QUESTION: Masters, I am grateful for the messages! With the evolution of human science, the predictions of natural disasters are increasingly accurate. However, despite this, many people die in these conditions, like the nearly 600 Haitians this week? Why? ~Duda, Brasil
ANSWER: Knowledge is a double-edged sword. It helps you plan your future, but it also can interfere with the plans you have made to experience unusual occurrences. Since every soul has total freedom of choice, knowledge is only a warning, not a “must do this now” edict.
In the case of Haiti, foreknowledge wasn’t of much use to a large segment of the population because they had nowhere to go and no way to protect themselves. Some of the people didn’t even get the warnings. Others had envisioned this type of disruption of their life as something from which they could gain wisdom.
These souls chose to live in the country with the understanding that it is very poverty stricken with few modern conveniences. It is part of their life choices for the lessons they sought. The ability to flee would have interfered with their life plan because they would not have experienced the devastation.
Looking at it from the perspective of being able to do something were the disaster approaching your place of living, it is hard to imagine having no such choices. In the United States, the same storm wreaked havoc on large sections of the country. Some of the residents left as they were advised, but a portion remained, thinking their property was more important than their lives. Everyone has choices and makes them for their own reasons.