Kuba: My sights have been constantly on actual freedom, although there has been so much enjoyment and appreciation in the meantime. Since the other day it has happened a few times that I experienced the sweetness of pure intent and following in that direction there were glimpses of the actual world, where there is only that pure intent, everywhere all at once. And this feature is outstanding too, that this what is happening now is so incredible, and yet that world (where pure intent is everywhere all at once / all that is left) is another ballgame altogether.
I am not sure if there is anything else that ‘I’ need to do / can do, which is not already happening. It looks now that I am only left with what Richard wrote here :
Richard: After living in the condition of virtual freedom for sufficient time to absorb all the ramifications of a blithesome life, it is highly likely that the ultimate condition can happen. ‘I’ do not make it happen, because ‘I’ cannot make it happen. What is more … ‘I’ am not required to make it happen. An actual freedom happens of itself only when one is fully ready, and not before. One has to become acclimatised to benignity, benevolence and blitheness, because the purity of the actual is so powerful that it would “blow the fuses” if one was to venture into this territory ill-prepared. To precipitously apprehend the vast stillness of infinitude would be too much, too fast, too soon … one could go mad with the super-abundance of pleasure that pours forth. The in-built tendency of the universe to achieve the optimum knows best as to when the time is right. (Richard’s Journal, Article 23, pp. 168/169)
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Hi Kuba,
I much appreciate your delightful reports. As you noticed I have taken a backseat on commenting to what you write as it is explicit in itself. Regarding your remark that “I am not sure if there is anything else that ‘I’ need to do / can do, which is not already happening” I just found a succinct summary of Respondent No. 4, List D, which expresses what he described as the actualism process (whilst still in-control himself) –
Richard: His summary at Message No. 8138 contains the most succinct way I have seen to deliver the essence of how actualism operates (the second last paragraph) –
Respondent No. 4: It all starts with being as fundamentally benign as possible. That’s the bedrock on which you can base an in-control happiness … which can then lead to an out-from-control happiness/ delight/ wonderment … which leads to more and more direct experiences of the actual world … where everything is doing itself.
And once you tap into this often enough, and the sheer (f)actuality of the universe is what eventually does ‘you’ in. (Message 8138, 11 December 2009)
The addition from the closing paragraph of the same post is for sheer enjoyment –
Richard: I will leave the remainder of your response for another day as … um … as The-Lady-Who-Had-The-5-Month-PCE and The-Spouse-Of-The-Lady-Who-Had-The-Five-Month-PCE will be arriving shortly to spend the day with me.
As that laboured nomenclature is somehow reminiscent of Mr. Rolf Harris’ ditty ‘The Court of King Caractacus’ I will be making it a first priority to have them both come up with something much simpler.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=OShfQ0epVGE&feature=player_embedded).
As to “the sheer (f)actuality of the universe is what eventually does ‘you’ in”, this excerpt from the Direct Route correspondence may be informative –
Subscriber No. 10: Could you describe any differences (no matter how subtle) between actual freedom and PCE’s?
Vineeto: It’s not subtle at all.
The PCE always had a ‘WOW’-factor, which happens when the identity (in abeyance) comments on this body’s experience of the actual world. In an actual freedom this ‘WOW’-factor is absent – everything is just ordinary and magical at the same time.
In a PCE I always knew (apart from the very first PCE) that this experience would eventually fade whereas an actual freedom is forever and can therefore be explored far deeper and infinitely further (literally) than any PCE ever could.
A PCE has a static quality to it as the identity is in abeyance and temporarily ‘allows’ this flesh and blood body a brief glimpse into the actual world whereas an actual freedom is the dynamic vital in-depth and forever ongoing experience of the magic quality of actuality each moment again.
Subscriber No. 10: This ‘sweetness’ that is talked about is still affective? So, it is as close as a feeling-entity can be to actual freedom, but it is not as close to actual freedom as a PCE?
Vineeto: Peter wrote in his report – Peter: “a sweetness that was palpable rather than feeling based. I heard the words ‘This is not only for me, this is for everybody’ as I was literally being bathed in this sweetness.”
I [‘Vineeto’] reported that “I had known this sweetness from previous occasions – one such experience happened during the video-shoot of the ‘Out-from-Control’ DVD we present on the website. This sweetness always accompanied an experience (…) that I was close to my destiny and an awareness that what I am doing/ longing for is not merely for my ‘peace of mind’, but that it is for everybody, for every single man, woman and child on the planet – for peace on earth.”
This experience of sweetness is about being close to one’s destiny (actual freedom) whereas a PCE is a glimpse into the actual world that can happen anywhere/ anywhen on the path/ during the process to one’s destiny. (Direct Route, No. 10, 15 Jan 2010).
Cheers Vineeto