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Is There Free Will

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I just had a few questions, I guess we'll start with one. Oh, that would be a good idea. In this physical reality of existence, is there free will? Yes, but there is a combination of what you call free will and destiny. It works hand in hand in the following way. When you are a spirit, you generally lay out the idea for a life, the theme of exploration for a life, the things that you wish to learn, to grow from, to experience in general terms, sometimes specific, but overall a general theme or several themes that you desire to explore in the physical incarnation. You could say that that particular theme overall, or series of themes, is the destiny set by the soul. But when you are physically incarnated and have a physical mind, a personality, you are allowed to exercise your free will about exactly how you go about exploring those themes. So you are free to do a number of different things, approach it from a number of different perspectives, experience it from a number of different ways or paths. The idea is like saying that the soul sets up the hallway you will walk down, but the free will of the physical mind to determine how it will experience or walk down that hallway, it can run, it can skip, it can go backwards, forwards, upside down, side to side, crawl, you understand? So free will works in hand with the idea of destiny. Does that answer your question? Yes, but if you can't change the past, how can that determine... You do change the past. Change it all the time. Anytime you redefine who you are as a person, you actually create, in a sense, or shift to what you would call a different timeline. Thus what you supposedly remember as your past will simply be relevant for the person you are defining yourself to be in the present. You may not even know that your past has changed, because it will seem like the past that has always been there relative to the person you are now. But it always changes. The past is the result of the present, not the other way around. Does that make sense? Okay, I understand that. Alright.