Is your optimal trajectory something that you choose, or something that chooses you?
I think the answer to this question can be found in the study of narrative, quantum physics, and process philosophy – the topic areas I’m studying for my Master of Philosophy – so I’m sure after I’ve studied this further my answer will be far more articulate. But, led by intuition and whatever I’ve read, so far I’ll share my thoughts in brief:
I think the answer is BOTH. You choose this path, AND it chooses you.
I think this seeming contradiction is possibly through an expanded conception of “identity” – where “you” as your microcosmic individual consciousness are co-creating with the “you” that is the macrocosm of the universe we are a part of. (The macrocosm being the universal energies that religions personify as “God.)
So while I think your life is completely self-deterministic, I also hold it completely relational to the self-determinism of others, and the universe as a whole. That is, if I slap your face, you will experience your face being slapped. If this happened, it is probably due to something you said or did that motivated my action. Thoughts, actions, and consequences, between me and you and everyone and everything else, are intrinsically interrelated. If our sun dies, as it one day will, humanity (if they are still around) will also die.
I think that somehow, among the mysterious dimensions of this universe, every possibility exists side by side, yet the one that manifests is the one you choose to observe.
I think that if you listen to that emotions and energy you feel when you imagine a particular scenario for your life, then you’ll live the best life story for yourself that you can possibly live. I think the optimal scenario is most often one that allows you to live on forever, through the procreations you leave behind (be they in the form of ideas or children or other aspects of this reality you (hopefully positively) affect.)
In sum, I think you choose your own story, which is impacted by the stories others choose for themselves, and which will be closer to your optimal story the more you can preview the perspective of hindsight that a Universe transcending earth’s time limitations can see from.
If you “connect with the universe” by tuning your vibrations, beating in sync, and listening to the signs, then you can gain the power of hindsight before it’s due time. This means that you can write the story that will bring you (both the individual and the collective you), along the most optimal trajectory that you can (or even better than you can) imagine.
But of course, like I said in my last entry, all of this is much easier said than done.
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for me, optimum trajectory is about knowing who you are as a unique expression. It celebrates you as an individual organism embedded in, and one with, the nature of the cosmos. It presupposes that each organism has inclinations written in the genes and in the “essential nature” of the individual. You understand your natural gifts…..your unique qualities that you were born with. I think these are clues to a possible “optimal” trajectory. Destiny is largely dependent on choices. So it is also a moment by moment aligning of your individual nature with the universal nature. “A person doing their true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe and appears to have amazing luck.” How does one increase their so-called “luck”? it’s an important question.