Now For Something Completely Different

[Nemo]

Haven’t posted here much since I finished my book, and did a couple of interviews with Fintan. (I'm sure Jerry, at least, missed me): However, as I was on a sabbatical from writing and posting I came across something completely different. It is called Actulism: ‘A New and Non-Spiritual Down-to-Earth Freedom’ as it is described on the authors’ home page: www.actualfreedom.com.au

In a nutshell it is a method (method may not be the right word, in fact most of the concepts are so radical it is difficult at first flush to find the proper words) that frees one from the pre-programmed ‘human condition’.

It was discovered by an Australian guy called Richard, (don’t know his second name yet) who claims to be the first person in history to find a proven way that opens up the possibility of freeing one from the genetically-encoded animal instinctual passions that produce ‘malice and sorrow’, (the Human Condition) to become free (‘happy and harmless’) and to bring 'peace to Earth', or as I would put it: to escape, not only from The Matrix, but transcend the ‘Real World’. (Re: my interview with Fintan, on: The Matrix)

I have just finished reading the second of two books they publish (Richard’s Journal, and: Freedom - Peter’s Journal) and I must admit they fried my brain and sent me of on a completely different direction in my search for understanding - a ‘spiritual’ quest I have been engaged in for a very long time - in fact it sent me in a 180% different direction from the ‘Spiritual World’.

Of course, when I first came across this site I was highly skeptical, but the more I got into it the more convinced I became that here indeed was something radically and new that was worth further investigation. Richard, Vineeto, and Peter present their controversial discoveries in a clear, straight forward manner.

I have not absorbed it all yet so anything I post here should be taken as an initial understanding, and yet I have absorbed enough to have been rewarded with a whole new world to explore, ‘The Actual World’.

Anyway, if nothing else it is an antidote, to the pessimism in our mystical world of politics, religion, and all other ‘outside authorities’ that expound ‘the truth’ and keep us in servitude to the illusion of a 'higher power'.

My initial discovery was that most, if not all, 'spiritualism' (belief in a 'higher power[s]) is delusional. My reaction to this after thirty years on the journey to 'Spiritual Enlightment'? I spent three days, on and of, laughing how I had been suckered into believing in such concepts as Meditation, Masters, Gurus, Inner Self, Higher Self, Overself, Self with fries, Enlightment, Disengagement, and all the rest and how grateful I was to have finally began to awaken from my delusions.

This has been my experiece so-far and I don't necessarily accept, or understand for that matter, all the concepts of Actulism...but. You may experience it differently, I do understand it may be to much 'in your face' (challenging?) for most. However, if you do 'get it', I belive it will renew your life

[DeepLogos]

Hi Nemo!

Very intersting link! I will take a good look at it. The whole spectrum of alternative alternatives (meditation, gurus, self-help, 'the occult alternative', etc) has taken up a great amount of my later years, and only lately have I slowly begun to realize that the "solution" may be beyond these alternatives.

Free from the 'human condition'. Stepping out of the real world and into the actual world. Not only escaping form 'the matrix', but also trancending "reality" itself. Very interesting indeed.

I must say I thoroughy enjoyed you interviews with Fintan (I've listened to them a few times each), and I recently finished reading you book. And what a book, certainly food for thought! Excellently written, and thoroughly researched. Any new projects (books) in the making?

Also, any thoughts on Krishnamurti, as to personal freedom (given that he rejected his "guru" status and Theosophy, the 'mother', so to speak, of many of the alternative movements)?

-DL-

[Nemo]

Thanks DL, for your kind words about my book. Funny, I don't remember sending any to Mental Antarctica.

[Jerry Fletcher]

[Ozregeneration]

Greetings Nemo and Co,

Without having read more than the home page and the quotes Jerry gave it appears similar to what I went through when I did the ESS sessions.

To detour for just a minute. In ESS, one of the sections was to take a look at ALL my beliefs, my truths and lies, and locate where they originated from. When I start to examine them I began to realise they came from my parents, my siblings, my school teachers, my friends, workmates, movies, TV, heroes, politicians (ok, that's where the real lies come in ), neighbours, and on and on. This left me feeling very empty and where I also came to the conclusion that my truths are my lies and my lies are my truths. From this understanding I have began to clear out my 'auto' reponses in order to make choices in the now. I think this is simliar to what they are saying.

Now to get back to the quotes from the actual freedom site specifically

[Fintan]

Here's a step thru sequence which help make more
sense of what they are getting at:

[Ozregeneration]

[Nemo]

I came across this today. It may answer a couple of questions that has been posed about this system...

It’s starting to dawn on me how radical a proposition AF is making. I’ve been generally trying to view everything that happens in the context of AF, and how it would all change if these principles were commonplace. We would be without wars.

Yes, the world would be without wars, genocides, murders, suicides, domestic violence, rapes, robberies, police, jails, and locks on our doors. Hunger and poverty would disappear from the news reports as would protests, demonstrations, corruption, pollution, overpopulation and desolation in the face of natural disasters. Ingenuity and technology would make this earth a lush, safe and sustainable paradise for everybody.

There would be no hackers on the Internet, no need for security and anti-virus software and probably most of the sex-sites would also disappear for lack of customers. Richard describes more of this utopia in his journal –

It would be a free association of peoples world-wide; a utopian-like loose-knit affiliation of like-minded individuals. One would be a citizen of the world, not of a sovereign state. Countries, with their artificial borders would vanish along with the need for the military. As nationalism would expire, so too would patriotism with all its heroic evils. No police force would be needed anywhere on earth; no locks on the doors, no bars on the windows. Gaols, judges and juries would become a thing of the dreadful past. People would live together in peace and harmony, happiness and delight. Pollution and its cause – over-population – would be set to rights without effort, as competition would be replaced by cooperation. It would be the stuff of all the pipe-dreams come true. Richard’s Journal, Article 20

We would also be without most competitive sports, ...

Yes, I can certainly think of more fun-things to do than training for the Olympics.

... most of the great art works, ...

Why shouldn’t we have works of art in a world free from instinctual passions? People certainly would have more time at their hand to play when they are not driven by fear, aggression and greed, and one’s favourite pastime could very well be an artistic one. If you take away the social and affective values of beauty and fashion, then playing with the materials of the earth can be very sensuous and pleasing indeed.

... maybe most of the buildings.

Why should buildings disappear? I certainly prefer to live in a modern comfortable building compared to a cave or straw hut. When the affective faculty disappears, people will be free to build what is sensible, comfortable, practical and sensuously pleasing. But there would certainly be no need for police stations, law courts, jails, army bases, martial art dojos and the like, nor would there be need for churches, cathedrals, temples, monasteries, ashrams or the like.

I’m being a bit extreme here perhaps, but most of the progress of human civilization (term is used loosely, ok?) has been driven by that amygdalic reaction. This is a big change.

No, ‘the progress of human civilization’ has been engineered by human inventiveness, ingenuity, intelligence and the inbuilt drive for betterment but has been continuously hampered by fear, righteousness, religious superstition, greed and corruption. It is, in fact, astounding what excellence in technology, safety, leisure and pleasure has been achieved despite ‘that amygdalic reaction’.

http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/actualism/vineeto/selected-correspondence/corr-actualfreedom.htm