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The two phases of a completed pilgrimage
A pilgrimage
happens between departure (i.e. GO, opening, beginning, indecision,
incompleteness = need) and arrival (STOP, closure, ending, decision, completeness,
need satisfaction). A complete
(hence whole = holy) pilgrimage consists of two phases: 1.
Either getting the act
(i.e. the self) together, i.e. returning (the unsteady or uncertain self) to a
status quo (ante), i.e. to steadiness or certainty (i.e. the old home). In other words, eliminating
impedance or drag (read; sin).* Or, Changing the act,
i.e. creating a new self, i.e. a new @ status quo functioning as new home. In short: creating quantum status 2.
Reality testing, as in quantum collision, the old or new act (home= steady state), 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; in the case of the religious with the priest’s reality),
thereby: 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 fanatic) 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/intensity 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 or
depression (increasing to misery proportionate to the degree/intensity of
incompletion; read: incompleteness).
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