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I understand Castaneda's proposition. But to put death in the future tense is still a way we try to avoid the real, still escapism. As long as you're someone who is GOING to die, you still have life, you still have hope, you still have the opportunity to act like an ass, like an immortal, because death is not now, it's tomorrow. If you're already dead, there's no need to act like, or to imagine, or to have an adviser - you have the direct experience of death.

As minds, we are already dead. There is nothing in or of the mind that is not the past, the already dead. The mind cannot enter the world of the living, the second att. The second att is the absence of the mind.

If you're GOING to die, then you must be alive now - you must be in the second att. But you're not.

Those are my definitions from my experience. They may be different from yours. But they're based on direct experience and not second-hand knowledge. CC told us that we are beings that are going to die, or we look around and see people dying and INFER that we will one day die. This is second-hand, not direct. My direct experience says I am already dead because the 1st att uses dead mind/knowledge to perceive the world and oneself. The you who is "living" this 1st att is already dead and in hell, but you can call it life if you want to. Let's call rape 'love' while we're at it... Call whatever what you want. I'm saying to see this as hell and already dead offers more heightened awareness than to see that I am GOING to die.