Vineeto to Kuba: Thank you for this perspective, it explains why ‘Vineeto’ did not recognize the peasant mentality and even after becoming actually free I took some time after Richard talked about it to wrap my mind around it.
Shashank: Hi Vineeto
When I had first read about this very interesting idea of peasant mentality from Richard, it appeared like such a deep yet overlooked thing in me that I couldn’t help but wonder how there wasn’t any mention about this in Peter and your accounts in the Journals and correspondences and I wondered if anyone can become free without tackling this.
So upon asking Richard about this he had clarified thusly (Richard, List D, No. 32a, 19 June 2015). 
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Hi Shashank,
Thank you for the link. I was well aware of that correspondence as I used it in the article “Basic to Full Actual Freedom” (link) which principally deals with the peasant mentality. I just now realized it was your correspondence 
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The reason I wrote to Kuba that “‘Vineeto’ did not recognize the peasant mentality” was because when we discussed the issue of loyalty (regarding parents in the audio-taped dialogues) (link) and regarding the spiritual community, the term peasant mentality was not mentioned, even though loyalty is the hallmark of ‘peasant-mentality’.
As Richard explained, ‘Vineeto’ “had shifted ‘her’ familially-inculcated and societally-instilled allegiance to ‘the system’ at large over onto the spiritual commune” and therefore had no issue with real-world peasant-mentality topics such as career, status, wealth and ‘disguised slavery’ except those applicable in the commune. For instance, the ‘slavery’ consisted of doing work without pay in order to belong to a slightly more privileged ‘inner’ circle.
As I explained in the above-mentioned article and in ‘Vineeto’s’ correspondence, it took ‘her’ several months to completely resolve the loyalty to the spiritual commune. By the time ‘Vineeto’ became actually free, all aspects of the peasant mentality had been fully resolved.
The penny dropped much later when it was discussed on the mailing list after the visit of Jonathan, Claudiu, Srinath, Alan and Adam in 2015 that peasant-mentality was the same issue as ‘Vineeto’s’ struggling with loyalty. Only then I fully understood intellectually how it all hangs together. I much appreciate your clarifying question at the time.
Perhaps this clears up the apparent contradiction.
Cheers Vineeto