How does one self immolate and the direct path questions

[JohnE]

@Vineeto

Regarding what Geoffrey called “The Direct Path” I’m not sure what he referred to, most likely to what is referred to as “The Direct Route”, bypassing spiritual enlightenment. You could ask him.

Yes, this was a misunderstanding from my part and Kub cleared it up for me.

@Vineeto

My question to you at this point is, why do you want to ‘self’-immolate?

When I experience the world, even with just a lessened feeling of being and more towards the actual it is infinitely more enjoyable to be alive. So it makes sense to continue with that even farther as experienced in a PCE.

@Vineeto

If you do not even care about the difference of experiencing being in the real world as a feeling being or experiencing the actual world when your ‘being’ is in abeyance, then your level of interest is rather lukewarm and presently not conducive to have a fruitful conversation.

There’s a background to that statement that might make it clearer. I was never into all the maps, states stages and trying to figure out what I was experiencing while meditating and then tying that to a stage of insight etc. Instead I always found discussions like that counterproductive and was more interested in the practice than discussions about it. Similarly with actualism I know there are terms such as excellence experience etc. but I’m not sure what the definitions are for it and how many other descriptions like that there are.

So for me I instead see it as a slider where on one side I’m deep in the story about me and feelings are controlling my actions. And on the other side is the PCE.

I very much care about where on that slide I am, and I am here because I feel better when I’m more towards the PCE side of that scale and want to learn how to live there.

But if going into and learning the different names that would correlate to that scale would make that easier, then I’m open to trying that out and see if it helps.

@Vineeto

Ah, the quick if not instant way to an actual freedom – before you experientially understand what it is where you want to go. Here is what I wrote to another a few months ago who has been similarly looking for a shortcut to become free –

This is from a misunderstanding on my part. I thought there where two different methods or ways of practicing the method, one called the direct path and one the actual method. Naturally I’d be interested in hearing how the latest people to become actually free did so.

@Vineeto

Also, as a suggestion, because you said you feel “overwhelmed” by “so much text” (link) or are “not much of a reader” (link) – to read a little bit with vital interest and therefore fascinated attention can be more beneficial than ticking the box for having read a large amount with only limited interest. There are also text-to-audio applications you can research.

Someone else also suggested this to me and it’s worked well. Listening to the recordings have been a great help as well, thank you for sharing those.