# Actual Freedom – Catalogue

## Self-Consciousness; Self-Conscious (Self and Other) 1. Palaeontology has found circumstantial evidence of ‘self-consciousness’ dating from at least 50,000 to 60,000 years ago (reverential burying of the dead with artefacts). (Richard, List B, No. 50, #self-consciousness) 2. The instinctual passions form a rudimentary self – an emotional entity – situated in the reptilian brain at the top of the brain-stem in all animals. An awareness of being this self (self-consciousness) is evidenced in only a few animals ... in the chimpanzee, for an example, but not the monkey. (Richard, List B, No. 40, #selfconsciousness) 3. Indeed it is so that in the lizard brain there is no ‘self-conscious thinker’ (the saurian brain cannot think) ... there is an intuitive self-consciousness residing there. (Richard, List B, No. 45b, #selfconsciousness) 4. The instinctual survival passions (such as fear and aggression and nurture and desire) are what constitute the inchoate basis of ‘being’ ... they are both the core of self and the source of the instinctive impression of self and other (the other may be animal, vegetable or mineral). (Richard, List B, No. 45a, #selfconsciousness) 5. The [primordial] passions are the very energy source of the rudimentary animal self ... the base consciousness of ‘self’ and ‘other’ that all sentient beings have. (Richard, List B, No. 45b, #selfandother) 6. G’day Rick, As the operative-word in all the above is ‘self-worth’ (and self-worth as derived from others’ opinion at that) perhaps a personal anecdote may be of assistance. (Richard, List D, Rick, #self-worth) RETURN TO CATALOGUE INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one. Richard’s Text ©The Actual Freedom Trust:1997- . All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer and Use Restrictions and Guarantee of Authenticity