…and I saw as in a living mirror in my mind, simple geometric shapes intelligible and transforming, but they were not merely structural delimitations of space.

Somehow, their substance was a peculiar mode of information which, presented as these transformations, catalyzed the most astonishing sense of learning and wonder I have ever experienced. These transformations taught me a form of content I had never previously experienced. Or rather, they drove my own mind to assemble such content as if it had been patiently awaiting these specific signals.

There was, it seemed, a source of transcendental knowledge near at hand, capable of entirely reestablishing our relationship with learning in the image of progress and flow. These transformations not only communicated nonordinary understandings and perspectives, but also described a process, whereby the intellect of an ordinary person could directly interact with various subsets of the entire web of living intelligence throughout time…