Paradoxes -- Free Will vs. Predetermined
Destiny
by Wes Penre,
Sunday August 9, 2009 at 9:54
AM
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:44:05 PM
There
were a couple of questions that bothered me for a long time. I
could obviously see that we all create our own reality from the
choices we make every second of our day. Even when we don’t make
choices we create our own reality, because not making a choice
is also a choice. However, the choices we make are not always
conscious — we are operating to a large degree on and with
reaction rather than action, so is
that part really free will?
No.
If we sit down and meditate on it, we will be stunned when we come to the insight that a majority of our decisions are not conscious and made by free will, but are reactions to a situation, and that reaction makes our choice--not our own free will. This reaction, in extension, is based on previous experiences similar to the one we are facing in present time — it’s like a chain of reactions. We think we make a decision on a conscious level, when in fact we are just repeating our reactions from the past without thinking about the consequences first. Less than we may think, we are taking actions coming from calculated decisions. I am mentioning this to prepare for what I now want to say. These were the questions that bothered me:
How come the Bible Prophecies and other old prophecies are coming true? How could anyone know what would happen so far in the future, if millions or billions of people are making random decisions every second of each day? It didn’t make sense to me until I recently got a lot of new insights from reading and meditating on it.
My only previous explanation was that we also create different timelines every time we make a choice, because we could have chosen one of the other options we had in a certain situation, hence starting another timeline. And just by thinking a thought, you create a start on that timeline. Therefore, on the timeline I am currently conscious about, the Bible Prophecies are coming true. Although this may be true to some small extent, it didn’t explain it fully. Something was obviously missing.
Not until I read Jon Peniel’s book, “The Children of the Law of One & the Lost Teachings of Atlantis” (unrelated to the Ra Material, which also teaches the Law of One, see "Link" section of this website) and other spiritual teachings did I begin to understand how prophecies work.
There are two fields of prophecy: the first is predictions of predestined events. The second one is the prediction of events that are yet to be determined because they involve the free will choices of one or more individuals.
The second one is hard to predict at best — because you never know for sure what a person might choose, due to that people have free will. Thus prophecy involving free will becomes what might be considered in scientific terms as a “probability factor”. You can determine the probability in percentage, like it’s an 85% chance it will happen, or it’s a 5% chance, and so on. But you can never say with exact certainty. It will be easier to predict if factors exist that will make a person lean one way or the other. The more factors we know, the more accurate the prophecy.
An
extreme example to prove the point would be if you, who have
never played chess before sit down to play with the World
Champion. The outcome of that game is quite predictable.
Although both you and the champion have free will, the chance
that you would win is almost non-existent, although it is not
100% sure. It would still be fair to say that if I made a
prophecy out of it and told the world that the champion would
win, I would be pretty safe.
Then there are the situations and events that don’t involve free will choices at all, and can be seen and predicted for certain. Like Earth Changes for example. If I make a prophecy saying that there will be volcano eruptions, earthquakes and flooding in the near future, we can predict this for sure due to the way we are destroying the planet and because of natural causes. It is already happening. This is a “safe” prophecy.
Some prophecies involve a mix of free will choices and predestined events and then it can get very complicated. Some aspects will be certain, while others won’t.
To bring this a little bit further to get to my point, here is another example: your spouse cheats on you. That’s her free will but your destiny since it’s going to happen to you no matter what. Whatever you decide to do about it is your free will and her destiny. Everything that happens to us that is out of our control is our destiny but we have a chance to exercise free will when we respond to it. Of course, you made choices earlier which brought you to the point where your spouse cheated on you, but once she made the choice to cheat it became your destiny.
Now, let’s look at this from a more divine aspect — let us ponder The Book of Revelation and The Book of Daniel to name two that are quite familiar to many people. Both these books are channeled information in a distant past, predicting a future and written down long ago, before these prophecies happened. If we read these two books today and then look around us, we would be totally blind if we didn’t see how these prophecies come true, one after the other.
If our existence was only free will and zero destiny, the fact that the prophecies come true would not be possible. Therefore, there must be a divine plan from the beginning, and we all may add or subtract to that plan by executing our free will to make it into an experience and a game with unknown factors (random factor). Our mutual decisions in conjunction with predetermined destiny have now brought us to where we are today. In a higher spiritual realm, from where the channeled information was given to John the Divine and Daniel, our future could be predicted fairly accurately. As usual, it all has to do with mathematics — the Universe is math!
Spirits and entities in much higher realms/densities, who can see the whole picture (which we can’t) would probably be able to take the whole third density, read our characters and predict our actions and reactions to a degree of certainty that we would do in the example with the chess game above, or at least close to that level of accuracy. They would see that it is fair to predict that what is channeled in these two books will come to pass due to all our decisions, in combination with destiny. And that may be how extremely complicated prophecy works — something that would be impossible for us humans with third density limitations to do or understand. We are able to grasp the concept, but we can not understand the math behind it.
An allegory would be that we can picture ourselves sitting in space looking at Planet Earth from above and thus see the whole planet at once, but when we’re stuck down here on the surface, there is no way to see the whole planet from outside. Seeing the third density from “outside” may be what is necessary to make these complicated calculations, which include all the possible and probable decisions, in action or reaction, of each single third density being, incarnated at the time of the prophecy up until the time when the prophecy is fulfilled. Still, although mind boggling, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible. After all, we are ALL ONE with the Supreme Being and if you think about it and look at yourself, your friends and people in general, we are all quite “predictable”. If even we can see that, it’s easier to grasp the concept that higher density beings can make pretty complicated, but accurate prophecies.
So the Bible Prophecies and the End Times predictions are most certainly going to happen. To visualize it, I see the events that are prophesied in the Book of Revelation and elsewhere in the Bible, Islamic Scriptures and otherwise as a straight line of some hardcore material that can't be bent, cut or crooked. You and I are persons with free will who can't do anything but to walk along this line. We can perhaps not change the events that lead to the End Times per se, but we can make choices how we want to act (and try not to react) upon what we experience. The personal outcome will be based on the choices we make.
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