Our self, the inner me that I intuit, that is continuous in time, is a power. The self becomes intuitively manifest to us through our psychological structure, processes, and gestalt, through confrontation with external powers that bear upon us and inner forces that we must control.

This power we call the self has several facets. One is the ego, which coordinates and controls our mental activity. Another is the self-sentiment, which through its superordinate self-esteem goal the self actualizes our potentials. A third is the superego, which consists of the normative rules guiding the self; and other facets are the abilities and temperaments, which involve the multifold ways the self actualizes and achieves its goals.

We also have a will. The will exerts conscious control over actions, exercises choice between alternatives, applies practical reason, and brings the self to act. It is also a power, and as such, a facet of the self. The will consciously guides the person towards self-actualization and esteem.

Is the will free to choose? Most fundamentally, freedom is the power to independently generate or create actions. It is spontaneous originality. This definition strikes at the core meaning of the determinism versus free will controversy and enables us to deal directly with the question.

Then, can the will originate choices? We cannot know whether the will is so free. We can, however, argue that it is possible that an act can be determined at the level of phenomena and free at the underlying level of things-in-themselves (Section 30.2 of Chapter 7 in The Dynamic Psychological Field). It is possible for reason to be independent of natural laws and causality and to originate actions. Therefore, as a moral choice of reason let us hypothesize our freedom.

This solution to the free will question unifies both freedom and necessity, scientific laws and libertarian freedom, and entails in doing so a view of logic and time that underscores the conditionality and potentiality of our future. As a self with a will and the inexplicable gift of freedom, we can strive towards that which might be and extricate ourselves from what is.

More specifically truth is a manifold of intuition, reason, and empirical experience. Reason structures and organizes our experience, intuition provides direction, insights, and initial hypotheses.

And reality is a seamless whole where differences and dependencies shade off into each other, here physical, there mind; here potentiality, there actuality; here a field, there free will; here culture, there instincts; here ourselves, there physical nature. Whether this is in reality True we cannot know. We can treat it as provisionally true, draw out its implications in the search for inconsistencies, apply its suggestions, and pragmatically test its conclusions. Within the constraints of our empirical knowledge, we can choose to interpret reality in the light of our own values and act to achieve them.

We comprise an intentional field, which is more than the sum of its biopsychological, environmental, and sociocultural elements. These elements are given meaning for us and make our behavior intelligible as part of the field. At the center of this reality is our mentality, which is distinguished by its intellectual and creative faculties and moral capacity.

In sum, reality is given scale and perspective only by individual meanings, values, and intentions.