Hi Hanalia,
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Hi all,
Now that Chaz aka PWR has returned after his most recent swan-song (link), suggesting people should email him privately so as to avoid the scrutiny of “biased moderators or Guardians to dogmatize or censor you” (link) I will add a few more comments for a clarification, particularly for those who are seduced by the words of “no resistance”.
Since becoming actually free I have lost the capacity/ faculty to believe. I simply cannot believe anything, full stop. After all, etymologically, ‘belief’ means fervently wishing to be true [etymologically, ‘trust’ – a covenant with ‘the true’ – is in the same category as faith – loyalty to ‘the true’ – and both are aligned with ‘belief’; Proto-West Germanic “ga-laubon”: This Proto-Germanic word meant “to hold dear, esteem, trust”. (Wiktionary].
Especially in the situation when someone claims an actual freedom I would highly recommend the approach of suspending both belief and disbelief until clear facts are established in order to avoid confusion by disinformation.
Anastasis
Belief: PWR claims that he needs “anonymity” because of something he calls “Anastasis”.
Fact: Anastasis according to the NIH medical dictionary = “the recovery of (physical) cells from the brink of death” .
Belief: PWR redefines “anastasis is a psychic force of external origin incapable of reaching pure consciousness but capable of affecting the internal organs of an actual free body.” He claims that actually free people can be affected by psychic forces. (link)
Fact: For an actually free person the psychic faculty is null and void because the psychic faculty (Psyche=soul, spirit) arises from the instinctual passions which have no existence in the actual world.
Richard: “Inside this body there is no ‘being’ … nothing psychological or psychic left for ‘I’ am extinct.” (Richard, List A, No. 15, #No. 09) (see Greetings to all - #56 by Vineeto for an extensive explanation).
Indication: This person’s soul is still extant, hence his fear of being susceptible to external psychic forces having physical consequence.
His description of his “new condition as an actually free man” (link)
Belief: PWR claims “liberation”, “a freed native intelligence (…) in the world where “matter is not merely passive” and “psychic emanations do not affect” him, yet he is afraid of even be known by a first name, otherwise those “psychic emanations” would negatively impact on his health.
He says he lives in “the objective material world and its phenomena reveals itself instantly to pure consciousness”. “The so-called “real” world is always seen through the optics of a tarnished and distorted lens that only creates illusions (circular emotions, feelings, beliefs and thoughts).” (link)
Fact: What becomes readily apparent, when one leaves both ‘ego’ and ‘soul’ behind via ‘self’-immolation, is the actual world, the world of mountains and streams and flora and fauna, the stars at night and the firmament in the day. In actuality I am the universe (actuality) experiencing itself as an apperceptive flesh-and-blood body.
According to his description however, there is the experience of a dichotomy – “the objective material world and its phenomena”** out there revealing “itself instantly to pure consciousness” inside of ‘me’.
Phenomena and phenomenalism are words, used by spiritualist and metaphysicians as intuited and imagined phenomena, and ambiguously in the general use. As such I prefer to say that in the actual world, where matter is not merely passive, I do experience everything my senses perceive directly as actual, not as “phenomena”.
Belief: He says he lives “24 hours a day, every day, free from this multitude of conflicting fictitious identities, is to exist and think in an almost indescribable condition”. He claims that he gained “liberation” after going through the stage of “acceptance” and as a result having “eradicate[d]” “the ego (a central operator for a legion of disconnected selves)”. Furthermore he is so demonstrably afraid of “psychic emanations” so much so that he mentions this danger in every single post he writes. [Emphases added]. (link)
Fact: There is no such thing as an “ego of disconnected selves” – the ‘self’ arises from the instinctual passions, overlaid by the social identity keeping the instinctual passions in check. When ‘being’ becomes extinct, both the ‘inner’ world and the ‘outer world’, which is created by the inner world, disappear – as such there is no “the objective material world and its phenomena” revealing itself to one’s ego-less inner world, perhaps looking like Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. (link)
He still sees the world “through the optics of a tarnished and distorted lens” of ‘being’ “that only creates illusions”. (link)
Belief: Liberation= “I value life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness”
Fact: Living in actuality I don’t have to value life because I enjoy being alive and fear of death is non-existent. I don’t have to value freedom because I am already free from the human condition and “am completely happy to be here now, securely inside eternal time.” (Richard’s Journal, Article 16). In the actual world the “pursuit of happiness” is superfluous, because simply being alive is deliciously experienced each moment of being here; the vast stillness of infinitude all around, the purity and perfection of the universe is plain to see right here, right now as I am the very experience of this purity as an apperceptive flesh-and-blood body.
Belief: UG Krishnamurti and Richard were fatally affected by anastasis [psychically created organ deterioration] – both ideas are pure fantasy.
Fact: UG Krishnamurti was spiritual and subject to occasional emotions and instinctual passions, neither free from empathetic suffering, nor from anger, desire or fear. (link) PWR’s belief in protection against ‘anastasis’ – “re-emergence of a persona” via “psychic emanations” (link) was not applicable as a belief because UG still had his psyche intact anyway.
Richard, being fully actually free was incapable of “re-emergence of a persona” – all personas are fabrications of the passionate entity inside having hijacked the body, the very entity which becomes extinct to make an actual freedom possible.
Belief: “What few people know is that Richard also used a pseudonym to remain anonymous when he started to share his method on the internet.” (link)
Fact: Richard did not use a pseudonym, that is an invention, Richard used his first name in all his writings and correspondences. I should know, I lived with him for more than a decade.
Method:
Belief: PWR claims to have “created and tested” his “suprarational methodology”. (link)
“Suprarational” means transcending or going beyond what is rational, encompassing factors that cannot be understood by reason alone. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
“Suprarational”: not understandable by reason alone, beyond rational comprehension (Dictionary.com)
As such “Suprarational” describes intuitional, subliminal, instinctual and visceral and non-sensical and irrational methodology.
Fact: Actual freedom can be clearly explained, and ratiocinatively and sensibly described to the extent that one can “make a critical examination of all the words I advance so as to ascertain if they be intrinsically self-explanatory … and only when they are seen to be inherently consistent with what is being spoken about, then the facts speak for themselves. Then one will have reason to remember a pure conscious experience (PCE), which all peoples I have spoken to at length have had, and thus verify by direct experience the facticity of what is written.
Then it is the PCE that is one’s lodestone or guiding light [a.k.a. ‘highest authority’] … not me or my words. My words then offer confirmation … and affirmation in that a fellow human being has safely walked this wide and wondrous path.” (Richard, Abditorium, Prima Facie Case).
Belief: In his summary of the PWR method its inventor states: The trick, in short, is to recognize intellectually and then experientially that that mindspace occupied by the constant (and exhausting) memory of maintaining an ego (with all its identities and reactive programs) is the only and last resistance to be overcome.
Without a resistor, even temporarily, the objective material world and its phenomena reveals itself instantly to pure consciousness. (link)
Even though he says the ego “is the only and last resistance to be overcome” he falsely and deceitfully advertises his method the “path without resistance”.
Fact: The actualism method, as described with great care and detail and with a proven track record can be practiced by anyone with sufficient interest and intent to ameliorate the human condition and/or become free from it.
Belief: PWR further expands: “I have been asked if I practiced some kind of meditation or followed some philosophy, due to the difference in my behavior and the most productive results under my leadership (in fact, the position of command that I occupy in itself prevents me from revealing my new condition as an actually free man). My answer was:
“I have found and understood the suprarational definition of two words: Exist and Object.”
“This is usually enough to discourage further interference in my personal life.” (link)
Demonstrably he is only talking about overcoming the ego (hence clearly relying on his knowledge/ understanding of the spiritual paradigm for spiritual liberation, and claiming “acceptance” as the last stage. He reveals himself as a leader, “in fact” in “the position of command” and warns people “to not reveal your actual free condition personally to third parties” on the threat of “anastasis”, in itself a “suprarational* definition”* as demonstrated above. (After all he had been admittedly an admirer of UG Krishnamurti, so much so that he wanted to translate one of his books into another language).
As per the definitions above “the supra-rational definition” for the word ‘exist’ means ‘transcendental existence’ and for the word ‘object’ it means a ‘transcendental object’, possibly a “phenomenon” of “the objective material world”. The very fact that he is proud to “discourage further interference” is revealing in itself.
Fact: In the actual world “equity and parity prevails amongst fellow human beings sans instinctual passions/ the feeling-being formed thereof.” (Richard, the Formation and Persistence of the Social Identity)
Nowhere does this promulgator of “pwr” reveal “an intimate connection, a golden thread or clew as it were, is thus established whereby one is sensitive to and receptive of the over-arching benignity and benevolence of the ‘another world’ of the PCE” (Richard, AF List, No. 27d, 23 Jan 2003) – hence his claim of many PCEs remains doubtful.
Neither do I detect even an inkling of pure intent operating, “a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself.” (Richard, Abditorium, Pure Intent).
To even consider, that this pure and perfect, benevolent and benign pure intent could operate in such a way that every revelation of the very existence of a flesh-and-blood body experiencing the purity and perfection of this infinite and eternal universe would result in organ failure and premature death is utterly preposterous and ridiculous.
Summary: This man’s experience is at best a delusional realisation, or more likely a fraudulent assimilation of borrowed words with no experiential understanding of what they mean. This is also confirmed by the fact that he shies away from rigorous questioning of his claims and experience by retreating to private messaging and emails, calling any critical questioners “biased moderators or Guardians to dogmatize or censor”. He is clearly acting like someone having something to hide (apart from a name).
As such, his so-called method, of a “path without resistance” can, if anything, only lead to where he himself it at.
Caveat emptor [Latin, ‘let the buyer beware’]. As Richard said –
Richard: Speaking personally I find the input from peoples of a religio-spiritual/ mystico-metaphysical persuasion (if that is what you are referring to by your ‘circles in a circus’ phrasing) to be a salutary example – a real-life practical illustration – that the ‘Tried and True’ is indeed the ‘Tried and Failed’.
There is nothing like a practical demonstration to drive the point home. (Richard, AF List, No. 25d, 12 Feb 2004).
I would now add pseudo-actualist persuasion to the list.
I encourage everyone to use their own capacity for critical thinking to test the sincerity and veracity of those peoples who claim to have found something better than an actual freedom, if they are indeed living what they claim.
Cheers Vineeto