The Pilgrim’s control means

 

 

The word ‘control’ is derived from Latin contra- ‘against’ + rotulus ‘a roll’, suggesting the notion of relative (added) linear or looping momentum = energy (or mass)).

 

The New Oxford Dictionary defines the meaning of ‘control’ as:

 

1.      the power (defined as energy, i.e. relative momentum) to influence or direct people’s behaviour or the course of events

2.      the (power of) restriction of an activity, tendency or phenomenon

3.      the power to restrain something

4.      a means (hence the power) of limiting or regulating something , and so on.

 

In short, to have control means to have (relatively) superior power, whereby power describes added energy expressing locally as greater force, strength, speed, agility and so on. To have no control means lacking all of the former.

 

Hence, the basic control means (and initial guide system) of all living (i.e. dynamic) systems, including the human pilgrim, is (added) power (read: energy profit). Power (i.e. relative momentum, i.e. linear speed, or looped speed stored as mass) is required (i.e. released) to make contact (i.e. to feed, and live) or to avoid contact (i.e. to get eaten, and die).

The pilgrim registers increase in power (i.e. an energy profit, experienced as a surge, often experienced as enlightenment) as a high, iconised (i.e. to make it user friendly, hence more immediate) emotionally as (the various intensities of) happiness. She registers a decrease in power (i.e. an energy loss, experienced as a draw, loss or depression) as a low, iconised emotionally as (the various intensities of) unhappiness.

 

It is (relative) power loss, and therefore loss of control (and which threatens death), that forces the pilgrim to change (direction, size, shape, speed, agility, flexibility and speed of response, i.e. intelligence and so on). Finding a new (i.e. a more energy profitable) direction forces her to activate her Guide System, elsewhere called the Genie.

 

The pilgrim’s Guide System