Existentialism Is A Misnomer

Existentialism: a philosophical theory which emphasises the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

The misunderstanding here is that it makes us believe we have free will in our own development, when we are actually puppets to others’ ideas. Existentialism is an illusion promoted by pseudo-intellectuals who think but do not look, and so cannot see.

What is free will?
Is it the mind or consciousness? 

Exist: from Latin exsistere ‘to come into being’. 
What comes into being?
A consciousness governed by emotions of pride, hope and fear…

Our true reality, which is pure consciousness, has the potential of free will only when consciousness realises its true reality, and is no longer governed by others’ thoughts.

It is consciousness that observes the plotting in the mind.