Fate: What is it really and can it be changed? We reveal the secrets of spiritual development

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritKarma, free will, and causalityFreedomChildren, parenting, and family life

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00What is fate? Different views of fate
• 3:18What's the difference between freedom and control?
• 4:30A mistake in how we perceive fate
• 6:55How can we understand freedom in our lives?
• 8:10Is life fate or choice?
• 14:24How can we manage fate? What is predetermined?
• 18:40‘Luck’ and the role of outside forces
• 19:58Can fates intersect?
• 22:50Where did we come from?
• 25:25What is a karmic current?
• 27:10Which comes first: fate or choice?
• 32:22Why do we repeat our parents' fate?
• 35:05What should I do if I feel I'm not living my own life?
• 37:09Why do we feel we're not living our own lives?

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:00

  We're making today's video to give people a foundation they can use to make decisions in their lives, understanding whether something has been predetermined by fate or comes from their freedom of choice.

  Alexander Mashrabov / Alexander Volchek

• 02:52

  Someone wants to bring everything that happens under their own control: ‘I control how my wife or husband treats me, what relationship I have with my parents, and, essentially, when everyone dies.’

  Alexander Mashrabov / Alexander Volchek

• 04:03

  Freedom is when I know there are limits within a particular choice, and I decide how I'll act within that choice.

  Alexander Mashrabov / Alexander Volchekdefinition

• 14:13

  Can I analyze it properly and broadly and be honest with myself? This brings us to the importance of understanding true causes and effects.

  Alexander Volchekrecommendation

• 17:18

  Yet those hundred viewers could change their lives because of this video. You say, ‘Oh, if a hundred people changed their lives, then it was destined.’ What if only you changed your life, or only I did? Or perhaps because we're filming here…

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 18:23

  It doesn't matter whether those intentions or designs are psychophysical, material, divine, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, associated with particular schools, teachings, or esoteric movements, or the intentions of my spiritual being or spiritual hierarchies.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 20:20

  Or you went into a business because someone else had a particular fate. They needed a partner alongside them—their current partner, for example.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 23:18

  If we consider that a person's life exists beyond this current lifetime, the picture isn't a material life with some fate tucked inside it.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 26:24

  Someone might ask, ‘Does that mean the karmic current can expand, figuratively speaking, or shrink until only freedom remains?’ Obviously, if we're discussing it in these terms, yes.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 30:34

  When we consider fate and say a person has a karmic life, a stream of heredity within them, and freedom within that, we understand that some things are predetermined and must be lived through.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition