The second place is a state of illness. Before I realize that, I proceed through various states of self-awareness.
I am unaware that I am in a place I do not want to be. I know that I seek something, and flail about looking for it. I try many different things to feed the yearning, believing that each new thing will satisfy the desire I carry around with me.
But this desire is actually the mechanism of the illness. The second place is an illness, but I am not treating my body in the second place, but my body in the first place.
Realizing that what I seek is not out here is identical to realizing that the medicine I am taking is not making me better. That is the point at which I am ready for descentism. Descentism is a treatment which aims to nourish my true desire for return to the first place.
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