[7luminaries]

Originally Posted by winter light

We only have the free will to change our attention and project a sense of self. But even in this it may be distracted we are by circumstances or limited by our conditioning, which is yet another circumstance. The more will we project the more we become defined by circumstance. So free will in this regard is literally self-limiting.

Free will in the material sense is based on a perception of self involving memory of the past and projection into the future in relation to self and circumstance. There is no influence on the material world in the present except for a careful balance which can only exist as long as ones attention and one's sense of self are surrendered to present action of the whole. Free will from the separate self is only real as it is an extension of the whole and any causes as though from a separate self only exist as illusion.

Just want to say...one of the best movies ever.

On the rest, free will gets "overthought" a lot. Why is it overthought so much? Why so much wrangling? Why so much focus on the Isness as purity of oneness and emptiness and not as individuated love in being, when emptiness is not where we majority live nor are intended to majority live in this, our incarnated reality?

A lion's share of it IMO is resistance of the natural progression toward our own centres, the natural call to be and do love as ownership and equanimity on our own journey. The journey of our own individuated consciousness.

As Bartholomew says, our reality exists within its own dimensional paradigm. What is means is that for now, be here now. For now, be love now.

And that means, above all else, ownership and equanimity. That's what free will is, at this time and in this place in being here now. Folks have a lot of trouble with that, some of them. Until one day, somewhere, sometime, they don't.

Peace & blessings
7L