Appling effect to all layers

Not sure how to go about this.. In Photoshop I would merge all layers but I still want to edit some. At the end of my clip I'd like to add the Radial Fast Blur as a transition. The problem is that I have a lot of layers and the effect applies to just one. Besides saving the composition as a movie clip and applying it to that, is there another way to do this?

I think that an adjustment layer will do what you're after.
You also might consider precomposing the layers and applying the effect to the precomposition layer.
BTW, if you're new to After Effects, I recommend starting here.

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