Why Do Experiences Repeat?
The laws can be recognized only through repetition. Repetition confirms and reinforces what has been recognized, while consistency ultimately proves the lawful nature of that recognition. Genuine knowledge can be acquired only through repeated experiences.
Experiences that appear separated in time continually test what we believe to be true—what we regard as our knowledge.
Based on our knowledge, we are constantly making plans, because life requires us to be forward-looking. Being forward-looking means that, based on our current knowledge, we predict what will happen in the future, and on that basis we make our decisions in the present.
The future we imagine corresponds to the reality that will actually unfold only to the extent that the knowledge on which we base it is correct. In the present, experiences always unfold according to the laws of Heaven. Therefore, repeated experiences enable us both to increase our knowledge and to recognize the errors within it.
If something different happens from what we expected, then we have, in reality, misunderstood our previous experiences, because the reality that appears does not confirm our knowledge.
In everyday life, we are generally able to predict short-term events with considerable accuracy, which is why organizing daily life usually does not present a particularly difficult task. However, this was not always the case. It becomes natural only by the time we reach adulthood.
A small child may begin to cry simply because their mother has disappeared from view and they do not yet know whether she still exists. The psychological theory of object relations is probably worth becoming familiar with for everyone. Later, when we become adults and real life begins, paying rent, utilities, and bills for the first time can be a serious challenge. Through repetition, however, we gradually build the system that later becomes routine.
In reality, repetition is the method of proof within the project called life. Reality can be experienced only in the present, and the laws can be known only through experience, because there is no other way to perceive them. We are capable of perceiving only their material manifestation.
Within the social sciences, we already make excellent use of repetition as a method of proof, but repetition is equally the primary method of proof in every other area of life.
Life teaches and corrects us through experience. Life is the fire — the refining fire — in which the events of the present always unfold according to the laws of Heaven. Therefore, genuine knowledge is strengthened, while our errors are burned out of us.