The Present

Q:  This brings me to a question I've been wondering about for a long time.
 If everything is happening right now, then why can't the future be
predicted?

B:  It is, but not in the terms you call prediction.  Recall the idea of
the propeller and the strobe lights.  The idea, as we have said, is not so
much that you are predicting a future; it is more that you are sensing the
energy at the present that is most likely to occur because it has the
greatest degree of energy behind it.  The strobe light is on that
particular setting at the time the sensing, or prediction, is made.  The
prediction itself might change the setting of the strobe light.

Understand what your physicists now understand: you cannot make a conscious
decision that doesn't affect the reality you are deciding about.  Every
thought changes the reality you are thinking of. Therefore, so-called
predictions are only sensings of the energy most likely to manifest at the
time the prediction is made.  The prediction itself can change the energy.
However, if what has been sensed has a great deal of energy momentum behind
it, it will be unlikely to change.

But it is not the future you have predicted; it is the present, and it
doesn't change to the point where it manifests.... Keep it simple.  The
past, the present and the future are all now.  Understand it this way:
remember the radio, where you have the idea of being able to turn to
different programs.  Just because only one program at a time is coming
through your speaker, that doesn't mean all the other programs aren't
there.  And you can make a prediction that if you tune the dial, you will
get another program.  That is making a prediction.  But it is only because
you are aware of the fact that the program already exists that you can do
so.  It is the same thing.

Q:  Is it that everything is happening now, and there's only the present,
the past and the future created out of the present.  And all of the
infinite number of possible futures exist right now?

B:  Yes.

Q:  So the question is not whether they are there, because they are. The
question is which one you will wind up choosing.

B:  Perfect.  Thank you.

Q:  So why talk about the future at all, since there is no future?

B:  Yes.  It is all-present.

Q:  Thank you.

B:  Thank you!