Michael Newton vs Law of One

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"learning the lessons set by the higher self"? That doesn't sound like Free Will to me or maybe I'm not understanding?

If you consider that your higher self IS you, albeit more advanced/enlightened than you are now, it seems to me that Free Will is intact here. You, as your more advanced being, provide lessons that need to be learned based on what you know of yourself in the future. That future knowingness is rarely available to us as veiled 3D beings, but I would like to think that my future self (higher self) would only set lessons that would benefit me in the long run.

As far as "I just want to be me", that is your ego talking and yours appears particularly strong. It is a survival mechanism that you will shed upon the death of your physical body. You can be you, as your ego sees it, for this entire incarnation however long that will be. But, I have a feeling that once you return to the spirit world, that need to be "you" will be a distant memory. So, be "you" while you are on this planet in the here and now, enjoy it, be happy and joyful in it. There is nothing wrong with that.