[mikefertynnz]

if free-will implies total freedom, unlimited choice, then the answer is an obvious no - we do not have free will. total freedom likely only comes in source itself, and even then it seems that source is not merely compelled to create, but it is the ultimate "no-thing" as well. no free will there either. and there is no amount of will that would set one outside of the one, so there is some ultimate order, some ultimate pattern which all must oblige. no amount of will can free one from unity.

do we have limited free will? absolutely. so what is that? one of the best ways i have come to understand our free will is that it is our ability to choose our own freedom/limitation factors within manifestation.

for example, perhaps i want to be a total hippie, bang my bongos on the beach all day, bong my bhang, and beach all my ambition. freedom! huzzah! and the obvious limitations are you don't know when and where you'll get your next hot shower. people can't reach you to involve you in exciting social events because you don't have a phone. [off-color though funny remark removed-pm leo to ask about it]

instead one may draw the freedom/limitation line thusly, the opposite way. the inherent limitations of maintaining a home, a phone, a social life? one rarely, if ever, gets the opportunity to properly while away their days bong-bongoing on the beach.

so, within the limitations of all of creation, whatever the localized universal rules manifest as, we have absolute will to choose where we draw the line that decides the factors of our own freedom and limitation.

mind you, this is not merely polarity, or duality. it is not just a choice between two things. it is the choice of where one places one's perception upon an infinite line, many infinite lines even. i suspect some aspect of this freedom/limitation factor continues on even into 6d, where, as i recall from the law of one, the duality of love/fear becomes reconciled. existence other than as source still must fall as a point on an infinite line, or at best as the intersecting points of a wave crossing that infinite line.

as for absolutes?...eh. even if science came up with a program or experiment to prove it absolutely, and published all the results far and wide, would that change one's experience? would it alter one's need to address and co-create their own reality? nope.

use the will you have, with love and intent, and seek the balance that affords the greatest freedom and the least limitation. that is the center where love rests, where it seems we all wish to dwell. total freedom, absolute free will, is rather intimidating actually. let's just find our center first!