Alex Bennett
2 min readNov 24, 2021

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This is well organized and well written. There might areas to streamline, and they might be worth looking for, but personally I didn't see any. I appreciate and applaud your desire to write something so comprehensive -- it's a goal of mine too.

I'm not sure you directly and explicitly stated what the meaning of life is -- to achieve enlightenment? -- to realize life is meaningless? -- to destroy one's ego? -- to join with the universal consciousness?

I wonder how the language you use works. On the one hand, your writing can stir mental exploration that could lead to some good things.

On the other hand, one impression I get of language like you use is it reflects the perspective of someone who has been enlightened, someone to whom this language seems apt and descriptive of his or her journey and the new place he or she is in.

If it's the language of someone who has arrived, I wonder how meaningful that language is to someone on the other side. In other words, what do those processes and states look like to someone considering embarking on that journey? If someone is considering starting on such a journey, the "travel guide" you are providing seems to fall short in that one respect.

In other words, if I were proceeding on that journey, how or what can my soul tell my ego whether things are going right or wrong? I realize eventually there will be no right or wrong, but before that time, how do my ego or my soul recognize we are going in the right direction, and not on a mistaken path?

To the extent my ego has led me well thus far in life, it has made good judgments. The rest of me hesitates to reject its judgments to go on a presently unclear journey to a presently unclear destination.

This gets us back to language -- specifically, defining the concepts in your language, unpacking them so they communicate in terms closer to the world as we know it.

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Alex Bennett
Alex Bennett

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My goal on Medium has been to publish “Truth Units.” It took 1.5 years. I hope you read it. New articles will respond in-depth to your questions and critiques.

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