Claudiu: It does seem like the key at this final stage is sensuousness.
I reread Geoffrey’s report and noticed that what he had been doing while doing nothing but allowing self-immolation to happen, is revelling in sensuousness and pure intent!
A naive sensuousness is what led to my rock solid PCE that removed any remaining doubts.
Sensuousness is the “thing to do” with all my freed up energy.
Sensuousness is the gateway into actuality.
Sensuousness points and orients me to the actual world.
I don’t have to worry or fret about self-immolating or “making progress”. Instead I can be carefree, assured it will happen, so long as I do my part which is revelling and delighting in sensuousness! But I don’t have to do anything other than that, is the point. I don’t have to worry about it, the universe will do it.
It doesn’t mean I can ‘relax’ as in going back to my old ways. That takes me further away. But I can go forward via sensuousness — I don’t know precisely the mechanism of how I will self-immolate but I am really pretty sure that sensuousness will lead to it happening!
Hi @Claudiu,
You are exactly right.
Feeling being ‘Richard’ started by deliberately imitating the actual,
[Richard]: Look, ‘he’ was just a simple boy from the farm (not at all sophisticated) and what ‘he’ set about doing, consciously and with knowledge aforethought, was to deliberately imitate the actual – as experienced six months prior in a four-hour pure consciousness experience (PCE) … (AF List, No. 68d, 28 Oct 2005).
and continued to do so via what is now known as the Actualism method –
“The means to the end – an ongoing enjoyment and appreciation – are no different to the end.” (4th scrolling banner).”
And here is Richard’s description of what life is like after actual freedom which is no different to “the means to the end” –
• [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 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’. (Abditorium, Mind in Neutral).
You might like this quote for even more marvelling in your sensuous contemplations –
Sensuousness is the wondrous awareness of the marvel of being here now at this moment in time and this place in space. Attentiveness is the fascination of the reflective contemplation that this moment is one’s only moment of being alive – and one is never alive at any other time than now. Wherever one is … now … one is always here … now … even if one starts walking over to ‘there’ … now … along the way to ‘there’ … now … one is always here … now … and when one arrives ‘there’ … now … it too is here … now.
Thus attentiveness is an attraction to the fact that one is always here – and it is already now – and as one is already here and it is always now then one has arrived before one starts. This delicious wonder fosters the innate condition of naiveté (which is the closest one can get to innocence) the nourishing of which is essential if the charm of it all is to occur. The potent combination of attentiveness – fascinated reflective contemplation – and sensuousness produces apperception, which happens when the mind becomes aware of itself.
One is intimately aware that this physical space of this universe is infinite and its time is eternal … thus the infinitude of this very material universe has no beginning and no ending and therefore no middle. There are no edges to this universe, which means that there is no centre, either. We are all coming from nowhere and are not going anywhere for there is nowhere to come from nor anywhere to go to. We are nowhere in particular … which means we are anywhere at all. In the infinitude of the universe one finds oneself to be already here, and as it is always now, one can not get away from this place in space and this moment in time.
By being here as-this-body one finds that this moment in time has no duration as in now and then – because the immediate is the ultimate – and that this place in space has no distance as in here and there – for the relative is the absolute.
In other words: One is already here as it is always now. (Richard’s Journal, 1997, Appendix Five)
Cheers Vineeto