I am reading a new book that I got on freecycle. I started the first chapter and found it interesting and appealing enough that I am considering buying some of the author's (Wayne W Dyer) other books.
So far it seems to me that what he is referring to as Intention is what we sometimes refer to as predestination or perhaps God's will. He keeps referring to Intention as the direction of the omni-present creative force or Source gives our lives.
He even goes to lengths to defend the existence of both Intention and Free Will, which drew me even further to the conclusion he was almost speaking of Predestination. I happen to agree with much of what he said about the possibility of the coexistence of Free Will and Intention (aka Predestination).
He brings up the idea about the Spark of the Divine that keeps coming up in my reading. There is a spark of the Source in each of us and for that matter in all creation and if we yield to it, we can find our "happy place"...our purpose or meaning in life. Plants and animals fulfill their Intention.
It is reminding me of many ideas I got from Living Buddha, Living Christ.
He makes a statement which I have believed true, though not always learned from, that our ego is what prevents us from living out our Intention or in Christian lingo..following God's will. He quoted Castaneda again, "Having lost hope of ever returning to the source of everything, the average man seeks solace in his selfishness."
It is our Free Will that gets in the way of fulfilling our Intention. Intention is the best that we can be, but our own ego can get in the way of us reaching that Intention. Man is the only creature that has this issue and it is because of that unique piece we possess, which trees and bunnies do not. I think it is the soul. I believe that while the rest of creation will return to the Source, we will maintain our continued idividuality along side of God.
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