The destiny of free will.

In the times when the Greeks of antiquity started to explore the concept of 'free will' they believed that everything was determined by destiny or the gods. Etiologically there is no word for ‘free will' in ancient Greek or in Latin as all choices were regarded as influenced by ‘destiny’. In antiquity, Greek and Latin literature portrayed man as being at the mercy of the gods and he had no choice in what happened to him. Even the choices he made out of free will were predetermined by the gods.

Gradually they moved away from the notion that everything was predetermined by gods. With the advent of Christianity, the idea was spread that man must be held accountable for his choices. Through his choices, he can prepare his position in heaven or hell. That forced man to rather analize before he makes a decision. Man at last had the free will to decide. This was also the beginning of the long road of the development of rationality and self-consciousness.

Despite this development in the notion of free will, man was still divided in their views of what the relationship between free will' and destiny was. Ironically so, as the Greek word Moira (destiny) means to be parted, divided into something of which HALF is visible or known (free will) and the other HALF is not' (fate).

Free will' is the visible, conscious part of a process with a hidden future outcome which we can call fate. I want to illustrate this definition by using the brilliant Dutch movie, the Vanishing' or Spoorloos'. A man plans to kidnap a woman. With a ruse he gets her into the passenger seat of his car. Walking around the car he doused a handkerchief with chloroform to put over her nose the moment he gets into the car. Just as he wanted to open his door he sneezed and without thinking he used his handkerchief and felt dowsey from the cloroform. He realised his mistake and left the car and went into the bushes. The woman got out of the car and walked away. It was the free will of the man to choose this specific woman to kidnap but it was his fate to sneeze. I was the free will of the woman to get in the car but it was part of her fate to escape the chloroform hankerchief.

The 'free will' and the 'fate' part of destiny was confirmed by a very interesting experiment by neurophysicist Moran Cerf shows that we make a decision before we are conscious of it. He synchronized specific choices with specific locations in the brain using electrodes. He then asked a person to make a choice between two actions to press a red or a green button that lights up red or green. Using the electrodes, he linked these locations with the respective buttons. He then asked the person to decide which button to press. In all cases the buttons lit up even before the person decided which button to press, but the button that lit up was the one the person wanted to choose. He concluded that an unknown' choice is made a few seconds before a conscious choice or action is made. The person experiences it as if he or she has made the choice consciously.

So, medical science has proven that free will' is actually not free at all. ‘Free will' is actually just the manifestation of the illusion that we make choices consciously. So, what is the ‘free will' that modern consciousness is boasting about? And how did it influence our world?

In order to answer it, we need to look at how consciousness has developed. It seems as if individuality and free will' developed later in history as man became increasingly conscious of himself. With that came the observation that he has choices and that most of the choices are successful. This observation led to an inflated ego and a sense of power. Rationality and Empiricism birthed science whose purpose is to predict and control'. That means that the unknown part of destiny' was cut off and only the known part, the ‘free will' to control and predict part was kept. So, Alchemy changed into chemistry, Astrology into astronomy, Spirituality into religion, Metaphysics into physics, Philosophy into psychology, to name a few. Only the things that can be observed and measured were regarded as real. The rest were pushed into oblivion and its existence was denounced as heresy and illusions. Logic and positivism were the only via dolorosa to the absolute truth. One of the saddest examples is in genetics. The part that scientists cannot understand, is called junk DNA. But times have changed in the past few decades.

Quantum physicians asked questions that proved that the ‘objective' scientist is the actual creator of his results. The use of logic to explain certain things begins to show its limitations and it becomes more and more evident that we cannot understand this ‘reality' using logic and knowledge alone. Increasingly Science and the power hunger egos using their ‘free will' to manage' this world are exposed as the creators of destruction of nature and mankind. They are the reason why nature was decimated, humanity deflowered of love, and this illusion changed into a hell.

Lynne McTaggart in her book ‘The Field' discusses quantum experiments that perturbed most scientific notions of reality. Increasingly quantum physics proves that we create what is already there by becoming conscious of it. Destiny in quantum physics is a wave that we collapse through consciousness into particles to manifest as a choice made by ‘free will'. But this free will choice is already there as part of millions of destiny waves, or what I call ‘Awareness'. The art is to listen, to be aware of the correct one that is given to you a few seconds before you make your ‘free will conscious choice'. This was part of how a primitive man made choices, and is still part of all children before they go to school.

To summarize: Consciousness is not a state of being as many religions, spiritual traditions and even science advocates. Consciousness is a process during which the unknown part of destiny is explicated and brought to mind or brought into manifestation. A person receives a ‘free will message' that he then translates into a choice a few seconds later. This implies that humanity can change destiny. It is indeed the case. I have said that Awareness is destiny. When you work from Awareness, you have no conscious ego, and you then live in alignment with your essence. You then become your destiny because you have no free will. In other words the unknown part of your destiny unfolds as one of the millions of possibilities in your quantum field. You learn to listen to your ‘few seconds before' message. You then move into the Oneness where everything is interlinked. That is why an astrologist can work out your destiny by looking at your birth chart, the alchemist can treat you for things that are not even visible, and the spiritual person can revive your soul without saying a word.

We live in an illusion marked by natural and unnatural catastrophes, marked by death, and birth, marked by all those things that are set in stone. But we are linked via the stars above, the DNA in us and the quantum field around us, with the Beyond. If we make choices from Awareness, it will be aligned with destiny, and you can change destiny to one of the million possibilities instead of adhering to your own conscious idea about what you want. This brings us to a last point which is the most difficult to explain but gives us insight into the unknown layers of destiny'.

If we say that free will' is the known part of destiny, it means that there can also be bad things in destiny if we look at this world. For humans the act of killing is relative. The act of killing is good when a man's intention is to protect his family. Another person might think that it was nevertheless bad of the man to kill. So, the act of killing is good and it is bad. In both cases the killer must be held accountable which will be part of his destiny. But what about the person that was murdered? Answering a similar question about a friend of mine that died in a hijacking attack years ago came as a shock. Was he supposed to die Yes, or else he would not have died. Was he supposed to be murdered with a gun Yes, or else they would have used a knife. Were they supposed to kill him Yes, or else they would have not succeeded. Was it supposed to have happened at that time and place Yes, or else it would not have happened at that spot at that time. Analyzing this was a shock because I realized that the two guys were only doing what destiny wanted to let happen. The hijacking attack resulted within the consciousness framework of my friend. I believe that with a different consciousness, destiny could have changed, e.g. he could have realised just before the attack that something bad is about to happen and could have accelerated at high speed in an attempt to evade the attacker. What is comforting, though, was that I realized that my friend entered the Oneness with God which was much nicer that the conscious prison he lived in.

Why do I say this Consciousness is the biggest burden of mankind?To be not conscious, to be dead, means to be in Awareness or in total Oneness with God where there is no time, space, duality. To be conscious means to have an ego, mind, personality and individuality. Rex basically had to choose between the hell of being conscious of not knowing for the rest of his life, or the probably to be in awareness where it does not matter if he knows or not. Why is prison the most feared way to punish someone? Because you are confronted by consciousness every minute of the day. You are in your free will choice and reminded of it every second. Now you know that consciousness is in itself humanity’s biggest prison. Every person in the modern world has to live in this prison and each person has designed things to temporarily take him out of his consciousness: drugs, liquor, sleep, sport, meditation, movies, books, practicing of art, parties, to name a few.

Just one last thing: one does not know that you are dead, that you are without consciousness, because life is the process of consciousness. It is the process bordered by time and space. Contrary, there is Awareness which is beyond time and space, in the Oneness with God or whatever you want to call it. And because it is beyond time and space, you are already in it whether you are conscious of it or not. You are already in the Beyond, in the destiny of free will.

You have free will to continue reading or not. If you do not continue reading, you will not know what I am going to tell you. So, it actually becomes a necessity to continue reading. Is the decision to continue reading then still your free will or is it curiosity that ‘forces’ you to continue reading? If you continue reading you will find out things that might have a huge influence on your thinking, decisions, plans, or in other words, your destiny. Your ‘free will’, in other words are actually part of destiny.

Moira, ‘destiny' in ancient Greek means to be divided, or one part allotted and the other part not. This can be translated into something of which HALF is visible or known (free will) and the other HALF that is not (fate). This was also the notion of the Fatalists and the Greeks of antiquity who believed that everything was determined by destiny or the gods. Etiologically there is no word for ‘free will' in ancient Greek or in Latin as all choices were regarded as influenced by ‘destiny’. In antiquity, Greek and Latin literature portrayed man as being at the mercy of the gods and he had no choice in what happened to him. Even the choices he made were predetermined by the gods. In Greek literature from about 200 BCE philosophers and writers started to debate about free intentions, necessity and responsibility. Gradually they moved away from the notion that everything was predetermined by gods. With the advent of Christianity, the idea was propagated that man must be held accountable for his choices. Through his choices, he can prepare his position in heaven or hell. That forced man to rather analize before he makes a decision. He was not in the hands of fate determined by the gods, but played an active role in his future. Man at last had the free will to decide. This was also the beginning of the long road of the development of rationality and self-consciousness.

Despite this development in the notion of free will, man was still divided in their views of what the relationship between free will' and destiny was. Ironically so, as the Greek word Moira (destiny) means to be parted, divided into something of which HALF is visible or known and the other HALF is not'. This can be a viable definition of ‘free will'.

Free will' is the visible, conscious part of a process with a hidden future outcome. I want to illustrate this definition by using the brilliant Dutch movie, the Vanishing' or Spoorloos'. A Man kidnaps a woman. With a ruse he gets her into the passenger seat of his car. Walking around the car he doused a handkerchief with chloroform to put over her nose the moment he got in. Just as he wanted to open his door he sneezed and without thinking he used his handkerchief and felt dowsey from the cloroform. He realised his mistake and left the car and went into the bushes.The girl got out of the car and walked away. We call the HALF of destiny that we know ‘free will': the man chooses a specific woman to kidnap and the HALF we do not know we call 'fate'. It was his free will to choose this specific woman. It was his fate to sneeze (unplanned and unbeknown to him that this will happen). I was the free will of the woman to get in the car but it was part of her fate to escape the chloroform hankerchief.

The next woman happened to be on the same spot as the man. She sees and comments on his keyring with a big metal R' on. Her boyfriend's name started with an R'. His parents chose the name ‘Rex' 40 years ago. If they did not choose this name 40 years ago, and if the kidnapper did not have such a R on his keyring, she would have walked away. So, it seems that the unknown' part we do not know becomes visible through physical, space and time movement, as well as thoughts: the woman sits in the car, the man sneezes, the second woman sees the ‘R' keyring, the parents hear the name Rex and choose it. He kidnaps her and her boyfriend keep on looking for her.

Rex became obsessed with finding out what happened to his girlfriend and he appeared on television and in newspapers. Eventually, after three years, the kidnapper forced him to join him on a journey. They drove for hours having a very interesting discussion on destiny and free will, until he stopped at a park, poured a drink and gave Rex the choice to drink a cup of fluid to find out what happened to your girlfriend. He can also choose not to drink the cup but will then forever wondered what happened to her. The part we know and which we call free will is more on a conscious level. The part we do not know is more on a physical, emotional e-motion level. These things were determined or planned by destiny at a time that did not exist, a place that did not exist and movements that did not exist. This timeless, spaceless and motionless state according to Sanskrit can be translated into the word Awareness'. The unknown part of destiny is therefore Awareness. The known part of destiny that we call free will', is the process of becoming consciousness.

Destiny has an awareness and a conscious part. As mentioned in the beginning, necessity and consequence unmask free will' as to be not so free. This is confirmed by neurological studies. A very interesting experiment by neurophysicist Moran Cerf httpswww.youtube.comwatchv6dqNiSGo9yU shows that we make a decision before we are conscious of it. He synchronized specific choices with specific locations in the brain using electrodes. He then asked a person to make a choice between two actions to press a red or a green button that lights up red or green. Using the electrodes, he linked these locations with the respective buttons. He then asked the person to decide which button to press. In all cases the buttons lit up even before the person decided which button to press, but the button that lit up was the one the person wanted to choose. He concluded that an unknown' choice is made a few seconds before a conscious choice or action is made. The person experiences it as if he or she has made the choice consciously.