Karma, Free Will & Destiny
We know at some level – conscious or unconscious - that we’ve been dealt certain cards to play with in the current lifetime. We are born with certain skills and talents few others may possess; a distinctive physical appearance, unique fingerprints and DNA. We are born into a life environment that is perfect for us in this lifetime: our parents and family; the culture, religion and country – which will condition and indoctrinate us into what we believe is the status quo. Until we wake up, that is, and start asking questions about how powerful and free we really are.
To answer this question, we need to examine the three primary drivers of the Wheel of Life: Karma, Free Will and Destiny.
Most people are familiar with these concepts and accept them as the fact of Life. There is an ongoing battle however, of different views, opinions and teachings about their relationship with each other and their respective roles.
The notion of Karma can be dis-empowering. After all, we can’t escape it. Free Will can be empowering or overwhelming and scary, depending on our point of view, as it is placing the responsibility for our life experiences squarely on us. The seal of Destiny can be paralysing in our endeavor to become more than we think we can be. After all, if all is set in stone, why bother to make an effort or pursue different ideas and choose a different pathway to create a better life?...
The concept of Free Will and Destiny side by side is a paradox, as these terms are mutually exclusive: either we have Free Will or our life is pre-programmed by our Destiny, most people say.
I was grappling with this paradox for many years, until not long ago I received an insight elegantly resolving this conundrum. This insight is surprising, profound and crystal clear. More importantly, it makes perfect sense and deeply resonates with me, so I have decided to share it.
DESTINY is a product of FREE WILL exercised by the SOUL in Spirit between incarnations.
KARMA is a product of FREE WILL exercised by the HUMAN EGO during incarnations.
LIFE is a function of DESTINY, KARMA and FREE WILL.
WOW.
Essentially, we have Free Will as a soul to design our life experience in any way we choose before we incarnate, when creating a blueprint for it - our Destiny. Once we are born, our Free Will changes to what we do with this blueprint as it unfolds: how we respond or react to it and what choices we make with our human ego. This execution of Free Will creates Karma which is the key balancing mechanism of our experiences and a key mechanism for learning.
So yes, we are the architects of your Destiny and yes, we can change it.
How liberating.
As part of this process, when we leave the physical body and cross over to the Afterlife, we go through a life review that will help us design the next incarnation. There is substantial evidence validating this step gathered from thousands of survivors of Near-Death Experience who independently recalled watching their life review on the other side before coming back to life.
Now, the learning I am referring to is often misconstrued as the soul learning, which is incorrect. Our soul is perfect and complete; it knows all there is to know; it is omniscient. The learning brought about by Karma is for our human ego. Why? What’s the point of learning anything on this physical plane if it’s not for the soul?
The lessons we learn do count and they are important– for the current incarnation, other incarnations and in Spirit. They help us navigate the twists and turns of the lifetime we now experience and contribute to the information pool of all our incarnations.
Our experiences are the purpose for which we exist. To understand how, we need to answer the greatest Existential Question of all times – What’s the point? What’s the point of my incarnated existence as an individualised consciousness, an integral part of The Creator, All That Is? Why are we here?
Here is my take on it.
We are an experiment and a play, constantly unfolding in countless dimensions and realities across the multiverse. A Petrie dish in the School of Gods. We were given free will and the power to co-create our experiences through the interplay of our emotions, the ego and the blueprint of our destiny. The outcome is unknown; and while confined to some extent within the parameters of our Destiny we can’t change, Free Will is the magical tool we have at our disposal to create a riveting plot in our Life’s screenplay before the curtain comes down.
Surprising? Yes! Our Creator wants to be surprised and entertained (for the lack of better word) by their creations (us). If every moment of every life experience of every consciousness and soul was pre-programed and predictable, it wouldn’t be fun! And most certainly, it wouldn’t be an experiment where by definition the outcome is unknown, as we say let’s mix this and that and see what happens.
Therefore, a proposition that our life is 100 per cent predestined simply makes no sense; furthermore, it is in my view psychologically damaging as it is disempowering. After all, if we are just puppets animating the screenplay with no say or power to change anything – this leads to the inevitable and dangerous question: What’s the point?
I will repeat what I said earlier.
We are the architects of our Destiny and we can change it.
Yes, it’s true that everything that ever was, is, and will be already exists in the Quantum Field (as information); but what to select from this pool of possibilities and activate in our life to a large extent is up to us - our Free Will as a human being in this incarnation.
Determinism makes no sense. Randomness has long been refuted with the mounting evidence of an individualised blueprint unfolding and steering us on our lifepath.
The scientific studies demonstrating that our brain responds to a future event few milliseconds before the event is registered by our physical senses are not (as some people claim) a proof of the pre-programed destiny, but a proof of precognition.
Precognition is the ability to perceive the most probable future.
Imagine you are standing at a crossroads with countless different roads extending from this point, your eternal point of NOW. These are the probable timelines of your Destiny.
Each timeline has a different intensity of light. Some are bright, others are dimmed, others still are quite dark. But there is always ONE timeline that stands out, the brightest of them all. This is your most probable future that will unfold if you stay on the same trajectory and don’t change anything. This is something you are giving a lot of energy to, consciously or subconsciously: your intention, your focus, thought and emotion, as well as action. Or, this is one of the very few timelines I call “non-negotiables” which you cannot change, as they are set in stone in your Destiny.
The brightest timeline in your future is what a psychic can see and tells you about in a reading. If there is something they can’t see clearly as the light is dimmed, they will say that a particular event may or may not happen, or will unfold differently in a way that is unknown.
You may have heard the term “quantum jump”. That’s how we change our life experience, “jumping” our consciousness from one timeline to another – which we do all the time, by the way. Have you heard of the Mandela Effect? It’s a well-documented case of a collective quantum jump, where many people around the world clearly remember that Nelson Mandela died in prison, while in this reality he didn’t die and after his release from prison was elected the President of South Africa and lived for several more years. That was not a collective amnesia but a collective quantum jump.
The other two magical tools we are given is Imagination and Intention which we can use to our heart’s content. Thoughts and emotions are the cogwheels, if you like, in our Co-creation Machine and the carriers of the energic signature of what we want to create into the Quantum Field.
We are multidimensional beings living countless lives in different dimensions and realities, jumping from one timeline to another in a Divine dance of co-creation with KARMA, FREE WILL and DESTINY. The most precious gifts we’ve been given are Imagination and Free Will - these are the only tools we need to create our life experience and shape our Destiny.
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