Free will is an illusion

We are a deeply, deeply mutative species. It’s so obvious when you look at the individual circuits in the bodygraph. That’s life; that’s where evolution happens; it’s a mutative process. It’s not predetermined in the sense that you can exactly foresee what is going to be. There is a direction and a movement we have been moving from the beginning. And as we move we mutate. So things are always ready to change.

But when we talk about free will there is something important to distinguish: will as energy, which is delivered by our heart centre - and the philosophical concept of free will. Will is a powerful energy coming out of the heart centre and free will is a myth. Human beings in their great vanity think that they have a free will. They have not, because everything that we think, say or do is initiated in the deep grey areas of the brain, one half second before we are consciously aware of it in our neo cortex.

Free will is an illusion. We are not creative but reactive. Free will implies that we control our process but we do not. Human beings are here to manifest consciousness in form, but they have no control over any of this.

In our ability to be transcendent, in terms of level of consciousness, lies our deep vanity, a vanity that assumes that we are not just like that, but we are in control. Just because we can think and just because we can dream does not mean that we choose. This is one of the things that you have to come to grips with, because if you do not come to grips with “no choice,” you are never going to be surrendered. There is nothing that we are in charge of, nothing.

The expression "free will" is a contradiction in itself, because will-power is always directed towards a goal. Thus it can never be free. It has to be related to a thing that you want to have or achieve. We are the passenger, not the driver. Let go of the steering and enjoy the ride.

- Ra Uru Hu