“Well, it’s like a cross between sex and flying, but it happens in the mind’s perspectival interiority. I’ve never seen anything like this. As far as I can tell this is the bungie jump of sudden developmental acceleration. But it doesn’t make sense. What is causing it? It just seems to happen when we talk a certain way, about certain subjects. And anyone can do it, but some people are more effective catalysts and others are more effective agents. Even that is confusing, however, because they often switch back and forth…”

— an anonymous informant