A Short Experiment
December 4, 2007
First collect all images of you self, and any other items that act as a proxy to you presence. If possible steel all government, medical, and academic documents with your name on them. Place these things in a box and stow the box away where it will not be discovered.
Next delete your blog, Myspace, Facebook Flicker, all web based digital materials pertaining you.
Then, if you are not alone go some place you can be or ask everyone around you to turn away, and keep enough distance so that they can not feel the heat of your body, hear your breath, or smell you. This will help keep you from being distracted as well.
Clear your mind of every thing you know about your self, and everyone else in the world. Stop perceiving the pressure of your body against it’s self and any surfaces. Stop acknowledging your own breath and all other functions of your body, voluntary or involuntary. Arrest all cognition.
Once you are no longer being perceived by yourself or others you have stopped existing. See how long you can remain in this state before you or some one else resumes the perception of your being.
December 4, 2007 at 4:54 pm
this would be terribly difficult. it would require months if not years of mental training. i think our society (whether that is western civilization or something else) rejects this kind of patience and mostly rejects the reasoning behind why such a task would ever want to be completed.
i’ve been planning on doing something similar that would require at least two decades (i’m assuming) to complete. i want to shut off the ability to be responsive to the outside world and retire completely inward. some what like a conscious and voluntary insanity that i would be able to turn on and off like a light switch.
yes, lets experiment!
December 5, 2007 at 6:27 am
I tried that once but my mom just keept finding childhood pictures to show my boyfriend