I recall many, many years ago having read in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a scene where a character in the Book says that when he dies the first thing he is going to ask God is: "What the hell are people for?" Like much of Mr. Vonnegut's early writing, I found that scene both touching and humorous and also, despite its simplicity, philosophically profound. And now, some forty or so years after I read that book, I still think about the importance of that question. What, indeed, are people for? What great cosmic or spiritual purpose do we, collectively as a species, serve? That is a huge question, and likely one that we may not be equipped to know the answer to, at least at our current stage of existence. (Although a hint at an answer was presented to me during an amazing hypnosis session I had with Mira Kelley a few years ago. That session and what I learned during it are discussed in detail in my book The Afterlife and the True Nature of Reality. But that is not what I'd like to discuss here today. Rather, I'd like to explore the smaller, though no less interesting, question of what individual people might be for.) It is a fundamental and accepted belief among spiritually minded people that each one of us has been put here, on this earth, for a particular purpose, and that we have been equipped with the talents, skills, and means necessary to...