So I notice the same thing has been happening with ‘my’ imaginations of what actual freedom would be like. I can see this now because this morning I woke up with this sense of “coming home” , a taste of what it is like to be genuine, to be what I am as a flesh and blood body vs who ‘I’ am as an identity.
It is such a familiar flavour, it is not weird in any sense… everything is in place and finally correct. From this vantage point it is ‘being’ an identity that is weird, somehow out of place, somehow fundamentally off. It’s like I have been driving my car in the wrong gear for all these years and then finally it clicks into the correct one, the one that it should have been in this whole time.
It is weird because it is almost like I am regaining that which I always was, even though I have never lived as a flesh and blood body only. But it is that which has been here all along, masked by ‘my’ presence.
I remember @claudiu wrote some time ago that when feeling good one finds that one is more of the person that they are, not less. And of course it is the same but much more with actual freedom, that which is genuine is uncovered/unchained. The actual human being, the person as opposed to persona is now free to be what they are, what they have been all along.
So I can see it is silly to be worrying about becoming a zombie or a leaf blowing in the wind, or acting like a lunatic or antisocial person, or becoming a looser/bum etc. These are actually quite pathetic excuses/distractions. ‘I’ really believe that ‘I’ know better and yet ‘I’ am the one stuck in the wrong gear!
With being what I am there is such a completeness, in every sense, how could ‘I’ believe that this body would somehow struggle to live the life that ‘I’ have set up. The actual Kuba is not less than ‘me’, ‘I’ am the one who is crippled not him. He is complete in a way that ‘I’ can never be, and here ‘I’ am protecting him from life without ‘me’
I can see why altruism is required, in the face of the cunning that ‘I’ am capable of and the lengths to which ‘I’ will go in order to remain in existence only altruism can do the trick.