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Please note that Vineeto’s correspondence below was written by the actually free Vineeto |
(List D refers to Richard’s List D
and his Respondent Numbers)
Vineeto’s Correspondence
with Almog on Discuss
Actualism Forum
July 26, 2024
ALMOG: Thank you Vineeto for this explanation and emphasis on
appreciation. I’ve always wondered why this phrase was cemented into the actualism method, not only be
happy and harmless or enjoy this moment – but also appreciate this moment of being alive in whatever form it takes.
And today while experimenting with this “fresh” information it became clear to me how appreciation, i.e.
being a person who appreciates whatever is happening to him, is tightly connected to being naive because I could not
bring myself to be like this without feeling a bit foolish, a real simpleton!
VINEETO: Hi Almog,
You hit the nail right on the head. Becoming naïve is indeed “tightly
connected” to be able to “appreciate this moment of being alive
whatever form it takes.”
It takes a bit of courage because we are so earnestly instructed and conditioned to be serious
and weary but when you do allow yourself to be sincerely naïve, “a bit foolish”,
as you say, you will experience that you are both likeable and liking, i.e. that you like yourself and also like your
fellow human beings.
Richard]: The way to be both likeable and liking – to be as near to
innocence as is possible whilst remaining a ‘self’ – is to retrieve and resurrect your long-lost naïveté
(locked away in childhood, per favour the scorn, ridicule and derision poured forth upon it by the worldly-wise
cynics and sophisticates, due to an infantile/ juvenile inability to separate out being naïve from being gullible),
nowadays made readily possible by virtue of your adult sensibilities, and operate and function in the world at large
by being naïveté itself (thus by-passing/ over-riding that instinctually/ viscerally felt core-of-being centre of
‘self’).
When you are both likeable and liking it is no longer important what other people might think of
you (“a bit foolish, a real simpleton”) – you have unilaterally
changed the parameters of how you like to feel and act in the world of people-as-they-are – naïvely. It is a
delight to be sincerely naïve because there you like your fellow human beings and you like yourself.
[Richard]: And as ‘he’ stood there,
delightedly extolling the virtues of being naiveté itself, ‘he’ enthusiastically encouraged ‘his’ rapt
audience to reach down inside of themselves intuitively (a.k.a. feeling it out) going past the rather superficial
emotions and/or feelings (generally in the chest area) into the deeper, more profound passions and/or feelings
(generally in the solar plexus area) until they came to a place (generally about four-finger widths below the
navel) where they intuitively feel they elementarily have existence as a feeling being (as in ‘me’, at the
core of ‘my’ being, which is ‘being’ itself), and, having located ‘being’ itself, gently and tenderly
sense out the area immediately below that (just above and/or just before and almost touching on the sex centre)
where they would find themselves both likeable and liking (for here lies sincerity and/or naiveté) and here is
where they can, finally, like themself (very important) no matter what, for here is the nearest a ‘self’ can
get to innocence whilst remaining a ‘self’, and, moreover, here lies tenderness and/or sweetness and
togetherness and/or closeness because here is where it is possible to be the key which unlocks the potency of
naiveté.
[Richard]: A rather quaint clay-pit tale
which nonetheless depicts the range of naïveness from being sincere to becoming naïve and all the way through being
naïveté itself⁽⁰¹⁾ to an actual innocence.
⁽⁰¹⁾To
be naïveté itself (i.e., naïveté embodied as a childlike persona with adult sensibilities), which is to be the
closest one can to innocence whilst remaining a ‘self’ (innocence is where ‘self’ is not), one is both
likeable and liking for herewith lies tenderness and/or sweetness and togetherness and/or closeness whereupon
moment-to-moment experiencing is of traipsing through the world about in a state of wide-eyed wonder and amazement as
if a child again (guileless, artless, ingenuous, innocuous) – yet with adult sensibilities whereby the distinction
betwixt being naïve and being gullible is readily separable – simply marvelling at the sheer magnificence of this
oh-so-material universe’s absoluteness and unabashedly delighting in its boundless beneficence, its limitless
largesse, as being the experiencing is inherently cornucopian (due to the near-absence of agency which ensues when
the controlling doer is abeyant and the naïve beer is ascendant), with a blitheness and a gaiety such that the
likelihood of the magical fairy-tale-like nature of this paradisaical terraqueous globe, this bounteously verdant and
azure planet, becoming ever-so-sweetly apparent, as an experiential actuality, is almost always imminent.
And here, Almog and Jonathan, is a wonderful opportunity of experiencing many,
many ‘wow’-moments.
Vineeto
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