Uploaded December 2009 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Employs Bhagavad Gita, thought experiments, gedanken, and examples from everyday life to demonstrate that it is impossible to be in control of what happens in your life and that concepts like sin and karma have no real validity.
This is the third and last video segment of the talk entitled "Ramana Maharshi and Einstein on Free Will" given at Science and NonDuality Conference in San Rafael, CA in October 2009. The first video is "Everything is Predetermined: Einstein and Ramana Maharshi. The second video is "Intelligent Choice is Impossible".
A new video "Predestination, Control, Free Will and the Illusion of Time" also covers this topic in a dialogue.
The blogpost "Are our lives controlled by our unconscious brain?" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2015/11/are-our-lives-controlled-by-our.html gives the latest cognitive neuroscience studies on how we are not in conscious control of our lives.
Useful links for more information:
Website: happiness-beyond-thought.com
Blog: happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/gudakesha7/videos
MP3 Downloads: happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads
Soundcloud Channel: soundcloud.com/gary_weber
Facebook: facebook.com/gary.weber.528
See happiness-beyond-thought.com/about for more links to interviews and articles and information.
Books
1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Free Scribd.com version: scribd.com/doc/113131786/Happiness-Beyond-Thought-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening
Paperback version available on amazon.com
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening
Free version: happiness-beyond-thought.com/dbt.html
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mfjAlBLyzgM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (with Rich Doyle)
New Harbinger Publications: newharbinger.com/stillness
Barnes and Noble: barnesandnoble.com
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software. Amazon paperback. Blogpost "Updating Your Brain's Software" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/03/updating-your-brains-software.html"
Panel Discussions
Science and Nonduality Conference 2013:
"Filling in the Details": youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
"What is Enlightenment?": bcove.me/q81mq5iv
Interviews
BATGAP: batgap.com/gary-weber
Bloggingheads TV: bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840
Secular Buddhist: secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
Employs Bhagavad Gita, thought experiments, gedanken, and examples from everyday life to demonstrate that it is impossible to be in control of what happens in your life and that concepts like sin and karma have no real validity.
This is the third and last video segment of the talk entitled "Ramana Maharshi and Einstein on Free Will" given at Science and NonDuality Conference in San Rafael, CA in October 2009. The first video is "Everything is Predetermined: Einstein and Ramana Maharshi. The second video is "Intelligent Choice is Impossible".
A new video "Predestination, Control, Free Will and the Illusion of Time" also covers this topic in a dialogue.
The blogpost "Are our lives controlled by our unconscious brain?" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2015/11/are-our-lives-controlled-by-our.html gives the latest cognitive neuroscience studies on how we are not in conscious control of our lives.
Useful links for more information:
Website: happiness-beyond-thought.com
Blog: happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/gudakesha7/videos
MP3 Downloads: happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads
Soundcloud Channel: soundcloud.com/gary_weber
Facebook: facebook.com/gary.weber.528
See happiness-beyond-thought.com/about for more links to interviews and articles and information.
Books
1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Free Scribd.com version: scribd.com/doc/113131786/Happiness-Beyond-Thought-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening
Paperback version available on amazon.com
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening
Free version: happiness-beyond-thought.com/dbt.html
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mfjAlBLyzgM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (with Rich Doyle)
New Harbinger Publications: newharbinger.com/stillness
Barnes and Noble: barnesandnoble.com
Amazon: Paperback & Kindle versions
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software. Amazon paperback. Blogpost "Updating Your Brain's Software" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/03/updating-your-brains-software.html"
Panel Discussions
Science and Nonduality Conference 2013:
"Filling in the Details": youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
"What is Enlightenment?": bcove.me/q81mq5iv
Interviews
BATGAP: batgap.com/gary-weber
Bloggingheads TV: bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840
Secular Buddhist: secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
