How Free is your Free Will?

"YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY."

The reality of free will--that we are functioning creators, making decisions and creating our world moment by moment--has become a fundamental touchstone for many of us. But also now and then THE paradox arises. If indeed All past, present, and future experiences and manifestations are contained within the creator in the ever present NOW moment, then how are we really creating anything new?  Are we really creators if it has all been created?

It certainly appears, in our earthly lives, that we have free will--we do not consciously know the outcome of our actions. And without the knowledge and recognition of a higher self--of an eternal beingness--we certainly seem to be left to our own finite, limited devices. Our decision making is based more often on our base survival instincts, our evolution seemingly Darwinian in nature and our lives simply an effort to provide security and comfort for ourselves and our families. In this scenario that we know all too well, our free will is not so free, and bound to the appearance of lack within ourselves dictated by something outside of ourselves.

Yes, we have free will, but only fully if we have made conscious what is unconscious. Otherwise our free will operates out of the hidden content and we are wondering why certain things are happening to us, things we consciously didn’t want to happen. Ute Posegga-Rudel

So yes we are free to operate on whatever level of consciousness we choose. And certainly we have played out a multitude of scenarios through the course of our existences in the hopes of evolving spiritually. Evolution implies a movement from one state to another via choices and experiences. Using our free will we navigate though life consciously or unconsciously tracing our own unique pattern of beingness on the walls of existence. Whether we are slow learners or savants, it is all ok--it is all accepted-- it is all ultimately useful.

Spiritual evolution implies there is an actual spirit to evolve. And this spirit IS US, in and out of physicality, though it seems we have forgotten this greater aspect of ourselves. We are left with hints--the little impulses of inspiration that help guide us in a useful direction--the intuitive knowing that we sometimes recognize--the gut feelings--are our slivers of aware connection with our larger essence.When we are guided by the higher aspect of ourselves--that which holds all of our experiences within its awareness--that knows what has been lived and what is likely to be lived--we experience a whole different kind of Free Will. 

It is like having a few of the answers to the exam while you are taking the test. The more in tune you are to your higher self, the easier the test becomes. We all have a higher knowing--how high depends on the spiritual state we have attained over the course of our existence. Ultimately we are evolving back to our beginning state as pure consciousness or beingness. In this pure state All is known, All experience is contained, and Will does not exist (or so I imagine). I guess this is that Paradox that lies beneath everything.

So I surmise that the reason We Are Here Now is to free our free will from the hidden content--to take the creative reins--to more consciously determine how our lives should be lived, and how our world should appear. Since we are all doing this together, perhaps the more correct statement is "YOU CO-CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY."