Victoria’s Way
Contemplating one’s Self and the Way to Fulfilment and Happiness
The original
Option: Victoria’s Way was designed as a
contemplative space to be used by an individual between approx. 28 to 60 years
of age who feels the need to assess the quality and direction of his or her
life. It’s a sort of mid-life (pre-crisis) self-reassessment and
self-reorientation hermitage. Within the
altered state of consciousness created by the solitude and tranquillity of
this serene space, the following questions might be asked and meditated upon
(not necessarily in this order). Am I truly
happy in my skin? If yes, why? If not why not? Am I being
true to myself? If
not why not? What do I really
want from life? Now? Tomorrow? 30 years from now? Specifics, required! Am I
fulfilled? If
yes, why? If not, why not! What do I
need to do to be fulfilled? Specifics required! What is my
heart telling me? Feeling specifics required! What is my
head telling me? Knowledge specific required! What is 30+
years of life experience telling me? Wisdom specifics required! What do I
need to do (or be) so that I experience my life as wholly purposeful and
meaningful.
Specifics required! How do I get
out of the mess I’m in? (This was the Buddha’s problem!) Why do I
keep running away when I should stand my ground? Running away should stop
at round about 30. In short, why am I still sucking/taking when I feel that I
should be spitting/giving? Since I
managed to dive so low, how can I manage rise on high again? Do I have a
soul? This
question is more profitably asked within a religious contemplation space. Victoria’s Way does not serve to
generate religious solutions. The above
list can be ad-libbed further to reflect a personal situation, The questions
and their solutions can be made specific or abstracted to general
propositions (and which is the smart thing to do). The above
questions (actually needs) usually surface in the grey hours before dawn or
in the grey downtime following a crisis. It’s only then that one can be
truthful with oneself. The meditative ambience of Victoria’s Way lets an individual reflect thoughtfully in full
waking consciousness and with an open heart upon the above. The
Day-tripper Option: 99,999% of
visitors to Victoria’s Way are day-trippers. They’re
seeking to step outside the daily rut (i.e. become ecstatic) to experience a
bit of joy (i.e. ecstasy = creac). For them, Victoria’s Way works as a sort
of meta-(everyday)-physical Fun Park. Great! Day-trippers
attain ecstasy = joy to the extent that they switch from their reality bubble
to Victoria’s other-reality bubble. Moreover,
the more the day-tripper gets absorbed into the otherness of Victoria’s Way, the more he or she experiences
the nirvanic bliss of being merged into (or being @-one-with) the universal flux
of ‘the myriad things’. In short, getting absorbed in (or by) the other (as 1
or all 1’s) is the entry to bliss (as you can read in the several hundred thousand
books explain the merging (or union, or being @-1-with) process).
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