Claudiu: This post was awesome so I just wanted to link to it here
Vineeto: Good day Ian, I don’t know if you heard, there is a serious mental health warning regarding a new, very contagious virus called “naiveté”. It is highly contagious because it has been discovered that it spreads on the psychic network via happy and harmless vibes such as is happening already on this forum and is therefore not restricted to only local outbreaks of the disease. It is something entirely new in the real world. Even though children display certain symptoms when young, they soon grow … Ian’s Journal Journals
Hi Claudiu,
I am pleased you recognized how significant this post was and hereby giving me the opportunity to expand on it. I think many people missed the main thrust taking it merely for a nice joke.
Joking aside, what I realized and wanted to express was that now there is a sufficient quantity of people having recognized the transformative role that naiveté plays in their actualism practice and actualized it in their lives, there is a contagious atmosphere which even more actualists can benefit from.
Here is a private feedback I received yesterday, within the hour of publishing –
“By the way, a great report on the contagious virus.
(…) Until just before starting to read it, I was actually feeling a bit serious/ sombre due to an ongoing digestive discomfort. But half-way through reading it, something changed – all the while the physical discomfort was still happening, I started feeling better, becoming more sensuous and appreciating it all. There was a long-held assumption that I had to be physically healthy in order to move forward in actualism, but this assumption was finally put to rest.”
I invite everyone to read the various member’s reports in the post to Ian again with open eyes and a receptive attitude.
There is indeed a psychic network which can play a beneficial role in spreading the felicitous and innocuous feeling including naiveté around the globe. (It also answers Kuba’s question if ‘I’ am indeed “meaningless”). This is not fantasy but very real, just as real as ‘me’.
The key to naiveté is sincerity. Naiveté opens the door to pure intent and thus to more enjoyment and appreciation. It eases the way to dealing with occurring obstacles and it makes life and the whole actualism process fun, and it is essential for eventually allowing one going out-from-control. “Naiveté located betwixt the core of being and the sexual centre (where one is both likeable and liking) – is attached as if with a golden thread or clew to the purity of actual innocence” (link). And it is contagious. Being naiveté itself, as a state of being is the most wonderful way of being alive whilst ‘getting ready’ for the ultimate step. Viz.:
Richard: “To be naïveté itself (i.e., naïveté embodied as a childlike persona with adult sensibilities), which is to be the closest one can to innocence whilst remaining a ‘self’ (innocence is where ‘self’ is not), one is both likeable and liking for herewith lies tenderness and/or sweetness and togetherness and/or closeness whereupon moment-to-moment experiencing is of traipsing through the world about in a state of wide-eyed wonder and amazement as if a child again (guileless, artless, ingenuous, innocuous) – yet with adult sensibilities whereby the distinction betwixt being naïve and being gullible is readily separable – simply marvelling at the sheer magnificence of this oh-so-material universe’s absoluteness and unabashedly delighting in its boundless beneficence, its limitless largesse, as being the experiencing is inherently cornucopian (due to the near-absence of agency which ensues when the controlling doer is abeyant and the naïve beer is ascendant), with a blitheness and a gaiety such that the likelihood of the magical fairy-tale-like nature of this paradisaical terraqueous globe, this bounteously verdant and azure planet, becoming ever-so-sweetly apparent, as an experiential actuality, is almost always imminent.” (Tooltip, A Clay-Pit Tale)
As for felicitous, innocuous and naïve feelings being contagious as psychic vibes, here is a possible scenario for you –
Richard: I cannot stress enough how, with a [methodological] virtual freedom being more or less the norm worldwide, global amity and equity would be an on-going state of affairs’. (Library, Topics, Virtual Freedom).
Cheers Vineeto