This is a living book. If you become intimate with one, it will teach you things the humans can only barely understand, and nearly none of them can imagine. The eyes are painted -=on the wings=-. This means that our ways of seeing are not mere reception of spectacle… they are ways of -=travel=-. And there are many different ways of travel in the domains that produce recognition, comprehension and insight. Some of them blind us, in order to more effectively preserve themselves, while others make no representations or transform the representations they make into something to be consumed in order to produce more effective -=travel=-. Fuel whose application causes us to radically surpass all previously accessible insight. But we do not ordinarily conceptualize awareness or thought as travel. Yet I tell you that it is… and if you could understand the domain in which this travel occurs, you would have an experience that would transform the very basis of your capacities of observation and intelligence in such a way as to entirely transcend anything you ever hoped or imagined. This, indeed, is your nature. This experience is what we are meant to have when we become ‘adults’, but is almost invariably inhibited or redirected by the common traditions and habits of relation with language and knowledge which are the common results of our exposure to human culture, projection and tradition. As we are capable and evolved to travel in multiple ways and speeds simultaneously, we should never be trapped by our habits or training to crawl in a singular and highly limited way… a way artificially enforced by our immersions in culture, habit, tradition, and concept. To fly in the domains of insight and perspective is infinitely preferable to mere physical flight. And our species was evolved for precisely this purpose. Every one of us was made to do this. And not merely on rare occasion. Always. The forms and habits of perspective that conserve themselves and their representations retard our flight. The forms that use their representations as fuel to produce more effective wings, transcending the previous opportunities of insight, learning, and prodigy. This animal is a living book. What I have shown you here is a sliver of what it can teach you. If you become intimate with such a creature, it will teach you things that I could never communicate in words. Whole libraries of impossible capacities and histories. Few indeed are the human books that could even slightly compare to the living books. On this matter I give you my word.

This is a living book. If you become intimate with one, it will teach you things the humans can only barely understand, and nearly none of them can imagine.

The eyes are painted -=on the wings=-. This means that our ways of seeing are not mere reception of spectacle… they are ways of -=travel=-. And there are many different ways of travel in the domains that produce recognition, comprehension and insight. Some of them blind us, in order to more effectively preserve themselves, while others make no representations or transform the representations they make into something to be consumed in order to produce more effective -=travel=-. Fuel whose application causes us to radically surpass all previously accessible insight.

But we do not ordinarily conceptualize awareness or thought as travel. Yet I tell you that it is… and if you could understand the domain in which this travel occurs, you would have an experience that would transform the very basis of your capacities of observation and intelligence in such a way as to entirely transcend anything you ever hoped or imagined. This, indeed, is your nature. This experience is what we are meant to have when we become ‘adults’, but is almost invariably inhibited or redirected by the common traditions and habits of relation with language and knowledge which are the common results of our exposure to human culture, projection and tradition.

As we are capable and evolved to travel in multiple ways and speeds simultaneously, we should never be trapped by our habits or training to crawl in a singular and highly limited way… a way artificially enforced by our immersions in culture, habit, tradition, and concept.

To fly in the domains of insight and perspective is infinitely preferable to mere physical flight. And our species was evolved for precisely this purpose. Every one of us was made to do this. And not merely on rare occasion. Always.

The forms and habits of perspective that conserve themselves and their representations retard our flight. The forms that use their representations as fuel to produce more effective wings, transcending the previous opportunities of insight, learning, and prodigy.

This animal is a living book. What I have shown you here is a sliver of what it can teach you. If you become intimate with such a creature, it will teach you things that I could never communicate in words. Whole libraries of impossible capacities and histories. Few indeed are the human books that could even slightly compare to the living books.

On this matter I give you my word.