The first qualification for getting through the chaos to the place of clarity is that you cannot be normal, nor can you be abnormal. (You take it from there.)
Men believe there is an art to being born and dying, but disintegration and reassembly take no talent.
With men: glue is king. He who finally cuts-to-the-quick sports a mind super slick.
Even if you still believe that you do care what happens, don’t admit it. Don’t ever admit it – which is almost as good as the real deal.
The neural condition some call, “being awake,” is not totally unknown to ordinary men. Just as when a dream becomes too disturbing you will wake up, so too in daytime, when stress becomes too great, (as when people are present at a terrifying event), they will commonly go into an anomalous mental state which they refer to as: “being in shock.” There is the difference between the six billion and the handful.
J.