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“Blind Soul! Arm thyself with the torch of the Mysteries, and thou canst find, even in the night
Of the Earth, that shinning, other body-thy divine
Soul!
Follow this heavenly guide! Let it be thy
Genius, for it holds the key of thy past and future
Embodiments.”
(The appeal to initiates from the Egyptian Book of Dead)
In Greek and Roman mythology fate is depicted as three goddesses (the Fata in Latin; the Moirai in Greek) who determine the course of human life. One spins the thread of life; the second twists it; the third snips it. The concept is important in Greek tragedy where all human concerns are subject to the gods, and sometimes even the gods are subject to a controlling necessity. In Arabic the term is kismet; it means “fate,” “destiny,” and “the will of Allah.”
The concepts of fate and destiny, however, seem to go beyond Greek tragedy. These terms exist in our minds and lives. Even more, they influence and perhaps even determine the one thing that most people insist should not be determined by ideologies: science.
Classical physics says that every object that has mass moves and reacts according to inertia, gravity, electricity and magnetism. This means that these forces determine everything in our universe, including us.
What does this have to do with destiny? Everything. If we believe that we have a destiny, we are determined by something. Every one of our movements has been decided. Our propensities are our inertia, our heaviness and depression our gravity, our dramatic swing from one relationship to another our magnetism, and what we call “our lives” is nothing more than electricity moving our bodies with impulses received from the brain.
Each one of these things follows the Darwinian idea of evolution (born, grow, reproduce, die), and it unfolds in only one timeline. Classical physics agrees that time is linear; therefore, there must be nothing but one big river of life, and we can’t stop it, nor come back, nor go to the future, nor create any other river. We are just being pulled by it without any choice.
One question that arises over classical physics is the fact that we do not know who or what imposed these forces and these rules. In other words, who decided our destiny? Was it God? But, who or what is God?
Quantum physics is getting a hint of the answers to some of these questions.
In 1905 Albert Einstein published the special theory of relativity. This theory states that the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion. Equivalently, such statements as “I am moving” or “I am at rest” are meaningless unless “moving” and “rest” are relative to some other object or reference frame. What this means is that it is not enough to say, “I am moving in my car through the street.” We must say ‘I am moving in my car through the street that is at rest relative to me.” This would mean as well that the street has all the right to say “I am moving and this car is at rest relative to me”. So, who is moving? Who decides what is moving and what is at rest relative to each other? The answer is both. The street and we both have the right to observe whatever we want about the situation. We have the power to decide, yet we are not special, for the street has its own frame of reference and it is as valid as ours.
Relativity is one of the two main ideas that conform Modern physics. The second one is Quantum physics. Quantum physics describes phenomena at small scale or when relative speeds approach that of light. It reveals as well a noncontinuously divisible, or
"grainy," universe of the small and with it, it bids farewell to strict determinism. It destroys destiny as the singular path that can be followed, and it gives life to free will. It explains our true nature, one of observers. It gives us back the right of being the creators of our own reality. In other words, it recognizes us as Gods.
Even though Quantum physiscs has an advanced view of reality, there is a big "o" missing in this quest for truth and overall freedom. We now know that we observe what we want and that we affect our reality in every second, therefore we do have a choice over our experiences. But, what is it then, that no matter how much knowledge we get, we still feel pulled by it? What is that part of ourselves that makes us say "This feeling comes from deep within me, it is coming from my soul"
The answer may be that indeed, it is coming from deep within and it is like an agenda begging to be followed step by step until the completion of its goal. Maybe there is some truth in what is termed "destiny", but with more knowledge we may be able to see it only as an agenda and learn from it by observing our propensities, or better said, our inertia.
And what is important about opening our minds to science is to break
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