fate

Fate is outcome – the natural outcome of events and actions. Fate is the end of a chain of causality for all things bound to that particluar illusion. Fate can be personal, social or global.

In the process of creating our future, we need to master the use of fate. This requires knowing the difference between creative thinking and positive thinking. Thinking is basically a question and answer process, but most of us are taught to ask the wrong questions. "Why does this always happen to me" or "why do I have to work so hard" – the brain will find answers and deliver them to the body and consciousness, despite their benefit or lack thereof, or even their rationality. Questions such as "how can I enjoy solving this problem" or "what can I do to improve the quality of my life today" will force the brain to seek out ultimately beneficial answers. This is creative thinking. Negative questions will still arise despite hours of thinking positively, but once one has begun to think creatively, negative questions seldom surface. The simple but superb computational processes of the brain can be terrible or uplifting, according to the nature of the mind that commands them.

Destiny is often understood as the effect of an ancient or unperceivable cause. But this may not be an objective view of the situation, and it seems that we have culturally accepted what was once a common personal misconception. Maybe people learned from priests and rulers that it was the gods that consigned them to their fate as part of their efforts to bring order for their own benefit. Who knows? What happened in very ancient times to root this idea in human consciousness we may never know, but we do know that we can change the cause and effect relationships we recognize as fate by changing the meanings of the effects. By giving new meaning to our experiences, we anchor new causes to the events in our future, creating a new destiny. This is, in fact, one of the few useful applications of the illusion of causality.

Sadly, destiny is a common excuse for irresponsibility Believing destiny to be an outside force allows the future be dictated by whatever fate results from unintentional actions and negative conditioning.

Everything we do projects events, circumstances and meanings into the future. This is fate. Decisions are the guiding forces of our destiny, but decisions can produce limitations. The word 'decide' comes from the Latin de - off, and caedere – to cut, and that exactly defines the process of making the desired future real: cutting off all possibilities other than the outcome we want. Unfortunately, we are sometimes forced to choose between our essential nature and the societally conditioned view of our circumstances.

When we learn to decide in favor of our highest self-interest, we can let go of the frantic, unproductive actions that express irrational fears resulting from social programming. Then it will be easier to ask ourselves the kind of questions that are discreetly re-programming the brain to collect the energy we need to drive us towards our goals.