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Avoiding self-exhaustion
The exhausted
pilgrim slows down, then crawls, then dies (i.e. in the desert). She becomes
exhausted for two reasons. She runs out
of energy She runs out
of building (i.e. path-making) material. In order to
avoid exhaustion she must continuously gauge her ‘state’, then make every
effort to acquire the means to her goal and regenerate the energy needed to
drive her there. The pilgrim
gets energy from three sources. She can
divert energy and (information regarding the) building materials from her
goal. She gets them by focusing on her goal, thereby producing an ‘as if’
‘goal achieved’ experience, and which is really an internal nano ‘as is’
experience. She diverts
to and completes a pilgrimage to a secondary goal, its consummation (i.e.
digestion an assimilation) providing her with both building (i.e. path
making) materials and energy. She takes a
rest (i.e. a sleep). During the rest (or lay up) period she as it were
digests the just completed step (and which was a secondary goal) on her path,
in the process accessing its stored energy and building materials,
eliminating waste products and reconfiguring (i.e. realigning) herself. It is vital
that the pilgrim forages (i.e. regenerates) en route, paces herself, and,
most importantly, never ever loses sight of her goal. She must not
arrive exhausted at her goal (an error that is made by many who arrive, for
instance, at Santiago de Compostella totally wrecked). If she does, arrival
at her goal will not provide the surge of joy and self-truth experience, the
latter actually being produced when her stored energy is involuntarily
released. To avoid
arriving exhausted, the smart pilgrim lays up for a period of R&R (and
final self-reconfiguration (i.e. putting on the shining golden clothes of
perfection) before entering/achieving the goal of the pilgrimage. With her
energy fully restored, and her self dressed in perfection, she can enter in
triumph. The even
smarter, because more experienced pilgrim avoids entering/achieving the goal
altogether. She chooses to look upon it from afar, i.e. as a Promised Land
never to be entered.
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