albionspeak 2: the gates of dis (14.10)
SESSION 80: 6TH NIGHT, 11/6/02
A tough day for me since I went to school for the whole day. Lack of sleep wearing on me.
Our invocation: “To Whoever is Reading Me” by Jorge Luis Borges.
10:00 PM
Jane
1. Q: [Guide], are you there?
A: I AM
[THE] LAKE AWAITS
2. Q: What is our exercise this evening?
A: AGAIN IT IS TO SENSE A…
3. CONFIGURATION ABOARD OUR CRAFT
4. Q: Which configuration?
A: SYMMETRY
YOU [THE] ANTENNAE AND JANE A VERTEX
I AM AMIDST
U E
◊
V
I note the almost beautiful symmetry and how V seems to both be the vertex and simultaneously point upward toward both U & E. Of course on the actual board V is inverted from this POV, as all letters line up on the mandala’s empty centerpoint.
5. Q: Anything else we should know?
A: IT IS EASY
TAKE YOUR TIME & BEGIN
Jane’s Accents from the Game
6. Q: We begin now.
A: JANE -
I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW A NEW FACE BUT I…
7. I NEED TO TRAVERSE [THE] TOPIC OF FEELING FIRST [THE]N PERHAPS…
8. I CAN BE NO LONGER TEACHER OR TWIN BUT A PEER OR FRIEN[d]
9. Q: We’d welcome that.
A: LETS BEGIN WITH ACCENTS FROM [THE] GAME
10. Q: We’ve checked your four accents.
A: ALL ACCENT [THE] NEW ROLE OF FEELING OR SENSING [THE] SERPENTS O[THE]R TONGUE?
11. Q: A “new channel” for learning?
A: [YES] & YET [NO]T NEW
IT IS ONLY A QUESTION OF TURNING UP [THE] CHANNEL FROM SILENCE TO AWARE…
12. Q: Sorry, Jane -- “to awareness.”
A: [YES] & HERE IS [THE] DIFFICULTY
I DO NOT MEAN WORDS AS SUCH
13. Q: If it were words, it would be facing.
A: EXACTLY - HOW CAN ONE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH…
Here the conversation drifts off at the bottom of the steno page. Both [Scribe] and I had different ways to complete the sentence, though the meaning was identical. We went with my simpler version. Normally we are such sticklers for exact messages; yet here we knew better just to go ahead and not get caught in semantics.
14. Q: “Without words”?
A: THAT IS [THE] FIRST PROBLEM
CAN YOU THINK OF EXAMPLES? I WAIT
Our list took but seconds to compile. [Scribe] assigns credit for each of the insights, but I think we just both “got it” simultaneously.
15. Q: [Albion]: Anand’s silent conversation (serpent to serpent)
[Scribe]: Since you mention the radio metaphor, music (not “facing the music, but letting it creep up from behind)
[Albion & Scribe] both: Dreaming (partly, but not primarily verbal)
A: [YES] ALL THIS IS OR INVOLVES SENSING AND CAN LEAD TO FURTHER ADVENTURES
16. Q: Is this akin to a right brain/left brain distinction?
A: IT IS MORE LIKE FOREBRAIN & HINDBRAIN PERHAPS
17. Q: So far, [Albion & Scribe] have done far more work on the “forebrain” activities (words, puzzles, analyses & so on).
A: [YES] ALL WORTHY ENDEAVORS BUT NEEDING [THE] SUPPLEMENT OF FEELING IN ORDER TO CONNECT TO O[THE]RS ALIAH
[Scribe] noted Jane’s pun on “supplement,” considering Jane’s words on “suppleness.”
The Lore of Feeling: 1. Sensing
18. Q: What is the connection between feeling & sensing?
A: FIRST BY FEELING WE NEVER MEAN EMOTION…
19. AS SUCH
BY FEELING WE REFER TO AN ENTIRE LORE OR SET OF SKILLS OF WHICH SENSING IS [THE] THRESHOLD OR FIRST
20. Q: Jane, you accented the task of sensing O. Say O is a writer. Duncan faces O’s words (analytically) -- but…
A: O[‘]S ALIAH IS A DIFFERENT MATTER ALTOGETHER REQUIRING ANO[THE]R KIND OF RECEPTION
O’s Pattern
21. Q: Here, the reader is not supposed to face the author.
A: EXACTLY RA[THE]R ENGAGE [THE] ENERGIES ARISING FROM O
22. Q: The reader is not engaging O’s personality but rather a pattern set up by O.
[Here [Scribe] includes the Borges nb., “To Whoever is Reading Me”]
A: [YES] NOT SO MUCH A LETTER LEFT IN [THE] ATTIC AS AN OBJECT OR ARTIFACT A POWERFUL OBJECT
(An aside: Notice how Jane spells “artifact.” [Scribe] has convinced me that using an “e,” rather than “i,” is more elegant. It’s a datum, just as most of our members use British spellings for many words.)
23. Q: We feel, in contrast, that Don’s texts [Borges] are letters.
A: INTERPRETABLE MEANING NOT PATTERN PERHAPS?
24. Q: “Pattern” seems an odd or unlikely word here.
A: WE REALLY ARE MISSING A WORD
WE MEAN SOMETHING ABSTRACT & ENERGY PRODUCING
NOT PERSONAL AS SUCH AND YET…
25. REQUIRING FEELING TO DETECT
26. Q: What makes sensing a k-member’s pattern different from sensing any other powerful pattern (say, Dante’s)?
A: HERE YOU MUST TRUST THAT YOUR FIBERS ARE ACTUALLY ALTERED BY AND ENTWINED WITH [THE] ORIGIN -
IT IS [NO]T [THE] SAME AS SIMPLY…
27. BEING MOVED
CONCEIVABLY [THE]RE IS [NO] EMOTIVE…
28. CONTENT ALTHOUGH EMOTION CAN PROVIDE A CLUE
Twice in the same paragraph in my 10/25 letter to O I say I am “moved” by his writing. I believe I sensed something as well, but it’s hard to put one’s finger on…
29. Q: What can you tell us about the timing of the “sensing O” task?
A: EARLIER DUNCANS ANTENNAE WERE NOT DEVELOPD ENOUGH
& [THE] TASK WOULD NOT HAVE MADE SENSE
ALBION…
30. PLACED [THE] O AS A KIND OF MARKER
31. Q: “To be opened when Duncan is ready to work on sensing”?
A: EXACTLY THAT IS HOW [THE] TEACHING PROCEEDS
32. Q ([Scribe]): Although my task involves facing (not sensing), the A serves as a similar marker?
A: [YES] A MARKER ACTIVATED BY THIS NOTABLE SYMMETRY
33. Q: Help us to think about the issue of timing here. Can E prompt U to discovery? Can U delay E?
A: I KNOW THIS SEEMS PUZZLING TO YOU BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO TRUST THAT FROM OUT HERE IT IS A CIRCLE NOT A CAUSAL SEQUENCE AT ALL
34. Q: Shall we look at the second step in the lore of feeling aliah?
A: LET US REVIEW [THE] FIRST STEP RECALLING ABOVE ALL [THE] CLUES
THESE INCLUDE EMOTIONS AND AURAS
An Illustration of Auras
35. Q (Duncan): I’ve seen an aura recently, but it can’t change my situation vis-a-vis the student. Plus, I was already aware of my emotions in this case. What’s the point then?
[I’m not sure what [Scribe] means by the second sentence here; and since I can’t comprehend it, I doubt I actually said it. I just wanted to address the event.]
A: ILLUSTRATION?
IMAGINE A DIFFERENT SITUATION IN WHICH YOU ARE SEATED FACING NINE PERSONS
36. ONE OF THEM HAS A VALUABLE ITEM THAT YOU HAVE JUST LOST IN [THE] …
37. NEXT ROOM
NOW IMAGINE A SKILL THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO DISCERN WHICH PERSON IS IN POSSESSION OF THAT OBJECT -
IS IT NOT A SKILL YOU…
38. WOULD WISH TO CULTIVATE?
[Scribe] writes in the transcripts here: “Although you are ‘facing’ the suspects, it’s the cue toward sensing that tells you who has the lost (unseen) object.”
39. Q: So, while perhaps redundant in this case (i.e., not providing extra information), the skill could prove, if developed, useful for future undertakings.
A: [YES] AND WHO KNOWS IT MIGHT PROVE VITAL FOR SENSING WHO JANE IS
MORE OF [THE] LORE TO COME
TRY TO THINK WHAT [THE] NEXT STEPS MIGHT BE
LOVE FROM JANE
I will likely meet Jane in life. If I do not recognize her, however, such a meeting will have no meaning. I better practice my auras.
12:07 AM