06-12-2021, 10:26 PM
One idea I now got is that both the word service and the word choice can be interpreted in a certain way. What is free will? There is clearly a distinct difference between doing something by conscious volition and something that just happens to us. And the feeling of doing something by personal volition is free will.
Is there actual free will as in us being separate agents being able to alter the universe? I doubt that, but I now see a necessary purpose of free will which is that it's related to consciousness as a feedback of information for reality. Without consciousness there wouldn't even be any experience. And also, there is a huge difference between for example a zombie without consciousness, like a robot, and a human in the waking state. Otherwise a surgeon could simply inject people with a muscle-paralyzing drug and start cutting into the patient's body while he or she was paralyzed yet fully conscious. Talk about nightmarish situation.
Free will, then, is the necessary feeling of participation and control needed for intelligent feedback of information within reality. Ra talked about Love and love as two different things. I don't think one can directly choose love. Instead love is as I see it wholeness in harmony. That wholeness has to emerge in practice and is not something that can be mustered up instantly by an individual making a choice. Service on the other hand is something that one can choose. Service to self is to be narrowly focused without considering the wholeness, which makes love difficult to manifest. Service to others includes both oneself and others so that a wholeness is aimed for which promotes the manifestation of love.
Is there actual free will as in us being separate agents being able to alter the universe? I doubt that, but I now see a necessary purpose of free will which is that it's related to consciousness as a feedback of information for reality. Without consciousness there wouldn't even be any experience. And also, there is a huge difference between for example a zombie without consciousness, like a robot, and a human in the waking state. Otherwise a surgeon could simply inject people with a muscle-paralyzing drug and start cutting into the patient's body while he or she was paralyzed yet fully conscious. Talk about nightmarish situation.
Free will, then, is the necessary feeling of participation and control needed for intelligent feedback of information within reality. Ra talked about Love and love as two different things. I don't think one can directly choose love. Instead love is as I see it wholeness in harmony. That wholeness has to emerge in practice and is not something that can be mustered up instantly by an individual making a choice. Service on the other hand is something that one can choose. Service to self is to be narrowly focused without considering the wholeness, which makes love difficult to manifest. Service to others includes both oneself and others so that a wholeness is aimed for which promotes the manifestation of love.