The Downside of Certainty
I am fairly certain that we shouldn’t be certain of anything. Maximum 99% certain might be okay, but I would even caution against that. How many times, over and over again, has something been proclaimed as a “fact” and then later suddenly it has been “now discovered that” there really was more to the story, or an entirely different story is the actual “fact”? Many, many times.
Remember when eating foods with high fat content was bad for you? This “knowledge” was sanctioned by the government and apparently from scientific experts in the field. I remember when Snackwell’s cookies (a line of fat-free cookies) were all the rage. I consumed their Devil’s Food cookies several times while I was on my many diets back then. Turns out, what do you know, all fat isn’t the devil (pun intended) and their line of cookies actually now is cited to have contributed to people’s health issues due to their high carbohydrate count.
I have spent some time in the mediumship (communicating with discarnate spirits) world and some people are completely certain that they are communicating with the spirit of a previously incarnated person and that the spirit is right there with them in that moment. I have had this experience. The energy starts to change and I can feel inside of me feelings that aren’t mine, scents and sounds from where there is no physical source, and images and knowledge that suddenly I see in my mind’s eye or just know which is confirmed as accurate about this particular spirit person. To all appearances, it does seem that a spirit person, being a field of energy, has joined with my body and energy and is “telling” me things.
However, I am not certain of this. There could be a field of energy that contains the knowledge of all things that exist, have existed, or will exist (and actually in that field it’s all there NOW, because time is an aspect of our world, but not the infinite), and mediums could be connecting with that field, which is all knowing.
Some may say, but the messages that come through are so specific about things that have just happened (showing that the spirit person was there with them while it happened), or things that the recipient doesn’t know and are later confirmed. It’s too detailed and incredible to not be the actual person. But, why can’t this all knowing field truly be all knowing? It knows what the sitter needs and it knows what will delight and it knows how to cause whatever occurrence is necessary for the expansion of all in that moment.
I am not saying this is what I believe. I am not certain of what I believe. I have had experiences that have shown me things, but I am not certain of the way things are. And I like it that way.
People also develop certainty based on their experiences. Many devotees of different religions feel they have had an experience that has led to their 100% certainty in the reality of whatever they have experienced. I am not denying that they did not have that experience and that it was real. But… what is reality? Is it not, simply what you experience? How do you know where that experience comes from? How do you know that you aren’t experiencing only what you need, and that others are experiencing something completely different that is, also, very “real”? You don’t. You don’t know if what you’ve experienced is only shown to you that way for your benefit, or if you have seen it a certain way that someone else, seeing the “same” thing, would see or experience in a completely different way. (I am including even seeing physical, solid things.)
Many of the scientific community’s obsession with uncovering the exact formula for every single thing is about needing certainty. They want a reason for everything, a cause and effect, a law for reality, and they want to be able to measure it, write down the formula, and say, “Ha! Know we know exactly how this whole thing operates; now we have control.”
This will never happen. Every time they discover something, blissfully (I think), it turns out there is more to the story. Oh, wait, the atom isn’t the smallest part of physical matter, wait, wait, wait, it’s empty space? All there is is empty space?
What an awesome, hilarious end to that rabbit hole question, “What are we made of?” only to start a new one! And how certain they were for a while that the atom was the smallest thing. I remember being taught all about it in school.
Certainty narrows your reality, uncertainty with ideas and wonderings opens it. Certainty, and believing people who are certain (including experts), traps you in a reality where there is only one way, and if history tells you anything, it can tell you that there is not only one way, even when people say there is.
Our world is an endless adventure of discovery and creation, don’t limit it with certainty.
