Actualism, the Wide and Wondrous Path to Actual Freedom

Actual Freedom

peace
happiness
malice and sorrow

Peter: The human search for freedom has been a search for freedom from the rigid shackles of one’s instilled social identity and the search for peace and happiness has been a search for a means of finally bringing an end to both personal and global malice and sorrow.

Human Condition

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reality
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spiritual science
morals and ethics
male and female

The Human Condition is a common term for the situation that all human beings find themselves in when they emerge as babies. The Human Condition is that set of beliefs, conditionings and instinctual passions that form the habitual and neuro-biological program by which human beings currently operate and have done so, with few significant changes, ever since the emergence of the species.

The Human Condition can be likened to the ‘rules of the game’, defining the parameters and limits of what it is to be a human being that have been established, and embellished, over thousands of years. These rules ‘set in concrete’ both our instinctually-based behaviour patterns as well as the beliefs, morals and ethics that have been passed on from those who were here before us. Thus the gender, family, tribal, spiritual and world views, concepts and attitudes of each and every newly-born human is, without exception pre-established at birth.

The Human Condition is deemed to be a fixed condition, so much so that it is a universally accepted belief that ‘you can’t change human nature’.

Spiritual world

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faith and trust
intuition
life after death
meta-physical
psyche
soul and truth
superstition
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The traditional spiritual solutions

The shamans and priests have commandeered this innate search with the promise of an ultimate peace and happiness in a mythical ‘life-after-death’ should one bow down to and worship a particular God and follow a particular teaching. This seductive promise of immortality for one’s ‘self’ or soul is a powerful lure that is passionately fuelled by the basic fear that underlies the innate survival instinct – the fear of death. The Eastern religions further add the possibility of becoming a God-man whilst on earth – a position of ultimate power and authority over others that is irresistibly appealing for many – and the resulting enslavery inherent in the master-disciple system is the very antithesis of freedom.

Extolling these primitive superstitions and beliefs as great wisdom or even the ‘Truth’ is to actively deny that it is the instinctual passions – both the revered Good and the repressed Bad – that are the root cause of human malice and sorrow. Indulging in the practice of denial and the belief of transcendence only serves to prevent one from undertaking the common sense investigation that can bring an irrevocable end to one’s personal malice and sorrow.

Actualism
Actualist

The modern scientific empirical discoveries of neuro-biology and genetics, with regard to the human brain and how it functions, have revealed two very fascinating aspects –

Self-immolation

Given that the instinctual animal ‘self’ in humans has morphed into a sophisticated and cunning psychological and psychic identity that appears to live within the flesh and blood body, it is obvious that the instinctual animal passions can only be eradicated by eliminating both the psychological ‘self’ and the instinctual ‘self’.

The elimination of one’s ‘self’ needs to be total – both ‘who’ you think you are as a social identity and ‘who’ blind nature has programmed you to instinctively feel you are … in spiritual terms, both the ‘ego’ and the ‘soul’. The good news is that with the extinction of who you think and feel you are what you are will emerge – a flesh and blood human being, free of malice and sorrow and free of any metaphysical delusions whatsoever.

Pure Consciousness
Experience

Pure intent / honesty

Everybody has had a PCE sometime in their life where, for a brief period, one magically finds oneself in a ‘self’-less state of sensate-only experiencing and the perfection and purity of the actual world – the fairy-tale like physical universe – becomes stunningly and sensuously apparent.

For an actualist, the pure consciousness experience becomes one’s guiding light and to live that pure experience 24 hrs. a day, every day, becomes one’s unambiguous pure intent. Pure intent is the unequivocal intention to devote one’s life to being the best one can be – to completely and actually eradicate malice and sorrow from one’s life.

Naiveté

Abandoning these cynical ‘real world’ and ‘spiritual world’ beliefs about human existence is essential if one is to even consider becoming free of the Human Condition. In order to begin the process of changing human nature in oneself, one needs to re-activate and cultivate one’s innate naiveté – the closest one can get to innocence while still remaining a ‘self’.

As is evident from the PCE, the only way to evince genuine peace and harmony with one’s fellow human beings is to have no ‘self’ at all – no ‘me’ who feels offended, or who instinctually feels the need to fight with others. To become actually innocent, actually free of all feelings of malice and sorrow, is the key to both finding personal peace and happiness and to be able to live in peace and harmony with one’s fellow human beings.

An Actualist’s guide

Judgement
Thought / Feelings

The key to freedom from the Human Condition is the unique capacity of the human brain to be aware of its own functioning. Human beings are thus capable of being aware of both what they are thinking and what they are feeling – feelings being ‘my’ emotional-mental interpretation of the instinctual passions in operation. This ability is commonly known as self-awareness. An ongoing attentiveness needs to be actively cultivated and then persistently practiced in order to ensure success.

How to Become Free

The essential method is to undertake a total investigation into anything that is preventing one from being happy and harmless now – after all, if one’s aim is to be happy then one needs to be happy now, not at some time in the future, nor some time in the past. This moment is, after all, the only moment I can experience being happy.

The method soon presents success incrementally, as freedom from beliefs and instinctual passions is indeed a freedom that results in increased peace and harmony for oneself and in one’s relating with one’s fellow human beings. The method does bring up fear and resistance, because one is dismantling one’s very ‘self’, those very beliefs and passions one holds so dearly.

180 degrees opposite

Awareness / Delusion
Who am I – God

The vowed aim of meditation is to escape from the world, transcend the ego and ‘become’ the soul – an imaginary and delusionary shifting of one’s identity from mortal to Immortal, from animal to Divine. Whereas the whole point of the process of actualism is to be aware of, identify, investigate and eliminate both one’s social and one’s instinctual identity – both ego and soul – for both are the source of one’s malice and sorrow. The goal is to become actually happy and harmless, on earth, in this very lifetime.

An actualist’s naiveté and pure intent, firmly based on the purity and perfection evident in the Pure Consciousness Experience, will ensure that one avoids the instinctual lust for the power of feeling oneself to be God as well as the seductive lure of being worshipped as such by others.

Social identity

One’s social identity is the conglomerate of all the beliefs, morals, ethics, values, principles and psittacisms that each of us have been programmed with since birth. It is only when one has substantially eliminated or deleted this programming that one can clearly look at, and sensibly investigate, the core instinctual being hidden beneath. This is a crucial step on the path to Actual Freedom and it is both radical and iconoclastic.

A fact is obvious; it is out in the open, freely available for all to see. To believe something to be true is to accept on trust that it is so. A fact does not have to be accepted on trust – a fact is candidly so. A fact is patently true, manifestly clear. A fact is what is ascertained sensately and thus demonstrably true. If you are to become free of believing you need to rely on fact – the verifiable, objective actuality – as a touchstone to test the sensibility of whatever ‘truth’ one suspects to be a belief.

Humanity

facts / intelligence
sense

When one digs deep into one’s instinctual ‘self’ one encounters the raw unfettered instinctual passions, mainly those of fear, aggression, nurture and desire and when one does this one needs to ‘ride out the storm’ of chemical-induced fears and fantasies that are invariably stirred up. Also in the experiential  investigation of the instinctual passions one inevitably encounters the instinctual archaic ‘memory’ imprinted in the primitive brain itself, a memory that stretches back to the very beginnings of the human species itself.

However, these fascinating experiences and discoveries leave no emotional scars and soon one is back on the wide and wondrous path to actual freedom …

Virtual Freedom

The path to Actual Freedom delivers the goods – one progressively eliminates the impediments to one’s happiness and harmlessness incrementally and, as such, one has incremental success. One continually raises the bar to allow more of the perfection and purity of the actual world to become apparent and obvious in one’s life. This process, if undertaken with a sincere intent, will inevitably lead to a virtual freedom.

Virtual Freedom is available for everyone, and anyone, who has a pure intent to be happy and harmless. As the senses are freed from the clutches of the emotions and passions a veritable smorgasbord of sensual delight becomes readily apparent and one lives in a state of almost constant near-peak experience.

Self-immolation

One is then left with a final moment, to ...

Step out of the real world into this actual world ...
And leave your ‘self’ behind where ‘you’ belong ...

Actual Freedom

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Richard: ‘The day finally dawns where the definitive moment of being here, right now, conclusively arrives; something irrevocable takes place and every thing and every body and every event is different, somehow, although the same physically; something immutable occurs and every thing and every body and every event is all-of-a-sudden undeniably actual, in and of itself, as a fact; something irreversible happens and an immaculate perfection and a pristine purity permeates every thing and every body and every event; something has changed forever, although it is as if nothing has happened, except that the entire world is a magical fairytale-like playground full of incredible gladness and a delight which is never-ending.

As this flesh-and-blood body only one is this infinite, eternal, and perdurable universe experiencing itself as an apperceptive human being ... as such it is stunningly aware of its own infinitude.

And this is truly wonderful.’

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