# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Narcissism; Narcissistic; Solipsism ## Solipsistic; Metaphysical Solipsism Narcissism: narcissism’: self-love; extreme vanity’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Narcissistic: narcissistic: of, pertaining to, or of the nature of narcissism; marked or caused by excessive self-love’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Solipsism: solipsism’: the view or theory that only the self really exists or can be known. [from Latin ‘solus’ sole, alone + ‘ipse’ self]: in philosophy, the view or theory that only the self really exists or can be known. Now also, isolation, self-centredness, selfishness. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Richard: Just as a matter of interest: I experienced a period of what I then called ‘extreme subjectivity’ whilst living in the Himalayas in 1984 (I did not know of the term ‘solipsist’ until 1993 when I read an edifying account by Mr. Leo Tolstoy, who went through a period of solipsism, and later wrote at length about his experience) and it is a ghastly state to be in ... those who intellectually entertain the notion, as in a philosophy for example, have obviously never personally experienced the reality of being solipsistic. Put briefly: nothing can be verified (absolutely nothing) as everything (absolutely everything) is ‘my’ creation: to ask another, for instance, whether they independently exist is an exercise in futility as anything they might say is ‘my’ creation also ... or to seek psychiatric help, for another example, is to have one of ‘my’ creations prescribe yet another one of ‘my’ creations. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 54, 19 March 2004). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Solipsistic: solipsistic: characterised by solipsism [the view or theory that only the self really exists or can be known]’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). RICHARD: It is one thing to intellectually endorse a solipsistic point and quite another thing to really be solipsistic ... especially as an on-going experiencing. I can clearly recall a period in 1984, whilst living in the Himalayas and plumbing the depths and extremities of spiritual enlightenment/ mystical awakenment, of being in what I then described (having never heard of the word) as a state of extreme subjectivity. It was a truly alarming experience (the affective faculty was, of course, still in situ at the time) to have no possible objective corroboration of whatever/ whoever is being sensed, felt out, and/or thought about as to ask another for such corroboration is an exercise in futility ... inasmuch there is no other (in the solipsistic state one is creating everyone and everything hence any ‘corroboration’ is also one’s creation). Even the clichéd ‘please pinch me I must be dreaming’ is to no avail as nothing and nobody have any independent existence. I have lost count of just how many wannabe mystics – non-dual dilettantes – have sat on my verandah or in my living room solemnly confiding in me, whilst waving a hand airily all about to include everything and everybody, that ‘this is all an illusion’ ... only to then look at me with rapidly-increasing incredulity when I ask them, in (pseudo) matched solemnity, why they are informing one of their illusions that he is that (one of their illusions). I have even asked that of one of my fellow human beings by e-mail (archived in Mailing List ‘B’). (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 87b, 31 August 2006). Metaphysical Solipsism: Metaphysical Solipsism: subvariety of idealism which maintains that the individual self of the solipsistic philosopher is the whole of reality and that the external world and other persons are representations of that self having *no independent existence*. [emphasis added]. ~ (Ledger Wood, page 295 in ‘Dictionary of Philosophy’; www.ditext.com/runes/s.html#Solipsism). RETURN TO DEFINITIONS 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