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The future for individuals cannot be predicted with certainty. This uncertainty of future projection is the inability to predict with certainty specific future states. This absence of certainty could be said to be the origin of religion, spirituality and especially superstition. One thinks and acts in present in proscribed ways so as to influence the future, such as a good luck charm, don't walk under ladders, pray for rain, or believe in Christ or you will go to hell. All supernatural power is generally assumed to be capable of influencing the future and is its primary purpose. The primary goal of most people is to protect one's future and this can take both physical and non-physical means. One may insure a certain kind of education and another might go to church regularly.

Controlling the future is or should be the primary concern of any individual and perhaps is, however most of this anticipation is unconscious. A conscious concern might be a very worrisome ordeal. And probably most people would prefer not to possess a knowledge of the future for fear it might be bad. The primary means of controlling the future is the control of the present. One is careful in what one does, prepares for emergencies, gets an education as a means to future success, eats the right foods for an anticipated lifespan into old age.

Control of the future is commonly called Conservative and Progressive. If one's present is considered good enough or optimum, then the emphasis is on the effort to preserve conditions as they are. The future should remain as the way things are now, as what is known in the present and is empirical. If one's present conditions are less than desirable, then change and a new kind of future may be sought. This change is first a condition of mind as conception of how things should be. One works in present to produce alternative to what already is. One builds a house in present for shelter in future.

For the intelligent mind, change that can be envisioned is derived from what can be imagined and not from what cannot. If the individual seeks knowledge or a different consciousness, of which cannot be imagined, then the future containing same cannot be imagined and envisionment cannot occur. New knowledge can only come about in the future. Thus control of the future is the control of new knowledge, and it can only controlled in present to a limited degree, as one is actively looking for something new, but does not know what it is.

The premise here is that there is a third dimension called the Metaphysical, the time frame of which is the future. If life is seen as a journey, there is a body as a ship in the present, a captain as the thinker which uses information obtained in the past, and a navigator, the job of which is to ascertain and control the future, for instance as some form of destination.

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