The life of an individual, presented here as an autobiography of William Foralisworth, exemplifies the role that ‘will’ may have in the progression of consciousness as one interacts with multiple environments. Subjective experience is considered objectively, but perception is never non-subjective and its representation is limited by the linguistic keyholes through which inner content seeks passage. His anecdotes illustrate an interplay of choice and circumstance as he moved about the USA and later to Japan, Hong Kong, south-east Asia, Israel, and Europe. Marriage to a Danish woman led to domesticity in Denmark. The Introduction and afterword in Part II are reflections offered by H.W. Randall in drawing on biology, physics, psychology, and studies in consciousness to suggest that the impulse of life operates at every level of life.