PART 4

Freedom and Free Will

It's because we are so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs that everybody else has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap.  Anything we want, we're trained to want."  [my emphasis]......Chuck Palahnniuk

Between two clouds there is an interval and that interval is the sky.  Between our thoughts there is also an interval and that is our own Consciousness, a consciousness that never sleeps.  By giving more value to the intervals than the thoughts we can slow down the thoughts, let our attention rest in the intervals and discover our Freedom.

Within the world of thought and the world of form that thoughts picture, there appears to be billions of choices we could make, but what we see as choice is an illusion.  Is it really a choice when our minds appear to tell us what to think and do?  This is not freedom but entrapment.  Freedom comes from turning our attention to the Presence that is aware of all our wayward thoughts (as we just did in the experiment) and follow that instead..... to do this is to follow our own Free Will.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed.  It feels an impulsion...... this is the place to go now.  But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons"........Richard Bach.