The Duct Tape Approach to the Ascension of the Planet
My observation has been that the biggest obstacle to returning people to the pristine state we began is the business of the mind, the business of the body.
What I call business is not the activity of getting things done: on the contrary: the wasteful, self-serving misfiring of the nerve-endings, whether it expresses itself in activity or not. The restlessness, the ADHD-type of running around, aimlessly, but self-importantly.
I have a few students that have taken this restlessness to the max, they do not allow any moment for themselves to just be.
What I did is I recommended that they voluntarily stop talking. Claim chronic laryngitis, or anything, and shut up.
What happened is that they reduced the compulsive talking, compulsive thinking, compulsive actions. Did those disappear?
Judging from the results, when they kept their word to me, the compulsiveness disappeared, or at least kept at bay.
The operative
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