Predicting the Future

Question: Many channels today are prophesying great changes and some are being very specific. Why do you refuse to predict the future?

Aaron: My dear one, you are asking an important question here. Why won't I predict the future? Most of you have heard me say that yours is a plane of free will. At any moment, each of you have an infinite number of possible futures, each dependent on the next choices you make. There is also a collective future, which depends on the choices made as a race.

What happens when one future is predicted over another? It's like telling two players which one will win before they start to play the game. Disheartened, the prospective loser does play to lose. Assured, the prospective winner plays to win. Thus the results are as predicted, but these results have been created by the players because of the predictions. If there had been no prediction would it have turned out that way?

We on the spiritual plane always have your growth in mind, and all the hopes for the evolution of each of your souls. But it is immoral to influence your choice by telling you the future. You must always have complete free will or the growth is not really yours, but shaped by another.

It is acceptable to guide you, to help you explore the possible futures that may occur when you make one choice or another. Through this exploration you learn, and increasingly are able to make wiser choices as your hearts move away from fear and open to love. This learning is what you are here for. We may not deprive you of this opportunity by making your choices for you.

You ask why some on my plane do predict the future. Some who are newer to this plane become rather fervent in their announcements of what they see to be the truth. They have not yet learned the lessons of patience. We cannot force our understandings on you; you must learn at your own pace, both individually and collectively.

Spirits predicting the future are like the parent telling his child what will occur if he does this or that. If a parent tells a child often enough that something will occur as a result of his actions, perhaps it does-a self-fulfilling prophecy. But the child has not really learned his own truth here, but his parent's truth. Do you see the difference? You each must discover the truth for yourselves. It is only in this way that there is real growth.

Those spirits who teach in such a way act out of love, as does the parent trying to protect a child from the consequences of unskillful behavior. The child cannot always be protected if he is to learn to be responsible for the consequences of his choices. Similarly, although those spirits mean well as they offer predictions and attempt to guide you to more skillful choices, when their predictions begin to shape your choices for you, you are no longer learning responsibility. It is only with acceptance of your responsibility that you really begin to mature and this is your whole purpose, to evolve and grow. Often your mistakes are your greatest teachers. Those who would deprive you of your lessons act out of love, but unwisely. They, too, have learning to do.