So science has proven, in several ways, that what we consider our free will, is really our illusion of free will. More than we realize and more than we are willing to admit, we are just very complex machines. If the possibility of free will exists in us, it is asleep. We would have to find a way to break free of our mechanicalness to experience such a potential.

In this state of mechanicalness, it also follows that our ideas of purpose in life, goals in life, our value system, what we like and dislike – all of it is not due to our choices. It is all just happening on its own.

I realize most of humanity is content with the illusion of free choice – they choose to believe in free choice regardless of the evidence against it.

For those of us that realize the free choice illusion, we have an existential dilemma. That is, is there anything about us that has the potential to go beyond mechanicalness? Is there any evidence to suggest such a possibility? Because if there is not any possibility, there is no freedom and there is no high reason for any pursuit at all.

An answer to this quandary requires a radical shift of identity. It requires giving up the equally illusory idea of a separate self. It never did exist and it never can. Absolutely everything about us is part of the connected whole. And with this new understanding, we have access to all the mysteries and laws of how the universe is unfolding in us and around us. Our greatest limitation in participating in this “only game in town”, is our ability to let go of all the old patterns and ideas and behaviors of that illusory separate self and replace them with a mind and emotions in attunement with actual reality.

The shift takes effort. A daily, hourly struggle of forgetting and remembering. But it is the doorway to a life we previously could not even imagine.