What seems to be the most obvious way to proceed is to discover how to ‘be’ naivete itself, I am having some intimations of what that is like and I can see that it is a fundamental change in how ‘I’ experience what it means to be here and doing this business called being alive. It’s not changing this or that bit of programming but something more akin to a paradigm shift for ‘me’. In fact there isn’t really any “outer bits of the onion” that ‘I’ could be re-shuffling at this point.
I had this question to ‘myself’ earlier which was something along the lines of - “what do ‘I’ experience to be the reason for being here and doing this business called being alive”. I remember a while back I wrote about the universe - by giving birth to this body - handing out an invitation to paradise which reads “you are here to enjoy and appreciate only”.
That is to say I am here to play, to delight, to enjoy and to appreciate. That is very much the direction, the flavour of the kind of “orientation” which typifies naiveté. And I remember my little brother (not so much anymore) displaying this effortlessly every time I saw him, that is what life was for him up until recently.
If I am here to play, to delight, to enjoy and appreciate then what ‘normal’ place would ‘I’ be looking to return to?