Mystic LTU 6 Journal

[Shannon]

The future cannot be controlled? Now there's a faulty belief if I ever saw one. Understanding that, and why it is faulty, will likely help you disconnect from a lot of fear.

First, I will state that time is an illusion precipitated upon your conscious mind by the limits of your conscious mind and your physical nervous system. They simply cannot handle, nor easily comprehend, how things really work. As you go deeper into the subconscious, you find that it perceives time as less and less of a "point of now" (as the "conscious" mind perceives it) and more and more of a "smear centered on the point of now the "conscious" mind experiences as 'time in the now'". In other words, as you go deeper and deeper into the subconscious you find that it experiences as "now" what the "conscious" mind thinks is the past and future. If this were not so, then TID could not happen. I'm not making this up, this is the result of research and experiments over decades.

Every moment of time, you have a choice as to what you will do in response to whatever stimulus you are experiencing. This choice exists on all of your levels of awareness, from "conscious" to "subconscious" to "superconscious". This choice is what determines what you do, which in turn determines the probability you experience, and thus what your "experienced reality" is and becomes.

For example, if you choose in the heat of the moment to pull the trigger on a criminal who is trying to mug you, you will experience the probability line that results from it, and each moment you alter that probability with more choices in response to the stimulus you experience in each moment. You might hit the criminal and kill them, and then face a lengthy court case to determine your innocence, during which your choices and actions may lead you out of the court room with an exoneration, or as a prisoner bound for a life sentence in prison. If you choose not to pull the trigger, you may end up getting shot by the thug and dying, or having the thug report you playing the victim of "some maniac with a gun pointed at me" or have the rest of the day be very uneventful.

An infinite number of possibilities extend from that one moment in which you make the decision to either draw your gun or not, and then if you did, to either pull the trigger or not. What you actually experience depends on what you are most likely to choose, which is what probability lines are: lines of result from probable choices, not just possible ones.

You control your future by what you choose to do in response to the stimulus you experience a hundred times a second and more. You control your future by what you choose to believe is true, because those beliefs are what will shape the resulting decisions and the actions that in turn result from them.

There are of course circumstances you cannot control in your future. For example, you're not likely to do much about changing your genes in certain ways. But even that is becoming less and less set in stone.

It's all about what you choose to believe, and what those beliefs cause you to conclude is the best choice of action and reaction for each moment of stimulus.

And ALL of these possibility and probability lines aren't just "possible and probable". They exist already. The question is, which will you choose to focus your awareness into and experience each moment?

You have a LOT of control over your "future", and yes, man lives in the past, present and future. Your conscious mind and nervous system cannot handle that much data, so they largely ignore it. But that doesn't change what is.

So basically, your beliefs lead to your thoughts, which become your point of view, which results in your responses, which become your choices and then your actions, which decide which "future" you will choose to experience. But it is your choice, whether you take responsibility for it or not.

Consider this. If I believe that I cannot influence my future, then I won't try, and I will stumble through life at the mercy of random choices, subconscious choices, and other people's choices. It will seem as if I have no control of my life, which will spark fear of lack of control, which will create a control freak response. The irony is that it is a control freak response based on the belief that there is no way to have control. This would likely spiral out of control as a fear response.

The truth is, what I choose determines my future. If I choose to go rob a bank, then my future will include probability lines that feature prison time, being murdered, or moving to another country and living it up while I still have money. If I choose instead to go work for my money, and then do smart things with it to become a multi-millionaire, then my future does not include the probability of going to jail or prison for robbing a bank, and it does not include the probability of being killed for the money by one of my accomplices, and it does not include the probability of me escaping the country to go live it up in some tourist country while I have money. It can't, because the precipitating event that opens the doors to those probabilities never happened in the reality I chose to focus myself into, and so it is outside my experience.

You have a lot of control of your future. It depends on what you choose to believe and what choices and actions you make.