“Supposed to Be-s – Whim or What?

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I have friends that may have turned over their will to their Higher Self via the “Supposed To Be” Clause.

“I was taking my supplements and a extra one came out of the bottle because I was supposed to take one more.”

“My friend that I hadn’t heard from in months called me because it was supposed to happen.”

“Maybe the shaman was right and I should move to Arizona. It could be what I suppose to do,” she said.

I asked: “What do you want?”

Has our beliefs in the New Age allowed us to throw reason out the window for desperately wanting magic in our lives? If most things are governed by “supposed to be”s does that mean we have turned our lives over to God or Superstition? Part of life is about having a strong sense of will so we can release it. By making space for the unexpected or accidents we allow a space for the divine to enter – maybe. But when we begin to think that accidents are supposed to be events that happen because we’re automatically entitled mistaking happenstance for divine providence how are we to learn?

Is there not a responsibility to have a strong sense of self, a strong ego with good self-esteem and boundaries so its clear that when we release it in the present that there is the possibility of divine intervention or maybe not: It seems that accident plays a role in luck and the mystery of the divine and that supposed to be events are the hanky-panky of ego creating an illusion so we can have artificial safety.