What Is the Ultimate Answer to Life the universe and Everything?

Question: What Is the Ultimate Answer to Life the universe and Everything!?

No you stupid froods with towels we all know what you want to say but its WRONG! heheWww@QuestionHome@Com

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The answer is easy, it is the question that is the mystery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know what a frood with a towel is - but the ultimate answer is quite clear if you can remove your own biases and needs for a sec -

We don't know about god or our origin or all that - tho science and it's big bang is likely true - and love is the fuel of happiness while we're here!.

That's it!. The distillation of wisdom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,
"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton,
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce!?", Free and Wilcock, http://www!.divinecosmos!.com
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph!.D!.,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,
"Freakonomics," S!. Levitt,
"Liberal Fascism," Jonah Goldberg, all give some good angles!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I do not believe there is an ultimate answer, life and the universe is an ongoing process, and perhaps for humans ongoing after death!. We can only answer for the here and now for ourselves!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

42!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

42! Which is of course six times nine!.
If you want the meaning of life, well, that's something else entirely!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is obvious that the first answerer has WAY TO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS!!

The answer is Belief!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ENERGY FORCE !! Infinity and Divinity!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Love!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You / I am !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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and the guy above me just took to much timeWww@QuestionHome@Com

*sigh*!.!.!.if only i knew the answer!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most persons do not even suspect the existence of God and naturally they are not very keen about God!. There are others who, through the influence of tradition, belong to some faith or another and catch the belief in the existence of God from their surroundings!. Their faith is just strong enough to keep them bound to certain rituals, ceremonies or beliefs and rarely possesses that vitality which is necessary to bring about a radical change in one’s entire attitude towards life!. There are still others who are philosophically minded and have an inclination to believe in the existence of God either because of their own speculations or because of the assertions of others!. For them, God is at best an hypothesis or an intellectual idea!. Such lukewarm belief in itself can never be sufficient incentive for launching upon a serious search for God!. Such persons do not know of God from personal knowledge, and for them God is not an object of intense desire or endeavor!.

This is a synopsis of a book entitled "God Speaks!." The book was written in 1955 by Meher Baba and explains the meaning of life!.

Life is a journey that God is traveling!.

The first phase of God's journey is evolution!. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean of Knowledge, Power and Bliss were in a state likened to deep sleep!. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I!?"!. This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean!. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness!.

Individuality is the vehicle of this quest!. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I!?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms!. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question!.

The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings!. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience!. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness!. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air!.

When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness!.

So the original "Who am I!?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation!. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms!. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes!. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people!.

But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously!. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments!. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes!. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly!. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience!.

Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him!. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward!."

Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms!." But individuality continues along this spiritual path, and there are as many ways to God as there are souls!.

Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it!. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran!." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness!.

The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved!. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything!. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness!."

The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom!. Impressions go!. Duality goes!. The drops burst and again become the Ocean!. God answers his question of "Who am I!?" with "I am God!." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point!. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite with infinite Knowledge, Power and Bliss!. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul!.Www@QuestionHome@Com