This subject was little discussed openly in your terms, and I think it is important that you brought it up. Thanks
If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve been thinking about/working with this for more than a year now, it would seem like an incredible coincidence that yesterday I was thinking about Virtual vs Rapid (“direct” is how I refer to it, although I think that direct route was used in AFT as getting to AF without going through enlightenment…). But it happens that more and more often I have been thinking about this topic; even more since Alan’s death.
It’s because these thoughts are not abstract: they are based on the practical problems I have had over the years in getting closer to VF, even considering that my general condition tend to be good or very good and my investigations have led me to weaken my social identity quite a lot.
Yes… Part of my reflections have originated precisely in the very difficult challenges that my daily life has presented me for many years. Basically what I have been observing is that as long as my self is here (as long as I am a feeling being) it’s enough being presented with challenges/problems greater than the previous ones to reveal that its weakening has not been enough to mantain my state and thereby negatively affect other people.
What has increased in the last year or so, is a kind of conviction not in the impossibility of getting to VF and from there to AF, but in the increasing improbability that such a path is possible for me (because of my challenges, of my age, etc. -doesn’t matter-). And, then, the need to follow another route…
But that route is also tricky, precisely because I already know how to keep myself in THIS [good enough, in general] state which, let’s be honest, is seductive when you don’t manage to be in EEs or PCEs.
That is why the other theme that has been dominating my reflections has been that of altruism, on which you and others have elaborated recently.
But for now I can’t add much more… it would be just talk for the sake of talk