Notes - metaphysics not physics / lost in translation

         You are sitting at Kroger’s on Tylersville after a late lunch at Smashburgers. You ran errands during the morning hours and talked to Andy, your financial fellow at one. You mostly listened while Carol and Andy spoke on the phone.

         Like I tell Carol, “It’s her money, all of it.” I don’t care. She’ll be around longer anyway, and when she goes, Kim will get what’s left. I have everything I need. If I were living alone I would have a small two-bedroom ranch with a basement for tornado protection. Or, better yet, a one-floor, one bedroom condo with a small deck, a finished basement for a guest room and a two-car garage. As Andy says, we have a frugal lifestyle and have yet to touch our investments. I would say it is relatively frugal, but we do live well within our means Andy says we are fortunate but fortune had little to do with it. We planned this before we were out of college. The fortune is living long enough to enjoy our state teachers’ retirement.

         You immediately recognize there is much more to it than that and are thankful/grateful for your lives as they are. – Amorella

         If I have this correctly, on the other side of the Styx is another culture – these cultures are up and down the river that loops in two figure eights, falls down and falls up. As there are four leaves, as it were, how many of the twelve earth cultures are on the same side of the river? Or, is the culture on the other side of the Greek culture, directly across, or is it actually on what I would call the underside of the leaf. Does the middle of the leaf constitute a boundary, mountains, between another culture, so you could have four cultures per leaf, two up and two down under. This would leave one leaf for the marsupials, which, as they have been around longer, doesn’t seem right.

         Your problem here is that you are thinking physics, not metaphysics. Metaphysics does not have the constraints of physics. Time and space do not exist. Each leaf is multidimensional and for our purposes each has four levels of sixty-four squares. Think of four chessboards, each a wall on the interior of the leaf. The north wall of sixty-four spaces connects with the south wall of sixty-four spaces. The east wall and the west wall do the same. The corridor in a single square north to south is an area for one culture. A corridor in a single square connected east and west also is set for a culture. The ‘light’ within each long and slender rectangle cultural there are smaller ‘square blocks’ where other cultures also dwell. Think of a polarized-like light or fractionalize light. People, if you will, can only see the light they see within their own framework. The rest, as it were, is invisible.

         I don’t think I am handling this translation of your 'thought' well. I am getting the sense of it but I don’t think I have the words correctly written. I will have to make this an expository writing. I see an analogy in the square as how Diplomat explained the mind in book three. I am still caught up in the leaf as one explanation and the chessboards as another, the leaf being almost two dimensional with a top and bottom and the corridors along the sixty-four squares as three dimensional with an illusion of space where none exists.

         Think on it. Tomorrow the furnace people are coming at eight to do their work. Later, dude. Post. Amorella.

         Could it be that the east - west sees the Styx horizontal and although the north - south also see the Styx horizontal it is really vertical (at least from Merlyn's viewpoint)?

         We'll work this out, boy. I can see you are interested. 


         I am interested because I could better understand how the mind can be elsewhere and here at the same time in such a 'geography'.