How It All Works & How We Fit In: Where We Came from * What We're Doing Here * Where We're Going

By Don Kerr

Don Kerr www.donkerr.com
Jane Roberts SETH books taught us that we create our reality through our beliefs. Richard Bachs books showed us that space and time are illusions which we create and which then reflect back to us, usually surprising us along the way!

Written by a practicing architect who enjoys seeing how things go together, this book explores many areas of wonderment:

Where did we come from? What are we doing here? Where does it all lead? Is this reincarnation stuff for real? And what, for Heavens sake, does time is an illusion mean to our time-obsessed generations? Can anyone help us understand any of this?

And then there are ghosts, the light at the end of the tunnel, near-death experiences, possession, ouija boards, astral travel. A lot of stuff to consider, or be repelled by.

Asked by a confused young woman in the New Age section of a bookstore in Montral if the author had any idea where a beginner should start reading to avoid the garbage, he suggested several titles in which he had confidence, but realized that there really was nothing on any shelves at that time like HOW IT ALL WORKS which could pull all the strings together into a lifeline. What was needed was something that could give one an overview of the related thinking of the streamspsychic theorems, unexplained observations and experiences, odd practices, the speculations of theoretical physicswhich would avoid nonsensical invention.

And it would have to be daring, because we live in a society and culture where we have been brought up to believe a large number of things on faith which simply dont hold up to thoughtful examination. And that can be daunting. There was a time when owning this book would have had you imprisoned. It was clever of you to incarnate in a historic period when you can enjoy this speculation without looking over your shoulder!

This book will try to answer your questions, will look at what we know so far, what the implications are of that knowledge, and how we can adjust our lives so that they better fit our dreams. And we can.

Simple illustrations show ways to visualize several of the concepts.

Written with a lively sense of humor, the text will challenge your programming, but will gently guide you to a place where you will know that lifes challenges have purpose and meaning, and nothing is hidden from you in a neutral Universe that somehow cares. You just have to take off your blinders.

Life is adventuresome, and it is us who make it appear any way we wish. Choose well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 22, 2004
• ISBN: 9781462825707

Don Kerr

Don Kerr is the author of numerous poetry collections, plays, and short stories. He served on the Saskatoon Public Library Board for eleven years, and as chair for five of those years. He was the first chair of the Saskatoon Heritage Society and the first chair of the Saskatoon Municipal Heritage Committee. He was also the Saskatchewan governor for the Heritage Canada Foundation. He lives in Saskatoon.

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HOW IT ALL WORKS &

HOW WE FIT IN

• Where We Came From

• What We’re Doing Here

• Where We’re Going

DON KERR

Copyright © 2004 by Don Kerr.

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Contents

FOREWORDS 1

FOREWORDS 2

BACKGROUNDS

CHAPTER 1

The Concept of God—and

The Problem

CHAPTER 2

The Concept of the Universe

CHAPTER 3

We Come In

CHAPTER 4

Our Team Creates The Universe

CHAPTER 5

Rainbows

CHAPTER 6

Both Universes?

CHAPTER 7

Universe one: The Physical

CHAPTER 8

Universe Two: The Thought

CHAPTER 9

The Nature of Space

CHAPTER 10

The Nature of Time

CHAPTER 11

The Mind & The Brain

CHAPTER 12

Spirals

IMPLICATIONS

CHAPTER 13

Life Is … A School

CHAPTER 14

Reincarnation

CHAPTER 15

Group Reincarnations

CHAPTER 16

Free Will

CHAPTER 17

Predisposition

CHAPTER 18

Guidance

CHAPTER 19

Accidents

CHAPTER 20

Astrology

CHAPTER 21

Disease

CHAPTER 22

Ethics

CHAPTER 23

Responsibility, Karma & Entropy

CHAPTER 24

Meditation

CHAPTER 25

Death

CHAPTER 26

How We Connect With God

CHAPTER 27

Iridology, Phrenology, Reflexology & Palm Reading

CHAPTER 28

The Implications & Challenges of Physical Beauty

CHAPTER 29

Empowerment

CHAPTER 30

Afterwords

ENDNOTES

I dedicate this book to my

wonderful and supportive family,

to my teachers the late

Jane Roberts and Richard Bach,

who made everything clarify,

and to all who seek to understand.

FOREWORDS 1

How does it all work?

What does it all mean?

Is there any sense or order to life, or is the purpose of our life time essentially meaningless? Are we really made of clay, as some proclaim? Ashes-to-ashes, dust-to-dust—a brief twinkling on an anonymous stage?

On the other hand, if we accept that there is sense and meaning to our lives, then we must accept that there is some sort of determining structure underneath everything. This presupposes an intelligence in there somewhere. And if we accept that, we must wonder not only about the who who organized it all, but what the conditions were which made it worthwhile to undertake it, how it was done in the first place, and—most importantly—how we personally fit in.

When we’re young, sooner or later we ask big people these questions. They’re the authorities, after all, on everything. But we soon discover that we get different answers from different people on every big question. So we pick a path and usually we stick to it—faith incarnate. And, as the clock turns, we become the big people ourselves, and we pass on the wisdom we have accepted as if it were fact.

Sometimes things happen which cause us to question our beliefs. Sometimes we change or modify them because of that. But usually we avoid looking at them, because it’s easier, or less threatening, or we’ve been told we can’t. Stuff just is. Life’s like that.

I am an architect, and my professional career has been creating designs on blank pieces of paper to suit peoples’ needs. I have always sought to make them beautiful, and to make them buildable. I have been told how people live, and how they want to live, and I have interpreted these wishes to the best of my ability in the creation of shelter. But I have never forgotten that there is a higher goal to keep in mind: the expansion of knowledge, art, and experience.

This book is a design, too. Its intent is also to expand knowledge, art, and experience. You will judge if I have succeeded.

I strongly believe that we have the right to know what our lives are all about—what the big design is, in other words—that we have the opportunity to know, and, perhaps, the obligation.

What makes things tick?

I’ll admit that you don’t need to know the answer to that. You don’t need to experience or appreciate art or music, architecture or literature to have a busy life. But it cannot be a fulfilling life, in my opinion, without the enrichments that generations of experience have brought to our communal table. I believe that a truly satisfying life must include everything which enhances our experience, opens our eyes and our hearts, and shows us that this whole wonderful place, and our experience in it, has a depth of meaning which is both deeply gratifying and magical.

Your right-to-know is something that you gained by the fact of your incarnation—by being born, in other words. Your participation in the life process on this plane we call earth gives you that.

The opportunity-to-know is in the available evidence all around us. When you really start looking, you will be surprised at how obvious it actually is, and always has been.

The obligation-to-know comes in simply being responsible for ourselves.

All of these parameters form the basis of this book.

We will see that the Universe and our life within it has apparently been structured to be an ordered, happy and beautiful thing. That is often not our personal experience, as you know. But it makes our life time far less apparently chaotic, random and frightening when we realize that—regardless of appearances— it actually is none of these things.

This is a difficult concept to get our heads around when we are first introduced to it. We are so conditioned to accept what we see (or think we see) as objective reality which exists in spite of us that many never question it. It just is. Or so we may think!

What we want to discuss in this book, then, is straightforward: life is not chaotic (even when it seems to be); concerns about random meaninglessness turn out to be not seeing the forest for the trees; being frightened is almost always being uninformed. Ignorance is not a blissful as it’s cracked up to be … .

I can hear you say: prove it.

That’s a fair question—all questions are—and I could invoke the weasel clause and ask you to prove that love exists. Or that you exist. In this book all I can hope to do is set out my arguments, present the evidence, and leave it to you to decide whether or not it resonates in your mind and with your observations.

Give yourself credit: we all have an innate ability to sense what feels right and what doesn’t, and that innate sense is usually correct. This sensing ability, usually at loggerheads with our learned responses, is commonly called intuition, and it acts like one of those cartoon consciences whispering in our ears. You know the kind: one ear listens to a tiny character with a halo, and the other hears one with horns and a little pitchfork. Hollywooden morality plays! We can ignore this innate sense if we wish, but paying attention can yield surprising benefits.

There are good reasons behind making an effort to understand all this. Call it learning-on-the-job, if you wish. In any case, it won’t be overly painful to get to know ourselves—big or little—better.

We might also note that the bottom line (as accountants and fashion magazines say) is what WE think. Each one of us. No one’s thoughts are, or can be, more important to us than our own. And this is the way that it should be, because all of this so-called reality is ours, and we are responsible for it. As we get to know our context and ourselves better, the pieces of this puzzle should start to fit together.

FOREWORDS 2

In this book, we’ll delve into topics such as God, physics, personal accountability, and reincarnation. Big words, big concepts—but accessible to us. To read this book, you should retain a healthy skepticism; you don’t have to believe in these things at all. But my author-itarian position is that thoughtful consideration of the issues raised will inevitably lead you there.

Not surprisingly, it doesn’t matter whether you believe any of this or not (in spite of my hint about possible obligations to do so) because, as we’ll see, the processes involved continue regardless of our opinions. It’s all on automatic pilot. The fascinating thing is that we humans come with a sort of manual override. It’s fair to accent that this whole process is doubtless more complex, and subtle, than we can communicate, or perhaps even imagine. But we can discuss it at our present level of comprehension because we can describe the apparent processes.

I mentioned chaos. We all have days like that. But it seems that chaos isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, either. (In fact, chaos theory, which is a whole field of study in itself, is a relatively new discipline which looks at the order which underlies apparent disorder). I have suggested that life