Thank you for this, @rick.
It came at the right time and I experienced it as ‘flanking’ me, as in ‘from an unexpected angle.’ I have emphasized the ‘autonomy’ aspect of freedom to such a degree… it has been one of the main attributes ‘I’ took away from my past PCEs. And I have been missing the depth of the intimacy that is there.
Of course you are right. The dissolution of self is intimacy. Dissolving into closeness with the other is freedom.
All I’m experiencing is a crystallization into ‘love’ rather than the full-monty intimacy.
We are all alive here on this earth at this moment and only this moment. It is not to be missed. Any boundary, any distance, is to miss it.