https://actualfreedom.com.au/actualism/actualvineeto/geoffrey.htm
October 10, 2018
GEOFFREY: Thank you for your message! I’m very happy that you enjoyed my report.
Let me inform you that I’ve just posted it both on Yahoo and Slack (although it might take some time for it to appear on Yahoo apparently…). Now just wait for the reactions
About your advice (“enjoy and appreciate“) it is very welcomed as I’ve been contemplating with amazement how the ‘method’ makes so much sense now.
How much enjoyment there is now!
How much appreciation!
How much better can it get?
Haha we’ll see…
Cheers!
Geoffrey
VINEETO: Hi Geoffrey,
Great to hear that the ‘method’ makes so much sense to you now. The means to the end is no different to the end.
As for “How much better can it get” – this quote from Richard might go towards answering that –
Richard: “The more you feel good the more feeling good happens; the more feeling good happens the better you feel; the better you feel the more feeling better gets … and so on and so on … gradually increasing ever-incrementally until one day you can get to the stage the identity in residence all those years ago got to where ‘he’ would say how ‘he’ had to invent a new word (‘bester’) because how on earth could best keep on getting better.
(Be warned: the sky is not the limit).”
(Richard, List D, No 11, 25 November 2009a)
Cheers Vineeto
• [Questioner 2]: that’s fantastic! How much success did you have with the actualism method prior to this event?
• [Geoffrey]: Enjoying and appreciating this moment of being alive… is what I do.
The method makes so much sense now. It is so obvious that is the way to live.
Prior to the event? well it is hard to quantify. I guess you’re asking if this could be considered a ‘condition’, i.e. you’d have to have reached some level of ‘success’ with the method to be able to self-immolate… I don’t think so.
Although (you would not believe how clear it is to me now that) it makes no sense at all not to be enjoying and appreciating this moment of being alive.
If I was to put any ‘conditions’ on it (I’m not) it would have to do with knowing what you’re aiming for and going for it (once you know, there is no choice). And for me this required numerous PCEs, and a solid connexion to Pure Intent.
The method is imitative of the actual. In my understanding the correct application of the [actualism] method was through the ‘naive remembrance’/the ‘presentiation’ of the PCE…
• [Questioner 2]: thanks Geoffrey, do you have any tips on enjoying and appreciating? I don’t find I can just will myself to feel good? I have had one PCE but I’m not able to rememorate the ambiance of it; although I do get a taste of something sometimes when watching the DVDs.>
• [Geoffrey]: When I encountered actualism I remembered only one PCE, from years before (this memory was, I guess, why actualism immediately made sense). But as a memory it was not satisfactory, as that PCE happened in some ‘spiritual’ context, and obviously quickly devolved into an ASC. The first goal I set for myself as an ‘actualist’ was to have another PCE, a ‘clean’ one, to use as a benchmark. And for a few weeks I worked on ‘inducing’ a PCE, reading anything available on the topic, and focusing on that intent. Once I’d had (a few) PCEs, and established a connexion to pure intent, I found that ‘feeling good’ just made sense. That ‘enjoying and appreciating this moment of being alive’ just made sense. It was never an ‘effort’ for me. And it didn’t require a ‘commitment’. It just made sense.
• [Questioner 5]: Incredible and inspiring stuff. Love the way you’ve described everything so simply and elegantly. Can you tell me what things were like in the weeks or months before before you decided to allow pure intent to be dynamically operative and self-immolation to occur? e.g. was there a gradual buildup? were you engaged with the question of self-immolation, having regular PCE’s or maybe not really doing much?
• [Geoffrey]: That is another one where I have to say again that this is not advice, but only my report. Anyone’s way is going to be different.
Here is what I posted here on the 4th of September, when coming back from a few months ‘away’:
“Well, I felt like I was hitting a wall again and again regarding going further towards self-immolation. I knew it had something to do with ‘trying’ to much, or ‘doing’ too much. That I was, in my ‘adventures’, stuck inside ‘me’, that it was all (but PCEs and Pure intent) inside ‘my’ realm, whatever I was doing.
So I decided I needed a holiday from ‘doing’, from ‘trying’. There must have been some actualist morality in my endeavours, and some cunning, that kept me inside ‘me’ while faking ‘progress’ towards the end of ‘me’.
So I closed Slack [actualism discussion forum] and went on with my life. Not ‘pushing’ towards anything. I found out I enjoyed and appreciated, without it being something I was ‘supposed’ to do. I had EEs here and there, quite a few realizations. And it was all much more easy and peaceful, ‘natural’ somehow, without the ‘pressure’ I was putting on myself to ‘perform’ actualism-wise.
No PCEs though… until a few days ago. This PCE got me back here. And back on track towards self-immolation.”
What I would add now, in hindsight, is what I’d done in those months was getting rid of excessive ‘luggage’, and keeping nothing but the memory of the PCE and pure intent, but not as something I was supposed to do as an actualist, not as an ‘accessory’ to the goal of self-immolating, but as something that was ‘naturally’ in my mind, like the air I breathed.
Then that spontaneous PCE occurred, and I was ready.
