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General Correspondence
Page Number 12
Respondent No. 1
Continued on from Mailing List ‘C’: No.
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July 04 2002:
RESPONDENT: Richard, just checking to see if you are still alive. You and I did
a bit of verbal sparring on the John DeRuiter Yahoo Groups web forum in 2000. I’ve pretty much given up the verbal sparring
since then, live and let live, you know? People have to do what seems right for them. Hope you are well.
RICHARD: Yes, I am still alive and well although I am not writing on web forums these days other than
occasionally on my own mailing list ... Viz.: www.topica.com/lists/actualfreedom/read
I recollect that we discussed the subject of amorality – and why the enlightened state was unable to
deliver such a remarkable freedom – but I did not know that you experienced it as ‘verbal sparring’ ... I was
entirely sincere as it is a matter of vital importance for human beings anywhere and anywhen.
I would suggest that to have the philosophy of ‘live and let live’ is to cop-out on the hard
questions ... where peoples cease doing ‘what seems right for them’ and start living in the purity and perfection of
this actual world is where the already always existing peace-on-earth becomes apparent sooner rather than later.
Ain’t life grand!
July 07 2002:
RESPONDENT: Yes, life is grand! I’ve revised my thoughts on the ‘enlightened
state’ since we last ‘chatted’, ha, ha, I’ve come to the conclusion that I haven’t met anyone or talked to anyone who
actually had been there. What I’ve realized is that there is an awakening that happens to consciousness, but the intellect
pretty much stays untouched by this, and then one has to go thru their mind and examine the entire contents of their mind and
weigh each thought and test it for realness. So far, no one has been able to show me how this isn’t right, so for now, this is
what I’m running with.
RICHARD: The way ‘this isn’t right’ is plain to see: the benchmark against which ‘the
entire contents of the mind’ are weighed and tested is but morality in a different disguise .... the pristine purity of an
actual freedom from the human condition renders any morality redundant.
When one goes beyond enlightenment and starts living in the perfection of this actual world, where
peace-on-earth already always is, the intellect is flushed clean in one fell swoop ... nothing ‘dirty’ can get in, as it were.
The lessons of history shows that all enlightened states – which is what ‘an awakening that happens to
consciousness’ is – are unable to deliver such a remarkable freedom that amorality indubitably is.
Respondent No. 2
December 25 2006
RICHARD: Appended further below is the e-mail I was referring to, during our discussion yesterday
afternoon, in regards to directing all of the affective energy into being the felicitous/ innocuous feelings. Also, here is
the quote
which is particularly relevant:
• [Richard]: ‘The felicitous/ innocuous feelings are in no way docile, lack-lustre affections ... in
conjunction with sensuosity they make for an extremely forceful/ potent combination as, with all of the affective energy
channelled into being as happy and harmless as is humanly possible (and no longer being frittered away on love and compassion/
malice and sorrow), the full effect of ‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being – which is ‘being’ itself – is dynamically
enabled for one purpose and one purpose alone.
(Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 60f, 29 September 2005).
Plus, I have summarised the way in which the actualism method works in practice as follows (the points
numbered 6 and 7 are the ones which are pertinent to what was being discussed):
• [Richard]: ‘Perhaps the following summary of the way the actualism method works in practice may be of
assistance:
1. Activate sincerity so as to make possible a pure intent to bring about peace and harmony sooner rather
than later.
2. Set the standard of experiencing, each moment again, as feeling felicitous/innocuous to whatever degree humanly possible
come-what-may.
3. Where felicity/innocuity is not occurring find out why not.
4. Seeing the silliness at having those felicitous/ innocuous feelings be usurped, by either the negative or positive feelings, for
whatever reason that might be automatically restores felicity/ innocuity.
5. Repeated occurrences of the same reason for felicity/innocuity loss alerts pre-recognition of impending dissipation which
enables pre-emption and ensures a more persistent felicity/ innocuity through habituation.
6. Habitual felicity/ innocuity, and its concomitant enjoyment and appreciation, facilitates naďve sensuosity ... a consistent
state of wide-eyed wonder, amazement, marvel, and delight.
7. That naiveté, in conjunction with felicitous/ innocuous sensuosity, being the nearest a ‘self’ can come to innocence,
allows the overarching benignity and benevolence inherent to the infinitude this infinite and eternal and perpetual universe
actually is to operate more and more freely.
8. With this intrinsic benignity and benevolence, which has nothing to do with ‘me’ and ‘my’ doings, freely operating one
is the experiencing of what is happening ... and the magical fairy-tale-like paradise, which this verdant and azure earth actually
is, is sweetly apparent in all its scintillating brilliance.
9. But refrain from possessing it and making it your own ... or else ‘twill vanish as softly as it appeared.
(Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 118, 16
June 2006).
Incidentally, here is that very last paragraph (deliberately placed there for obvious reasons) in ‘Richard’s
Journal’ which I was referring to:
• [Richard]: ‘Delight is what is humanly possible, given sufficient pure intent obtained from the
felicity/ innocuity born of the pure consciousness experience, and from the position of delight, one can vitalise one’s joie de
vivre by the amazement at the fun of it all ... and then one can – with sufficient abandon – become over-joyed and move into
marvelling at being here and doing this business called being alive now. Then one is no longer intuitively making sense of life
... the delicious wonder of it all drives any such instinctive meaning away.
Such luscious wonder fosters the innate condition of naiveté – the nourishing of which is essential if fascination in it all is
to occur – and the charm of life itself easily engages dedication to peace-on-earth. Then, as one gazes intently at the world
about by glancing lightly with sensuously caressing eyes, out of the corner of one’s eye comes – sweetly – the magical
fairy-tale-like paradise that this verdant earth actually is ... and one is the experiencing of what is happening.
But refrain from possessing it and making it your own ... or else ‘twill vanish as softly as it appeared. (page 287, ‘Richard’s Journal’, Second Edition; ©2004 The Actual Freedom Trust).
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