Andrew: The fascinating bit will be what remains after becoming free? (link)
Hi Andrew,
It is indeed a fascinating inquiry of what remains after becoming free. There is little to add to what Kuba wrote at this point in your inquiry.
If you read more of Richard’s writing, his journal and his correspondences, you will understand quite a bit of what disappears, it is in fact the whole of the psychological and the psychic faculty/ entity including those chemical processes which are triggered by this faculty/ entity. As Kuba said, Richard’s selected correspondence on sanity, insanity and salubriousness can give you some better understanding when read with a naïve attitude.
It would save you a lot of searching around in the psychological/ psychiatric text-books for possible physical causes of your emotional/ psychological condition – unless you are specifically searching for a reason why change is not possible/ not desirable or not necessary, in order to allow you (in all good conscience) to continue your life-long habit of merely following your feelings no matter what the consequences for your well-being (and possibly that of others), instead of applying common sense whenever your mood dips below feeling good.
But you had indicated in the post I replied to yesterday (link) that you want to dedicate your life to feeling good (and even benevolence and benignity) – so let’s see what happens.
Kuba: On the flight back from China I read through Richard’s correspondence on sanity, it was a very fascinating read actually, with the main takeaway being that actual freedom is completely outside of that sanity-insanity paradigm. Of course when viewed from within the real world paradigm it was classified as a severe psychotic disorder in Richard’s case.
But the point being that what I saw (again) in the PCE the other day is that the actual world is a completely new world. ‘I’ exist somewhere in the psyche, ‘my’ world along with the various classifications of where ‘I’ exist within its boundaries, it all disappears in the PCE. It is not that ‘I’ am inside and the actual world is outside, both ‘inside and outside’ disappear in the PCE and there is only the actual world. Same with regards to time, that ‘I’ exist within the real world timespan of past-present-future, which itself exists only in the psyche and in the PCE it disappears altogether. So to cut a long story short – all of ‘me’ as well as the various components of ‘my’ world disappear without a trace in the PCE. As it has been said “nothing dirty can get in” – this is indeed the case.
So considering the above it seems rather clear to me that in full actual freedom there would not be a trace of neurodivergence left. Just who would be diverging from what exactly. (link)
Hi Kuba,
An excellent post (as well as your two follow-up ones (link)), which really describes experientially to what extent the human condition and ‘me’ are usually completely dominating one’s perception, feeling and behaviour. It is so refreshing to read when someone can experientially confirm that “both ‘inside’ and outside’” worlds disappear in a PCE and upon an actual freedom. It also confirms, by extension, that psychology and psychiatry can only enable people to “keep one’s head above water”, as Chrono recently phrased his own experience with the genre (16 Oct 25), because they never address, in fact only divert attention from the real culprit – ‘me’.
It’s marvellous that you can experientially confirm for yourself that “in full actual freedom there would not be a trace of neurodivergence left”. It all disappears as if by magic upon becoming free and then divesting oneself of the remnants of one’s social identity.
Cheers Vineeto