Does choosing chocolate ice cream after a heartbreak count as a free decision — or is your biology running the show? In this episode, we wrestle with the slippery line between free will and agency, exploring how our bodies, lineages, and the living world around us co-create every move we make. Through a surprising paradox — how total surrender of free will leads to rediscovering it — we arrive at a question even bigger than where we started: not whether we make decisions, but who within us is making them.

📍Chapters

00:00 — Intro 

1:15 — Welcome and episode context 

5:05 — Metaphor game: what does free will feel like? 

10:13 — Metaphor game: what does no free will feel like? 

16:05 — What frameworks shape your view of free will? 

19:15 — Yulia's framework: free will vs agency 

33:53 — Polina's framework: a pointless question? 

36:05 — The best decisions aren't decisions 

42:17 — Polina's story: being decided on 

49:44 — The soul's place in the web of life

52:53 — Irina's frameworks: Human Design meets magic school 

1:00:29 — Different levels of free will

1:08:23 — Is free will a modern invention? 

1:11:33 — But are we making decisions or not? 

1:21:29 — The real question: who is the "I" that decides? 

1:25:08 — Are we happy not having free will? 

1:32:02 — Where did we each show up today?

1:34:40 — Outro

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* Life in Flow Podcast

* Yulia Bogdanova

* Polina Khodova

* Irina Mishina

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Music “Echolocation” by airtone, source: CcMixter

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