Vineeto: “It is such a sweet, tender and continuously uplifting experience to experience pure intent on a permanent basis, and it will guide you securely to the next step you need to take.”
James: @Vineeto This is so perfectly said. How can I not give it my all no matter what as Richard would say?
Feeling good, enjoying and appreciating. Coming close to pure intent by remembering the purity of my last pce. Not quite there yet. It’s like a peacefulness that’s readily available just a step away from pure intent. I am quite sure that pure intent is attainable.
James: Feeling good, enjoying and appreciating. Coming close to pure intent by remembering the purity of my last pce. Not quite there yet. It’s like a peacefulness that’s readily available just a step away from pure intent. I am quite sure that pure intent is attainable.
Hi James,
Yes, this is the moment - the moment you have been waiting for, your number one aim in your life … the moment to all the pure intent to bring all of you on board and allow the magic to happen.
You can give the permission now, with your whole being, give permission to allow pure intent to draw you forth.
What a marvellous time we are living in.
Cheers Vineeto
Been experiencing increased enjoyment, appreciation and perfection. Still no pure intent yet. Not sure how to “give permission ‘with my whole being’ to allow pure intent to draw me forth.” What exactly does “with my whole being” mean?
James: Been experiencing increased enjoyment, appreciation and perfection. Still no pure intent yet. Not sure how to “give permission ‘with my whole being’ to allow pure intent to draw me forth.”
Hi @James,
It’s great to hear that “enjoyment, appreciation and perfection” are increasing.
Can you rememorate your last PCE? That’s where you find pure intent. The memory of a pure consciousness experience is your guiding light – it shows you what is possible when the ‘self’ disappears. Only when you can tune into pure intent will you be able to give permission to draw you forth.
In the meantime, you continue to experience and increase “enjoyment, appreciation and perfection” as much as possible.
James: What exactly does “with my whole being” mean?
It means that there is not a single objection “to step out of the real world into this actual world and leave ‘yourself’ behind where ‘you’ belong”.
Again, I ask you – what do you have to lose? You know with certainty that you will physically die. Why not give permission to “leave ‘yourself’ behind” before you physically die. Richard used to ask himself, what am I saving ‘myself’ for? There is nothing you can take with you when you die. You have literally nothing to lose but your affective identity and what you can gain is immense. As Richard put it –
[Richard]: “This is ‘my’ moment of glory; this is ‘my’ crowning achievement; this makes ‘my’ petty life all worthwhile; this is ‘my’ most noble sacrifice for ‘I’ am what ‘I’ hold most dear; this is ‘my’ legacy for all humankind; ‘my’ reward is to go blessedly into the oblivion ‘I’ have secretly craved all along.
‘My’ extinction made all this possible.
Regards, Richard.
P.S.: The key-word is: inevitability.” (link)
Cheers Vineeto
V: Can you remember your last PCE?
jj: Yes, I can remember my last PCE. I remember the purity of it which was stunning. It was so clear and so pure. I seem close to it right now.
V: “Only when you can tune into pure intent will you be able to give permission to draw you forth.”
jj: What exactly do you mean by “draw you forth” ?
I do see that what you mean that “with my whole being” means when there is not a single objection left to stepping out of the real world into the actual world.
It also makes sense that I have nothing to lose but my affective identity.
I am in a perfect place to allow this to happen.
I have nothing to lose but my ‘self’.
I see that all I have to do is give myself permission.
This is absolutely doable.
I do see that it is inevitable now.
Pure intent is inevitable.
Hi James,
Excellent.
“Pure intent drawing you forth” means you are so attracted by the sweetness and tenderness of pure intent that you can’t and don’t want to resist.
Enjoy.
Cheers Vineeto
Do you have to have a PCE to tap in to pure intent?
James: Do you have to have a PCE to tap in to pure intent?
Hi James,
I found where Richard gave an answer to this very same question on you posed to him on 7 February 2012 -
RESPONDENT: [Richard]: […] that ‘over-arching benevolence and benignity’ […] was also accessible at-a-distance (hence the thirty-day trial at that time), as a rather remarkable man on another continent has amply demonstrated, and has been described by him upon meeting in person as a ‘gentle energy’ and a ‘harmless energy’ which is ‘emanating all around (not directional, like a guru to a devotee, and not at all gross)’.
‘At a distance’. You can’t mean that India is ‘at a distance’ from the universe so what do you mean?
RICHARD: G’day No. 23, What I mean is exactly what I wrote in the email you isolated that above text from. Viz.:[Richard]: ‘(…) that ‘over-arching benevolence and benignity’, which the feeling-being inhabiting this flesh-and-blood body all those years ago experienced and named ‘pure intent’, became directly accessible to some select associates during a specific situational setting called ‘The Second Convivium Gathering’, in late 2009/ early 2010, and was variously experienced by them as a ‘palpable sweetness’, for instance, and an ‘infinite tenderness’, for example, and has been more generally described as ‘being bathed in intimacy’. It was also accessible at-a-distance (hence the thirty-day trial at that time), as a rather remarkable man on another continent has amply demonstrated (…)’. (Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 17).
My words ‘on another continent’ refer to different continent than the one on which the specific situational setting called ‘The Second Convivium Gathering’ took place in late 2009/ early 2010.
RESPONDENT: You make like the ‘over-arching benevolence and benignity’ is actually coming from you …
RICHARD: I did not [quote] ‘make like’ [endquote] anything; what I wrote about, in that email you isolated that (now further above) text from, is precisely in accord with what those opening words of mine to No. 17 readily convey. Viz.:[Richard]: ‘My response (above) was both in the context of your query as to whether a PCE is necessary for pure intent and your follow-up explanation to John about the last paragraph of ‘Addendum No. 7’ (that to be actually free from the human condition is to be that pure intent)’. (Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 17).
And the operative words in the last paragraph of that ‘Addendum No. 7’ which No. 17 quoted in his follow-up explanation to No. 24 are as follows. Viz.:
[quote]: ‘(…) to be actually free from the human condition is to be that pure intent … as in, to be that benevolence and benignity as a flesh-and-blood body only’. [emphasis in original]. (link) (Latest Announcement, Addendum 6).
RESPONDENT: … which would mean that it is directional …
RICHARD: First and foremost: what part of the words [quote] ‘emanating all around’ [endquote] is it that you derive the meaning that it is directional from?
Second, are you proposing that at 3:15 AM (IST) on the 4th of January, 2010, I paused in what I was doing and turned so as to zero in on ultra-precise map co-ordinates – and such precision is called for as there may very well still have been another person sleeping on the other side of the bed – and zapped that (otherwise) rather remarkable man, smack dead centre, with a liberating bolt of pure intent?
Lastly, in such a scenario as that in what way would this man thus be considered rather remarkable?
Ha … this is all such fun, eh?
Regards, Richard. (Mailing List 'D' Respondent No. 23)
And to leave no doubt about the exact nature of pure intent -
[Richard]: Also, here is a hint for future reading: the word pure, in the phrase pure intent, indicates to a puzzling-it-out-reader that whatever it is which the word intent refers to one thing is for sure: it cannot be affective (else it be not pure). (Richard, List D Jonathan, 16 February 2014).
Cheers Vineeto
I have a sense that the universe is living me in that things seem to be happening perfectly. Still no pure intent although it can’t be far off now. In the meantime I am enjoyIng and appreciating thoroughly.
Vineeto: And to leave no doubt about the exact nature of pure intent -
[Richard]: Also, here is a hint for future reading: the word pure, in the phrase pure intent, indicates to a puzzling-it-out-reader that whatever it is which the word intent refers to one thing is for sure: it cannot be affective (else it be not pure). (Richard, List D Jonathan, 16 February 2014).
James: This quote from Richard posted by V above about pure intent really stuck with me. Especially this part: " it cannot be affective (else it would not be pure)."
The only thing I know to do to tap in to pure intent is remember the purity of it from my last PCE. So far this is not working. Like @Kub933 told me I am missing intent. It does make sense that I need to crank up intent to experience pure intent and it cannot be affective. Which begs the question: Can I have intent w/o it being affective?
To sum it all up pure intent is the intent to experience the purity.
Not at all – as Richard wrote: “it cannot be affective (else it be not pure)”.
This means whatever pure intent is, it cannot be anything that ‘I’ as a feeling-being do or that is ‘mine’ as a feeling-being.
Any intent ‘I’ have will necessarily be affective in nature, as it is something ‘I’ do or want to do or have, etc.
Pure intent has nothing to do with ‘me’ – it is entirely outside of me.
What Richard wrote to Tarin is very apropos:
Now, there is nothing tricky going on here. Of course ‘I’ have to want to experience pure intent in order to allow it to be experienced. But this desire, wish or want that ‘I’ have, is not what pure intent is. Pure intent is that purity in and of itself, which can be experienced whilst still a feeling-being.
Hope it clarifies!
Cheers,
Claudiu
Vineeto: And to leave no doubt about the exact nature of pure intent -
[Richard]: Also, here is a hint for future reading: the word pure, in the phrase pure intent, indicates to a puzzling-it-out-reader that whatever it is which the word intent refers to one thing is for sure: it cannot be affective (else it be not pure). (Richard, List D Jonathan, 16 February 2014).
James: This quote from Richard posted by Vineeto above about pure intent really stuck with me. Especially this part: “it cannot be affective (else it would not be pure).”
The only thing I know to do to tap in to pure intent is remember the purity of it from my last PCE. So far this is not working. Like Kub933 told me I am missing intent. It does make sense that I need to crank up intent to experience pure intent and it cannot be affective. Which begs the question: Can I have intent w/o it being affective?
James: To sum it all up pure intent is the intent to experience the purity.
Hi @James,
There are several ways for you to “crank up pure intent”.
For one, you can read and contemplate all of Richard’s descriptions of his various pure consciousness experiences in his selected writings (link), to which I recently added those from the tooltips of his Personal Webpage (link), where you also find even more descriptions of this kind. When you read them, slowly, with the intention to grasp and experience the flavour conveyed in those descriptions, you can get enticed to want to experience life in this perfect and delightful way as one experiences it in a PCE. The memory of your own PCE will become more vivid and, as I understand you, this is how you want to live for the rest of your life.
[Richard]: Diligent attention paid to the peak experience gives rise to pure intent. With pure intent running as a ‘golden thread’ through one’s life, reflective contemplation rapidly becomes more and more fascinating. When one is totally fascinated, reflective contemplation becomes pure awareness … and then apperception happens of itself. [link]
Your habit of summing up to a singular sentence of what Richard or I am saying is not enough now – it is the minimum approach. You want to understand it not just cognitively but experientially. In order to “crank up pure intent” to reach your destiny – something you have been on and off busy with for at least 25 years – it is now time to expand and extend yourself like never before. Viz.:
[Richard]: I have the greatest admiration for ‘Richard the identity’: He was willing to self-immolate so that I could be here. He never knew me, but was utterly confident that the universe knew what it was doing. He was happy to disappear so that all this could eventuate. He was prepared to go all the way without reservation … the ‘boots and all’ approach, he called it. What are you saving yourself for? Reach out. Extend yourself. All one gets by waiting is yet more waiting. Patience may be a virtue, but procrastination is an abomination.
Be wary of virtues … they are designed to perpetuate the self. (link)
Notice the habit to contract or withdraw and nip it in the bud when you notice it. Expand into cognitively and then experientially understanding, contemplating and imitating the actual world, which is right under your nose and all around, the exquisiteness and perfection of it. Enjoy it and then appreciate the enjoyment and thus extend and increase the marvelling and appreciating in this moment for the very fact of being alive. The sights, the sounds, the sensate experiences, the very fact that the universe exists, that you exist as a flesh-and-blood body, that you are alive this very moment, the only moment you can actually experience.
Instead of contracting, become interested, fascinated and finally obsessed by this one single aim you have in life.
As for “Which begs the question: Can I have intent w/o it being affective?” – of course you can! You quoted the answer yourself recently – (link)
James: Finally reread TMOBA after Vineeto’s suggestion and it really does say it all. Here is the last paragraph:
[Richard]: “Then there is nothing except the series of sensations which happen … not happening to an ‘I’ or a ‘me’ but just happening … moment by moment … one after another. To live life as these sensations, as distinct from having them, engenders the most astonishing sense of freedom and magic. It is all so peaceful, in this actual world; one is living in peace and tranquillity; a meaningful peace and tranquillity. Life is intrinsically purposeful, the reason for existence lies openly all around. It never goes away – nor has it ever been away – it was just that ‘I’/‘me’ was standing in the way of the meaning of life being apparent. The answer to everything that has puzzled humankind for all of human history is readily elucidated when one is actually free.”
“The ‘Mystery of Life’ has been penetrated and laid open for all those with the eyes to see.” (link)
As a final guide to how you can experience being alive non-affectively, apperceptively, here is how Richard describes “mind in neutral” –
[Richard]: • [Co-Respondent]: ‘Are you conscious now?
• [Richard]: ‘Yes.
• [Co-Respondent]: ‘Conscious of what?
• [Richard]: ‘Primarily, of the infinitude this physical universe actually is … as this flesh and blood body only (sans identity in toto) I am proprioceptively conscious of being just here, right now and, as such, the other somatic perceptions currently in operation – tactile, olfactive, visual, audile – are direct: this skin is savouring the touch, the caress, of the mid-winter [seasonal] ambience; these nostrils are rejoicing in the abundance of aromas and scents drifting fragrantly all about; these retinas are delighting in the profusion of colour and texture and form; these eardrums are revelling in the cadence of tones as their resonance and timbre fills the air.
Further to that this mind, other than the sheer enjoyment and appreciation of being alive as this flesh and blood body, is ambling along in neutral as all the while there is the apperceptive wonder that this marvellous paradise actually exists in all its vast array’. (link)
Cheers Vineeto
It’s now or never. I need to press on. I can’t let the pain stop me. Richard had this kind of pain and it didn’t stop him. I’ve got the only fully free person on the planet ready, willing and able to help me along with others. This is not the time to give up and settle for second best. I need to attune to pure intent.
Claudiu: “Pure intent is that purity in and of itself, which can be experienced whilst still a feeling-being.”
James: This last sentence clicks for me.
The key to pure intent is to keep increasing my awareness of the senses and to remember the purity of my last pce.
[Richard]: Diligent attention paid to the peak experience gives rise to pure intent. With pure intent running as a ‘golden thread’ through one’s life, reflective contemplation rapidly becomes more and more fascinating. When one is totally fascinated, reflective contemplation becomes pure awareness … and then apperception happens of itself. [link]
Feeling good/great, enjoying, appreciating and experiencing perfection. I have noticed a potential trap: When I am enjoying and appreciating and everything is so perfect then there seems no need for pure intent. The trap is settling for this which is still second best. I need to keep striving for pure intent which will lead me to where I need to go. Also, what I am experiencing is still transient. It is not the end result.
When I focus on increasing my awareness of the senses and remember the purity of my last PCE I go right to the edge of pure intent w/o crossing over. I don’t know what stops me. Why can’t I crossover into pure intent when I am on the edge of it?
James: When I focus on increasing my awareness of the senses and remember the purity of my last PCE I go right to the edge of pure intent w/o crossing over. I don’t know what stops me. Why can’t I crossover into pure intent when I am on the edge of it?
Hi James,
You-the-identity cannot “crossover” – you-the-identity will never experience the actual world. So when you are “on the edge of it”, it means you are about to disappear. This prospect is what presently stops you.
But you-the-identity can come to the point of acquiescence when you can see that you-the-identity is altogether redundant – no longer required to rule your life in the clear rememoration of your PCE.
In the meantime, you increase enjoyment and increase appreciation of being alive and mimic the actual to the point where there is barely any difference between what you are experiencing and what you tangibly rememorate the actual world to be like.
Then you-the-identity can gladly agree to disappear.
Cheers Vineeto