There is a popular philosophy among people exploring spirituality that Sylvia Brown often discusses and that appears in her written work that describes a spiritual contract that we enter into when we begin our various incarnations. In that contract we agree to accept and experience everything that will happen to us in our lives.

This concept of a spiritual contract becomes very complex because in a sense it suggests that all the events of our lives are predetermined. But believing in predestination can sometimes be somewhat paralyzing if we choose to deny our responsibility to make decisions in our lives based on the belief that everything is predetermined and therefore we can’t change anything.

The concept of destiny or predestination seems to go against the concept of free will. How can we have both? Our free will is a fundamental belief regarding our existence, a principle so vital and empowering that it seems impossible to reconcile it with the concept of destiny.

Without free will there would be no purpose to our lives, and while many people may feel it is true that our lives have no purpose, most people believe that their lives do have a purpose, even if they are not sure what it is. its own specific purpose. purpose in life can be. So if we have free will and our lives have a purpose, what happens to the concept of destiny?

The concept of fate, destiny, or predestination is based on an immature understanding of the nature of reality. Our understanding of spacetime and the universe we live in has evolved over time, and it is important to understand that this understanding is still evolving. Time only seems to be a linear track that moves from the past to the future. That appearance is a limitation of our perceptual and cognitive abilities. As our understanding of reality matures, we may begin to understand some of the deeper aspects of spacetime and may discover that our universe is not alone and that our universe actually exists as a member of an infinite set of universes described as parallel universes or alternate realities.

If we think of fate as the result of what happened to us in the past, rather than as a predetermined condition that our lives will inevitably meet, then we can see that in an infinite number of alternate universes we have an infinite number. destinations, all different from each other to a greater or lesser degree. The concept of a contract detailing the events of our lives in each incarnation seems unlikely because it would have to include an infinite set of events to encompass all possible outcomes of our lives.

This does not mean that there is no contract; instead, it suggests that the contract we make must be much simpler to encompass such enormous complexity. The contract remains the same as it was initially established; we agree to accept and experience everything that will happen to us in our lives. Only the context in which we view this contract has changed; We no longer agree to any specific thing that may happen at any given time in one of our many lives, but instead agree to accept and experience everything no matter what those experiences are.

We can agree to this without reservation because that part of us that makes this agreement is eternal and can never be harmed. So we know that regardless of what happens in our various incarnations, we will always exist in an inviolate state beyond the reach of any harm that may befall us in any of our lifetimes. Ultimately, no harm can come to us and all the actors, regardless of their roles in the dramas of each of our lives, are our friends and family in the broadest sense of the spiritual world from which our incarnations begin.

Murder, mutilation, and rape are some extreme examples of the types of experiences that can be considered harmful to those considered the victims; however, they only deal damage in a limited sense. The bodies and spirits that we have in each incarnation are only a small, infinitesimal part of our entire infinite being in the context of our lives in the spiritual world. These terrible things only seem to be harmful in the limited context of this world and these different forms of harm seem to be for the purpose of providing a life lesson or balancing our karma.

It is important to remember that the universe is infinite in scope and we ourselves reflect this infinite nature because we are, in each of our incarnations, also infinite. For each situation in which we find ourselves in conflict, two or more resolutions are given so that each party in a conflict obtains what they may need or want. The universe accommodates the resolutions of our conflicts by cloning itself; in one universe we get away with our own while in another universe the party we are in conflict with gets away with it, this way no matter how many different ways a conflict is resolved, all possible resolutions are realized, each one in your own alternate reality or parallel universe. Pretty clever, huh?

Thanks to the infinite nature of reality, all of the people who died in 911 are still carrying on with their lives in alternate universes and still living with their families and friends. Only an infinitesimal part of themselves accepted the role of ‘victim’ and died in that event in this universe. It may seem harsh on the families and friends of those who died here, but that’s only true in the limited context of this universe. On alternate worlds they still have a loved one with them and their lives continue unaffected by the tragedy we have experienced on this world. Friends and family, as the ‘victims’, have agreed to accept and experience this tragedy, and they have done so because in the context of their spiritual lives they know it is just a small thing with no consequences to them in the bigger scheme. of things. They have experienced this tragedy in one aspect of one incarnation, but with infinite aspects in each incarnation, they continue to experience their lives in different contexts where the tragedy did not impact them personally and may even never have occurred.

Ultimately, no one is really a victim in the sense that everyone has agreed to accept all the experiences of their lives, whatever those experiences may be. Legally, in the laws limited to this world, certain classes of crime are associated with particular classes of victims and many people choose to see themselves as victims of their circumstances rather than take responsibility for their situations in order to address what is wrong and fix it. We can choose to see these people as victims in the context of this world, but their spirits, like ours, are the architects of all their experiences.

And here is the crux of the matter in relation to what we experience in this world. In fact, we are the creators of all our experiences. Nothing happens to us except those events that we ourselves cause or allow to occur in our lives. We are in control of all events in our lives and can choose what we want to experience. So, a person who has experienced something that we can consider terrible, has chosen that experience and has caused it. They may not be aware that they have made such a choice; the choice for him may have been a non-conscious choice made in a subconscious, unconscious or superconscious part of their minds. Quantum physics has shown that our minds have a direct influence on the quantum events that are the fundamental basis of our physical world. We are in control of all our experiences and it behooves us to learn to consciously direct the mundane manifestations of our desires free from internal conflict.

A person frightened by an inner conflict is unable to manifest a satisfying world for himself. The consequences of this are that you will have many unsatisfactory, unpleasant, or harmful experiences as your inner conflict distorts your will in ways that do not serve you as well as it would if your inner turmoil did not interfere with your will. The only good thing that can come from these experiences is that every unsatisfying experience, if reflected on, can be linked to some part within us where there is a conflict. By tracing the cause and effect relationship between our inner turmoil and the outer manifestations of that turmoil in the world, we can learn where we need to heal within ourselves in order to grow happier and healthier and manifest a world that is filled with experiences in harmony with our best hopes and expectations.

By clearing ourselves of inner turmoil and establishing peace within our hearts and minds, we become the conscious and conscientious masters of all that we experience.

It is up to us to learn this for ourselves. Many people can point the way for us, but we are the only ones who can undertake our private spiritual journeys of self-discovery and self-empowerment, no one else can walk our steps for us.

Until then, if we perceive ourselves as victims, it behooves us to remember that we are the only ones who can victimize ourselves and that it is our own ignorance and failure to learn our life lessons that makes us feel victimized. In the end, there are no victims.