Western culture is undergoing yet another transition in terms of its Story of meaning making. In response to the loss of a cultural Story, we are each required to discern our own internal source for meaning and belonging. 

To be human is to give meaning to life through a particular Story about how the world came into existence and our place of belonging within it. For the past sixteen years or so I have walked between lands, in that I have lived between Stories of meaning. Now I have come to a resting place. Now I inhabit a new land.

The philosopher Ken Wilber has argued that we are living in a time in history when all of the world's cultures are available to us. The availability of the world's cultures has given rise to an information overload of seemingly competing spiritual practices and belief systems to draw from. We truly are living in a spiritually expansive world. In terms of discerning authentic Self, how do we choose what to adopt and what to let pass by?

What can one do with the question of free will when so much has already been written about it? Why add to the endless speculations on the topic? I chose to write this paper in response to a conversation on free will which gave rise to the following question for me: "I do not think in terms of free will. I think in terms of authenticity. I wonder why that is?" This paper offer my response to that question.