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Overcoming hindrance
The world outside the home (read: the self-as-stable-identity, i.e. enstasy), and which the pilgrim must pass (in fact, eat her way) through to reach her new home (i.e. her sanctuary as new true self), presents as both help and hindrance. Whether the external world (elsewhere called ‘the jungle’) is experienced as help or hindrance depends on the programming (i.e. the mindset, read: Guide System) of the pilgrim.Fundamentally, the pilgrim responds to external contact, though with the development of the memory of hits and misses she can learn (via Lamarckian adaptation/evolution) to anticipate hindrance, thereby appearing to become proactive. Because she responds, hindrance (i.e. response incapacity) actually happens within her (Guide System). In short, hindrance happens as the result of a skewed, incomplete or uncertain Inner Pilgrimage applied/realized as Internal Pilgrimage.In essence, what hinders the pilgrim is less than fully functional (read: good) external contact response flexibility. The pilgrim is not obstructed or hindered by external contact. She obstructs herself when she attempts to resolve an external contact with inadequate (in fact, obsolete) means.The pilgrim fails
because she (i.e. her previous response programming, for instance,
the mindsets of her infancy or puberty or of a particular local (read: home)
group) gets in
her own way (mainly, however, by failing to generate or accept a
clearly defined ‘as if’ goal).
Hence, since
she hinders herself, overcoming hindrance means changing (i.e. adapting,
upgrading, evolving) herself (i.e. her Guide System). If she upgrades her
response flexibility, then every contact (and which produces an intermediary sanctuary)
functions as help (i.e. as prey/food). If she fails to upgrade (i.e. adapt),
every contact (of her external pilgrimage) will present as a hindrance
(indeed as predator/feeder). In short, whether or not the pilgrim reaches her
sanctuary (her goal, to wit, a particular (differential) self-transformation)
depends on the set up of her responses (i.e. on her mindset, developed via
the Internal Pilgrimage as a physical (or functional) responses set).
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