Free Will Infringement, what is it?

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It almost seems like Q'uo and Ra are talking about different things but I guess it's more a matter of perspective.

Well, I think it gets down to what you think this abridgement business is about.  At it's root, I take it to be that we're all intended to pursue our own path of spiritual flowering according to what we *really* desire.  If another entity influences us to act according to something other than that, then there's an abridgement.  The influence may be an implication that "I know better, so you should do as I advise" or "I'm so powerful, I must be right," etc.  The basic idea, though, is that one gets another to choose, not based on their own deep sense of what they want, but for--ahem--a more transient reason.

    

How does one know what one *really* desires?