The Lunacy of Predicting the Future
To the seeker, what will be must be dealt with in that moment - not before. Predicting what will happen or deciding how you will act imposes the will of your present self on the future self's choices.
Sometimes I really wonder about people. Especially the ones on X who spew predictions of future events with such certainty that I wonder what drugs they’re doing. Maybe I should get some, too.
What kind? Civil war. Solar events. People being GITMO’d, or worse, put to death after phantom trials. The end of democracy. Changing timelines. Time travel. Financial meltdown. Flat earth. Aliens among us, pulling the strings of civilization. Or invading us. Ascension. Armageddon. White hats are saving us. And a whole lot more.
They even put dates on some of it, most of which never happen like they say. But they don’t stop. They just double down and set a new date to dangle the carrot to keep you hanging on for more of their insights. After all, that day is just around the corner so you’d better be ready.
These people sure must be smart. Or prescient. Or tuned into some ethereal source that’s feeding them this stuff. Because I sure don’t have any way of verifying much of any of it, much less setting my course based on their conjectures.
My crystal ball is broken.
Don’t get me wrong. Psychics and channels and other sages have been sharing such prognostications for centuries. Nostradamus became a big hit because of it. Edgar Cayce, too. Everyone wants to know what’s coming. It’s natural to try to get an edge on whatever tomorrow might bring. I’m no different.
Unfortunately, these predictions are almost universally unreliable, enough so to make a rational mind cry bullshit and demand something more concrete than their allegations that it will be so.
Certainly most of them make a great case (even unwittingly) to force their audiences to test it all with their intuition and resonance, but most people are gullible and trusting those who say they know. So they swallow it as fact with nary a moment’s pause to reflect on its accuracy or inherent contradictions. Instead, they repeat it as gospel, often becoming evangelical zealots of one conspiracy theory or another.
No wonder the intelligence community wants to censor us so. They’re afraid one of them might get something right and give away the farm. Then again, they keep too many secrets anyway, and some sunlight into their activities would be welcome.
Nevertheless, there are so many of these out there that separating truth from fiction becomes well nigh impossible — at least, until you follow the IC’s suppression efforts, and assume that what they censor is probably worth investigating further. Like they say, “When you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.”
For the most part, though, I don’t care. Because to me it’s a waste of energy, anyway.
I have a different view.
I see things differently than most. That’s because I know my life is a stop on my spiritual journey home, and all of it I take in that context. How might such purported truths and distortions enhance that process? What’s its value to my soul?
These and others are ways I test the moment and challenge myself to take more from it. But I can’t do that if I think the world is going to end in a flash of light and I’m in fear that I or a loved one won’t be one of the chosen ones who get to go into the light of higher dimensions.
Nor can I do it if I’m so focused on what’s wrong with now and working to change it that I lose the benefit of where I am. For the experiences of living in the gap between what is and what we want to be is what drives us through life into myriad situations by which to know ourselves better and show it in our affairs.
So you can see that I think that most predictions by others how that future will play out are pretty much irrelevant to my life here and now. Moreover, it is irrelevant to my soul as well. Because all that really exists is this moment. Past and future are simply mental constructs, illusions that pull us away from now, teasing us with what might be and torturing us that this moment does not match up to our reverie or fears.
A matter of choice
To the seeker, what will be if and when it comes, must be dealt with at that time — and only at that time — on its own terms. Deciding how to respond, or worse, predicting it (e.g., “I’m going to leave the country if Candidate X is elected.”) is a subtle method of imposing the will of your present “you” upon the choices of the future “you.”
Now what could be wrong with that, you might wonder? Nothing, assuming you want to be swept along by the illusions of separation and experience within this matrix of reality.
But a seeker aware of its journey on the spiritual path is not interested in being swept along. Rather, its goal should be to take each step intentionally, focusing ever more intently on the demands of this moment and the possibilities it offers. It was created for a purpose known only to our Creator (and maybe our Higher Selves, if you believe in such things), to be explored and understood one moment at a time.
The object of awakening is to expand our awareness of ourselves, our creator, and relationships to each other — and with that awareness bring greater consciousness to bear. The idea behind it is to allow us more choice in how we will meet and process that moment (internally), and where we will go from here (external actions). But that consciousness only exists now, where the inner voice is heard and acted upon.
When you get down to it, it is in a very real sense an exercise in free will to direct it in ways that enhance our experience of this current moment, and each new one as it comes.
Unless that’s the specific gift we’re given with the life plan to share it, odds are good that future predictions are less a gift to prepare for the future than a test of our ability to discern the truth and apply our spiritual principles to walk our talk. And that starts NOW.
Besides, the way things are holds great value for the world, as well as you. Quit denying yourself the benefit of the status quo. You helped create it for a reason.
So when the next round of assertions, predictions or conspiracy theories come up (like talk of a currency crash), do what you think you must. Otherwise, try not to put too much weight on them. Treat them like a show you’re watching on Netflix, and when it’s over turn off the set and go back to your situation now.
Your life is what matters. You’ve lived a lot of it, but that was only to give you the experiences needed to get the most out of this moment. Put your attention where you are. Bring more consciousness to bear and demonstrate you’re learning and ready to take your next step.
Eventually that moment will take you where you hope to go. Give it your all, and quit focusing on what might never be.
Whatever happens will happen. And you will be enough to meet it as you need to. You’ve done it in moments past. You’ll do it in the ones to come, too. But only in divine timing, if at all.
I’ll say it again. Put your attention where you are. That is what your life is about. Live the one you’ve got.
God bless you indeed.
~ John
PS. I would be remiss not to remind you that the inner voice speaks and you act in the moment. Sometimes it inspires you to act now to shape a future moment. But that doesn’t mean getting so wrapped up in what it could look like that you immerse yourself in it to the exclusion of now. Focus on now. That’s the key.