"I"

Institutions have brainwashed and dominated man's mind for centuries, effectively robotizing...and now science can do likewise by saying that when we come to a bridge, we cross or not according to what our genes dictate.
It ought to be said that if man has freewill...he does so only because awareness precedes DNA.
As for the unquestioned certainties of "Church"...we need to have renewed interest in the nature of a Ground of Being. First,
accepting there was a beginning, in this dimension...it seems there is "Something" rather than "Nothing" because division downward is not infinite. Second, surely the ground isn't one thing that can't divide downward beyond its wholeness. How could it divide upward? How could "twoness" and "other than", both necessities to movement, come from "oneness"?
And yet there is a base which is one thing and all things, dividing downward and upward beyond itself.
Awareness.
It can be asserted that awareness, thought, sentience is the Ground of Being.
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Of awareness...what do we share with the entirety? If the cosmos has "I" in us...how else does it have it? And can we lose ours?
Our freewill is easily trampled...but can it be destroyed altogether?