29 April 2018

ALAN: Yes, I again have the intent which was missing in Australia – hurrah! It fluctuates but is constantly there now to a greater or lesser extent. I came across a belief a couple of days ago, which ties in with what you wrote about ‘me’ wanting to remain in existence to enjoy the fruits of ‘my’ labours lol :

I was contemplating on the necessity for altruism when I happened on a belief – ‘I’ believe that humanity might succeed in bringing about peace on Earth. Which translates as – ‘I’ believe ‘I’ do not need to self-immolate to bring to an end all the mayhem and malice.

I know (intellectually) that this is not going to happen and that, prior to Richard, no one has ever succeeded despite thousands of years of well intentioned attempts. I also know (intellectually) that ‘I’ know – at the depth of ‘my’ being – that this is correct which gives rise to ‘my’ resentment at being alive. I also know (intellectually) that there is one solution and one solution only – and that ‘I’ (and only ‘I’) have the ability to manifest that solution. ‘I’ have yet to accept this as a fact. To do so would mean there is no choice – hence the ‘irrevocability’.

Which is where rememorating that experience of evil being inherent to the human condition (‘me’) - and which it is impossible to eliminate from within the human condition (it is intrinsic to it), as you said - is so, so valuable.

VINEETO: Hi Alan,

Getting closer indeed – and hence the utter importance of scrupulous honesty with yourself.

ALAN: There has been an interesting discussion on slack which I have copied to a word file you can access here

Does seriousness end upon self-immolation? I was certainly under the impression that it does. Similarly, is apperception an ongoing experience after becoming actually free? I do not see how it can be otherwise – as I posted on slack. In both questions I mean before becoming fully free.

VINEETO: As for the discussion on Slack you sent me – I can fully relate to No. 15’s statement that –

• [Respondent No. 15]: “I had the impression when I first became newly free that apperception was occurring all the time.”

This was exactly my experience just after becoming actually free (and not merely an impression), and it was so startling and so exactly as Richard had described it that I was just amazed, and revelled in this 360 degree awareness. The experience of apperception also included that everything (regarding knowledge and memory of experience) is at your fingertips but only activated when needed. There was an incredible clarity of mind, wonder and amazement, just as I described it in the first reports of the direct-route-mail-out.

However, as Richard reported on List D quoted below, as I interacted more and more with people and everyday affairs, I started to become aware of certain behaviour patterns continuing and a diminution of the startling clarity of the first few days after becoming free. In other words, the guardian, “the shadowy remnants of the social identity” established itself and influenced how I was behaving and experiencing myself.

This is not only understandable, given the radical change that an actual freedom from the instinctual passions is, but possibly also necessary to ensure a non-disruptive transition from feeling being to being fully actually free.

However, by the time Richard returned from India, I was ready and eager to put the ‘guardian’ to rest, and move towards a full actual freedom, and Richard and I had many intensive conversations to bring this about sooner rather than later.

About 6 weeks 9 days after Richard’s return a day came when, sitting at the dining table of his houseboat, I briefly experienced myself as two – the (shadow) identity of the guardian and the actual Vineeto. I experienced the relief of the guardian to be finally able to confidently lay down the burden of guarding over the newly-free Vineeto and then it faded with a sense of having a job well-done to the end and gladly being finally redundant. Suddenly there was only one me, the actual me, fresh and innocent, a bit like a kid alone in this wonderful playground of the actual world.

I was still not fully free then, and many more things had to happen, but a decisive event had occurred to bring me closer to a full actual freedom.

Here is Richard’s report about the guardian (shadow) identity on mailing list D in which Richard also explains why he never talked about a distinction between newly free and fully free before more than one person became actually free –

• [Richard]: He [Justine] does seem to be unaware that, by choosing to not communicate further, he cuts himself off from access to the wealth of information personally gleaned from the other daring pioneers referred to in my emailed response to his request. [Footnote in tool tip]:

Viz.:

• [Richard to Justine]: ‘(...). Please note that, as I am speaking not only from my own direct experience – from 11 years of genuine, full-blown enlightenment/ awakenment plus 20+ years of an actual freedom – but also from an on-going personal interaction, on a daily/ weekly/ monthly/ yearly basis, with those peoples here in Australia who are unmistakably either newly free (actually free from the instinctual passions/the feeling-being formed thereof) or nowadays fully free (actually free of identity in toto/the entire affective faculty) via having completed the transitional process, this is not merely a matter of opinion. (...)’. (Re: RICHARD’S PLACE!; Sent: Sat 30/03/2013 1:34 PM).

For example, due to this wealth of hands-on experiencing, there is now sufficient data to have established a trait common to the first wave of pioneers ... to wit: the persistence of a (pseudo) identity – the shadowy remnants of the social identity (which, being a societal construct and not instinctual in nature, lingers on as a ‘guardian’ until the transitional process is complete) – which can arrogate bodily control and dictate how an actual freedom *should* be acted out.

(As this has only applied to that first handful of daring pioneers – those becoming (newly) free prior to the personification of pure intent in both its masculine and feminine aspects – there was not only no reason for me to write publicly about it but, because of its irrelevance being unnecessarily confusional, there was also good reason for me not to).

Editor’s note: This early prognosis was revised in the recent article “The Formation and Persistence of the Social Identity” (22 May 2023). – Viz:

[Richard]: Notwithstanding its phantasmicality, and whether sexualised or not, this aeriform socio-cultural persona can be remarkably persistent – as the shadowy remnants of a lingering conscience-cum-guardian (as portrayed by Peter, who first drew attention to its indistinct wraithlike presence, in January 2010, and as confirmed by Vineeto shortly after) – when newly free from the human condition (and even with a basic actual freedom as the weeks, months, and years roll by) due to being an inculcated entity and therefore relatively unaffected (other than abruptly rendered a ‘toothless-tiger’ as it were) by the extinction of the instinctual passions/ the feeling-being formed thereof at the pivotal moment/ definitive event whereby becoming newly free from the human condition transpires.

As this incorporeal social identity, being a socio-culturally-instilled and parentally-inculcated entity, and not instinctually-based, is not rendered completely null and void consequential to the extinction of the instinctual passions/ the feeling-being formed thereof, a period of accommodation and adjustment and acclimatisation, all throughout the normal day-to-day life, with diligent attention paid to any and all attempts on the part of those shadowy remnants to coalesce and reassert control – and dictate how an actually free person *should* think, operate and behave – ensures the habituated patterns of a life-time eventually cease.

(...)

Further to Vineeto’s observation about the possible necessity of those shadowy remnants coalescing and reasserting control – so as to ensure a non-disruptive transition from feeling being to being fully actually free – it certainly does function as if it were an inbuilt fail-safe aspect of the process. [end editor’s note].

For another example: a person living the full actual freedom from the human condition, such as Vineeto unmistakably is, not only experientially knows they are living in the ‘magic wonderland’ (what Justine calls ‘RICHARD’S PLACE’) but thereby also knows, experientially, that Richard cannot possibly confirm it unless he is physically present.

In other words, the fact Justine wrote and requested confirmation from a Nine-Thousand-Kilometres-Away-Richard informed me he was not living in that magic wonderland.

(And all he has written, especially recently, merely verifies it).

‘Tis marvellous how cleanly everything operates here in this actual world (where nothing ‘dirty’, so to speak, can gain a foothold)! (Richard, List D, No. 40, 20 May 2013).

Cheers Vineeto

10 June 2019

Hi Alan, 

Here is my comment to the recent Slack discussions you have sent to me –

For some clarification – what happens upon a basic actual freedom is that the instinctual passions and the identity formed thereof magically disappear.

What does not happen at that point is the meaning of life becoming apparent (a full actual freedom).

Naturally, after some time of getting used to the benefits of the disappearance of the instinctual passions and the identity formed thereof one experiences that something is incomplete. A basic freedom is a freedom *from* [the instinctual passions and the identity formed thereof] while the freedom *into* [the meaning-of-life-freedom] is still afoot.

Now consider if someone was inclined to block the way forward, for instance, by dismissing the reports/ descriptions/ explanations of pure intent personified as mere dogma, following the common practice of a certain ‘Pragmatic Dharma’ conditioning – such a person, *lacking the pure intent they rejected as being dogma*, can only reach back for the missing meaning of life into the realm they just left behind, the human condition.

Hence you find them talk about

• Conscience in lieu of pure intent.
• Loving-kindness of Buddhistic tradition in lieu of actual intimacy.
• Karma and responsibility in lieu of actual caring.
• Togetherness in spirit in lieu of actual intimacy and actual caring for the actual people.
• Reincarnation in lieu of experiencing that the very stuff we are made of is as old as the universe.
• A sacred dimension to existence in lieu of the magnificence and purity of the infinitude of this physical universe.

… and possibly many more variations, all the while declaring that social identity and all shadowy identity are gone.

I have seen it happen before and curiously this self-centric hubris that always finds Richard and actual freedom at fault but never oneself is not something that disappears with the instinctual passions or the identity formed thereof – it has to be recognized and rooted out after becoming newly free.

But I see that many Slack participants don’t let themselves be fooled by these spiritually watered down substitutes of the meaning-of-life-freedom that is still to be discovered and explored by basically-free people.

Cheers Vineeto

VINEETO: Hi Alan, […]

Thank you for the word file regarding [No. 15(D)] on Slack. This is indeed interesting.

Here are my comments –

• [Respondent 15(D)]: My connection to the psychic network appears to be alive and well.
• [Andrew]: Actual network maybe? It actually happened after all.
• [Respondent 15(D)]: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... :psyduck:

By [Respondent 15(D)]’s own report his “connection to the psychic network appears to be alive and well”.

As one needs a psyche for a psychic network to operate and as a psyche is a function of the instinctual passions and the feeling being formed thereof, [No. 15(D)]’s own words indicate that he is a feeling being, albeit somewhat dissociated.There is no psychic network in any form whatsoever operating here in the actual world. As for [No. 15(D)]’s assertion that “it would be quite difficult to fool oneself for 3.5 years about it” – it is not difficult at all. Tarin and Trent managed to do it for an extended period. I can refer you to Richard’s report that a ‘self’ is a lost, lonely, frightened and very, very cunning entity.

• [Richard]: “I further saw that ‘I’ was a lost, lonely, frightened – and a very, very cunning – entity.” (Richard, List B, No 26a, 19 November 1998).

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The quickening that Andrew refers to is only activated when a feeling being comes close to the actual world. Further, Andrew’s memory of Richard saying that “there are experiences he hasn't written about so as to not confuse people” is false. Richard only said that he did not go public for 5 year after becoming free so as to first make sense of this entirely new experience to human history before going public. Richard was very meticulous in reporting everything that is important to know about an actual freedom from the human condition.

It is all too easy to attempt muddying the waters so as to impute all sorts of narratives into a feelings being’s ideas of the actual world, to the point where even a psychic network can be imagined to be part of the actual world.

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As for [Respondent S(Slack)]’s comment – “Also, remember Richard felt the death of his ex-wife before he got the call about it” – Richard did not *feel* the death of his ex-wife before he got a call about it. Viz:

As a final summary I would point out that I find it interesting that everyone is making an effort to support [Respondent 15(D)] in his assumption that there can be an actual freedom from the human condition whilst keeping one’s psyche intact. The essential factor that is missing in this snippet of conversation is pure intent.

Again, I appreciate that you are keeping us informed.

Cheers Vineeto

Here is my comment on the Zulip thread, started by Srid, from 30^th October 2020 –

Rick asked No. 15(D) some very clarifying questions –

▪ [Rick]: 2): Richard has stated that his spirit died right along with his feeling-being. [...elided...]. 4) Do you even consider it possible for the spirit to completely immolate, as Richard claims his did? (30-10-20 00:56)

▪ [No. 15(D)]: 4) No. (30-10-20 2:49).

Here are some quotes from Richard on this very topic –

▪ [Richard]: In order to become enlightened, the ‘I’ as ego dies. In order to become actually free, the other half of the identity – ‘me’ as soul – must similarly die. (Richard, List B, No. 22a, 18 Aug 1998).

▪ [Richard]: To become enlightened is to stop half-way: to go all the way not only does the ego have to die (spiritual freedom), so too does the soul (actual freedom). Richard, List B, No. 19d, 2 April 2000).

▪ [Richard]: To become spiritually free the ego-self (‘I’ as ego) must die/ dissolve; all genuinely enlightened beings point to a single edifying moment of awakening (with a variety of descriptions), wherein the personal self (or ‘being’) transmogrifieinto the impersonal self or ‘being’ (or non-self), and which ‘being’ (often capitalised as ‘Being’) exists timelessly, spacelessly and formlessly. To become actually free the soul-self (‘me’ as soul) must also die/ dissolve ... the total elimination of ‘being’ (and thus ‘Being’) itself. (Richard, Homepage).

▪ [Richard]: Just like the ego has to dissolve to become enlightened, so too does the soul need to be extirpated. To live in a condition of complete emancipation and utter autonomy – a condition which is both permanent and actual – one needs to eschew not only the embedded ‘self’ but the bodiless ‘Self’ who transcends Time and Space and Form. To forgo not only the feeling of ‘being’ but the mystical state of ‘Being’ itself calls for an audacity unparalleled in the annals of history ... or one’s personal history, at least. (Richard, Articles, Peace on Earth in this Lifetime)

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▪ [Richard]: At this stage it could very well be helpful – as an aide-mémoire in any similar instances– to draw attention to the very first words on The Actual Freedom Trust homepage (immediately below the ‘Actual Freedom’ logo). Viz.:

• A New and Non-Spiritual Down-to-Earth Freedom. (Richard, Homepage).

Therefore, if (note ‘if’) the new and non-spiritual down-to-earth actual freedom was none other than the same freedom which spiritualism has to offer, only differently-worded for modern-times, then it would not be:

1. New.

2. Non-Spiritual.

3. Down-To-Earth (a colloquialism for: temporal, spatial, phenomenal).

4. Actual (i.e., physical).

Instead it would be:

1. Old.

2. Spiritual.

3. Away-With-The-Fairies (a colloquialism for: atemporal, aspatial, aphenomenal).

4. Non-Actual (i.e., metaphysical). (Richard, List D, Andrew, 22 May 2015).

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As this should be self-explanatory in that No. 15(D) considers something impossible that is the very prerequisite to becoming actually free, i.e. “for the spirit to completely immolate”, I’ll just add some brief comments –

[Respondent 15(D)]: Richard does not know the spiritual/ sacred dimension of experience.

Vineeto: Here No. 15(D) clearly shows that he has not read The Actual Freedom Trust website.

Richard reported many times and in great detail about his experience of “the spiritual /sacred dimension” during his enlightenment years – he lived that, was that, day and night, 24/7, for eleven years and thus knows it intimately, every nook and cranny. Moreover, he did not just know God but *was* God, as that is the experience of every genuinely enlightened being … and he found it wanting.

No. 15(D) is way, way out of his depth with this assertion.

Furthermore, No. 15(D) considers himself to be superior to Richard *and everyone else* who is actually free. This attitude is not merely a belief structure of a remnant guardian – this is hubris, also known as ego, and it is alive and well in No. 15(D).

Additionally, I noticed in the chat that No. 15(D) did not want to answer in public when Kristian asked him: “And what is it then that Richard then is not experiencing in your opinion?” but rather wanted to meet in private to discuss such a possibly controversial topic.

I am reminded of Richard’s description –

▪ Richard: “In 1980 I had a peak experience wherein I saw that everything was already perfect as-it-is and that ‘I’, the psychological entity, was standing in the way ... and no-one else was preventing me from achieving the ultimate goal of being a human. In that peak experience I saw ‘myself’. ‘I’ was the end product of society and nothing more. ‘I’ was an emotional construct of all of the beliefs, values, morals, ethics, mores, customs, traditions, doctrines, ideologies and so on. ‘I’ was nothing but an emotional-mental fabrication ... a sense of identity with its conscience.

I also saw that ‘I’ was a lost, lonely, frightened – and a very, very cunning – entity.” (Richard, Articles, A Brief Personal History, Appendix One).

No. 15(D)’s avoidance of public scrutiny and his blindness to his own cunning throws further doubt on him ever having had a genuine PCE, which would have informed him of the nature of ‘me’, the pristine purity of the actual world and would have fostered pure intent, in the way such PCEs informed Richard and others.

To summarize –

In connection with No. 15(D)’s statement from November 2019 – 

[Respondent 15(D)]: “My connection to the psychic network appears to be alive and well” – and his present statement that he considers it impossible “for the spirit to completely immolate”, he has clearly demonstrated by his own words that he lives well and truly within the human condition.

Given No. 15(D)’s past intense training and practice on DharmaOverground I see no difference between his present condition and the one reported by Tarin, Trent, Stefanie and other Affers. I am also reminded that Tarin reported, not being an identity, not experiencing pure intent. Viz:

• [Tarin]: (...) by the way, not being an identity, i don’t experience pure intent (it has been fulfilled/ *been extinguished*). [emphasis added] (www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/message_boards/message/500608#_19_message_500608) Latest public announcement).

This announcement is well worth reading again in full context, especially from the above quote onwards. It finishes with a recommendation from the directors of The Actual Freedom Trust –

… the directors of The Actual Freedom Trust hereby recommend, publicly, that Tarin taps into that palpable life-force, that actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity, which originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself, because to be actually free from the human condition is to be that pure intent ... as in, to be that benevolence and benignity *as a flesh-and-blood body only*.

Put succinctly: there is no other way, than to be that, because there is no other actual freedom from the human condition (than being that). (Latest public announcement).

Cheers Vineeto

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▪ Geoffrey: The second way one can see this, is Vineeto’s email to Alan of November 16 2019 in which, after having read that No. 15(D), further than just stating spiritual beliefs, claimed that he had a connection to the ‘psychic network’, she concluded that he is not actually free after all – which appears to be her (and Richard’s) opinion to this day.

[Editor’s note: When Richard and myself met [No. 15(D)] in person in October 2022, it turned out that he was indeed newly free from the instinctual passions and the identity formed thereof at about the level described in the ‘Kath’-Template in Richard’s article ‘The Formation and Persistence of the Social Identity’, which, when the social identity is not at all examined, equally explains all the above reproduced statements. [end editor’s note].

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