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| | Models, Interpretive Frameworks |
 | | The essential concern of enlightenment, in the best conception of enlightenment, is *not* to attain a permanent altered state (as *some* meditation proponents assert), but to attain a changed mental worldmodel, which involves conceptually grasping a set of concepts, and which normally involves a series of altered state sessions. |
 | | Enlightenment is conceptually grasping a compact set of systematic concepts, combined with a series of altered state sessions, leading to a transformed mental worldmodel but not a permanently altered state. |
 | | Enlightenment is more usefully characterized as a shift from one mental worldmodel regarding space, time, self, will, and control, to a different mental worldmodel about space, time, self, will, and control. |
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