Hi
As Pure intent is so essential, here I have collected everything possible from AFT website about Pure Intent from
Richard's correspondences. This can help avoid reading too many things again
and again :-
- Pure intent is derived from the purity of the PCE (which is when ‘I’ spontaneously cease to ‘be’) and everything is experienced to be perfect as-it-is at this moment and place ... here and now. Diligent attentiveness paid to the peak experience gives rise to pure intent and with pure intent running as a ‘golden thread’ through one’s life, reflective contemplation about being here doing this business called being alive rapidly becomes more and more fascinating. When one is totally fascinated, reflective contemplation becomes pure awareness ... and then apperception happens of itself.
It is the quality of pure intent which pulls one forward with impunity ... pure intent transforms into action one’s determination to live a life full of gladness, peace and harmony with oneself, with a person of the other gender, and with all peoples. Pure intent produces total dedication – it is experienced as an irresistible enticement – and it makes it impossible not to do what is required (or to sweep an issue under the carpet and to let sleeping dogs lie) and to continue to conform to the long-failed dictates of the status-quo. Pure intent is not to be confused with being a ‘do-gooder’, or being full of ‘righteousness’, or being ‘moralistic’ or being ‘principled’. Pure intent is the quality that encompasses what morals and ethics aspire to but never reach. Pure intent is a manifest life-force; a genuinely occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the perfect and vast stillness that is the essential character of the infinitude of the universe. Freed by pure intent from the very necessary social constraints – designed to control a wayward ego and a compliant soul – one can have generosity of character without striving. Pure intent guides one in each and every situation and circumstance – it is an essential prerequisite to ensure a guaranteed passage through the psychic maze – until the primacy of ‘me’ as a psychological or psychic entity withers away..
With pure intent one will not rest until one has gone all the way.
- If there is no vital interest in peace-on-earth, or were that vital interest to fade away such that
the pure intent to attain to one’s destiny dissipates, then the actualism method would fail, or begin to fail,
like any other action done within the human condition as it is the end which energises the
means (and which is why the means needs not to be dissimilar from the end).
- ..an aqua-lung is essential in contrast to using a snorkel in order to explore the human conditioning
which was inculcated from birth onwards so to somewhat ameliorate the effects of the human condition).
The aqua-lung is, of course, analogous to pure intent.
- pure intent is essential in the process of allowing the PCE to happen – else it may be an ASC that ensues
- the pure intent to have the already always existing peace-on-earth become apparent, as evidenced in the
pure consciousness experience (PCE), is activated with the nourishment of one’s innate naiveté
via wonder ... whereupon an intimate connection, a golden thread or clew as it were, is thus established
whereby one is sensitive to and receptive of the over-arching benignity and benevolence of the world of
the PCE – which is already always just here right now anyway – and one is not on one’s own, in this,
the adventure of a lifetime.
- Hence the activation of one’s innate naiveté – the closest approximation to innocence one can have
whilst being a ‘self’ – ensures that such a connection is sustained.
This connection I call pure intent.
- Perfection is an actual condition – intrinsic to this universe – that a human being can tap into by pure intent.
Pure intent can be activated again and again with sincere attention paid to the state of naiveté.
- The ultimate source of an actualist’s pure intent is, of course, the pristine purity of the innocence
which prevails in the pure consciousness experience (PCE).
- Pure intent renders morality redundant ... which is good news, as morality – although well-meant – never works successfully.
Morality seeks to control; pure intent eliminates the need for control. With pure intent operating twenty-four-hours-a-day in
one’s life, one can safely get out from being under control without going off the rails. One is then able to be virtually free
from the resentment, the guilt, the remorse, and all the other factors which are the hall-mark of a wayward self under control.
Pure intent is the highway to this utter freedom, to one’s destiny ... and it is a wide and wondrous path.
Regards
Shashank
