Maybe the thing that puts these two apart is that in the common sense, freedom is generally considered as something personal. For example, the freedom to choose on which island I'll go on vacation. My guess about the future stage is that we more or less grasp the general trend of development, yet this doesn't in itself do the work that has to be done through our Earth-level selves. For example, through higher cognition we may find out that the water level in the room is rising and soon will reach the ceiling. Then we have to utilize our freedom to find the creative solutions to the situation. Just like any engineering task, there might not be one best solution. For example, if we have to build a bridge, there are various possible designs. Yet once we start building one, we have made a creative choice and will have to live with all its further consequences.Federica wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 8:12 pm I get your point, that, if we intend freedom in the common sense of having a variety of alternative courses of action to choose from, then evolution to higher stages may seem to imply a loss of freedom. Then I don't understand your conclusion on what freedom beyond earthly life could be made of:
My guess is that freedom at that stage will be connected with the fact that within the volume of potential which would result in a healthy unfoldment, there are nevertheless very many different possibilities which could be mutually exclusive and there's no 'right' or 'best' (besides following the general attractor). Thus a spiritual being still makes creative choices and pursues some direction.
because you still seem to refer to the common idea of freedom (many possibilities to choose from in the volume of potential)?
So I think that in the future, human beings will be more aware of the general direction of world development and freedom will consist in the creative freedom to find the solutions for that development. Maybe this is a good way to think about it: world development is not something that we can simply let go and allow it to manifest through us. Instead, it faces us as a Cosmic riddle. We understand it's general 'geometry', we have some idea where things should go but in a way that world development has to be created by us (at least the part that we're responsible for). This is so even in our personal meditation. Because of our sensory habits it's very natural to imagine that to see the spiritual world is like seeing in some space that other beings look into too and that we all see the same thing. Then we may say for example "I want to see the Jupiter and Venus conditions too." But, I hope this won't be misunderstood, in a certain sense we have to invent the spiritual world. What we'll experience in the spiritual world is not some spiritual tables and chairs that every being perceives in the same way and we're just the next one who has laid their sight on them. Instead, we encounter an experience that no other being has ever experienced in the exactly same way. Not only that but even our consecutive visits in higher consciousness are never the same. For this reason it's actually detrimental if we meditate with the intent "to experience that thing which I experienced last time". This may indeed happen but it will not be exactly the same. The planets have moved a little, it's not the same world anymore and everything has its significance in the higher worlds.
I'm sorry that I'll give the following example but it might be relatable to some. Those who have experience with cannabis might know (depending on how much introspection they have thrown into it) that the experience doesn't force itself in the same way in which, for example, alcohol does. That's also the reason why some people don't feel any effect in their first attempts. In a certain sense we have to invent the 'high' state. We need to learn to be high. We have to allow ourselves to grow into a new version of our ego - our 'high' ego. The greater our imagination about what that high ego can do and experience, the more the experience unfolds in new and unfamiliar territories. The downside of course is that this high ego can never be truly free because it depends on certain entanglement with the bodily complex and its interaction with plant substances (which are of course all elemental spiritual beings). But other than that, in our spiritual development we also have to continually discover new and unfamiliar aspects of the ego. We have to invent our way to the higher being. This of course doesn't mean that we single handedly do that. It's still an interaction, it's inspiration, it's a gift through grace, yet when it happens it's like the ego invents/discovers new 'feelers' through which it grows in unfamiliar territories.