Hi Kuba,
An excellent realisation.
Did you notice if out of this seeing of “the utter self-centricity of remaining within ‘humanity’” for instance did change anything in you acting in a different way?
I am asking because unless a realisation is actualised, meaning that it operates spontaneously each moment again, it remains just that … a realisation.
Respondent: I just wanted to jump in and let you all know that I’m still around. I’ve been processing AF almost constantly and realizing just how upside down it looks from a ‘real world’ point of view. Reflecting on the many instances I’ve seen where Richard says that only a handful of the hundreds of visitors to the site actually ‘get it’ – I’m beginning to understand why. It takes persistence and stubborn will not to give up – no matter what. In other words, the 180 degree metaphor is no understatement – and it’s a bit like standing on one’s head until it ‘clicks in’.
Richard: Whenever the going gets tough it may be well to remember this what you say here … many years ago, during my five years of an itinerant lifestyle, I would jot down various things in pencil in a notebook: some time later (maybe six weeks or six months) when looking back through the jottings I would quite often be taken by some of them and would wonder why I was not living them … why they were not an actuality in my life.
In short: sometimes (or even quite often) it takes a while before a realisation becomes an actualisation. (Richard, AF List, No. 27e, 3 Apr 2003).
There are more examples like this in Sundry, FAQ, No. 21a.
Cheers Vineeto