I hope I'm saying this right. If you take a piece of a holograph and reproduce it, it is an exact reproduction of the whole.Could I be a holographic piece of the One? Could we all? A piece given free will to be able to experience All That Is? Is it fixed, or changeable? I humbly say I don't know. But the thought came to me,if our lives are fixed and the story already written, what's free will for? Or, is that part of the illusion, too? I like to think I'm writing my story as I go. Everything I am, everything I do and experience contributes to the whole. Everything-the good, the bad, the ugly. Or, maybe as you say, "the illusion makes it seem like uncharted territory".