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.