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The three phases
of a pilgrimage
A pilgrimage
happens between departure (i.e. GO, opening, beginning) and arrival (STOP,
closure, ending). A complete
(hence whole, therefore holy) pilgrimage (i.e. by a human rather than by a
microbe) consists of three phases (e.g. 1. ‘wash your face’, 2. ‘choose your
make-up’, ‘simulate the make-up affect’, ‘put on the make-up’, 3 ‘reality
test your self’): 1.
Getting the act (i.e. the self) together, i.e. returning (the
unsteady self) to a status quo (ante), i.e. a particular home* 2.
Changing the act, i.e. creating a new self, i.e. a new @ status quo
as new home 1.
Designing a new self 2.
Simulating a new self 3.
Changing the self, i.e. differentiating the status quo 3.
Reality testing the new act, colliding or fusing the new status quo
(i.e. the self as particular home) with an alternate status quo (i.e. with
another self-as-home) 1.
Experiencing realness 2.
Experiencing identity 3.
Experiencing freedom (i.e. happiness, elation (i.e. enlightenment),
joy, rapture and so on * This is the pilgrimage of the religious
penitent (i.e. sinner) who returns to (the fold of) the religious state (i.e.
the righteous self) ‘given’ by the religion’s founder or one of her or his
self-proclaimed (fully dedicated, hence clone) representatives (i.e. the
priest). Completion (i.e. fulfilment, hence
stopping or ending, in a word, deciding) of each phase pays off in happiness (actually in an energy or ‘speed’ surge
self-represented as happiness, and which increases to joy, elation, rapturous
bliss proportionate to the degree of completion; read: completeness). Incompletion (i.e. non-fulfilment, not
stopping or ending, in a word, not deciding) of the phases pays off in unhappiness (actually in energy or speed loss (increasing
to misery to proportionate to the degree of incompletion; read:
incompleteness).
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