This very statement is a test of how far out you can get about it.

Hakim Bey once said,
“Sooner or later the uncovering & unveiling of self/nature transmogrifies a person into a brigand – like stepping into another world and then returning to this one to discover you’ve been declared some kind of a traitor, a heretic, an exile.  Truly scintillating divine life is lived underground in a zone of autonomy rather than as an accepted member of mass market society.”

If you understand Hakim Bey, Juan Matus and Tung Shan, you’ve got a shot at understanding the kind of personal breakthrough you are trying to arrange in yourself here.

This very statement is another test of how far out you can get about it.

What would be your most happy and free interpretation of your present life-situation?  What also would be your most honest and fearless assessment of the way you go about living in your present life-situation?  And, finally, do you see the truth of the way you interpret and make your assessments?

This very statement is yet another test of how far out you can get about it.

What, in fact, helps you most to get far out?  A drug?  Intense sex?  Far out book reading with far out music?  Asking these questions?  Going for a walk?  Sitting still?  Asking other questions?

Which ever way a fly positions itself on flypaper, it is still stuck to death.  What if the different angles taken by an ordinary reader on the things they read are a similar case?  What can you yourself say about this without using words or phony gestures?

What do you most deeply enjoy about a self-referencing question like this one?

Do you enjoy becoming more conscious when you actually become more conscious?  Do you not sometimes become sort of more conscious?  Perhaps you would like to pause a little longer here before rushing on to the next note.

How long and deeply are you prepared to look into the reason for this question?

What do you most truly believe all this is really about?  What is causing this belief of yours?  What is a possible better belief?

Do you know what is most preventing you from forming the right belief about all this?  It is your stupid fear of discovering where your present belief is wrong.  Therefore, we ask you yet again to look into a possible better belief about all this.

Would you now like to take an even more powerful step in your learning process?  Of course you will say “Yes” without knowing what you really mean by your “Yes”.  You have a belief about your learning process.  What would be a possible better belief about your learning process?