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The human spiritual quest is not as deeply personal as we make it out to be. Searching is a large group effort. You are born into a storyline of strong ideas that prevail in your area at the time of your upbringing. For example, if you are born in Russia in 1949, then you are part of the experiment of Atheistic Communism. Or if you are born in Burma in 1970, then you are born into the Buddhist philosophy of seeing the world. Or if you are born in Saudi Arabia today, then you become part of that mindset and view the whole world accordingly. We are groups of seekers using the surrounding material that life provides in our immediate circle. Most of this surrounding spiritual material is old and colored by the local culture from which it came. Spiritual books use their native languages and local philosophies. For example, the concept of the afterlife is called by countless names around the globe. Some groups call it Heaven, others Paradise, and others Valhalla, Nirvana, Eternity, Afterlife, or even Shangri-La. I will try to simplify spiritual terminology by mainly calling it the "next life."