Cause and effect is certainly the operating mechanism in our daily reality. But since our reality is an illusion that we agree to experience when we enter the Human-Time/Space Illusion, and we know outside of it there is no time and everything is happening at once, then we can't have cause and effect. Instead, when our conscious awareness is expanded in the so-called death states, we come to understand that focus is the main determinant of what we experience. We are in effect "focusing machines," and we bring a particular reality into focus with our beliefs, expectations and emotions, whether they be positive or negative.