Free Will

Free will,... what is it? I just watched a video where the person speaking held the position that free will is an illusion. Now this person had an education, and was trying to beat his audience into intellectual submission with it. His whole position for his theory was based in physical reality. Obviously from his point of view, if a person could see, touch, taste or smell something, then it had validity.

Here is my response to the question of "is free will an illusion?"

People are self aware. We can think about what we are thinking about!

What is the mechanism of thought that gives us the ability to think? It is our consciousness. The brain does not think. It facilitates the activity of thought, by translating physical sensory data, as well as light, into electrical impulses which become either immediately utilized, or stored in the brain, to be activated later as memories. The brain works much like a computer. However a computer doesn't think.

Consciousness allows you to think, and in the process gives you the ability to ask questions about your environment, such as "Is free will an illusion?"

Where does your consciousness come from? Well,... it's "not" your consciousness you're using. Your consciousness along with everyone else's, is an individualized part of a singular consciousness, belonging to the creator of all life.

Each of us has been given the gift of self awareness, and we are sharing in the consciousness of the intelligence which created us. This is why GOD knows our every thought, and there can be no secrets from HER.

To say then, that you "think" there is no GOD, means that you are thinking, without giving any thought as to the mechanism of how you are thinking, or to what thought is in the first place. In effect then, you are using GODS tools, to draw the conclusion that there is no GOD!

Is free will an illusion? My answer is that your free will is always relative to the will of your creator. This means that you have free will, within the reality where your creator has placed you. This reality has it's own laws, some of which, can not be violated or amended by people in any way.

Thus a short concise answer would be to say that, whatever GOD wants,... is, and whatever she doesn't want, doesn't happen. Therefore, if you are doing something, then it must be by "your" will that you are doing it, and the fact that you are doing it, tells you that you are free to do so. 

Let us be clear however, that just because you "can" do something, doesn't mean that you've made the vibrationally highest choice.

My personal opinion is that all potential outcomes must at some point be explored, in order for human experience to become complete. This means experiencing both the good and the bad.

By the way, it took me the better part of my life to realize that emotion always rules over logic. And that just annoys the hell out of most people with a logical mind (well it annoyed "me" anyway!). 

P.S. The fact that you can interact with a spiritual being who doesn't have a physical brain, should be validation enough that thought does not initiate within physical reality.