Predictions
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Sometimes someone comes to you with a question and you give an intuitive response, and then they come back to you with a question and now the response is different. Answers change depending on the actions that the person who is getting the reading took. This is a world of probable realities and probable futures. Probable realities are things that could happen, and nothing is written in stone. A person has choices, and every choice attracts a different probable future to it. Therefore, no prediction can be 100% sure of happening because probable realities are involved and all the person has to do is make a different choice and he or she changes his or her future.
Sometimes the reading itself is what caused the person to choose a different path than the one that they were headed on at the time that they received the first reading. When a person makes a different choice after a reading, the next reading will have different results. Many people do not understand this and believe that you were wrong, but their choices and actions changed their path into the future. Predicting mass events is easier because then it takes a lot of people to make different choices to change the future, and this is less likely than one person’s ability to change his or her mind.
Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), “Making a prediction is viewing the strongest possibility. Predictions tend to be accurate because the pattern of any system, including human beings, tends toward stasis. I often hear people tell stories of predictions that scared them, such as, ‘she said I will have a car accident in July.’ I would most certainly not forget the most obvious question to ask: how can I avoid this event?” Predictions are not written in stone. There are probable futures. They may or may not happen. When an intuitive predicts something, he or she is tapping into the most probable future, not all the probable futures. This is why predictions sometimes fail, because the people involved made different decisions and different choices, which resulted in a different probable future being picked. Probable futures can also be avoided by making different choices, and part of the intuitive’s job is to help the client find what their choices are in order to avoid unwanted probable futures.
“The collective conscious works on the belief that our action--individually, and collectively as a planet and a system--create a pattern and direction that, unless intercepted and rerouted, is determined by the motion of the past and present. For example, a person can roll a ball. It goes in the direction it was rolled and, if you know the terrain it's rolling over… and the speed at which it started, you can make a fair guess about where it will end up. Then think of thousands of balls rolling in all directions. If you know where all the balls started from, then you'll know at what speed and at which point your ball will meet another ball and change direction. You also have information available to allow you to alter the direction of a ball. In fact, you have the resources to alter the direction of all balls that your ball comes into contact with, directly or indirectly, by altering just one ball. Reality is nothing more than a consensus.”