I am going to quote from my book, Notes Towards A New Age, Vol. 1, from the bottom of Page 54: I do not believe free will is reality. That does not mean I endorse the of the majority non-free will. Quite the contrary: I am for people handling their own affairs. They just need to come to live enough to care enough to crave being free to will and then willing it to be so.”
My response: I do not intend to emit the idea that free will is not reality. Free will is an innate idea or attribute which is part of the essential nature of all humans. Free will is a reality, but only at a very primitive level of development or consciousness in people that remain groupist, nonindividuating, of stagnant, stunted consciousness.
Where most people group-live and maverize not, the bulk of their wills remain unfree, as they are controlled by external forces, not beyond their control, but because they have chosen to be controlled by external persons or forces.
Thus, free will is not much of a social reality, but things need not be that way, and should not. As people develop their talents and selfhood, they are coming to life, growing their intellect and consciousness, then their potential, but actual free will is self-liberated, and they will to be free, alert and creatively ambitious.
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