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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. |
Sensate and Sensuous
sensate — 1 Having senses,
capable of sensation. 2 Of the nature of or involving sensation. 3 Perceived by the senses. 4 Sociol. Designating a
culture which emphasizes or values material needs and desires over spiritual ideals; materialistic. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: All sensate experience be it sight, taste, hearing, smell or touch is
picked up by the sense organs which are but the ‘stalks’ of the brain. These signals are usually filtered by the ‘self’, the
psychological and psychic entity within each of us, resulting in ‘normal’, edited sensate experience. When this filter is temporarily
absent as in the peak experience or some drug induced states, the sensate experience can be direct and unfiltered. Then the sensate-only
experience is extra-ordinary. One has a heightened sensory perception free of any sense of ‘I’ or ‘me’. To live this as a permanent
state is Actual Freedom – freedom from the Human Condition.
For me, the way to go ‘deeper into my senses’, was to eliminate everything that
was in the way. What I found I really had to do was go deeper into my feelings to discover the root emotions that are their source. Neither
repressing, nor expressing. To sit with them, investigate, root around, find out there source. This method has the advantage for men of being
able to get fully into their feelings for the first time and for women to be able to examine their feelings rather than being run by a
basketful of them all at once.
It’s a great adventure to investigate ‘who’ you think you are and ‘who’
you feel you are and to finally discover ‘what’ you are ...
To come to one’s senses both literally and figuratively.
sensuous — Of, derived from, or
affecting the senses aesthetically rather than sensually; readily affected by the senses, keenly responsive to the pleasures of sensation.
Also, indicative of a sensuous temperament. Apparently first used by Mr. John Milton, to avoid certain associations of the existing word ‘sensual’.
Thus: ‘sensuousness’ (n.): the quality of being sensuous; also: ‘sensuously’ (adv.): the experience of being sensuous; and: ‘sensuosity’
(n.): the capability of being sensuous). Oxford Dictionary
Richard: Sensuousness is the wondrous awareness of the
marvel of being here now at this moment in time and this place in space – which awareness is combined with the fascination of contemplating
that this moment is one’s only moment of being alive – and one is never alive at any other time than now. And, wherever one is ... now ...
one is always here ... now ... even if one starts walking over to ‘there’ ... now ... along the way to ‘there’ ... now ... one is
always here ... now ... and when one arrives ‘there’ ... now ... it too is here ... now.
Thus awareness is an attraction to the fact that one is always here – and it is
already now – and as one is already here and it is always now then one has arrived before one starts. Such delicious wonder fosters the
innate condition of naiveté (which is the closest ‘I’ can get to innocence) the nourishing of which is essential if the charm of it all is
to occur. The potent combination of awareness – fascinated reflective contemplation – and sensuousness produces apperception, which happens
when the mind becomes aware of itself (‘I’ disappear).
One is intimately aware that the physical space of this universe is infinite and
its time is eternal ... thus the infinitude of this very material universe has no beginning and no ending and therefore no middle. There are no
edges to this universe, which means that there is no centre, either. We are all coming from nowhere and are not going anywhere for there is
nowhere to come from nor anywhere to go too. We are nowhere in particular ... which means we are anywhere at all. In the infinitude of the
universe one finds oneself to be already here, and as it is always now, one can not get away from this place in space and this moment in time.
By being here as-this-body one finds that this moment in time has no duration as in
‘now’ and ‘then’ – because the immediate is the ultimate – and that this place in space has no distance as in ‘here’ and ‘there’
– for the relative is the absolute.
In other words: one is always here as it is already now. (Richard, List B, No. 39, 23 September 1999).
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