THE AGE OLD QUANDARY
|| This summary written on Thursday 31st August 2023
How free is free-will? Is our life pre-determined before we are born to this life on earth? Can we really have any control of the junctions we take in our progression through this life? I don’t believe so. I’m not convinced we entirely have any free will.
Of course, I might just be making some sort of justification for making many wrong decisions in my life so far. I mean, if I had no free will, then the mistakes weren’t my fault, right?
Well, that’s not entirely true, is it? Everyone has a choice for what actions they take. I am a strong advocate for taking personal responsibility. But how can that be so, if I had no free will? Let me explain how I see it, with one of my usual analogies!
Imagine a large paper map of the mainland UK laid across a dining table. The Divine is in the room, as is my soul and advisers you might consider as higher beings. The map itself is only different in that the place names don’t exist. Instead, the map contains situations, emotional states, learning curves, wisdom points, lessons, health issues, crises, and many other aspects of a human life on earth. The final outcomes of this journey are in the far north of the map, whilst the south contains a few situation points at birth.
The higher powers are there to help my soul plan a route through my life, birth being at the far south and death being at the far north of this life map. It is decided that my destination will be a specific point in the north, a final outcome place you might call it. The starting point will be one of the at-birth starting points in the south.
A journey is marked out along the way, that must include specific way-points. Maybe one of those way-points that must be passed through involves going through the city of Health.
Once that journey is decided, the birth happens and the new life can commence the journey north. There are thousands of possible choices of routes that could be taken and so long as the way-points are included, the new life can choose which ways to go.
That is my somewhat simplified way of looking at the dilemma of free will. Yes we can make many decisions along our path of life, but the route must include specific way-points.
I share this with you because in today’s session, the speaker teases with the subject of free will. It’s an interesting topic that nobody knows the answer to, yet everyone holds an opinion they are quick to promote!