Published by akemi on 07 Jul 2010 at 03:30 pm
Do You Want To Know About Your Future?
Throughout the history, people all over the world wished to know the future, to know what would happen in their lives. In the ancient time, we relied on the prophecies and oracles. These days, we check with psychics or check the astrology in the paper.
However, the challenge is whether you can utilize the knowledge of your future once you learn it. It’s very possible you get confused or shocked to the point you react in a counterproductive manner.
Think of the cases in ancient Greek tragedies.
One of the most famous Greek tragedies is the one about Oedipus. Oedipus was born as the heir of Thebes. The oracle of Delphi said, however, “This baby shall kill his father and marry his mother”. Terrified, the father abandons the baby in the wild.
Keep in mind that, in the ancient Greek, people believed they get into the destiny right when they resist it.
The abandoned baby was found and adopted by the childless king and queen of another acropolis. They raised Oedipus as if he was their real child. When he grew up, Oedipus was told by a stranger that he was not the biological son of the royal couple. Further, there was another oracle that told Oedipus “You shall bring death to your parents”. Confused, the young Oedipus leaves home, still believing his adoptive parents are what the oracle refers as his parents and hoping that his departure would prevent such catastrophe.
This is the second resistance to the oracle. Watch what happens.
Oedipus was a proud and brilliant man. While traveling, he kills a rude old man. Then he solves the riddle of Sphinx, saving the acropolis of Thebes. The people there were so grateful that they asked Oedipus to marry the newly widowed queen and become their new king. The queen was much older than Oedipus but still quite beautiful. They somehow felt close to each other and their marriage was a good one that produced four children.
Many years later, Oedipus had to find out the killer of the previous king. Eventually, he realizes it was the old man he himself killed on the way. Moreover, he learns the previous king and the queen had a son that received the horrible oracle, and realizes it was himself.
The oracle that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother had materialized. The queen is horrified and kills herself. Oedipus blinds himself and escapes the city.
If the king didn’t abandon the baby Oedipus, there was no way Oedipus would have killed him without even knowing it was his biological father. By resisting the oracle, he got himself into the destiny the oracle told.
Sorry for telling such a disturbing story. I am not quoting this story to tell you you should not resist destiny. I do think just learning about the future can be difficult, if not counterproductive. It doesn’t necessarily lead you to a better future.
The most important thing is you live well right now. Regardless you know your future or not.
Well, this is getting long, so I will write about the near future issue next time. Until then,
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grapeshot on 07 Jul 2010 at 5:28 pm #
Greek myths aren’t true stories but paradoxically they illustrate universal truths. When I read your previous post, which was about the possibility of finding out your future, I wanted to write a comment saying this same thing. (I’m glad I didn’t, because I couldn’t have said it as well.)
I once received a call from an employee of mine on the midnight shift. He called to warn me that one of our customers was mad at him and on the war path, and would probably call me to complain. Then he proceeded to explain himself and his actions. Sure enough, no sooner than he hung up this customer rang. I responded with hostility, rather than open mindedness, and later on, when reviewing these events, it became clear that by “knowing the future” I ended up limiting myself, and caused a bad situation to escalate into something worse. “Knowing the future” didn’t help me at all. Now, I can’t say that I would’ve handled this situation better if I hadn’t known what was coming, but I’m convinced that this little bit of fore-knowledge was no help at all.
If you know your future, then you’re denying yourself free choice because every choice you make from that point on will be colored by this knowledge. In the end, if you haven’t escaped the prediction, will it be because fate was stronger than you? Or because you unconsciously made it happen? On the other hand, if the prediction doesn’t happen, was it wrong? Or was it correct under the circumstances at the time, but circumstances changed? All these questions make my head hurt, and to what point? Every time I ponder these things, the conclusion I come to is that I simply don’t want to know what exactly is in my future. It won’t help me live my life.
akemi on 08 Jul 2010 at 8:28 am #
Grapeshot,
Thank you for sharing. That is a great example of how knowing the future dis-serving you. And yes, a lot of “predictions” become self-fulfilling prophecies by influencing our mindset. After all, we are creating our life, so if we believe certain things happen, they do.
This is why I am extremely cautious about telling the future in my Akashic Record Reading. I only discuss it with those who know the creative power in us, and even with them, I am careful.
Jennifer Browning-Patrick on 08 Jul 2010 at 9:23 am #
Great Post!! I appreciate your cautions when working with what is to be. There are many people who can get addicted to knowing their future and likely lose sight of free will. Also, I sat down with a palmist at a charity event not long ago and some of the advice she gave me made me wonder whether or not she was in full alignment. Is this something to consider when working with a medium? My experience with this person made me appreciate the balance that one must keep when working in this area. You give enough information that I can feel confident about the path that I am on but leave enough to be desired that I am still able to rely on faith as well.
Great Post!! I really your comparisons and use of the myth.
Lisa (mommymystic) on 08 Jul 2010 at 6:52 pm #
Interesting, as always. You know, this and your last post are difficult for me to process, because I think of all our destiny points as ‘optional’ if we know how to work with them. Meaning I do believe that at any given moment, including before we incarnate in a given life, we have a ‘most likely’ future, and that if we live unconsciously, that will be how it plays out. Basically, that’s karma – a set of energy momentums created by our past choices and experiences. But ultimately, we can change these at any point, depending on our level of consciousness. Sometimes we don’t, even when we could. And for most people it’s not an issue, because they aren’t conscious enough to change them anyway. But sometimes we really do change enough in one lifetime that the whole house of cards is shifted. Any prior destiny points we had have been changed.
Maybe that’s what you mean about being conscious of our creative power, so maybe we are really saying the same thing? I think of it as being ‘beyond karma’ which is a classic way of talking about it in eastern traditions (and doesn’t mean someone is actually beyond the laws of karma, just means they can consciously create their karmas).
Anyway, you got me thinking, which is never a bad thing:-) Hope you’re well XOXO – Lisa
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akemi on 08 Jul 2010 at 8:23 pm #
Jen,
The balance of how much I might mention in a reading and how much I might leave out (or not even look into in the Akashic Records) is something I continuously ponder. I have basic guidelines, such as not going into the future in the first reading. That usually becomes more like dictating the possibility as destiny, which I find counterproductive and even offensive. I guess that’s what the palm reader did to you?
But it’s also case by case. That is what I want to write next — sometimes I tell, sometimes I don’t.
akemi on 08 Jul 2010 at 8:33 pm #
Lisa,
Interesting point. I don’t really know if destiny points are absolute non-negotiable. It may be all changeable like you say. But I am leaning toward destiny points are pretty solid. Because we (as souls) chose so.
Destiny points are not something we “get”. (whereas karma, we sometimes — often — incur karma without really intending so…) We ourselves made the travel plan of our lives on this side. When you make a travel plan, you probably decide on a couple of things you really want to do and don’t want to miss. That is like destiny points. Then there are other options that you might do. And then there are things that happen there that you didn’t plan.
Let’s say Taj Mahal is your must-go destination in India. Visiting Taj Mahal is why you are making the big trip to India to begin with. Sure, you can cancel that any time, but you most likely won’t.
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