The Direction of the Psychic in Our Lives: Determinism Joined With Free Will

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The human mind likes to have
nice, neat categories, either or

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black, white.
It has a hard time dealing with

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mixed actions or anything that
partakes of various allegedly

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competing or conflicting
principles.

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Thus the debate over free will
and determinism rages on and

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eventually comes down to whether
the divine actually directs

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every moment of one's life,
thoughts, actions, reactions,

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responses, et cetera, or whether
there is any room for individual

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discretion or some element of
free will.

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Recently, Stanford
neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky,

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in his book titled Determined, a
Science of Life Without Free

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Will, explained why he does not
believe that there is any such

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thing as free will and that
every action is determined and

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controlled by both external
pressures and past cause and

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effect.
This is not a new or unique

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viewpoint, but it is totally
based on the mechanisms of the

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external world and its
development and does not account

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for any divine intention or any
soul or psychic being that

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grows, develops annex as a Nexus
for action and implementation of

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the divine will.
Such growth and development

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would have no meaning if
everything down to the smallest

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detail were actually
predetermined.

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The Bible also weighs in on the
side of determinism.

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When Jesus indicates that the
fate of each small bird is noted

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by God and that a person's hair
on his head is numbered.

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While ostensibly providing a
message about how the personal

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God of the judeo-christian
tradition loves and cares for

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every smallest individual in
detail, it is really a message

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of how determined everything
actually is in that viewpoint.

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Where is the room for free will
to act if the very comings and

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goings of each small bird or the
hair on the head of each

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individual is under direct
divine scrutiny?

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And yet, in other places the
Bible assumes a certain level of

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free will of individuals, and
thus the entire question of the

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fall of man and the need for
redemption through actions of a

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Saviour arise.
The issue is clearly not

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resolved one way or the other
there.

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This highlights the inherent
confusion and ambivalence of our

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mental notions of the
significance of our lives and

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the role of the divine in the
lives we lead in the external

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world.
Some earlier articles in our

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series reviewing the hidden
forces of life went into

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considerable detail about the
interaction of free will and

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determinism, and the role of
each and the ability for these

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two seemingly opposite
principles to coexist.

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The main lines are basically
determined, but each individual,

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each unit is left free within
that framework to act or not

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act, to move or not move, to
decide or not decide, et cetera.

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This creates A statistical
distribution, with most

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decisions winding up within a
relatively narrow range, with

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some falling above and some
below that central pathway.

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One way or the other, the larger
divine intention is still

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carried out, but at the same
time, the individual elements

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are able to grow, evolve, make
mistakes and learn from them and

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follow a natural path based on
their own evolutionary station

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and the needs of their further
development.

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A disciple asks mother, is the
orientation of an individual's

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life directed by the psychic?
The mother responds.

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Quote Yes, absolutely
unconsciously for the individual

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most of the time.
But it is the psychic which

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organizes his existence only in
what may be called the main

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lines, because for intervening
in the details they would have

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to be a conscious union between
the outer being, that is the

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vital and physical being, and
the psychic being.

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But usually this does not exist
so externally in the details.

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For example, there was someone
who in deep perplexity said to

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me, well, if it is the psychic
being, or rather the divine and

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the psychic who directs our
life, it is he who decides the

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number of pieces of sugar.
I put in my teacup.

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That was the question verbatim.
So the answer had to be no,

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because it is not a detailed
intervention of this kind.

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It is as when you push your fist
into a heap of iron filings or

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sawdust, all the infinitesimal
little elements of the iron

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filings or sawdust are organized
to take on the form of your

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fist.
But they do not do this either

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deliberately or consciously.
It is through the work of the

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consciousness which pushes that
this kind of thing happens.

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There is no decision that each
element is going to be exactly

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in this place like that.
It is the effect of the energy

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which has pushed the 1st that
organizes the elements.

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But that's how it is.
There is the psychic

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consciousness at work in life,
organizing all the circumstances

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of your life, but not with a
deliberate choice of the

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details.
End Quote Reference Shrioro,

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Bindu and the Mother, The Hidden
Forces of Life, Chapter 2.

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Hidden Forces within pages 50 to
51.