Introducing Actual Freedom
Actual Freedom – The
Third Alternative
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Please note that the entire text of the Introduction 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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Asking the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’
is the means to firstly ascertaining how one is doing relative to one’s aim in life and the key to finding out what is
inhibiting one from being happy and harmless this very moment. This process gives ‘me’ something to do – ‘I’ clean
myself up as much as possible by rigorously and remorselessly examining all that constitutes the Human Condition – all the
truths and beliefs that constitute my social identity – and all the instinctual passions that constitute my instinctual ‘being’.
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 pure 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.
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The path to an Actual Freedom is not only non-spiritual but it is
down-to-earth and practical – you are in fact experientially exploring the Human Condition by delving into your own psyche and
the very act of investigation, combined with sincerity will inevitably bring about radical change. Provided one’s intent is pure
any deviations or diversions on the path will be clearly seen for what they are, any obstacles will be seen as opportunities, any
grubbiness, power-plays or self-deception will become painfully obvious both to yourself and others and any fears encountered will
but add to the thrill of discovery.
The first essential step on the path to aim for is living virtual free of malice and
sorrow for a substantial period. This stage allows for the further cultivation of naïveté, firmly based on actual experience.
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One is then able to become apperceptively aware as the
brain is freed of its ‘self’-centred neurosis, resulting in both clarity of thought and peace of mind. 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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Serendipity abounds and a fascination with life activates delight and sensuousness as
one does all one can to mimic the perfection and purity that becomes increasingly apparent all around in the physical actual
world. One has a resounding and unequivocal YES to being here in the world as-it-is, with people as-they-are. One’s mind, more
and more freed of imagination and the chemical influence of the instinctual passions, is capable of great clarity and, as
apperceptive awareness replaces self-centred neurosis, one knows one’s days are numbered.
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One is literally and figuratively coming to one’s
senses and is less and less affected by feelings and emotions arising from the animal instinctual passions. A total and sincere
dedication to what is actual, pure and perfect, allows one the confidence to let go of control, so to speak, whereupon the very
process of ‘self’-immolation is set in motion – then it is not a process that one has any control over, it is happening by
itself.
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‘What I am’ has always been here, it is just that it has been
obscured and totally dominated by ‘who I am’ – and it is only by systematically and methodically daring to peel back the
layers of social conditioning, beliefs, morals, ethics, psittacisms and instinctual passions that ‘what I am’ is more and more
able to become apparent. ‘What I am’ thus becomes incrementally freed, strengthened, gaining confidence from the surety of
facts, increasingly unfettered intelligence and unmediated senses – all actual, down-to-earth, sensible and verifiable
experiences.
‘What I am’ is not a new creation, a new identity – it is simply
what remains when ‘who I am’ disappears, in total.
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One is then left with a final moment, to …
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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.
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 more see here ).
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