
Mistaken Belief In Freedom
We are born with an inherent, stubborn belief in freedom. We all think that at least to a certain extent we make decisions on our own, that at least to a certain extent we can influence our fate.
Even people who believe in concepts like karma make seemingly independent decisions on a day to day basis, as if predetermined fate wouldn’t apply to them.
But in truth by default we have absolutely no freedom at all. We live in concealment, we are unaware of the intricate cause and effect processes, instinctive and hormonal processes driving us. This is why it seems to us as if we made independent, free decisions.
But under the surface, like behind the screen of a computer, those intricate, so far hidden cause and effect processes – that are fully predetermined – guide and dictate everything we think, desire, do.
Even superficially we can see that an individual’s life is “set in stone” by the combination of genetic inheritance, upbringing, education and environmental influence. For an adult the only variable remaining is the environment one “chooses”. But in truth even this choice is “locked in”.
The Freedom Of Paradox
Still without true freedom human life simply doesn’t make sense. Other animals instinctively obey nature’s fundamental laws. They automatically integrate into nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system. They blindly obey the laws of “mutual guarantee”, actively sustaining the life giving balance and homeostasis of the system, primarily making calculations for the whole collective above individual calculations.
Human beings on one hand are outside of this intricate system, not belonging to “mutual guarantee”. But we also have a unique, inquisitive, critical mind, that is constantly asking questions, inquires about the system we exist in. Most of all after a certain point this mind pops the question about the “meaning of life”. And this “meaning” makes absolutely no sense without freedom of choice.
The solution to this “senseless state” is a true paradox that is incomprehensible first: indeed we do not have any true, personal freedom and we will never have true, personal freedom, still we can acquire the greatest possible freedom in reality.
Limited, Subjective Vision
The vast, cosmic, natural Universe we exist in is utterly perfect. And it is unchanging, after all something that is perfect needs no change. But we are unable to perceive this perfection since our inherent perception of reality is very limited.
We observe everything from within our instinctively selfish, egocentric nature, that operates an introverted, subjective perception. Thus we observe a very small, distorted picture of the world, only that part that is useful for our own self-centered day to day survival based on the “pleasure/pain principle”.
And as we discussed above, while our observer stays within the egoistic, subjective cocoon there exists no freedom, but everything is predetermined, completely governed by hidden cause and effect processes overseen by our artistic software. Only by moving the observer point outside of the inherently self-centered, self-obsessed, subjective coordinates can we start observing reality objectively, without distortions.
Choosing The Right Environment
Instead of looking at reality from our egoistic, subjective point of view, constantly enslaved by self-concern, self-protection, distrust in everything and everybody surrounding us, we need to start observing reality from an external, “out of body” point of view.
To achieve such a revolutionary change in perception we need to enter a unique environment, a purposeful “human laboratory”. As we mentioned above in an otherwise fully predetermined life one’s only, limited, partial free choice is in choosing one’s environment. We also said that through all other factors even this choice is completely predetermined.
When the question about the “meaning of life” awakens – through the command of nature’s evolutionary plan forcing us to turn towards our Human purpose – by searching for answers people sooner or later find this unique environment.
Our limited but truly free choice is found only at this point: what do we do when we find, enter this “Human laboratory”? Do we stay, do we accept its rules? Do we sign and sustain the unique “covenant”, personal obligation towards the group assembled there to pursue the common goal above and despite all obstacles, difficulties confronting them through the path?
If we do so then the unique method and the natural force hidden in the “laboratory” – purposefully harnessed by the practical method – can facilitate the participants to gradually move out of their inherently egocentric and subjective cocoons and start observing reality through the eyes of all the others while nullifying their own thoughts, desires, vision.
Gaining Absolute Freedom
The main point is not the perception they gain from those others. The main point is losing the filtering, distortion resulting from the inherent, egoistic viewpoint. It is by cutting the selfish, egoistic anchors, removing the subjective filters that we gain a new perception.
And it is through this new, selfless, undistorted, objective perception we gain in the laboratory that helps us acquire the unprecedented, unlimited freedom. We become complement free from self-concern, self-protection. Through the generated mutual trust, mutual guarantee gained in the “laboratory” one simply forgets about, abandons existing for oneself.
This allows a new consciousness, perception to develop that is above the subjective constraints of time, space and physical motion, which coordinates are only useful for an egoistic, introverted, self-serving existence but are obsolete for a selfless life experienced through others.
And this new point of view, perception gives access to the unlimited freedom only accessible to human beings. We change our personal enslavement by the selfish ego to the absolute freedom of nature’s singular, creating force.
Liberated from the inherently egocentric, subjective constraints we are allowed to view reality from the point of view of its source. We understand its evolutionary plan, seeing all cause and effect processes and we fully attain our own unique role in the system.
As we become similar in qualities to our source – selfless, altruistic love and bestowal, existing for the sake of others – we become “partners in creation”, the greatest ever freedom in reality.