Fitter Stoke:
The Actualism website is a bit of a barrier, though the possibility of living with such a great degree of ease is difficult to ignore.
I always thought the Actualism website was very clear and any kind of strange "feelings" I had about Richard were like he said, just my perception. Actualism works like a scientific method. You practice being happy and harmless and you get incrementally happier and more harmless. You also slowly tear down the social identity and work on your emotions/instincts to neither express or repress them to be harmless. The more harmless you are, the more happy you can become, vice versa. As you figure out what sensuousness, the aesthetic pleasure of the actual comes more and more into play revealing that the universe is perfect as is and can be totally satisfying.
Fitter Stoke:
What degree of success have you had with the Actualism method? Would you say that the PCE is a 24/7 experience for you at this point? And about how long have you been using the Actualism method? (I assume you're doing HAIETMOBA?)
Right now, I'm just a normal person who experiences less instincts than other people and basically has very little social identity. My experience is normal but always pleasurable (when sorrow is not around to bother me) and exciting when I notice the gravity of the universe. I'm not even sure I've had more than one PCE. I have had many many EE's but only one PCE about 2 months ago that proved living like that for 24/7 would be perfect experiences with moment to moment exciting and pleasure as well as a clarity and stillness that leaves one awestruck looking around at the magnitude of the stillness. All the while, the experience is not mystical but mundane. It is mundane not in a boring but a clear normal way that is just exhilarating. For example, the difference in clarity when your tipsy drunk or when your sober is just a matter of clean perception. Perception is so clean in the PCE that it is imminently and continuously fascinating and perfect not to mention the direct contact with objective sensation that gives the body such sensuous pleasure.
I have been doing the Actualism method for almost two years. At the time, many of the dho participants were getting really into Actualism and so I was swept with the tide after achieving MCTB 1st path. It was pretty obvious after a week or two that the actualism method was better than sitting around meditating and also led to quick realizations. For you and me now, I wouldn't expect to get the PCE until it happens. Its science its not spirituality. Who knows when and why the body stops releasing the instinctual chemicals but what is obvious is that these chemicals are slowly decreasing in output leading to cleaner and happier perception. I would should use the method to be happy and harmless and watch how your life gets easier and no longer emotions or beliefs have an annoying clamoring. My experience is not a 24/7 PCE that would be an actual freedom. When I am walking around and thinking about the actualism method, I can sometimes be in an EE or otherwise just be ridiculously happy and harmless observing the functions of the universe and obsessively contemplating. If a PCE happens, I'm not even sure it happens and it is often quick but my pesky identity is always trying jump in and ruin the fun. I know the AFT site says the aim is be in PCE 24/7 but this is an a longterm aim. Life can be great without having a PCE. The PCE for me was a factual undeniable event the the actualism method does provide what it promotes and all the glory with it. Before the PCE, I just saw how sadness was decreasing, perceptions was getting clearing, happiness and harmlessness was increasing etc. This is how i knew it was working but the PCE was a total shot to the face like damn, I can have this 24/7? Your like an automatic genius in the PCE. Your like John Milton without even trying.
Spirituality, buddhism, etc. makes no sense to me now. I don't get why people are still trying it. It has done very little for the last however man thousand years. The size honestly and clarity of Richards words should show him as someone knowing what he's talking about. He labels simply what everything is and then one can find out for themselves. Watching people argue about spirituality now is like watching them argue within a plastic bubble to not do one thing in the plastic bubble but do another. In a PCE, the plastic bubble that is psychic reality completely disappears. I don't walk around like do this or do that. I'm just trying to be as happy as possible and experience the actual. I know any weird events or faults that occur are just inherent to the flawed nature of the human condition.
I don't know I sound here. I am only 22. I just know the actualism method is working exactly exactly exactly as its saying. Its only the time table or need to accomplish certain experiential states that seem to betray progress. I'm going stick to it till the end, I want to actualize the PCE I had.
I don't do HAIETMOBA. I did it for like two or three months and then just got lazy. Whenever I say a reminder phrase like "there is no I am" or "the actual has not vibes," I am implementing a method to attain a sensuousness and happiness I have been working on for the last two years. When I say these reminder phrases, I quickly become happy and harmless again.
Good luck, I'm willing to speak via ichat. I don't think I'm going to continue with the forums as I find them to be pointless. Again, the actualism website has all one needs to know about getting peace, freedom, and happiness. I will not be editing my above statements lol as i'm going to drink a bottle of water instead, text my mother happy birthday, and whisper to people while then immediately looking away lol jk.