If everything is happening now,and everything means everything,from the birth of the Universe,from the Pyramids being built,to the life being lived three thousand years ahead,where would free will come in ?
If your birth and your death are taking place right now,surely free will cannot exist?
If it is accepted that everything is happening now,it would, at first sight,seem as if everything is ordained and has already been decided; a bit like a reel of a film that you are watching bit by bit of your life.Every bit of your life has been scripted and is in the film,but as you can no more change the reel in the cinema,so you cannot change what is planned in your life.
But, you object,if we don't have free will,we are no better than automated machines and might as well not bother attempting anything.
So,how can we have free will,while your whole life is happening now,and therefore what is going to happen to you is already happening to you without you knowing it yet.
An interesting question.
Could this be the answer?
According to Quantum Jumping there are different versions of you in a multitude of Universes.This can't be proven to be true at present,but it is a possibility.
The theory I am going to present is similar.
What follows may well be a fevered bout of complete fantasy,but it gets the mind out of the box,and illustrates the limits of thought.As a mental exercise I think it is worth doing,as it stretches the mind.
Let's say,at twenty years old you are working for a company;let's say that this is taking place in Universe A.This life has been scripted.
However, if you decide to exercise your free will,and decide to leave that business, you leave Universe A and enter Universe B
Now, in Universe B again your whole life ahead has been scripted,but now to a different script.This script is based on your new decision,and is unrolled until the end of your life,as being the most likely way things will turn out based on present circumstances.
If though, you exercise your free will yet again,and make yet another decision,you will then enter Universe C.
Or, to put in another way,you enter different Universes throughout your entire life. You may well go through a large number of Universes each day of your life.
If time travel were possible,and you travelled back to when you were five years old,and you changed the situation that was going on then,that small five year old would go into a different Universe,but it would not change the present life you are living.
When you return to the present, your present has not changed as you are returning to the Universe you left.
The child you left is now living in another Universe;it is you in another life.
A bit complicated I admit.
The objection to this,it seems to me is:how do you know when you are actually using your free will?You may well think that you are, but it might just be part of the prepared script in Universe A.
Thought, it must be remembered,can never take us to the truth.It only takes you so far and then- you leap into the unknown-and you find that you are the Awareness, the Truth.
A good example of this can be found in the paragraph before the last one.Our mind cannot answer it, so we have reached the limit of thought.
Think till the end of thinking,give up, surrender your endless thoughts,and let pure awareness take over.
Then- there are no answers, because there are no questions to be asked.
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