Originally Posted by hermine_hesse
Why did you also rule out parallel dimension or alternate universe? If parallel dimensions do exist, it could be possible to glimpse a universe where you had a fourth child?
I'm not postulating that this is what is happening, just curious as to why you ruled this theory out.
Hello, good question. The "not seeing another world that's similar to our future" was part of the intuition. The thought itself could have been false, or I could have twisted it when trying to interpret it afterwards. Like I said there were no pictures or words or anything that I could latch onto easily. I worried about the "seems to imply the existence of something like an astral world" statement after I'd made it though, I'm not sure that it follows. I'm out of my depth, or at least at the very edge of it.
My experience strongly suggests that fate is real somehow. Some things very strongly want to happen, and when such things get an opportunity to manifest, objects and events can be moved around in amazing ways to make it come together. Can this be explained purely in terms of things that have happened in other worlds? If so, I don't understand how those worlds are related to our world. Since 'fate' is real to me, this makes me suspect the intuition has more to do with an awareness of fate and less to do with awareness of other times and places.
Also, consider the fourth child. His essence seems to transcend a particular physical circumstance, just as any person's essence does. So in that sense its not "another physical world" that I'm experiencing. And yet I agree that it seems he must live sometime, somehow, he can't just hang in spiritual limbo forever. And when he lives, or when he lived, must constitute something akin to a parallel world. It sort of fits the "past life" paradigm too, but I don't think there's a huge difference between those two concepts; one emphasizes a time aspect more and the other is more spatial. I also think that who I experience him to be is heavily qualified by who I am, and the circumstances that might have been available to him for expression. This is part of the reason I doubt that we reincarnate in an ordered sequence of lives, it seems to me that each one of us is sort of a tip of a much larger iceberg, and there are a lot of other tips that could be exposed. (As another analogy, red, yellow, and blue pigments could be combined and expressed as orange and blue, or green and red, or innumerable other pairs of colors. Similarly, a lot of superficially different life experiences could embody the same essential spiritual conditions.)
One theory is that 'fate' is powered by our thoughts, that everything that happens is to bring our thoughts to fruition. I think there's an element of truth to this, in the sense that everything is interrelated, including thoughts and events. And we do have some power to alter our thoughts. That power isn't absolute though, to a very large degree our thoughts are also fated. I want to see the whole picture, to think about it in a way that accommodates all the available clues.
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