Q: What about Truth? I still want Truth... I've seen the void of my mind, however briefly, and I know that's still a step removed from the absolute.

I'm not asking what Truth is, but the process of getting there when coasting on momentum, with the Little Bastard dismantled and surrendered.

A: The Little Bastard (McKenna’s term,) is not what’s being dismantled. If it were, there would be no remaining movement toward Truth. No “getting there.” No sense of distance from “the absolute.”

It’s not the Little Bastard’s drive toward clarity dissolving here. It’s psychological conflict; the dismantling of the child/self-maintenance apparatus. What …