Free Will, Fate & Choice
If you can see the future, can you change it? This is one of the most fascinating questions I have encountered in my work with intuition, psychic perception, and Controlled Remote Viewing.
It is also one of the reasons I pursued advanced training in Controlled Remote Viewing. Because if the future is completely fixed, then seeing it would simply mean watching something inevitable approach.
But what if the future isn't fixed? What if what we perceive is not an unavoidable destination, but a potential outcome—one that can change when circumstances, awareness, and choices change?
That possibility changes everything.
Fate or Free Will?
For centuries, people have debated whether our lives are governed by fate or shaped by free will.
Perhaps neither side tells the whole story. We don't choose every circumstance that enters our lives. We don't control the choices of other people. Unexpected events can change our direction in ways we never anticipated. Yet we make choices every day.
We choose whether to stay or leave.
Whether to speak or remain silent.
Whether to take an opportunity or walk away.
Whether to repeat an old pattern or create a new one.
Those choices have consequences. And those consequences can change what happens next. So perhaps the future isn't one predetermined road. Perhaps it is a landscape of possibilities.
What If Seeing the Future Gives Us an Opportunity to Change It?
This is where my interest in Controlled Remote Viewing became particularly meaningful. The question that fascinated me was not simply: “If information about the future can be perceived, can we change it?” The more important question was: “If we become aware of a possible future, what do we do with that information?”
Imagine that you are traveling toward a destination and someone tells you there is an accident ahead. You now have information you didn't have before.
You can slow down.
You can stop.
You can take another road.
You can decide that continuing on the same path is still worth the risk.
The information hasn't necessarily determined your future. It has given you an opportunity to make a different choice. That distinction is at the heart of how I think about intuitive perception and the future.
A Future Perceived Is Not Necessarily a Future Guaranteed
When someone receives an intuitive impression, it can be tempting to interpret it as a prediction carved in stone. But I believe there is another way to understand it. What if an intuitive impression represents the direction things are moving right now?
Circumstances create momentum.
Our thoughts influence our actions.
Our actions influence circumstances.
Other people's choices enter the equation.
And suddenly, what looked like one possible future can begin to change. This is why I am cautious about telling someone that something must happen. We can interupt the future if we can see it ahead of time by choosing something different, speaking up, or taking action.
A responsible intuitive practitioner should leave room for choice. Because the moment you tell someone, “This is absolutely going to happen,” you can inadvertently take away the very thing that may change the outcome: their ability to choose.
The Future May Be a Moving Target
Think of the future as a series of branching paths. You are standing at one point on the map.
There is a path that represents where your current choices are leading. But there are other paths.
A decision tomorrow can move you onto another one.
A conversation can change a relationship.
A new piece of information can change a decision.
An unexpected opportunity can open a completely different direction.
And sometimes, simply becoming aware of where a particular path appears to be leading is enough to make us reconsider whether we want to continue down it.
This is where I believe the greatest value of future-oriented perception may lie. Not in proving that fate exists, but in giving us greater awareness of our choices.
Why Controlled Remote Viewing Became Important to Me
My advanced training in Controlled Remote Viewing grew from this very interest. I wanted to understand more deeply what it means to perceive information beyond ordinary awareness—and, particularly, what it might mean when that information concerns possibilities that have not yet unfolded.
For me, the fascinating part isn't simply seeing. It is what happens after we see. If an intuitive impression reveals a potential difficulty, perhaps awareness gives us an opportunity to respond.
If it reveals an opportunity, perhaps we can recognize it when it appears.
If it reveals a direction our life seems to be moving toward, perhaps we can ask whether that is the direction we actually want. In other words, perception can become a tool for choice. And that is a very different concept from fatalism.
You Are Not a Passenger in Your Own Life
I don't believe we are meant to simply sit back and wait for the future to happen to us. We participate in creating it.
Sometimes we make conscious choices.
Sometimes we make unconscious ones.
Sometimes we repeat familiar patterns without realizing that we are doing so.
And sometimes, a moment of insight gives us the opportunity to stop and say: “Wait. I don't have to continue this way.” That moment can be extraordinarily powerful. Because the future that seemed inevitable may have been only the future that was most likely if nothing changed. And something has changed. You now know.
Perhaps the Real Power Is in Knowing
This brings me back to the question: If you can see the future, can you change it? I believe the more interesting possibility is that perceiving a potential future may give us the opportunity to participate differently in what comes next.
The purpose isn't necessarily to predict every detail of tomorrow. It is to become more conscious of the possibilities in front of us today. Because once we become aware of a path, we can decide whether to follow it.
We can change direction.
We can make a different choice.
We can create a different response.
And sometimes, that one choice can change everything that follows.
Perhaps fate provides the landscape. Perhaps intuition helps us see the landscape. But free will is what allows us to choose our path through it. And maybe that is the most important reason to look toward the future: Not because the future is fixed—but because it may not be.
What Future Are You Moving Toward?
If you're facing a crossroads, sensing that something is changing in your life, or wondering about the possibilities ahead, an intuitive session can provide another perspective.
Through intuitive perception and my experience with Controlled Remote Viewing, I explore the patterns and possibilities surrounding a situation—not to tell you that your future is carved in stone, but to help you become more aware of what may be unfolding and the choices available to you.
Because sometimes, seeing what may be ahead is precisely what gives us the opportunity to choose differently.
Your future isn't necessarily fixed. And your choices matter. Book a Private Session with Terry Andersen
