comprehension

Only a mystic will comprehend a mystic. All others are involved in the affairs of the sensorium.

percival lowell and the intranaut

An inscription on Percival Lowell's tomb at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff is also true of the intranaut, the mystic, the explorer of the holocosmic: "Astronomy now demands bodily abstraction of its devotee... To see into the beyond requires purity... and the securing it makes him perforce a hermit from his kind... He must abandon cities and forego plains... Only in places above and aloof from men can he profitably pursue his search. He must learn to wait upon his opportunities and no less to wait for mankind's acceptance of his results... for in common with most explorers he will encounter on his return that final penalty of penetration - the certainty at first of being disbelieved."

extension

Let us say that you are sitting in a chair reading and a passage you have just read produces the inclination to go to your computer across the room to look up a word or make a note. You are now neither here nor there but are stretched across the room between the you in the chair and the you at the computer. As long as this extension is maintained and not consummated, you are stretched between the two and ineffective.

our ghostly endeavors

You have a perception of yourself. It is not real, at least in three-dimensional space. No one else sees it except perhaps in glimpses. It is a ghost. You are wed to your ghost. So-called enlightenment is knowing you have a self-created ghost. That is Enlightenment One. Enlightenment One A is dissolution of the ghost: Ghost Dissolving 101. Enlightenment 2 is strong laughter at the very thought.