Using the clarity that comes with hindsight, it wouldn't be hyperbolic to say that, almost from its inception, the world has been on a path of steady decline, and self-destruction, notwithstanding the rise and fall of empires, a plethora of scientific and technological advances, and the advent, during our often benighted human history, of a long line, here and there, along the way, of enlightened spiritual figures to illumine our path with wisdom and guidance—Moses, Zoroaster, Lao-Tzu, The Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Emanuel Swedenborg, Mary Baker Eddy, and many others.
By telling my story, I revealed how life really works here in our world—my life and your life. It's one of the reasons I wrote my book, "The You in You." It answers the age-old question: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" At one time or another, we have all scratched our head, baffled by events impacting people we know, or don't know, people who have met—when we consider their whole life—a fate that defies reason. They either contracted a rare disease, or illness, or they were involved in a life-altering accident, or became victims of some horrific crime, or died suddenly, seemingly before their time. We learn that cause and effect aren't two things, but one thing. We learn, finally, that our actions have consequences. This life lesson often escapes murderers, thieves, and others whose actions set cause in motion only to have the effects of their actions returned to them, reaping what they have sown.
Most of the strife in our world—personal as well as global—results from people not having an understanding as to how life works, an oversight that my book and this project hope to correct. We're all aware of the strife that's taking place in our world—racial strife, social strife, and political strife—but rarely the strife that's taking place within ourselves.