Not being utterly heartless, Mack Cobber liked to leave clues like crumbs for little birds, clues that could lead to An Exit, a startling solution. Not all the ethereals were brave enough to live in the skin, as it were.

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Most of them were cosmically comfy, far from the density and dimension where fire burns the flesh and water can drown. Like the chickenhawks sending kids to a war they wouldn’t fight personally, the ethereals often preferred distant comment fraught with faux conviction. The folk like Balls and Flam Eth who would enter the fray at full risk were rare. It was bloody dangerous over there in K1, the part of the reality spectrum where physical and psychological consequences were between monstrous and marvelous.   more »

A key, a lynchpin to the arts & sciences of fascinations is the simple grok of rem real and day real. In the modern West we are generally taught that day experience and day physics are the properly real and pretty much the possible rest of our experience is suspect. (The perfectly horrid Siggie Fraud single-Idedly ruined a century of dream study with his peculiar and pathological views of the dream realms.)

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For the purposes of our Fascinations studies, I recommend attending to and appreciating rem real and day real seamlessly.   more »

Amongst our premises are that we have a myriad of dreams we inhabit. For practical and beginning purposes we have rem real, the night dreams of whatever vividness, and day real, the more-or-less agreed upon masterpiece of reality engineering that we blandly call ordinary life.

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By practicing a deft, sustainable attention, a fluid ‘zone,’ we can learn to allow all our experience to become peak, fascinating.   more »