If you have not been through all the previous sessions, you are what they call a babaca in Brazil, which roughly means, “total asshole”.  Like a stupid child, you want to skip ahead “to see where it is all going” or the like.  But to see is exactly what you do not know how to do.

If you stand on the black sands of the beach at Vik, Iceland, with Heightened Awareness you can look south across the North and South Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Antarctic and the South Pole.   This note is thus about extending your perception beyond your usual boundaries.

Thomas Nagel, in his excellent philosophical work, The View From Nowhere, says,
       “The ambition to get outside of ourselves has obvious limits, but it is not always easy to know where they are or when they have been transgressed.  We rightly think that the pursuit of detachment from our initial standpoint is an indispensable method of advancing our understanding of the world and of ourselves, increasing our freedom of thought and action, and becoming better.  But since we are who we are, we can’t get outside of ourselves completely.  Whatever we do, we remain subparts of the world with limited access to the real nature of it and of ourselves.  There is no way of telling how much of reality lies beyond the present or future objectivity or any other conceivable form of human understanding.”

This note is about the Bed Temple of Dattatreya in Mahur, Maharastra, India where people of the Mahanubhava Sect beat drums to cure the insane who are brought there for that purpose. Since you do not have access to that place, we are writing notes for you instead if you can get with the beat.

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