Is free will an illusion? If so, then who is making choices and decisions?

Rupert explains that choices arise in infinite awareness and are made of infinite awareness. It is a thought that attributes that choice to an apparently separate self. But it is not the ego that is doing the thinking — the ego is imagined with that thought.

The one that is doing the thinking is the only one that is — infinite awareness. Is it just spontaneously having these thoughts? Yes and no, it is not completely spontaneous because there is a pattern to your mind. So although the source of your thinking is completely free, nevertheless that freedom is channelled through a conditioned collection of thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions.

It is also quite possible that infinite awareness may appear in your mind in a form that is not conditioned by previous conditioning. It is the intervention of a greater intelligence into our finite mind, which is not simply an extension of the past. That is what's called inspiration.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Is Free Will An Illusion?
0:57 Thought Says Awareness Is Limited
1:55 Who Is Choosing?
2:38 The Ego Is Imagined
3:23 Conditioned Thought
3:52 Free Thinking
4:41 What Is Inspiration?
5:48 Making Inspired Choices
7:11 Inspired Action

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