This is your Movie

Islam has an expression that had a lot of meaning to the Western Mind during the medieval times,'Insha'Allah', or translated, 'God willing'. In the extreme this philosophy implies that everything that happens is God's providence. We are just pawns in the Cosmic Play. Few Westerners believe this deterministic outcome today, but then, many spiritual path travelers also don't believe the other extreme, namely that we live in a 'random' universe. To us, the truth lies somewhere in between. We are the creators of our destiny, but we experience this creation within the interplay of others who are, in a weird way, part of us. 

So the way I would describe the idea is that we are neither spectators in a cinema, nor are we a little actor in giant movie studio. We are producers, directors, actors and spectators at the same time. The law of oneness you can actually study. You can literally see how this world responds to your changed expectations and perceptions. Thus, it can hardly be a random world. The question whether you are actually able to create your destiny or whether you are just a pawn in a preprogrammed movie set is unfortunately something that you can never settle theoretically. Someone can always come along and claim that whatever you just did wasn't really you, but only you thinking it was you. Well, this would be kind of easy, wouldn't it. My life experience suggest that at the end of the way we are always responsible for our actions. My hunch is this is your movie, so let's hope it will be a blockbuster.