Pilgrimage: A Journey of Spiritual Ascension

The Algorithm of Pilgrimage:

Pilgrimage consists of departing an undesirable (hence unhappiness producing) state (or status or stand or place, from Greek histani ‘to stand’, actually an astasy) A and arriving at a desirable (hence happiness) producing state (or place) B (actually an ecstasy).

A religious pilgrimage consists in departing from what a priest considers an undesirable (because un-whole or unholy, read: sinful) state A and arriving at a state B considered by that priest as desirable (i.e. holy, whole-making, read: righteous).

The Three Phases of a Pilgrimage:

A pilgrimage happens between departure (i.e. GO, opening, beginning) and arrival(STOP, closure, ending).

A complete (hence whole, therefore holy) pilgrimage (i.e. by a human rather than by a microbe) consists of three phases (e.g. 1. ‘wash your face’, 2. ‘choose your make-up’, ‘simulate the make-up affect’, ‘put on the make-up’, 3 ‘reality test your self’):

1. Getting the act (i.e. the self) together, i.e. returning (the unsteady self) to a status quo (ante), i.e. a particular home*

2. Changing the act, i.e. creating a new self, i.e. a new status quo as new home:
a. Designing a new self
b. Simulating a new self
c. Changing the self, i.e. differentiating the status quo

3. Reality testing the new act, colliding or fusing the new status quo (i.e. the self as particular home) with an alternate status quo (i.e. with another self-as-home):
a. Experiencing realness
b. Experiencing identity
c. Experiencing freedom (i.e. happiness, elation (i.e. enlightenment), joy, rapture and so on

*This is the pilgrimage of the religious penitent (i.e. sinner) who returns to (the fold of) the religious state (i.e. the righteous self) ‘given’ by the religion’s founder or one of her or his self-proclaimed (fully dedicated, hence clone) representatives (i.e. the priest).

Completion (i.e. fulfilment, hence stopping or ending, in a word, deciding) of each phase pays off in happiness (actually in an energy or ‘speed’ surge self-represented as happiness, and which increases to joy, elation, rapturous bliss proportionate to the degree of completion; read: completeness).

Incompletion (i.e. non-fulfilment, not stopping or ending, in a word, not deciding) of the phases pays off in unhappiness (actually in energy or speed loss (increasing to misery to proportionate to the degree of incompletion; read: incompleteness).