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Time and Space and Free Will 11/14/2011
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   If time is a concept relative to space ( a concept of a sequence of events in the material universe), then things of a non-material nature, such as those things that we traditionally identify as spiritual things, and which today we might identify as the underlying ordering factor behind the systematically unfolding material universe, such things are not limited by time and space. Rather, time and space are limited by this underlying ordering factor. 

    And since this underlying ordering factor is not limited to time and space, it would be able to interface with time and space as a whole (in what we time and space-oriented creatures would describe as past/present and future, all together). 

    This type of interfacing, with time and space, absolutely knows the unfolding of time and space, and thus could both express itself in a temporal free will, and in its interaction with our temporal free wills. Such interaction would not invalidate our free will. If we temporal-oriented beings knew the outcome of our choices in the same manner that the underlying ordering factor did, this would effectively invalidate out free will. We don't, so our freedom to choose remains viable. 

    And because we are inherently subjective enough creatures to carry a viable freedom of choice, we are also subjective enough to require consistent moments of spiritually originated objectivity/insight in order for our choices to rise above the ordinary influences of instinct, and emotion, and our value structure (what Freud would have called the super ego). 

    Without this objective input, we would be fated by our physiology and our physical and emotional environment to live out absolutely predictable lives. We don't live out absolutely predictable lives, just because there is this interaction between the underlying ordering factor of the material universe, and us. 

    Jung would call this interaction, the collective unconscious at work in our subconscious mind, and would vaguely and alternately define it as either a product of human evolution, and a product of something much bigger than human evolution. 

    I would call it God, and would say that regardless of the actual extent of human evolution, it is a force that is the context of the systematically unfolding material universe, and as such is expressing itself through every material thing in the universe, and through our human psyche as well (which is capable of interfacing with this spiritual force). 

    To the extent that human free will is an expression of this underlying ordering factor, it implies that the root cause of all human dysfunction is a product of our choice to remain in disharmony from this underlying ordering force, and the reason we choose this path is because we opt for pride instead of love. 

    Pride is our wounded ego's reactionary attempt at solving our problems, and is invariably self-directed. The ordering factor underlying the unfolding material universe is patently loving, and when we respond to it, we are raised up out of the conservative acting, self-directed, destructive impulses of our ego, and freed to see our real options. 

    So, our choices are ultimately about whether we will respond to love (the underlying ordering factor of the universe we are an aspect of), or whether we will opt to react to fear (and its ego supported perceptions of reality). All of our human behavior is a result of this choice, and we are constantly making this choice, whether we are conscious of it or not. 

    Becoming conscious of this ongoing series of decisions is itself, a product of our consciously deciding to seek, to knock, to ask for harmony with this underlying ordering factor of our life. We are all being wooed. Some of us will respond. Most wont.

 


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