Guys, I remember starting a thread ages ago here when I joined about thought in actual freedom. I wanted to know what it would be like to have some kind of benchmark. Well now I’m here I can say it definitely indeed the total opposite of spiritual enlightenment with its disdain for and misplaced blame on thought. This mind, now free of the instinctual passions, is having the effin’ time of its effin’ life. It is running and jumping around like a gleeful child who has just come out of spending what seems to have been an eternity in timeout. It’s so much fun. There is so much clarity to it. It hasn’t lost any of the accumulated information from its days of imprisonment by the parasite that resided in this body not too long ago.
So having said all that here are today’s reflections/observations/thoughts that popped up and got jotted down:
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A tip I’ve come up with regarding the remembrance of the PCE and a way to get as much out of memories of them as possible is to try and remember specifically how differently you reacted/responded (in all possible ways) to people, places and things that normally would anger/sadden you as well as would stir compassion/lust/avarice in you.
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Hearing has improved significantly. I’d have to have the volume on bedroom telly on about 8 or 9 to follow a movie or program properly. Now able to follow with utter ease on 5!
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In actual freedom there is no one that you cannot have a fruitful/enjoyable discussion with. Every time metaphysical terminology is used by someone you are engaging with you can delve into the rabbit hole with the person you are talking to and get down to the fact they are unknowingly referring to and aren’t seeing clearly. You can always bring clarity to any exchange. Absolutely any! It is fun talking to religious folk, political folk, sports folk etc. There are only facts! It is impossible to not be talking about facts. There is only a spectrum ranging from distorted perception of the facts and unmediated perception of the facts.
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I used to have the habit of when not hearing or understanding someone just nodding or saying “oh yeah” or “right” instead of telling them that I didn’t understand and asking them to repeat/clarify/amplify. I no longer have this habit. I nearly drove a Colombian friend who speaks too fast for me mad by saying “perdón?” a good few times
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There was the thought that as the number of arbitrary identities or identifiers increases, there is greater opportunity to argue for the elimination of identity altogether. So all these silly additions isn’t necessarily bad news. Of course, none of this really matters in the long run, but nevertheless… With more identities, each one becomes weaker, potentially making it easier for them to unravel. This appears to have been my situation, as my social identity was highly contradictory and unstable, stemming from a mixed, diverse, and often irreconcilable ethnic, linguistic, religious, non-religious, and political background. Essentially, it’s like applying market dynamics to identity.