As a fellow overthinker, recently I was at a cafe thinking about your recent posts, and it occurred to me that there’s a lack of a word to denominate the equivalent of intellectual but for a person that pursues feeling-related affairs, just like an intellectual or a philosopher does so with thought-related affairs. I even asked the Google AI and it suggested new terms like “emotionalist” or “sensualist”, lol.
So, just like an intellectual or a philosopher seeks a particular truth/solution via a logical/rational method, an emotionalist/sensualist does something similarly but with feeling-based methodologies and tools.
If you think about it (and then feel about it), the personal implication of this differentiation is huge. Personally, I usually get stuck when I spend too much time in my head just juggling the symptoms, rather than go to the heart and address and handle the causes directly. Basically, I tend to spend too much time using the incorrect tools to solve the problem at hand.
Now that I think about it more, there’s a reason why it was hard for most here to grasp what actualism was all about, even after decades of the method being public. The method was about feeling all along, and we didn’t quite realize it (to this day even, at least fully, in my case).
Similarly, when you talk about actualism to other people, look how they automatically categorize it as a philosophy or a religion/spiritual pursuit. There seems to be a lack of a word to hit the nail on the head (perhaps a challenge/opportunity to “market” it better? haha).
Speaks volumes of Richard and his discovery, perhaps creating a new category.