10 Specific Questions

[APeacefulWarrior]

Well scientific determinism says that we truly don't have a choice between, say in your example, giving the money to the mugger or refusing and getting shot. Determinism says our choices are purely [complex versions of] cause-and-effect, and all human actions, and thoughts, are determined by the laws of nature. That our consciousness/mind does not ever have choices, just experiences what seems to be the ability to choose. Would this absolute determinism conflict with the Law of One, in that it basically says our souls/(what is the proper term?) are not at all in control/make no choices during our physical incarnation? Basically, assuming that this determinism is correct, then our souls would just be along for the ride alongside the human body, where the physical mind makes all the choices and our souls just experience. Does this conflict? The one solution I have to this paradox would be if our souls have true free will, in between incarnations, to choose which human to incarnate into, knowing through this determinism what that human will experience in its lifetime (and THAT is the true expression of free will by our souls) but I'm not sure whether this solution contradicts the Law of One/Ra Material explanations or not. This is all assuming that determinism is true, of course, and it is definitely debatable to different degrees.

I suppose if you're looking at the most totally absolutist form of mechanical determinism, Ra's teachings contradict it.  A certain level of true self-determinism in one's decisions\behaviors is assumed, at least from the subjective standpoint.  From a hypothetical 8D "objective view," things are a lot different. (see below)

But that said, even most scientists don't often take determinism that far, especially since it means either ignoring quantum uncertainty or assuming it has no impact whatsoever on human lives.  

1. When you say that an entity has the ability to influence/dictate the starting conditions of their incarnations, do you mean that they choose from a pool of potential lives to live and pick which one suits their intentions best, or can they actually be like (in a less superficial way) "I want my human to be a red-head, write a book at age 12, learn the Law of One at age 34..." etc.? The choosing from the pool of potential lives would also be able to coexist with determinism, but the molding/creating the qualities of their incarnated human entity would contradict determinism.

Um...   OK, this gets a bit complex.  Because what we would call "quantum realities" start coming into play, as well as the nature of Oneness.  

From the POV of The Creator, insofar as it can be imagined, ALL things and ALL possibilities and ALL realities are happening and have already happened, simultaneously.  From the point of view of an individual human, they are making decisions and guiding the paths of their lives.  From the highest perspective, every single possible variation in that path already exists and, likewise, there's some variation on that entity experiencing it.  

So it's a bit like crawling an infinite web, where every junction represents a choice.  Each individual entity has a choice of which strands to follow next, but across all infinity in incarnations, every path is eventually explored.

And as an entity moves through 5D and 6D, they increasingly have access to the quantum web, and more power to influence which paths they go down.  So while the ability to choose an incarnation might be minimal among 4Ds, who would only be able to choose a life in very broad strokes, higher-D entities can add a lot of twists to their incarnations, such as making agreements with other entities to all incarnate at once in various relationship configurations.   The resulting incarnated form still has the ability to determine which quantum strands it follows, but their originating higher selves can tilt the odds heavily in favor of certain outcomes/paths.

Although they probably could not get so specific as pre-determining years that certain events happen, like your example.   They could, however, contrive to keep arranging "coincidences" so that every so often their incarnation encounters the LOO, in hopes they'll eventually embrace it.

2. You mention that a positively-oriented entity could incarnate into a being that has an overall negative-orientation. So, how is the orientation of an entity determined really? I mean, if I incarnated 100 times and 80 of those times I was incarnated into a STO human, then I would probably be a positively-oriented entity correct? If I then incarnated into an extremely STS human, could that potentially sway me into being a negatively-oriented entity? However, I assume that STS and STO entites would, most of the time, choose to incarnate into humans with the same orientation as them.

The orientation -or polarity- of an entity is fundamentally energetic in nature.  Tendencies towards STO or STS behavior then result from those energetic polarities, which are a very fundamental aspect of an entity's beingness.  For those of higher densities, determining the polarity of a particular entity is as clear-cut as the polarity of magnets or filtered sunlight is to us.  

Unfortunately, it's almost impossibly difficult for us in 3D land to know the polarity of others with certainty. (sometimes not even our own)

And the effect of incarnations upon an entity or "soul" is basically cumulative. Every life adds information and changes an entity in one way or another.  A Positive entity who, for whatever reason, has decided to go explore the Negative side could utilize incarnations to do this, but it might require several lives to de-polarize themselves enough to be able to flip over.  Or they might have a single massively traumatic life that does so in one incarnation, but such rapid change can easily cause "damage" that takes a long time to heal.  The same would be true for a Negative attempting to turn Positive.  However, this apparently becomes easier to do as the entity grows, and (I suspect) at later stages of 6D they can probably choose polarity at will.

Plus, again, this usually requires deliberate pre-planning.  Ra doesn't discuss the odds, but I get the impression that unplanned or "accidental" changes of polarity are pretty rare.  Generally an entity will continue being whatever polarity they start out as unless they find a good reason to change over.