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The Human Condition
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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.
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Emotion
Emotion: A physical agitation or
disturbance. Agitation of mind; strong mental feeling. Any of the natural instinctive affections of the mind (e.g. love, horror,
pity) which come and go according to one’s personality, experiences, and bodily state; a mental feeling. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: The root core of human emotion is the instinctual
program of fear, aggression, nurture and desire, instilled by blind nature to ensure the survival of the species. This operating
program is almost constantly functioning, sensing and monitoring both real and imagined dangers, and perpetually gives rise to a
complex range of feelings – a feeling being an emotion backed thought. These emotions are upheld to be natural and indeed they
are. Given they are part of the same instinctual package, fear and aggression are as natural to humans as are nurture and desire.
Usually we divide emotions into groupings of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and try either to
repress or deny the bad ones – fear and aggression – while giving full vent and validity to the good ones – nurture and
desire. Unfortunately, this attempt to curb fear and aggression has had no lasting or substantial success, as is evidenced by the
all the wars, murders, rapes, tortures, domestic violence, corruption, suicide, despair and loneliness that is still endemic on
the planet. Good and evil, Love and hate, compassion and selfish indifference, etc. come inseparably in pairs as is testified by
the continual failure of humans to live together in anything remotely resembling peace and harmony.
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Eastern religions
point to the essential duality of the human emotions but, by assiduously practicing denial and transcendence, merely create a
Grander vision whereby they, the God-men and women, become earthly representatives of the ‘Divine Good’ and do battle with the
‘bad’ and the Diabolical, thereby merely perpetuating the whole sorry saga.
Up until now, no one has dared to
attempt the elimination of not only the instinctual emotions of fear and aggression, but nurture and desire as well – the whole
of the instinctual programming. It was always imagined, and reinforced by a blind adherence to Ancient Wisdom, both Eastern and
Western, that it was only the ‘good’ that kept the ‘bad’ in check and prevented us from running amok. This well-meaning
experiment of repressing, denying or transcending the ‘bad’ instinctual emotions has been tried for some 5,000 years and has
proved a resounding failure to bring anything even remotely resembling peace on earth.
Better to be rid of the whole package of instinctual
emotions – for something extraordinarily magical lies in the direct sensate, sensuous and sensible experience of the purity and
perfection of the physical universe.
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