In my studies , I accepted reincarnation, and given that concept , our previous lives are not remembered , perhaps a nuance , that we don’t understand . So , in that I chose the life experiences and teachings/lessons . A psychic ( now in Malibu , Ca) stated that most folks choose 7 missions or jobs in a life span and that my personal blueprint was quite expansive with 18 missions ! I was blown away at the type A decision that in my people pleasing days , drove me and nearly took me out of here .
Reading the following by Craig Childress PsyD , of having no free will thus would be accurate, given the personal Divine Plans created before entering the present life .
I totally accept that in past lives I was both male and female and in those roles I was murdered and I killed and I requested the lessons and teachers who would help in my evolution.
Determined. Sapolsky.
He’s a very smart fellow, and he is 100% right. Everything is determined, there is no such thing as “free will”.
Sam Harris understand that too. He’s another smart fell who’s 100% right. There’s no room in causality for a ghost in the machine’s operation.
Everything is fixed by what came before, what surrounds, and what is possible in that context.
You didn’t choose your time of birth. You didn’t choose to not be born in the World War II years, or in Victorian England, or in Roman times. You just showed up and took whatever here has…. just like me.
We didn’t choose our parents who had such substantial impact on us. We didn’t choose how we look or how smart or athletic we are. We didn’t choose to be born in America, or India, or Africa. We just showed up and began to cope.
Some came into better worlds, some worse.
The Georgia school shooter had no choice. It was all Determined by a variety of factors. He was set on a course that ends in a cage.
He obviously has a problem in the love-and-bonding system of the brain – the attachment system. It’s a motivational system. It’s my system, I have zero-to-five Early Childhood Mental Health specialization.
The boys mind was not getting enough love. That unhinged it from our shared social field. Why didn’t his mind get love?
As a male, his high-affection cross-gender bond is to his mother, which is also the primary attachment bond in the first year of infancy. What’s up with his mother-son bond?
His dad’s on the same-gender father-son values and identify bond. He bought his son an assault rifle at 14 for a present. The father obviously did not teach his son the values needed to manage the gift of violence he gave him.
In a different context, in a different time and history, this child does not end his life in sadistic violence of self-destruction. He has a mind of substantially insufficient love.
It made him crazy, in a particular way, in a savagely violent way. What was it like inside the child’s mind to reach this point? It didn’t just arrive suddenly at the age of 14.
The child’s act was Determined by what happened one-minute earlier, one hour earlier, one day earlier, a culture earlier, a history earlier. He just did what he did from the ripples that defined him.
We can stop it.
We can stop it when there is the motivation to stop it. There’s no motivation because it serves a function for you-us. We reenact things in our drama-story of our imaginings. We want it this way, we need it this way.
Until we don’t. Once we don’t want this… we’ll do different things that won’t result in this. How do we change when everything is Determined?
Be the change.
It’s not about you or me. It ceased to be about us a long-long time ago. Living things grow. Children grow. Children are living things. Adults are fully grown. We’re dead carcasses hanging on for a purpose.
To take care of the life within us – our children – not us.
Our life is not in us, it’s in our children. Once we understand that we’ll reorient. Once we reorient we’ll see the problem and see its solution.
The solution is in our children. They are on the Hero’s Journey to encounter their freedom in an unfree world.
For 200,000 years we chipped stone tools. Suddenly 10,000 years ago we decided to live in cities of Ur and grow our plants and animals for our meals.
We began a journey called History. A linear journey.
Before, we lived in the seasons, a repeating circle of life from spring, through summer, into fall and winter… then spring again. Time was a circle of same… 200,000 years of chipping the same stone tools.
Suddenly, 10,000 years ago we started to fire mud into pottery, and we began to super-heat rocks to extract liquid metals. What happened to us?
We began a linear journey through History. Our History to here is fully told. It’s already set – it’s already Determined. There was no other path to here than the one that led to specifically here.
A 14-year-old child of ours savagely took the lives of two other children, two teachers… and himself.
He had no other choice given the context of time and place where no love was. He spoke to us of his world.
A world without love.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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