RESPONDENT: Richard, Peter, and Vineeto, I’d like to inquire something of the three of you. First, what are your respective ages? I’m curious to know.

PETER: Born 1948.

RESPONDENT: Second, for Peter and Vineeto, how long have each of you respectively practiced actualism? I’m not sure that I’ve encountered any numbers on the website, but I am curious to know. In respect to the fact that I’ve asked an answer of you, I’ll tell you that I’m 19, and also, I’d like to inform everyone that I’m from Alabama in the U.S.A.

PETER: I first met Richard early in 1996 and baled out of spiritualism very rapidly thereafter as his experience confirmed my own experience of the duplicity inherent in the spiritual world. It took me several months of checking out Richard and listening carefully to what he was saying before I remembered having had a pure consciousness experience and it was only then that I really understood what an actual freedom from the human condition could mean in practice.

After few more months of dithering and a despite few good doses of fear and doubt, one day I found myself launched into the process of becoming as happy and harmless as possible – a PCE makes it glaringly obvious that it is impossible for someone who harbours resentment and clings to sorrow to become free of the human condition in toto.

When I clearly saw through the whole spiritual/ religious/ metaphysical fable, the notion of their being an overarching power/ force/ energy disappeared entirely – there is no God by whatever name – which meant that it was entirely up to ‘me’ to do whatever was needed in order to facilitate ‘my’ demise such that I can be free to be what I am – this mortal, corporal, flesh and blood body.

It took me about a year to ‘clean up my act’ enough such that I was virtually happy and harmless and to be able to write clearly about the process involved in becoming virtually free ( Peter’s Journal). Subsequent to this stage, I have thoroughly explored many other aspects of the human condition – essentially the affective ‘tentacles’ which continue to bind me to humanity. As these have been more and more weakened over the years – due solely to my being attentive to them – I have been increasingly left with only one seminal question: what am I waiting for?

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