Cayce's guide expressed it "we become co-creators with God" by development, while the Upanishads view God as the abstract motive force sending Itself outward as both a universe and its population, for Buddhism it's just a big Mind thinking about being people, and then becoming more and more "enlightened" (there's a reason for their choice of words) as we turn loose of individual clinging to stuff like a material universe, personal ego-existencwe etc. Yogis go into the Light in nirvastarka samadhi (extinguising opposites and dualities). It's all a matter of viewpoint, like climbing one mountain, but from many sides that look superficially different around the bottom.

Whatever we cling to, we can let it go, becoming "non-attached",  and we continue, but without the need to carry that particular embodiment for our nature. Finally, all we need is pure emptiness, the Primal Void, because that's where we, God, :Light, and all the rest came from. Then you both exist, since you've become immanent and one with the God-essence, and you don't exist because your nature is empty. Buddhism calls it Nirvana.

From that perspective, you can see how everyone's activities fit into the overall scheme. Bruce and those like him rescue souls from local attachments. Yogis get rid of their own and go into less attached universes than this one. Dzogchen mentions many, of which this universe is called "Flower Filled World". As we die we go into the level of God-awareness that corresponds to our level of development, and we may seek out spirit channels to help with karma, Past life work operates to fix transitional problems across the threshold of here and there.  Psychotherapists get rid of here-and-now attachments that are harmful.  It's all a matter of letting go and surfing reality - or whatever you want to call it
- dave