Preparation
It is fair to say that the course has no singular outcome. It is merely a guide, in the same way that the dimensions of a room are a guide. When we say that a room is 15×15 feet, we give a periphery to the room — but we do not describe or specify what’s in the room or what can happen there over a course of time. Of course, the periphery in some ways determines and limits what can the room be. Looked at in another way, this initial ‘restriction’ or definition is actually the mother of possibility. It makes room. Creates space. Lays down the field. (Or however you wish to describe that ‘template’ upon which events are played out.)
Moving forward with this analogy, we say that whatever is to transpire in that space is always fresh, always spontaneous, and always new from the point-of-view of any one single person. For example, if the “room” or “space” we’re speaking of is Planet Earth, then there is always something new, exciting, fresh, unexpected happening to the animate and inhabitants of the planet.
Yet from a holistic point-of-view — from the point-of-view of someone who could be seeing the Earth as a marble in space — Earth and the events occurring to its inhabitants are fairly predefined. The tree that falls ‘accidentally’ on someone’s tool shed was there for 10 years until winds blowing at a certain speed knocked it off. The flood that arose unexpectedly was (potentially) sitting in the oceans which have been here for billions (?) of years. The meteorite that hits the Earth plots its course for months, if not decades. Because one thing leads to another, the events that are occurring now were put into motion in a very real sense by the Big Bang*. In that way, there is an over-all predetermination as far as we have seen in the universe.
But that is a telescopic, from-the-space, view. For practical purposes, because a single human being does not (and possibly cannot) account for all events at all times, whatever occurs in their life is fresh, spontaneous, even accidental. It is based upon the laws of the universe (speaking of strictly mathematical, physical, and other real laws). Even the patterns within accidents prove the law — the sciences of studying accidents and infectious diseases, for instance, begin to reveal how patterns and laws work even within what appears to be utter chaos.
This course will not teach you what to do with the ‘room’, the space, the stage of your life. That always remains your job — and the fun of your life. No one knows, actually, what the confluence of events will lead to next. This is as it is.
What the course does do is to Prepare You. Part of each event that occurs in one’s life is chance; and the other part is preparation. We cannot tell you much about Chance, but we can show you how to stay in a steady state of preparation, so you can respond to chance.
* Let us know what came before the Big Bang if it’s ever determined. :-}