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Getting addicted to the goal
Developing
the goal, i.e. sanctuary as (mental) habit
The true
(i.e. fully dedicated, hence coherent) pilgrim develops one track/means to
one goal (read: sanctuary). She does
that by eliminating (as in Yoga) all other tracks to alternate goals (i.e.
she calls up her Genie) and
reinvests the energy (and building materials) from them into her one track.
As she does that her track (now her Inner
Pilgrimage) becomes so powerful (i.e. the groove gets so deep, her Genie
gets so strong) that she can no longer leave it (i.e. jump off the track or
exit her groove, call off her Genie). When that
happens she is fully hooked (i.e. addicted), that is to say, she becomes a
prisoner (or slave) of her goal (and of her Genie and whose job it is to
first make her imagined goal a perfect reality, then an everyday fact. Of the
true (i.e. fully coherent) pilgrim it is said: “No matter what she does she attains.” Of the pilgrim who is not
fully hooked (i.e. focused) it is said: “No matter what she does she does not attain.” Getting
addicted (i.e. to a goal which happens beyond the current state/self) is very
dangerous since it breaks the relationship to the everyday world that
sustains the pilgrim (and Controls &
Guides her everyday world survival). Consequently, the smart pilgrim will
either manage (indeed, control, i.e. ‘pace’) or disguise her addiction, i.e.
tread softly, slowly and indirectly (so as not to be ground under by the
responses everyday world), or she will create a carefully selected everyday
world that ring-fences (i.e. as a buffer, and protects) her goal (for
instance, a cloister), or she will enter (i.e. join) the everyday (buffer)
world of a self-sustaining community of other pilgrims who aspire to
attaining a goal similar to hers. Example
For
instance, a football (or religion) ‘mad’ (i.e. a folie d’un) boy will join a
football club (i.e. or religious group) where the essentially irrational game
of football (or religion) becomes a fully rational and meaningful activity
(i.e. a folie á plusieurs). When more than one do something crazy it ceases
to be crazy, at least for those who are doing it. In short an addict (behaving as a fanatic) ceases to be an addict (or
fanatic) amongs addicts (or fanatics). |