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Selected Writings
on affective Feelings
Richard’s Journal
Peter’s Journal
Vineeto’s Writings
How to Investigate Feelings
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Discussions
about affective Feelings
Audio-taped Dialogues | 2 | 3 |
Richard
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Peter | 2 | 3 |
Vineeto | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Others | 2 |
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Please note that the text 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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Affective Feelings
(Emotions, Passions and Calentures)
Feeling: 1
The action of FEEL 2 Physical sensibility other than sight, hearing, taste, or smell; the sense of touch b
(A) physical sensation; a perception due to this 3 The condition of being emotionally affected or committed; an
emotion (of fear, hope, etc.) b In pl. Emotions, susceptibilities, sympathies 4 Consciousness; an emotional
appreciation or sense (of a condition etc.) 5 A belief not based solely on reason; an attitude, a sentiment 6
Capacity or readiness to feel (esp. sympathy or empathy); sensibility 7 Knowledge of something through experience of
its effects. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: The three ways a person
can experience the world are:
1. cerebral (thoughts); 2. sensate (senses); 3.
affective (feelings).
The arising of instinctually-sourced feelings
produces a hormonal chemical response in the body, which can lead to the false assumption that they are actual. Given that the
base feelings are malice and sorrow (sadness, resentment, hate, depression, melancholy, loneliness, etc.) we desperately seek
relief in the ‘good’ feelings (love, trust, compassion, togetherness, friendship, etc.). To live life as a ‘feeling being’
is to be forever tossed on a raging sea, hoping for an abatement to the storm. Finally, after a particularly fierce storm, one ‘ties
up in port’ to sit life out in safety or putters around in the shallows, so as not to face another storm again. We are but
victims of our impassioned feelings – but they can be eliminated. Feelings are most commonly expressed as emotion-backed
thoughts and, as such, we can free ourselves of their grip upon us.
Usually we divide emotions into groupings of ‘good’
and ‘bad’ and try either to repress or deny the bad ones – fear and aggression – while giving full vent and validity to
the good ones – nurture and desire. Unfortunately this attempt to curb fear and aggression has had no success as is evidenced by
the all the wars, murders, rapes, tortures, domestic violence, corruption, suicide, despair and loneliness that is still endemic
on the planet. Love and hate, compassion and selfishness, etc. come inseparably in pairs as is testified by the continual failure
of humans to live together in anything remotely resembling peace and harmony.
The root core of human emotion is the
instinctual program of fear, aggression, nurture and desire, instilled by blind nature to ensure the survival of the species.
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Fear hobbles us with a
desperate need to belong to a group, to cling to the past, to hang on to whatever we hold dear to ourselves, to resist change and
desperately seek immortality.
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Aggression auses us to fight
for our territory, our possessions, our ‘rights’, our family and our treasured beliefs – seeking power over others.
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Nurture causes us to care,
comfort and protect but also leads to dependency, empathy, sacrifice and needless heroism.
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Desire drives us to sexual reproduction, avarice
and greed.
While absolutely essential in the days of roaming
man-eating animals, rampant disease, high infant mortality, these very same instincts now threaten the survival of the species.
The instinctual passions only ‘care’ for the survival of the species – the strongest, most aggressive, the crudest. Further,
blind nature gives not a fig for your happiness or well-being.
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