Is everything for a reason?

Free love may be easy to define (a poor prostitute? ) but what about free will?

Your reality is appended to the subjective nature of your existance. That subjective nature was assigned to the ego, as its reference point for the purpose of properly directing transcendent energy through your processing systems. It was not, however, meant to be anything else. During the course of the development of consciousness, man needed to relate to all of the unknown in the universe and the ego was used as the internal reference standard. This is where the whole thing went wrong. (Or at least went off on a tangent while waiting for your level of consciousness to get to where it needed to be for you to understand and properly exploit the structures and processes that make up your being.)

Your will was exercised when your spirit and your source determined just exactly what was required for your continuing evolution. They programmed the self with all of the information and parameters that were needed so that the descent into the material plane could use the memorial aspects of the soul to register and absorb the requisite experiences. We are like an apprentice that has been assigned a task but has forgotten what his trade is. Free will is worth what it costs. What you have to do is already there to be done. How you do it is what makes the difference.

So why the heck do we "need" (ie have) the illusion of free will anyway?

As descendent energy traverses the conduit of the mind on its way to the lens of the ego, it impacts and traverses memorial psychic structures that are in place in the inframental region "inhabited" by the astral body. In fact, this is just "overflow" that impinges on the psychic conduit but it does relate to our earthly experiences so it is, for all intents and purposes, our memory. These reflective thought forms are received by and conceived of the ego as an internal dialogue that relates to the energetic process that is ongoing.

Since this reflective dialogue appears to present more than one aspect of a given energy field, there seems then to be a "choice" available to the ego as to which "side" of the dialogue should be allowed to manifest in the material plane. Obviously, astral plane memorial structures have no business re-manifesting and only because their energy is emotionally "tainted" do they achieve recognition by the ego. The ego, in its search to align and collimate the flow of energy, is supposed to use the reference material of the reactive memory along with the calculated values of the intellect to determine where the most adroit application of the transcendent energy should be.

Once it is "misaligned" by the effect of these memorial contaminants, it is too late to correct and we end up manifesting our energy in ways that have no bearing on the need or resultant well-being that was the original intention of the original energetic transmission.