A more detailed description of 1981

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"Three nights later I had a similar experience and what I had witnessed on the first revelation was confirmed. Then nothing untoward happened for the next five months – this had been in late July 1980 – until on the first day of January in 1981 when I began a ‘process’ that was to last for nine months, culminating in my Divine Awakening on that September morning. The ‘process’ was both prosaic and extraordinary: on the one hand I began undoing all the social conditioning that I had been subject to since birth and on the other hand I generated love for all and sundry. I examined all the social traditions and customs etc., one by one, and released myself from their iron grip. I diminished hate and anger and sadness and loneliness by surrendering to and living in love and oneness … which is the best that a normal human could do by virtue of the socialisation process. I moved in and out of Sacred States of Heavenly Bliss and Love Agapé and Divine Compassion and immersed myself in the entire ‘process’ with dedication and resolution. I adopted the principle of pacifism (‘turn the other cheek’) and developed Goodness of the highest order. I cleansed and purified myself of all impure thoughts and deeds and worked both hard and industriously in my daily work. I practised honesty and humility in all my interactions with other people and pondered the significance and ramifications of the Divine Order.

I totally believed in and had supreme faith in The Absolute and its ability to bring about the Peace On Earth so long promised."

Emphasis added

A Brief Personal History

So, can it be said, that the Actualism method was in place based on what Richard writes here?

This seems to contradict the gradually emerging dominance of love in his process, and points to it being there the whole time. Indeed, my own experience in my mid twenties is an echo of this. It’s not hard to get into oneness states when love is the explicit goal.

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late July 1980

Richard experiences a 4 hr PCE. It morphs into an ASC wherein a Divine Order of Things is revealed to him. He temporarily becomes Divine Compassion and Love Agape before returning to normal. His goal is thereupon established: bring Love Agape and Divine Compassion to a suffering humankind. He views himself as the Savior.

1 January 1981

After resolving to pursue what was revealed in the perfection of his PCE, Richard commences on what he refers to as the wide and wondrous path, imitating what was experienced by maximizing the felicitous/innocuous feelings while at the same time minimizing the malicious/sorrowful feelings and their antidotal pacifiers of love/compassion. (There are conflicting reports as to whether he stepped immediately into the “process,” experiencing the penultimate out-from-control virtual freedom from the get-go, or whether he gradually worked his way up to that point over the course of several weeks.)

late January/ early February 1981

Approximately three weeks after setting out on the path, he gets rid of anger for good in the midst of his wife throwing a vicious tantrum. One report indicates that he enters into an “ad hoc” virtual freedom (whatever that is): “The first thing ‘I’ did, in January 1981, was to put an end to anger . . . then ‘I’ was freed enough to live in an ad hoc virtual freedom. It took ‘me’ about three weeks . . . .” He coins the term “pure intent” at about this time. He’s going around telling everyone that he’s found the secret to life.

March 1981

Richard enters the penultimate, full blown out-from-control virtual freedom (putting aside reports of an earlier initiation). The penultimate virtual freedom is a perpetual excellence experience (EE) nearly indistinguishable from a PCE. But this only lasts for one month.

April 1981

Major turning point. A crucial event occurs. He goes “cataleptic.” (In some places he writes that he went catatonic, other places he says cataleptic. Based on his descriptions of the event, it points strongly to cateplexy rather than either catatonia or catalepsy.) He’s rushed to hospital. While there, he emerges from the condition radiating bliss. Richard surrenders right there and then to “love and oneness.” At this time, he enters into an ongoing and permanent state of human love and compassion. Rather than being minimized, love and compassion at this point are maxed. Permanently. He proceeds to travel in this new direction until the death of his ego 5 months later in September 1981.

Whether or not Richard was virtually free in those first three months of '81, or whether the type of virtual freedom he experienced was of the ad hoc or ongoing variety, it is hard to say. Nevertheless, commencing on the 1st of January '81, it is safe to say he was a felicitous and innocuous identity. And he remained so until April '81, when Divinity blinded him to the third alternative he had been pursuing. He emerged from that cataplexy in an extraordinarily powerful state of love and compassion. He could not have been in a virtual freedom/ongoing EE from that point on. Pure intent would not have been operative. Divinity was, from there on out, the acting agent dictating the direction of that identity.

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Wow! Thankyou Rick!

That makes a whole heap of sense now!

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To add to that, in Jan 1981, perhaps starting Dec 1980, the grandmother had the kids for 3 or 4 weeks, at which point he and his wife set about bringing back the “Honeymoon period”, which at some point they had a 24 hour mutual “peak experience”. I suspect this was the original “sex dripping from the walls” events, the complete giving of himself.

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Not at all. Thank you for highlighting those bits from the article and raising the question.

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can you provide (or edit in) links for sources for each of these 5 events/periods?

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Absolutely. Unfortunately, I can no longer edit that post. I will re-upload that post (when I have an hour or two to go back and search for everything) with appropriate references.

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Is there anything in the chronology that you are particularly interested/ curious about? I can pay added attention to providing references/sources for that.

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These parts in particular:

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late July 1980[1][2]

Richard experiences a 4 hr PCE.[3] It morphs into an ASC[4] [5] wherein a Divine Order of Things is revealed to him.[6] He temporarily becomes Divine Compassion and Love Agape before returning to normal.[7] His goal is thereupon established: bring Love Agape and Divine Compassion to a suffering humankind.[8] He views himself as the Savior.[9]

1 January 1981

After resolving to pursue what was revealed in the perfection of his PCE, Richard commences on what he refers to as the wide and wondrous path, imitating what was experienced by maximizing the felicitous/innocuous feelings while at the same time minimizing the malicious/sorrowful feelings and their antidotal pacifiers of love/compassion.[10] (There are conflicting reports as to whether he stepped immediately into the “process,”[11][12][13] [14] thus experiencing the penultimate out-from-control virtual freedom from the get-go, or whether he gradually worked his way up to that point over the course of several weeks [15] or months.)[16][17]

late January/ early February 1981

Approximately three weeks after setting out on the path, he gets rid of anger for good in the midst of his wife throwing a vicious tantrum.[18][19] One report indicates that he enters into an “ad hoc” virtual freedom (whatever that is): “The first thing ‘I’ did, in January 1981, was to put an end to anger . . . then ‘I’ was freed enough to live in an ad hoc virtual freedom. It took ‘me’ about three weeks.” He coins the term “pure intent” at about this time.[20] He’s going around telling everyone that he’s found the secret to life.[21]

March 1981

Richard enters the penultimate, full blown out-from-control virtual freedom (putting aside reports of an earlier initiation[11:1][12:1][13:1] [14:1][15:1]). The penultimate virtual freedom is a perpetual excellence experience (EE)[22] nearly indistinguishable from a PCE.[23]But this only lasts for one month.[24][25]

April 1981

Major turning point. A crucial event occurs. He goes “cataleptic.”[26][27] (In some places he writes “catatonic.”[28][29]) He’s rushed to hospital. While there, he emerges from the condition radiating bliss.[30][31] Richard surrenders right there and then to “love and oneness.”[32] At this time, he enters into an ongoing and permanent state of human love and bliss.[33] Rather than being minimized, love and compassion at this point are maxed, along with spiritual feelings of ecstacy, rapture, euphoria, bliss, and so on[34]. He proceeds to travel in this new direction until the death of his ego 5 months later in September 1981.[35]

Whether or not Richard was virtually free in those first three months of '81, or whether the type of virtual freedom he experienced was of the ad hoc or ongoing variety, it is hard to say. Nevertheless, commencing on the 1st of January '81, it is safe to say he was a felicitous and innocuous identity. And he remained so, by his account, for maybe three or four months, until April '81 when Divinity blinded him to the third alternative he had been pursuing. He emerged from that cataplexy in an extraordinarily powerful state of love and compassion. He could not have been in a virtual freedom/ongoing EE from that point on (given the current definitions of that state.) Pure intent would not have been operative. Divinity had done its work on him[36], and was, from there on out, the acting agent dictating the direction of that identity.

  1. (2006): So ‘he’ set about imitating the actual – as evidenced in a pure consciousness experience (PCE) in late July 1980.
    Mailing List 'AF' Rick ↩︎

  2. (n.d.) In 1980 I had a pure consciousness experience (PCE) . . . Then nothing untoward happened for the next five months – this had been in late July 1980 until on the first day of January in 1981 . . .
    Mailing List 'A' Respondent No. 15 ↩︎

  3. (1998): Speaking personally, in 1980 I had a pure consciousness experience (PCE) that lasted for four hours.
    Mailing List 'B' Respondent No. 26 ↩︎

  4. (n.d.): In 1980 I had a peak experience wherein I saw that everything was already perfect as-it-is . . . To say that I was amazed rather fails to adequately describe the feeling of relief . . . . I was ecstatic. . . . That proved to be my undoing . . . Ecstasy led to euphoria and euphoria led to bliss.
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  5. (2005): . . . the initial PCE which set in motion the whole process wherein, unbeknownst to the experiencing due to a total lack of any precedent, it had devolved into an altered state of consciousness (ASC).
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  6. (n.d.): In 1980 I had a peak experience wherein I saw that everything was already perfect as-it-is . . . I was ecstatic. . . . Ecstasy led to euphoria and euphoria led to bliss. . . . which led to an emanation of Divine Compassion for all living beings who were suffering . . . by virtue of the fact that they were ignorant of the Divine Order of things . . . an Absolute had been revealed.
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  7. (n.d.): In the blissful state I manifested and became Love Agapé which led to an emanation of Divine Compassion . . . . I was to go through a process, when I returned to normal, that would result in my being well-prepared to usher in this new age of peace and prosperity to all humankind.
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  8. (n.d.): I had been chosen to bring this self-same Love and Compassion to earth.
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  9. (n.d.): I was the Saviour Of Humankind!
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  10. (2005): ‘So ‘he’ set about imitating the actual – as evidenced in a pure consciousness experience (PCE) in late July 1980 – on the first of January 1981 simply by each moment again being relentlessly attentive to, and scrupulously honest about, how that only moment of ever being alive was experienced so as to feel as happy and as harmless (as free of malice and sorrow) as was humanly possible.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  11. (n.d.): I began a ‘process’ that was to last for nine months, culminating in my Divine Awakening on a fine September morning.
    Mailing List 'A' Respondent No. 15 ↩︎ ↩︎

  12. (2017) [Dona]: for clarification, Richard was out-from-control virtually free, which is a shift, a “different way of being”. He said he only had one instance of “slipping back to normal”, which only lasted a few minutes, and he didn’t do anything to get back to being out-from-control. It seems from your question you might be referring to “in control” virtual freedom, where someone is feeling good at this moment, and each moment again for the rest of​​ their lives. Richard skipped right over this, and right into “out from control” virtual freedom.
    Alan: Richard lived the out-from-control virtual freedom for about 9 months before losing his ego and becoming enlightened for 11 years. It is not necessary​​ to become out-from-control before becoming actually free (see Dona’s reply below).
    https://actualfreedom.net/australia-questions/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  13. (2005): Furthermore, that way of living was so successful, for the first three months or so of that year, that ‘he’ was wont to exclaim, to all and sundry, that ‘he’ had discovered the secret to life (for that is how far beyond normal human expectations the felicitous/innocuous state which has nowadays become known as being virtually free truly is).
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎ ↩︎

  14. (2005):
    RESPONDENT: What actually happened in the beginning?
    RICHARD: What happened for the identity inhabiting this flesh and blood body on the first of January 1981 (the day ‘he’ first put the method ‘he’ devised into practice) was so amazing for ‘him’ that ‘he’ said to ‘his’ then wife that ‘he’ had discovered the secret to life … ‘he’ would go on to say it was so easy to feel happy and harmless for 23 hours 59 minutes of the day (an arbitrary figure) that ‘he’ wondered why it had never been done before.
    RESPONDENT: What happened in you when you asked this question?
    RICHARD: What happened for the identity inhabiting this flesh and blood body was that ‘he’ mainly felt happy and harmless irregardless of the situation and circumstance … the 00 hours 01 minute of the day (an arbitrary figure) that ‘he’ did not never detracted from what has nowadays become known as a virtual freedom and was often quite easily rectified.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 92 ↩︎ ↩︎

  15. (1999): The first thing ‘I’ did, in January 1981, was to put an end to anger once and for all … then ‘I’ was freed enough to live in an ad hoc virtual freedom. It took ‘me’ about three weeks.
    Mailing List 'B' Respondent No. 34 ↩︎ ↩︎

  16. (1998): Virtual freedom is derived from what Richard lived from March to September in 1981
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent Irene ↩︎

  17. (2016): Excellence experiences (EE’s) were a notable feature of feeling-being ‘Richard’s virtual freedom experiencing circa March-September 1981
    Mailing List 'D' Claudiu / Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem ↩︎

  18. (1999): The first thing ‘I’ did, in January 1981, was to put an end to anger once and for all … then ‘I’ was freed enough to live in an ad hoc virtual freedom. It took ‘me’ about three weeks and I have never experienced anger since then.
    Mailing List 'B' Respondent No. 34 ↩︎

  19. (2013) in the late-afternoon of an otherwise typical summer’s day, in 1981, a six-foot-two man was standing in the kitchen of his ex-farmhouse being soundly berated . . . he had formed the intent, a few weeks earlier (on the 1st of January), to live life as it had been in their all-too-brief honeymoon . . . . his throat muscles quivered as the brimming anger shimmered and shifted into a pre-shout . . . wonder of wonders, that oh-so-familiar throat-muscle quivering skipped a beat or two and began to ease! . . . and he knows with a certainty that his life is never going to be the same ever again.
    Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 33 ↩︎

  20. (2013):
    RICK: Incidentally, I cannot recall what you told me in-person about how and why or wherefrom you came to choose the words ‘pure intent’ when you coined that very term. Would you mind sharing that again here?
    RICHARD: ‘Twas the feeling-being in residence who named it thataway, circa January/ February 1981.
    Mailing List 'D' Rick ↩︎

  21. (2005): Furthermore, that way of living was so successful, for the first three months or so of that year, that ‘he’ was wont to exclaim, to all and sundry, that ‘he’ had discovered the secret to life.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  22. (2009): This ongoing excellence experience is what the methodological aspect of a virtual freedom – a persistent and diligent application of the actualism method – can morph into.
    Mailing List 'D' Rick ↩︎

  23. (2009): This penultimate out-from-under-control/ different-way-of-being is barely distinguishable from a pure consciousness experience.
    Mailing List 'D' Rick ↩︎

  24. (2005): Furthermore, that way of living was so successful, for the first three months or so of that year, that ‘he’ was wont to exclaim, to all and sundry, that ‘he’ had discovered the secret to life (for that is how far beyond normal human expectations the felicitous/innocuous state which has nowadays become known as being virtually free truly is) . . . Then an event occurred of such impact as to be the turning-point, in regards no longer going directly to what numerous PCE’s evidenced. . . . That impactive event took place . . . in mid-autumn.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  25. Mid-autumn in Australia coincides with sometime around April.
    “Australia’s seasons are at opposite times to those in the northern hemisphere. December to February is summer; March to May is autumn; June to August is winter; and September to November is spring.”
    Weather in Australia - Tourism Australia ↩︎

  26. (2009): The first time such catalepsy occurred my then-wife panicked and called an ambulance to take me to an intensive care unit at the nearest hospital.
    Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 37 ↩︎

  27. (2009):
    RESPONDENT: Hi Richard, The word ‘nibbana’ is also sometimes used in Buddhism to denote the kind of cessation to which you refer earlier in the same email:
    [Richard]: ‘The first time such catalepsy occurred my then-wife panicked and called an ambulance to take me to an intensive care unit at the nearest hospital; after being examined by the resident doctor for all vital signs then all the whilst that state persisted a duty nurse would test for consciousness (holding open eyelids and shining an intense light for signs of pupil contraction, pinching an earlobe as tightly as possible for any sign of sensation, and so on) every 15 minutes to no avail. (Upon eventually coming out of that state so much bliss was radiating, spilling over into the ICU…)’.
    Which event (including unconsciousness non-event), to the best of my understanding, happened at the very beginning of the on-going state that you lived day and night for 11 years, and was the first time you had experienced going beyond name-and-form. Is this correct?
    RICHARD: To answer your specific questions: as the first-time event occurred in April, 1981, it was five months prior to the start of the eleven year period of spiritual enlightenment/ mystical awakenment; it was the turning-point, as far as PCE’s and ASC’s were concerned.
    Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 16 ↩︎

  28. (2005): In mid-autumn . . . a catatonic state ensued that resulted in ‘Me’ being carted off to hospital, and kept under intensive care for four hours.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  29. (2013): I had two major ‘nervous breakdowns’, and at least one minor one (where I became catatonic and was rushed to a local hospital’s EU).
    Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 29 ↩︎

  30. (2009): The first time such catalepsy occurred my then-wife panicked and called an ambulance to take me to an intensive care unit at the nearest hospital. . . . (Upon eventually coming out of that state so much bliss was radiating, spilling over into the ICU, that she became overwhelmed, in awe, with ruddy features and shining eyes testifying to her absorption into such an awesomely manifest presence).
    Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 37 ↩︎

  31. (2005): In mid-autumn . . . a catatonic state ensued that resulted in ‘Me’ being carted off to hospital, and kept under intensive care for four hours, until coming out of it in a state of Radiant Bliss.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  32. (2005): Divinity had been working on ‘him’ whilst catatonic, and from that date forward ‘he’ was permanently in a state of human bliss and love … ‘he’ could do no wrong. As ‘he’ had surrendered to, and thus lived in, love and oneness ‘he’ moved in and out of sacred states of Heavenly Bliss, Love Agapé and Divine Compassion.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  33. (2005): Divinity had been working on ‘him’ whilst catatonic, and from that date forward ‘he’ was permanently in a state of human bliss and love … ‘he’ could do no wrong. As ‘he’ had surrendered to, and thus lived in, love and oneness ‘he’ moved in and out of sacred states of Heavenly Bliss, Love Agapé and Divine Compassion.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  34. (2005): The identity inhabiting this body activated the process of partial ‘self’-immolation – the ego-dissolution, or death of the ego, referred to in the above exchange – by activating love and compassion (and rapture and euphoria and ecstasy and bliss and so on).
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

  35. (n.d.): At approximately six o’clock on the morning of Sunday the sixth of September 1981, my ‘ego’ disappeared entirely in an edifying moment of awakening to an ‘Absolute Reality’.
    A Brief Personal History ↩︎

  36. (2005): Divinity had been working on ‘him’ whilst catatonic, and from that date forward ‘he’ was permanently in a state of human bliss and love.
    Mailing List 'AF' Respondent No. 60 ↩︎

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(1 January 1981)

I’m not sure if this is accurate, considering that at that time he didn’t know to avoid love & compassion & in fact when they appeared he dove right in due to the lack of precedent about how to become free

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You are probably correct. Good catch. It’s more accurate then to say that on 1st of January he set about (successfully!) minimizing malicious/sorrowful feelings by maximizing their antidotal pacifiers love/compassion.

Richard: On the first day of January in 1981 when I began a ‘process’ . . . The ‘process’ was both prosaic and extraordinary . . . I generated love for all and sundry. . . . I diminished hate and anger and sadness and loneliness by surrendering to and living in love and oneness.
A Brief Personal History
Appendix No. 1: Description Of Becoming Enlightened

What’s the lesson here?

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That maximizing love and compassion leads to spiritual Enlightenment? :smile:

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To an out-from-control virtual freedom

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2005): ‘So ‘he’ set about imitating the actual – as evidenced in a pure consciousness experience (PCE) in late July 1980 – on the first of January 1981 simply by each moment again being relentlessly attentive to, and scrupulously honest about, how that only moment of ever being alive was experienced so as to feel as happy and as harmless (as free of malice and sorrow) as was humanly possible.
Mailing List ‘AF’ Respondent No. 60

It seems to make more sense to piece it together that imitating the actual - as evidenced in a PCE - is what led to an out from control virtual freedom, which was then thoroughly derailed (such as to end up completely 180 degree opposite from that which was being imitated) by love and compassion, due to ‘Richard’ not realizing at the time that love and compassion weren’t good imitators of actuality but rather led in a different direction.

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Generating love for all and sundry from day 1, which is what he did, is not imitating the actual though.

Or maybe it is. Maybe it is a good enough imitation. It got the job done, after all (virtual freedom).

It was the thing that removed all his obstacles to happiness and harlessness:

Note: by

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@rick could I trouble you for a link for that last quote?

Actually, it should be searchable.

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I got from here:

A Brief Personal History
Appendix No. 1: Description Of Becoming Enlightened

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Yes, I found it. Cheers

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"Appendix No. 1

Description Of Becoming Enlightened

In 1980 I had a peak experience wherein I saw that everything was already perfect as-it-is and that ‘I’, the psychological entity, was standing in the way … and no-one else was preventing me from achieving the ultimate goal of being a human. In that peak experience I saw ‘myself’. ‘I’ was the end product of society and nothing more. ‘I’ was an emotional construct of all of the beliefs, values, morals, ethics, mores, customs, traditions, doctrines, ideologies and so on. ‘I’ was nothing but an emotional-mental fabrication … a sense of identity with its conscience. I also saw that ‘I’ was a lost, lonely, frightened – and a very, very cunning – entity. Just as those Christians who are said to be possessed by an evil entity and need to be exorcised, I saw that every human being had been endowed with a social entity … and it was called being normal. To say that I was amazed rather fails to adequately describe the feeling of relief that after all there was a solution to the human situation here on earth. I was ecstatic.

That proved to be my undoing – as far as actual freedom is concerned. Ecstasy led to euphoria and euphoria led to bliss. In the blissful state I manifested and became Love Agapé which led to an emanation of Divine Compassion for all living beings who were suffering and in sorrow by virtue of the fact that they were ignorant of the Divine Order of things … for an Absolute had been revealed to me in that Love and Compassion – it was that Love Agapé and Divine Compassion – and I had been chosen to bring this self-same Love and Compassion to earth. I was to go through a process, when I returned to normal, that would result in my being well-prepared to usher in this new age of peace and prosperity to all humankind. As this revelation continued, I saw a new ‘me’ coming into existence … a grand ‘Me’, a glorious ‘Me’ and a spiritually fulfilling ‘Me’. I was the Saviour Of Humankind!

(As all this was happening, a passing thought occurred to me, which was briefly contemplated … then banished: Who or what was it that was observing these two ‘me’s – the social ‘me’ and the grand ‘Me’? This trifling question was to be of immense benefit years later when I realised that I was living in a delusion and that there was an actual freedom lying beyond … but I jump ahead of myself).

Three nights later I had a similar experience and what I had witnessed on the first revelation was confirmed. Then nothing untoward happened for the next five months – this had been in late July 1980 – until on the first day of January in 1981 when I began a ‘process’ that was to last for nine months, culminating in my Divine Awakening on that September morning. The ‘process’ was both prosaic and extraordinary: on the one hand I began undoing all the social conditioning that I had been subject to since birth and on the other hand I generated love for all and sundry."