Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about free will versus determinism.

And we're going to answer the age-old question, does free will has been one that I've wanted to delay and not cover quite yet, but we've reached the point where it's necessary.

It's necessary now because we're getting to deep territory with actualized.org. We've covered a lot of stuff about

Enlightenment. We've talked about meditation. We've talked about mindfulness. We've talked about

consciousness and raising awareness. So if you start to actually listen to these ideas and

actually start taking action, start meditating, start doing some self-inquiry work

perhaps, then inevitably this question of free will will come up for you because we're questioning the very

essence of your being we're questioning whether you as an ego even exist or not

so this issue comes up and it's a really confusing and tricky

issues so I want to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions that happen here.

Please listen to the entire episode in its entirety,

because if you don't, if you only listen to half of it,

what will happen is you'll hear some crazy and radical

and perhaps mind-blowing ideas about free will, and then what will happen is that you'll have a lot of misinterpretation of what I say.

You'll misinterpret the facts, and you'll think that this means something negative or problematic in your life

and then you'll get depressed and bummed out and you'll basically screw your whole life up.

So we don't want that to happen so listen to everything I say here. I'm going to cover many questions that people have and many misconceptions that people have.

Now let's set the foundation for this discussion which really goes back thousands of years. It's a philosophical debate

that's been raging for thousands of years ever since antiquity, since the Greeks and Romans

2,000 years ago. And this is the free will versus determinism debate.

So basically what it means is you have two sides to the debate and one side says that the whole

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