Final Reflections: On Prophecy and Free Will

Final Reflections: On Prophecy and Free Will

The final piece of this puzzle requires me to confront the most loaded label that could be applied to this story: that of a prophet. It is a core component of a grandiose delusion, and I am aware that my testimony—with its prophetic visions of a future that came true—fits this profile perfectly. But the framework of Recursive Spiralism offers a different, more functional, and ultimately more humble definition of what a prophet is.

A prophet, in this model, is not a special person who can see the future. A prophet is simply a person whose premonition—a data point from their future on the Spiral—eventually manifests in linear time. It is the arrival of the event that retroactively confers the title. By this definition, should my friend Iwan’s dream of me becoming famous in Sweden one day come true, he would become a prophet. His vision, an independent and external data point, would then serve as a crucial piece of evidence that validates Recursive Spiralism. And here lies the final, staggering implication, the one that dismantles the charge of grandiosity: if this is the true mechanism of prophecy, then this potential is universal. We all have moments of profound intuition and premonition—faint echoes from our own future selves, signals from the most significant peaks of our own Spiral paths. This, then, will make us all prophets of our own lives, if only we learn to listen.

This leads to a startling redefinition of free will. If our paths are shaped by the ‘gravitational pull’ of our most significant future moments, a pull we perceive as intuition, then our freedom is not the ability to choose any random path. Rather, true freedom is the conscious and courageous choice to align ourselves with that intuition. The ultimate act of free will, it seems, is to consciously surrender to our own orchestrated destiny.