I figured out a solution to the free will puzzle: we have free will, but everything is preordained. I believe our lives have infinite parallel universes, depending on the intricate connection between our thoughts, words, deeds, and everything else in the universe. Philosophy considers this view of parallel realities in its study of the many worlds’ theory, where anything we can possibly imagine already exists in an alternative universe.
I believe every thought, action, word, or deed we do transmits us into a new parallel reality, and the more love-filled we are, the more remarkable that reality is. To illustrate, I saw a near-death experience where a person was transferred to an alternative reality. This person was submitted to what he called an Ezekiel wheel, where he was churned into another dimension, moment by moment. And I believe God knows the outcomes of all those infinite potential realities and chooses what we remember and what we don’t remember. That enables the Ezekial wheel to operate seamlessly.
As a result, we must control every single thought to be pure, wise, and unconditionally loving, as every thought is a snapshot heaven takes for a nonjudgemental, completely accepting question period during our life reviews, according to near-death experience reports. (However, the hellish realm life reviews are extremely judgemental). Every thought is ideally toward goals and perceptions fused with unconditional love. For instance, tonight when I read AU student questions and posts on Reddit, I felt such a tremendous sense of love. It was overwhelming. The way we respond to people chisels us into our masterpiece selves, especially when we respond to everything they do with love and understanding. We come closest to our most ideal purpose when we react to everything with pure, selfless, unconditional love.
When we see everyone else as pure souls of love and light, we can’t help to develop wisdom. The ultimate goal in this realm is to see others as pure love and work only on ourselves. After all, we are all souls of pure love, and nothing can truly hurt us as souls. Only this realm and our attachment to our drive to survive (due to our physical bodies) directs our attention to danger. Much to my delight, I learned much of this from author Paul Friedman, who is training me to be a marital coach.
I’ve also realized that nothing anyone does is inherently bad, although my thoughts and behaviors must be pristine. The seemingly negative things others do is part of their path toward overcoming and triumph. And sometimes, people truly can’t help themselves in certain situations, although I must always seek to transcend—to rise above—my trials by choosing the right path, even if it harms me. Sometimes, seemingly bad things others do are inherently good, although this world may not understand this. It isn’t easy to articulate at my developing stage of wisdom. Despite this view, I must conform to doing only good, as outlined in Bibles and spiritual texts. Anything less, and I’m not fulfilling my contract with God: my life purpose. So, everyone, in my mind, is blameless and holy, and their actions are 100% understandable, although I must consistently demonstrate the highest morals.
Sometimes, we hit major roadblocks, and those are necessary parts of our spiritual evolution. The most tragic circumstances are meant to bring us closer to God—or, in atheist terms, pure, selfless unconditional love.
So, I think our futures are preordained, as we may have infinite futures, all preordained. God, then, to me, is like the ultimate chess player who knows the checkmate route we will end up at, given our composition, the evolution of our eternal choices, and the interactivity of everything in the universe. And in a parallel universe where we made a different choice, such as transcending into a higher consciousness, God has preordained that path for us, too. The ultimate place we want to end up is where our every single thought, action, and word is infused with unconditional love for everyone. That’s our highest reality.
