A simple guide to disembodiment:

• Spend all of your time looking at a screen; even better if you’re reading something that you will never look at again & that has no bearing on your daily life. Now you can feel “productive”!
• Look in the mirror for a long time. It sounds counterintuitive, so many people forget this crucial step!
• Think about the perception of others, even while you’re alone.
• View everything as symbolic: Nothing means anything in and of itself.
• Embrace nihilism, but not enough to commit to it in any way that gives comfort and agency.
• Treat your religion and life as completely separate entities.
• Confuse disembodiment with detachment & mistake yourself for enlightened. Treat your self, your body, and your soul as separate things.
• Listen to music all the time and when you listen to something new, listen to isolated songs instead of the whole album the artist meaningfully arranged. Divorce it from any sort of narrative.
• You have to do everything simultaneously. When you eat, you need to be distracting yourself to the point it’s no longer sensory but mechanical; when you walk, you need to wear something weather-inappropriate & have headphones on to blot out the sounds of birds & life around you. You’re not allowed to piss without looking at your phone.
• Fantasies only!
• When you leave the house, only visit places that require you to buy something.
• Forget about your aspirations as you struggle towards them. Focus only on the struggle.
• Stress & psychosis; miss sleep.
• Judge yourself for it.
• Pretend that the future is an abstraction to the point that your daily life has no bearing on it. Treat it like an inevitability.
• Fall into a routine not out of comfort but out of fear of change.
• Keep score & make sure everything is a transaction.
• Avoid pain at all costs.
• Purposefully seek out pain.
• Don’t do the things that you say you will. Break your intentions and your life apart with your own inaction to such an extent that simple tasks & desires seems like a far away dream.
• Give up.

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