In past entries over the years, I’ve regularly poked fun at some of the intuitives and “psychics” who’ve tried, and failed, to predict major world events. And I’ve pondered the paradox of why we sometimes receive clear images from the future, usually when we aren’t looking for them, but then fail when we try to deliberately receive them. I was reminded of this the other day when I went looking for a well-known Nashville psychic, who I met a couple of times in the ‘70s and ‘80s, though I never personally had a reading from her. I was surprised to find that she had passed away in 2015. She published one book years ago, now out of print. Her obituary included some publicity photos from her heyday, indicating that she had achieved a level of recognition, though I doubt that she ever got rich off being psychic. She was active long enough that there are still some online reviews of her services; there were a couple of “she is a fraud” ratings, though most reviewers said she was actually helpful and accurate. Basically, I saw her as sincere and well-intentioned, through over the years as I thought about her, I wondered how, exactly, a psychic reads someone else’s future.
After pondering this conundrum for most of my adult life—how one can see a future that hasn’t happened—I’ve decided that the simplest explanation is the one put forth by Seth and numerous near-death experiencers: that time (at least on the physical plane) exists all-at-once, and we simply traverse events like a car driving down the road. The road exists, and our destinations are already there. Though precognition is rejected by mainstream science, I’ve proven it to myself, as have many others.
This does not make any particular future absolutely predestined. We can take a detour from the road, or end our trip prematurely. We can take alternate routes. We can go the long way or take shortcuts. But after a certain point, certain probable destinations jell, and we can reasonably predict them.
Considerable effort seems to be exerted on the “other side” to ensure that the gazillion probable paths that humanity takes mostly align with an overall plan, and this effort would make little sense if the future was not foreseeable—including telling near-death experiencers to “go back” because it isn’t “time.” Arguably, it’s the future that pulls us forward through time, influencing our current choices. No matter how irrational some of our choices seem, they often make sense in hindsight.
Additionally, specific events in our timeline have been chosen in advance and are usually unavoidable. Ironically, these future events are not usually disclosed to the individual and can’t be foreseen, probably because a knowledge of them would alter that future. If these futures are glimpsed in dreams, they are not presented as “future” experiences for the same reason. After-death communicants state that they know some future events but are prohibited from revealing them (though some cheat and do so anyway). Certain futures may be “accidentally” disclosed to convince the experiencer that there is a master plan of sorts, and our participation in it is essential.
None of this should detract from the general principle of free will. The human ego has choice in the conduct of daily events, while “greater” aspects of the whole personality can choose, and has chosen, certain meta-experiences.
Navigating through time is a complicated endeavor. I don’t think it can be “read” by a casual psychic. A gifted intuitive can read certain parts of it, but I think that guardrails are in place to prevent a widespread conscious revelation of it. Universal intuitive abilities were once part of our distant past and can be part of our future, as we choose to make it.
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