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Spirituality, New Age, Conscious Creation and Dogma – Contrary to the Hype, Your Fate is Measurable

We state our theories as the result of our long-term, unbiased, empirical research.

When we first began investigating metaphysical concepts back in the early 1980s, we wanted to believe that we could create anything we desired. Unfortunately or fortunately (depending upon your viewpoint), we’ve found through much empirical research, including thousands of past life regressions and analyzing the numerology and astrology charts of thousands of subjects, that the “you can create and be anything you want in this life” concept is a myth.

Some may ask what past life regression, numerology, and astrology have to do with fate vs. free will. Our answer is a lot. Once you research reincarnation (we’ve listed some sources below), experience multiple past life regressions to find the root causes of personal problems, and have your character and general inclination of your fate outlined by comprehensive astrology and numerology, you will begin to realize that a lot in life is predestined. This is true for everyone: people not involved in metaphysics and gurus; people who don’t believe in God and for those who do; those who make great efforts to “create their reality” and for those who don’t.

Prediction of personal fate is a more than 2000 year-old tradition. The numerology and astrology charts, in ancient times, were used for prediction. Kings, queens, pharaohs, emperors, religious leaders, and other powerful, influential types wanted to capitalize on their fate and be prepared for challenging times.

Many of today’s psychics, astrologers, numerologists, and other readers claim that fate isn’t measurable and deny that it’s possible to predict key life circumstances. Unfortunately, some do so in order to mask their own inability to do accurate prediction. Or, some know that they can gain more business by painting a more idealistic, yet false, picture. Other, well-meaning intuitive professionals may not have gone as deeply into the subjects or are simply fearful of facing the idea that a lot in life is fated.

An incidental: psychology was not part of astrology and numerology until about 100 years ago. Originally, comprehensive astrology and numerology had nothing to do with psychology and everything to do with prediction. This may come as a shock to some practicing modern astrologers who have not looked beyond modern astrological and numerological methods.

Many of today’s New Agers are unaware of the fact that the wisest of the ancients believed that the very fate expertly discerned from the charts was not mutable. It isn’t alterable; you can’t erase it. That means that an aspiring actor who is fated for obscurity won’t ever be a Hollywood A-lister, no matter how inspired he becomes, no matter how much effort he puts into it, no matter how much he works on his subconscious blocks, and no matter how much he consciously believes and tries to “create the life of his dreams.” Is he meant to be an aspiring actor who doesn’t ultimately reach big fame or money? Yes.

We’ve read statements from “best-selling,” New Age, inspirational authors such as “…we are proving that the ancients were right; we can create the life of our dreams!”

That’s particularly telling because all of our research into the teachings of ancient astrologers, mystics, Gnostics, and other respected wise ones clearly shows that the ancients didn’t believe that sort of philosophy.

Predicting fated life events and circumstances was a very serious business in ancient times, whether it was in Ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Persia or elsewhere; if the sage was not consistently correct in his predictions, he was sometimes executed. Astrologers and numerologists like Abu Ali Al-Khayyat, Masha’allah, Alkindi, Bonatti, and Morinus successfully continued the tradition of accurate prediction, becoming legendary in their areas of expertise.

What’s the point of being an intuitive reader if a client can’t get at least a general understanding of his/her fate? If some people instead want flowery feedback without predictive perspective, or just want to chat with a professional, there are plenty of qualified counselors and therapists to fulfill that need.

Too often we’ve seen “conscious creationist” types get carried away with inspiration and thinking that they can create whatever they set their (ego personality) minds to, despite the aspirations likely being outside of their karmic blueprints.

Yes, we are big fans of inspiration, self-improvement, setting and striving to achieve important goals, and making the most of our lives. However, when all of that is done without self-understanding, without asking the question, “who am I and what is it that I am here on earth to learn, what is my dharma, and what is my karma?,” then it becomes problematic.

“Knowing thyself,” and self-understanding come first. Then one is more able to “consciously create” what is in line with their destiny rather than just going for what the ego wants.

Destiny is not something you consciously create or something you choose like what to have for dinner. It’s already set in motion before you incarnate. Again, if you want to explore this concept and understand from experience rather than just hearsay, there are sources listed below; study them and experience past life regression and life between life regression.

Often, we hear of people claiming that they can create/manifest anything they consciously want, and saying that their fate is not predetermined. Then we ask them about their fate (knowing thyself) and they don’t know; worse, they say personal fate doesn’t exist, just that they have “unlimited possibilities” in their lives. Yet they ultimately “create” a reality that is void of those “unlimited possibilities” that they speak of.

So what’s going on here is that they claim that they can “create anything” they desire, but they never tell us what they’ve “created” that is so unusual (that isn’t otherwise predictable–at the very least, the general form of, through comprehensive astrology and numerology), and they never have any clue about their fate since they’ve never delved into the predictive sciences, or consulted with someone who is able to measure fate.

Then there are those who say they know their fate, but that they can also change it. But what they claim is a manifestation of inspirational power outside of their destiny matches what we see as their fate in the comprehensive charts. In other words, they were destined to “create” what they created, and they were destined to experience what they experienced in the journey along the way.

By the way, we also see “miracles” as fate in disguise. We see all significant life events as being predestined. Does this philosophy encourage a passive or neglectful attitude toward life? No. We’ve always advocated getting in touch with who you really are, capitalizing on your strengths, accepting what you can’t change, and assertively going after your goals, goals that are aligned with your personality and your higher-self/soul.

Someone might ask, “How do you know that our destiny is not changed by the way in which we respond to the moment that is currently passing?”

The answer to that is simple. Because fate is measurable, no matter how people respond to the circumstances in their lives. Because destiny is what will be, and what will be is not always what you want to create.

A person’s overall karmic plan, including its key lessons and rewards, isn’t altered by a person “deciding” to do one thing instead of another, such as moving to NYC instead of Wichita.

The overall plan was for that person to move to NYC instead of Wichita, and that’s why they did. Even the way people respond, react, and consciously decide to live their lives is predictable, if you get to know their subconscious character well enough.

Ultimately, if people could become anything they wanted, they wouldn’t stay the same. Yet they do for the most part.

You talk to people who are going to many New Age seminars, who are determined to “create” the life of their dreams. Then, you see them 20 years later and they may be more wise, aware, or accepting, or inspired, but have they created the life of their dreams? Some have, and some haven’t. Some are fated to experience more love, money, or success, and some are not.

You can’t prove a theory, you can only invalidate it. Thus far, through all our years of empirical research, we haven’t disproved that it’s possible to predict fate.

As we’ve said before, the reason we feel this is so important is that when you are more aware of your fate and who you really are beyond your conscious personality, you are better able to capitalize on your strengths; you avoid spinning your wheels, resulting in frustration, depression, or worse, when you don’t manifest what you wanted.

Ultimately, based on our findings, life is much more about self-understanding, life lessons, and the journey, instead of the destination and reaching for “unlimited opportunities in the universe.”

On the bright side, if a person discovers it is not their fate to, for example, be a successful professional opera singer in this life, we do believe that if that person continues to aspire strongly enough to be a great opera singer that they may very well manifest that desire in a future lifetime. “Gifts” are really talents developed over lifetimes, in our view.

Reincarnation Sources:

Cunningham, Janet, Ph.D. A Tribe Returned. Crest Park, CA:Deep Forest Press, 1994.

Cunningham, Janet, Ph.D. and Michael Ranucci. Caution: Soul Mate Ahead! Spiritual Love in the Physical World. Columbia, MD: Two Suns Press, 1999.

Fiore, Edith. You Have Been Here Before. New York: Ballantine, 1978.

Goldberg, Bruce, D.D.S. Past Lives Future Lives. New York: Ballantine, 1982.

Langley, Noel. Edgar Cayce On Reincarnation. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1967.

Lucas, Winafred, Ph.D. Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals, Vol. 1, Crest Park, CA: Deep Forest Press, 1993.

Lucas, Winafred, Ph.D. Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals, Vol. 2, Crest Park, CA: Deep Forest Press, 1993.

MacLaine, Shirley. Out On A Limb. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

Moody, Raymond, M.D. Coming Back: A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life Journeys. New York: Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, 1990.

Sprinkle, R. Leo, Ph.D. Soul Samples. Columbus, NC: Granite Publishing Group, 1999.

Steiger, Brad, and Francie Steiger. Discover Your Past Lives. Atglen. PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1987.

Steiger, Brad, and Lorin Williams. Other Lives. Phoenix: Esoteric Publications, 1985.

Steiger, Brad. You’ll Live Again. Nevada City, CA: Blue Dolphin Publishing, Inc., 1996.

Stevenson, Ian, M.D. Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Charlottesville, VA.: University Press of Virginia, revised and enlarged edition, 1974.

Sutphen, Dick. You Were Born Again To Be Together. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.

Sutphen, Dick. Predestined Love. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Sutphen, Dick. Past Lives, Future Loves. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Todeschi, Kevin J. Edgar Cayce on Soul Mates: Unlocking The Dynamics Of Soul Attraction. Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 1999.

Weiss, Brian L., M.D. Many Lives, Many Masters. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Wambach, Helen. Reliving Your Past Lives. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2000.

Life Between Life:

Newton, Michael. Journey Of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1997.

Newton, Michael. Destiny Of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000

Moody, Raymond A., Jr., M.D. Life After Life. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.

Scientific Studies Involving Reincarnation:

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Allen Press, Lawrence, KS. Has published various articles about reincarnation studies.

Journal of Regression Therapy, International Association for Regression Research and Therapies (IARRT), Riverside, CA. (909) 784-1570, http://www.IARRT.org.

Psychic Prediction, Karma & Fate – You Can’t Rewrite the Karmic Play of Life After Incarnating

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You can react to your karma and fate, but you can’t delete it.

Also, fate and destiny are the same thing. Some creative, modern astrologers suggest otherwise, but fate and destined events and circumstances in people’s lives have always existed.

The good news is that you have free will to deal with it all and also to create as you see fit, as long as your desire is within your karmic blueprint.

How do you know what your fate is? As humans, we naturally set goals and take action in accordance with whatever feels the most “right.” For example, if you’re 5’3” tall, can’t jump, and you don’t like team sports, you are not going to try to become an NBA basketball player. Therefore, it’s most likely not your destiny.

There are no windows of opportunity that we are aware of, while incarnated, in regards to altering your destiny and karma. You can’t skip or add scenes and re-write the play of life while on “stage” acting it out. You (your soul) determines your karmic path – the “good” and the “bad”- before birth, and you (your personality) plays out that role after birth.

Why? Because your soul wants to grow and learn from specific lessons while incarnated. Just because your personality doesn’t like something that’s destined for you doesn’t mean you can pass over it.

We have witnessed, however, psychic guidance playing a role in helping to avoid danger, especially if a person is not meant to experience the event. For example, a psychic consultant tells a client to avoid a flying on a particular day, the client consequently changes her flight and therefore avoids a plane crash. From our perspective she was fated to take the psychic’s advice and avoid the flight, thus continue living.

Another example is how, in a spring 2001 predictive consultation, we recommended that a Manhattan entrepreneur client avoid opening a tentatively planned new NYC restaurant in September 2001. Since he followed our advice and didn’t open the new place in September 2001, it appears as if, despite being fated for challenges in autumn 2001, he wasn’t destined for business failure involving significant financial loss.

We just happened to be part of the process by which he avoided disaster (9-11).

Also, no psychic is 100% accurate. Over the years, we’ve had a lot of readings with many different psychics, and a good number were very talented and accurate, but the majority were less than 65% accurate in predicting future events and indicating the precise timing of those circumstances. If you want a higher degree of accuracy, we suggest numerology and pre-modern astrology in conjunction with psychic insight.

Fate and Free Will: Wisdom Only Deletes Some Karma

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A book’s messages don’t have to be metaphysically valid for the book to be on best-seller lists. Some modern best-selling metaphysical books are filled
with spiritual truth and some are virtually void of it.

Today’s popular New Age communications commonly contain heaps of pure inspiration with very low doses of ancient wisdom, perhaps due to our society’s penchant for seeking quick-fixes.

Let’s face it, “consciously create what you want, the life of your dreams, now!” inspires a lot more book sales than, “you can only consciously create that which is aligned with your higher-self’s earthly plan.”

Many New Age authors and publishers realize that including the cold, hard realities of life on Earth (karma, dharma, challenging fate, etc.) will hinder book sales.

Therefore, the current trend is to market books full of motivational messages such as “you can do it!” “abundance is your birthright,” and “rid yourself of your disease easily!” while excluding the spiritual facts of life.

Yes, wisdom can allow you to avoid some karma, but to say that you can erase any type of karma your heart desires is like saying you can turn winter into spring. Spring will arrive whether you “consciously create” it or not.

However, if an undesirable circumstance or event is part of fate, no amount of wisdom will blank it out. You can’t change the dead of winter into summer no matter how much you pay your guru.

Nonetheless, if you’re in a position to avoid exercising your free will in a particular way, wisdom can erase limited amounts of karma.

For instance, a parent exerts her free will to hug her children instead of mentally abusing them, which feels more natural for that parent to do. In this case, that parent has just taken the high road and told the universe that she desires to avoid that particular karmic arrangement (that her kids have most likely
agreed to before incarnating).

A mystic may say that even the effort by the parent to be more loving instead of abusive is the karma of all involved in the situation. Dharma is played out, karma is balanced, and everyone benefits (spiritually speaking).

More importantly, souls who choose (before incarnating) to be on the receiving end of abuse are going to experience it whether a parent dishes it out or not. A relative, sibling, friend of the family, neighborhood bully, classmate, or some other person will do his part to help fulfill fate.

Again, all the wisdom in the world won’t negate the major karmic dates with destiny that our souls choose before incarnating. A key objective of incarnating is spiritual growth and in order to do that, there must be challenge. Challenge is also necessary so that the more enjoyable life circumstances can be recognized and appreciated.

We like the phrase “wisdom deletes karma,” but we think it’s more accurately said this way: “Wisdom deletes some karma and direct life experience wipes out and balances the majority of karma.”

Fate is fate and you can’t dodge it just because you find select circumstances distasteful.

On the brighter side, you have free will to react to karma and make the most of your life within the bounds of your fate.

Free Will & Manifestation – How Karma, Fate and Predestination Block Your Efforts

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Prior to years of comprehensive study and constant objective empirical research through ancient metaphysical delineation and predictive sciences (since 1992 involving the numerology and astrology charts of over 20,000 different people), we too mistakenly believed we could create anything our ego-selves desired.

Our studies and research allow us to conclude that an extremely high percentage of everyone’s major life circumstances and particulars are unavoidably etched in the rock of fate.

We consistently and accurately outline key conditions and experiences in anyone’s future (provided we have all birth data) including “gurus” who claim they are able to “consciously create” 100% of their realities, matching their conscious demands, as they live their lives.

Once you have witnessed, as we have, the continual recurrence of patterns in the numerology and astrology charts completely representing situations in peoples’ lives, you will stop rejecting the idea of fate.

An ideal love life, unlimited financial abundance, perfect health, constantly harmonious personal relationships and more would be nice, but we are now entirely certain that it “ain’t gonna happen” if it’s not part of the path that your soul mapped out before you incarnated.

For example, despite what you might see on TV about finding a compatible romantic partner, like the best-selling author promoting her book about finding the perfect husband in less than a year (“I did it and you can too!”), everyone’s karma is different and what works for one person (because it fits his/her karmic blueprint) may fail for the next (being outside of his/her earthly plan).

“Learn valuable lessons about commitment and betrayal by experiencing a difficult spouse? Forget it! Instead, I’ll create the perfect relationship!” “Endure a period of financial limitations to learn about financial acumen? Nah, I’ll create infinite abundance now and forever live the high life!”

Unfortunately (for the ego-self), the universe doesn’t work that way. Dodging your fate isn’t an option.

But let’s not forget free will. You have free will to take the right action at the right time, allow your earthly personality to play its role in manifesting your destiny (including your ego-self desires that align with it), react to your life circumstances, and improve and influence your situation to the best of your ability within the confines of your fate.

Along these lines, free will also enables everyone to help shape their future lives through every thought, intent, and action in their present lives.

If you want an ideal as possible relationship, you can exercise your free will and do things to prepare for this. However, we believe that even doing what feels right feels right because it’s part of your pre-destined path. You could do something that isn’t part of your earthly plan, such as drop out of society, move to the wilderness and live off the land, but you probably wouldn’t because it doesn’t feel right for you to do.

Perhaps most importantly, it would be nice if we could all have “perfect love,” but this would miss the objective of the majority of our relationships on earth: personal growth. A predetermined degree of challenge is necessary in order to learn the lessons for which we incarnate.

As far as releasing your love karma through spiritual exercises, this sounds like wishful, spiritual woo-woo thinking to us.

The only exercise we know of to do this is the exercise of experiencing what you need to experience in real life. In other words, forget the notion of being able to cheat fate, despite the fact that most “love experts” suggest otherwise. We caution you to be skeptical of spiritual solutions that appear to be quick fixes.

The good news is that you can ease, but not evade, your karma by acceptance, forgiveness, and unconditional love. For instance, you can’t erase the lifelong disharmony between you and your siblings, but you can lighten the load by how you view and react to it.

Although not always easy, the best methods toward personal and spiritual growth include the following: achieve self-awareness so that you understand your highest path; take the right action at the right time to manifest your destiny; embrace all personal challenges including all difficult people as a necessary part of the growth process; forgive yourself and all others; love yourself and all others unconditionally; live your life knowing that all energy you put out will eventually come back to you; and know that you can’t always get what you want, but that every experience serves a valuable purpose.

Life is Measurable Through Astrology, Numerology, and Handwriting Analysis

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Some people have a more challenging time meeting compatible romantic partners than others. Patterns in numerology and astrology charts symbolize life circumstances. Whenever we see patterns in a person’s charts representing tough love energy, their actual love life circumstances always match the energy. As above, so below.

Our work has convinced us that at least 75% of the key circumstances and events in everyone’s life are fated. Finances, love life, family, recognition, adversity, and more.

Some creative (i.e., subjective) modern astrologers might say, “Well, if things are bad in your love life at the present, just transform your ‘fate into destiny,’ and your ‘limitations into gifts;’ make it your destiny to have a good love life now, and ‘unleash the power of your soul’ while ‘delivering grace to the world.’”

Yes, it’s nice to spread light to the world, so to speak, but you can’t cheat fate, no matter how much effort and time you put into “creating your destiny.”

If you’re fated to experience a long spell of challenging romantic energy, no amount of inspiration and New Age myth will change that. However, you can change how you deal with it, looking at it from a spiritual perspective, therefore making it easier to handle.

By the way, fate and destiny are the same thing. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Destined circumstances and events/fated circumstances and events—same concept.

You have free will in how you handle your personal fate/destiny and how you make the most of your karma, within the confines of your fate/destiny.

If the creative, modern astrologers put aside the affectation, cheerleading and psycho-babble, and actually carried out the comprehensive delineation and prediction typical of seasoned astrologers who are devoted to their work (rather than striving mostly for the limelight and book sales) they would be singing a different tune.

Additionally, know that the following are best avoided if you want value for your money, rather than mere entertainment: Astrologers who treat the natal figures exclusively as maps of the subject’s subconscious and avoid real issues, and the timing of such, and otherwise deny the cold, hard realities of life; astrologers who use mainly infrequent cycles such as transits and secondary progressions and retrogrades (which are best used for minor modifications only); astrologers who use almost exclusively Ptolemaic aspects (conjunctions, squares, sextiles, etc.) in delineation; and astrologers who avoid comprehensive charting, using only a limited number of considerations (unless they have remarkable, consistently strong psychic ability).

Tough love life circumstances do exist recurrently for many people. Often times, thankfully, their love timing eventually improves greatly and if the overall natal structure looks good for love, the subject will have romantic success.

Until that time, it’s an opportunity to prepare for what is to come. It’s a good time to look into potential subconscious blocks that may hinder one’s love life. A great way to do that is through handwriting analysis. Comprehensive handwriting analysis exposes hidden behavioral forms in the unconscious mind, including fears and defenses, and it’s more reliable than modern, psychological astrology.

It’s very possible a person has zero conscious awareness that his or her subconscious personality would, for example, rather avoid anything more than superficial interaction with others. Furthermore, he or she may think they want marriage, but their subconscious personality views it as prison.

Hence, there is a constant, hidden battle waging between the conscious and subconscious, and the subconscious prevails.

Good news: simply by knowing about the hidden demands of your unconscious makeup will begin to set you free.

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Category Archives: Fate vs. Free Will

Spirituality, New Age, Conscious Creation and Dogma – Contrary to the Hype, Your Fate is Measurable

Psychic Prediction, Karma & Fate – You Can’t Rewrite the Karmic Play of Life After Incarnating

Fate and Free Will: Wisdom Only Deletes Some Karma

Free Will & Manifestation – How Karma, Fate and Predestination Block Your Efforts

Life is Measurable Through Astrology, Numerology, and Handwriting Analysis