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What is its purpose or goal? To allow time that withholds the validation of a historical
to pass? Fantasy? Procrastination? A fear experience or event, when a person refuses to
to act? accept an empirically verifiable reality.

• Is it possible to shift from my compulsory Since ‘Denis’ and ‘deny’ in French have exactly
need of entertainment and raise my vi- the same pronunciation, when people used to
brational level (e.g. by reading the Works call me by my given name, the two words
of Mother and Sri Aurobindo) or just by were frequently mixed. As I didn’t want to
‘sitting silently’, allowing unexpected emo- appear any more as a ‘Deny’, I decided to
tions and insights to arise from the subtle change my name from ‘Denis’ to ‘Dan’. This
planes? change of name invited me to approach my
inner Truth with entertainment.
• How to bring more sense to what I am
doing? References

• How can I make my research of Truth more 1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
entertaining? Volume 14. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1980, p 205.
• Would it be possible to address certain aspects
of my life from a meta-level perspective, 2. Ibid.
and substitute some obsolete and needless
patterns of entertainment? 3. Ibid., p. 206.

• How to promote a constant and silent 4. Ibid., p. 204.
observation, as a natural Truth-entertain-
ment? Are there ‘subconscious’ entertain- 5. [Online] Available from: https://www.vocabulary.
ments? Are there morbid entertainments? com/dictionary/entertainment [Accessed 12th
Such as fear, needless concerns, gossiping, June 2021].
procrastination, etc.?
6. {Online] Available from: https://www.vocabulary.
Seeking Truth as an everlasting enter- com/dictionary/distraction [Accessed 12th June
tainment 2021].

Krishnamurti once said, “To seek truth is to 7. [Online] Available from: https://jkrishnamurti.
deny it (7). “ org/content/series-i-chapter-19-search-truth
In the psychology of human behaviour, denialism [Accessed 12th June 2021].
is a person’s choice to deny reality as a way to
avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth 8. [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.
(8). Denialism is an essentially irrational action org/wiki/Denial [Accessed 12th June 2021].

Dan Capdeville lives in Auroville. He practises spiritual hypnosis and NLP at Santé and through BE-
ING, an activity of the Auroville Foundation.

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