FREE WILL from Lockdown: A Multiverse Love Story

When Neeraja seeks counsel for divorce on her Facebook Yoga group, the will to separate from her love Willie is cathartic and not just a social media whim triggered by the confinement of the lockdown. Willie’s Zoom calls dressed in a blazer and boxer shorts bugs Neeraja, but there is a deeper divergence she sees with Willie. Or is it the clash of his American upbringing and her Indian one that would snowball them to crossroads in their marriage?

She believes crossroads in life are not just about ‘the road not taken’. If the multiverse hypothesis by physicists like Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, et al, has some credence, it is about all the roads that leave that crossing.

The destiny of these two intensely passionate, entangled souls is poised on the choices they make at an earlier crossroad. A free will chooses randomly each time, but what about consciousness?