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'Adult sensibilities' refer to the intelligence (sans cunningness) that emerges into full view² when emotionally embracing⁴ every situation.

RICHARD: I found that to emotionally accept that which is intellectually unacceptable was to enable one’s native intelligence to emerge into full view of its own accord. And thus intelligence was no longer crippled.

JAMES: Yes, I agree with this. My intelligence is clearly crippled now by my emotional unacceptance of what is happening.

RICHARD: And ‘emotional unacceptance’ could, perhaps, be adequately described as emotionally objecting, resisting, rejecting or denying (rather than being emotionally welcoming, consenting, receiving or acknowledging) ... and maybe even being emotionally aloof, indifferent, apathetic or vacillating? I only mention this as the whole point of these discussions is to find out, experientially, what makes one tick ... and the proposal is that ‘I’ am a feeling ‘being’ (‘I’ am ‘my’ feelings and ‘my’ feelings are ‘me’).

Speaking personally, as a preliminary step twenty-odd years ago, I started to embrace each situation that life provided by emotionally welcoming, readily consenting to, receiving fully and unabashedly acknowledging every circumstance so as to find out, once and for all, just what was going on ... and just what intelligence actually was.

Now intelligence operates unimpeded.

• "the PCE enables one to know for oneself what is being described, it is what does the leading"
• "When remembered, the PCE tells one ‘where to go’ ... not some super-guru!"
• "their own freedom from the human condition [..] is dependent upon their remembering at least one of their PCE’s accurately."
• "the validity of the authenticity and authority of the PCE can certainly be settled by any body ... it is experiential. To use an old-fashioned – and possibly now politically incorrect – phrase: one has to ‘go native’ to fully understand."
• "those peoples that have had, or remember having had, a PCE do not dispute what actualism is on about"
• "The PCE occurs globally ... across cultures and down through the ages irregardless of gender, race or age."

"as a preliminary step twenty-odd years ago, I started to embrace each situation that life provided by emotionally welcoming, readily consenting to, receiving fully and unabashedly acknowledging every circumstance [..]"

‘being here at this propitious place in space at this dynamic moment in time’

Notably: fear, aggression, nurture & desire.

Notably, those to do with 'social capital'

• "Naiveté is an aspect of oneself locked away in childhood through ridicule, derision, and so on, that one has dared not to resurrect for fear of appearing foolish, a simpleton, in both others' eyes and, thus, one's own."
• "Naiveté is a beneficence ... it is what I got in touch with to enable me to steer my way through the maze of conditioning ... a conditioning that stretches back into antiquity"

"Pure intent can be activated again and again with earnest attention paid to the state of naiveté."

"At times this audacity – that it will be me who does it – approaches megalomania ... after all, one thinks, who am I to think that I can break through the impasse that has baffled humankind for millennia? As long as one does not succumb to delusions of grandeur, a healthy dose of what appears to be megalomania is appropriate ... otherwise one is held back by the mediocrity of those who say you can not do it. "

For example, "I experienced a very fundamental appreciation this morning, after having woken up early to catch the bus to the pool (cold day, sun about to rise). Just moving this body, these limbs, looking at normal stuff (buildings, people, cars, ...), etc. was just ... wonderful. In other words, being alive (as opposed to dead) was quite interesting." (Private Journal, March 2nd)

"The mark of success is to be willing to do whatever it takes, to proceed with all dispatch, employing much vim and vigour ... and have a lot of fun along the way. That last bit of advice is important: do not forget that the goal is to enjoy life now, to appreciate this moment of being alive now, no matter what is going on – be it good or bad, bearable or unbearable. One’s goal is to defeat blind nature, which endowed us with all these instinctual drives and impulses which we wish to overcome, by using our thinking, reflective brain to understand the need to become happy and harmless ... that is, to eliminate malice and sorrow."