Wow. I'm amazed by your clarity and articulation with freedom, which I've always experienced as an abstract, complex term. You break it down so well here in ways that helps me understand what freedom really means in a society like ours.

I also feel like freedom is a deeply embodied experience as opposed to a material goal. Yes, we may push for policies, laws, and structures that support individual and collective freedom. Yet if freedom is a natural state of being, it has to be felt through our body as well. Every time I've felt a sense of individual freedom, my body and feeling states were involved whether it was through joy, grief, rage, moving through fear. Many of society's dysfunction comes from the collective disconnection from body intelligence and knowing.

Reminds me of Prentis Hemphill's work on Choosing Belonging:

What good is freedom if we don't feel it? Fear wants to cast a really wide blanket over everything, it wants to have us withdraw, protect, and I think that embodiment helps us ask the questions where we didn't think questions were possible. This doesn't mean we feel good all the time. It just means that we feel our lives as they are, and we have enough space to do that.
Recovering the capacity to feel, for me, it's been a kind of thawing, I think, in a lot of ways I was taught that I couldn't feel, it wasn't time to feel, it was inappropriate or dangerous to feel, or honestly impossible to feel everything that I might feel if I opened myself up to it. And so for me, it's been a journey of getting curious about myself, you know, I feel my freest when I can be present.