Hi Justine,
Thanks or the replies.
1) Anger is a neutral energy capable of doing both good and bad. Actually free human is not a SUPERMAN.
How does this 'neutral energy' manifest in your experience, phenomenologically? Sensations in the chest, throat etc? A mental movement? A bouncing of attention from the sense object (that is the perceived object of a 'neutral anger') to something else within the mind/body organism?
I care little for calling you a superman but more so for the actual phenomenoligical experiences you describe. A few of us at the DhO have gotten to places that Richard has said are not where you currently claim you are, yet what you talk of in your book and talk of here in this thread points to the same place 'a few of us' have gotten to (and even surpassing such phenomena you describe, seeing that it does not arise at all such as the 'traces of instinctual passions you still claim to experience yet like a 'dead snake').
2) I mean by 'feeling', sensory awareness of everything around my physical body.
Ok.
3) Yes. I'm a man with 'feeling' still. Otherwise I will be a corpse.
Ok.
4) 'Feeling' without the sense of 'ego identity', and altruistically self immolating myself, and going into that space of the Pristine Actuality, makes me a perfect human being. If I become obsessed with my 'ego identity' and make myself numb, insensitive, and go berserk, I become a psychopath.
Ok.
5) Again, actually free person is not a superman. He will surely be scared mistaking a rope in the dark for a snake.
I'm not calling you a superman. Far from it. So you experience 'fear'? How does it manifest phenomenologically? I have heard others talk of having absoultely no fear any longer. Yet, you are talking about 'being scared'. Can you elaborate please. "Being scared' seems to be an affective reaction. Is this a case of 'trace' of instinctual passions within you? Please describe how they manifest phenomenologically as it would help to know and would clear up and (mis)perceived inconsistencies on our part. If you are pointing to the 'traces', how does this manifest phenomenoligically? A sensation in the gut? mind movements? The attention bouncing from the perceived object of 'what makes one scared' (i.e. thoughts of the AF genitors silence concerning your Ebook) to somewhere else within the body?
6) Actually free person can neither love nor hate. I hate cold water, but love hot water means, it only shows the situational preferences.
How does the 'hate' and 'love' in situational contexts manifest phenomenologically? Sensations at the chest? mind movements? Attention bouncing from object hitting sense door (that is hated or loved) to something else (sensations in the body)?
7) Traces of instinctual passions, phenomenologically cover sensations, mental movements, thoughts and everything of a person.
Could you describe how these manifest in an example? Do you experience a sort of 'shadow' like occurence of what was once the gross 'identity' before your 'actualisation'? That is what 'traces' seems to point to.
Also could you answer the actualisation question? Do you experience periods/moments when your AF is weak as opposed to strong? (like after walking into town)? How does it manifest as weak? ow do you know it is weak? Is it the 'traces of instinctual passions' phenomena that causes it to not 'strengthen'? And there absence 'to strengthen'?
It is clear you are not a 'superman' and that is not the point of these queries. The point is to be absolutely honest and sharing of such phenomena, and to avoid any type of political avoidance of answering. This is the DhO, and posting your book here entitles others to ask such queries for clarification.
Thanks for taking the time to clarify these questions. They are important questions as so few people from Richard's camp proclaimed AF are willing to share such details. It is helpful for all beings at the DhO to do so and in particular for 'the few of us' who have had 'changes' and 'shifts' that seem very much to match your current situation.
Thanks for sharing. It is very helpful.
Regards,
Nick