08-25-2021, 09:17 PM
Is there real free will? There is definitely the experience of free will. I can let my breathing happen automatically and I can also make a choice to take a breath through conscious volition. That's a clear difference between an automatic process and the sense of having free will. And free will in my opinion is necessary and a high level of being. Compare it with a mechanical robot that just performs tasks automatically which clearly is a much lower state of being. The tricky thing is that there seems to be a level above free will which the nonduality teachings describe.
Is the nonduality perspective without free will consistent with the Law of One? Yes, I believe so but one has to be careful here or else there is a risk of falling down to a mechanical state below free will, also called a psychological depersonalization disorder where the person experiences reality happening as if being detached from it all. That risk of removing the sense of free will in a dysfunctional way is why I believe Ra in the Law of One always preserves the notion of free will. Notice however that Ra calls free will the first Law of Confusion. That doesn't sound like a law of clarity. In my opinion this is a way for Ra to use veiled language so that the sense of free will is preserved.
Then if the experience of having free will is so important and needs to be preserved, why would we want to abandon the experience of free will? My answer is that even though free will is a necessary stage of development, it's just an evolutionary stage, higher than that of the animal kingdom yet lower than the spiritually realized state. And the sense of having free will keeps us trapped in the belief of being totally separate which is a result of the veil and is ultimately an illusion. And because it's a false belief it produces suffering, conflict, friction and what Ra calls spiritual entropy. Therefore, our next evolutionary stage as humanity is to experience ourselves as oneness instead of as totally separate individuals. That's the true state in my opinion. The state of acting as oneness, of being One, the One Infinite Creator.
Is the nonduality perspective without free will consistent with the Law of One? Yes, I believe so but one has to be careful here or else there is a risk of falling down to a mechanical state below free will, also called a psychological depersonalization disorder where the person experiences reality happening as if being detached from it all. That risk of removing the sense of free will in a dysfunctional way is why I believe Ra in the Law of One always preserves the notion of free will. Notice however that Ra calls free will the first Law of Confusion. That doesn't sound like a law of clarity. In my opinion this is a way for Ra to use veiled language so that the sense of free will is preserved.
Then if the experience of having free will is so important and needs to be preserved, why would we want to abandon the experience of free will? My answer is that even though free will is a necessary stage of development, it's just an evolutionary stage, higher than that of the animal kingdom yet lower than the spiritually realized state. And the sense of having free will keeps us trapped in the belief of being totally separate which is a result of the veil and is ultimately an illusion. And because it's a false belief it produces suffering, conflict, friction and what Ra calls spiritual entropy. Therefore, our next evolutionary stage as humanity is to experience ourselves as oneness instead of as totally separate individuals. That's the true state in my opinion. The state of acting as oneness, of being One, the One Infinite Creator.