Hello all, I'm Roy

[roy]

Hello all, I’m Roy Nice to meet you!

I haven’t introduced myself yet. I’m in my late thirties, I live in Portugal, I have a christian background and have no spiritual background whatsoever. The only things I “learned” from spiritual practices are from reading from the scientists and “non-dualism practitioners” Gary Weber and Sam Harris. I found the Actual Freedom website by chance, because I ended up on the domain “actualism.app”. Prior to that, my search for answers had focused mostly on philosophy (mostly the stoic Seneca and a little bit of Nietzsche) and psychology (mostly Alfred Adler). I also briefly explored the World Transformation Movement (humancondition.com).

This search has started a long long time ago. I found the Actual Freedom website on October 2024 (possibly earlier). Only around a month ago I actually understood what the actualism method is about thanks to some exchanges with @claudiu in my journal. Now all of my free time is in a way or another applied to this pursuit of working on examining and deconstructing my ‘self’.

I just shared my current understanding of actual freedom in this thread:

Attempt at an introduction from a novice (who doesn’t come from a spiritual background)

Hi! How are you experiencing this moment of being alive? This is a compilation of lessons I learned somewhat recently from reading about the human condition, mostly from the Actual Freedom website, and, most importantly, from my own experience of applying the actualism method for around a month now. This may or may not be useful to someone new to Actual Freedom, but I’m sharing it in case it helps. I chose to focus on a few core concepts and avoided introducing to…