The Central Thesis.
There are four stages through which a consciousness moves: Innocence, Ignorance, Awakening, and Ambivalence. The reason most of us never reach the fourth is not that we lack the will. It is that we were never taught the practice.
This document is the foundational statement of everything I have come to see. It traces the construction of the mask, the imprisonment of the inherited self, the four major transitions through which the ego loosens, and the quiet arrival at Ambivalence — the open hand through which life flows without being grasped.
It is short. Twelve pages. The hardest thing about it was the patience to leave out what did not need to be said. It is meant to be read in one sitting, then revisited as needed.
From the document
Separateness is a concept which lives in your mind. Nowhere else.
The spine of the body of work
If anything I have written has ever made sense to you — if Behind the Curtain or any of the trilogy has met you somewhere — this is the spine that holds them together. It is the architecture you may have felt was there.
It is also the entry point to two newer works: The Revolution of the Mind, which expands the thesis into a complete philosophy and metaphysics; and The Way, which distills it into the cadence of the Tao Te Ching for the book to come.
— David