Actual Freedom – Catalogue

1. When one has a PCE – and remembers it clearly – one only wants to live that continuously. One could not care less about ‘what is’ versus ‘what should be’ ... all of one’s attention is on ‘what can be’ and ‘what will be’ with psychological and psychic ‘self’-immolation. (Richard, List B, No. 12b, #whatis)

2. If one isolates what is happening from both what was happening and what could be happening then what will be happening is what was happening and what is happening ... and tediously so in perpetuus. (Richard, List B, No. 21b, #whatis)

3. True ... the psyche is ‘what is’ when integration occurs (whereas all the while the universe carries on being the universe). A non-isolated self is still a self, nevertheless. (Richard, List B, No. 12o, #whatis)

4. Given that the ego-self is ‘the thinker’ and the soul-self is ‘the feeler’ then the ego thinks it is doing the experience of what is happening (as an operant) whilst the soul feels that it is being the experience of what is happening (as in ‘I am That’) ... whereas the body is the experiencing of what is happening. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 25e, #whatis)

5. One can no longer distinguish between me doing it and it happening to me. They happen simultaneously – cause and effect are left behind in the Land of Lament – and it is absolutely thrilling. Then one is fully doing this business of being alive – doing it here on this earth in this lifetime as this body – and it is all happening now. This moment is happening and I am doing it and the doing is happening of itself and I am the experiencing of the happening. Then one is in this propitious state of being able to say: ‘I am the doing of what is happening’. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 7, #whatis)