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Destiny is Variable
by Owen Waters
In the Old Reality, things were seen as opposites
- black or white, hot or cold, good or bad, this way or that way. In the expanded view of New Reality consciousness, life
is seen in a unified way. Opposite sides of the coin are viewed, not as polar opposites, but rather as just being different
aspects of the one coin.
In the New Reality view of the world, the opposite extremes of black and white become,
instead, endless shades of gray. Hot and cold become variable degrees of warmth. Good and bad become
different shades
of human nature; free of the judgment, hate and fear that comes with Old Reality, polarized thinking.
In the Old
Reality, destiny and free will were seen as mutually exclusive. The reasoning was that, if destiny exists, then it controls
everything and, therefore, free will does not exist. On the other hand, you can prove that free will does exist by making
a choice. So, as the thinking goes, if free
will does exist, then there can be no destiny.
But, wait. Perhaps
that choice of "free will" was really a pre-destined one. Perhaps the person was destined to make that choice all
long, so the experience of choice was just an illusion. At this point, people usually give up on the whole question because
it has turned into one of those brain teasers, like asking which came first - the chicken or the egg.
Brain teasers
keep your mind in an endless loop until you try stepping back from the situation and seeing it in a wider perspective. The
new, wider perspective allows for the inclusion of non-materialistic factors. In deciding whether the chicken or the egg came
first, for example, you just have to step back and see that the Creator designed the chicken to be self-perpetuating.
When you step back and see destiny and free will from a wider perspective, you realize that nothing has to be absolute.
If every event in your life were pre-ordained, there would be no
such thing as free will or self-determination. As we
do have free will, destiny cannot be fixed.
Destiny is therefore variable, not fixed. Destiny and free will both
exist as interwoven facets of your life. Like threads in a tapestry, they interact with each other and blend to form the outcomes
that are the events in your life.
Your destiny is created by plans that you made at a soul level of consciousness.
Before you were born, you made your main plan for this life. Then, the minute you were born, the rules of the game demanded
that you also get a case of amnesia about the whole arrangement. Such is the game of life in the physical realm.
However, at night when you go to sleep, you have the chance to visit the deepest levels of human consciousness and review
how the original plan is unfolding and make changes to your plan if desired. When you return to your physical body and awake
in the morning, amnesia strikes again. Within seconds of your conscious mind returning into your physical brain, you forget
both the surface dreams and the deep experiences of the night.
Amnesia may be a part of the game we are playing
in this life, but inner guidance is always is always available to anyone who pays attention to it. Your intuition is your
link to your soul, or inner being, which is also linked to the rest of the universe and all levels of Creation.
You are never left alone to fumble in the darkness of a purely physical life. Your inner being is always there with you,
expressing itself through the quiet whisperings of intuitive information. Thanks to this inner compass of knowing, you can
always sense which choice feels right. You can always tell when your life is running on plan, and you can tell equally well
if you've become temporarily distracted from your plan. You always have the means to be right on course, or get back on
course, and explore the fascinating themes that make up your life plan.
The most productive use of free will is
to explore your true potential within the themes of your life, thus gaining the greatest possible experience from your life
plan.
Destiny is an influence that comes from your inner plan. There is nothing absolute about your destiny. It's
a pressure which constantly seeks the best route to unfold into manifestation.
Free will provides the means to
manifest that destiny in a way that provides the learning that you came here to acquire in this life.
Destiny
is variable. It adapts to the circumstances of your life every second of the day. As destiny unfolds, you feel it within as
a sense of being a part of the flow of life, of manifesting your potential in the way that you planned for this day and that
you planned for this life.
Destiny is the plan. Free will is the action. Experience is the result.
That's
what being human is all about.
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