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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Goblin King" data-source="post: 1454853" data-attributes="member: 10970">'One of the things they don't tell you about becoming one with the universe is that you don't automatically gain understanding to go with everything you are experiencing.In the state I'm in now, whatever "now" means to someone like me, a great many things flash by that are just mysteries to me. [ . . . ]  Here's a mind open to me, filled with thoughts as complex as my own were back when I lived in just one body and one moment at a time. And not a single one of them is comprehensible to me:no recognizable language, words, sensory input, anything. Is it someone insane? Is it a mind that was never human? Unless I neglect other duties, I cannot get any sense that I'll ever know.Another thing they don't tell you is how much of the trans-temporal world is symbolic. I sometimes feel like the whole universe turned out to be a theologian or poet or a Hermetic or something. Its not even contextualized or adaptive symbols, a lot of the time; it's deriving its manifestations from layers of existence still further removed from normal experience then mine. It's a good thing I always liked riddles and puzzles, I suppose, as I spend much of my awareness deciphering the flow of usually cryptic symbols around and through me.I struggle with the terms to express how things change in the realms outside time. I live in the midst of what living magi call Correspondence, the network of connections that have nothing to do with physical location. I used to manipulate these bonds unconsciously, then consciously as (if I do say so myself) one of the best hackers and social engineers of the twentieth century, and now as intimately and directly as I did my own body. I escaped out of mundane existance into something like the universe's operating system. Speaking of the past and future doesn't really do justice to it, but then the whole human mind is built to live in time rather then eternity. I could invent new terms, but then I would just have to explain them to you anyway.' -- Dante on the subject of being an Oracle, Judgement Day, by Bruce Baugh</blockquote>

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