What is pure intent?

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@claudiu

What I come to conclude is… it is really the best term I have seen haha. Nothing else quite works. I just think of it like this: the “pure” is because it is pure, unadulterated, outside of the human condition, nothing to do with ‘me’, etc. The “intent” is because there is a quality of an “agency” aspect of it pulling you towards/into actuality, it is a guiding light to go towards, etc. Not only that but there is indeed an aspect coming “from the universe”, an impetus, that this needs doing.

Do you really experience it as something “from the universe” — something outside of you — compelling you to act? That’s not my experience, and so it means it is indeed not simply a matter of using different words. Personally, I don’t feel compelled to do anything different. If I’m “not doing anything”, I’m in a way “compelled” to continue not do, what I would usually want do, and think — I just “be”. I’m just happily experiencing whatever is happening. If I’m doing something, i’ll happily do that something, and it’s like there’s nothing else.

@claudiu

I remember one fine afternoon in Spain, while I was allowing pure intent as much as I could, and then suddenly it “snapped” into place, and I thought ah – now I really am allowing it! I wasn’t allowing it before, but now there is no longer a separation between me and the pure intent, so this is what allowing it really is. But then I realized actually I had entered a PCE! And that’s why the experience of it changed. Before it was ‘me’ allowing pure intent, and experiencing it to a degree, while afterwards I was pure intent, temporarily.

I think this shows that what you and Richard describe as pure intent is something more than what Peter describes in that quote I shared. I’m not consciously allowing anything to happen to me during my PCEs. There’s no special mode of behaving… I’m just able to consciously experience reality in a “pure way” — as in without the usual constrains that result from normally experiencing life as a “self”. Does that make sense?

And because of paying attention to my conscious experience, I don’t believe that the “universe” has any special force, purpose, etc… There’s nothing “extraordinary” going on… I don’t mean it’s not marvelous/wonderful — it’s that the ordinary is marvelous/wonderful.

@claudiu

This is not to say it only exists as a human being conscious – it exists intrinsically, as part of the universe, but it is one of the ways it manifests, if it makes sense.

This neutral and indifferent universe contains an earth with marvelous abundance and our “self” prevents us from experiencing that. Once you are able to consciously experience that, it is incredible and life changing. Not sure if we are saying the same thing.