with God  (maybe the only one so far on this planet–who knows? …  only God knows), who regularly practiced the prime act of the divine system–helping others get through life. His reincarnated soul had advanced so far that, through God–whom Jesus credited a couple of times, according to his attributed sayings in the New Testament–Jesus could correct big problems in others, such as healing negative conditions in people, such as their blindness or lameness.                                                                                                 (Related Quote)                                                        “Scientists have discovered that the small, brave  act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”   Natalie Angier, Pulitzer-Prize winning N.Y. Times reporter, describing a recent study of the effects of behavior on brain chemistry.                                                                                                                                                                                                         (Logical Connection)                                                     It doesn’t matter, in a long-term sense, whether or not each person believes this is the system behind human life … what matters is what actions are chosen during one’s current life. So Jesus had it right, in his parable about the Good Samaritan–the Samaritan acted in a way that helped out a person in need, regardless of the cultural and religious differences between him and the injured guy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (Logical Connection)                                                 By the time children pass the age of 6 or 7, most have brains that are completely formed.  The mental elasticity and fluidity of early childhood–which enables children to easily learn new languages–begins to be replaced with a more permanent mental posture. So, with their fully-formed brains, older children, teens and adults would be able to accept this phase and system intellectually, but can’t absorb it as thoroughly as young children can. Adulthood is not the time to switch to this system for those individuals who have already achieved comfort with their system … but rather to focus on that part of many earlier systems that makes sense nowadays, the “compassionate acts toward others” part–that’s the route to soul-advancement. For younger people who wish to have children or adopt, their little children can be taught this inner understanding of what the universe is like, because fully-formed brains won’t exist in those children until they reach about the age of 6 or 7. Older people with only an intellectual acceptance of this new phase would be able to teach this phase and system to little kids … it would seem very sensible to those children when they grow into adulthood. The plus for young children is that they won’t have to go through the same concern in their older age about what happens after death that previous adults have had to put up with.  The plus for parents and other caregiving adults would be that the emotional pain and sorrow of the very possible future rejection of their spiritual system wouldn’t happen when children grow up these days–because, in spite of the fact that each generation now faces a very different outer world than the one encountered by their elders, this spiritual process would make sense to both generations.  ________________________________________________________________________                                              Chapter 3                                                                          2 Minor Beliefs and God’s 2 Methods (Which Support This Brief System Rationally)                                                                                                              “It’s Early Yet”–this brief new system could take up to 200 years to be agreed with and used throughout the entire planet. A similar statement began the Introduction–it’s  brought up again now is because the previous “Beliefs” phase lasted a long time, about 800 years …from about 1200 AD until the year 2000 AD. The “It’s Early Yet” statement is mentioned again because a switch to the phase 4 described by this book will be tough and unexpected for many people. The thing to do is to explain this phase change (and its accompanying simple system) to young kids to help them transition to the new 4th phase. The other thing to do now is to prudently choose non-relatives, and help them out in their lives–such actions were of lesser importance in the previous “Beliefs” phase.Here are some sensible minor beliefs about upcoming soul-advantages that result from choices to use some of your present physical energy to help certain others get through life: a) your current physical self likely gets to spend a significantly longer time relaxing in a non-physical world in which there aren’t the up-or-down realities, and UN-certainties, one has to deal with in a life on Earth–since people hate or strongly dislike UN-certainty, the big incentive to take actions that help people get through life is to greatly delay (for what would probably be a long time) the uncertainty one would have to deal with in future physical life;  b) a future physical life is easier, more successful for the physical self’s inner soul  in that future (so, if one’s present life is very positive for a person, it indicates that helpful choices were probably made by the physical self that the soul was in during an earlier life, resulting in the POSITIVE result of “automatic justice);  c) the effect of such previous choices is a good one during a future life, even though the cause–because it occurred in an earlier life–is no longer controllable; and d) the future world will be a more pleasant place to return to, because of more charitable, compassionate society-wide choices made by masses of people.                                                                                                                     It makes sense that this explanation of the likely, simple divine system wouldn’t occur on Earth until the message could be sent to, and understood, by most residents throughout the planet. That’s reasonable. There are 5 main reasons why this explanation became possible after the year 2000 on planet Earth … 1) For the first time, residents throughout this planet are much-connected, instead of totally separated because of the former geographic distance and the unknowingness about faraway countries, plus the former impossibility-of-communication with people very far away. 2) There is sometimes enough comfortable physical survival which eventually allows certain people (like this author, partly due to his intense early education) to concentrate on and describe this likely system. Also, worldwide communication is now very quickly possible … through this website on the Internet (installed by the author’s 32-year-old son Daniel–this resulted from the fact that, unexpectedly, it took till May 2013 for the author to realize that there was a transition to a worldwide communication of this simple system–which indicates the switch from the beliefs-emphasis to charitable, helpful ACTS-emphasis–was eventually part of the system’s process). 3) This “likely system” explanation can now be sent understandably readable throughout the planet–because it’s now very quickly-translatable to many of the various languages worldwide; the company Google put that possibility online in “Google translate”. 4) There’s also now been an increase in technological understandings, plus access to small digital things like smart phones among many people throughout the world. 5) In many countries–in which most families CAN’T afford to purchase their own computers–there are what’s called “Internet cafes.”                                                                                                                                                                Chapter 4 … More “Why Now” Explanations & Supports

Humans have now come to a “window of opportunity” around the beginning of the twenty-first century. Enough freedom and civilized behaviors have developed in human cultures at this point to head in a new direction (emphasizing kind, helpful actions) before quickly-moving realities (such as terrorism, hunger, population increase, nuclear bomb use, lack of jobs, etc.) overwhelm or greatly slow the progress in human growtHere’s some more reasons why a switch now “makes sense”

                                                        (Connection)                                                 There’s another minor belief that needs to be elaborated on, so people can understand a negative result of “automatic justice” in this simple divine system: The NEGATIVE-aspect of “automatic justice” occurrence was initially brought up in this sentence in the first chapter of this book: “If, instead, humans choose to harm others, those choices often lead to backward soul movement, and “automatic justice” (such as mental or physical disability, probably in future lives … at birth, or sometime during one’s life–in the inside-time, physical-being that the eternal, reincarnated soul is inside).” That factor has this frustrating component: If the cause and effect of a particular event occur in the same life, the connection can usually be easily recognized by people (who are “inside time”). But, to a God “outside of time” in an eternal present, cause and effect don’t have to happen during a person’s one physical life; the “cause” of automatic justice can happen in an earlier life, but the “effect” on one’s soul can happen in a future reincarnation, in which the soul is inside a different physical being. The frustration for people is that the nature of the effect can be somewhat controlled, but the “cause“ that occurred in a previous life is neither identifiable nor controllable. This frustration can likely be avoided by wisely choosing people to help out. Automatic justice seems to happen through the process of reincarnation. The stark differences in birth circumstances, combined with the events that happen throughout a person’s life, provide all the contrast needed so souls can advance toward the goal of reunification by engaging in benevolence and compassion. Automatic justice provides a method that is like some kind of perpetual-motion machine, churning out situations repeatedly in which those who have resources can help those who don’t–such as victims of natural disaster or crime, those in poor health, poverty-stricken individuals, and people in dozens of other unfortunate circumstances. It ensures ongoing positive and negative situations in the outer, physical world so all people have continuous future opportunities to practice kindness toward those less fortunate, who might have faced automatic justice.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (Connection)                                                  God’s apparent two methods, which back up this simple system: The first is that everything in the category of possible coincidence has to look like it could have been a coincidence (the word “could” is italicized to be sure that a divine “maybe yes, maybe no” aspect of this method is realized). The reason this is the first probable divine method is so that some doubtfulness is introduced among many people; this allows each person to be uninfluenced by the clear indication of a divine formula, and thus allows humans (and other intelligent species across the universe) to make their own choices about helpful actions. This also explains things like evolution and the huge universe, since great time-length and universe-size is necessary for people to not easily see an obvious divine set-up, which would make the choice of helpful actions the result of an obvious divine formula … instead of independent decisions secondary to that possible influence. The second method is reincarnation. That allows eternal souls to occupy a succession of temporary bodies, and eventually permits the sensible goal of reunification with God for individuals–back to a similar situation to that which existed before the “Big Bang.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Connection)                                                              Here’s a historical factor that supports the first “coincidence” method: A mathematical lecture described a sequence of numbers called the Fibonacci numbers–1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 …; the sequence was named after an early thirteenth century mathematician. The numbers in the sequence consist of the sum of the two numbers before any given number–so, for example, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, and so on. The lecturer noted that these numbers corresponded to the number of spirals that could be seen as overlaying the following natural objects: on the outside of a pinecone, there are 5 spirals in one direction, and 8 in the opposite direction; on the outside of a pineapple, 8 and 13; emanating from the center of a coneflower, 13 and 21; from a daisy’s central area, 21 and 34; from a small sunflower’s center, 34 and 55; and from the center of a large sunflower, 55 and 89. A couple of very early occurrences are included here also–to illustrate how far back this method was possibly used by the eternal God: it’s figured by many scientists that it rained for centuries over Earth about 4 billion years ago; which is why there are now oceans. And another scientific concept is that there was only 2-4% oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere a few billion years ago. The claim is that back then this planet’s atmosphere mostly consisted of carbon dioxide, like Venus has now. Evolutionary biologists have indicated that about 3.5 billion years ago, on Earth, some single-celled bacteria named prokaryotes seemed to have evolved. They had no nucleus. They still exist, in groups in parts of the Earth, in  colonies in swampy, shallow water–they don’t use oxygen. Then, around the years 3 to 2.5  billion years, some prokaryotes mutated–they still absorbed carbon dioxide, but were now able to practice photosynthesis, exuding oxygen. Gradually the atmosphere changed; the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere significantly increased by about 2.3 billion years ago; it is now about 21% oxygen. There was enough oxygen at some point in ancient times to block–with an ozone layer–the harmful rays of the sun. That allowed the survival of more complex organisms. About 1.5 billion years ago single-celled eukaryotes evolved–they do have a nucleus.  And then about 600 million years ago double-celled and eventually multi-celled organisms (the Precambrian explosion, roughly 570 million years ago) evolved and survived. So did the eternal God intervene and set up “Fibonacci numbers” in what the math-lecturer called “nature’s numbers?”– the answer is “maybe yes/maybe no”; did God cause oceans to develop over centuries billions of years ago?–”maybe yes/maybe no–Who knows?”; did God intervene and cause prokaryotes 2 to 3  billion years ago to gradually practice photosynthesis, thus exuding oxygen?–”maybe yes/maybe no.” They result in the necessary doubtfulness among humans. But the ones that are more important to each reader are those which affect only that individual (or maybe a family member). Those make the “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect of this divine method–the fact that things could be a coincidence–more noticeable and important to individual people. These small, individual examples vary from person to person; so it is worth thinking–by each reader of this book–about how that method applies to him or her alone.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (Connection)                                             Making the switch to a human concentration on helpful actions could take up to 200-300 years to spread around on Earth, and could be tough for many people, but it’s become sensible now. This next factor was initially brought up in the first chapter: Human brains seemed to have evolved millions of years ago with the emphasis on dualisms (particularly opposites). This was applied by “believers” not just to their usual daily stuff, but to their beliefs too–those were viewed as definite, internal “knowings” by them in that previous “beliefs” phase, beginning around 1200 AD. The mental attachment by humans to the dualism of opposites–and its certainty (“yes/no,” Not “maybe yes/maybe no”)–about spiritual beliefs also explains why the “beliefs” phase lasted so long. This “either/or” certainty about “knowings” was also adhered to, centuries later,  by scientists and technologists (a relative example is this statement in the final chapter–“Recent ‘Attention-Grabbing’ Items”: “Physicists don’t like coincidences” [much like spiritual people, they dislike uncertainty–and that doubtfulness is in the “maybe yes, maybe no” phrase attached to God’s first method]). Many people at this time, particularly scientists, now see beliefs as “non-knowings”–the opposite of “knowings.” At this time on Earth, it’s reasonable that people would begin adopting a more-than-dualistic-opposites viewpoint of beliefs … in which the previous attachment to a dualistic “definite-ness”–a“yes/no” attitude toward beliefs–doesn’t fit anymore. What would be tough now on Earth is not just a switch from beliefs-emphasis to actions-emphasis, but a switch from the former definite-ness of opposites attached to beliefs to an acceptance of a more-than-dualistic viewpoint of beliefs.  But that’s a switch which people can handle now–since there is a lot less of the simplistic mentality now that led to them applying their beliefs to an “either/or” opposites position; and since science and technology have expanded and can now comfortably indicate the lessened separation of  science and spirituality. What would make the switch to a new phase easier to happen is the ending of the previous “beliefs” phase (or even atheism, which is also an opposite) by the acceptance of the idea that God’s first method has a more-than-dualistic containment. But what also makes sense now is that the dualistic, “either/or “ nature of the evolved opposites in human brains does apply to actions, and helpful behavior is the important aspect of this new human phase. So an even more ironic factor of the first divine method is that its “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect gradually influences the ending of the lengthy 3rd “beliefs” phase–and that the new 4th phase IS centered on helpful actions, which DO emphasize that “either/or,“yes/no” dualism of opposites that seems to have evolved in the human brain millions of years ago.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (Logical Explanation)                                                 The likely second divine method–that more greatly makes this simple system work–is the reincarnation of souls. One reason reincarnation is disbelieved by the majority of people–and is rejected in many spiritual systems–is because many people don’t want to ever return to a planet, because of the unpleasantness that many of them and people around them have had to face … in some cases, as a result of “automatic justice.” They also reject it because it could involve future uncertainty, and people strongly dislike uncertainty. Those reasons lead people to believe in an immediate eternal life right after their present life.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               (Explanation)                                                           Here’s another problem, first brought up in the “automatic justice” description earlier in this chapter: The time that goes by between the cause and the effect does not have to take place in one single life. In almost all instances visible to humans, cause and effect happen close enough together that the connection is obvious to people, who are inside time … but, for a God outside of time, cause and effect don’t have to both happen during a person’s single physical life–the cause can happen in one previous life, while the effect from that cause happens in the current one.  A most frustrating element of reincarnation for people would be this separation in lives between cause and effect–the understanding that the cause of present suffering happened in a previous life (or lives?), so that while the nature of the effect can be somewhat controlled, the cause is neither identifiable nor controllable. The way to very likely reduce future suffering is to use the fact that the cause of a future effect can be partially controlled during one’s present life by prudently choosing instances in which to give assistance to others.

Chapter 4                                                              More “Why Now?” Explanations & Supports 

 

… (Next)                                                                   One major reason beliefs have been a big deal to humans for millennia is because it relieves a lot of uncertainty–some humans hate uncertainties, and everyone strongly dislikes most of them. Various new beliefs (throughout the past) could be fairly easily adopted by most of humanity … whereas actions are visible, easily discerned, and recognized by most everyone as either positive or negative. People hate or strongly dislike uncertainty–so it figures that religious belief systems contained certainty. Two easily-recognized examples were the beliefs that Earth was the center of the universe, and that God created the universe about 6,000 years ago–(a time-length which humans could relate to … in the seventeenth century, the deacon Ussher read Genesis carefully, and stated that the universe was created at night preceding Sunday, October 23rd, in 4004 BC); other Biblically-based similar dates were suggested around that seventeenth century by guys named Jose ben Halafta, Bede, Scalinger, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton. But now that scientific technology is sufficient to discover items that provide much certainty about such things as the 2 items mentioned earlier (that formerly depended on beliefs), humanity can switch from the emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on kind, compassionate actions. The “heaven-hell” belief is a good example of how the preferences of people are used to fit in to many people’s major beliefs–and consists of projection onto God of some common realities or necessities of human life: First, after someone dies, it’s often believed that God “judges” (it’s projected by humans that God judges too as humans do, because judgement is a classic part of human decision-making). But in this book’s system, behavior (rather than belief) automatically and broadly triggers positive or negative justice, without the requirement of divine judgment–which explains why one’s choices in life result in what’s referred to as “automatic justice.” According to many beliefs, after God judges, God decides to send a person to either heaven or hell (an “opposites” projection)– the heaven-hell concept describes a supernatural reality which says that people will end up eternally after their current life in supernatural place that are total opposites of each other. It also removes another possibility of uncertainty in their future, by claiming that people will only have this single present biological life. Unfortunately, as a result of the technological  advances and scientific discoveries that have occurred in the last 50 years–and in lots of cases replaced the human reliance on some beliefs to decrease uncertainty during the previous centuries–those advances and discoveries partly caused more and more atheism among people throughout the world recently. (Next Logical Item)                                                      A number of factors began occurring to support this system in the twentieth century, especially during the 1960s. • The first chapter described the scientific data accumulated in the first half of the 1960’s–that supported the likelihood of God’s existence, and supported the “Big Bang” theory. Here’s a few more … • The religions Unitarianism–that began around 1540 among some people, but wasn’t institutionally formed until 1825–and Universalism, that started in 1791, and was later formed institutionally in 1866–merged in 1961. Neither religion insisted on members having a particular spiritual belief–and at some time in the  following years, those merged religions seemed to begin emphasizing more the action of helping others … helpful actions happen to be what this book’s system emphasizes too. •The onset of the women’s liberation movement began in the later 1960s in the U.S.. That switch, fairly recently, makes a lot of sense just before a new spiritual system and phase begins–partially  because the older spiritual systems are male-dominated. Women are somewhat more likely to adhere to this new system in the future, partially because men have always been in charge of the older systems … but now, in the U.S., there’s greater gender-equality. •The scientist Hubble telescoped millions of galaxies in 1929; then in the late 1970s scientists found billions of galaxies; and estimated sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe.                                                                                                                                                                                         (Next Logical Item)                                               There have been other types of progressions on Earth, as people became more civilized: In much earlier times people with serious diseases were often left behind to die by the tribe they belonged to; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, society put those people in sanatariums; and now such people are generally treated more humanely. There has also been a slow, gradual lessening of barbarism in much of the world–at one time, dreadful and lengthy methods of execution, mutilation, and torture were routine behaviors throughout the world, and were often viewed by the majority of human beings as both normal and necessary. Barbarism still exists, but it is becoming less widespread, and much less acceptable. (Next Logical Item)                                             One prominent factor that supports a new phase NOW is that most humans had to mature to their present level of development–rather than just a strong focus on survival, and prior unawareness about the universe’s size. Looking back at the history of humanity, it is understandable that until the recent scientific discoveries, plus the maturing of humans, people could NOT have put together what’s described here as this divine system. But now people can. That understandably-delayed factor, combined with the fact that most people throughout history believed in the existence of God, resulted in the “projection” of  similar (but much-advanced) human qualities onto God–a good example is the projection of ”judgment” (a necessary human activity) onto God, instead of the occurrence of “automatic justice” described in this book. Earlier projections by religious people make sense because–until the recent  scientific realizations–people throughout the planet would not have had things like rational confirmation of the key aspect about God (the idea of God being in an eternal present, outside of time). And most people can handle that realization now.  (Explanation)                                                             The dogmas of traditional religions, which usually described God as being eternal, didn’t even address the idea that God was, or might be, outside time. The passage of time was such a basic reality in which human beings lived (just as water surrounds fish), that bringing up such a concept would have underscored the idea that God was fundamentally different from humans. And physical survival was so difficult in early centuries that believing there was an almighty God somewhat like people would ease the strain imposed by that reality … but physical survival of humans is not so hard in many parts of the world nowadays. (Historical Explanation)                                            What is called the “middle class” began to exist in enough numbers in Europe around 1730–about when the Industrial Revolution began–to eventually alter the emphasis which had existed among humanity up till then. Poor people concentrated–as well they needed to–on day-to-day earthly survival, and less on their internal, spiritual aspect. The few rich people did the same mostly, but for a different reason–their earthly success or the state of affairs they were born into led to a focus on earthly goods and services. The rise of a middle-class segment of the population–a group between rich and poor– would seem to be a naturally-occurring necessity–it allowed a focus on a new divine system, and human phase. That segment expanded rapidly during the twentieth century, particularly in the U.S. and Europe–and is spreading now throughout other parts of the world. (Supportive Point)                                                               In science and technology, progress has been spectacular in the last 200 years. But, while spirituality progressed earlier in history, it has stalled somewhat in the last few centuries, as most people have focused on making outward existence easier. However, the increase in personal and political freedom during the last 800 years has allowed a future wherein many people can advance in whatever direction they choose in both scientific and spiritual areas. (Next Supportive Point)                                                 Many people can now easily communicate  briefly worldwide–via the Internet–to other individuals about the short, divine, system; it’s so simple that a significant amount of education in people isn’t required to understand or communicate it. (Next Supportive Point)  It’s reasonable that now there would be a divine system which emphasizes rationality since it can appeal to people in all different cultures–because rationality is a fairly common trait worldwide, whereas beliefs vary from culture to culture. The important belief in this system–indicated (not proven) now by scientific data–is that God DOES exist. That’s a simple enough belief that it can fit into all cultures too, as rationality seems to. It makes sense that a reason-based scientific method was established on Earth first before a reason-based divine process could make sense to a large majority of people, because that way people could get used to the idea of using reason in regard to matters that have to do with the spirit inside each person.  (Present Factor)                                                              The huge increase in population recently worldwide–the world-population went from about 1 billion in 1850, to 2 billion in 1930, to 3 billion in 1960, and then rapidly increased over the next 50 years to about 7 billion in 2011. The switch now to a greater emphasis on actions that help others get through life is more rational these days–due to the huge population increase in the last 50 years, people can now help out on lot more people. (Next Present Factor)                                                        A result of the rapid change in the outside world in developed countries was that the realities faced by one generation are very different from the realities faced by the next one. This wasn’t a big problem 65 to100 years ago, or before that. It was not hard back then to stick throughout adulthood with the system of parents and earlier generations of ancestors–because the outer realities kids faced in adolescence and adulthood were very much like the ones faced by their parents. Therefore the spiritual system they were taught also worked and made sense to them. But nowadays, primarily because of the many inventions, the outer world is changing so fast that the spiritual world children are taught about is viewed with skepticism too, and is often rejected.The way around this problem is to teach a practical spiritual plan that makes sense to both generations, so that when the younger one reaches adolescence the differences nowadays between the outer worlds faced by the two generations won’t affect their inner choices. (Supportive Point)                                                        On a planet estimated to have been formed about 4,600,000,000 years ago in a 13.7 billion-year-old universe, this simple divine system first became exposed on Earth less than 10 years (!) after the level of technological capability was reached that enabled average people to begin communicating worldwide on the Internet … and now able to spread this system that way to practically every place on our entire planet. This short, sensible divine system also didn’t become understood until less than 15 years after the threat of nuclear destruction of this entire planet almost certainly ended:  Technological development made human life easier and in most cases assured and lengthened human survival. But the increase in that capability also led to an increase in the power of weaponry … the Cold War consisted of two superpowers that were enemies, and each had more-than-enough powerful nuclear weapons that enabled them to kill all the people on Earth. The Soviet Union and the U.S.A. came close to a war that could have resulted in the end of human life on Earth (particularly during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962), but the succession of leaders in both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. chose not to drop the nuclear bombs which might have led to that outcome. Then in the years 1989-1992 the Soviet Union dissolved. Only a single superpower, with thousands of nuclear weapons, remained. This didn’t eliminate the possibility of a nuclear conflict sometime in the future, but it made the destruction of the entire planet very unlikely through nuclear war. (Present factor which supports the switch to new “phase”)                    Extremist suicide-bombings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have begun happening very often–the origin of the universe and intelligent species described in the first chapter refer to a belief in an eternal life for one’s soul (a former part of God in some way before there was a universe); however, a person’s current physical self actually only exists once on Earth (the rational explanation of that is the final item in the sixth chapter, the chapter named “Recent ‘Attention-Grabbing’ Item”). That current new reality of suicide-bombing results from the fact that usually perpetrators and instigators of the suicide-bombings believe that both the present physical part and soul-part in each person are permanently connected; and they often believe that they will be rewarded in heaven for martyrdom. This present reality nowadays of lots of suicide-bombings backs up the idea of movement now from the “beliefs” phase to this new 4th phase, which emphasizes “helpful” actions–that would certainly discourage suicide-bombing.                                                                                                                                                                                             Chapter 5– Supportive, Logical Items                                        The reason this divine system is so short and simple is so it applies to individuals  whenever and wherever their development and evolution exists, including on lots of planets throughout an extremely-large universe.  But this system also applies to beings such as those in all the earlier phases on planets like Earth too … since actions are simple, no matter who does them, even if the person isn’t literate–such helpful, compassionate actions were simple 50,000 years ago on planet Earth, and they’re simple now. When there is a rare planet in the vast universe in which species as complex and intelligent as humans exist, it figures that those species would exist in small groups at first (such as the hunter-gatherers who moved around on Earth until about 10,000 BC); to larger groups, which stayed in one place on Earth (that 2nd phase began around 10,000 BC); to individuals and groups who emphasize beliefs–since beliefs are helpful ways to reduce or eliminate uncertainty in the brain … to an eventual emphasis on a simpler divine system (around the year 2,000) which emphasizes helping people–or other intelligent species in the universe–get through life … when those intelligent species have evolved enough–and discovered enough scientifically and technologically–to conceptually move beyond their previous cultures and mentalities. People sometimes head in the wrong direction during their lives in the physical world on Earth, for which the consequence is likely a negative automatic justice (discussed more so in the Chapter 3). There has to be a really important point for a divinity in an eternal present to allow so much pain and suffering among Earth residents. The goal of eventual reunification with the divinity would be that important point–the likely soul-benefits of helpful actions are very major incentives for people to help others get through their lives. There’s been a steady increase in individual freedom among most people in many countries, so that now they have the necessary freedom to choose when to help self or others. In much earlier times, there wasn’t enough of this freedom–in the Dark and early Middle Ages, people were led by powerful political leaders.  The gradual increase in personal and political freedom over the last 800 years in some countries has also provided a future wherein many people can advance in whatever direction they choose in both scientific and spiritual areas. People are surrounded by particles that, like God, are unaffected by the passage of time: Photons, the particles that make up light, and therefore travel at the full speed of light … which has a speed of time much, much slower than the passage of time which humans have. The previous phase of human development–the “beliefs” phase–appears to have lasted about 800 years, from around 1200 till 2000. This seems like an extremely long time to humans (who almost entirely live less than 100 years), but not to a God in an eternal present: On a planet estimated by scientists to be  about 4.7 billion years old, that 3rd phase is only .00000575 of the entire time this planet has existed. It figures that in the huge universe many species throughout it had to advance to the point we’ve now reached in order to realize the system–and since God is in an eternal present, it is sensible that God knows exactly when each species is going to mature enough to understand the system; and since God is outside of time, it logically figures that it wouldn’t matter much to God how long that takes for each species on the various planets. A short, simple divine system would likely apply to all intelligent species in the universe. Since there could be much variety in those species, it is reasonable that the actual divine system is simple, so that it applies to all intelligent, self-aware species on any planets in the universe that HAVE intelligent species. There is now supportive data that could cause easier acceptance by more people of this system, and of its main focus–helping others (especially non-relatives) get through life. Belief that God exists can be important–because, without belief that God exists, one could think that this is NOT the actual system. And if one chooses not to help others during this life, there could likely be some future-lives negative consequences, as a result of automatic justice.  But the belief isn’t critical, but only pretty important–because some people help unrelated others often even if they don’t believe in God’s existence … and one’s actions, rather than belief, are the key to soul-advancement. Some of the famous names in science partly achieved that fame by connecting things which had previously been looked at as unconnected. An early example is Copernicus, whose explanation was that all the planets, including Earth, circled the sun–he proposed that all the planets in our solar system had similar circling actions and were therefore connected; this gradually replaced the Ptolemaic cosmological explanation that most of the other planets in the solar system circled Earth in a unique way. Then in the late 1600s Isaac Newton removed the separation between movements on Earth and in parts of space, by describing the universal law of gravity, which applied in all locations. In the mid-1800s James Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism; and in the early 1900s Albert Einstein showed there was a bridge between matter and energy in his “E=mc SQUARED equation. These scientists united separated items in the single field of science. Those connections in previous centuries, it turns out, led up to an ultimate, unexpected connection in the last half-century–between scientific data and the likely existence of an eternal God. In the previous beliefs-phase on Earth, most people felt that faith provided not only the necessary beliefs about God, but also provided answers about the human process too. Reason-based science applied reason not only to the human process, but usually denied that any initial faith-based premise even existed. But now in the second half of the twentieth Century, and early twenty-first–there’s a very major connection between belief in God’s existence, and reason: That’s emphasized by some recent scientific data, and some math that refers to the very early part of the first second of the “Big  Bang” theory; those indicate the likelihood of God’s existence. A threefold–rather than dualistic–viewpoint allows that while God certainly didn’t support the entire Bible (for example, scientific discoveries have contradictorily established that our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old, not just a little longer than the 6000 years since Adam and Eve were supposedly born), but that God  does exist. It’s not an “either/or” situation–as required by the dualistic thinking that contains opposites–but rather a three-part mental reality.                                                                    Technological advances and inventions occurred over the decades from 1920 to 1970–in which “talkie “ and color movies, then TV shows began. TV shows like Star Trek (plus its subsequent movie sequels), and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Star Wars movies, had stories or episodes that took for granted the travel of humans throughout the universe. But the fact is that the nearest other solar system is 4.3 light years away, which is roughly 25 trillion miles; so human travel throughout space outside our solar system seems extremely unlikely. Since the space age began in the late 1950s, the speed of travel in space hasn’t changed much in craft occupied by humans–18,000/25,000 miles per hour. The fastest speed for human-built, unmanned craft at this time is roughly 158,000 miles per hour. This is extremely slow compared to the speed of light–186,000 miles per second.  The speed will probably advance–but it seems very unlikely that spacecraft carrying humans would advance as fast as the speed of light.                                                                                             The enormous distance to the nearest solar system supports the idea that the universal system described in this book–emphasizing helpful actions–makes sense. The Guideposts’ title “His Mysterious Ways” (its subtitle is “More than Coincidence,” which is interestingly related to the 1st divine method mentioned earlier in this book)  provides a good example of the “projection” by earlier generations of people onto God … when it was believed that Earth was the center of the universe. But disregarding the gender-projection of the Guideposts’ title leads one to recognize the repetition–a number of times in the “His Mysterious Ways” essays–of God’s apparent assistance when a person is trying to provide help to others. Chapter6 Many people believe in a forever-existence after their present life, in a perfect place created by God called heaven–but heaven is only a variably temporary “playground” for almost all people at this point in human lives on Earth–their lengthy soul-progression almost always involves reincarnation. Now that scientific data in the 1960s has indicated that only God is eternal (not our universe), the increasing major definition of “eternal” is “outside of time.” This would mean that, in a universe which we now know–since the late 1970s–consists of billions of galaxies, and an estimated sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets, that God knows about creations throughout the huge universe and exists in an eternal present–so that every creation throughout time is apparently all existent for God at once. There is a quote by a scientist related to this: “Quantum physics is not just stranger than we think. It’s stranger than we can think.” The facts mentioned about God in the first paragraph of this essay–now that evidence indicates that only God is eternal, and therefore “outside of time”– also fit with that quote: The understanding of individual details by an eternally-present, All-Knowing God in a very vast universe is WAY BEYOND the ongoing mental capacities of humans. But many people have advanced enough now intellectually–and matured enough emotionally–that they can now incorporate this realization about God … which is way beyond the earlier assumptions in religions about God’s qualities (those have been related to human natures in previous centuries and millenniums–through the practice of projection. (Ancient-Historical Support Item)   Some mid-twentieth century archaeological findings have established that humans probably started evolving more in the last 3.5 million years–Lucy, between 3 and 4 feet tall, whose bones were found in the 1960’s, was estimated as 3.4 million years old. But modern humans didn’t exist until 100,000 to 165,000 years ago; and human speech probably didn’t begin until roughly 100,000 to 500,000 years ago–at some point in the distant past there was likely a very gradual transition from grunts to speech. These factors back up the idea that charitable, compassionate acts  indicated an eternally-present God, since such acts are so simple and don’t require literacy or even speech. Such compassionate acts, even by “grunters,” would likely be noticed by a God outside of time. There would be a bridge between what archaeological science has determined and the kind, compassionate acts by all of these following people: very far past, somewhat past, fairly-recent past, present humans, and future ones.

Much of the 2012 essay–though significantly briefer than the preceding 2011 book, since it was the first online-attempt to express the same explanation (some items in the book are repeated exactly in this essay)–contained a very similar content of the system’s setup to the one in the book. Also, there were some new realizations, explanations, and supports in the Essay.                               2012 Essay The Likely, Simple System Across The Universe                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Introduction                                                           In the billions of galaxies we humans now know (since the 1970’s) are in our universe, scientists have estimated that there are sextillion (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe. If only one in a million of those planets had, has, or will have an intelligent species, that would add up to an estimated quadrillions (15 zeroes) of such planets; if only one out of a billion of those planets had, has, or will have intelligent life, there would still be trillions (12 zeroes) of such planets. A purpose of this essay is to consider what’s now known about the enormous size of our universe and the lengthy, approximately 4.6-billion-year history of planet Earth; to then use logic and rationality to come up with the likely simple universal system … and in Part 2 apply that simple system to planet Earth’s development thus far.                                                Part One of the Essay: Chap.1–20th-Century Scientific Discoveries Which Indicate God’s Likely Existence, And Sole Eternalness. A major factor, according to the scientific method, is that things can’t be PROVEN if such things occurred before observations could be spread among people (before practices on Earth like writing, and maybe even speech, became possible). The phrase used here is that such things can only be “pointed to,” not proven. A similar example is this: In 1859, the theory of evolution was proposed by Charles Darwin. According to the scientific method, human evolution could only be “pointed to,” not proven, because it occurred so long ago; but hundreds of observations over the last century did prove the evolution of many smaller species. Those observations did “point to” the likelihood of the much earlier HUMAN evolution too. Eventually, in the early 1960’s, there was observable, scientific data which provided 2 “points to” indications of God’s existence: Observable, provable data related to the existence and continual expansion of a huge universe has indicated the likelihood of the “Big Bang” about 13.7 billion years ago. And it’s claimed by many physicists that the math indicates what to them is a reasonable estimate–that early in the first second of the “Big Bang,” the universe expanded from the small size of an atom to that of a galaxy …. or  somewhat smaller. Many physicists estimated that during the creation and annihilation of particles early in the first second the universe was undergoing a very fast rate of expansion, much faster than the speed of light. Those two factors–the creation of the universe, and a-much-faster-than-the-speed-of-light occurrence–“point to” the existence of God. Its difference from human evolution is this: Hundreds of provable, observable data of the evolution of other smaller species now “point to” the likely truth of human evolution … but at this point the major scientific data only provides 2 commonly-described items thus far which “point to” the existence of God. It’s often claimed by some people that science has PROVEN that God doesn’t exist. That claim for proof is through contradiction (such as the idea that there are no rare square circles, because squareness contradicts the roundness of circles.)  It’s considered by disbelievers that if God existed, God would prevent most evil on Earth. But there’s lots of evil throughout planet Earth, so the deductive concept is that God must not exist, because God’s existence would be a CONTRADICTION. However, now that scientific information indicates that only God (not the universe)  is eternal–and since “eternal” is now defined as “outside of time”–a simple, universal system could be set up by a benevolent, eternally present God “outside of time,” in which things such as evil (and tragic, understandable deaths on Earth from some natural disastrous events such as tornadoes, tidal waves, starvation, and earthquakes) could occur “inside time.” This variety of both good and evil occurrences in Nature on Earth also provides the  ongoing, system-factor of some inner uncertainty among humans. Besides the two scientific estimates which “point to” the existence of God, the first one–the “Big Bang”–indicates a brand-new, unexpected factor: that the universe we live in is NOT eternal. For millenniums, it’s been thought by most humans that the universe we’re in IS eternal. Since we humans live in the universe, and are obviously “inside time,” it was thought–by people who believed in God–that even though God was all-knowing about the past, present and future, God was also–like humans–“inside time.” But now that, since about 1960, humans began acquiring evidence that our universe was not eternal (only God is)–the definition of “eternal” in dictionaries has begun, more prominently, including the phrase “outside of time.” (For example, the dictionary– “The American Heritage College Dictionary” [3rd edition, Copyright 1993]–has, as its first definition of “eternal,” this: “Having no beginning or end; existing outside time”). It was commonly thought that our universe was also eternal, and obviously we who lived there weren’t “outside of time”… so it was almost always assumed that the eternal God was also “inside time”–but the definition of “eternal” in most dictionaries recently began including or emphasizing the phrase “outside-of-time,” which would put God in an obvious “eternal present.” That recent-definition of “eternal” indicates that an existent-God is “outside of time”–This can help reduce significantly the great increase in atheism on Earth recently, which has largely resulted from the evil and problems and pain people have to deal with (the System’s set-up included such things in the process) . The great increase in atheism these days is connected to the large spread of negative information these days worldwide; plus the widespread assumption that God is “inside time” (as people are). But now that scientific discoveries have led to the realization that God  is “outside of time”–not “inside time” as humans are–the atheism partly-resulting from the contradiction that an “inside time” God should be all-good, and prevent the negative occurrences on Earth (since the bad things which occur on Earth are obvious and visible to humans)–it’s seemly logic doesn’t add up to the contradiction of God’s existence, because God is, as we now know (over the last 40-50 years), actually “outside time.” Atheism has during previous millenniums been considered a NON-belief, but the concept that God does NOT exist is also in the category of “beliefs” (like many religious beliefs, it provides for some people the desired, internal sense of strong certainty). Even a person’s belief that God doesn’t exist doesn’t prevent soul-advancement, and possibly future soul-rewards if that person chooses to take actions which help others get through life, but it has one large disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence could make this simple system very hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a greater rejection of helping others through actions, and being somewhat harmful to other people–the possible result of that choice during the next life (or later lives … who [besides God] knows?) is called “automatic justice.” Chap. 2: The Probable Simple Universal System Set Up By God It’s sensible that a God who was able to create such a HUGE universe (billions of galaxies exist in it, we now know since the 1970’s) is all-powerful–it’s also understandable that the eternal God is “outside of time” (now that there is scientific evidence which indicates that our universe is not eternal, but DID begin “inside time” in what’s called the “Big Bang” about 13.7 billion years ago.) Before our universe was created (by the God outside-of-time in a constant “eternal present”) it stands to reason that God put together a simple system for the future trillions of intelligent residents throughout that universe. So that eternal souls could be first sent out from inside God (or–who knows?– were created at some point by God, since God was apparently the only thing which existed back before this universe), and could then gradually achieve soul-advancement in repetitive soul-reincarnation through helpful ACTS. That process could occur logically through the universe if the temporary physical beings which contained eternal souls could advance their souls through helpful, charitable acts toward others. In order to produce that process across the universe, it’s sensible that intelligent species would all be created with this following essence–a strong preference for certainty, and a loathing for uncertainty. That’s the key element of the universal divine system. Here’s why it seems likely that a simple universal system was set up with greater uncertainty in species that very much liked certainty: Easily-discerned, obvious certainty right from the beginning about God would have had MUCH TOO LARGE an influence on the choices made throughout time by individuals about whether and how often to be helpful toward others. If God’s desires for people to be helpful were obviously certain, each soul-advancement through an individual’s choice would not be as dependent on people’s independent decisions to help others get through life–because absolute-certainty by individuals that there was obviously God’s existence, power and importance would often be more applied to each being’s decisions to choose helpful-actions than uncertainty by each individual. That would result in repetitive automatic soul-advancement, rather than various, plus-or-minus choices about acts of helpfulness by individuals. For example: there is a recent scientific claim which provides a contradiction to the existence of God. But it makes sense that such a claim would occur nowadays, at roughly around the same time that some current scientific evidence was used in this online essay (and in the previous 2011 book, “Helpful Acts In New Phase”) to back up this explanation of a simple divine system. That incorrect conclusion could further induce the system’s necessary sense of uncertainty in some people–so that helpful acts would mostly rely on an individual’s independent choices, not primarily on one’s belief about God’s preferences. To insure the necessary background concept of uncertainty in intelligent species, God’s first method of operation seemed to be that “everything has to look like it COULD be just a coincidence.”  This first method explains how God could produce uncertainty, but still be very frequently able to get involved in helping out individuals; also, that desire for uncertainty also explains why such a lengthy time was needed for universe-existence, in which things (like evolution) can very gradually occur; it prevents the conclusion that the present or recent observable situation was put together by God to occur in the relatively quick time-period that people could better relate to. God’s second method is apparently soul-reincarnation. That second method provided an ongoing sense of uncertainty among intelligent species … so that God’s plan insures that individuals would make independent decisions to help some others get through their lives. It’s certainly impossible for species to know when various former souls enter new physical beings–but in the extremely-lengthy time frame of places like Earth, recurrent soul-reincarnation is reasonable about individuals’ eternal souls in the recurrent physical lives which are tremendously shorter than the universe’s and Earth’s time-length. Chap. 3: The Likely Results From Positive Or Negative Acts                                                                                                                                                            These next two outcomes result from positive choices to perform helpful acts toward others in the simple system: If an individual prudently chooses to help certain others get through their lives, (the certainty of that benefit is unquestionable in the present, and almost always in the future too (it’s future definiteness is slightly uncertain, since humans are “inside time”) the benefit would probably be a much longer stay in certainty-surroundings outside of the uncertainty of physical life; another benefit might be that the future physical world would likely be a more pleasant place for souls to be reincarnated into, because of more charitable, compassionate society-wide choices made by masses of people. If, instead, a physical person chose to harm others, there would be what’s called here “automatic justice” … the soul inside a harmful person would usually quickly re-enter it’s next physical life (with it’s existent uncertainty) after the end of the previous physical life  … and in that next life, the eternal soul which had, in the previous life, been in a physical being which had chosen to be rather harmful to many others, would probably be born into a physical being which would immediately or eventually have to deal with significant mental or physical difficulties. “Automatic justice” repeatedly provides situations in which those who have resources and abilities can help those who don’t–such as victims of natural disaster or crime, those in poor physical or mental health, poverty-stricken individuals, and people in dozens of other unfortunate circumstances. “Automatic justice” provides here a form of what’s called a “perpetual-motion machine”–it ensures ongoing regular negative situations in the outer, physical world so universal intelligent species–like Earth’s humans–have continuous future opportunities to practice kindness toward those less fortunate, whose souls might have formerly gone through “automatic fjustice,” as a result of negative actions by former physical beings. Part Two of the Essay:           Earth’s Connection … It’s Transition Time Has Arrived                                                                                                                                                               Introduction In Chapter 2, this was said: “… it’s likely that intelligent species were all created with this following essence … a strong preference for certainty, and a loathing for uncertainty.” In a universal system set-up which relies on certainty vs. uncertainty in intelligent beings, the transition to an emphasis on helpful acts (which contains observable surety in the present (and almost always in the distant future]) could occur on planets like Earth after things such as differing beliefs were no longer required to provide some of the supposed certainty–because science and technology have advanced enough in the current modernized world to provide the comforting, observable certainty instead of the background uncertainty inside brains, which is summarized by this question “What’s Going On?”(reflective in various centuries prior to the 20th by the unknown shape of Earth, the hundreds of stars in space which were visible, the possible age and size of the universe, etc. Phases–There have been 3 lengthy previous phases on Earth: Initially, there was the hunter-gatherer phase (when speech began), which lasted, for humans, hundreds of thousands of years until around 10,000  BC. That was followed by the 2nd phase … in which people began living in one place year-round, relied on agriculture; and then–at times during the next 11,200 years–formed towns, cities, societies, had wealthy people and warfare, and political people or entities which strove for power. That’s also when people began writing … and forming religions. That phase lasted till around 1200 A.D. The beliefs-emphasis phase, the 3rd one: Beginning around 1200 A.D., humans in Europe began gradually emphasizing beliefs much more. (There were certainly beliefs prior to 1200 A.D., but beliefs didn’t dominate as much back then–they were apparently emphasized more in Europe as very important after around 1200 A.D.) The beliefs-emphasis phase was most noticeable historically in Europe by 1517 A.D., when the Reformation began with Martin Luther. During the next few centuries, there were many more Protestant sects formed–helping people out through actions had various levels of importance in each one, but each of those sects emphasized beliefs first. Increasingly, people tried hard to convert others to the system they believed in; that was considered more normal back then. And the “beliefs” phase provided a very helpful change for much of humanity. A simple explanation is this: In the 1200 years prior to that phase, there was very little change in humans–there continued to be much savagery, barbarism, mistreatment, starvation, very small growth in technology, etc. (much of the previous 800 prior years is referred to as the “Dark Ages”). Then–very gradually for the first few centuries after 1200 A.D. (and more and more quickly in subsequent centuries)–there were ENORMOUS advances .. the terrible things lessened in many parts of the world, freedom increased, economics improved, science began having much more influence after1500-1600 A.D., science and technology very gradually (and then substantially in the 20th Century) increased, and helpful, charitable actions by people toward other people increased significantly. The eight centuries that the previous 3rd phase lasted, from about 1200 to about 2000, was an understandable length of time back in the previous millennium. But now–in the 21st Century–the 4th phase can be much shorter throughout this planet (more or less than 200 years?)…since almost every place on Earth can be easily communicated to now when describing this short, simple system … through things like the Internet and phones. So now Earth is ready to make the transition to an emphasis of helpful actions early in this 21st Century. It also figures that a time for emphasis on a different phase is starting now–the two major factors which indicate this are the large growth in atheism worldwide nowadays; and the belief by some people–largely in the Middle East– that the  U.S. 9/11 disaster in 2001, and many suicide-bombings, are preferred and rewarded by God. The explanation of this logical, simple system in this essay on the need for much more of certain behaviors (helpful acts–to help people get through their lives) might greatly reduce those recent deadly increases in negative beliefs and negative action.                                                                                                                                                                                                    Chapter 4                                                      Examples On Earth Of Probable Instances Of God’s 1st Method . Here are 3 very large earlier examples on Earth which reflect the presence of God’s first likely method, (the insistence on uncertainty, described in Chap. 2) that “everything has to look like it could have been a coincidence.” Early in Earth’s existence (about 4 billion years ago) it’s thought by many scientists that it rained for centuries–which they say is why there are now oceans.            Secondly, another scientific concept is that there was only 2-4% oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere a few billion years ago. The claim is that back then this planet’s atmosphere mostly consisted of carbon dioxide, like Venus has now. Evolutionary biologists have indicated that about 3.5 billion years ago, on Earth, some single-celled bacteria named prokaryotes seemed to have evolved. They had no nucleus. Those still exist, in groups in parts of the Earth, in  colonies inside swampy, shallow water–they don’t use oxygen. Then, around the years 3 to 2.5  billion years, some prokaryotes mutated–they still absorbed carbon dioxide, but were now able to practice photosynthesis, exuding oxygen. Gradually the atmosphere changed; the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere significantly increased by about 2.3 billion years ago; it is now about 21% oxygen. There was enough oxygen at some point in ancient times to block–with an ozone layer–the harmful rays of the sun. That allowed the survival of more complex organisms. About 1.5 billion years ago single-celled eukaryotes evolved–they DO have a nucleus.  And then about 600 million years ago double-celled and eventually multi-celled organisms (the Precambrian explosion, roughly 570 million years ago) evolved and survive.                                                                                                         Thirdly, a mathematical lecture described a sequence of numbers called the Fibonacci numbers–1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 …–the sequence was named after an early thirteenth century mathematician. The numbers in the sequence consist of the sum of the two numbers before any given number–so, for example, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, and so on. The lecturer noted that these numbers corresponded to the number of spirals that could be seen as overlaying the following natural objects: on the outside of a pinecone, there are 5 spirals in one direction, and 8 in the opposite direction; on the outside of a pineapple, 8 and 13; emanating from the center of a coneflower, 13 and 21; from a daisy’s central area, 21 and 34; from a small sunflower’s center, 34 and 55; and from the center of a large sunflower, 55 and 89. The lecturer called these “nature’s numbers.” Again, the first method of God mentioned in Part One was “Everything has to look like it could have been a coincidence” (in order to establish uncertainty)–so a question related to that method which also covers the three previous examples on Earth is this: Did God intervene to produce those factors in the first two examples billions of years ago, and then thousands, or millions of years ago during the evolution of some plants in order to produce the Fibonacci numbers? The answer is “maybe yes/maybe no”… that answer indicates the original uncertainty of the simple system. (Are there other universes?–“maybe yes, maybe no.”) Those initial three prior examples indicate a God “outside of time,” in an eternal present; those examples are massive, and apply worldwide. Here’s a more recent example, from the essay “His Mysterious Ways,” (it’s subtitle, “More Than Coincidence” is a good indication of the idea that religious beliefs emphasize the much-preferred certainty inside people) in the Nov. 2002 issue of “Guideposts”,  by a U. S. Marine commander, describing an incident in “Operation Desert Storm” outside Kuwait, in early 1991 in eastern Saudi Arabia: The commander of 130 Marines stated that one day his unit marched to the Kuwait border. He felt a rain drop, then another. It rained for days. On the day of the initial invasion, the rain stopped, and the sun shone. The last two sentences in that essay were these–“The torrential rains had washed away the sand to reveal metal disks planted all across our path. It was an Iraqi minefield.” … Coincidence? Or did God intervene? Again–in order to have uncertainty–the answer would be “maybe yes/maybe no.” (All of those four previous events on Earth apply to lots of people. The events that are more important to each person are those which happen only to that individual [or perhaps to a family member]. Those make the “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect of this divine method–the fact that things could be a coincidence–more noticeable and important to individual people. Small, INDIVIDUAL examples vary from person to person; so it is worth thinking about how God’s initial method applies to him or her alone). Chapter 5                                                                       Humans’ Emphasis On Supposed Certainty Through Beliefs … And Then Some Scientific/Technological Advances Which Produced Observable Certainties Later  As a reaction to the strongly-disliked uncertainty throughout the last few millenniums, humans have emphasized the much-preferred certainty through religious beliefs. There was also these two supposed certainty-ideas: that Earth was definitely flat and the center of the universe … rather than the UN-certainties people had to face–like the enormous number of visible surrounding stars in space, the supposed flatness of Earth, and how old and big the universe actually was. It’s totally understandable that the strong need for certainty by humans led people to form religions worldwide throughout previous history, but now things have changed–the introduction of certainty these days through science, astronomy, and technological developments makes the movement to a certainty of human actions “inside time”–rather than beliefs–sensible. A major source of uncertainty for humans during the previous millenniums was the nature of God. The primary method in that subject used to insure the sense of certainty which people strongly desire is what’s referred to here as “projection” … the supposed nature of God was often described by “projecting” onto God exaggerated qualities that humans HAD in much smaller ways. Since humans could thus directly relate to those qualities,  they could feel about God greater emphasis on much-preferred certainty. Humans projected onto God–in addition to qualities of being–the idea that creation began back in a time-period that people could relate to. A key example was the slightly-more than 6000 years age of the universe based on the lifetime lengths of the people referred to in the Bible’s first chapter Genesis (in the seventeenth century, the deacon Ussher read Genesis carefully, and stated that the universe was created at night preceding Sunday, October 23rd, in 4004 BC–that definite specificity was a strong focus on certainty). It was also figured for centuries by many people that the first human beings in God’s creation were Adam and Eve, and that Earth was the center of the universe … there was also gender-projection onto God (“HE”). Also, that God had this projected extended human quality–God “judged” people after they died and sent them FOREVER to either heaven or hell (rather than the uncertainty-nature of reincarnation). (Another ancient example of human desire for certainty that does not involve God is this: China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di–who lived from 259 BC to 210 BC–had thousands of life-size terra-cotta warriors armed with bronze weapons buried near his tomb to protect him for all eternity.) Atheism is figured as a non-belief,  but it IS a belief that there is NO God. However, interestingly, there is a similar factor in both religious and atheistic groups: the desire for complete, total certainty. Here’s the connection: Atheism provides to many people an enlarged sense of certainty–for example, they are not afraid of being sent forever to hell by God after death because of their belief that there is NO God. And the much-increased information nowadays about the entire world’s events explains why there’s been–because of the common belief that the supposed God must be “inside time”– a large increase worldwide in atheistic belief recently. Atheism provides the SAME belief among people worldwide (like the sameness of helpful acts)–rather than the many different religious beliefs. But it too is a belief; and is therefore also subject to the change now for the sameness of strong certainty provided by more helpful acts. Similarly, the concept of heaven/hell (mentioned earlier, in the “projection” onto God) also produces a much-enlarged sense of certainty for “believers”–that there is only a person’s present physical life and then they will be “judged” by God–to be sent forever to either heaven or hell (or to purgatory temporarily,   and then, eventually, to heaven). The gradual, previous-centuries increase in observable certainty on Earth through the advance of science/technology is obviously not directly connected to God–because if it was, that would violate the concept that the “helpful acts” decisions have to be independently arrived at by individuals. Until Magellan’s crew voyaged westward in 1519-1522, it was almost entirely considered by humans that the world was basically flat. But after sailing across the Pacific ocean, Magellan encountered ships in the Phillippines that had travelled eastward–which indicated that the world was round, not flat. Magellan was killed in the Phillippines in the Battle of Macton in 1521, but his crew then circumnavigated westward around the rest of the world, and came to Portugal. In 1543, Copernicus released his book “De Revolutionibus”, in which it’s claimed that our sun (not our planet) was the center of the universe. It’s largely thought that the reason he didn’t release the book until he was on his deathbed was because he felt he would be tortured for claiming that the sun (not our planet Earth) was the universe’s center. This concept was further claimed in the early 1600’s, after the telescope’s invention–then about 70 years later it was claimed by some that not even our Sun was the center of the universe (and we now know that even our entire galaxy is not the center of the universe). However, the relatively slow technological progression of things like the telescope in the 17th through 19th centuries is indicated by this: Even as late as1920, there was a debate in which a scientist claimed this often-believed fact back then … that the universe had only 1 galaxy–the Milky Way. But in 1919, the astronomer Edwin Hubble began using the 100” telescope (built in 1917) at Mt. Wilson, California. Around 1923 he first stated there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way. In 1929 he said there were millions of galaxies. Then in the late 1970’s–since larger, clearer telescopes had been constantly developed over the previous decades–it was stated that there were actually BILLIONS of galaxies. The technological advances in humanity over the 20th Century are further indicated by this following factor: Many photos of those galaxies were taken in the 1990’s and 2000’s by the Hubble telescope, which was on a spacecraft that traveled around Earth. More info about the 20th-Century’s “Big Bang” theory … In 1927 and 1929, it was proposed that the universe wasn’t eternal, as God was (both were commonly believed by many people), but our universe actually began at a certain point in time. This was ignored by the vast majority of scientists, and most other people. In 1949, the theory was  spelled out. The majority of scientists thought it was untrue, and it was said by opponents that this new theory claimed that the universe had begun with a “big bang” about 14 billion years ago (the theory’s creator or creators thought the phrase “big bang” was a good one, and so it stayed). Then in the early 1960 s Americans began launching unmanned rockets into space, and measurements revealed that the temperature was about the same throughout the space around Earth. As is often the case, when data leads to an unexpected conclusion, the data is sometimes disbelieved or considered incomplete–but it  supported the idea, to physicists, that the universe had a beginning. Then, scientific data–compiled primarily by scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964–referred to what’s called the cosmic microwave background radiation. They were certain that the radiation they detected on a wavelength of 7.35 centimeters did not come from the Earth, or the Sun, or our Galaxy-they got a Nobel Prize for this in 1978. In 1965, those same scientists discerned that throughout space the temperature seemed pretty much the same … 2.7 degrees Kelvin–2.7 degrees above absolute zero. The Penzias and Wilson data in 1964 and 1965  backed up the “Big Bang” theory (initially brought up by Georges LeMaitre–a college professor about physics and astronomy in Belgium–in 1927; and then supported by Hubble in 1929, after his discovery that the entire universe was still expanding). Much more data collected in decades after the 1960’s led to the vast majority of current scientists agreeing that the universe wasn’t eternal, but began about 13.7 billion years ago. Chapter 6 Helpful Acts Foreword … When an intelligent species in the universe has progressed far enough so that it has become capable of developing technological equipment and scientific understandings; it probably then learns about this simple rational divine system. There’s appparently often an internal switch in an intelligent, self-conscious species from an emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on rationality. A related explanation: When self-aware species, rarely–but occasionally–exist on certain planets in the universe, and have reached the technological ability to confirm that the universe actually consists of millions or billions of galaxies, and communication is possible from various places throughout that planet … word seems to start circulating throughout that planet about how species can achieve soul-advancement. Beliefs vary from culture to cuture; whereas helpful acts are visible … and so they provide a WORLDWIDE sense of  certainty (in the present, and usually throughout the future too)–which matters more now, since our entire world (containing many various beliefs in different countries) is connected at this point via economics and the Internet. Evidence of a current “switch” factor … Back in the 1950s, a common phrase in the U.S. was “Faith, Hope, Charity.” Faith (belief) was #1, charity was #3. Now that order of emphasis is similar, but reversed–it now needs to be switched to “Charity, Hope, Faith.” (One’s action of charity should be mostly rather prudent, in choosing recipients–that would help avoid the possibility of getting taken advantage of by some people, which might eliminate future helpful acts by that person). Eventually, a much greater sense of certainty can be achieved in this simple system through lots of helpful acts; and the switch to an emphasis on helpful acts, rather than just on belief, needs to happen at this point on planet Earth; one major reason is because Earth’s population went from about 3 billion in 1960 to more than 7 billion now, in 2012 The religion Unitarianism began around 1540 among some people, but wasn’t institutionally formed in the U.S.until 1825–and Universalism, which started in 1791, was later formed institutionally in the U.S. in 1866.  Those two religions merged in 1961, and were referred to as UU. Neither religion insisted on members having a particular spiritual BELIEF–and at some time in the  following years, those merged religions engaged in greater emphasis on the charitable action of helping others. This was the first large institution which focused on actions rather than beliefs–and there are now over 1100 UU churches in the U.S., 50 in Canada, plus a few dozen across the world. *The onset of the women’s liberation movement began in the later 1960s in the U.S.. That switch, fairly recently, makes a lot of sense just before a new spiritual system begins–partially because the older spiritual systems are male-dominated. Women are also somewhat more likely to choose to adhere to this action-oriented new system in the future, because, worldwide, they usually perform lots of helpful acts to their own children.                                                                                                                       There was a major factor in Jesus’ emphasis during his life (and probably also in his past soul-lives, but only the eternally-present God would know when that was the case) which is also the primary major factor in this actual divine system–helping others get through life: Examples are the Good Samaritan parable, and the miracles done by God–through Jesus, who appears to be an extremely soul-progressed person–on things such as disabilities (like blindness and lameness) in people. And then, in addition to lots of the human-preferred beliefs (such as the centuries-long assumption that Earth was the center of the universe), the helping-others-get-through-life emphasis was passed on in the Christian religions that followed Jesus’ life. His entire life wasn’t perfect (that’s not possible for physical beings), but Jesus’ life was very excellent, and he greatly “got the job done”–helping people, and encouraging other humans to do the same for centuries after his life.                                                 Jesus had it right, in his parable about the Good Samaritan–the Samaritan acted in a way that helped out a person in need, regardless of the cultural and religious differences between him and the injured guy. There are at least 2 indicators in the “His Mysterious Ways”essays in the “Guidepost” issues of 2001 to 2007, that God was possibly backing up Jesus big-time–including one from February 2006,  in which a fire set deliberately on an old house for training a crew in Alabama would not ignite only one room (the room in which there was a portrait of Jesus) … when that portrait was removed, the fire burned the entire room immediately. How come God appeared to be backing up Jesus? Here’s a possible answer: Jesus regularly practiced an advanced prime act of this simple divine system during his life–helping others get through life. Part of a quote made by G.K. Chesterton in his 1908 book “All Things Considered” was this: “Earth is a task garden.” That phrase backs up an emphasis on helpful-acts during one’s present life on Earth. This is something author James Meredith wrote back in 1869: “A human act once set in motion goes on forever to the great account.” His description of the importance of an act fits with the transition nowadays from beliefs-emphasis to acts-emphasis. Here’s a much older quote: “When you seek happiness for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” It’s estimated that the quote first showed up around 750 B.C. In this new system, in which a practical combination of looking after oneself and looking after others is sought, there is a one-word addition to this ancient statement: The beginning would be “When you ONLY seek happiness for yourself …” “Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”   Natalie Angier, Pulitzer-Prize winning “N.Y. Times” reporter, describing a recent study of the neurological effects of behavior on brain chemistry. A related historical factor … another centuries-long switch at this time.                                                                                                                 In addition to a switch now from beliefs-emphasis to helpful acts-emphasis, this historic-info is about another recent transition on Earth now:  There’s been a centuries-long books-printing process on Earth which older readers have long been used to. That began after the beginning of book-production and print-pressing around 1439, through inventor Johannes Gutenberg; it gradually led to the spread of learning among masses of people. … Now there’s a worldwide, online method that middle-aged and younger readers are used to; that transfer from books came about as a result of what’s called the “digital revolution” (which mostly began back in the 1990’s–a meaningful example of an effect of the “Internet” is the fact that, in centuries-long writings, the standard way one began a new paragraph was to begin writing one line down, after skipping the first five spaces in that line; transfers of former writings to the Internet now consists of automatic 2 line skips down, with no skipping of the first 5 spaces in the new paragraph). Middle-aged and younger readers have been exposed to much briefer explanations and supports during their lives than older people such as this explanation’s 61-year-old author. Older U.S. people have always been used to longer, printed books rather than the many brief explanations readable now online; that change from lengthier books is understandable, because these days there’s a much faster pace in many people’s lives in most countries. __________________________________________________________________________  _ In May 2013, this subject continued being arranged and sent out in an unexpected, much briefer, new way: the author’s son Daniel put together in that month this website–it is titled <<helpfulacts.info>> . Now, through a website, this divine system’s simple explanation can be accessed in the entire world–with a quick conversion of it by the different readers into their languages (there are 71 languages presently available worldwide on this website [thanks to the “Google” company]). WRITING an explanation of the numerous logical parts of this System is complex, takes a very-long time, requires lots of intelligence, and a thorough, intensive, early  education; also, the time must be available in one’s later-life to focus and gradually write-out this apparent System-explanation . All of those lifetime-factors apply to this author …and my later-lifetime  had a 28-year-long illness of primary-progressive Multiple Sclerosis; and for about the last 22 years, in the U.S.A., I’ve been getting Social-Security Disability Income once-a-month; also, in the last 15 of those 28 years, there’s been total unemployment for this 62 year-old author. . . . I am so thrilled that my consciousness rose enough in the last few years that I could pretty-much understand this  Simple, (“close enough” to the Divine), Universal System at this time–and be able to write out its description, provide explanations, related modern attachments and historical quotes; & then be able–in the 21st century–to provide this online to potential readers across the entire planet “Earth”.

Its obvious that there are some “beliefs” in this System that are not provable–such as the proven existence of an eternal God, who is all-knowing, “outside of time,” and ETERNALLY-present, who created billions of years ago this enormous, billions-of-galaxies universe. And the belief-concept that the human soul–unlike our physical beings–is eternal, and subject to the described possibility of positive or negative “automatic justice” in future lives of the physical beings its inside-of. However, in spite of these UN-certainties, this System’s set-up description is logical and makes sense–particularly after the scientific indications in the previous 50 years of the “inside time” universe and its billions of galaxies–which is why this seemingly-likely System has been described at length. Mainly, this next factor led to this “explanation”: “Helpful-acts” are SIMPLE (not  complex), and can be accomplished by almost all adults & teenagers (regardless of each person’s amounts of education) across the entire planet Earth. The many advances accomplished by humans in history (partly explained in this website) reflects the gradual advances in Earth’s civilization over thousands of years (especially in the last century); however, the eventual simplicity-emphasis explains this progression of understanding and behavior on one planet in a HUGE universe, over lots of time.                                                                                                                                                                                   Some detailed  explanations, historic and scientific Info, & back-up supports in the 2011 book (titled “Helpful Acts In New Phase” … I wrote 6 short books related to this subject from 2002 to 2008 … they all had–near the beginnings of each of those books– the same 4 short beliefs about God (this indicated that the author had no idea last decade of a switch from “beliefs” to “helpful acts”; it wasn’t till 2011 that I realized there had been a switch in emphasis–I thought I was “done” back in 2008);  then the much briefer 2012 online Essay ((titled “The Apparent, Simple Universal System” … briefer mostly-because it was my first  online-effort. There are recently-added  Modern, Connected Attachments and Historical, Related Quotes                 _________________________________________________________________________                                                                                                                                     The former 2011 Book and the very similar–but much briefer–2012 online-Essay reflect another gradual transition on our planet … from the 574-year-long book-writing & publishing phase (which began around 1439, with the invention back then of repeated-printing by Johannes Gutenberg) to a much briefer, global, online-feature. The 2011 book contained 84 5-inch by 7-inch pages, while the online Essay was only 15 7-inch by 8.5 inch pages, and the focus of those two on this subject eventually led to an even-briefer, about System-description put first on this website for readers globally. There are now 71 easily-accessible languages for readers across Earth, thanks to the company Google.                                                                                  The Modern Attachments by the author, and the Historical Quotes by other people, were gradually added since April 2013–to help increase worldwide understandings of connections to this short and simple divine System.                                 The 2011        Book & the 2012 Essay: Explanations and Supports          Both the Book and Essay dedication was: To All People The materials from the original 2011 book and the 2012 Essay provide logical explanations, back-ups and supports to the very short simple system described initially in this website. Those have been moved  to the website-sections “Explanations”, “Attachments”, and “Supports”. Book (The 2011 book was titled “Helpful Acts In New Phase”) Introduction If, after reading this book’s text, some readers–older ones, and teens–decide to reject this new system (or feel committed to previous traditional beliefs), that’s understandable … because, after all, “It’s Early Yet”–the previous beliefs phase lasted from about 1200 AD till around 2000 AD; this new phase, with its simple system, could take up to 200 years to be agreed with by many people in  places around the entire planet Earth. The major aspect of this subsequent, simple divine system is behavioral–taking actions to help others get through life.                                                                                                                     So, using some of your energy to help others would be a smart move for the probable future advancement of the soul inside you. Charity toward others has been around for millenniums (but in this 4th phase it’s much more noticeable and important [through charitable, helpful ACTS–and the current emphasis on helpful ACTS results in the application to everyone–even poor people] … regardless of your mental and spiritual acceptance of this simple new system.                                                                                There are times when things that were mentioned earlier in this book are described again, but phrased and described somewhat differently here. It is the author’s hope that a revised description of a particular item will resonate more with the reader than maybe it did the first time.                                                                                                                               The amazing thing is the totally unexpected connection between the scientific data discovered since the 1960s … and a couple minor evidences which illustrate God’s existence and outside-of-time eternalness. This led to a large number of connected items throughout this text to the relationships between that present realization … and what, for centuries, was strictly a matter of belief only.                                                       ****** It is reasonable that when a species has progressed far enough (like on Earth, by the late twentieth and early twenty-first century) so that it has become capable of developing technological equipment and scientific understandings … it then learns about the simple rational divine system; it makes sense that there’s a switch now on Earth in an intelligent, self-conscious species from an emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on rationality. In the billions of galaxies we now know are in our universe, scientists have estimated that there are sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe. It is rational that if only one in a million of those planets contains (or has contained, or will contain) an  intelligent species, that would still add up to an estimated quadrillions (15 zeroes) of  such planets; if only one out of a billion planets had, has, or will have intelligent life, there would be trillions (12 zeroes) of such planets.                                                                                           Another similar explanation:********* When self-conscious and intelligent species, rarely–but occasionally–exist on certain planets in the universe, and have reached the technological ability to confirm that the universe actually consists of millions or billions of galaxies, and have reached the point in which communication is possible from various places throughout that planet … word can start to circulate throughout that planet of what the simple divine system consists, and how species can achieve soul-advancement. ****************After an 800-year beliefs phase, Earth has reached that point. Its 4th phase–focused on actions–is beginning in this century. The scientific and technological advances in the last 50  years or so don’t PROVE that this simple divine system is true (that can’t happen)–they just support the “makes sense” aspect of the system, and support the idea that a new phase for humans is beginning.     The words “likely“ or “probably” are usually used in the book’s text to reflect some of the beliefs that many humans have had for centuries, or describe items that can’t be observed (and thus proven) … such as “disbelief in God’s existence would likely make this simple system hard to accept,” “such choices likely lead to soul-advancement,” (the previous phrase “such choices” refers to helpful behavioral ones) and “Roughly 13.7 billion years ago, God probably created a huge universe,” etc.                                                          This book focuses on explaining the new 4th phase, and the reasons for a switch to it now.                                                                                       The gap between scientific institutions (many have been around for generations) and religious institutions (most of which have been around for centuries or millenniums) will not be reduced by this book-text soon. But a goal in this book is to provide a connection between science and spirituality … resulting from the scientific data of the last half-century; and thus hopefully reduce the gap between some individual scientists and some individual religious people–then, again hopefully, there will be a reduction of the gap between scientific and spiritual institutions too … during generations in the future. In order for this helpful simple system to spread across and be embraced by lots of people worldwide in different cultures, it has to leave out mysterious details about God’s nature–since those rely on beliefs, not ACTIONS … and beliefs vary so much; whereas, in all cultures, actions are either good or bad foreveryone.                                       ******Even a person’s disbelief that God exists probably doesn’t  prevent future soul-advancement if that person helps others get through life, but it has one major disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence could make this simple system hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a rejection of the importance of helping others through actions.                                                                                                        This book-text mostly sticks with a rational explanation … except for the minor beliefs, and the two likely methods of God, in Chapter 3. The Chap. 3 assumptions were all included to indicate back-up to the 1960s scientific data that supports the “outside of time” aspect of God–and the simplicity of this universal system.                                                                          CosmicScale                                                 Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, God probably created a huge universe. It consists of both physical, non-eternal creations and non-physical, eternal creations (such as souls) by the eternal deity … and the now-known, huge universe could well have at least trillions of habitable planets inhabited at some point in its history by various intelligent species. On The Human Scale                                                                                                    The purpose is for some of those creations–such as human beings–to use their current physical selves to aid other physical selves get through this life on Earth. In order to achieve this helpfulness, a balanced approach is necessary, wherein one uses good judgment in deciding when to emphasize one’s own survival … and when to practice kind, helpful acts. Chapter 1                            A 4th Human Phase Now Makes Sense Phases                                                                                                              ********(REVISE)      Historically, there have been 3 lengthy phases on Earth–before this 4th one, which began around 2000.  Initially, there was the hunter-gatherer phase (when speech began), which lasted through the early millions of years until around 10,000  BC.                                       That was followed by the 2nd phase–in which people began living in one place year-round, relied on agriculture, formed towns, cities, societies, had wealthy people and warfare, and political people or entities which strove for power. That’s also when people began writing … and forming religious institutions. That phase lasted till around 1200 A.D.  The beliefs-emphasis phase, the 3rd one: Beginning around 1200 A.D., humans in Europe began gradually emphasizing beliefs more. The switch in emphasis was most obvious by 1517 A.D., when the Reformation began with Martin Luther. During the next few centuries, there were many more Protestant sects formed–helping people out through actions had various levels of importance in each one, but each of those sects emphasized beliefs first. Increasingly, people tried hard to convert others to the system they believed in; that was normal back then. The eight centuries the previous phase lasted was an understandable length of time back in the previous millennium. But it’s sensible at this point that this new 4th phase might take only about 200 years to reach around our planet–and be somewhat exercised throughout the entire planet–since now almost every place on Earth can be easily communicated to with this short, simple system … through things like the Internet and phones.                                                                                                                                                   The Present 4th Phase                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                One result of the development of opposites in the human brain is that people tend to to put everything related in one of the two categories. Spiritual people put the containment of both God’s existence and the qualities of God’s nature in the same category right away … because for thousands of years God’s existence and those qualities both totally depended on faith.                                                                                                                 Scientists, because of their similar brains-construction, tend to do the same (putting related stuff in a single category). A good example is the fact that most scientists now see the theory of human evolution as also provable; thus, human evolution in the same category as the many smaller species more recently evolved whose evolution is certainly observable–and therefore provable (but the scientific method set up in 1620 by Sir Francis Bacon describes events which occurred long before human testing began–such as the later-described evolution of humans–as UN-provable). Most scientific people engage automatically in the human tendency to put things which seem related in one category or its opposite. Because of the little-recognized similarity between the brains of both scientists and spiritual people, only the factors about God’s existence and sole eternalness are emphasized in this book (other than the minor beliefs, and God’s likely methods, in Chapter 3, which support aspects of this simple system) … since God’s existence and eternalness have been indicated by scientific data in the last half-century–and thus can be somewhat connected to the spiritual beliefs in God’s existence and eternalness.           Most people have previously seen science and spirituality as unconnected opposites–but that prior sense of opposites can change now, as a result of the scientific data accumulated since the 1960s. A new aspect of human existence that’s occurred in the last 54 years is the increasing fact that–because of the advance of technology and scientific discoveries–the extent to which the common human brain factor of opposites can now no longer be easily applied–as has always been the case before now to just belief in God’s existence vs. its supposed opposite–the “knowings” (associated with science by advocates of science). The total difference between beliefs and knowings was assumed by many people throughout the last few centuries.                                                                                                                 Around the middle of the 800 years-long “beliefs” phase of humans (which began around 1200 A.D.) science and technology started emerging (in the very early 1600’s). It  makes sense that when those scientific and technological abilities advanced during the centuries after 1600, those abilities would eventually advance enough (as they did in the 1960’s and beyond) to back-up the likelihood of God’s existence. The key initial back-up for this system in this 4th phase is the common beliefs-phase item that God exists … and now there is scientific evidence which supports what was formerly only a belief. Here’s the factor which depicts that likelihood: Many scientists nowadays claim that the existence of evolution has been PROVEN (but, again, that’s not actually possible, if the entire scientific method devised in 1620 by Sir Francis Bacon is adhered to. It declared that something which happened early on our planet, prior to human ability to observe and therefore prove its truth, is not provable … based on that rule in the entire scientific method,  an item which is not provable can only be “pointed to.”). But there’s a good reason why many scientists nowadays lean toward the idea that human evolution has also been proven–very, very large amounts of provable data have been accumulated about many lower species than humans on Earth over the recent past decades… that provable data does repeatedly POINT TO the very likelihood of evolution. An early example after the theory of evolution was the observable (and therefore provable) evidence of natural selection in a smaller species in England: Lighter-bodied moths gradually died out there as the darker environment increased during the industrial revolution; and after about 150 years, there were no more lighter-bodied moths in England. This observable fact was first fully described in scientific literature around 1900, about 41 years after the theory of evolution was first explained to the general public, and about 18 years after Darwin’s death. It supported the concept that the fittest members of a species survived, and therefore indicated the correctness of the idea of natural selection–a key component of the evolution theory.                                                                                                 Eventually, in the early1960’s, there was observable scientific data which “pointed to” something; which “pointed to” God’s existence: Observable, provable data about the existence and expansion of a million-galaxy universe (seemingly first described by the scientist Erwin Hubble in 1929) “points to” the likelihood of the “Big Bang” about 13.7 billion years ago … and it’s claimed by many physicists that the math indicates what to them is a reasonable estimate–that early in the first second of the Big Bang the universe expanded from the small size of an atom to that of a galaxy …. or just the smaller size of a grapefruit. Other estimates indicate that during the creation and annihilation of particles early in that first second the universe was undergoing a very fast rate of expansion, much faster than the speed of light. The largest estimate of the universe’s current size is 156 billion light years. In a universe which has only existed for about 13.7 billion years, that’s roughly 10-11 times faster than the speed of light (the estimate of the universe’s current size varies a lot, from one astronomer to another, and in different institutions … and there are also many variable estimates of the initial rate of expansion in the “Big Bang,” ranging from approximately the speed of light to much faster).                                                                                         The two prior conclusions–the non-eternal aspect of the universe, and it’s very fast, initial expansion–do POINT TO the existence of God. But its connection to species-evolution is this: Provable, observable data POINTS TO the truth of evolution … but in this case the observable data “points to” something which then relies also on another “points to” item–which indicates the existence of God. In evolution there’s only one “points to” item … while the existence of God requires two “points to” items.                                              The scientific and technological data which grew during the second half of the 20th Century is a major “Why Now?” factor … those observations results in the fact that the existence of God now extends beyond the former  faith-requirement. That current data significantly “blurs” the centuries-old standard application of opposites to a faith in God’s existence vs. scientific knowings. Here’s another way of putting this: The increasing development of technological and scientific understandings over the last 4 centuries–and especially since the early 1960’s– eventually led to a CONNECTION between technological advances/scientific discoveries … and to the likelihood of God’s existence.                                                                      However, the need for two “points to” items about the existence of God (the “Big Bang”  theory, and then the estimated rapid expansion of the universe early in the first second)–rather than the many “points to” items which apply to evolution–indicates that “belief” about God’s existence is also important. A major reason why that’s important was first said in the Introduction, and that reason is here repeated: Even a person’s disbelief that God exists doesn’t prevent soul-advancement if that person helps others get through life, but it has one major disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence would likely make this simple system hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a rejection of the importance of helping others through actions. Here’s a summary of the reasonable, probable, original set-up: Before the universe was created, only the eternal God existed–the scientific “Big- Bang” theory supports that belief–afterwards, souls which likely originated in some way inside God were reincarnated over and over as physical beings in that universe. This system’s task is for humans is to use their physical energy to prudently choose certain people (particularly non-relatives), and then help them get through their lives–such choices likely lead to soul-advancement. If, instead, humans choose to harm others, those choices probably lead to backward soul movement, and “automatic justice” (such as mental or physical disability, probably in a future life or lives … at birth, or sometime during one’s life–in the physical being that the reincarnated soul is inside). The “automatic justice” part of this system is brought up again in the third chapter. It doesn’t get talked about at length until that chapter later in the book; because the specific details about each soul are un-knowable by humans–they occur in the non-physical realm. According to this system, the final goal of human souls is eventual soul-reunification with the eternal God, and thus an end to the possibilities of uncertainty, pain, and  stress in physical, planetary lives … this is led to by helping others. The reunification-item is certainly a belief, but it makes sense that there would be an eventual important simple goal to strive for in a simple divine system across the universe. More info about the “Big Bang” theory … In 1927 and 1929, it was proposed that the universe wasn’t eternal like God–as was commonly believed by many people–but actually began at a certain point in time. This was ignored by the vast majority of scientists and other people. In 1949, the theory was  spelled out. The majority of scientists thought it was untrue, and it was said that this new theory claimed that the universe had begun with a “big bang” about 14 billion years ago (the theory’s creator or creators thought the phrase “big bang” was a good one, and so it stayed). Then in the early 1960’s Americans began launching unmanned rockets into space, and measurements revealed that the temperature was about the same throughout the space around Earth. As is often the case, when data leads to an unexpected conclusion, the data is sometimes disbelieved or considered incomplete–but it  supported the idea, to physicists, that the universe had a beginning. Then, scientific data–compiled primarily by scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964–referred to what’s called the cosmic microwave background radiation. They were certain that the radiation they detected on a wavelength of 7.35 centimeters did not come from the Earth, or the Sun, or our Galaxy-they got a Nobel Prize for this in 1978. In 1965, those same scientists discerned that throughout space the temperature seemed pretty much the same … 2.7 degrees Kelvin–2.7 degrees above absolute zero.                       The Penzias and Wilson data in 1964 and 1965  backed up the “Big Bang” theory (initially brought up by Georges LeMaitre–a college professor about physics and astronomy in Belgium, and a Jesuit priest–in 1927; and then supported by Hubble in 1929, after his discovery that the entire universe was still expanding). Much more data collected in decades after the 1960’s led to the vast majority of current scientists agreeing that the universe wasn’t eternal, but began about 13.7 billion years ago. This indicated that only God–not our universe–was eternal. That scientific data supports the idea that God’s existence includes having the only eternal existence. Subsequently, the word “eternal” is defined more and more prominently in dictionaries as “outside of time”–and most dictionaries didn’t previously define “eternal” as being “outside of time”… since it was commonly believed that our universe was also eternal, and obviously we who lived there weren’t “outside of time”– so a definition of eternal recently began including or emphasizing the phrase “outside-of-time” … or that phrase has moved up a lot in the definition in some dictionaries since the 1960’s. _________________________________________________________________________________ There is at this time a lot more atheism throughout the world. An explanation of the worldwide increase in atheism is well-explained by this: People’s brains have evolved to emphasize opposites–so the belief is that either the God people have believed in for centuries exists, or doesn’t. If that particularly-described God–the centuries-believed-in God–doesn’t exist, then the total opposite is true for many people–there is no God.     But the present increase in atheism leads to this explanation: The way to reduce the growing atheism around our planet is to recognize that the existent God is NOT the God which people have believed in for centuries, and the God that atheists disbelieve in… but is a Being which created a rational system for intelligent species–like humans–throughout what’s now known to be a vast universe.                                                                            It’s sensible that a God in an eternal present–who would create a vast universe–would come up with a brief, rational system, in which intelligent beings on planets throughout those galaxies would eventually be alerted about the reality faced by them and all the other intelligent beings throughout the huge universe. This could likely be best accomplished by having God’s system first proposed on a particular planet when that planet had reached the point in which this simple approach could be communicated to intelligent beings everywhere across the entire planet. Atheism is a belief held by some individuals who are, like all humans, “inside time.” Now that we define “eternal” as “outside of time” (since the 1960’s scientific data began accumulating that our universe is also “inside time” [about13.7 billion years old]), we humans can now see that an eternally-present God outside of time  CAN be all-good  –even though it’s obvious to humans–when looking at occurrences on planet Earth–that the realities “inside time” aren’t all-good. But the probable divine system–in which reincarnated souls inside humans can move “forward” in a divine way by helping others get through their lives via supportive actions … wouldn’t be set up by a God “INSIDE TIME”; because there’d be no droughts, illnesses, starvation, etc., etc. in a system set up by an all-benevolent, all-good God, “inside time.” There also wouldn’t be the implementation of positive and negative automatic justice on many“inside-time” physical beings in which reside eternal souls; so there wouldn’t be the soul-advancement method which is a major factor in this system … because other people wouldn’t need help. _________________________________________________________________________________ It’s commonly thought by historians that the Age of Reason began in England around 1558. Previously mentioned was the increasing development of technology and science during the latter 4 centuries of the 3rd phase–a good example of that is the progressing technological improvement in telescopes, so one “Why Now?” factor are these brief historical items about telescopes and astronomy… Back when Ptolemy lived (Circa 90 A.D till Circa 168 A.D.) he stated around 150 A.D. that Earth was the center of heaven and the universe.  Each planet in our solar system had to have a very complicated rotation resulting from his observations for this to be true, but this concept–that Earth was the center of the universe–held sway among almost all people for at least 1400 years. In 1543 Copernicus released the book “De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of The Heavenly Bodies) on his deathbed; in which he stated that the Sun (not the Earth) was the center of the universe. It is thought that his deathbed-release of the book resulted from his fear that he would be tortured after an earlier release … for sacrilegiously claiming that the Sun was the center.  His claim was backed up, after the invention of the telescope, by Galileo around 1611. Then, apparently in the late 1600’s, it was established that even our system’s sun was also not the center of the entire universe, but only of our solar system. However, the relatively slow progression of the telescope’s development in the 17th through 19th centuries is indicated by this fact: Even as late as1920, there was a debate in which a scientist claimed this often-believed fact back then … that the universe had only 1 galaxy–the Milky Way. But in 1919, the astronomer Edwin Hubble began using the 100” telescope (built in 1917) at Mt. Wilson, California. Around 1923 he first stated there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way. In 1929 he said there were millions of galaxies. Then in the late 1970’s–since larger, clearer telescopes had been constantly developed over the previous decades–it was stated that there were actually billions of galaxies. The technological advances in humanity over the 20th Century are further indicated by this following factor: Many photos of those galaxies were taken in the 1990’s and 2000’s by the Hubble telescope, which was on a spacecraft that traveled around Earth. (Logical item)                                                                       There were many other technological and scientific advancements in the 2nd half of the 20th Century–which provided many humans with certainty, instead of the previous reliance by many humans on beliefs … two brief examples are the carbon-dating which began around 1950, which was a big boost to archaeological findings; then in 1953 the description of DNA formation in the human body by the two scientists Francis Crick and James Watson. Chapter 2                        Switch To An Emphasis On Helpful Actions                                     Back in the 1950s, the standard order of  belief and behavior was, for many residents in the U.S., “Faith, Hope, Charity.”                                                                              But now that the scientific discoveries and data began accumulating very strongly in the 1960s, that order of emphasis is similar, but reversed–it now needs to be “Charity, Hope, Faith.” It’s worth mentioning a factor–one’s action of charity should be mostly rather prudent, in choosing recipients. The faith aspect–in a universe that we now know has billions of galaxies–applies initially to God’s existence, but scientific discoveries have had two “points to” items which support God’s existence. And that aspect doesn’t come first anymore (it’s important, but not totally essential–just as 50 to 60 years ago charity was seen as important, but not totally essential). Now the action of charity–helping others to get through life, partly because the world population is so huge at this point–comes first. (Logical Item)                                                A reason to prudently take action that helps others get through this life is because that covers you in case you discover after death that you did have an incorrect belief during your previous physical life. You will likely have a successful future life, even if you didn’t believe in your previous life that there was going to be a future physical life. (Related Quote)                                           This is something author James Meredith wrote back in 1869: “A human act once set in motion goes on forever to the great account.” The “great account” mention is obviously a belief item back then, but his description of the importance of an act fits with the transition nowadays from beliefs to action. (Related quote)                                                                 Here’s a much older quote:  “When you seek happiness for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” It’s estimated that the quote first showed up around 750 BC. This ancient quote very thoroughly coincides with the key aspect of a simple system for the entire universe created by a God in an eternal present. In this new system, in which a balance between looking after oneself and looking after others is sought, there is one practical change in this ancient statement: The beginning of it would be “When you only seek happiness for yourself …” (Related Item)                                                                     Kindness for the most part only toward family members and other relatives throughout the present life would probably result in fairly average future conditions of one’s soul, in terms of both the length of the relaxing stay of the current ego-self in the spirit world, and the circumstances of one or more of the future physical lives. The vast majority of people are born into situations in which things like their talents and financial circumstances are fairly average, because in a past life or lives they were kind toward close relatives, and didn’t harm–but neither did they likely give much aid to–non-family members. The reason helping relatives feels so natural–while helping out non-related people is ofter considered unnecessary–is because human beings found over time during the first 2 human phases that it increased their own physical survival … it thus became an innate part of humanity. This is further added to by the fact that taking care of family members is an innate practice of almost all species–it increased their physical survival too.  Another confirmation is the fact that kindness toward relatives is an action usually done even by people who, during their lives, choose to harm non-relatives. A much more advantageous future, and advancement of one’s soul–rather than just likely survival in one’s present life–would likely be experienced by people who wisely and practically chose to spend some of their energy helping non-related individuals get through life. Connection                                                           There was a major factor in Jesus’ emphasis during his life (and probably also in his past soul-lives, but only the eternally-present, all-knowing God would know when that was the case). That frequent choice by him is also the primary major factor in this actual divine system–helping others get through life: Examples are the Good Samaritan parable, and the miracles done by God–through the extremely soul-progressed Jesus–on things such as disabilities in people. And then, in addition to lots of the human-preferred beliefs (such as the centuries-long assumption that Earth was the center of the universe), the helping-others-get-through-life emphasis was passed on in the Christian religions that followed Jesus’ life. His life wasn’t perfect (which somewhat explains why his adolescence and twenties wasn’t mentioned in the Gospels)–only God is perfect–but Jesus’ life was very excellent, and he greatly “got the job done”–helping people, and encouraging other humans to do the same in his lifetime and for centuries afterward. (Related quote)                                                            There is a short quote by a guy named Joseph Roux, in 1886, in an old book called Meditations of a Parish Priest, in the book Thesaurus of Quotations: “Let us prefer, let us not exclude.” It is reasonable that a person who believes in God prefers others who also believe in God; however, because the key aspect of the divine system is not belief,  but ACTIONS to help others get through life, rather than beliefs–it is unfair in the system to automatically exclude those people who have an atheistic belief. (Helpful Acts Item)                                                               A possible advantage to choosing an occupation that can help others (like medical aid, physical therapy, psychological help, or one of the many other vocations which involve service) is that such occupations can make a difference, but don’t guarantee soul-advancement–they create a situation in which one is constantly, conveniently, faced with the possibility of making wise judgments to “go the extra mile” in giving benefits to people.  Here’s a simple example: If one is a barber, that person gets paid for helping people appear better; people who come to his or her shop. However, that person can sometimes choose to drive somewhere else to give haircuts to people who can’t drive to the shop (people who are disabled or elderly or have no car) … that choice probably leads to some soul-advancement. (Logical factor)                                                                The “His Mysterious Ways” essays in the Guideposts magazines of 2001 to 2007 illustrate the fact–many times–of examples of how God helps people, or helps people help other people. Those essays, which contain various apparent God-doings, strengthen the idea that one major point of our human existences is to help others get through their lives. (Helpful Acts Connection)                                              There are at least 2 indicators in the “His Mysterious Ways”essays in the Guidepost issues of 2001 to 2007, that God was apparently backing up Jesus big-time–including one from February 2006,  in which a fire set deliberately on an old house for training a crew in Alabama would not ignite only one room–the room in which there was a portrait of Jesus; when that portrait was removed, the fire burned the room immediately. How come God was backing up Jesus? Here’s a reasonable answer: Jesus was maybe the first soul-container on Earth who was about to achieve reunification with God  (maybe the only one so far on this planet–who knows? …  only God knows), who regularly practiced the prime act of the divine system–helping others get through life. His reincarnated soul had advanced so far that, through God–whom Jesus credited a couple of times, according to his attributed sayings in the New Testament–Jesus could correct big problems in others, such as healing negative conditions in people, such as their blindness or lameness. (Related quote)                                                        “Scientists have discovered that the small, brave  act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”   Natalie Angier, Pulitzer-Prize winning N.Y. Times reporter, describing a recent study of the effects of behavior on brain chemistry. (Logical Connection)                                               It doesn’t matter, in a long-term sense, whether or not each person believes this is the system behind human life … what matters is what actions are chosen during one’s current life. So Jesus had it right, in his parable about the Good Samaritan–the Samaritan acted in a way that helped out a person in need, regardless of the cultural and religious differences between him and the injured guy. (Logical Connection)                                                                By the time children pass the age of 6 or 7, most have brains that are completely formed.  The mental elasticity and fluidity of early childhood–which enables children to easily learn new languages–begins to be replaced with a more permanent mental posture. So, with their fully-formed brains, older children, teens and adults would be able to accept this phase and system intellectually, but can’t absorb it as thoroughly as young children can. Adulthood is not the time to switch to this system for those individuals who have already achieved comfort with their system … but rather to focus on that part of many earlier systems that makes sense nowadays, the “compassionate acts toward others” part–that’s the route to soul-advancement. For younger people who wish to have children or adopt, their little children can be taught this inner understanding of what the universe is like, because fully-formed brains won’t exist in those children until they reach about the age of 6 or 7. Older people with only an intellectual acceptance of this new phase would be able to teach this phase and system to little kids … it would seem very sensible to those children when they grow into adulthood. The plus for young children is that they won’t have to go through the same concern in their older age about what happens after death that previous adults have had to put up with.  The plus for parents and other caregiving adults would be that the emotional pain and sorrow of the very possible future rejection of their spiritual system wouldn’t happen when children grow up these days–because, in spite of the fact that each generation now faces a very different outer world than the one encountered by their elders, this spiritual process would make sense to both generations. Chapter 3  2 Minor Beliefs and God’s 2 Methods (Which Support This Brief System Rationally) “It’s Early Yet”–this brief new system could take up to 200 years to be agreed with and used throughout the entire planet. A similar statement began the Introduction–it’s  brought up again now is because the previous “Beliefs” phase lasted a long time, about 800 years …from about 1200 AD until the year 2000 AD. The “It’s Early Yet” statement is mentioned again because a switch to the phase 4 described by this book will be tough and unexpected for many people. The thing to do is to explain this phase change (and its accompanying simple system) to young kids to help them transition to the new 4th phase. The other thing to do now is to prudently choose non-relatives, and help them out in their lives–such actions were of lesser importance in the previous “Beliefs” phase. ______________________________________________________________ Here are some sensible minor beliefs about upcoming soul-advantages that result from choices to use some of your present physical energy to help certain others get through life: a) your current physical self likely gets to spend a significantly longer time relaxing in a non-physical world in which there aren’t the up-or-down realities, and uncertainties, one has to deal with in a life on Earth–since people hate or strongly dislike uncertainty, the big incentive to take actions that help people get through life is to greatly delay (for what would probably be a long time) the uncertainty one would have to deal with in future physical life;  b) a future physical life is easier, more successful for the physical self’s inner soul  in that future (so, if one’s present life is very positive for a person, it indicates that helpful choices were probably made by the physical self that the soul was in during an earlier life);  c) the effect of such previous choices is a good one during a future life, even though the cause–because it occurred in an earlier life–is no longer controllable; and d) the future world will be a more pleasant place to return to, because of more charitable, compassionate society-wide choices made by masses of people. (Connection) There’s another minor belief that needs to be elaborated on, so people can understand a negative result in this simple divine system: The “automatic justice” occurrence was initially brought up in this sentence in the first chapter: “If, instead, humans choose to harm others, those choices often lead to backward soul movement, and “automatic justice” (such as mental or physical disability, probably in future lives … at birth, or sometime during one’s life–in the physical part that the reincarnated soul is inside).” That factor has this frustrating component: If the cause and effect of a particular event occur in the same life, the connection can usually be easily recognized by people (who are “inside time”). But, to a God “outside of time” in an eternal present, cause and effect don’t have to happen during a person’s one physical life; the “cause” of automatic justice can happen in an earlier life, but the “effect” on one’s soul can happen in a future reincarnation, in which the soul is inside a different physical being. The frustration for people is that the nature of the effect can be somewhat controlled, but the “cause“ that occurred in a previous life is neither identifiable nor controllable. This frustration can likely be avoided by wisely choosing people to help out. Automatic justice seems to happen through the process of reincarnation. The stark differences in birth circumstances, combined with the events that happen throughout a person’s life, provide all the contrast needed so souls can advance toward the goal of reunification by engaging in benevolence and compassion. Automatic justice provides a method that is like some kind of perpetual-motion machine, churning out situations repeatedly in which those who have resources can help those who don’t–such as victims of natural disaster or crime, those in poor health, poverty-stricken individuals, and people in dozens of other unfortunate circumstances. It ensures ongoing positive and negative situations in the outer, physical world so all people have continuous future opportunities to practice kindness toward those less fortunate, who might have faced automatic justice. (Connection)                                                                    God’s apparent two methods, which back up this simple system: The first is that everything in the category of possible coincidence has to look like it could have been a coincidence (the word “could” is italicized to be sure that a divine “maybe yes, maybe no” aspect of this method is realized). The reason this is the first probable divine method is so that some doubtfulness is introduced among many people; this allows each person to be uninfluenced by the clear indication of a divine formula, and thus allows humans (and other intelligent species across the universe) to make their own choices about helpful actions. This also explains things like evolution and the huge universe, since great time-length and universe-size is necessary for people to not easily see an obvious divine set-up, which would make the choice of helpful actions the result of an obvious divine formula … instead of independent decisions secondary to that possible influence. The second method is reincarnation. That allows eternal souls to occupy a succession of temporary bodies, and eventually permits the sensible goal of reunification with God for individuals–back to a similar situation to that which existed before the “Big Bang.” (Connection)                                                                       Here’s a historical factor that supports the first “coincidence” method: A mathematical lecture described a sequence of numbers called the Fibonacci numbers–1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 …; the sequence was named after an early thirteenth century mathematician. The numbers in the sequence consist of the sum of the two numbers before any given number–so, for example, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, and so on. The lecturer noted that these numbers corresponded to the number of spirals that could be seen as overlaying the following natural objects: on the outside of a pinecone, there are 5 spirals in one direction, and 8 in the opposite direction; on the outside of a pineapple, 8 and 13; emanating from the center of a coneflower, 13 and 21; from a daisy’s central area, 21 and 34; from a small sunflower’s center, 34 and 55; and from the center of a large sunflower, 55 and 89. A couple of very early occurrences are included here also–to illustrate how far back this method was possibly used by the eternal God: it’s figured by many scientists that it rained for centuries over Earth about 4 billion years ago; which is why there are now oceans. And another scientific concept is that there was only 2-4% oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere a few billion years ago. The claim is that back then this planet’s atmosphere mostly consisted of carbon dioxide, like Venus has now. Evolutionary biologists have indicated that about 3.5 billion years ago, on Earth, some single-celled bacteria named prokaryotes seemed to have evolved. They had no nucleus. They still exist, in groups in parts of the Earth, in  colonies in swampy, shallow water–they don’t use oxygen. Then, around the years 3 to 2.5  billion years, some prokaryotes mutated–they still absorbed carbon dioxide, but were now able to practice photosynthesis, exuding oxygen. Gradually the atmosphere changed; the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere significantly increased by about 2.3 billion years ago; it is now about 21% oxygen. There was enough oxygen at some point in ancient times to block–with an ozone layer–the harmful rays of the sun. That allowed the survival of more complex organisms. About 1.5 billion years ago single-celled eukaryotes evolved–they do have a nucleus.  And then about 600 million years ago double-celled and eventually multi-celled organisms (the Precambrian explosion, roughly 570 million years ago) evolved and survived. So did the eternal God intervene and set up “Fibonacci numbers” in what the math-lecturer called “nature’s numbers?”– the answer is “maybe yes/maybe no”; did God cause oceans to develop over centuries billions of years ago?–”maybe yes/maybe no–Who knows?”; did God intervene and cause prokaryotes 2 to 3  billion years ago to gradually practice photosynthesis, thus exuding oxygen?–”maybe yes/maybe no.” They result in the necessary doubtfulness among humans. But the ones that are more important to each reader are those which affect only that individual (or maybe a family member). Those make the “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect of this divine method–the fact that things could be a coincidence–more noticeable and important to individual people. These small, individual examples vary from person to person; so it is worth thinking–by each reader of this book–about how that method applies to him or her alone.                                                                                                                                                                                                            (Connection)                                             Making the switch to a human concentration on helpful actions could take up to 200 years to spread around on Earth, and could be tough for many people, but it’s become sensible now. This next factor was initially brought up in the first chapter: Human brains seemed to have evolved millions of years ago with the emphasis on dualisms (particularly opposites). This was applied by “believers” not just to their usual daily stuff, but to their beliefs too–those were viewed as definite, internal “knowings” by them in that previous “beliefs” phase, beginning around 1200 AD. The mental attachment by humans to the dualism of opposites–and its certainty (“yes/no,” Not “maybe yes/maybe no”)–about spiritual beliefs also explains why the “beliefs” phase lasted so long. This “either/or” certainty about “knowings” was also adhered to, centuries later,  by scientists and technologists (a relative example is this statement in the final chapter–“Recent ‘Attention-Grabbing’ Items”: “Physicists don’t like coincidences” [much like spiritual people, they dislike uncertainty–and that doubtfulness is in the “maybe yes, maybe no” phrase attached to God’s first method]). Many people at this time, particularly scientists, now see beliefs as “non-knowings”–the opposite of “knowings.” At this time on Earth, it’s reasonable that people would begin adopting a more-than-dualistic-opposites viewpoint of beliefs … in which the previous attachment to a dualistic “definite-ness”–a“yes/no” attitude toward beliefs–doesn’t fit anymore. What would be tough now on Earth is not just a switch from beliefs-emphasis to actions-emphasis, but a switch from the former definite-ness of opposites attached to beliefs to an acceptance of a more-than-dualistic viewpoint of beliefs.  But that’s a switch which people can handle now–since there is a lot less of the simplistic mentality now that led to them applying their beliefs to an “either/or” opposites position; and since science and technology have expanded and can now comfortably indicate the lessened separation of  science and spirituality. What would make the switch to a new phase easier to happen is the ending of the previous “beliefs” phase (or even atheism, which is also an opposite) by the acceptance of the idea that God’s first method has a more-than-dualistic containment. But what also makes sense now is that the dualistic, “either/or “ nature of the evolved opposites in human brains does apply to actions, and helpful behavior is the important aspect of this new human phase. So an even more ironic factor of the first divine method is that its “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect gradually influences the ending of the lengthy 3rd “beliefs” phase–and that the new 4th phase IS centered on helpful actions, which DO emphasize that “either/or,“yes/no” dualism of opposites that seems to have evolved in the human brain millions of years ago. (Logical Explanation)                                                The likely second divine method–that more greatly makes this simple system work–is the reincarnation of souls. One reason reincarnation is disbelieved by the majority of people–and is rejected in many spiritual systems–is because many people don’t want to ever return to a planet, because of the unpleasantness that many of them and people around them have had to face … in some cases, as a result of “automatic justice.” They also reject it because it could involve future uncertainty, and people strongly dislike uncertainty. Those reasons lead people to believe in an immediate eternal life right after their present life.                                                                               (Explanation)                                                       Here’s another problem, first brought up in the “automatic justice” description earlier in this chapter: The time that goes by between the cause and the effect does not have to take place in one single life. In almost all instances visible to humans, cause and effect happen close enough together that the connection is obvious to people, who are inside time … but, for a God outside of time, cause and effect don’t have to both happen during a person’s single physical life–the cause can happen in one previous life, while the effect from that cause happens in the current one.  A most frustrating element of reincarnation for people would be this separation in lives between cause and effect–the understanding that the cause of present suffering happened in a previous life (or lives?), so that while the nature of the effect can be somewhat controlled, the cause is neither identifiable nor controllable. The way to very likely reduce future suffering is to use the fact that the cause of a future effect can be partially controlled during one’s present life by prudently choosing instances in which to give assistance to others.

Chapter 4                                                                                          More “Why Now?” Explanations & Supports                                                           

It makes sense that this explanation of the likely, simple divine system wouldn’t occur on Earth until the message could be sent to, and understood, by most residents throughout the planet. That’s reasonable. There are 5 main reasons why this explanation became possible after the year 2000 … 1) For the first time, residents throughout this planet are much-connnected, instead of totally separated because of the former geographic distance and the unknowingness about faraway countries, plus the former impossibility-of-communication with people very far away. 2) There is sometimes enough comfortable physical survival which eventually allows certain people (like this author, partly due to his intense early education) to concentrate on and describe this likely system. Also, worldwide communication is now very quickly possible … through this website on the Internet (installed by the author’s 32-year-old son Daniel–this resulted from the fact that, unexpectedly, it took till May 2013 for the author to realize that a worldwide communication of this simple system–which indicates the switch from the beliefs-emphasis to charitable, helpful ACTS-emphasis–was eventually part of the system’s process). 3) This “likely system” explanation can now be sent understandably readable throughout the planet–because it’s now very quickly-translatable to many of the various languages worldwide; the company Google put that possibility online in “Google translate”. 4) There’s also now been an increase in technological understandings, plus access to small digital things like smart phones among many people throughout the world. 5) In many countries–in which most families CAN’T afford to purchase their own computers–there are what’s called “Internet cafes.” More “Why Now?” Explanations & Supports                                                          Humans have now come to a “window of opportunity” around the beginning of the twenty-first century. Enough freedom and civilized behaviors have developed in human cultures at this point to head in a new direction (emphasizing kind, helpful actions) before quickly-moving realities (such as terrorism, hunger, population increase, nuclear bomb use, lack of jobs, etc.) overwhelm or greatly slow the progress in human growth. Here’s some more reasons why a switch now “makes sense” … (Next)                                                                   One major reason beliefs have been a big deal to humans for millennia is because it relieves a lot of uncertainty–some humans hate uncertainties, and everyone strongly dislikes most of them. Various new beliefs (throughout the past) could be fairly easily adopted by most of humanity … whereas actions are visible, easily discerned, and recognized by most everyone as either positive or negative. People hate or strongly dislike uncertainty–so it figures that religious belief systems contained certainty. Two easily-recognized examples were the beliefs that Earth was the center of the universe, and that God created the universe about 6,000 years ago–(a time-length which humans could relate to … in the seventeenth century, the deacon Ussher read Genesis carefully, and stated that the universe was created at night preceding Sunday, October 23rd, in 4004 BC); other Biblically-based similar dates were suggested around that seventeenth century by guys named Jose ben Halafta, Bede, Scalinger, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton. But now that scientific technology is sufficient to discover items that provide much certainty about such things as the 2 items mentioned earlier (that formerly depended on beliefs), humanity can switch from the emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on kind, compassionate actions. The “heaven-hell” belief is a good example of how the preferences of people are used to fit in to many people’s major beliefs–and consists of projection onto God of some common realities or necessities of human life: First, after someone dies, it’s often believed that God “judges” (it’s projected by humans that God judges too as humans do, because judgement is a classic part of human decision-making). But in this book’s system, behavior (rather than belief) automatically and broadly triggers positive or negative justice, without the requirement of divine judgment–which explains why one’s choices in life result in what’s referred to as “automatic justice.” According to many beliefs, after God judges, God decides to send a person to either heaven or hell (an “opposites” projection)– the heaven-hell concept describes a supernatural reality which says that people will end up eternally after their current life in supernatural place that are total opposites of each other. It also removes another possibility of uncertainty in their future, by claiming that people will only have this single present biological life. Unfortunately, as a result of the technological  advances and scientific discoveries that have occurred in the last 50 years–and in lots of cases replaced the human reliance on some beliefs to decrease uncertainty during the previous centuries–those advances and discoveries partly caused more and more atheism among people throughout the world recently.                (Next Logical Item)                                                      A number of factors began occurring to support this system in the twentieth century, especially during the 1960s. • The first chapter described the scientific data accumulated in the first half of the 1960’s–that supported the likelihood of God’s existence, and supported the “Big Bang” theory. Here’s a few more … • The religions Unitarianism–that began around 1540 among some people, but wasn’t institutionally formed until 1825–and Universalism, that started in 1791, and was later formed institutionally in 1866–merged in 1961. Neither religion insisted on members having a particular spiritual belief–and at some time in the  following years, those merged religions seemed to begin emphasizing more the action of helping others … helpful actions happen to be what this book’s system emphasizes too. •The onset of the women’s liberation movement began in the later 1960s in the U.S.. That switch, fairly recently, makes a lot of sense just before a new spiritual system and phase begins–partially  because the older spiritual systems are male-dominated. Women are somewhat more likely to adhere to this new system in the future, partially because men have always been in charge of the older systems … but now, in the U.S., there’s greater gender-equality. •The scientist Hubble telescoped millions of galaxies in 1929; then in the late 1970s scientists found billions of galaxies; and estimated sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe. (Next Logical Item)                                                             There have been other types of progressions on Earth, as people became more civilized: In much earlier times people with serious diseases were often left behind to die by the tribe they belonged to; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, society put those people in sanatariums; and now such people are generally treated more humanely. There has also been a slow, gradual lessening of barbarism in much of the world–at one time, dreadful and lengthy methods of execution, mutilation, and torture were routine behaviors throughout the world, and were often viewed by the majority of human beings as both normal and necessary. Barbarism still exists, but it is becoming less widespread, and much less acceptable. (Next Logical Item)                                             One prominent factor that supports a new phase NOW is that most humans had to mature to their present level of development–rather than just a strong focus on survival, and prior unawareness about the universe’s size. Looking back at the history of humanity, it is understandable that until the recent scientific discoveries, plus the maturing of humans, people could NOT have put together what’s described here as this divine system. But now people can. That understandably-delayed factor, combined with the fact that most people throughout history believed in the existence of God, resulted in the “projection” of  similar (but much-advanced) human qualities onto God–a good example is the projection of ”judgment” (a necessary human activity) onto God, instead of the occurrence of “automatic justice” described in this book. Earlier projections by religious people make sense because–until the recent  scientific realizations–people throughout the planet would not have had things like rational confirmation of the key aspect about God (the idea of God being in an eternal present, outside of time). And most people can handle that realization now.  (Explanation)                                                             The dogmas of traditional religions, which usually described God as being eternal, didn’t even address the idea that God was, or might be, outside time. The passage of time was such a basic reality in which human beings lived (just as water surrounds fish), that bringing up such a concept would have underscored the idea that God was fundamentally different from humans. And physical survival was so difficult in early centuries that believing there was an almighty God somewhat like people would ease the strain imposed by that reality … but physical survival of humans is not so hard in many parts of the world nowadays. (Historical Explanation)                                            What is called the “middle class” began to exist in enough numbers in Europe around 1730–about when the Industrial Revolution began–to eventually alter the emphasis which had existed among humanity up till then. Poor people concentrated–as well they needed to–on day-to-day earthly survival, and less on their internal, spiritual aspect. The few rich people did the same mostly, but for a different reason–their earthly success or the state of affairs they were born into led to a focus on earthly goods and services. The rise of a middle-class segment of the population–a group between rich and poor– would seem to be a naturally-occurring necessity–it allowed a focus on a new divine system, and human phase. That segment expanded rapidly during the twentieth century, particularly in the U.S. and Europe–and is spreading now throughout other parts of the world.                                                                                                                                            (Supportive Point)                                                                 In science and technology, progress has been spectacular in the last 200 years. But, while spirituality progressed earlier in history, it has stalled somewhat in the last few centuries, as most people have focused on making outward existence easier. However, the increase in personal and political freedom during the last 800 years has allowed a future wherein many people can advance in whatever direction they choose in both scientific and spiritual areas.                                                                                                                   (Next Supportive Point)                                                      Many people can now easily communicate  briefly worldwide–via the Internet–to other individuals about the short, divine, system; it’s so simple that a significant amount of education in people isn’t required to understand or communicate it. (Next Supportive Point)  It’s reasonable that now there would be a divine system which emphasizes rationality since it can appeal to people in all different cultures–because rationality is a fairly common trait worldwide, whereas beliefs vary from culture to culture. The important belief in this system–indicated (not proven) now by scientific data–is that God DOES exist. That’s a simple enough belief that it can fit into all cultures too, as rationality seems to. It makes sense that a reason-based scientific method was established on Earth first before a reason-based divine process could make sense to a large majority of people, because that way people could get used to the idea of using reason in regard to matters that have to do with the spirit inside each person.                                                                       (Present Factor)                                                 The huge increase in population recently worldwide–the world-population went from about 1 billion in 1850, to 2 billion in 1930, to 3 billion in 1960, and then rapidly increased over the next 50 years to about 7 billion in 2011. The switch now to a greater emphasis on actions that help others get through life is more rational these days–due to the huge population increase in the last 50 years, people can now help out on lot more people.

(Next Present Factor)                                                        A result of the rapid change in the outside world in developed countries was that the realities faced by one generation are very different from the realities faced by the next one. This wasn’t a big problem 65 to100 years ago, or before that. It was not hard back then to stick throughout adulthood with the system of parents and earlier generations of ancestors–because the outer realities kids faced in adolescence and adulthood were very much like the ones faced by their parents. Therefore the spiritual system they were taught also worked and made sense to them. But nowadays, primarily because of the many inventions, the outer world is changing so fast that the spiritual world children are taught about is viewed with skepticism too, and is often rejected.The way around this problem is to teach a practical spiritual plan that makes sense to both generations, so that when the younger one reaches adolescence the differences nowadays between the outer worlds faced by the two generations won’t affect their inner choices.

On a planet estimated to have been formed about 4,600,000,000 years ago in a 13.7 billion-year-old universe, this simple divine system first became exposed on Earth less than 10 years (!) after the level of technological capability was reached that enabled average people to begin communicating worldwide on the Internet … and now able to spread this system that way to practically every place on our entire planet. This short, sensible divine system also didn’t become understood until less than 15 years after the threat of nuclear destruction of this entire planet almost certainly ended:  Technological development made human life easier and in most cases assured and lengthened human survival. But the increase in that capability also led to an increase in the power of weaponry … the Cold War consisted of two superpowers that were enemies, and each had more-than-enough powerful nuclear weapons that enabled them to kill all the people on Earth. The Soviet Union and the U.S.A. came close to a war that could have resulted in the end of human life on Earth (particularly during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962), but the succession of leaders in both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. chose not to drop the nuclear bombs which might have led to that outcome. Then in the years 1989-1992 the Soviet Union dissolved. Only a single superpower, with thousands of nuclear weapons, remained. This didn’t eliminate the possibility of a nuclear conflict sometime in the future, but it made the destruction of the entire planet very unlikely through nuclear war. (Present factor which supports the switch to new “phase”)                    Extremist suicide-bombings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have begun happening very often–the origin of the universe and intelligent species described in the first chapter refer to a belief in an eternal life for one’s soul (a former part of God in some way before there was a universe); however, a person’s current physical self actually only exists once on Earth (the rational explanation of that is the final item in the sixth chapter, the chapter named “Recent ‘Attention-Grabbing’ Item”). That current new reality of suicide-bombing results from the fact that usually perpetrators and instigators of the suicide-bombings believe that both the present physical part and soul-part in each person are permanently connected; and they often believe that they will be rewarded in heaven for martyrdom. This present reality nowadays of lots of suicide-bombings backs up the idea of movement now from the “beliefs” phase to this new 4th phase, which emphasizes “helpful” actions–that would certainly discourage suicide-bombing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Chapter 5                                                                                                              Supportive, Logical Items                                                               The reason this divine system is so short and simple is so it applies to individuals  whenever and wherever their development and evolution exists, including on lots of planets throughout an extremely-large universe.  But this system also applies to beings such as those in all the earlier phases on planets like Earth too … since actions are simple, no matter who does them, even if the person isn’t literate–such helpful, compassionate actions were simple 50,000 years ago on planet Earth, and they’re simple now. When there is a rare planet in the vast universe in which species as complex and intelligent as humans exist, it figures that those species would exist in small groups at first (such as the hunter-gatherers who moved around on Earth until about 10,000 BC); to larger groups, which stayed in one place on Earth (that 2nd phase began around 10,000 BC); to individuals and groups who emphasize beliefs–since beliefs are helpful ways to reduce or eliminate uncertainty in the brain … to an eventual emphasis on a simpler divine system (around the year 2,000) which emphasizes helping people–or other intelligent species in the universe–get through life … when those intelligent species have evolved enough–and discovered enough scientifically and technologically–to conceptually move beyond their previous cultures and mentalities. People sometimes head in the wrong direction during their lives in the physical world on Earth, for which the consequence is likely a negative automatic justice (discussed more so in the Chapter 3). There has to be a really important point for a divinity in an eternal present to allow so much pain and suffering among Earth residents. The goal of eventual reunification with the divinity would be that important point–the likely soul-benefits of helpful actions are very major incentives for people to help others get through their lives. There’s been a steady increase in individual freedom among most people in many countries, so that now they have the necessary freedom to choose when to help self or others. In much earlier times, there wasn’t enough of this freedom–in the Dark and early Middle Ages, people were led by powerful political leaders.  The gradual increase in personal and political freedom over the last 800 years in some countries has also provided a future wherein many people can advance in whatever direction they choose in both scientific and spiritual areas. People are surrounded by particles that, like God, are unaffected by the passage of time: Photons, the particles that make up light, and therefore travel at the full speed of light … which has a speed of time much, much slower than the passage of time which humans have. The previous phase of human development–the “beliefs” phase–appears to have lasted about 800 years, from around 1200 till 2000. This seems like an extremely long time to humans (who almost entirely live less than 100 years), but not to a God in an eternal present: On a planet estimated by scientists to be  about 4.7 billion years old, that 3rd phase is only .00000575 of the entire time this planet has existed. It figures that in the huge universe many species throughout it had to advance to the point we’ve now reached in order to realize the system–and since God is in an eternal present, it is sensible that God knows exactly when each species is going to mature enough to understand the system; and since God is outside of time, it logically figures that it wouldn’t matter much to God how long that takes for each species on the various planets. A short, simple divine system would likely apply to all intelligent species in the universe. Since there could be much variety in those species, it is reasonable that the actual divine system is simple, so that it applies to all intelligent, self-aware species on any planets in the universe that HAVE intelligent species. There is now supportive data that could cause easier acceptance by more people of this system, and of its main focus–helping others (especially non-relatives) get through life. Belief that God exists can be important–because, without belief that God exists, one could think that this is NOT the actual system. And if one chooses not to help others during this life, there could likely be some future-lives negative consequences, as a result of automatic justice.  But the belief isn’t critical, but only pretty important–because some people help unrelated others often even if they don’t believe in God’s existence … and one’s actions, rather than belief, are the key to soul-advancement. Some of the famous names in science partly achieved that fame by connecting things which had previously been looked at as unconnected. An early example is Copernicus, whose explanation was that all the planets, including Earth, circled the sun–he proposed that all the planets in our solar system had similar circling actions and were therefore connected; this gradually replaced the Ptolemaic cosmological explanation that most of the other planets in the solar system circled Earth in a unique way. Then in the late 1600s Isaac Newton removed the separation between movements on Earth and in parts of space, by describing the universal law of gravity, which applied in all locations. In the mid-1800s James Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism; and in the early 1900s Albert Einstein showed there was a bridge between matter and energy in his “E=mc SQUARED equation. These scientists united separated items in the single field of science. Those connections in previous centuries, it turns out, led up to an ultimate, unexpected connection in the last half-century–between scientific data and the likely existence of an eternal God. In the previous beliefs-phase on Earth, most people felt that faith provided not only the necessary beliefs about God, but also provided answers about the human process too. Reason-based science applied reason not only to the human process, but usually denied that any initial faith-based premise even existed. But now in the second half of the twentieth Century, and early twenty-first–there’s a very major connection between belief in God’s existence, and reason: That’s emphasized by some recent scientific data, and some math that refers to the very early part of the first second of the “Big  Bang” theory; those indicate the likelihood of God’s existence. A threefold–rather than dualistic–viewpoint allows that while God certainly didn’t support the entire Bible (for example, scientific discoveries have contradictorily established that our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old, not just a little longer than the 6000 years since Adam and Eve were supposedly born), but that God  does exist. It’s not an “either/or” situation–as required by the dualistic thinking that contains opposites–but rather a three-part mental reality.                                                                  Technological advances and inventions occurred over the decades from 1920 to 1970–in which “talkie “ and color movies, then TV shows began. TV shows like Star Trek (plus its subsequent movie sequels), and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Star Wars movies, had stories or episodes that took for granted the travel of humans throughout the universe. But the fact is that the nearest other solar system is 4.3 light years away, which is roughly 25 trillion miles; so human travel throughout space outside our solar system seems extremely unlikely. Since the space age began in the late 1950s, the speed of travel in space hasn’t changed much in craft occupied by humans–18,000/25,000 miles per hour. The fastest speed for human-built, unmanned craft at this time is roughly 158,000 miles per hour. This is extremely slow compared to the speed of light–186,000 miles per second.  The speed will probably advance–but it seems very unlikely that spacecraft carrying humans would advance as fast as the speed of light.                                                                                             The enormous distance to the nearest solar system supports the idea that the universal system described in this book–emphasizing helpful actions–makes sense. The Guideposts’ title “His Mysterious Ways” (its subtitle is “More than Coincidence,” which is interestingly related to the 1st divine method mentioned earlier in this book)  provides a good example of the “projection” by earlier generations of people onto God … when it was believed that Earth was the center of the universe. But disregarding the gender-projection of the Guideposts’ title leads one to recognize the repetition–a number of times in the “His Mysterious Ways” essays–of God’s apparent assistance when a person is trying to provide help to others.                                                          Chapter 6 Many people believe in a forever-existence  after their present life, in a perfect place created by God called heaven–but heaven is only a variably temporary “playground” for almost all people at this point in human lives on Earth–their lengthy soul-progression almost always involves reincarnation. Now that scientific data in the 1960s has indicated that only God is eternal (not our universe), the increasing major definition of “eternal” is “outside of time.” This would mean that, in a universe which we now know–since the late 1970s–consists of billions of galaxies, and an estimated sextillions (21 zeroes) of planets, that God knows about creations throughout the huge universe and exists in an eternal present–so that every creation throughout time is apparently all existent for God at once. There is a quote by a scientist related to this: “Quantum physics is not just stranger than we think. It’s stranger than we can think.” The facts mentioned about God in the first paragraph of this essay–now that evidence indicates that only God is eternal, and therefore “outside of time”– also fit with that quote: The understanding of individual details by an eternally-present God in a very vast universe is WAY BEYOND the ongoing mental capacities of humans. But many people have advanced enough now intellectually–and matured enough emotionally–that they can now incorporate this realization about God … which is way beyond the earlier assumptions in religions about God’s qualities (those have been related to human natures in previous centuries and millenniums–through the practice of projection. (Ancient-Historical Support Item)   Some mid-twentieth century archaeological findings have established that humans probably started evolving more in the last 3.5 million years–Lucy, between 3 and 4 feet tall, whose bones were found in the 1960’s, was estimated as 3.4 million years old. But modern humans didn’t exist until 100,000 to 165,000 years ago; and human speech probably didn’t begin until roughly 100,000 to 500,000 years ago–at some point in the distant past there was likely a very gradual transition from grunts to speech. These factors back up the idea that charitable, compassionate acts  indicated an eternally-present God, since such acts are so simple and don’t require literacy or even speech. Such compassionate acts, even by “grunters,” would likely be noticed by a God outside of time. There would be a bridge between what archaeological science has determined and the kind, compassionate acts by all of these following people: very far past, somewhat past, fairly-recent past, present humans, and future ones.

Much of the 2012 essay–though significantly briefer than the preceding 2011 book, since it was the first online-attempt to express the same explanation (some items in the book are repeated exactly in this essay)–contained a very similar content of the system’s setup to the one in the book. Also, there were some new realizations, explanations, and supports in the Essay.

2012 Essay                                                                                             The Likely, Simple System Across The Universe  

Introduction                                                                    In the billions of galaxies we humans now know (since the 1970’s) are in our universe, scientists have estimated that there are sextillion (21 zeroes) of planets throughout the universe. If only one in a million of those planets had, has, or will have an intelligent species, that would add up to an estimated quadrillions (15 zeroes) of such planets; if only one out of a billion of those planets had, has, or will have intelligent life, there would still be trillions (12 zeroes) of such planets. A purpose of this essay is to consider what’s now known about the enormous size of our universe and the lengthy, approximately 4.6-billion-year history of planet Earth; to then use lo

gic and rationality to come up with the likely simple universal system … and in Part 2 apply that simple system to planet Earth’s development thus far.                                                Part One of the Essay: Chap.1–20th-Century Scientific Discoveries Which Indicate God’s Likely Existence, And Sole Eternalness. A major factor, according to the scientific method, is that things can’t be PROVEN if such things occurred before observations could be spread among people (before practices on Earth like writing, and maybe even speech, became possible). The phrase used here is that such things can only be “pointed to,” not proven. A similar example is this: In 1859, the theory of evolution was proposed by Charles Darwin. According to the scientific method, human evolution could only be “pointed to,” not proven, because it occurred so long ago; but hundreds of observations over the last century did prove the evolution of many smaller species. Those observations did “point to” the likelihood of the much earlier HUMAN evolution too. Eventually, in the early 1960’s, there was observable, scientific data which provided 2 “points to” indications of God’s existence: Observable, provable data related to the existence and continual expansion of a huge universe has indicated the likelihood of the “Big Bang” about 13.7 billion years ago. And it’s claimed by many physicists that the math indicates what to them is a reasonable estimate–that early in the first second of the “Big Bang,” the universe expanded from the small size of an atom to that of a galaxy …. or  somewhat smaller. Many physicists estimated that during the creation and annihilation of particles early in the first second the universe was undergoing a very fast rate of expansion, much faster than the speed of light. Those two factors–the creation of the universe, and a-much-faster-than-the-speed-of-light occurrence–“point to” the existence of God. Its difference from human evolution is this: Hundreds of provable, observable data of the evolution of other smaller species now “point to” the likely truth of human evolution … but at this point the major scientific data only provides 2 commonly-described items thus far which “point to” the existence of God. It’s often claimed by some people that science has PROVEN that God doesn’t exist. That claim for proof is through contradiction (such as the idea that there are no rare square circles, because squareness contradicts the roundness of circles.)  It’s considered by disbelievers that if God existed, God would prevent most evil on Earth. But there’s lots of evil throughout planet Earth, so the deductive concept is that God must not exist, because God’s existence would be a CONTRADICTION. … However, now that scientific information indicates that only God (not the universe)  is eternal–and since “eternal” is now defined as “outside of time”–a simple, universal system could be set up by a benevolent, eternally-present God “outside of time,” in which things such as evil (and tragic, understandable deaths on Earth from some natural disastrous events such as tornadoes, tidal waves, starvation, and earthquakes) could exist “inside time.” This variety of both good and evil occurrences in Nature on Earth also provides the  ongoing, Systemic-factor of some inner UN-certainty among humans. Besides the two scientific estimates which “point to” the existence of God, the first one–the “Big Bang”–indicates a brand-new, unexpected factor: that the universe we live in is NOT eternal. For millenniums, it’s been thought by most humans that the universe we’re in IS eternal. Since we humans live in the universe, and are obviously “inside time,” it was thought–by people who believed in God–that even though God was all-knowing about the past, present and future, God was also–like humans–“inside time.” But now that, since about 1960, humans began acquiring evidence that our universe was not eternal (only God is)–the definition of “eternal” in dictionaries has begun, more prominently, including the phrase “outside of time.” (For example, the dictionary– “The American Heritage College Dictionary” [3rd edition, Copyright 1993]–has, as its first definition of “eternal,” this: “Having no beginning or end; existing outside time”). It was commonly thought that our universe was also eternal, and obviously we who lived there weren’t “outside of time”… so it was almost always assumed that the eternal God was also “inside time”–but the definition of “eternal” in most dictionaries recently began including or emphasizing the phrase “outside-of-time,” which would put God in an obvious “eternal present.” That recent-definition of “eternal” indicates that an existent-God is “outside of time”–This can help reduce significantly the great increase in atheism on Earth recently, which has largely resulted from the evil and problems and pain people have to deal with (the System’s set-up included such things in the process) . The great increase in atheism these days is connected to the large spread of negative information these days worldwide; plus the widespread assumption that God is “inside time” (as people are). But now that scientific discoveries have led to the realization that God  is “outside of time”–not “inside time” as humans are–the atheism partly-resulting from the contradiction that an “inside time” God should be all-good, and prevent the negative occurrences on Earth (since the bad things which occur on Earth are obvious and visible to humans)–it’s seemly logic doesn’t add up to the contradiction of God’s existence, because God is, as we now know (over the last 40-50 years), actually “outside time.” Atheism has during previous millenniums been considered a NON-belief, but the concept that God does NOT exist is also in the category of “beliefs” (like many religious beliefs, it provides for some people the desired, internal sense of strong certainty). Even a person’s belief that God doesn’t exist doesn’t prevent soul-advancement, and possibly future soul-rewards if that person chooses to take actions which help others get through life, but it has one large disadvantage: the disbelief in God’s existence could make this simple system very hard to accept for those people, which could lead to a greater rejection of helping others through actions, and being somewhat harmful to other people–the possible result of that choice during the next life (or later lives … who [besides God] knows?) is called “automatic justice.” Chap. 2: The Probable Simple Universal System Set Up By God It’s sensible that a God who was able to create such a HUGE universe (billions of galaxies exist in it, we now know since the 1970’s) is all-powerful–it’s also understandable that the eternal God is “outside of time” (now that there is scientific evidence which indicates that our universe is not eternal, but DID begin “inside time” in what’s called the “Big Bang” about 13.7 billion years ago.) Before our universe was created (by the God outside-of-time in a constant “eternal present”) it stands to reason that God put together a simple system for the future trillions of intelligent residents throughout that universe. So that eternal souls could be first sent out from inside God (or–who knows?– were created at some point by God, since God was apparently the only thing which existed back before this universe), and could then gradually achieve soul-advancement in repetitive soul-reincarnation through helpful ACTS. That process could occur logically through the universe if the temporary physical beings which contained eternal souls could advance their souls through helpful, charitable acts toward others. In order to produce that process across the universe, it’s sensible that intelligent species would all be created with this following essence–a strong preference for certainty, and a loathing for uncertainty. That’s the key element of the universal divine system. Here’s why it seems likely that a simple universal system was set up with greater uncertainty in species that very much liked certainty: Easily-discerned, obvious certainty right from the beginning about God would have had MUCH TOO LARGE an influence on the choices made throughout time by individuals about whether and how often to be helpful toward others. If God’s desires for people to be helpful were obviously certain, each soul-advancement through an individual’s choice would not be as dependent on people’s independent decisions to help others get through life–because absolute-certainty by individuals that there was obviously God’s existence, power and importance would often be more applied to each being’s decisions to choose helpful-actions than uncertainty by each individual. That would result in repetitive automatic soul-advancement, rather than various, plus-or-minus choices about acts of helpfulness by individuals. For example: there is a recent scientific claim which provides a contradiction to the existence of God. But it makes sense that such a claim would occur nowadays, at roughly around the same time that some current scientific evidence was used in this online essay (and in the previous 2011 book, “Helpful Acts In New Phase”) to back up this explanation of a simple divine system. That incorrect conclusion could further induce the system’s necessary sense of uncertainty in some people–so that helpful acts would mostly rely on an individual’s independent choices, not primarily on one’s belief about God’s preferences. To insure the necessary background concept of uncertainty in intelligent species, God’s first method of operation seemed to be that “everything has to look like it COULD be just a coincidence.”  This first method explains how God could produce uncertainty, but still be very frequently able to get involved in helping out individuals; also, that desire for uncertainty also explains why such a lengthy time was needed for universe-existence, in which things (like evolution) can very gradually occur; it prevents the conclusion that the present or recent observable situation was put together by God to occur in the relatively quick time-period that people could better relate to. God’s second method is apparently soul-reincarnation. That second method provided an ongoing sense of uncertainty among intelligent species … so that God’s plan insures that individuals would make independent decisions to help some others get through their lives. It’s certainly impossible for species to know when various former souls enter new physical beings–but in the extremely-lengthy time frame of places like Earth, recurrent soul-reincarnation is reasonable about individuals’ eternal souls in the recurrent physical lives which are tremendously shorter than the universe’s and Earth’s time-length. Chap. 3: The Likely Results From Positive Or Negative Acts                                                                                                                                                            These next two outcomes result from positive choices to perform helpful acts toward others in the simple system: If an individual prudently chooses to help certain others get through their lives, (the certainty of that benefit is questionable in the present, and almost always in the future too (it’s future definiteness is slightly uncertain, since humans are “inside time”) the benefit would probably be a much longer stay in certainty-surroundings outside of the uncertainty of physical life; another benefit might be that the future physical world would likely be a more pleasant place for souls to be reincarnated into, because of more charitable, compassionate society-wide choices made by masses of people. If, instead, a physical person chose to harm others, there would be what’s called here “automatic justice” … the soul inside a harmful person would usually quickly re-enter it’s next physical life (with it’s existent uncertainty) after the end of the previous physical life  … and in that next life, the eternal soul which had, in the previous life, been in a physical being which had chosen to be rather harmful to many others, would probably be born into a physical being which would immediately or eventually have to deal with significant mental or physical difficulties. “Automatic justice” repeatedly provides situations in which those who have resources and abilities can help those who don’t–such as victims of natural disaster or crime, those in poor physical or mental health, poverty-stricken individuals, and people in dozens of other unfortunate circumstances. “Automatic justice” provides here a form of what’s called a “perpetual-motion machine”–it ensures ongoing regular negative situations in the outer, physical world so universal intelligent species–like Earth’s humans–have continuous future opportunities to practice kindness toward those less fortunate, whose souls might have formerly gone through “automatic justice,” as a result of negative actions by former physical beings. Part Two of the Essay:           Earth’s Connection … It’s Transition Time Has Arrived                                                                                                                                                               Introduction In Chapter 2, this was said: “… it’s likely that intelligent species were all created with this following essence … a strong preference for certainty, and a loathing for uncertainty.” In a universal system set-up which relies on certainty vs. uncertainty in intelligent beings, the transition to an emphasis on helpful acts (which contains observable surety in the present (and almost always in the distant future]) could occur on planets like Earth after things such as differing beliefs were no longer required to provide some of the supposed certainty–because science and technology have advanced enough in the current modernized world to provide the comforting, observable certainty instead of the background uncertainty inside brains, which is summarized by this question “What’s Going On?”(reflective in various centuries prior to the 20th by the unknown shape of Earth, the hundreds of stars in space which were visible, the possible age and size of the universe, etc. Phases–There have been 3 lengthy previous phases on Earth: Initially, there was the hunter-gatherer phase (when speech began), which lasted through the early millions of years until around 10,000  BC. That was followed by the 2nd phase … in which people began living in one place year-round, relied on agriculture; and then–at times during the next 11,200 years–formed towns, cities, societies, had wealthy people and warfare, and political people or entities which strove for power. That’s also when people began writing … and forming religions. That phase lasted till around 1200 A.D. The beliefs-emphasis phase, the 3rd one: Beginning around 1200 A.D., humans in Europe began gradually emphasizing beliefs much more. (There were certainly beliefs prior to 1200 A.D., but beliefs didn’t dominate as much back then–they were apparently emphasized more in Europe as very important after around 1200 A.D.) The beliefs-emphasis phase was most noticeable historically in Europe by 1517 A.D., when the Reformation began with Martin Luther. During the next few centuries, there were many more Protestant sects formed–helping people out through actions had various levels of importance in each one, but each of those sects emphasized beliefs first. Increasingly, people tried hard to convert others to the system they believed in; that was considered more normal back then. And the “beliefs” phase provided a very helpful change for much of humanity. A simple explanation is this: In the 1200 years prior to that phase, there was very little change in humans–there continued to be much savagery, barbarism, mistreatment, starvation, very small growth in technology, etc. (much of the previous 800 prior years is referred to as the “Dark Ages”). Then–very gradually for the first few centuries after 1200 A.D. (and more and more quickly in subsequent centuries)–there were ENORMOUS advances .. the terrible things lessened in many parts of the world, freedom increased, economics improved, science began having much more influence after1500-1600 A.D., science and technology very gradually (and then substantially in the 20th Century) increased, and helpful, charitable actions by people toward other people increased significantly. The eight centuries that the previous 3rd phase lasted, from about 1200 to about 2000, was an understandable length of time back in the previous millennium. But now–in the 21st Century–the 4th phase can be much shorter throughout this planet (more or less than 200 years?)…since almost every place on Earth can be easily communicated to now when describing this short, simple system … through things like the Internet and phones. So now Earth is ready to make the transition to an emphasis of helpful actions early in this 21st Century. It also figures that a time for emphasis on a different phase is starting now–the two major factors which indicate this are the large growth in atheism worldwide nowadays; and the belief by some people–largely in the Middle East– that the  U.S. 9/11 disaster in 2001, and many suicide-bombings, are preferred and rewarded by God. The explanation of this logical, simple system in this essay on the need for much more of certain behaviors (helpful acts–to help people get through their lives) might greatly reduce those recent deadly increases in negative beliefs and negative action.                                                                                                                                                                                                    Chapter 4                                                      Examples On Earth Of Probable Instances Of God’s 1st Method . Here are 3 very large earlier examples on Earth which reflect the presence of God’s first likely method, (the insistence on uncertainty, described in Chap. 2) that “everything has to look like it could have been a coincidence.” Early in Earth’s existence (about 4 billion years ago) it’s thought by many scientists that it rained for centuries–which they say is why there are now oceans.            Secondly, another scientific concept is that there was only 2-4% oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere a few billion years ago. The claim is that back then this planet’s atmosphere mostly consisted of carbon dioxide, like Venus has now. Evolutionary biologists have indicated that about 3.5 billion years ago, on Earth, some single-celled bacteria named prokaryotes seemed to have evolved. They had no nucleus. Those still exist, in groups in parts of the Earth, in  colonies inside swampy, shallow water–they don’t use oxygen. Then, around the years 3 to 2.5  billion years, some prokaryotes mutated–they still absorbed carbon dioxide, but were now able to practice photosynthesis, exuding oxygen. Gradually the atmosphere changed; the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere significantly increased by about 2.3 billion years ago; it is now about 21% oxygen. There was enough oxygen at some point in ancient times to block–with an ozone layer–the harmful rays of the sun. That allowed the survival of more complex organisms. About 1.5 billion years ago single-celled eukaryotes evolved–they DO have a nucleus.  And then about 600 million years ago double-celled and eventually multi-celled organisms (the Precambrian explosion, roughly 570 million years ago) evolved and survive.                                                                                                         Thirdly, a mathematical lecture described a sequence of numbers called the Fibonacci numbers–1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 …–the sequence was named after an early thirteenth century mathematician. The numbers in the sequence consist of the sum of the two numbers before any given number–so, for example, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, and so on. The lecturer noted that these numbers corresponded to the number of spirals that could be seen as overlaying the following natural objects: on the outside of a pinecone, there are 5 spirals in one direction, and 8 in the opposite direction; on the outside of a pineapple, 8 and 13; emanating from the center of a coneflower, 13 and 21; from a daisy’s central area, 21 and 34; from a small sunflower’s center, 34 and 55; and from the center of a large sunflower, 55 and 89. The lecturer called these “nature’s numbers.” Again, the first method of God mentioned in Part One was “Everything has to look like it could have been a coincidence” (in order to establish uncertainty)–so a question related to that method which also covers the three previous examples on Earth is this: Did God intervene to produce those factors in the first two examples billions of years ago, and then thousands, or millions of years ago during the evolution of some plants in order to produce the Fibonacci numbers? The answer is “maybe yes/maybe no”… that answer indicates the original uncertainty of the simple system. (Are there other universes?–“maybe yes, maybe no.”) Those initial three prior examples indicate a God “outside of time,” in an eternal present; those examples are massive, and apply worldwide. Here’s a more recent example, from the essay “His Mysterious Ways,” (it’s subtitle, “More Than Coincidence” is a good indication of the idea that religious beliefs emphasize the much-preferred certainty inside people) in the Nov. 2002 issue of “Guideposts”,  by a U. S. Marine commander, describing an incident in “Operation Desert Storm” outside Kuwait, in early 1991 in eastern Saudi Arabia: The commander of 130 Marines stated that one day his unit marched to the Kuwait border. He felt a rain drop, then another. It rained for days. On the day of the initial invasion, the rain stopped, and the sun shone. The last two sentences in that essay were these–“The torrential rains had washed away the sand to reveal metal disks planted all across our path. It was an Iraqi minefield.” … Coincidence? Or did God intervene? Again–in order to have uncertainty–the answer would be “maybe yes/maybe no.” (All of those four previous events on Earth apply to lots of people. The events that are more important to each person are those which happen only to that individual [or perhaps to a family member]. Those make the “maybe yes/maybe no” aspect of this divine method–the fact that things could be a coincidence–more noticeable and important to individual people. Small, INDIVIDUAL examples vary from person to person; so it is worth thinking about how God’s initial method applies to him or her alone). Chapter 5                                                                       Humans’ Emphasis On Supposed Certainty Through Beliefs … And Then Some Scientific/Technological Advances Which Produced Observable Certainties Later  As a reaction to the strongly-disliked uncertainty throughout the last few millenniums, humans have emphasized the much-preferred certainty through religious beliefs. There was also these two supposed certainty-ideas: that Earth was definitely flat and the center of the universe … rather than the UN-certainties people had to face–like the enormous number of visible surrounding stars in space, the supposed flatness of Earth, and how old and big the universe actually was. It’s totally understandable that the strong need for certainty by humans led people to form religions worldwide throughout previous history, but now things have changed–the introduction of certainty these days through science, astronomy, and technological developments makes the movement to a certainty of human actions “inside time”–rather than beliefs–sensible. A major source of uncertainty for humans during the previous millenniums was the nature of God. The primary method in that subject used to insure the sense of certainty which people strongly desire is what’s referred to here as “projection” … the supposed nature of God was often described by “projecting” onto God exaggerated qualities that humans HAD in much smaller ways. Since humans could thus directly relate to those qualities,  they could feel about God greater emphasis on much-preferred certainty. Humans projected onto God–in addition to qualities of being–the idea that creation began back in a time-period that people could relate to. A key example was the slightly-more than 6000 years age of the universe based on the lifetime lengths of the people referred to in the Bible’s first chapter Genesis (in the seventeenth century, the deacon Ussher read Genesis carefully, and stated that the universe was created at night preceding Sunday, October 23rd, in 4004 BC–that definite specificity was a strong focus on certainty). It was also figured for centuries by many people that the first human beings in God’s creation were Adam and Eve, and that Earth was the center of the universe … there was also gender-projection onto God (“HE”). Also, that God had this projected extended human quality–God “judged” people after they died and sent them FOREVER to either heaven or hell (rather than the uncertainty-nature of reincarnation). (Another ancient example of human desire for certainty that does not involve God is this: China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di–who lived from 259 BC to 210 BC–had thousands of life-size terra-cotta warriors armed with bronze weapons buried near his tomb to protect him for all eternity.) Atheism is figured as a non-belief,  but it IS a belief that there is NO God. However, interestingly, there is a similar factor in both religious and atheistic groups: the desire for complete, total certainty. Here’s the connection: Atheism provides to many people an enlarged sense of certainty–for example, they are not afraid of being sent forever to hell by God after death because of their belief that there is NO God. And the much-increased information nowadays about the entire world’s events explains why there’s been–because of the common belief that the supposed God must be “inside time”– a large increase worldwide in atheistic belief recently. Atheism provides the SAME belief among people worldwide (like the sameness of helpful acts)–rather than the many different religious beliefs. But it too is a belief; and is therefore also subject to the change now for the sameness of strong certainty provided by more helpful acts. Similarly, the concept of heaven/hell (mentioned earlier, in the “projection” onto God) also produces a much-enlarged sense of certainty for “believers”–that there is only a person’s present physical life and then they will be “judged” by God–to be sent forever to either heaven or hell (or to purgatory for a while, and then, eventually, to heaven). The gradual, previous-centuries increase in observable certainty on Earth through the advance of science/technology is obviously not directly connected to God–because if it was, that would violate the concept that the “helpful acts” decisions have to be independently arrived at by individuals. Until Magellan’s crew voyaged westward in 1519-1522, it was almost entirely considered by humans that the world was basically flat. But after sailing across the Pacific ocean, Magellan encountered ships in the Phillippines that had travelled eastward–which indicated that the world was round, not flat. Magellan was killed in the Phillippines in the Battle of Macton in 1521, but his crew then circumnavigated westward around the rest of the world, and came to Portugal. In 1543, Copernicus released his book “De Revolutionibus”, in which it’s claimed that our sun (not our planet) was the center of the universe. It’s largely thought that the reason he didn’t release the book until he was on his deathbed was because he felt he would be tortured for claiming that the sun (not our planet Earth) was the universe’s center. This concept was further claimed in the early 1600’s, after the telescope’s invention–then about 70 years later it was claimed by some that not even our Sun was the center of the universe (and we now know that even our entire galaxy is not the center of the universe). However, the relatively slow technological progression of things like the telescope in the 17th through 19th centuries is indicated by this: Even as late as1920, there was a debate in which a scientist claimed this often-believed fact back then … that the universe had only 1 galaxy–the Milky Way. But in 1919, the astronomer Edwin Hubble began using the 100” telescope (built in 1917) at Mt. Wilson, California. Around 1923 he first stated there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way. In 1929 he said there were millions of galaxies. Then in the late 1970’s–since larger, clearer telescopes had been constantly developed over the previous decades–it was stated that there were actually BILLIONS of galaxies. The technological advances in humanity over the 20th Century are further indicated by this following factor: Many photos of those galaxies were taken in the 1990’s and 2000’s by the Hubble telescope, which was on a spacecraft that traveled around Earth. More info about the 20th-Century’s “Big Bang” theory … In 1927 and 1929, it was proposed that the universe wasn’t eternal, as God was (both were commonly believed by many people), but our universe actually began at a certain point in time. This was ignored by the vast majority of scientists, and most other people. In 1949, the theory was  spelled out. The majority of scientists thought it was untrue, and it was said by opponents that this new theory claimed that the universe had begun with a “big bang” about 14 billion years ago (the theory’s creator or creators thought the phrase “big bang” was a good one, and so it stayed). Then in the early 1960 s Americans began launching unmanned rockets into space, and measurements revealed that the temperature was about the same throughout the space around Earth. As is often the case, when data leads to an unexpected conclusion, the data is sometimes disbelieved or considered incomplete–but it  supported the idea, to physicists, that the universe had a beginning. Then, scientific data–compiled primarily by scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964–referred to what’s called the cosmic microwave background radiation. They were certain that the radiation they detected on a wavelength of 7.35 centimeters did not come from the Earth, or the Sun, or our Galaxy-they got a Nobel Prize for this in 1978. In 1965, those same scientists discerned that throughout space the temperature seemed pretty much the same … 2.7 degrees Kelvin–2.7 degrees above absolute zero. The Penzias and Wilson data in 1964 and 1965  backed up the “Big Bang” theory (initially brought up by Georges LeMaitre–a college professor about physics and astronomy in Belgium–in 1927; and then supported by Hubble in 1929, after his discovery that the entire universe was still expanding). Much more data collected in decades after the 1960’s led to the vast majority of current scientists agreeing that the universe wasn’t eternal, but began about 13.7 billion years ago.                                                                                             Chapter 6                                              Helpful Acts Foreword … When an intelligent species in the universe has progressed far enough so that it has become capable of developing technological equipment and scientific understandings; it probably then learns about this simple rational divine system. There’s apparently often an internal switch in an intelligent, self-conscious species from an emphasis on beliefs to an emphasis on rationality. A related explanation: When self-aware species, rarely–but occasionally–exist on certain planets in the universe, and have reached the technological ability to confirm that the universe actually consists of millions or billions of galaxies, and communication is possible from various places throughout that planet … word seems to start circulating throughout that planet about how species can achieve soul-advancement. Beliefs vary from culture to cuture; whereas helpful acts are visible … and so they provide a WORLDWIDE sense of  certainty (in the present, and usually throughout the future too)–which matters more now, since our entire world (containing many various beliefs in different countries) is connected at this point via economics and the Internet. Evidence of a current “switch” factor … Back in the 1950s, a common phrase in the U.S. was “Faith, Hope, Charity.” Faith (belief) was #1, charity was #3. Now that order of emphasis is similar, but reversed–it now needs to be switched to “Charity, Hope, Faith.” (One’s action of charity should be mostly rather prudent, in choosing recipients–that would help avoid the possibility of getting taken advantage of by some people, which might eliminate future helpful acts by that person). Eventually, a much greater sense of certainty can be achieved in this simple system through lots of helpful acts; and the switch to an emphasis on helpful acts, rather than just on belief, needs to happen at this point on planet Earth; one major reason is because Earth’s population went from about 3 billion in 1960 to more than 7 billion now, in 2012 The religion Unitarianism began around 1540 among some people, but wasn’t institutionally formed in the U.S.until 1825–and Universalism, which started in 1791, was later formed institutionally in the U.S. in 1866.  Those two religions merged in 1961, and were referred to as UU. Neither religion insisted on members having a particular spiritual BELIEF–and at some time in the  following years, those merged religions engaged in greater emphasis on the charitable action of helping others. This was the first large institution which focused on actions rather than beliefs–and there are now over 1100 UU churches in the U.S., 50 in Canada, plus a few dozen across the world. *The onset of the women’s liberation movement began in the later 1960s in the U.S.. That switch, fairly recently, makes a lot of sense just before a new spiritual system begins–partially because the older spiritual systems are male-dominated. Women are also somewhat more likely to choose to adhere to this action-oriented new system in the future, because, worldwide, they usually perform lots of helpful acts to their own children.                                                                                                                       There was a major factor in Jesus’ emphasis during his life (and probably also in his past soul-lives, but only the eternally-present God would know when that was the case) which is also the primary major factor in this actual divine system–helping others get through life: Examples are the Good Samaritan parable, and the miracles done by God–through Jesus, who appears to be an extremely soul-progressed person–on things such as disabilities (like blindness and lameness) in people. And then, in addition to lots of the human-preferred beliefs (such as the centuries-long assumption that Earth was the center of the universe), the helping-others-get-through-life emphasis was passed on in the Christian religions that followed Jesus’ life. His entire life wasn’t perfect (that’s not possible for physical beings), but Jesus’ life was very excellent, and he greatly “got the job done”–helping people, and encouraging other humans to do the same for centuries after his life.                                                 Jesus had it right, in his parable about the Good Samaritan–the Samaritan acted in a way that helped out a person in need, regardless of the cultural and religious differences between him and the injured guy. There are at least 2 indicators in the “His Mysterious Ways”essays in the “Guidepost” issues of 2001 to 2007, that God was possibly backing up Jesus big-time–including one from February 2006,  in which a fire set deliberately on an old house for training a crew in Alabama would not ignite only one room (the room in which there was a portrait of Jesus) … when that portrait was removed, the fire burned the entire room immediately. How come God appeared to be backing up Jesus? Here’s a possible answer: Jesus regularly practiced an advanced prime act of this simple divine system during his life–helping others get through life. Part of a quote made by G.K. Chesterton in his 1908 book “All Things Considered” was this: “Earth is a task garden.” That phrase backs up an emphasis on helpful-acts during one’s present life on Earth. This is something author James Meredith wrote back in 1869: “A human act once set in motion goes on forever to the great account.” His description of the importance of an act fits with the transition nowadays from beliefs-emphasis to acts-emphasis. Here’s a much older quote: “When you seek happiness for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” It’s estimated that the quote first showed up around 750 B.C. In this new system, in which a practical combination of looking after oneself and looking after others is sought, there is a one-word addition to this ancient statement: The beginning would be “When you ONLY seek happiness for yourself …” “Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”   Natalie Angier, Pulitzer-Prize winning “N.Y. Times” reporter, describing a recent study of the neurological effects of behavior on brain chemistry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           A related historical factor … another centuries-long transition at this time                                                                                                                                            In addition to a switch now from beliefs-emphasis to helpful acts-emphasis, this historic-info is about another recent transition on Earth now: There’s been a centuries-long books-printing process on Earth which older readers have long been used to. That began after the beginning of book-production and print-pressing around 1439, through inventor Johannes Gutenberg; it gradually led to the spread of learning among masses of people. … Now there’s a worldwide, online method that middle-aged and younger readers are used to; that transfer from books came about as a result of what’s called the “digital revolution” (which mostly began back in the 1990’s–a meaningful example of an effect of the “Internet” is the fact that, in centuries-long writings, the standard way one began a new paragraph was to begin writing one line down, after skipping the first five spaces in that line; transfers of former writings to the Internet now consists of automatic 2 line skips down, with no skipping of the first 5 spaces in the new paragraph). Middle-aged and younger readers have been exposed to much briefer explanations and supports during their lives than older people such as this explanation’s 61-year-old author. Older U.S. people have always been used to longer, printed books rather than the many brief explanations readable now online; that change from lengthier books is understandable, because these days there’s a much faster pace in many people’s lives in most countries. ___________________________________________________________________________ In May 2013, this subject continued being arranged and sent out in an unexpected, much briefer, new way: the author’s son Daniel put together in that month this website–it is titled <<helpfulacts.info>> . Now, through a website, this divine system’s simple explanation can be accessed in the entire world–with a quick conversion of it by the different readers into their languages (there are 71 languages presently available worldwide on this website [thanks to the “Google” company]). WRITING an explanation of the numerous logical parts of this System is complex, takes a very-long time, requires lots of intelligence, and a thorough, intensive, early  education; also, the time must be available in one’s later-life to focus and gradually write-out this apparent System-explanation. All of those lifetime-factors match this 62 years-old author’s history. Then, the much-briefer 2012 online Essay ((titled “The Apparent, Simple Universal System”)  … was often much briefer–because it was my first online writing. Then, in 2013, various Attachments and Historical, Related Quotes were added to this website.                                                                                                 It’s obvious that there are some “beliefs” in this System that are not provable (since those things believed in have existed eternally, or were created long before “provability” was possible [based on the 1620-appraisal by Sir Thomas Bacon] in his book “Novum  Organum”)   –such as the existence of an eternal God–who is  all-Knowing, “outside-of-time,” and ETERNALLY-present … and who created billions of years ago this enormous, billions-of-galaxies universe. And the belief-concept that the human soul–unlike our physical beings–IS eternal, and subject to the described possibility of positive or negative “automatic justice” in future lives of the physical, “inside-time” beings which have Eternal SOULS However, in spite of these UN-certainties, this System’s set-up description is logical and makes sense–particularly after the scientific indications in the previous 50 years of the “inside time” universe and its billions of galaxies–which is why this seemingly-likely System has been described at length. Mainly, this next factor led to this “explanation”: “Helpful-acts” are SIMPLE (not  complex), and can be accomplished by almost all adults & teenagers (regardless of each person’s amounts of education) across the entire planet Earth. The many advances accomplished by humans in history (partly explained in this website) reflects the gradual advances in Earth’s civilization over thousands of years (especially in the last century); however, the eventual simplicity-emphasis explains this progression of understanding and behavior on one planet in a HUGE universe, over lots of time.                                                                                                                                                                                               _________________________________________________________________________                                                                                                                                     The former 2011 Book and the very similar–but much briefer–2012 online-Essay reflect another gradual transition on our planet … from the 574-year-long book-writing & publishing phase (which began around 1439, with the invention back then of repeated-printing by Johannes Gutenberg) to a much briefer, global, online-feature. The 2011 book contained 84 5-inch by 7-inch pages, while the online Essay was only 15 7-inch by 8.5 inch pages, and the focus of those two on this subject eventually led to an even-briefer, description about this System-and the even more-brief description was put on this website for readers globally. There are now 71 easily-accessible languages for readers across Earth, thanks to the company Google.                            The Modern Attachments by the author, and the Historical Quotes by various people–most of whom formerly lived–were gradually added since April 2013–to help increase worldwide understandings of connections to this short and simple divine System.