VINEETO: Hi,

GARDOL YACK: I have questions about this process that I hoped these journals might answer. I have poured over the website for a few weeks now and I did several searches to find answers to my questions, but I have had very little luck. I don’t understand why people don’t ask more basic questions about how to put this into practice. I assume they aren’t that interested in actually using it. I think it’s worth trying out, to see if it does ‘deliver the goods’.

I have the impression that most of the information contained in these journals I have purchased is already available on the website. So my question to you is, will anyone (preferably Richard) associated with Actual Freedom Trust answer my questions?

VINEETO: Do I understand you right that you have ordered the two journals hoping they might answer some of your questions but then decided, only three days after you ordered the journals and only two days after I sent them off, that they won’t contain those answers because you have presupposed that ‘most of the information contained in these journals I have purchased is already available on the website’?

And are you saying that you already read most of what is available on the website and haven’t found answers to ‘questions [you] have [which] relate directly to using the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’’?

As one of the webmasters of the Actual Freedom website I can give you some pointers –

On the map to the Actual Freedom website – www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/map.htm – there is a rainbow-coloured blinking button pointing to the library page with the title ‘How to Become Free from the Human Condition’.

This page contains articles and selected correspondences from Richard and other actualists on the explicit topic of applying the actualism method in order to become free from the human condition.

All in all there are 39 (thirty-nine) links to pages which are specifically about the ‘how’ of the actualism method and about ‘using the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’’, while the underlined links directly in the text point to other related library pages.

Particularly the links on the bottom left of the page under ‘Related Questions and Objections’ point to pages where Richard answered people who frequently and repeatedly expressed difficulties with applying the actualism method, so much so that I began to collect them under ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ and ‘Commonly Raised Objections’ all of which you will find on the top of the site map.

You might also be interested in the conversations between Gary and Peter as Gary was one of the early writers on the mailing list who sincerely applied the actualism and asked unambiguous questions about applying the actualism method and the topics that arose from doing so – www.actualfreedom.com.au/actualism/peter/list-af/gary-a.htm.

Personally I can only say that if all these articles and correspondences specifically written on the topic of how to apply the actualism method don’t give you the answers you are looking for, then no conversation with ‘anyone (preferably Richard) associated with Actual Freedom Trust’ will be able to answer your questions because all these articles and correspondences were written by the very same people. In other words, answers to your questions by anyone ‘associated with [the] Actual Freedom Trust’ would only be a repetition of what has already been written.

As for Richard, this is what he only recently said about corresponding with individuals after the closure of the Actual Freedom mailing list –

Richard: This is an apt moment to point out that I gave a decade of my life (from 1996 to 2006) to sharing my discovery with my fellow human being via a keyboard – spending something like eight-ten hours a day, six-seven days a week, responding with millions of words in meticulous detail to all manner of queries and objections in thousands of e-mails (all archived on the internet for ready access) – and currently have no intention of being drawn, either now or in the foreseeable future, into more of the same. November 6, 2007

6.1.2008

GARDOL YACK: Did you get my email? I am resending it in case you did not recieve it.

VINEETO: I was and remain gobsmacked.

[Respondent]: I believe in Gob. Not God. My Gob is an awesome Gob. My Gob is an Absolute or Ultimate Ground of Being. It includes everything. Space and time come from Gob.]

30.1.2008

GARDOL YACK: When you say; ‘I was and remain gob-smacked’ Do you mean gob-smacked by the depth of original insight and stunning perspicacity of my email?

Or rather were you gob-smacked by my blathering, almost indecipherable stupidity? Or perhaps some combination of the two alternating in sequence?

Just curious,

VINEETO: It is very simple.

You said amongst other things – ‘I believe in Gob. Not God. My Gob is an awesome Gob. My Gob is an Absolute or Ultimate Ground of Being. It includes everything. Space and time come from Gob’

And I said – ‘I was and remain gob-smacked’.