I wrestle with the idea of free will quite a bit. I have always had a highly fated life, and often think I have only enough rope to hang myself with… only enough free will to make my fated life harder. Is this true for all of us? Quite possibly.
2024 has been laced with epiphany. It makes me glad I did a few decades of shadow work to prepare for this future. But did that matter? Did I get all these amazing insights because I prepared, or is it just time? The veil is thinning, and that could be the actual cause of my reality shifts. Would I still be right where I am if I had spent the last twenty years checking out with drugs? Did I miss that memo?
This timeline split is getting really obvious, and it’s a good argument for choosing to do inner work. Lower frequency people are just dropping out of my life. At the lower frequency, it looks like life is getting more intense to push people into waking up. Just enough free will to make life harder than it needs to be. Still, there are choices available.
I do believe there is free will to a point. From the outside, it is definitely a choice to live at a certain frequency. Even if the end game is fated, we get to choose our quality of life by choosing what thoughts we dwell on. I’m not at all suggesting that “negative” thoughts or feelings be suppressed. Negativity always needs to be intentionally processed and released, but doing that extra work is a choice. Processing and releasing negativity allows our frequency to rise, thus providing a higher foundation to build from.
Everyone I know who has found their way to a spiritual path is just calmer inside. We all have hard days, but the setpoint is closer to peace, and the return to inner peace gets faster and easier with time and practice. It’s always hard to watch those we love make their lives harder, but I know from experience the choice has to be their own.
In the Yogic philosophy there are four levels each must pass through: pleasure, accomplishment, service, and being. The first three may take lifetimes, but don’t worry – you’ll be back. When you understand that your being is the entire point, you are finally free to go. I love that. In Rosicrucian philosophy the soul is built by intention and dedication. Lots of free will there.
At some point on the path it does feel like everything is on autopilot. Maybe after so long of choosing “thy will over my will” there is no longer a need for free will. I don’t really have an answer, just lots of questions. The free will debate is a lot like the simulation debate – neither one would change who I am or how I live. Not if I have a choice in the matter…
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The gift of Free Will is not required at higher levels of evolution, in the state of bliss endowed. The best work for this interest is in the book of “The Nine Freedoms” dictated by Mars Sector Six through Dr.George King
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That’s exactly how it feels. Thank you for the book recommendation!
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Neither free will or fate are real.. if you dive into neuroscience and how the brain works, you’ll realise it’s an interplay of both. What happens is just a continuum of cause and effect.
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At a lower level of consciousness I agree with that. There are millions of people who live solely on instinct and biology (eat, sleep, procreate, seek pleasure). As the conscious expands to an observer viewpoint, cause and effect become apparent, and choice (free will) is born. On the subject of medicine or science, never confuse our current level of understanding with the actual truth. 300 years ago, the cure for many ills was slicing open the abdomen to remove demons (surgery without anesthesia or disinfection). Most people died. What will be said of our current ideas and methods in 300 years? In my imaginings it sounds like this, “Mercury fillings and genetic determinism? They would have been better off trying to remove demons!” Thanks for the comment – that was fun.
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In hindsight, it’s all an interplay of causes and effects. The mind is adaptive. It collects information, computes them, and decides what’s best at a particular moment. Even the agency you are talking about (free will) is all simulated by the mind, given specific conditions (which all books down to causes and effects). You think you are making a choice, but in actuality, it’s a result of intricate conditional functioning of the mind. So, from my understanding, we’d rather not say it is free will or fate neither… all those advancements and exploration you talked about are seen coming from free will when observed from the level of the mind… but it’s not what may seem!!
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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” – Werner Heisenberg
Enjoy your deliberations!
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“Believers are in groups, but seekers are alone,”
~Sadhguru
It’s not about believing or not believing it’s about embracing our seeking nature.
Merry Christmas 🎄🙏
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