Creational causality

In Timeless Education I will often use the term "Creational causality," a term that is associated with both "the timeless cause" and accidents (i.e. the lack of free will).

I use this term instead of "determinism" because I want to get away from erroneous assumptions. Most critics of determinism focus on attacking the idea of predestination, that everything is already settled. But not even most determinists think everything is predetermined. They use the word determinism but they mean that everything is in the hands of accidents, not that it is predetermined.

Since I share that view, I think it's a good idea to simply get rid of the term determinism and instead use something that refers to causality – cause and effect. But I also have another reason to discard the term determinism, and that's because it is often used materialistically without taking into account a more complex consciousness. Causality also includes people's "programmed" inner nature in addition to determinism's focus on external influence and environmental nurturing.

Besides, Timeless Education leaves room for some free will in the form of free choices of attitude towards what happens to us, which in turn may, at right times, change the direction of causality. Only Timeless man can overcome cause-creating causality and bring about change or make deliberate constructive work – become a "causal source" of their own – to the extent possible. But this freedom is an exception that requires the right education, endurance, courage and discipline. It is not the norm in people.

"Orsaksmässig kausalitet" (roughly "cause-creating causality") is also called "Skapande kausalitet" ("Creational causality"), which is both easier to translate into English while at the same time connecting the concept with the term "Creator." Causality is more or less the true nature of the Creator in all religions: reality, truth, Tao, karma, Logos, the highest natural law, etc.

The symbols of this highest natural law are the numbers 3 and 4: The Creator and its process of creation without beginning or end. This triad and tetrad are in my system formulated through the essentialness-key A-Ω-X-Ω, and I have called it the timeless configuration of reality that regulates things beyond what people can influence, and thus should understand and accept.

So not only materialistic science emphasizes the limits of free will. It has always been an essential element in ancient wisdom and religion. The success of modern humanistic society is also the result of this insight, that circumstances determine actions more than free choices.

Real insight into and the keeping in memory of creational causality (the lack of free will) leads to less blaming, less hubris, more humility, more forgiveness (including self-forgiveness), and more wisdom with better connection to reality and an opportunity to actually begin acting properly. Even the adoption of victim role decreases. Only someone who still believes that others have free will can assume the role of a victim.

This insight should rather encourage curiosity regarding "what's going to happen" – focus on experience, on surprise – instead of striving in an impossible direction, which is a reduction of life and of experiences. Real freedom is a change in attitude. Real "doing," real actions, are inner actions – attitude, controlled intention. The confluence with truth; with the timeless cause; with the right valuation, is the most beneficial and peaceful. The more people develop, the more they experience themselves as part of a whole in constant exchange of energy and reciprocal maintenance, whether they try or not. Free will is better expressed by the word self-control, especially control over one's attitude. The will people have in their basic state is not free.

Creational causality assumes that people work with things and ideas they come into contact with and mediate these along their own individual nature and experience rather than give rise to something new or truly original. Originality is rather the result of unique events and circumstances.

The goal of development is to understand what is happening to us and how we are participating in an abundance, so that we fully agree with reality. A person who claims to believe in or trust in God, but does not fully agree with reality, can not be said to believe in God. I have never ever met a person who believed in or trusted in God in the true sense. Without a correct definition of "God" and "the Creator," the terms will just become imaginations. God's image in us is the internal witness, which can also do through the right attitude, but people have fallen from this deeper dimension or soul so that they are no longer in the image of the Creator. They are Temporary man instead of Timeless man.

Man and her psychological wiring with programmed instincts is within the powers of chance. People are not causal sources that can achieve without the right internal and external influences or circumstances. Achievements are circumstances and accidents, random genes and preprogrammed drives, but creates the delusion that we can achieve anything with unreasonable demands placed on ourselves and others. Praise and self-praise regarding what we have achieved in life is self-deception and a form of lying. Same thing with self-criticism and blame. People are mediums through which things are done by everything but themselves. And yet they take the credit for it. Wise men give credit to creational causality – to reality, to karma, to the Creator, or whatever they choose to call it.

And even if you believe in free will, which I too can believe in to some extent, this possibility of choice or "possible free will" is still so small and limited that focus on it just becomes a distraction. It is more practical and strengthens the awareness of the laws of reality more if we talk about how much people lack freedom and free will in comparison.


[This text is a transcription of the English subtitles from the Youtube video Orsaksmässig kausalitet (Creational causality) from November 2017 that can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/7kgFQ3I3-Yc]