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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
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Serendipity
Serendipity: The making of happy and unexpected
discoveries by accident or when looking for something else; such a discovery. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: The long life lived by most humans with
multitudinous events and interactions with people and things provides for many opportunities for the making of
serendipitous discoveries. Most people are so emotionally overloaded or trapped in repetitive behaviour patterns
that serendipity goes unnoticed or, if seen, is so astounding as to be put down to some divine blessing or
intervention or is being dismissed as luck. Serendipity is often claimed to be a prayer answered, good luck, God’s
will, or ‘existence providing’, while blindly ignoring the other times when prayers go unanswered, ‘life’s
a bitch’, it was bad luck or ‘someone else’s fault’, or it was ‘good’ to suffer as a ‘growth’ experience.
On the wide and wondrous path to actual freedom serendipitous
discoveries are a constant occurrence. With the ever-running of the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’
one is continuously presented with opportunities to discover, investigate and understand what particular feeling,
resulting from an event or interaction, is preventing you from being happy now. Yesterday’s happiness or some
future – imaginary – happiness or harmlessness has absolutely no relevance right now, this only moment you
can experience being alive. If you miss the opportunity this time around, this moment, you have another chance
immediately, this moment, for one’s life is perpetually experienced in this moment only. And serendipity will
always present you with the next issue, belief, instinctual pattern, mood or emotion, etc. – right on cue. But,
as serendipitous as the incident or discovery or event may be, it is what you make of it that is of more
significance. A serendipitous discovery, if dispassionately contemplated upon, can lead to a realization such
that it becomes a life-changing event.
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