10 Specific Questions

[SilentRey]

Thank you! Answered most of the questions perfectly. I do have a few follow-up questions though...

Free Will does not mean unrestricted free will, it simply means the ability to choose between options which are available based on current circumstances.  At least below 7D, one's available choices are ALWAYS in part determined by the actions of others, as well as karmic repercussions of their own earlier choices.  It's like the classic Jack Benny joke:  Even if someone has a gun to your head demanding "Your money or your life," you're still free to think it over.

Well scientific determinism says that we truly don't have a choice between, say in your example, giving the money to the mugger or refusing and getting shot. Determinism says our choices are purely [complex versions of] cause-and-effect, and all human actions, and thoughts, are determined by the laws of nature. That our consciousness/mind does not ever have choices, just experiences what seems to be the ability to choose. Would this absolute determinism conflict with the Law of One, in that it basically says our souls/(what is the proper term?) are not at all in control/make no choices during our physical incarnation? Basically, assuming that this determinism is correct, then our souls would just be along for the ride alongside the human body, where the physical mind makes all the choices and our souls just experience. Does this conflict? The one solution I have to this paradox would be if our souls have true free will, in between incarnations, to choose which human to incarnate into, knowing through this determinism what that human will experience in its lifetime (and THAT is the true expression of free will by our souls) but I'm not sure whether this solution contradicts the Law of One/Ra Material explanations or not. This is all assuming that determinism is true, of course, and it is definitely debatable to different degrees.

As an entity grows in self-empowerment and Wisdom, their ability to influence/dictate the starting conditions of their incarnations grows as well.  While it seems very unlikely one would deliberately choose to do this, a positive entity COULD probably choose a set of conditions in their early life -like say, extreme poverty, terrible parents, sexual abuse, etc- which would make it highly likely that their incarnation would result in a negative orientation as they grow up.  So their "soul" would be positive initially, but could then potentially flip negative during the course of the incarnation.

1. When you say that an entity has the ability to influence/dictate the starting conditions of their incarnations, do you mean that they choose from a pool of potential lives to live and pick which one suits their intentions best, or can they actually be like (in a less superficial way) "I want my human to be a red-head, write a book at age 12, learn the Law of One at age 34..." etc.? The choosing from the pool of potential lives would also be able to coexist with determinism, but the molding/creating the qualities of their incarnated human entity would contradict determinism.

2. You mention that a positively-oriented entity could incarnate into a being that has an overall negative-orientation. So, how is the orientation of an entity determined really? I mean, if I incarnated 100 times and 80 of those times I was incarnated into a STO human, then I would probably be a positively-oriented entity correct? If I then incarnated into an extremely STS human, could that potentially sway me into being a negatively-oriented entity? However, I assume that STS and STO entites would, most of the time, choose to incarnate into humans with the same orientation as them.