Actual Freedom ~ Frequently Asked Questions

PETER: Provided someone has a burning discontent with their life as-it-is such that they are sufficiently motivated to devote their life to becoming free of malice and sorrow then it doesn’t matter where they were born or where they live. Already we have people who live on different parts of this planetary globe who have indicated that they are interested in actualism and some have reported success in becoming less harmful to others and more happy. One can only do the business of actualism – becoming free of malice and sorrow – right now, wherever one happens to be now, irregardless of where this wherever happens to be on the planet

RESPONDENT: I ask this as ‘we’ are a product of/influenced by our environment as much as we are a product of our genes …

PETER: I never bought that one even as a kid. At university my closest friends were someone born in Malaysia of parents born in China, someone born in Australia of parents born in Italy and someone who lived in Australia but who was born in Greece. The primary connection we all had was genetic – we were all fellow human beings – and any cultural or social differences were very much secondary.

By the way, it took me another 40 years to demolish the biggest of the divides that separate human beings – my gender conditioning – but that’s another story.

RESPONDENT: … and it seems that it’s easier to become an actualist in Byron Bay with all its alternative lifestyles and wonderful environment then let’s say in a polluted city with kilometres of concrete and street buzz or a poor country of Africa.

PETER: I have found by experience that the only way I can make a sensible evaluation of other people’s suppositions is to check their suppositions against the facts of the matter. In this case, if we take the numbers of people subscribed to this mailing list as being a gauge of the number of people thus far interested in actualism and say halve the number as some who are subscribed have made it clear that they have done so in order to voice their objections, then there are many more non-Byron Bay-ites than there are Byron Bay residents. So it would appear that what seems to you to be the case is not substantiated by the facts of the matter.

As for living in a town where people live ‘alternative lifestyles’, these people mostly have set-in-concrete beliefs and as such have no interest whatsoever in abandoning those beliefs in favour of taking on something as down-to-earth as becoming happy and harmless.

As for a ‘wonderful environment’, as a kid I was personally attracted to the idea of living in the tropics and in my twenties I lived for a while in a small village in England and found that I liked the rural lifestyle. During the next 20 years, due to my parental obligations and spiritual aspirations, I lived in many other places but when these petered out I happened to receive a phone call one day from someone who wanted a house designed in a sub-tropical sea-side rural tourist town called Byron Bay on the other side of the continent from where I was living at the time. Because of this serendipitous event, I soon after found find myself living in that little sea-side rural tourist town in the subtropics, where another serendipitous event occurred in that I met Richard one evening which then led to another serendipitous event when I met Vineeto one afternoon.

It is my experience it is the events that happen and the people one meets and interacts with that are the stuff of life and exactly where these happenings happen and where they lead one to live is secondary. A pure consciousness experience of the actuality of what it is to be a human being is not to be confused with a nature experience – one can have a PCE, at any time, wherever one is, or wherever one is living. Given that a PCE is not place-specific, culture-specific or gender-specific it follows that the 24/7 living of an actual freedom is also not place-specific, culture-specific or gender-specific.

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