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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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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
Peter: Sensuousness is the wondrous awareness of the marvel of
being here now at this moment in time and this place in space.
Sensuousness enables the experiencing of things without distorting
feelings, and seeing the world of people, things and events as-it-is in apperception.
With an actual freedom from the human condition, one is living in the
infinitude of this fairy-tale-like actual world with its sensuous quality of magical perfection and purity where everything and
everyone has a lustre, a brilliance, a vividness, an intensity and a marvellous, wondrous, scintillating vitality that makes
everything alive and sparkling ... even the very earth beneath one’s feet. The rocks, the concrete buildings, a piece of paper
... literally everything is as if it were alive (a rock is not, of course, alive as humans are, or as animals are, or as trees
are, but everything is alive as in actual – ‘not merely passive’). This ‘aliveness’
is the very actuality of all existence ... the ‘actualness’ of everything and everyone.
We do not live in an inert universe ... but one cannot experience this
whilst clinging to the delusion of immortality.
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.
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