Wow what an incredible way to describe the goal and the kind of motivation needed, my guess is this is what Alan was referring to back then when he wrote “I wish I could remember exactly what Richard said but that’s the best I can do now.” :
Geoffrey: Wait what? Writing “AF” instead of “actually free from the human condition” is watering it down?
Alan: It is ‘watering it down’ in the sense that it makes it easy to forget that one’s aim is to be free of the human condition. It is ‘reducing it’, making it sort of matter of fact, no big deal – it isn’t, it is a major thing. I wish I could remember exactly what Richard said but that’s the best I can do now.
This post came at a good time because the past week or two it seems I have not been allowing myself to be seduced any further in this way. When I wrote the below post it seemed I was very close - Kub933's Journal - #1115 by Kub933, things were happening exactly in this way, being drawn ever closer to pure intent, with the experiences of sweetness and magic accompanying the movement forward, providing assurance that I am moving closer to my destiny.
But this movement has halted somewhat and it is almost as if I have been content to remain where I am, although content is not really the right word, it’s more that there is an obstruction which is holding me back, I am no longer allowing myself to be seduced further. Although the wonderful thing I noticed just now is that the mere fact of me writing this post out has already resumed this seduction haha!
OK so I can see now that the part of ‘me’ standing behind the objection will need to be unravelled BUT the unravelling is done via allowing pure intent whereas experiencing this aspect of ‘me’ fully is the “parenthesis” period.
It is odd because the past week or two it’s as if ‘I’ had put a halt on pure intent unravelling ‘me’ any further, now it is has resumed and it makes perfect sense all over again. I am reminded of exactly what Vinneto wrote below :
Which means, being confronted with some occurring obstacle, which is part and parcel of investigating the human condition, is not the same thing as falling back to normal. It’s part and parcel of the actualism process as long as you connect back with pure intent and continue to experience that the brakes don’t work at the end of the “parenthesis” period.
And what @claudiu wrote here :
I am pleased to report that as of August 20th, an out-from-control virtual freedom has resumed
It is funny because the current experience is such that I had been out-from-control the entire time.
How odd indeed but also how incredible, it seems all aspects of the human condition will need to be experienced fully, including any objection (no matter how seemingly small or insignificant) hence the “parenthesis” period, once this period is over ‘I’ am once more being unravelled via pure intent. So I began writing this post to clarify the way forward again and it seems this happened before I even got to finish writing it!