Please note that Vineeto’s correspondence below was written by the feeling-being ‘Vineeto’ while ‘she’ lived in a pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom.

Vineeto’s Correspondence on the Actual Freedom List

Correspondent No 27

Topics covered

Spiritual business, no need for meditation, meaning of non-spiritual, ‘living significance’, the blind spot of all spiritual believers

 

27.6.2001

VINEETO: Hi,

Today I went to work for a spiritual couple and after a few hours we had lunch together. We sat on their veranda eating fresh and tasty food in the warm winter’s sun, with a stunning view over rolling hills and distant mountains, the sunlight glittering on the hard leafed trees – a palpable scrumptious paradise. They are both in the business of meditation retreats and Life-trainings and most of the year they are ‘on tour’. They described how busy and stressed they were over their tight schedule teaching people how to relax all over the planet. They told me how their day is filled from morning to evening, starting with spiritual exercises and meditation and then continuing their day by using their ‘mental body’ for working ‘in the marketplace’.

I remarked that I don’t have any need for meditation anymore because I don’t have any problems and that I actually enjoy being here immensely. They looked a bit puzzled and I decided to leave it at that so as to not to upset our exquisite lunch in paradise. However, this little incident confirmed yet again that those who peddle the snake-oil of spiritual teachings haven’t a clue about how to be happy.

Of all the lives of gurus and teachers that I have investigated I still have yet to find one who is happy and harmless 24h a day, everyday and who can live in perfect peace and harmony, equity and parity with his or her partner.

Actualism is about becoming happy and harmless in everyday life, here on earth and now in this moment, with life as it is and people as they are. Actualism is utterly non-spiritual in that it does not seek solace or solution in retreat, fantasy, belief, life after death, meditation, imagination, dissociation or philosophical argumentation. Actualism is practical and down-to-earth in that everybody can only actively do something about their own Human Condition, if they wish to – there is no metaphysical Being or Energy or Intelligence to do it for you or prevent you from doing it.

You say the texts you found on the Actual Freedom Trust website have ‘living significance’ for you. However, this living significance is very much hidden so far. For instance you quoted from the Actual Freedom Trust website:

Peter: There is a third alternative in investigating affective feelings, emotions and instinctual passions and it involves neither repressing nor expressing. Introduction to Actual Freedom, The Method

Nowhere do I see an indication so far in your communication on this list that you have ‘investigated affective feelings’ in yourself, let alone your ‘emotions and instinctual passions’. Expressing your affective feelings is clearly your bent.

Further you quote:

Peter: ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’ is the means to firstly ascertaining how one is doing relative to one’s aim in life and the key to finding out what is inhibiting one from being happy and harmless this very moment. This process gives ‘me’ something to do – ‘I’ clean myself up as much as possible by rigorously and remorselessly examining all that constitutes the Human Condition – all the truths and beliefs that constitute my social identity – and all the instinctual passions that constitute my instinctual ‘being’. Introduction to Actual Freedom, Virtual Freedom

If you have successfully focussed your ‘awareness on the activities of the psychological ‘self’ – the mental-emotional identity that is ‘who’ we think and feel we are’ then you certainly know how to hide the fruits of such awareness.

You object that people here don’t give J. Krishnamurti his due respect and yet the first line on the Actual Freedom Trust website clearly states that Actual Freedom is ‘a new non-spiritual down-to-earth freedom’. You are not the first person who has trouble in understanding the word non-spiritual. It is ‘a blind spot’ common to all spiritual believers, particularly those who have fallen in the trap of Eastern religion. As long as this ‘blind spot’ is not acknowledged and addressed in yourself then No 8 was spot on when saying to you –

[Respondent No 8]: Yep it always comes down to nothin’, no alternative, not even actuality. [endquote].

But when this ‘blind spot’ is examined and removed, all the doors to a sparkling magical perfect actuality are wide open.

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