As you move into the New Year, life will surely bring many surprises and challenges. A primary mission that Dr. Carrington held deeply, throughout her lifetime, was to help people find and settle into a personal place of calm, peace, vision, and surety.
In this audio message from her, which was recently curated from her archives of files (transcribed below), she discusses predictions that we often contemplate as we go through our lives. May you remember this message in times of difficulty, and may the New Year bring you much laughter, great joy, inner peace, and everlasting harmony…
Audio Transcript
Hello, this is Pat Carrington and I have some things I’d like to say about predictions. It’s rather important.
Even the greatest prophets in history have been wrong a certain percentage of the time. And even the greatest profits usually see contradictory possibilities. They will often see a vision of a doomsday scenario, played out, and beside it an amazing vision of healing and beauty. They see them both on the same time, actually.
The positive vision seems to be a recovery, or opposite of the other vision, but they get it; they get both. And the fact is that at the time that the prophecy is made, both outcomes are possibilities; both are equally undetermined, on a collective consciousness too.
The way in which the observer experiences the possibilities, is going to determine which one is chosen. In Quantum theory the observer effect is very well known. The observer plays a role in what happens with tiny, little, infinitesimally small particles of the Universe.
We are our own profit and that what we think of and dread isn’t necessarily what is going to happen. It’s very important to remember this and these times when people are making dire predictions, all around us for our world.
Actually, we’re just people who want to be able to see what’s going to happen in the future, and we get ourselves feeling convinced, and it’s very convincing, when you get into that mood that you’re sure that this unpleasant thing is going to happen.
And you have to ask here, why we need to see the future so much. Why do we need to see what’s going to happen, and why do we get into that?
Actually, it makes us feel we’re in control. We’re controlling the uncontrollable. If we can figure out what it is, even if it’s terrible, we have some sense of control if we think we know it; what it is, because not knowing is very distressing to most people.
And, this is understandable. It’s human to be concerned when we’re out of control. Because, if you’re out of control in an emergency, and you’ve got to do something to save your life, you had better not be out of control. It would be much better to be in control. It’s a survival instinct, here.
But on the other hand, this tendency has to be put in its rightful place. It’s useful in certain situations. But, it’s not necessary to pretend that we’re sure something that we fear is happening is really going to happen. It’s actually very un-useful.
We need to allow for the fact that we really don’t know. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring, even, let alone next month or next year. We really don’t know.
If we know in our hearts that we can handle whatever comes up, we’re not in the same kind of difficulty, or anxiety, or worry. And then, we’re allowing ourselves to rely on our inner resources, and that is our strength. So, we’re allowing ourselves to bring our strength forward, and, you can, as they do in the law of attraction, extrapolate for that and say, well, yes, and that will make a great difference outwardly. You can say that if that speaks to you. If it doesn’t, it’s still gonna do you good to change.
So, the need to predict the future can result in a sense of doom, but the fact is, that it’s okay to not know what is going to happen. It’s actually a much more peaceful way to live.
I wish you a very, very happy and fulfilling New Year…
