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The drivers of
pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
happens when an individual departs an unhappiness producing step A - thereby achieving
the happiness of departure - and arrives at a happiness producing step B. The initial
driver is unhappiness. The end drawer (i.e. a driver that pulls) is
happiness. That’s all
there’s to it! A person 1.
becomes unhappy when she stays, i.e. when she attempts to retain her
status and which decays. 2.
becomes happy (because freed from) when she departs (or opens
herself) 3.
becomes happy (because free to) when she arrives (or closes herself) The
intensity of happiness, i.e. as joy, elation, ecstatic
joy, rapturous bliss and so on) depends on how much of her self departs (i.e.
de-fragments) and arrives. If she departs fully (i.e. wholly*) and arrives
fully (i.e. wholly**) she gets the full whack of ecstatic joy. Conversely,
a person who does not depart, and therefore cannot arrive, suffers increasing
unhappiness, sorrow, misery, agony and so on. That’s because (she as) state A
decays. It’s because
(she, i.e. her self, as) state A decays (i.e. dissipates energy) that she
must leave it. If she doesn’t leave her decaying state A, she decays with it,
and suffers accordingly. If and when she departs her decaying state A, the
happiness (or relief) she experiences will be proportionate to the amount of
energy she frees up.
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