First off, I don't think we can ever know if we have free will or not.
I struggle with some of these concepts, having being brought up as a scientist and I'm used to having clear definitions of things. I however think you are muddling individual consciousness with what you describe as some sort of grand consciousness.
If I throw a ball, and myself and a friend watch it travel, neither of us can change the path of the ball by thought, and if one of us touches the ball the other will notice this. So we are still both bound by the laws of this consciousness, and our own individual consciousness can only affect the grand consciouness under these laws. So I'm not sure these circumstances are any different to a material universe.
I struggle with some of these concepts, having being brought up as a scientist and I'm used to having clear definitions of things. I however think you are muddling individual consciousness with what you describe as some sort of grand consciousness.
If I throw a ball, and myself and a friend watch it travel, neither of us can change the path of the ball by thought, and if one of us touches the ball the other will notice this. So we are still both bound by the laws of this consciousness, and our own individual consciousness can only affect the grand consciouness under these laws. So I'm not sure these circumstances are any different to a material universe.