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Developing the means of pilgrimage
When a baby
feels hungry (interpreted as discomfort, later varied as the ‘down’ feeling
of unhappiness) it cries out and is fed (read: it performs an involuntary External Pilgrimage).
The feeling of hunger represents - in fact, guides
and controls - the baby’s core (i.e. Core
Pilgrimage) need to acquire energy and self-building material, thereby
avoiding death. Once it has been fed and returned to the state of satiation (i.e.
of fullness, or fulfilment, later self-represented as the ‘up’ or ‘high’
feeling of happiness or joy, which then dissipates (or extinguishes)
completely, thereby returning the baby to Nirvana),
it returns to sleep, that is to say, to processing (read: digesting and
configuring (via Internal
Pilgrimage)) its input - in order to become a particular and
unique person, to wit, ‘a temporary, identifiable cluster of bio-mass’. In
principle, once the baby has been fed and returns to sleep it has completed
the External Pilgrimage. Once it returns, slightly changed, for renewed
feeding, it has completed both the Inner
Pilgrimage and the Internal Pilgrimage. All later
pilgrimages (i.e. all goal oriented self-adaptations), personal or communal
(for instance, goals (or ideals) set by a religious, political or cultural
community), are merely elaborations of these simple procedures (read:
algorithms or programs), save that later on the baby, now an adolescent or
adult, needs to forage independently in the everyday world (and which
functions as the true, because volunary External Pilgrimage), there to barter
for or steal or murder (i.e. predate) for energy and self-building (and
self-orienting) materials (i.e. means). Consequently,
the primary means of pilgrimage, hence of achieving the desired (because
happiness producing) end state B, is to determine cleanly and in fine detail
the (indeed, any actual) ‘end’ (hence whole or holy) state. That’s the job of
the Inner Pilgrimage, i.e. the pilgrim’s Guide & Control System (often
anthropomorphised and/or personalised as (the) ‘Genie’, ‘Holy Spirit’, ‘the
Madonna’, ‘Ganesh’, or as a preferred saint or angel and so on). Once the actual goal becomes
clear (i.e. as an imaginary or notional, hence ‘as if’ reality), the actual
means of the both the internal and the external pilgrimages, i.e. of the
particular internal and external pathways to attainment also emerge, whereby
the inner pilgrimage, that guides the former, is dependent on the External Guide & Control System (i.e.
the actual environment of the pilgrim, elsewhere (as in ancient India) called
the nutrient soup (to wit: All life is food’). After that,
the ‘ as if’ goal - as means of eliminating discomfort (actually failure,
more specifically, death) - needs to fired up (i.e. with passion, milked from
inside or outside), so as to develop gravitation (i.e. draw), and the actual
means acquired, the latter needing to be practiced relentlessly to full
coherence. And that is very, very hard work. Departing
on pilgrimage
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