Noetic Vision

In the 1930’s the Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges, wrote a short story called “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Within the story there is an encyclopedia of an imaginary planet called Tlon. The encyclopedia contains numerous facts about this land twice removed from ordinary reality. The following points might have a ring of familiarity to the remote-viewer.

In Tlon there are no nouns. Instead there are strings of adjectives. In place of Moon, for instance, one might say “airy-clear over dark-round”. The universe of Tlon is considered to be made up of a series of events or states-of-mind. Giving such an event a name would be to falsify it. The association of a name with the thing named would be an association of two distinct non-reducable states-of-mind.

To explain or judge an event is to identify or unite it with another one. In Tlon, such connection is a later stage in the mind of the observer, which can in no way affect or illuminate the earlier stage.

The story goes on to unfold the implications of these ideas in the culture of Tlon and how the invention of Tlon was the act of a secret society.

The remote-viewer might recognize the falsification that comes with naming things rather than sticking to descriptive terms. In naming things, one thing leads to another as the active mind happily trots out into left-field away from the intended target. The active mind loves to play word association, and as much fun as that is, it seldom has to do with the intended target. It is always best to describe things rather than name them. When nouns are encountered think of them as poetic analogs.

Metaphysicians of Tlon are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement

Wonder serves better than judgement during a session.

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