After doing graduate studies in relativistic quantum field theory in the early 70’s, I spent the next half dozen years wondering if we really had free will and choice. In true naive budding physicist fashion, I was wondering if the only reason that we didn’t have an equation describing everything in the universe (including human behaviour) was because it was too long and too big to write … after all the universe was only 14.5 billion years old! This bothered me quite a lot.
I remember reading “The Dancing Wu Li Masters” and other books of that genre in the late 70’s and this, eventually, got me into metaphysics and the discovery of channeled sources like Seth, Lazaris, Cayce, Metatron … and the list goes on.
Even now I struggle a bit with this because if all probabilities exist … then what choice is there for me other than the choice of which probability to manifest in this moment with this physical body?
My conundrum is that for every choice and decision that I make, there is a complete spectrum of probabilities created ranging from “Good Al” to “Evil Al” choices and they all exist no matter which one I manifest!
The bottom line: I’m still in a quandary, but that is the fun of the journey!
“Both men and molecules dwell in a field of probabilities, and their paths are not determined. The vast reality of probabilities makes the existence of free will possible. If probabilities did not exist, and if you were not to some degree aware of probable actions and events, not only could you not choose between them, but you would not of course have any feelings of choice. You would be unaware of the entire issue.”
(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)
I also don't understand this part of Seth's teachings. If we have free will and all probabilities exists it's because some parallel "me" chose that probability.
ReplyDeleteIf that is true, then my parallel personalities are BOUND to choose those probabilites, otherwise they won't exist.
If free will exists, suppose none of my personalities chose destiny "x", then that reality won't exist.
But if that reality doesn't exists, then it's not true that "all probabilities exists".
If it's true that all probabilities exists, then someone had to choose probability "x". If they HAD to choose, then free will doesn't exist.
Maybe the answer is that the explosion of probabilities with the creation of each new possibility or choice are not your parallel lifetimes.
ReplyDeleteFor example, when I talk about some of my past and future probable lifetimes, some of them are figures that are written up in history. That historic personality was not in fact me, I actualized a slightly different probability from the one collectively known as that other historic personality. So for example, if a mystic tells you that you were Tut, it may well be ... but you were likely one of the countless versions of Tut that the historic Tut didn't actualize.
In many ways a good metaphor for these probabilities is a library ... where each book is a slightly different probable version and you pick one to read. The difference is that in the reading, you are creating new probable libraries.
It's all pretty cool stuff and best pondered with a fine glass of wine with your feet up in a quiet place.
Have probable fun!
Cheers
Al
Thank you for your perspectives. I'll ponder over them.
DeleteCheers.
Here's another perspective.
ReplyDeleteThe physical reality that we manifest (which includes our built in perception mechanism called our body) is not reality ... rather it is a crude, 3D, dualistic snapshot of the multidimensional REAL world of possibilities and probabilities.
Therefore, you don't have to take a picture of all of the probabilities and possibilities because they all exist anyway and they are not dependent upon your observation (i.e. not dependent upon your incarnation) in all of them.
Both of these "explanations" could be true, or both false, or neither. One of our simplifications is a dualistic logical system which excludes the middle or things ultimately unknowable.
It makes for a great, unending projection game that we play.
Have fun.
Cheers
Al