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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a pragmatic
(methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free. |
Desire
Desire: 1 The fact or condition of
desiring; the feeling that one would derive pleasure or satisfaction from possessing or obtaining something; a longing. 2 sexual
appetite, lust. 3 an expressed wish, a request. 4 something desired or longed for. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: The layer of programming beneath the social identity
is the instinctual self – who we ‘feel’ we are, consisting of a primitive self and the survival instincts of fear, aggression, nurture
and desire, instilled by blind nature to ensure the survival of the species. This instinctual programming has been held as inviolable and
unalterable, and, as such, has remained un-investigated up until now.
The only superficial ‘tinkering’ that has been undertaken to
date has been to emphasise the so-called ‘good’ instincts of nurture and desire and repress the ‘bad’ instincts of fear and aggression.
The social application of morals and ethics provides the ‘carrot and stick’, but police, laws and armies are ultimately required to keep
the instinctual passions in check. The whole of our supposedly civilised world is still, at the very core, based on the suppression and control
of these primitive instincts.
Desire is the drive to survive – it translates into sexual
conquest, power over others, and attaining the necessities of survival such as territory, food, offspring, and the protection of others.
Desire is the instinct that drives us to sexual avarice and a
blind urge to impregnate, procreate and reproduce ourselves – come what may. The relentless desire to accumulate, amass, covert, dominate,
control and obliterate is the direct cause of poverty, corruption, hunger and famine.
It is common wisdom that ‘you can’t change Human Nature’. ‘Of course you can
– why not?’ said Richard, and I liked that. Why not indeed? One can harness this powerful affective energy of desire so as to bring about
what one actually longs for: perfect peace and understanding. For me, once I found out about Actual Freedom, I dug into it and remembered a
peak experience which activated a sincere intent in me – a burning desire that we humans find a way to live together in peace and harmony on
the magical fairy tale like, paradisiacal planet.
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