Nah . Im not just dimissing advice left and right like I know everything. Im applying the advice to my own circumstances and obstacles. And from that, drawing my own insights.
In terms of your map analogy - it’s not like the school and the hill thing. Because the obstacles you will face are entirely unique to you. The map doesn’t show you
any of the obstacles that will stop you along the way - and we all have different ones.
So it’s like Richard says ‘head north’ - but you and I might be starting with 1000km distance between each other. Or you might get find it easy right close to the end and hit a massive wall of fear that you never get past. Or Srinath may have got stuck because he had social identity stuff. Vineeto ran away from actualism for 2 years at the very start. It’s individual.
But I’m not sure in any case how the following was not clear (and moderate - seen as you seem to like to be moderate) enough for you:
I’m advising people to follow their own experience, and see what works and what doesn’t.
In my view the actualism website essentially gives you some parameters, to guide you towards the experience of the PCE. But it isn’t some perfect toolkit thing which you just follow and it works - that’s clear.
Another aspect is where you start from. People all have different psychology, different baselines, different personalities, different circumstances etc.
You can tell all people “head north and you’ll get there” but getting there - including obstacles faced along the way and the time it takes to reach the destination - is entirely dependent on where an individual starts.
So why do you take issue with me describing my progress with becoming free (in my own diary, no less)? It’s called the psychic maze for a reason😃. And guess what, with a maze you hit roadblocks. You take wrong turns. You question things and reconsider your approach at different points.
Do you think that’s not allowed? Maybe you have a fear of stepping outside the bounds, or a belief in being well behaved on some level, if you are pulling me for supposed insubordination. Coming up against that would be one example of an obstacle of yours that would hinder your progress. If you were to only trust the map in that instance, but not your own experience and intelligence, you wouldn’t have any of your own intuition to rely on.
The whole point of actualism is to have the obstacle of yourself. If you already felt perfect all the time, you would already be free. So you’re being covertly hypocritical/holier than thou - because you can’t say that you do feel good come what may (therefore there’s obstacles you have where the method isn’t working for you).