What Is It That You Want?

I use the term “reality machine” in different ways, depending on the point I’m making. Here it covers all the ways in which we are assured by various experts and professionals that free will doesn’t exist. That’s an effective ploy. It makes existence more mechanical than ever. It makes reality more closely resemble a machine.

Freedom exists or it doesn’t. You can and do make choices or you don’t. And since you do, you are the one who stands out in front of your past and moves this way or that. You choose this road or that.

What is it that you want?

Answering that question leads you to make decisions.

What is it that you want?

Some people answer the question in terms of what they hope will descend on them like the best Xmas present ever conceived. No effort required. No work. No risk. No problem. No freedom. This is not an answer to the question.

Once you decide what you want (a decision which in itself is an exercise of freedom), things do “come to you.” Ideas pop up. All sorts of “material” shows up. Useful and good material. Even great material.

Therefore, deciding what you want is the most important exercise of freedom you can engage in.

Deciding what you want leads you to the work you will do, the highly energetic work. It leads to many other decisions you will make in freedom. It leads to a path you will decide to take. And it also leads to the spontaneous appearance of “material” that will help you on your way—material in the form of ideas, notions, images, words, visions, dreams, plans, strategies, and so on.

What do you want?

There is a kind of formula or ratio. The more people who answer that question in freedom, and with serious intent, the more healthy a society becomes. The fewer people who answer the question, the sicker a society becomes.

We all live in a space where we answer that question or we don’t. Each one of us.

Meanwhile, the machine of society hums along. The machine is friendly to those who want to abdicate.

There are many ways to abdicate. Clever ways, devious ways, complex ways.

But it doesn’t matter. The question remains.

What do you want?

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon Rappoport was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.