Kuba: Also to keep in line with this conversation would it be correct to say that Richard was able to apply the method in quite a remarkable way, in that he immediately entered an out from control virtual freedom and from what I understand he remained there consistently until the diversion into enlightenment.
Hi Kuba,
Yes, Richard was able to get to an out-from-control virtual freedom very quickly, getting in touch with his buried-since-childhood naiveté by retaining the ‘holiday atmosphere’ after his three-weeks honeymoon holiday –
Richard: In 1981, as the new year dawned, I took the first step on what I would later choose to call the wide and wondrous path to an actual freedom from the human condition. I was a married man, then, with a wife and four children to support and their grandmother had offered to have all of her grandchildren stay with her in the city for a three-week holiday (which left my then wife and myself together, on our own, for the first time since the birth of the first child) (link). I grasped the opportunity with both hands to, not only regain the honeymoon intimacy of 1966, but to enable the actual intimacy experienced six months prior during the four-hour perfection experience which had indubitably evidenced that peace-on-earth was already always here. What I set about doing, consciously and with knowledge aforethought, was to deliberately imitate the actual—as so mirifically manifested in those experiences of pristine purity—each moment again.
I did everything I could to be as happy and harmless (as free of sorrow and malice) for as much as is humanly possible. This was achieved by first putting everything on a does-not-really-matter-in-the-long-run basis. That is, I would prefer people, things and events to be a particular way, but, if it did not turn out like that, it did not really matter for it was only a preference. I chose to no longer give other people—or the weather even—the power to have me annoyed, irritated, irked, or even peeved (link), if this was possible.
Then, as it was patently obvious in those experiences of pristine purity how this very moment of being alive is the only moment of ever actually being alive, I began to treat each moment again as precious. After all, it is not as if we have an unlimited amount of moments and—unlike a bank account which can be replenished—our supply of such moments is our most valuable (albeit dwindling) asset. In practical terms this meant being aware of how each precious moment was being experienced; if feeling good (felicity and innocuity) was the prevailing experience then this attentiveness ensured enjoyment and appreciation, of the sheer fact of being alive, each moment again; if feeling bad (unhappy and harmful) was the prevailing experience then whatever had displaced feeling good became readily apparent, upon such attention, with so much at stake. (Richard’s Personal Web-page)
As you can see, if you read carefully and further on, ‘his’ pure intent to imitate the actual was not only continuously active but also the willingness to make all the changes to ‘his’ attitudes, feelings and consequent behaviours, necessary to make the actual world apparent sooner rather than later.
This aspect significant is worth keeping in mind –
Richard: In the same way that excellence experiences (EE’s) were a notable feature of feeling-being ‘Richard’s virtual freedom experiencing circa March-September 1981, although of course not named as such back then, so too did intimacy experiences (IE’s) play a similarly significant role even though increasingly overshadowed by the insistent emergence of love – and, especially, Love Agapé – in the later months due to a marked lack of precedence and, thus, of any praxeological publications (nowadays made freely available on The Actual Freedom Trust web site) on the distinction betwixt the near-innocent intimacy of naïveté and the affectional intimacy of romance lore and legend. [Emphases added]. (Richard, List D, Claudiu4, 28 Jan 2016).
According to Rick’s careful time-line analysis (link) the overshadowing “by the insistent emergence of love” already started in April 1981. Rick’s verifying tooltips: (link).
Kuba: Whereas for the majority of people it seems to take a route more similar to ‘Peter’ and ‘Vineeto’ in that there is this whole bit that Richard never even went through. Which is the progression from ‘normal’ and towards a pragmatic in control virtual freedom.
What Richard had to go through instead, “due to a marked lack of precedence”, was the pioneering task of extracting himself bit by bit from the institutionalised state of insanity known as spiritual/ mystical enlightenment. It took altogether 11 years. Here I have collected a history of this mammoth enterprise from Richard’s various reports (Richard, Selected Correspondence, Enlightenment Resumé).
The aftermath of Richard’s historical breakthrough to an actual freedom is collected here (Richard, Selected Correspondence, Severe Mental Agitation).
You can watch ‘Peter’s’ video on Virtual Freedom, recording as to what were ‘Peter’s’ own initial obstacles to being happy and harmless. (Video Index)
Kuba: The bit that Richard skipped over (somehow
) is what ‘Peter’ and ‘Vineeto’ pioneered and it seems this is the bit that will be relevant for the majority of people – well certainly me. (link)
The “somehow” (which you carelessly brush aside with a laughing face as if it was not worth sincere investigation) is explained in the paragraphs quoted above –
Richard: I did everything I could to be as happy and harmless (as free of sorrow and malice) for as much as is humanly possible.
What Peter and Vineeto did is not as relevant for you as you think – they were paving the way to become actually free via not following in Richard’s footsteps, avoiding enlightenment. The looming rock of enlightenment certainly had a great impact on ‘Vineeto’ as well as on ‘Peter’. Whereas you now have no excuse to dither since the Direct Route by-passing enlightenment (which Richard rightly called the “epoch changing opening in human consciousness”) has been made accessible and proved to be successful and easy.
The directors of The Actual Freedom Trust take great pleasure in making public knowledge of a direct route at the end of the wide and wondrous path (now both gentrified and rendered secure) to an actual freedom from the human condition – a down-to-earth manumission hitherto only available dangerously via spiritual enlightenment/ mystical awakenment – which has been pioneered by Peter, on the 30th of December 2009, thus making him the first person to become actually free of the instinctual passions/ the identity formed thereof after Richard’s paradigm-shattering breakthrough in 1992.
The directors are also as equally pleased in making public knowledge of how Vineeto experientially confirmed the accessibility, safety and utter simplicity of this direct route, on the 4th of January 2010, thus making her the first woman to be actually free of the instinctual passions/ the identity formed thereof. (It is now readily apparent that, where the menfolk went, there too did a woman go … and sooner rather than eventually)!
As such, these two once-in-a-lifetime altruistic actions have ushered in a brand new era in human experience/ human history. (A Long-Awaited Announcement)
Perhaps you have not read it?
It is unfortunate that most of the next generation and the one after is apparently lacking the naïve enthusiasm and yearning for peace-on-earth, which inspired the first pioneers (you can read more here if you are interested: Richard, List D, Andrew, 28 Feb 2016, including tool-tips).
The person of Indian birth and upbringing mentioned below certainly took advantage of the newly opened Direct Route tout-de-suite and became free from the instinctual passions and the identity formed thereof without analysis what chances she might have compared to the way the other pioneers achieved an actual freedom. She just went ahead and did it –
Richard: For instance, a couple of months ago a person of Indian birth and upbringing flew into Coolangatta Airport late one night on a prearranged agreement to meet in person so as to talk about her life and to gain clarity in her life-style/ her livelihood situation.
Less than 24 hours after landing she was actually free of blind nature’s instinctual passions/the feeling-being formed thereof.
In other words, the person who landed at the airport (that feeling being who needed to gain clarity in her life-style/ her livelihood situation) vanished without a trace, in a matter of seconds, the following afternoon.
She is now living the ‘peace-on-earth’ actual freedom (as per the reports on The Actual Freedom Trust website) … (Richard, List D, No. 6, 19 Dec 2011)
Cheers Vineeto