09-05-2015, 01:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2015, 01:58 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
Here's my little take on how free will fits into a linear universe where, on higher levels, the outcome is already known.
OK, so imagine a great nested web of ALL the quantum possibilities of every eventuality that could ever arise in our dimensions. Everything that ever could be, superimposed and interconnected. And every one of us, a tiny dot of light tracing down those webs, following turn after turn after turn, at fork after fork after fork, as we each weave through one timeline of the many potential timelines that can exist. Each dot is a perspective on a system too large to be fully glimpsed by any one.
Those turnings are free will. Those turnings are choices. Those turnings are each spark of light - each perspective on life - going down the exact path it chooses to take from moment to moment. There's no need for one dot to go down paths it doesn't want to experience, because there's another spark behind it making the other choice. And another and another and another, making choice after choice after choice.
The branches are pre-set, the emergent outcome of our reality reinforcing itself. They are the totality of the actions of each individual actor defining the paths available to everyone else. That karmic structure is already fully extant on higher levels. But the paths within the structure are still there for us sparks to explore, and still have to be explored so that the whole can be eventually known, because they can only be seen from within.
Each of us comes into life without a map, taking each turn almost blindly, but still willfully. And as an entity grows in wisdom and experience, it can ever-so-slowly start to perceive -or at least visualize- those interrelationships, and start to see the forks far enough ahead to start planning a deliberate path, rather than acting as karmic pachinko balls. Then once an entity can start choosing incarnations for itself, that's not a violation of free will, but an embrace of it. It represents greater understanding of the larger structure, and deliberately picking a particular set of paths from the outset that seems interesting to explore.
But it can seem dictatorial to us, on Earth, since we have to sacrifice the memory of that choosing upon incarnating.
The more cognizant someone becomes of the pathways and interconnections around them, the more they can give real direction to their lives. The more they can understand the choices they've made, they can then see how those choices have created the forks and branches to come. As the Oracle said, you can't see past a choice you don't understand... but that understanding is still possible. By understanding the web of choices, an entity/spark can start deliberately seeking out the experiences they want or need, by basically giving themselves better maps beforehand.
As I see it, Free Will isn't simply a law, it's something to strive for. The more someone understands the web around them, the more freely they can exercise their will, and the more keenly they can explore this great construct we call life.
OK, so imagine a great nested web of ALL the quantum possibilities of every eventuality that could ever arise in our dimensions. Everything that ever could be, superimposed and interconnected. And every one of us, a tiny dot of light tracing down those webs, following turn after turn after turn, at fork after fork after fork, as we each weave through one timeline of the many potential timelines that can exist. Each dot is a perspective on a system too large to be fully glimpsed by any one.
Those turnings are free will. Those turnings are choices. Those turnings are each spark of light - each perspective on life - going down the exact path it chooses to take from moment to moment. There's no need for one dot to go down paths it doesn't want to experience, because there's another spark behind it making the other choice. And another and another and another, making choice after choice after choice.
The branches are pre-set, the emergent outcome of our reality reinforcing itself. They are the totality of the actions of each individual actor defining the paths available to everyone else. That karmic structure is already fully extant on higher levels. But the paths within the structure are still there for us sparks to explore, and still have to be explored so that the whole can be eventually known, because they can only be seen from within.
Each of us comes into life without a map, taking each turn almost blindly, but still willfully. And as an entity grows in wisdom and experience, it can ever-so-slowly start to perceive -or at least visualize- those interrelationships, and start to see the forks far enough ahead to start planning a deliberate path, rather than acting as karmic pachinko balls. Then once an entity can start choosing incarnations for itself, that's not a violation of free will, but an embrace of it. It represents greater understanding of the larger structure, and deliberately picking a particular set of paths from the outset that seems interesting to explore.
But it can seem dictatorial to us, on Earth, since we have to sacrifice the memory of that choosing upon incarnating.
The more cognizant someone becomes of the pathways and interconnections around them, the more they can give real direction to their lives. The more they can understand the choices they've made, they can then see how those choices have created the forks and branches to come. As the Oracle said, you can't see past a choice you don't understand... but that understanding is still possible. By understanding the web of choices, an entity/spark can start deliberately seeking out the experiences they want or need, by basically giving themselves better maps beforehand.
As I see it, Free Will isn't simply a law, it's something to strive for. The more someone understands the web around them, the more freely they can exercise their will, and the more keenly they can explore this great construct we call life.