detheridge wrote on Mar 2nd, 2010 at 10:51am:Thanks for the interesting replies folks.
However, I had a far more prosaic hypothesis in mind.
Various times in my life I have met people through 'seeming chance' who have been pivotal or important in my life, either for many years, or just a short while.
So, to give a theoretical scenario:
You travel to work one day by a route that you wouldn't normally take and as a result you meet someone who will be important in your life -it could be a future partner, employer or co-worker, guru, or someone who is (pre-life review) destined to help you in some way. That scenario unfolds.
But if on that particular day you decided to travel to work by your usual route or an entirely different route, then you wouldn't meet that person and that scenario wouldn't occur.
Has your freewill changed the future? Does the option of meeting that person still exist in a parallel universe somewhere? Has our total selves experienced ALL the possibilities that we could have experienced through all the freewill decisions that we have made /are going to make/ missed out on this time?
Or do we have to wait for another incarnation to meet that particular person and play out what we should have done this time around?
I've heard it said that in each life we have probabilities of what will happen to us and the people that we will meet, but the free will that we exercise is constantly changing the future in the details, but maybe not in the broad outline. What we decide can change things, and our guides, Inspecs and Excoms have to resort to 'Plan B'.
Any comments?
Best wishes,
David.
Far from prosaic, and very similar to my own ideas...
My example was after a class, two friends and I were driving into town to have dinner and I happened to turn into a bar that none of us had ever entered for a beer noone had requested. None of us had ever heard of it or even noticed it and it was just a hole in the wall next to the campus.
We stood at the end of the bar for awhile and in mid conversation I turned around and saw a woman on the other side of the bartalking to another man. I asked the bartender for a white wine (what she was drinking) and another beer. I took both my glass and hers over to her, handed her the new glass, took the old one and interrupted her conversation. We couldn't take our eyes off each other until our friends each hauled us away to continue our night. We went out the next night and were inseperable for the next nine months.
I am not the type to initiate conversations with complete strangers in bars, but in this case I sensed she was not a stranger...although this was my first introduction to her in this life, as we have been married in prior lives many times as I have come to find out.
I don't know if it was free will that caused me to turn into this bar, but I certainly had no obvious external forces pushing me there. In doing so I met someone who drastically changed my life.
heisenberg...your experience, and David's posit, both brought this event to mind.
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