# Actual Freedom – Articles

## 180 Degrees Opposite (To be seeking spiritual freedom is to be going 180 degrees in the wrong direction) (Please make sure java-scripting is enabled in order for the mouse-hover tool-tips to function properly; mouse-hover on the yellow rectangular image to enlarge; left-click on the image to hold). Actual freedom: Time and space and form are actual (the timeless, spaceless and formless reality is a dream). Spiritual freedom: The timeless, spaceless and formless is real (time and space and form are a dream). Actual freedom: This physical universe is infinite and eternal (boundless and limitless). Spiritual freedom: God (by whatever name) is infinite and eternal (boundless and limitless). Actual freedom: This physical universe is beginningless and endless (unborn and undying). Spiritual freedom: God (by whatever name) is beginningless and endless (unborn and undying). Actual freedom: This physical universe is the source of human life (matter gives rise to consciousness). Spiritual freedom: God (by whatever name) is the source of both the universe and human life (consciousness gives rise to matter). Actual freedom: One is this flesh and blood body only. Spiritual freedom: One is not the physical body. Actual freedom: Physical death is the end, finish: mortality. Spiritual freedom: Physical death is not the end: immortality. Actual freedom: The soul (by whatever name) is an illusion. Spiritual freedom: The soul (by whatever name) is real. Actual freedom: Totally new (modern) wisdom substantiated by rigorous empirical objectivity (individualistic commonality). Spiritual freedom: Totally old (ancient) wisdom substantiated by thoughtless metaphysical subjectivity (solipsistic oneness). Actual freedom: Peace-on-earth is possible as this flesh and blood body. Spiritual freedom: Peace-on-earth is not possible ... peace can only happen after the body physically dies. Actual freedom: Suffering is eliminated (via immolation). Spiritual freedom: Suffering is transcended (via sublimation). Actual freedom: Both ‘I’ as ego and ‘me’ as soul are extinguished. Spiritual freedom: ‘I’ as ego surrenders and/or dissolves and ‘me’ as soul expands to be God (by whatever name). Actual freedom: Any ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ dichotomy is not actual. Spiritual freedom: The ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ become one. Actual freedom: Love and compassion only exist as long as malice and sorrow exists (both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ become extinct). Spiritual freedom: Love and compassion are the antidotes to malice and sorrow (the ‘good’ is dependent on the ‘bad’ for its existence). Actual freedom: The facts are the key to success and are to be sensately found in the actual. Spiritual freedom: The truth is the key to success and is to be found in the feeling of beauty. Actual freedom: A sensate-feeling experience (sensation only) empirically experienced as a body-mind (human consciousness). Spiritual freedom: An affective-feeling experience (calenture only) imaginatively experienced as a bodiless Mind (Divine Consciousness). Actual freedom: A temporary pure consciousness experience (PCE) such as a peak experience of perfection/nature experience provides a glimpse of one’s actual destiny. Spiritual freedom: A temporary altered state of consciousness (ASC), such as a satori/samadhi/epiphany, provides a glimpse of one’s imaginary destiny. Actual freedom: By being born a separative ‘self’ one lives in a painful reality (being detached from actuality) and sensuousness ends this detachment with the resultant apperception revealing the actual world. Spiritual freedom: By becoming detached from the separative ‘self’ (and thus being twice-removed from actuality) dissociation from painful reality manifests a metaphysical greater reality in the psyche rendering the physical world a nightmarish dream. Actual freedom: Total elimination of the rudimentary ‘self’ born of the instinctual survival passions (due to the altruism inherent in the survival instincts). Spiritual freedom: Total aggrandisement of the rudimentary ‘self’ born of the instinctual survival passions (due to the narcissism inherent in the survival instincts). Actual freedom: Belief, faith, trust and hope play no part. Spiritual freedom: Belief, faith, trust and hope are fundamental. Actual freedom: Intuition, imagination, visualisation, prescience, clairvoyance, telepathy and divination are non-existent in actual freedom. Spiritual freedom: Intuition, imagination, visualisation, prescience, clairvoyance, telepathy and divination are commonplace in spiritual freedom. Actual freedom: Actual freedom is consistent: it is neither contradictory nor hypocritical. Spiritual freedom: Inconsistency, contradiction and hypocrisy are central to spiritual freedom. Actual freedom: The wide and wondrous path to actual freedom offers incremental success through methodical moment-to-moment examination of feeling-fed beliefs disguised as ‘truths’ (virtual freedom). Spiritual freedom: The straight and narrow path to spiritual freedom offers an all-or-nothing non-incremental practice through disciplined moment-to-moment enhancement of feeling-fed beliefs revered as ‘truths’ (renunciate or anchorite). Actual freedom: Autonomy and independence (through altruistic ‘self’-sacrifice) are the hallmarks of actual freedom. Spiritual freedom: Submission and dependency (through self-seeking ‘self’-surrender) are the hallmarks of spiritual freedom. Actual freedom: Gratitude is a hindrance on the path to an actual freedom. Spiritual freedom: Gratitude is essential on the path to a spiritual freedom. Actual freedom: Dignity is both the means to the end and the end in actual freedom. Spiritual freedom: Humility is essential if one is to be God On Earth. INDEX OF ARTICLES 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