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A précis of the method of
Actualism
with relevant links to the glossary
for further explanation
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Please note that this précis below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’
lived in a pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Actual Freedom
peace
happiness
malice and sorrow
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The search for freedom, peace and happiness ...
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.
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Human
Condition
beliefs and facts
social identity
instinctual passions
evolution
life and death
reality
common knowledge
spiritual science
morals and ethics
male and female
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The Human Condition
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’.
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Spiritual
world
Religions
Altered State of
Consciousness
Spiritual teachers
calenture
delusion
dissociation
authority
Ancient Wisdom
denial
eternity
faith and trust
intuition
life after death
meta-physical
psyche
soul and truth
superstition
therapy
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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.
The Eastern religious fervour for worshipping mortal men and women as immortal Gods is
an affront to intelligence that does nothing but perpetuate human misery, suffering and enslavement to ancient fears and
ignorance. Any chance of an actual peace on earth is readily and eagerly forfeited for an imaginary peace after physical death …
or, for the rare few, the chance to feel like God-on-earth.
In addition, Eastern spiritual belief has it that human existence on earth is a
‘necessary suffering’ and that ultimate peace and fulfillment lies ‘elsewhere’, after death. With this belief that all
this suffering is necessary to human existence firmly habituated on the planet it is no wonder that human suffering and resentment
continue to flourish.
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.
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Actualism
Actualist
Science
views of brain function
facts / body
Instinctual passions
fear / aggression
nurture / desire
need to belong
Social identity
morals and ethics
beliefs and emotions
Self
ego and soul
‘I’ and being
imagination / psyche
who am I
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It is actually possible to change human nature ...
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 –
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That the brain is programmable in the same way a computer is
programmable. The program is formed by physical connections or pathways between neurons, and this program is mostly formed after
birth. These pathways (synapse) are also capable of being changed at any time. The old connection simply ‘dies’ for lack of
use and a new one is formed.
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That the human brain is also pre-programmed, via a genetic code,
with a set of base or instinctual operating functions, located in the primitive brain system which causes automatic thoughtless
passionate reactions, primarily those of fear, aggression, nurture and desire, to be transmitted via chemical messages to various
parts of the body including the neo-cortex. Physiological alterations that could eliminate this crude programming, as a biological
adaptation to changed circumstances, are well documented within the animal species.
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The first discovery accords with the practical experience of
being able to radically change one’s social identity – the program instilled since birth that consists of the morals, ethics,
values and psittacisms that make up our social identity. A psychological identity that is malleable to radical change can be
susceptible to total elimination.
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The second discovery accords with the practical experience of eliminating one’s
innate ‘being’ – the emotive source of the instinctual survival passions of fear, aggression, nurture and desire. The
instinctual passions are automatic and psychic in nature, genetically encoded in the primitive or reptilian brain and ‘felt’
in the body due to the resulting chemical surges. This blind and senseless survival program can now be safely deleted for the
human species has not only survived … it is now beginning to flourish.
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Self-immolation
identity / self
death
body/ consciousness
what am I / actual
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‘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.
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Pure Consciousness
Experience
ASC versus PCE
actual
sensuous
sensation
Pure intent / honesty
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The pure consciousness experience ...
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.
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Naiveté
innocence
serendipity
Human Condition
environmentalism
humanity
People
peace and harmony
living together, intimacy
happy and harmless
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Naiveté ... Peace and harmony ...
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’.
Many people who have had PCEs are subsequently moved to do something about the Human
Condition on the planet and then set about attempting to change others, their partners or ‘society’ at large. What they
forget, or ignore, is the fact that they have only briefly experienced this state of personal freedom from malice and sorrow when
they themselves were in a ‘self’-less state – in short that the problem is ‘me’ and my passions and not ‘others’ and
their passions.
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.
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An Actualist’s guide
‘Self’-awareness
Judgement
Thought / Feelings
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The method of becoming free of malice and sorrow ...
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.
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How to Become
Free
Happy and Harmless
Here / Now
Affective Feelings
anger and malice
authority
beauty / compassion
denial / doubt
evil / hope
humility
love and trust
pride and guilt
sorrow
People
Fear
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‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’
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.
It is vital to explore and investigate the affective feelings and emotions that arise
from the instinctual animal passions – both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ – for the secret to being actually free of
malice and sorrow lies in this very exploration. It is essential to understand and fully comprehend that one’s feelings and
emotions are part and parcel of the Human Condition and not a personal fault, failure, stigma or ‘evil’. Fear, aggression,
nurture and desire are innate passions that every human being is programmed with by blind nature.
There is a third alternative in investigating affective feelings, emotions and
instinctual passions and it involves neither repressing nor expressing – the traditional either/or approach. This alternative
approach requires breaking the habit of either expressing or repressing feelings, emotions and passions. Clearly seeing what one
is doing to others by expressing, or attempting to suppress, anger is surely sufficient to stop if one’s intent is to become
harmless. This observing and investigating – neither suppressing or expressing – has the added advantage of both getting men
fully into their feelings for the first time in their life and getting women to examine their feelings, one by one, instead of
being run by a basketful of them all at once.
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.
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180 degrees
opposite
Contemplation
Intelligence
Common Sense
Judgement
Meditation
Awareness / Delusion
Who am I – God
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Contemplation, not meditation ...
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.
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Social
identity
belief
dreams
faith and trust
feeling
imagination / intuition
logic
materialism
male and female
morals and ethics
psyche / reality
religion / sex
spiritual / truth
fact
common sense
judgement
intelligence
rationality
sensate and sensible
thought
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Disempowering one’s 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.
The elimination of one’s social identity requires the replacement of society’s
moral and ethical arbitrary judgments of good and bad and right and wrong with an open-eyed evaluation and intelligent assessment
based on what is sensible and what is silly. This step can only be undertaken with the pure intent gleaned from the Pure
Consciousness Experience – an experience of the purity, perfection and innate benign disposition evident in a ‘self’-less
state. This gives one the confidence and surety to venture beyond the limits of what is normally considered to be safe, sensible
and sane.
The other essential work that is needed to dis-empower one’s social identity is that
the beliefs and psittacisms one has been instilled with in childhood, or has later co-opted as one’s own, need to be replaced
with observable and verifiable facts.
A discerning eye and ear is needed in order to ascertain what is fact and what is
merely belief, theory, concept, assumption, speculation, conviction, imagination, myth, wisdom, or truth. It is easy to see when
one knows how to look. Any belief is nonsensical. By its very nature a belief is not factually true ... otherwise it would not
need to be believed to be true.
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.
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Humanity
social identity
instinctual passions
Human Condition
malice / sorrow
fear / psyche
Altruism
What am I
facts / intelligence
sense
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Stepping out of ‘Humanity’ ...
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.
This instinctual memory serves to maintain both one’s bondage to the ancient past and
to Humanity itself. Thus, an in-depth investigation of one’s instinctual ‘self’ inevitably provokes ancient atavistic fears
and dread that can be daunting, to say the least. This is why pure intent and a good dose of bloody-mindedness and stubborn
persistence is essential at this stage.
Whilst this crude genetically-encoded survival programming was essential, in the past,
to ensure the survival of the species, to set about to deliberately eliminate this programming is to feel oneself to be, at a very
primal level, a traitor to Humanity.
However, these fascinating experiences and discoveries leave no emotional scars and soon one is back on
the wide and wondrous path to actual freedom …
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Virtual
Freedom
Actualism
actual / pure intent
perfection
here and now
benevolence / Hedonism
apperception / delight
excellence experience
happy and harmless
harmony / humour
mind / naiveté
peace
sensuousness
serendipity
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Virtual freedom from malice and sorrow ...
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.
When one is virtual free from malice and sorrow one goes to bed at night time having
had a 99% perfect day, knowing tomorrow will be equally perfect. In virtual freedom the immediate and the actual becomes one’s
focus as this is, after all, the only moment I can experience of being alive.
Virtual Freedom is a readily obtainable, realistic goal available for anyone – and is
an essential step on the path to Actual Freedom. Whilst an actual freedom from malice and sorrow is the goal, the end and the
means are the same – one needs to do whatever it takes to be both happy and harmless this very moment. Unless one is
willing to contemplate a virtual happiness and harmlessness, to be virtually free of malice and sorrow, 99% of the time – then
one might as well forget the whole business. If someone is not willing to make this level of ‘self’-sacrifice then any
interest in an Actual Freedom would remain a purely cerebral exercise, wishful thinking and a useless self-deception.
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.
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Self-immolation
real
actual
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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 ...
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Actual
Freedom
actual
apperception
benevolence
delight
infinitude
innocence
peace
perfection
sensuousness
time
universe
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Actual Freedom from the Human Condition
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.
Put succinctly: ‘my’ demise was as fictitious as ‘my’ apparent
presence; I have always been here, in this actual world of sensorial delight, one realises, for it was that ‘I’ only imagined
‘I’ existed; ‘my’ presence had been but an emotional/ passional play in a fertile imagination; an emotional/ passional
play which fuelled actual hormonal substances, however, triggered off from within the brain-stem by the instinctual emotions/
passions bestowed per favour blind nature. Thus the psyche – the entire affective faculty born of the survival instincts
themselves – is wiped out forever and one is finally what one has actually been all along: a sensitive and reflective
flesh-and-blood body simply brimming with sense organs revelling in this sensuous world of immediate experience.
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.’
For Peter’s report of
becoming actually free – click
here.
For Vineeto’s report of
becoming actually free – click here.
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