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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?
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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?
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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?
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“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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