What is free will?

I have been contemplating the saying of "We all have free will". Generally speaking, in modern society we have tremendous amount of freedom of speech and freedom of action. This is a good thing. We are gradually coming out of cocoon of ignorance. We have gained much knowledge about science, physics, philosophy and technology. The gaining of this knowledge has greatly improved our living environment.

But if I put this phrase in the context of our true purpose of incarnation and ultimate goal in our soul achievement, this might not be what you think.

I believe the development of our souls meant to span across thousands if not millions of years. If we exercise your free will in alignment of our soul purpose, then the person is using free will for the good of his (her) soul's evolution.

For most of us, the free will is nothing more than the accumulated personality disposition of many life times biases, prejudices, habits, likes, dislikes, desires and others. We are indeed what we think and that thinking that embedded in our energy fields were carried from lifetime to lifetime. According to that accumulated energy field we are attracting the situations and life circumstances that most in synchronization with that field. Some are good and some are bad, some are beautiful and satisfying and some are challenging and unbearable. Therefore the drama of life unfolds from lifetime to lifetime.

So, the question is, are choices we made on our thoughts, speeches and actions are really so free? I think not. The choices that we made can only be intelligently free by knowing the truth of our spiritual identity. Most people simply have not been given the chance of experiencing their true self. The bottom line is ignorance. We don't know what we don't know. We are in an all around dark room, we can't see the light therefore we claim there is no light.

Our 5 senses of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting are sometimes can be our obstacle toward making sense of the invisible spiritual energy. Most of the metaphysical concept can not be scientifically verified or confirmed by our modern day instruments. I trust one day in the future, we may be able to advance our technology to devise an instrument to quantify or verify the existence of spirit. So according to the scientific community, the experience of OBE, NDE, Lucid Dream are nothing but hallucination in its finest. These are the thing that you can't explain to others and it won't make any sense unless they have direct personal experience.