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Richard
Peter
Vineeto
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Desire
1 The fact or condition of desiring; the
feeling that one would derive pleasure or satisfaction from possessing or obtaining something; a longing. 2 sexual
appetite, lust. 3 an expressed wish, a request. 4 something desired or longed for. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: The layer of programming beneath the social identity is
the instinctual self – who we ‘feel’ we are, consisting of a primitive self and the survival instincts of fear, aggression,
nurture and desire, instilled by blind nature to ensure the survival of the species. This instinctual programming has been held as
inviolable and unalterable, and, as such, has remained un-investigated up until now.
The only superficial ‘tinkering’ that has been undertaken to date
has been to emphasise the so-called ‘good’ instincts of nurture and desire and repress the ‘bad’ instincts of fear and
aggression. The social application of morals and ethics provides the ‘carrot and stick’, but police, laws and armies are
ultimately required to keep the instinctual passions in check. The whole of our supposedly civilised world is still, at the very
core, based on the suppression and control of these primitive instincts.
Desire is the drive to survive – it translates into sexual conquest, power over
others, and attaining the necessities of survival such as territory, food, offspring, and the protection of others.
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Desire is the
instinct that drives us to sexual avarice and a blind urge to impregnate, procreate and reproduce ourselves – come what may. The
relentless desire to accumulate, amass, covert, dominate, control and obliterate is the direct cause of poverty, corruption,
hunger and famine.
It is common wisdom that ‘you can’t change Human
Nature’. ‘Of course you can – why not?’ said Richard, and I liked that. Why not indeed? One can harness
this powerful affective energy of desire so as to bring about what one actually longs for: perfect peace and understanding. For
me, once I found out about Actual Freedom, I dug into it and remembered a peak experience which re-activated a pure intent in me
– a burning desire that we humans find a way to live together in peace and harmony on the magical fairy tale like, paradisiacal
planet.
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