 What is that free will? Because God will allow you to bring your head up against a wall, right? I mean, in the sense that when I'm talking about when I used to operate within my will, go down this track that wasn't in the flow, wasn't really listening to my intuition or was just denying all this and operating by the world system. I went all the way, you know? And in most regards, we're very, very successful. Trapping is a success that is, but very empty, lost. So is that free will that you're talking about there? The choice, I mean, is that in the sense that battle within what we think we need and what we think we want to create versus really viking off of that ego, because it was all egoic. Call it bravado. It's not really brave. It was just an appearance of operating within the world and a choice to detach from that and really go within. Because when you're talking about who is the author of me and those choices, I mean, there is the will, right? The is free will choice in that sense. Well, we have to look at those terms pretty closely, because that's one of the common sayings that you hear is, well, God created us with free will. And it's true, God did give us free will, but it's not what we think of this. So when we have will associated with choice, then that's where the distortions come in. That was one of the things that I used to wrestle with for many years. And I remember I was reading the clarification of terms and, of course, the miracles. And it said, yes, God created you with free will and that there is no free will in this world. So I was like, oh, OK, let's look at that a little closer. No free will in this world. And then it said, God's will for you is perfect happiness. That made sense. It's like, if God was going to will something for me, I want to know what it is. Perfect happiness. Ooh, I like that. Perfect happiness. And then if you put together what I just said, that there's no free will in this world, there's no perfect happiness in this world. The good news is, once we forgive the world, we can come pretty close to perfect happiness. But still, the world was like a cover or a denial of this free will, perfect happiness. So we might say that in this world, even though there's no free will, the closest approximation of that idea of free will for perfect happiness in this world that's left, what do we have left here is choice. So basically, the parameters of choice are basically whether we're going to align with our higher self, our intuitive self, the Holy Spirit in Christian terms, or whether we're going to align up with the ego, the imposter, the false self, the lie. We can line up with one or the other. And basically, every moment, that's basically the range of our choice, even though it seems like on the projected world that there are a menu of options. I can choose where I want to live. I can choose to have a partner or to be single. I can choose to live in a house or a hut or on a boat. And there seems to be a wide menu of choices in the dream world. But actually, that's part of a trick as well. Keep in mind, using its power of choice among a bunch of images that are even real in the first place was kind of a waste of choice. And a lot of us have pushed the envelope with that, OK. I've got a little band of time here between birth and death. And I can choose whatever I want. So I'm going to choose, choose, choose. And then sometimes, you were just saying there's an emptiness, like a hole in us. We think, well, I've got to get good at choosing here. Maybe I just kind of got the right configuration. How's that one? How's that one? How's that one? We tried and tried and tried to get the right configuration of the images. And the reason it's so exhausting, frustrating, at times lonely, isolating, depressing, on and on and on is because we're still trying to use choice where it doesn't really have an application. It would be like having a great tool, but not having anything worthwhile to use the tool with. You're given a shovel to dig, and you're on a concrete parking lot. And it's like, damn, the shovel is not working very well here. It doesn't have an application. And that's what happens when we take choice and we try to apply it among the images. So what he's saying, welcome. Come on in. What he says in the course is you can choose your state of mind. Any instance you have power of choice, you can choose your state of mind. You can choose the way that you look upon the world. You can choose your perception. You can choose which advisor you're going to listen to, the ego and the Holy Spirit. But that's your whole range right there. Your range is set between your higher self, your intuition, and this imposter self. And you're choosing between the higher self and the imposter self every single moment of every single day. And the range is set. Well, once you start to realize that, then you become less concerned about the pseudo choices of the world. Am I going to do this? Am I going to do that? In this world, those pseudo choices can take on immense importance. Like, do I leave or do I stay? Ooh, big time choice. Do I leave or do I stay? It doesn't matter whether it's with a relationship, a job. Some of you maybe even felt that with Kalani. Do I leave or do I stay? Or do I leave for a while and come back? But it seems to be like a big issue when actually, that's another one of those. Do I leave my old life? Yeah. Do I leave my old life? Do I reconfigure in a whole different way? Do I strip everything away? Do I go on Oprah and get a makeover? I don't know that. Yeah, exactly. I want a new life. We can't call it also view as a positive thing. I mean, we focus on the negative ones. But what about choosing happiness? What about enjoying the decisions that you have to make? What about enjoying making something beautiful? Those are choices we have to make that are part of that ego world that can be fun and joyful, which is kind of what I think is, if you can get to those choices while we're playing this game, while we're in this movie, while we're in this movie. Yeah, you mentioned the happiness choice. What it is, is the ego has invented a world where you can search for happiness in those decisions. But just like Jesus taught, seek and you shall find. Knock and the doors will be open. The ego's version of its plan of salvation is seek and do not find. So what happens is we all, of course, we try. I mean, all of us have tried those, and I tried them, and I'm sure everyone has. We try for that happiness. We think, well, I'm going to go for this. And this looks like it will make me happy. And maybe it will, in a temporary way. I mean, I think a lot of us, when we've got the job that we've dreamed of, maybe since we were a little child, we dream of a particular position. And we finally work hard at it, and we attain it. And there's like a high, there's a happiness that seems to come with that, that lasts for a while. It usually doesn't last for a long while. I mean, it lasts for some people longer than others. But there's a bit of like, OK, what's next? Kind of like, I've got to that goal. I've achieved it. But I haven't found a lasting happiness or a lasting contentment. So the reason there's no lasting contentment in the ego's plan is because the ego doesn't know what happiness is. We've heard the truth is within you, the kingdom of heaven is within you. It's just covered over by all these false concepts and pursuits. So yeah, I tell people, when people say to me, they say, I really think I can find it in the choices of this world. And it's like, well, you're free to try as many as you like. There's no one lording over you and saying, don't do that. It's like through the seeking and not finding that the mind seems to come into a state of disillusionment, like it tries it in many ways. I think that can even happen with manifesting, where you seem to use the power of your mind to manifest. But you can manifest so many different things. And you have what the world would call abundance in so many ways on its terms. And there's still this little splinter of dissatisfaction, discontent, even with all of that great manifesting. It's still there. So that's what we're saying, that just drives you even more quickly to this idea that it can't really be found in the decisions of the images or the decisions of the world. But there is a higher choice. It's available. We could call it enlightenment or self-realization, self-actualization. Abraham Maslow said when you get the survival needs met and the emotional needs, you work your way up to more like being needs. And there's this deeper choice that will satisfy. And we talked about it last night a little bit. We called it forgiveness, but not forgiveness in the typical terms, forgiving what somebody did to you or what you did to somebody else. But more just, aha, escape from a misperception. Like, whoa, I was mistaken about all of it, not just what the reaction was or what this sequence of events was or this one thing. But actually, wow, I was really mistaken about all of it. I was mistaken about the way that it was set up. We could say that would be what's behind the set up, seeing, thank God I was mistaken about the set up. So once you start to realize that the range is set between true happiness and upset, which could be sadness or anger, depression, envy, jealousy, shame, guilt, upset can take many forms. Irritation, even. The range is set between irritation and love, happiness, peace, and joy between annoyance and love, happiness, peace, and joy, that there is just two thought systems that you're dealing with and life becomes a lesson in discernment. Which advisor am I listening to? Which choice am I making right now is really what it boils down to?