Possibilities and Potentials of the Human Will

I have come to the conclusion that we are the ones who decide when we will be successful with a particular lesson. We really know deep within when it is time to look closely at an issue, handle it and then be free of it. A shift happens and we know we are ready to succeed. On a very subtle level, we actually maneuver our lives and all its activities in such a way that we are presented with the right conditions to bring out the greatest potential in soul awareness. What needs to be learned or balanced is actually orchestrated by the soul. This doesn't mean we are to be fixated on the goal and forget about the importance of "being". External accomplishments although wonderful are not how we measure our growth.

The plan is to be in attunement with the Creator. Part of this plan is to assist others in their process of becoming. The current evolutionary cycle is an extremely challenging one. As we meet our challenges with courage and faith, keep remembering that everything drawn to us had its origination in our past records, based upon how we responded to or disregarded universal laws. The universe helps us if we have chosen creative forces. If the motivation in the past was for selfish ends and focusing on materiality, the results are commonly different forms of discomfort and disease. The plan is to expand the soul, not shrivel it.

Many people judge that they are victims. Remember, there are no victims. The past may predispose humans to certain situations or events but if the ability to make the best of a bad situation is exercised the effect will be lessened. What happens to us is in a large part what we expect. Why not expect all? As all life, all force, all power, all everything, which is love, is God. I've been criticized for perennial hopefulness and have been told that I am in a state of denial and other nonsense. I fully believe we personally experience what we expect and ask for. With patience, we will eventually receive. It becomes very apparent that our future is not a matter of fate, chance or luck. Our future is dependent upon what we choose to do right now in the current situation. It is time more of us realize the power that comes from using our will and being responsible for the life that we choose to live.

Why is There a Book of Life, an Akashic Record?

We have a universal mind, book of life or record, depending on how you think of it for the sole purpose of analyzing and keeping track of both individual and collective opportunities for growth. Our future is not set in stone. It manifests according to our choices. One choice leads to another and then another. Another way of saying this is that the outcome of our destiny is determined by how we use free will. Free will has access to an unlimited supply of data and information that will enable us to fulfill the purpose for which we originally chose to enter matter. We are very complex beings filled with conflicting emotions, behaviors and patterns so the outcome basically depends on us. Opportunities are always being presented to us. If we don't take advantage of them when they appear, it does not mean they are lost. Somewhere in time and space, they will again present themselves as an opportunity for further growth in consciousness.

Sometimes a soul becomes heavily bogged down with grief and responsibilities and as a result feel lost. The feeling of despair can create a situation where he or she is unable to continue to apply spiritual principles because of serious oppression. Even if the soul gives up, it is a temporary condition and greater opportunites will manifest in future life experiences. Our identity continues and as a result the soul's growth is an ongoing developmental process. Remember, the soul constantly meets itself. As I said in an earlier article, we generally 'pick up' where we left off in a future life experience. If more people understood the fact of the continuity of life, comprehending the process of soul evolution would be comforting and provide a hope that many do not experience. Evolution begins from the point where it left off.

Regardless of where your soul is located on the Ladder of Light, soul evolution, we have an opportunity to be a channel of the Creator's consciousness, activity and love. Growing in grace, knowledge and understanding is a step by step process. When our consciousness is open to living for the good of all, including the care of the earth, God's consciousness will manifest through us. There are so many wonderful peace groups all over the world. I do hope that the members understand that they must first find the peace in self before they can really impact others. We need to remind each other that we really know what to do with our lives. Problem is...there is a gap between knowledge and application. Look at freedom of will from the following perspective. Freedom of choice simply allows us to decide when we will be successful with a particular lesson. We will eventually be successful when we decide that it is time.

To Understand a Condition Become a Master of It

Our individual free will determines everything. Remind yourself periodically that no experience, urge, environment, or person is greater than your own will. For you to attain personal awareness, you have to stay with your intent. If you don't, hard lessons repeat themselves over and over again until they are learned. The quality of your life today is totally dependent on the choices you make and how you interact with others. Once the truth of this sinks in, you will no longer be stuck in time, a feeling that comes with ongoing repetition. Depending on the choices you make, you are led to a new crossroad and another set of possible experiences. The crossroads are cycles that provide possible development. It is always up to you. Outcome is always dependent on our choices. You do not have to be dependent on an existing pattern that is negative.

Wouldn't it be satisfying to create new patterns that fit our ideal? Nothing happens by chance. We write our book of life by the way we use truth, knowledge, wisdom and our dealings with people and challenges. Our soul history, Akashic Record, is a blueprint. It shows up in our fingerprints, blood type, astrology, iridology, the enneagram, numerology, dreams, self-hypnosis, personal imaginings and more. It probably is in our DNA. All the aspects of our life appear as a "hologram". Each piece contains the whole. Our personal aura is a manifestation of our soul history.It reflects our health and displays our moral stature. It is like a weather vane of the soul.

What we do in any given situation is prompted or brought into manifestation through our soul record. Even when we physically die, we leave an energy impression of our aura that can be accessed by a sensitive. Energy fields are emitted by everything including cities. Haven't you ever flown into a city and once you walk on the ground say to your self...'I do not like the energy'? The reaction can be just the opposite. I remember landing in a small city in Mexico knowing immediately I had been there before and the feeling was actually jubilant. The point I am attempting to make is that there are unseen forces which impact individual consciousness. Many of these forces consist of energy we have created in the past. The stronger our control of our feelings and choices, the less we will be influenced in a negative way or forced to repeat the unpleasant. We meet ourselves every day through the very impressions we have created in the universe's database. Understanding how impulses work, meaning continue to live, we can use tools such as meditation, prayer and chanting and make new choices and patterns and record a new film of time and space.

Tackling Your Own Archaeological Dig

When we start digging into the memories stored in the subconscious, it becomes obvious that our challenges today have their roots in choices and decisions made previously. Some teachers feel that if you go straight to God, the memories, karma that is considered bad, will automatically be removed without your going through therapy sessions or deep introspection. This does happen in rare cases. One time I offered a workshop on the power of the Holy Spirit. Many people came up to me to be touched and their healing were obvious to them as well as observers. I remember two men who had come together and their comments. They said that it felt like they were being washed clean...the feeling that all hindrances and impurities had dropped instantly away was their personal experience. They were obviously ready.

It is important that we take personal responsibility in shaping the course of our lives and the condition of the world around us. We do effect every soul we encounter and in this way we are 'co creators' in the unfoldment of destiny. Today, there are many people studying subjects that will help with soul progression. It is one thing to know, and quite another thing to put into daily practice what we do know. This is why a good teacher will suggest that a seeker have his or her own ideal and live life doing everything possible to reach the ideal. People usually blame others for their problems. Not so, we inherit most that happens from ourselves. For those of you who live with challenging personalities, try minimizes their faults and magnifying their virtues.

For you to be able to access your personal hidden records, realize that you must be sensitive and that it is difficult to interpret the records. You would have to be in a detached state of mind, your body at peace and unified with all parts of what you refer to as your self. Using your will and asking a specific question can be successfully done under the right conditions. The information must come through form. The form could be a dream, a vision, an intuitive thought, looking at a scene or hearing something that stimulates the hidden. The records are everywhere and will manifest through your consciousness by means of the five senses. Pay attention to what you say, hear, think and write. Why do you want information? Be very clear when you ask for it. The odds are the answers will come in symbolic form and require interpretation. It is your subconscious that gives you the symbols required to bring the information to the surface in your mind. We are essentially archaeological digs. Persistence and pure intent will get you through the layers of the past and find their way to the surface.

What Am I To Do?

A simple question yet it can be very difficult to answer. Can we really go beyond the roles that we play in life, beyond the moods with which we tend to identify, beyond the ideas that we are inclined to defend? There are answers and some are more convincing than others. It boils down to our clearly understanding the question. We have to know how to dismantle a question to receive the right answer. Education definitely helps. Many people are philosophically illiterate or they refuse to look at the truth of an inner subconscious memory bank that is governing their lives. It is a struggle but we must reach beyond the patterns of the personality whether it is a current or past one. Learning to grow as a human being is one of the signs of a true education, a philosophy that works. It is easier for some people to live in blatant denial and suffer depression than to open the door to other possibilities and probabilities. If you are seriously on the path of self-awareness, you are always taxed, challenged and basically a warrior against ignorance on every level.

We not only feel the experiences of the past and present, we also experience subtle influences in the soul when it is in between earthly lives. We can actually learn focused lessons before returning to the earth and bring with us an expanded awareness. In between sojourns in consciousness manifest as strong, unconscious influences on an individuals personality, character, urges, desires, habits and even preferences. There is a purpose to what happens to us and trying to run away from it...gains nothing. Our birthright is WILL. It is the Will that makes us an individual, different from all other creatures. We need to scrutinize all aspects of what we call our self in order to become more at onement with the divine part of who we are. We do not lose being conscious of self; we enhance our consciousness. We also have strong planetary influences affecting our lives.

Every one of us is an integral part of the whole. As we become more in tune with our divine origins, this becomes obvious. Each soul has made a definite record and sometimes the thought and deed are equal in their intensity. We can by choice program and tap into our individual subconscious mind and gain access to everything from our past in the dream state. If a dream keeps repeating itself, pay close attention because it is more than likely a literal experience back in time and space. Since each individual is the sum total of all of his or her previous experiences, fragments of past-life memories frequently come to the surface when wide awake. Whenever we attempt to explore the endless possibilities regarding our own nature, we need to weigh all 'psychic' information against what we already know about ourselves. There are two things you can remember and do: 1, there are urges and emotions that are both latent and manifested operating in your consciousness all the time. 2, the inner computer database with its strong memories and patterns can be drawn upon at any time.

Building a Framework of Potentials and Probabilities

The influences of the past build the framework for the present. This process is called cause and effect. We have enormous talent stored as past experience within. Through desire and meditation, we can attune or awaken our past talents and utilize the past in the present. Influences of the past are always designed by individual will, desire and purpose in the present. In other words, if we make the effort through attuning our mind to the subconscious gains from the past, we can bring them forth in the present. In many ways, we begin this life where we left off in the past.

Our experiences do not determine who we are; it is our response to the experience that does. Many people think of karma as a debt. Not necessarily true. Karma is action and action is retained as memory. We have a gigantic pool of information stored in our subconscious. The soul constantly experiences the consequences of its previous choices. Some people do not accept the truth that all experiences are for our personal growth. Again, the impact is directly related to response. This hidden memory manifests through desire, feeling, attributes, fears, faults and shortcomings. Our assignment is to come to terms with the memory.

We never meet anyone by chance nor should our emotional reactions be ignored when meeting a person for the first time. Relationships are an ongoing learning and experiential process. If everyone could have a glimpse into their past relationships with current family and friends, they would be astounded. It is like we are constantly meeting the memory we have previously developed in relationships with others. So, where is the karma? Is it with the other person or is it with your self?

The pattern is one of meeting ourselves. This is true for both negative and positive patterns. We continue to be drawn toward specific souls, groups and situations to come to terms with our own karmic memory. For those of us who know that we live more than one physical life, cyclic patterns are clearly understood. Group karma is common. Whether the karmic action is individual or group energy, it could be an entanglement as lasting as thousands of years with the sole purpose of moving toward balance as an individuality.

Is There a Giant Computer System Keeping Track?

We are familiar with the marvels of our personal computers. What about a computer system that keeps track of everything and everyone that has ever existed? Not only does this vast and accurate system have a record of history, it has countless videotape films and pictures that we can tap into if our spiritual senses are active. Some people refer to the objective records as the Akashic Records. These records are not physical nor are they confined to any particular place. They are everywhere. All we need to do is tune into them. Anything that is experienced whether it be a thought, word, desire or action creates a vibration. It remains forever in what is referred to as the unseen etheric energy. Energy leaves an imprint in time and space. The desires that placed the energy out there are also recorded.

Every experience we have can leave either a good or a bad impression. Our choices leave different impressions in the records. The giant computer system is similar to a vast subconscious. The subconscious can be accessed either consciously or unconsciously. The purpose of an accurate record is to actually help a soul in its personal growth and transformation. From my own experience and others, we are able to tap into the past, which can serve what is happening to us on many different levels here in the present. The universe is based on love and order. By keeping a record, we can go back in time and heal, forgive and release any activity that has hampered our balance and ability to live fully. The challenge is to be able to correctly interpret the records. One must be intuitive, open minded, objective and non judgmental. This can be tricky because it is typical to be heavily influenced by our own belief systems, backgrounds, experiences and personal motives.

In our original or natural state, we are spirit. To become individuals, we go through repeated personal experiences in matter. The One becomes two, physical/emotional and soul/spirit. Through the long process of becoming individual, loss of spirit identity commonly occurs. Whenever we move away from the center to the periphery, a certain amount of loss is experienced. Free will and the opportunities that come our way eventually help us to remember through an inner awakening and leads to a return in consciousness to the One. We are gathering enough experiences as a conscious creator to become an individual and yet through specific choices and memory the knowledge we gain leads us to wisdom. The wisdom leads to compassion and eventually to love. When the soul reaches this understanding of its primary essence, it realizes that the One, God, and self are the same even though it remains an individual.