Stop the World
In order to see (the truth), you have to stop the world. In order to stop the world, you must first stop yourself. In effect, you have to stop your individuality. And in order to stop your individuality, you start with the obvious — you stop traveling to different times and places while you are here and now, which is always and everywhere. But for that to happen, you cannot be preoccupied with validating your individuality. Thus, you have to erase your self-importance.
And that you do by choice, executing active measures, instead of passive waiting or letting things just take their course. The so-called Western man has to exert himself in this way because he was not taught such perceptual way of being to begin with. It was not always the case, but for many, many generations already, it’s a sad reality. In any case, and even though it’s a gradual process, the world considerably slows down almost immediately.
That’s when you can see a nix lurking in the rapids after the rain, that’s when you feel the ominous aura of a stale lake. That’s when Pirahã folks warn visitors from West to don’t go into jungle because Xigagaí is yelling at them that he would kill them, or when Aboriginal people are most probably on guard right as the mountain range known as the belly of the mythical being Damarri becomes two fingers above horizon — missing the songline through the bush can have fatal consequences.
This attention mode has an enormous, seemingly infinite, depth. You can spend decades exploring it. The immersion can span from everyday cultural consensus described above to a refined first-hand knowledge of empiric structure and/or manipulation — otherwise called sorcery — but the world still moves no matter how slow. Thus, even the members of tribal societies which preserved those perceptual arts, seldom reach complete cessation of the movement. Nevertheless, if you continue, the world eventually stops, and there remains only what is. Exactly as it is. You included.
And then the only question remains, who are you?
