I would like to introduce myself before explaining how I got here and how I am living at the moment. In any case, for professional reasons, I will preserve my anonymity.
I am a married man with no children, 51 years old. I was born and live in a certain Western nation with a Catholic majority and Iberian colonization. I don’t have a college degree, and I taught myself English so I could travel and study abroad.
In early 2007, I contacted one of U. G. Krishnamurti’s friends by email to let him know that I intended to translate and publish “The Mystique of Enlightenment” in my country. While researching this anti guru on the internet, I found a mention of him in a link that took me to the website www.actualfreedom.com.au in March 2007, the very month in which U. G. passed away. Upon discovering the real cause of U. G.'s death, and read a few pages about him on that site, I decided to cancel my editorial project and delve deeper into the words of Richard, Peter and Vineeto. In the very first articles, I recalled the “pure consciousness experiences” that filled my childhood and adolescence. And for three years I continued to read each page in detail, following the correspondence and messages, including those from groups and blogs whose members discussed and debated actualism.
Peter inaugurated the “direct route” on December 30, 2009, and the actualism method has continued to work for other pioneers. My only objection was that the brain models of neuroscientists Paul MacLean and Joseph Ledoux reused on the site www.actualfreedom.com.au were scientifically outdated. And my current intellect was incapable of accepting a “triune brain” or a “fear circuit” in the amygdala. For this reason alone, in 2011 I started planning a new method from scratch (at the time, I chose not to inform the AFT directors). After consulting different authors from different areas of human knowledge and hundreds of scientific articles, I identified what I called “the missing links of consciousness” in the works of Daniel Quinn, Julian Jaynes, Jack Trimpey, Jeremy Griffith, Iain McGilchrist, Richard E. Cytowic and Lisa Feldman Barrett.
At the end of this long research and the consequent formulation of a new method of eradicating the old, obsolete and destructive hegemonic mentality, I went through all five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance). Finally, on the night of June 9, 2024, unaware of Richard’s recent death, I went through the sixth and last of them, liberation. The method that freed the native intelligence to operate without a “censor” in the world where “matter is not merely passive” and psychic emanations do not affect it, involved a new type of union of the senses - a neurological phenomenon with causes still unknown and with a close relationship with the arts and literature - and excluded the irrational definitions of several widely accepted (although rarely questioned) theories, concepts and words.
This suprarational methodology that I created and tested proved to be effective in the face of this body’s genetic inheritance and the predatory cultural vision in which its mind grew up and was conditioned. It was a particular method, personalized by and for the peculiarities of that self-destructive individual and the violent environment in which he lived. Happily, I no longer need to apply it, because the risk of an anastasis has been nullified, and now I can share here some discoveries and sources of reference as well as compare notes with others who may be on the “plateau”, that threshold between the divided mind and pure consciousness, or between virtual and actual freedom.
Moving—and contemplating—trusting the path without resistance so evident in the universe, was both the beginning, the middle, and the end for “me.”
