Welcome to chapter 20 of my book, Endure.

You can find the book in its entirety at getendore.com

but each week on this feed, I will release to you a chapter from that book.

And again, the digital and physical versions are available at getendore.com.

Chapter 20, Simplicity.

At the end of the last chapter, I told you about the simplicity of attaining eternal life through a simple prayer.

Well, I want to visit the topic of simplicity now in this chapter more,

because I think that especially when it comes to spiritual enlightenment,

which is difficult to describe, but often portrayed as some kind of higher consciousness and

deeper mental awareness, people tend to make things pretty complex these days.

For example, you want to meditate, well, sitting cross-legged on the floor next to your bed,

perhaps seated on a bath towel, simply won't do.

No, no, no, you must instead have an app, preferably one with paid upgrades to unlock the cooler

meditations, and also if possible, some kind of an actual course or certification you've taken to ensure

that you're meditating properly. To keep you motivated, you'd better have signed yourself up for a

10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat, and in the meantime, to ensure all your self-quantification

of neural metrics as an order during your meditation, use a self-quantified headband or wearable

to track those metrics, and possibly a few additional wearables that drive you deeper into your

meditative state. Oh, and if you run out of any plant medicine or microdosing pills,

your meditation is useless and also non-existent unless accompanied by an Instagram selfie.

Do you desire to pray more? Well, as I talked about in chapter 16, when I was growing up in a

Christian church prayer was usually positioned, often paired hand in hand with didactic and

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