Secrets From the Ages

Chapter 9

False Rewards

A Player of the game may become a God, or reach nirvana, or "enter into the light," or become an "OT" (a Scientology term for a God), or any number of other things, but the Player is already these things and infinitely more, and cannot be otherwise.

All of the philosophies and religions promise some kind of reward. The Secrets from the Ages only points out that all rewards that you receive will come from you. All religions and philosophies are part of the game of this universe, the game of DRAMA. Although their rewards may seem great, Heaven, Nirvana, etc. are all within this universe and thus are only an illusion. Oh, many of them exist. There are a number of heavens. I've been to them, and I am sure you have too. One can stay there only so long and then boredom sets in. Believe me, they are a part of this universe. They are much less dense than this plane, but none the less a part of this universe and thus they will not last for ever. Thank God. One can only take a year or two of these places before one goes stir crazy.

The rewards that are promised after death, and on the next plane, are only part of an illusion. If that is the game you are playing, then go for it, but don't be confused by any of these promises. It doesn't matter the extent of the promise, no one can change anyone's mind except one's own mind. Going to Heaven, reaching Nirvana, reaching the next plane, ascending, going into the light, graduating to a higher level of Heaven, or moving across town; none of these things can change the Player's condition or happiness level. Arriving in heaven makes one happier for about a week. That's usually less time than one stays happy after moving to a new city or going on a vacation.

When the Player arrives "there" he still has the same mind and is still the same person. Only the Player changes his condition with his choices and decisions. It is impossible for another being, Player or God, to change someone's mind, or to grant happiness or to go to some other place like heaven in order to be happy. No matter where the Player has graduated to, he will always create his own happiness and that will be determined by his integrity. Heaven is not a place, but rather a condition that exists within you. The problem is that you must create it. Happiness simply cannot come from graduating to a place.

Many people have said, "If only I were rich, I would be happy." I have been privileged to know a few people who have become rich after being poor. None of those people found happiness by getting money. Arriving in Heaven would have the same effect. A person will have the same prejudices and same hates and same unhappiness that he has had all along. If these things get changed, it will be because he changed them, but that doesn't require residence in heaven.

There are several heavens that are a part of the next plane, but still a part of this universe. Where one goes at death depends on the game he is playing, or stated in terms of religion, depends upon his beliefs. Wherever it is, people soon tire of the less dense planes and return to the more solid planes of Earth and the Galaxy.

This is where the real games are. When a Player decides to leave the game of DRAMA and he has met the required conditions, he returns to eternity. In eternity there is nothing: no rewards, no penalties. All penalties are within the game as well as rewards, thus outside the game it was simply a game one was playing. Within the game, happiness, and all the positive emotions, which are desirable, are obtained by the integrity one uses within the game.

The undesirable emotions are obtained by a failure of integrity. If one believes in a religion or philosophy, then one tries to work within that framework, but all those promises given are false in that only you will reward yourself in any case. If you know that you have done right within the particular belief that you are practicing, you will allow yourself to go to heaven or wherever that belief dictates. When you arrive there, however, it will still be no better than you make it. In the case of a bad religion, then following the practices of that religion will not bring rewards or happiness, because you always know what is right and what is wrong. A religion may convince you that some bad act is right, but you always know deep in. If you hurt someone because of a religious belief, there is always retribution for what you have done. You can never totally fool yourself, no matter how hard you try.

The most painful of all emotions is boredom. (If you don't believe it, just check with the American public and their movies. You can shock the public, you can offend them with sex, you can anger them with swear words, you can upset them with violence, but once you bore them they will never come to another of your movies and they will never forgive you for it.) There are very few that can take those wonderful places for very long. The real games are here. There are smaller religions and other beliefs that are so small that an after life game never got put in place, so if you are in one of them, well, you may be a little confused to find nothing in your afterlife. Such people usually wander around a while until they just happen to be drawn to a new baby body. It's a little confusing to them, but they come through OK, usually.

Those few of us who do not have beliefs of religions and philosophies don't go anywhere at death. We wander around for a while and then take a new baby body. The body that we take depends upon what we are willing to reward ourselves with within the game that we are familiar with. If our integrity is high, we will find a pretty good body in a pretty good area. If our integrity has suffered, we will find a less desirable situation, depending upon how much we are penalizing ourselves.

The only person that ever penalizes anyone is oneself. It's all part of the game. In the final analysis games that have real rewards are much more satisfying than the false games with false rewards. Many of the religions promise that their worshipers will attain eternity. But all Players already have eternity and cannot keep from having eternity. They will exist after the end of this universe. They will exist for eternity. But all the rewards of all the religions and beliefs cannot exist beyond the end of the universe.

All games are within this universe, are conducted within the rules of this universe, and they all end at the end of this universe. No Player would have any use for them beyond this universe in any case. When the ball players walk off of the playing field, the game has ended.

The best game is to simply play the game of life. One of the real future rewards that you get is to have a better world next lifetime. If you have helped make a better world, you can then reap the benefits of a better world. That is a true reward. You can claim many of your rewards in this same life. You work toward a better life, and you finally achieve it. These are true rewards. As you work for a greater world, you are putting better and greater recordings into your mind. Those recordings will influence your thinking in future lives, and thus your future reward.

You study hard and work hard in school and finally you achieve an education, which is another reward that is real. The higher your integrity toward your school work, the better your education (which means the better your reward). The rewards for good integrity and penalties for low integrity, or to put it simpler, the rewards for being good and the penalties for being bad are all built into the game and you are the referee.

No one escapes the rewards and penalties, and it seems that few understand them, but it is simple and totally obvious. The gang member who picks up a gun becomes nervous, when he points it at someone he becomes agitated, and when he pulls the trigger his whole world changes. He must always look over his shoulder. He must live in a world that will probably never again be safe. It is a world of terror and sudden death. His happiness level will always be low. He is lucky if he is caught and prosecuted, otherwise, his whole life carries along in the same vein.

On the other hand, should the same man join a gang and see that it is bad, and he might quit. Should he then move away and find a job somewhere else and doesn't use a gun or do other things that the gang would have him do, he avoids a life of terror and death and fear. If his integrity is fairly high he might begin to study and do a good job at work. He will look after all the areas of his life and soon have a wife and a reasonable life. The rewards and punishments are all there. You get what you create.

The man who comes home and treats his wife well receives a great deal in return, and the man who comes home and beats his wife also has a return, but it is not the same. The person who does not clean up his house lives in a dirty house. The person who creates a beautiful front yard, has a pleasing yard to admire. The person who bullies a child begins to lose his self respect and begins to think that he is less than those he bullies.

Those who create hell, live in it. Those who create paradise, live in that as well. No one escapes rewards and punishment. They are built into the game and administered by the player himself. You may ask, what about those who benefit from stealing or even seem to benefit from being mean. Not so. You cannot know their mind, but under therapy all these people finally find out that they only ruined their lives with these things. And for those who do not admit such things, an outsider to their life can easily see where they are much less well off and suffering their creation.

So what if a person is very good and still receives bad things? Well, you have to look at past lives as well as this one, but everyone always creates his own condition, his happiness, his rewards and his penalties. The rewards and penalties are always there instantly, but there may be more in the future, in this life or future lives. When I say instantly, it is as simple as the person who doesn't clean his back yard, lives with a dirty back yard. The God that punishes you or rewards you, is you. You always get what you create. The dirty back yard is a good example. If you create it, you have it.

Even those who live in Africa. No doubt they were there last life and didn't do to well at that time. If they feel they deserve a better life next time, they will move. They will find a better place. If they feel that they don't deserve a better life, they will stay. The problem is that all these people need help at birth at least up to 6 years old. They need to learn what a better life really is. They need to understand life and almost none of them do because of the teachings that exist there now. Your actions, rewards and punishment, and other aspects of life depend upon what you know and understand of life. One of the jobs for those of us who know about better lives need to teach those who do not know. That is something that is simply not being taught now, with the excepting of the untruth of all the various religions and teachings that exist now.

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