{"id":4485,"date":"2012-12-10T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:56:29","slug":"cosmic-fairyland-2-the-third-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/cosmic-fairyland-2-the-third-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Fairyland #2: The Third Eye."},"content":{"rendered":"

In my current series of posts, I\u2019ve mostly been discussing ideas for my novel in progress, The Big Aha. <\/em>Recently I was been talking about a cosmic\/robotic flip between two mental modes\u2014see my October 24, 2012, post \u201cThe Two Mind Modes. Telepathy<\/a>.\u201d\u009d I\u2019ll quote a bit of that post here as a reminder:<\/p>\n

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Open your (inner) eyes to your true mental life. Your state of mind can evolve in two kinds of ways that I\u2019ll fancifully call\u2014\u201crobotic<\/em>\u201d\u009d and \u201ccosmic<\/em>\u201d\u009d. The \u201crobotic\u201d\u009d mental processes proceed step-by-step\u2014via reasoning and analysis, by reading or hearing words, by forming specific opinions. Every opinion diminishes you.<\/p>\n

The \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d changes are preverbal flows. If you turn off your endlessly-narrating inner voice, your consciousness becomes analog, like waves on a pond. You\u2019re merged with the world. You\u2019re with the One. It can be a simple as the everyday activity of being alert\u2014without consciously thinking much of anything. In the cosmic mode you aren\u2019t standing outside yourself and evaluating your thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And in my post of December 7, 2012, \u201cCosmic Fairlyand #1: How To See It<\/a>\u201d\u009d I was talking about a fairy\/mundane flip between two reality modes. It would clutter my Big Aha <\/em>novel (and beggar common sense) if I were to claim that these are two distinct axes, two distinct kinds of flips.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t just say that cosmic mode and fairyland are one and the same. Because when you can go into the fairyland state you disappear<\/em> from physical view, and in the merely cosmic state you\u2019re still around. When you go to fairyland, you physically cross a gap between the two levels. You can get off the floor and glue yourself to the ceiling.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cexplanation\u201d\u009d for the first flip, that is the cosmic\/robotic mode flip in The Big Aha <\/em>is that my characters get into a so-called quantum wetware state. And they have access to a so-called \u201cgee-haw-whimmy-diddle\u201d\u009d brain switch. <\/p>\n

By the way, I can\u2019t stand to keep using my character Gaven Garber\u2019s stupid name: \u201cthe gee-haw-whimmy-diddle switch\u201d\u009d throughout The Big Aha<\/em>. I\u2019ll have my character Loulou begin calling it \u201cthe third eye,\u201d\u009d which is the name they used in my novel Spaceland<\/a><\/em>.
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\nA 2D Flatland Character with a 3D Third Eye (from Spaceland). He can now see behind his wife and observe that she\u2019s about to stab him.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, as in Spaceland<\/em>, we suppose that the third eye depends on an organelle that can stick up into 4D by a small amount. I\u2019d considered having it be a macromolecule, but hell, let\u2019s have it be bigger, like a lobster\u2019s eye or crab\u2019s eye on a short stalk. And we\u2019ll say the gap between the mundane level and the fairyland level is fairly substantial, like maybe an inch. Forget about making it a mere atom\u2019s width. I want some hyperthickness to maneuver in!<\/p>\n

The third eye lives in your pineal gland of course. When the third eye is lifted or extended, you get unblocked access to a wider area\u2014note that brainwave vibes pulse out into the full hyperthick space. With your third eye up on the alert, you can synch with more distant things. And that puts you into cosmic mode. <\/p>\n

And\u2014here\u2019s today\u2019s aha moment\u2014if the third eye projects even more<\/em>, if you really really stretch out the eye stalk, then your eye can bump into and adhere to the \u201cfairyland\u201d\u009d level of our hyperspace slab, and it can haul you up there<\/em>, like a filament of web lifting a spider!
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\nThe 2D Being \u201cA Square\u201d\u009d with a 3D Third Eye Points Ana or Kata (from Spaceland)<\/em><\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re in fairyland, you can lie flat in it, or you can extend your third eye\u2019s stalk back in the direction whence you came, as shown beloe. We\u2019ll suppose that you can\u2019t push the stalk out through the hyperspace box that contains our dual-level cosmos. I\u2019ll explain about \u201cana\u201d\u009d and \u201ckata\u201d\u009d in just a second.<\/p>\n

In discussing the direction that the eyestalk points, it\u2019s worthwhile to have words for the 4D correlatives of \u201cup and down.\u201d\u009d As in Spaceland<\/em>, I\u2019ll use \u201cana and kata,\u201d\u009d following the writings of Charles Howard Hinton\u2014see my June 8, 2009, blog post <\/a>about Hinton.
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\r\nMode:                   Eye Stalk:     Body Is On:\r\nRobotic Mundane       retracted        floor\r\nCosmic Mundane       extended        floor\r\nRobotic Fairy             retracted        ceiling\r\nCosmic Fairy              extended       ceiling\r\n<\/pre>\n
Thus we have four possible modes.  Your eyestalk can be extended, that is, pointing ana or kata into the hyperspace box of our space.  Or it can be retracted, that is, fully contained within your body.  As I already mentioned, when extending the probe, you need to push it ana when on the floor and push it kata when on the ceiling.  And we get the four possibilities in our table because your body can either be ana on the \u201cfloor\u201d\u009d or kata on the \u201cceiling.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

\nCosmic, Mundane, Robotic and Fairy Modes <\/em><\/p>\n
You might cycle through the four stages in the order shown in the figure above, jumping ana running down the left column and jumping kata running down the column on the right.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll post more about these topics before too long, also I\u2019ll want to say a little about the practice of inventing detailed explanations for SF\/fantasy effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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