Would you love to see the future?

To be able to tell what will happen for you and even the world?

If you said yes, then you are in good company. Millions of people around the world would love to be able to see ahead in time. In fact, some would go even further. A British 2015 survey by YouGov discovered 61% of those asked would want to actually travel to the future as well.

We clearly want to know what the unknown has waiting for us.

The topic on whether, as mortal humans, we have the ability and power to see what is to come has been debated for centuries. Early in history these gifts were believed to be bestowed only on special holy souls. The Gods decided our lives and the priests and seers were the ones allowed to witness their decisions and opinions.

But, times change.

Over the years a growing interest in spirituality over religion has reopened the debate. Are there other unseen worlds? Can we see them or experience them? Are we psychic and can bend time and space ourselves? Is time real or can we view it both back and forward?

Who knows, but one truth does remain.

Our mind is a special zone that the future lives in.

Design not Destiny.

Seeing the future is viewed as seeing destiny itself.

The trouble is we believe that seeing time to come as being able to view events that are destined to occur before they do. Destined, unchangeable, meant to be. We never consider that we can create HOW these events will happen in our minds first.

Less destiny, more design.

But, there have been individuals who know the mind can concept and shape the future, rather than accept what the fates supply.

One such man was Buckminster Fuller. An advanced mind that considered advanced development. He was a philosopher, inventor, architect, writer, visionary, and designer all in one mind. He looked decades ahead and formulated how society could live.

Among his creations from the 1920’s onwards were Geodesic domes (used even today in design and industry), and prototype future cars and homes. He was also one of the first to predict mankind relying mainly on renewable sources of energy long before it was ever advocated.

Consequently, he was always mentally living many years into the future. Not to guess or predict how we would live, but to design, direct, and shape it.

To this day many in industry and government refer to him and his visions of life to come and use some of them still!

He wasn’t a prophet, he was a high level pro at applying the mind to the future.

We are always creating the future.

We don’t need a unique mind like Buckminster’s.

Nor do we have to wait for another person like him to come along. There are enough of us out there who have dedicated their mindsets to forming the future in some way. Some you will have heard of.

Tim Berners-Lee – famously envisaged and built the fledgling internet and shared information between computers in a kind of web as well as the first browser.

Jules Verne – predicted the use of submarines, space travel, and helicopters to name but a few.

Bill Gates – started Microsoft with his vision for ‘a computer on every desk and in every home’ running his software.

Fei-Fei Li – a modern future mind, the ‘Godmother of AI’ who has led the way in the development and use of Artificial Intelligence.

Ordinary humans employing their minds for extraordinary creation. Ordinary people when they began, ground breakers when they finished. No trying to zone into the future fates through trance or meditation or spiritual practices. The future as they saw it was squarely in their mind and brought to life.

As humans there are many of us always creating the future. People you are going to hear about in the years ahead as reality catches up with their vision of things.

And you can join them!

What’s on your mind?

Everyone has ideas and bigger beliefs.

They sit there in our mind acting as guides to the future. Rather than some mental crystal ball revealing events and situations deep in time, they show what YOU can make of your future.

This is the super normal ability of the mind, not some supernatural window into another timeframed existence we get a glimpse of. It knows you inside and out; your abilities, character, views and beliefs, your whole psyche. And in doing so it presents to you possibilities and options to evolve that individual to its best level in life.

Your mind is gifting you your future if you were to accept it. Not the Gods or the spirit world.

So next time you wonder if you can see the future, pay attention to your mind, it will present you with your best self realised.

The real key to the future is that you then want to go and meet yourself there. We all have that ability to create, build, form, develop, and invent. Mind that you do!

Or as Buckminster Fuller wonderfully said,

‘We are called to be architects of the future’.

References – YouGov – society- back future british people.

Webfoundation.org – about/vision/history-of-the-web/

www.bfi.org – about-fuller.

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