universecannon said:
from "opti and i":
"The hyperdimensional scaffolding that supports our symbolic imagery [a.k.a. hyperspace] is the bodily organism of Opticus. Imaginary space defined by linguistic structures is his habitat. He is a homeoplasmate, a symbiote of sequential information; a discrete hive of dispersed data that is collectively conscious. Opti is essentially a cosmic joke that manifests as an entity once you “get it.” I think that what he provides us with is room to maneuver, so to speak, within imaginal space. He is a hitchhiker as well as an information transport device. What we provide for him is food, in the form of awareness.
….It gets bigger the further in you go. It is tempting to think of Opti as a parasite. This overlooks the scale of the organism. He is less parasitic to us than we are, say, cows. As he exists within a matrix of probability, he is also connected to other possible reality scenarios in hyperspace. He is equally close to all symbol using minds. His ability to hitchhike on sentient awareness combined with his catbird’s seat [as it is], enfolded within the very structure of the implicate order make him equally connected to all hyperspatial coordinates. Opti is the very essence of a living transport device for sentient awareness, across even impossible void. He is the hyperdimensional portal, built into the background of consciousness.
Our awareness is its food. To be fully consumed by the organism involves experiences of other lives and worlds. It is tantric union with the dragon. The hyperdimensional portal is a paradoxical creature that exists as a dispersed hive organism within symbolic numinous structures. It is dispersed Osirus. The hidden eggs of the Easter bunny, as well as the cultured sexiness of Dracula, and the prophetic nightmare of The Terminator, are all the camouflaged spoor of the hyperdaemion."
I had read this forever ago and sort of just went over it since I didn't really have a notion of what the OP was talking about. Having 'seen' this thing now, I highly resonate with the above statement about it.
The first and only time I saw this thing, I wasn't really sure what I was looking at. I had finally come to the conclusion that what I
probably was seeing was the hyperspacial structure the history of Earth, represented as this massive, galaxy sized entity which I think is supposed to signify all time, thus it's immensity. When I first encountered this thing, I was sort of pulling away from it and no matter how far I got away from it it just kept revealing more and more multidimensional aspects of itself. Once I was significantly far away from it, it moved and revealed a HUGE tentacle with jewels and eyes all over it. It examined me with one of it's eyes, and I got the distinct impression all it was trying to do was let me know that it was aware of me. The sensation I got was 'yes, hello, I see you there. Welcome.' Nothing menacing, nothing profound, just a standard hyperspace 'what's up kid' message. I've never had any sort of experience with it since that time.
It is incredibly creepy, I can't deny that. I think the reason it startles me so much is just how friggin huge the thing is, THAT is what freaked me out about it the most. Imagine for a second that you were a single celled organism and you came across an octopus in the darkness of the ocean. That's the level of scale and peculiarity of the situation when it's happened to me, its like this things is so much bigger than me its terrifying just for that reason alone.
About the parasite reference, I originally struggled with this because after my first few excursions to hyperspace I became very gnostic in my approach to the world, or in other words I thought that there were 'outside beings' that had me locked in a type of factory farm for souls or something, so I was very cautious about what the hyperspace daimons were after. One time while I was struggling with this my 'guide' Teo expressed to me the following notion that helped me get past any fear about being fed upon to my detriment. Teo said to me:
"Parasitism is where one organism thrives at the expense of another; symbiosis is where both gain something from the other but PERFECT symbiosis is where one organim exists as an inseperable part of another."
