To Be or Not To Be 041 -- 1986 If we make the decision to Be--to live the life of the being--seriously rehabilitating the muscle of our being attention, we will appear grotesque to other primates, whose own essential selves' attention is atrophied and unusable. Do we really wish for this kind of alienation and exile? Mr. Gold describes in detail the attention of the essential self, what is possible once it is developed, and the apparently magical, mystical phenomena that are likely to occur. He gives simple calisthenics to begin the process of awakening and strengthening this muscle, and describes the difference between awareness and atttention.