Hi Ed,
Neither do I, I only know that it does happen that way.
Your “impression” is correct insofar that one needs to be sensitive regarding pure intent, and being as felicitous and innocuous as possible (because it makes sense) means you are becoming more benevolent and benign, which are exactly the qualities you want to experience when you are looking for pure intent. What Richard said about a PCE applies equally to experiencing pure intent –
Richard: A happy and harmless person has a much better chance of precipitating a PCE … which is the essential pre-requisite for an actual freedom (otherwise this is all theory). It goes without saying, surely, that a grumpy person locks themselves out of being here … now. (Richard, AF List, No. 3, 14 Feb 1999)
Richard: Just this: the more one enjoys and appreciates simply being alive – to the point of excellence being the norm – the greater the likelihood of a PCE happening … a bored, nervous, scared, regretful, and etcetera, person has no chance whatsoever of allowing the magical event, which indubitably shows where everyone has being going awry, to occur.
It really is as straightforward as that. (Richard, AF List, Rick-a, 4 Mar 2006).Richard: In order to facilitate a PCE happening, one needs to see the place pride and humility plays in one’s life. ‘I’ am proud of ‘my’ major achievement … which is maintaining ‘myself’ as an identity. ‘I’ will do anything but relinquish ‘my’ grip on this flesh-and-blood body, including humbling ‘myself’ before some God in order to ameliorate the pernicious effects of pride. However, humility is merely the antidote to pride … and they feed of each other, continuously. For example, one cannot but feel proud of one’s accomplishment of self-abasing humility … it is in the nature of the entity to do so. A humbled self is still a self, nonetheless, leaving one proud of one’s performance. When one realises how silly all this is; when one sees that pride and humility are standing in the way of freedom from all self centred activity, something astounding occurs. ‘I’ vanish. I am simply here where I have always been … and pride, with its companion in arms, humility, has disappeared along with all the other feelings. I am free to be here now in 127 the world as-it-is. Unadorned and unencumbered, I can stand on my own two feet, owing allegiance to no-one. (Richard’s Journal, Article Seventeen, p. 127)
Ed: It also seems like a very rare occurrence on a feeling-being’s journey towards a basic actual freedom. Feeling-being Vineeto only experienced it once(?) or twice? Namely, in the out-from-control dvd and the lead up to becoming basically free. For feeling-being Peter it happened in the lead-up to becoming basically free. But then there is this other gentleman in a different location that also experienced it at the same time as you and Richard – fantastic. Does it rise-and-fall in intensity?
Ha, you just reiterated yourself that “because Devika is no longer manifesting a force-field in the psychic-web protecting all from Richard”, which manifestation ended with her death on 15 Nov 2009. Hence there was not much time to experience the benefit of Richard being pure intent personified before both Peter and myself became actually free. For you to be able to access it, it makes no difference if it happened rarely or was “very rare” but if you are sensitive to it or not. For the pioneers in 2009/2010 it had primarily to do with a near-actual intimacy, as you can see in the “Sweetness” Article.
You yourself spent a whole week in the presence of two fully actually free people and did not experience it once, nor did many others of the visitors. It’s a matter of “allowing it to happen” (not of demanding/ expecting it on some statistical precedence). You can read more in the many answers Richard gave to “How do I Induce a PCE”.
Ed: I’ve read much of what Richard wrote about pure intent as well as what feeling-beings Peter and Vineeto wrote and I notice a difference between the two. Often, what feeling-being Peter and Vineeto wrote makes more sense to me, while what Richard wrote does not. I believe it’s is an experiential issue on my end and I eagerly look forward to the day where I can verify and make sense of what Richard reports. For example:
‘Vineeto’: When you have the intent to become free from your insidious good and bad feelings in order to experience the felicitous feelings each moment again, then the investigation into your beliefs and feelings has a purpose and a direction and as such will show incremental success. Vineeto SC Sincere Intent, Pure Intent
Is more understandable to me than:
Richard: Pure intent is a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity which originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself. Once set in motion, it is no longer a matter of choice: it is an irresistible pull. (Actual Freedom Library, Pure Intent).
Naturally, what a feeling being has written is more relatable for a feeling being. However, in the quote you gave, ‘Vineeto’ only talked about the sincere intent “to become free from your insidious good and bad feelings” not of experiencing “a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity”. It is indeed “an experiential issue”.
Ed: Though I can relate to the irresistible pull, I cannot detect a stream of benevolence.
Thanks for your continued responses and also thank you, Kuba, for putting yourself out there. These exchanges have lead to some exceptional pointers. I had a good chuckle at your comment about taking a break from actualism because in my experience such an attitude does not last very long. It is like Richard says:Richard: Once launched it is impossible to turn back and resume one’s normal life … one has to be absolutely sure that this is what one truly wants.
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It’s good to hear you experience an “irresistible pull”, what I once called the “Fatal Attraction Syndrome” (see link) with someone who fervently fought against this “irresistible pull”. ‘Peter’ once said “it becomes an obsession” (link) and ‘Vineeto’ was definitely irrevocably hocked once ‘she’ had ‘her’ first PCE. It’s the most intelligent response when finding and recognizing something so incomparably superior to life in the real world.
Make good use of this “relating to the irresistible pull” – because being vitally interested in becoming actually free from the human condition is a necessary ingredient for success.
Cheers Vineeto