Are You Sure It Is Your Choice? | How to Distinguish Freedom from Dependence

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDependencyFreedomSpiritual development and the spiritual pathKarma, free will, and causalityHabit

What is said here

• 00:00When we talk about addiction and dependence, we usually think of alcohol, cigarettes, social media, or habits a person cannot give up. But are those the only forms of dependence? Can someone…Freedom · Dependency · Health, rest, and lifestyle
• 06:55Four thousand years ago in Egypt, if someone felt anxious, they would not say their mother was to blame. They knew they had past spiritual lives, and…Spirit
• 08:51Death is also necessary for the spiritual system to recover. Without illness or death, a human being, as a spiritual being, would be completely…Spirit · Health · Death
• 14:23The very division of people is itself a powerful form of dependence. Which binds a person more: their perception of other nationalities, people with different skin colors and different physical…Dependency · Health, rest, and lifestyle · United States
• 19:08Or is it a form of dependence when someone does not hear the world and wears leggings every day? Is that dependence, or is it independence? Look at how modern society describes it. Society…Habit · Dependency · Freedom
• 23:53Why did this condition of dependence arise? Why did they fall into it? Are there things a person can avoid falling into? All people today die. People have been dying…Death · Dependency · Spirit
• 25:43From the perspective of the spiritual system, your spiritual being has a tremendous attachment after death: it wants to return to a physical body, but that body is gone. Because of…Spirit · The human spiritual system · Karma, free will, and causality
• 27:31The forces of light may smile at it too, at this lack of development, this dull idea. Following this line of thought can, in relation to your particular dependencies, your…Awareness, observation, and perception · Children · Cause and effect
• 30:31What is more, it is simply an action. As I tell everyone, a person can fulfill their karma while working behind the counter in a café or running a company. Either…Karma, free will, and causality · Karma · Dependency
• 32:25There is your social phenomenon. What a person is most dependent on is misinterpreting events like these and acting wrongly in response. That often binds them much more than…Freedom · Dependency · Health, rest, and lifestyle

Claims made here

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• 02:52

  Again, four thousand years ago, a person did not think, "If I have a particular habit, other people created that habit in me."

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• 03:50

  My sister came to visit me in the States, and while we were driving we discussed how important help from different people can sometimes be.

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• 03:50

  That deserves a separate video, but I will mention it here.

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• 05:57

  They will begin recommending meditation, for example, because you are probably very stressed.

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• 06:55

  Those past lives contained reasons why they might feel a certain way.

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• 14:23

  I was recently in Europe with friends, and when referring to people from other countries they used words you cannot use in America.

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• 15:13

  You cannot say all of them are fashionably dressed, but there are many fashionably dressed people among them.

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• 17:06

  You could put it that way: being fashionable is one category, stylish is another, and this is a whole mix.

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• 21:58

  I keep saying that we need to study these energies, but we must all understand that this is energy that creates itself.

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• 28:34

  That evening we learned he had gone to the house next door, to a woman in her eighties, and said, "Would you buy a drawing from me, for whatever price you like? Buy any drawing."

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