Part 1 Rudolf Steiner: What Is Knowing?

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1. PATH TO FREEDOM
Do we have free will?
Most of us believe we do, at least some of the time.
If I want to write a sentence, I will my fingers to type on the keypad.

Others say we are not free, but in fact, we are controlled by hidden factors,such as genes, upbringing, culture, current situation, unconscious activity, past experiences, etc.
Our sense of freedom is an illusion.
They say the illusion of freedom occurs because we are not aware of the real reasons that determine our action.

Obviously, we are not free if we do not fully know why we act.
Freedom, then, is to know the true reasons that guide our action.
When we have full knowledge of our deed, it is ours, and we are conscious of our freedom.

But what does it mean to know the reason?
What does it mean to know anything?
The way we gain knowledge of things is by means of the process of knowing.
We can learn how we gain knowledge by studying the process of knowing.
And we can strengthen our ability to know with thought-training.
It is the deepening of the process of knowing that is the path to freedom.

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Even though we find the path of freedom by using our knowledges gained during "the deep process of knowing" which is unlimited, we cannot reach the freedom.