DJ123: While recently contemplating hopes and dreams for my life (and the ensuing fears of those hopes/ dreams not being realised) I stumbled upon what I felt to be the linchpin for this complex… the fear that if the instincts driving those hopes and dreams were eliminated, I may make what “I” deem to be “bad decisions", or fail to take action towards those once held hopes and dreams. I see the circular logic is faulty since if the hopes and dreams were eliminated then the future “me” would likely have no negative response to them not being realised.
Hi Dj,
Do you have any hands-on, practical experience with applying the actualism method or are those “hopes and dreams” and the consequent “fear”, which you consider “the linchpin for this complex” that you will “fail to take action towards those once held hopes and dreams” are merely the result of armchair philosophising in a vacuum?
Do you realise that by taking no action (i.e. act) in regards to getting closer to those “hopes and dreams” of becoming actually free by applying the actualism method, you have already failed “to take action towards those once held hopes and dreams”? Your “circular logic” only serves to justify doing nothing.
DJ123: Furthermore when trying to contemplate what life might be like without my goals and dreams in place, my mind projected an empty dreary future, devoid of colour. I recognise this may be a defence mechanism of the identity to keep the status quo, but it seems like what underpins this is a distrust of the actual world.
If your ‘contemplation’ (meaning: “deep, reflective thought or focused observation”) has only resulted in projecting “an empty dreary future, devoid of colour”, thereby demonstrating your obvious and ongoing ignorement/ ignoration of Richard’s descriptions of being actually free on The Actual Freedom Trust website, then your “defence mechanism of the identity” is presently so powerful that you are unable to even establish a sensible Prima Facie Case for an actual freedom from the human condition by reading with at least one eye open, if not both eyes open –
Richard: What I usually say is that there is sufficient information available on The Actual Freedom Trust web site to establish a prima-facie case worthy of further investigation – rather than capricious dismissal as having all been said before – and thus (intellectually) find out what actualism is on about … and then see what happens.
In other words: what one can do is 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).
DJ123: This context is leading to my question which is, without having had a PCE nor being able to remember one, how can I find/ develop a trust the actual world and allow myself to see the redundancy in hanging on to my feelings / instincts / hopes/ dreams etc. (link)
It is this simple – as long as you are projecting “an empty dreary future, devoid of colour” when you read the words “an actual freedom from the human condition” or “a temporary abeyance of the identity” then the last thing you want is to experience, or remember, a PCE.
And here endeth the case for the defence of ‘me’, the all-powerful, all-convincing, always-right identity – ergo there is no need to change anything.
May I ask, why do you write to this actualist forum when you have such an iron-clad case for your “distrust of the actual world”? Do you expect others to change your mind for you?
If you are genuinely looking for some factual information for a change try browsing the index and content of the 32 “Commonly Raised Objections” and the 20 “Flogged Misconceptions” to give your next “deep, reflective thought or focused observation” some substance.
Cheers Vineeto