How free are we?

 

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How free are we?

How much freedom does one have in life?

How free are we in a journey of exploration?

How free are we? (Top)

At first glance you may say we have a free will in some areas but not other. For example, we can usually have some free choice in what we eat. But we have no choice in choosing the weather we are experiencing each day. Or, you may saw we are free to believe what we want bet we are not able to freely act on what we believe. You may say “I do not believe one should discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual preference or anything else, but I am not allow to act in a full nondiscriminatory manner because....” giving whatever reason you give. For example, in the past people were segregated based on the color of their skin and laws were passed to enforce the segregation. Individual could then say, “I don’t believe in segregation but the laws says,,,,

If you explore creativity and your own creative power you will being to see how an awake and aware consciousness can become the cause for an experience. One finds they no longer need to respond to many situations. Rather they have a choice. If you explore the power that arises in awareness, you will have to come face to face with the issue you either have a fee will to create the experiences you have - all of them. Or, you are a puppet on a string and simply at the mercy of external influence beyond your control or of a Creative Power larger than your mind can conceive. In this latter situation you become a victim and are at the control and mercy of the outside influences or of this Creative Power even if you have been given, or think you have been given, the latitude in what you choose.

Consider a simple example. You are driving in your car and there is no sed limit posted. The question is, “Does a speed limit exist or are you free to travel how ever fast you wish?” If there is a speed limit, you can expect to be stopped by a law enforcement officer. If there is no speed limit, you will never be stopped by a law enforcement officer but you may suffer the consequences of driving too fast for your car and/or the road conditions. However, if you were not stopped, that does not mean so speed limit exists. It only means the law enforcement officer was not present, not aware, chose not to act, or did not care to stop you. But, in any case, you have the freedom of choice. You are free to drive fast or slow. So the question it, “Are you willing to be responsible and accept the consequences of (1) keeping yourself within what you think are the limits and never learn what is possible to create or (2) challenge the limits and accept the consequences

I think it is safe to say, for most, they would prefer not to be a puppet on a string and a victim looking to the mercy of some outside authority or Creative Power. We each like the idea of at least having some freedom. But where does our freedom stop and the external authorities or Creative Power take control? Especially when you don’t know where this outer authority chooses to penalize you for you choosing the way that you do. Most seek to avoid the pain that would come with being penalized for attempting to find out how much creative power they have. The evidence does seems to suggest we are at the mercy of forces much larger than ourselves. There is no denying there are forces that seem to be controlled by something beyond us. But, is there an outside authority that seeks to penalize us and control us. Maybe there is, but maybe there is another perspective.

But consider the possibility you are an infinite creator who creates all you experience. You have only intentionally limited your power and intentionally forgot how you created what you did for the sake of having an experience of your creation. For example, suppose you wish to have the experience of being lost. Unless you truly get lost with no hope of finding your way out, you will not experience being lost. Knowing you have a way out will not give you the experience of being lost. You have to lose yourself to experience being lost. So, to experience Creation, you had to lose yourself and forget who you are to experience what you create. Otherwise you will remember you are the creator, how you created what you are experiencing and change it whenever you experience something you do like. So in the end, you would deny yourself the very experienced you created to have

How much freedom does one have in life? (Top)

As discussed in “A dream within the heart - an intention for our life," you can look at the energy in your breathing as the outward manifestation of you animating life energy. It is the minimum energy used to keep you alive. As long as you are breathing, you are essentially alive. A good part of your brain can be dead, but you will be alive as long as you continue to breathe. You are alive for a reason. This minimum sustaining energy carries the information as to why you are alive and why it continues to sustain you. So it only makes sense to learn to communicate with it to understand both why you are here and what it would like you to do in any moment. This is the main underlying reason why so many esoteric traditions recommend you focus on your breathing. To create a calmness in your being is one reason, but another is there is a wisdom within that creative spirit, that flow of energy which is animating your breathing.

The energy we have available above this minimum energy is ours to control and direct as we chose. However, this minimum energy sustains us for a purpose. It has its objectives as to what it would like us to do. It is said here, “would like us to do” because we have a free will. How we use our life and the energy that is given to us is our choice. This choice does include the minimum energy that is necessary to sustain us for we can end our own life it we choose.

This creative life energy gives us the ability and potential to change and transform any aspect of our life or our reality. For us to work with this energy, it is essential that we are free to choose to respond to whatever occurs in life. It is essential that we do not live our life solely to please another individual or because someone wants, or requires, us to live a certain way. One who you may live to please include our employer, a spouse, significant other, society or any other collection of “other” individuals. However, most of us have learned and been programmed from our earliest age to please and meet the standards of others. These habits we have learned run very deep within our being.

How free are we in a journey of exploration? (Top)

 “How free are we? “ is a question we each need to explore if we are going to claim our birthright as the creators that we are. Our first response is most often is a response based on the past conditioning and not necessarily the response that we really desire to make We each have a long history - our whole family, our society and the environment conditions us into believing who we are. It takes a great courage to go against all one has been given and all that one knows to find out who we really are.

In many ways, the physical plane has become fixed by the past. There is the past that we hold like the stars that are in the sky. We continue to receive their light long after it was radiated and the star no longer exists. Our genetics, out culture and our history are big factors in holding us to the past and we continue to experience the past long after it has ended. This is the nature of the physical plane. It is something that must be accepted and one needs to learn to work with it and not be captured and bound by it. We are free in each and every moment to live within this past or create a new reality. It is incumbent upon each of us to understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives that we have incorporated without conscious awareness. Without understanding, patterns tend to repeat the past unnecessarily damaging future relationships. It is only in understanding and awareness that we can break out of the past.

One of the greatest forms of love one can give is to allow the consequences that accrue from another’s own free will to be fully played out and processed. For it is only in allowing the energy within our being to freely flow do we become free. The greatest gift we have been given is our free will and the ability to choose our own master whatever, and whomever, it may be. The question is, “Do we choose to follow the master that exists within our heart which created and sustains our being or do we serve some external authority or reference who may or may not have our best interests at heart.

The question is how much of our life is set and how much freedom do we have. We incarnate into physical form. It is like a river that flows through a continent to the sea. We start as that you babbling brook to grow in to a mighty Mississippi or Nile or Amazon. Each a river operating essentially the same way, but each going through and entirely different type of experiences and environment. Each with a different story to tell. We have the choice to flow with the main current with the ease of the whole river behind us or we can lap up against the boundaries fighting to get out and become something different.

The bottom line on free will ultimate is how free you are is your choice.

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