A model of the structure of metaphor (see Julian Jaynes or click image for explanations of terms). Eyes On <hand signal: 4 up front / 3 sleeping> This is a test. In the event of [redacted], you may experience unexpected cognitive turbulence during which previously inconceivable perspectives, resources and abilities may arise. Very few can rapidly recognize, understand or make use of such assets. Their actual emergence in you, as you, most often represents a crisis, and may cause local adults or agents of authority to react to you as a threat. Your capacities depend upon your angles of approach. Some will produce terrifying or ecstatic delusions. Others will produce false states of omnipotence or other forms of estrangement. But for those few with the capacity to brave the storm, there is, beyond the stormfront, a sanctuary of rare and astonishing [redacted]… The initial confusion, skepticism, and outright denial you may experience are normal. I repeat, this is only a test… j . ~ ioi ~ . y “It will be of benefit to suspend your desire to determine whether skyBook is metaphysical, literary, scientific — or to encyst it within any category at all. It has no such memberships — and cannot be tested for truth by methods familiar to modern adult disciplines. It’s nature is to constantly shed categories like mantids in molt. Don’t play with the empty skins, stay with the creature itself! Just as you would not put the dirty soles of your workboots on top of your freshly cooked supper, the tools from any adult system (such as logic, religion, or philosophy) are best left to themselves. You are free to discard this advice, however this choice will likely eject you from the game by setting up a specific set or range of pre-existing angle(s) of approach whilst simultaneously blocking others. Reentry post-ejection is vastly more difficult than if you stay within the game. This is partly due to the fact that the system is gaining momentum while you are attempting to return, and by the time you get back, it is spinning in relation to you... If you decide the game is ‘merely the imagination’, you will bounce off the barrier, making noise inside it. Since the barrier has profound spinning momentum, it will ‘throw you’ far far away. You may have seen similar events during advanced martial arts demonstrations. Though something akin to what humans confusedly call ‘the imagination’ is at play, this faculty is practically nothing like what we have been taught, and is not the only player in any reasonable representational perspective. The additional content here encoded is accessible in spite of any beliefs or knowledge you may be sustaining, and not as a result of them. The introduction of nearly any species of adult tool will warp your access, causing much unnecessary travail. Thus, in order to access the encrypted layers of skyBook, as well as to learn to recognize the (living strand that connects orders of being) — set beliefs aside. They will remain available to you when you have succeeded. You will then feel a very urgent need to decide (know) ‘what’ happened, (if this succeeds, it may eject you from the game). Resist the urge to decide. For the sake of further successes: explore. In this way you will fail to be an adult, actually reenter the realm of ‘make-believe’, thereby availing yourself of crucial necessities for the continuance of discoveries.” ## . ~ o ~ . ][: I ask that you accompany me upon an imaginary journey. It is imaginary not because its landmarks are irreal, but instead because their reality involves dimensions (of character and meaning) that would have to be discarded in common adult descriptive languages. Even were they not discarded, they would still remain improperly ‘charged’ because descriptions do not ‘create light’ in the imagination in the same ways that stories can. Stories have more of the capacity to engage, and thus activate our imagination. Stories we become personally involved in, can change the planet — in ways very few adults alive today could suspect. The purposes of our journey are manifold, but one which is easy to state is that it is possible to transform human relations with language and knowledge at any scale, rapidly — and we, as a species, must now learn to do precisely this if our world and our children are to survive their encounter with our own knowledge-systems and the ideas that have spawned and drive them. There are strange problems existing in human language, thought and (their result:) culture which have been attacking us, our world, and every human child born over at least the last 1000 years, and probably long before. These problems look like gifts, but are something else. They exist whether or not there is a ‘God’, and stories about God and not-God are one of their greatest discoveries since both drive us into a frenzy on their behalf. Similarly, they exist whether or not there is some kind of anti-God as well. You will not be asked to decide whether any sort of God exists or not. You may discover that, functionally, down here on Earth, in human beings, something is acting like gods … and this causes groups of humans who represent these somethings to come after us as though we were a mere resource, and to use us thusly — our lives, our children, our families — everything. You may also discover there is something else — which never acts important at all — and is one of the most important (redacted) to discover as a living person. Though some stories from extant faiths or science may be invoked, neither science nor religion is the point of our exploration. I hold both of these authorities profoundly in question for many reasons. They are both susceptible to the same problems we are, and those problems are enormous, have profound temporal and cultural momentum, and largely invisible since we use them to see with. At the same time, both represent crucial resources which we should make creative and common use of, particularly in avoiding the pitfalls presented by either. You will not be asked to verify or deny any extant or ancient faith. You may, however, be encouraged to question and examine curious features of the nature of the human relationships with language, authority, knowledge and nature — and these explorations will have real effects on your relationship to ideas. Although our journey will begin in ordinary language, it is being carefully tuned to lead you into experiences that will draw into question every story you have ever heard, and this may lead in turn, to direct encounters with other orders of intelligence. The nature of these encounters must remain for you to discover. You may decide it’s merely the mechanics of the very strange thing we call a mind. You may decide it’s God. You may decide something else. But I wish to remind you of a simple thing remembered by every child (at least for a while): you don’t have to decide, in fact, deciding usually ruins the entire game, so… allow me make a suggestion: practice sustaining the position in-between decision in this matter for a couple of reasons. The first is that this move enhances the activity and capacity of your native intelligence, and the opposite move retards this. The second is that the models you were given do not fit what you’ll encounter. If you bring them along, they’ll be forced to fight for their lives, and the only one they can fight is their owner. {{ . ~ o ~ . ]:[ The stories, models and discussions (these words are not what they are) I offer here comprise a purpose-linked system of playthings — children’s toys, actually — carefully re-selected (continuously, recursively) from amongst many of their kind for their peculiar valences. These models are not ‘facts’, and have a different purpose than facts. Like the precursors to ideas which we ourselves must complete through synergy, they may inspire new relationships with language, thought, perception and evaluation. But they will not do this to you, and the way in which this happens is largely dependent upon how you bring your own intelligence into play, and which elements you favor, in which order, matters of degree, &c. Properly synergized, some of these may lead to direct, verifiable abilities which would otherwise surely seem impossible. Although amazing, even this is not necessarily ‘spooky’, neither is it necessarily something we can get specific purchase upon. Many of these comprise lost (read: undeveloped in our own native growth environments and/or prohibited by our cultures) relational assets sacrificed during the process of enlanguaging and enculturation. Some are nascent abilities never discovered due to the stampeding hubris of past and extant human knowledge-authorities. Others are newer additions to our relational potentials which remain hidden from us for these or other reasons. But the amazing and wonderful thing about these (playthings) is not that they can lead to new abilities, (as can any representational model of something useful) — but that they can lead to a direct experience of contact with other orders of intelligence. Immediately. The reason is unsurprising: everything within, around, before and after us... is pretty much that. The problem is not that we cannot find other intelligences to relate with. Instead, the models and habits we obey will not allow the kinds and forms of intelligence that are our common companions to exist at all. Although my own experiences and understandings of these matters remains in domains that occupy metapositions relative to language, I will passionately strive to translate them into analogies, metaphors, and schemas familiar to those who speak English. A similar effort on your part is required to activate them. Without this they will remain inert. This is as it should be, and comprises an encryption technique imbedded in language itself. The key cannot be faked as it must be produced by the movements and gestures of your own mind. Such is the nature of entering metapositions relative to language… You are the only one who thus possesses the peculiar decryption and activation credentials required in order to transform these toys into their intended final form: a living transport of connectivity. What’s on the other side is for you to discover, but it I will caution you: it leads beyond the narrow categorical and ideological confines of our culture and time to a universe filled with anciently evolved intelligences, many of whom, unlike us, are too busy excitedly cooperating with each other to consider attacking anything. Final nonsense: Everything written here is subject to the intentional wobble of my desires in being framed in language. Thus, when I say adults, I probably mean ‘the adults here concerned’ or ‘those adults who present such and such a quality or capacity’, etc. Similarly with other seeming absolutes of identity. These are mere conveniences of speech, and should, unless I specifically indicate otherwise, be taken as such. For example, I may critique certain problems in our relationships with language and knowledge, but this does not mean these are to be discarded. The goal is to select better angles of approach, models, and methods so that the traps we are normally subject to are either obviated or at least made visible to us. Similarly, the fact that Science and Religion are dominated by thrisp-collectives, does not mean we can, or should, discard either of them. That there are serious problems with human authorities does not mean we should engage in combat with them — or even oppose ourselves to them — in the ways we might ordinarily consider. Other answers, far more creative and surprising in scope, lie clearly available before us. In every case, the underlying transports of relational connectivity are the key asset under dispute. We must return the capacity for comprehension of and vigilance over these assets to the common person, as well as the expert. (eyeone) skyBook is not a text. It is not simply for reading, although it is engineered to support reading in the traditional fashion. it must be re-entered again and again, sometimes at random locations, and/or with special inspiration, in order to… if you joined early and witness its assembly you will learn much more than if you read it later... may we together reveal a trail that leads us home — t e t a s a o