pilgrim: one who undertakes a pilgrimage; literally, "far afield". while religious pilgrims usually travel towards a specific destination, a particular physical location is not necessary.
pilgrimage: what happens between departure and arrival. the goal is to come "home".
the three stages of a pilgrimage1. getting the self (act) together by returning [the unsteady self] to a
status quo (any particular home, ie christianity)2. changing the self (creating a new self) with a new
status quo (home) by designing a new self, simulating a new self, and changing the self to meet the new status quo. reality testing the new self, colliding or fusing the new status quo with an alternate status quo by: experiencing realness, identity, and freedom
astasy: unstable state of selfescendant ecstasy: if and when a state of self is completely relinquished rather than merely changed. achieved when the pilgrim eliminates self-as-state in order to experience boundess sameness (ONE) with the absolute.
enstasy: virtually stable state of self; an astasy that has achieved ONENESS and functions as a relative BEC.
Bose-Einstein Condensate: a solution in which all wave functions overlap each other. bosons: subatomic particles which act as force carriers; when the energy is equivalent, two can occupy the same place in space. wave function is unaffected by substitutions elementary bosons: photons (electromagnetic field), W and Z bosons (weak nuclear force), Gluons (strong nuclear force, gravitrons (gravity) composite bosons: hadrons, nuclei, atoms
This is where things get interesting. Composite bosons exhibit exceptional qualities when expressed in superfluids, which exhibit zero viscosity (the ability to flow without dissipating energy), zero entropy (lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder), and infinite thermal capacity (He-4 has the highest known thermal conductivity of any material).
Superfluidity: a phase of matter (heat capacity) reached when liquids (particularly Helium-4) overcome friction by surface interaction if at a stage (lambda) at which the liquid's viscosity becomes zero.
What's especially noteworthy about superfluids is that, due to their unique characteristics, the introduction of heat results in second sound, where heat transfer results in unusual wave-like movement similar to that of the propagation of sound in air. This quality facilitates the thermomechanical effect; if a capillary tube is placed into superfluid He-4 and heated, even if only by shining a light on it, the liquid helium will flow up the tube and out the top. Additionally, liquid He-4 can form a layer, 30nm thick, up the side of any container in which it is place.
The coolest feature of superfluids, though, has basis in their highly specific quantized vortexes. The manner in which these vortexes facilitate circulation is such that if placed in a rotating container, the superfluid will only rotate if its critical velocity (the speed of sound in superfluid) is reached; otherwise the superfluid will remain motionless while the container continues to spin.
I promise there's a reason that I inflicted all that science on you; I didn't expect to find any of that while researching something something so seemingly simple as pilgrimage. As it turns out, the concepts behind these sorts of journeys are quite complex. But, the question always remains as to whether temporal knowledge is necessary for a successful spiritual journey.
To ask if something must be known must be known may very well be a form of circular logic, and this sort of conflict is pervasive in almost any pursuit for understanding. Nonetheless, inspecting the underlying forces (no pun intended) of the concept of pilgrimage illustrates the interconnectivity of secular and spiritual.
The final goal of a pilgrimage is to come home, which is essentially the pilgrim's self as defined by the identity or difference of his or her at rest state (a particular order of ONE, ie nirvana).
One sort of home is enstasy, an astasy that has achieved ONENESS. This is the type of home that functions within the realm of the above description of BEC. In this stable state, a pilgrim exists in identifiable, maximum anti-entropy. Upon reaching this home, the pilgrim can only attain real ecstasy through collision of his or her virtual enstasy with an alternate virtual enstasy. The result is escendent ecstasy, a location of boundless ONENESS with the absolute, reached through completely relinquishing self-as-state. Because the idea of self is energy, once eliminated, the resulting difference of pressure creates a relative vacuum. A pilgrimage can end in other ways.
The alternate type of home is that of transcendentalists such as Buddha. In its absolute ground order of ONE, it is non-relative and at maximum entropy. Here, self is constantly dissolving
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