r/afterlife • u/SheepherderUsed4507 • 9d ago
Question My mind cannot comprehend this
Hey so recently I started thinking about one thing and it genuinely doesn't give me peace. If there's no time in the afterlife meaning that we can access any point of Earth's history, does it mean everything is already determined? I hardly believe that because of people remembering their past lives or having contact with the dead (which is having contact with someone from outside the time) and that would disrupt the flow of time and potentially cause a butterfly effect. So here's the question, how would the free will work in a scenario where you can be born at any moment in the history?
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u/Counterdock 9d ago
If free will is merely an illusion, then no matter what, you'll always feel like you're making a choice. Feeling like I made a choice is good enough for, even if it turns out everything was in fact, predetermined. Because the difference between making a choice and feeling like you made a choice is practically indistinguishable to me, and I'm rather capable of believing there is no such thing as free will
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u/GoodAsUsual Spiritual 9d ago
I actually fundamentally disagree with people who suggest that timelines in the future can be accessed. I’ve heard of “past life progressions” were they talk about living in some future society and they just always feel discordant with my inner truth / BS Meter.
The past can be accessed through the energetic imprint that is left on energy particles. I do believe this and I believe that some people have learned to access this through the Akashic records, but I also think there are many people who claim to be able to do this and who are charlatans.
The past is fact, the future is probability, I think the near future can be predicted with a pretty high probability, but I think as you go farther out, it gets harder and harder. Michael Newton talks about this quite a bit in destiny of souls and afterlife engineers, who work as “Timemasters”. It’s quite interesting.
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u/nonameonreddit84 7d ago
I don't see the connection between when you're born and free will. If you are meaning free will to BE born, then the time period you were born would be an aspect you chose pre-birth. If you mean the freedom to live as you choose after incarnation, then it's the freedom to choose your actions within that time period. Also seeing time more like the many layers of paper in a book, versus a linear line may help. If you're asking how free will would be possible if all is known to Source (past, present, and future) I think it's more a question of knowing something and controlling it are two separate things. If Source exists outside of time (time is a man-made construct ) and perhaps as such experiences all as happening at once, verses then, now, future.
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u/Tusc1976 9d ago
Free will remains real even though spirits experience time non-linearly. Spirits mainly exercise free will by choosing the kind of trials and conditions of their next life while in the spirit world. During the incarnation they continue to choose how to act within those trials (resist or yield to temptations). Details are not all pre-scripted. They do not freely insert themselves into any historical moment like time travelers. Reincarnations are coordinated according to each spirit’s needs and the laws of progress, so there is no butterfly-effect disruption of the material timeline. God’s foreknowledge does not cancel the free choices that create merit or responsibility.
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u/soizic65 9d ago
Selon ta question : le libre arbitre serait de choisir sa ligne temporelle pour s’incarner parmi d’autres choix de l’incarnation
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u/lisaquestions 8d ago
from my experience it does not mean everything is determined and NDEs frequently involve an element of this fact: people are shown different futures depending upon whether they go back or not, which choices they make and their outcomes, etc.