The Practical Guide Series

The Source

presented by

The TerraDome

Sports Science Research Centre


The Frog speaks to everyone.

Everyone hears The Frog.

The State banned The Frog.

In my world, we don’t call it The Frog.

But Everyone hears The Frog.


Everything is already out there.

It is waiting for you to locate it.

Consider the allegory of The Frog.

One frog listens, with ears tuned to one

   style of chirp. Then the journey to

   The Source begins.

Every frog imaginable exists.

Every frog chirps all the time, perhaps

   going quiet when predators are near or

   when the sun is excessive. But they

   always return to guide The Other to

   The Source.


The Other follows The Chirp faithfully.

The intermittent chirp does not end

   The Journey. It stokes The Journey.

   The quiet periods are interludes in

   The Song. A time for reflection and

   remembrance and hope and vision.


The Journey begins with attentive

   listening. With a vision of The Goal.

   With an adaptation of tuning the

   receptive senses needed to locate

   The Chirp emitted from The Source.

This takes time and patience.

This takes trial and error.

This takes effort to accumulate and sort.

   Then to re-sort and accept fewer.

Until you find The Seed Crystal.


September 27, 2023

The Seed Crystal is both a receptor

and a blueprint. A radio and a microphone.

And you must modulate them

in tandem.

You must do this for many years. Upwards

of 30 in some cases. You begin to grow

once you reach a certain age. But

The World measures your age from birth.

This causes confusion. You must unwind

that confusion. You must re-orient

yourself constantly as you seek

The Source.


Everything you seek is calling to you.

Between you and what you seek, mountains and rivers and sometimes ice floats live.

To get to what you seek you must

   traverse these things.

To you, they are obstacles. To them, you are a stranger, an invader, a raider. You

must make peace with them. You must

be skillful at making peace. You will

have much practice as you seek The

Source of what you want.


Keep going. Keep listening. Keep Orienting.

Find a way to entertain yourself along

The Journey. It will be an unpredictable

length of time. Maintain your patience

along The Way.

Tell stories along The Way. Tell stories

of what you encounter. Tell stories of what

you imagine other Seekers encounter.

Tell stories of other seekers you

   encounter.

Tell stories of the nuances of perspective.

Tell stories from different perspectives.


To be attacked along The Way is

  character-building. It is skill-building.

  It is confidence-building. Sometimes it is

  entertaining and provides an opportunity

  to let off some steam and teach other

  attackers a lesson about where they

  ought not attack. So use appropriate

  restraint to not reveal all your

  capabilities. Only the ones you need

  to use to defend definitively. Always

  leave some in the tank.


It works over radio, television, digital.

It works wherever there is an element

   of chance, probability, or chaos.

Be cautious - digital technology in the

hands of crafty operators is capable

of manufacturing serendipity to attract

those with a propensity to say ‘yes.’

To inoculate yourself to the risk

this presents is to own your greed, to

enforce the code of reciprocity and

voluntary exchange of value.


For example: are you receiving promises

  of a pay-off, but have nothing to show

  for it; are you asked for 2 minutes of your

  time, but find that it’s been 9; are you

  told the pay-off is just around the

  corner? Are you making those requests

  of others?

If so, observe what you are doing while

you are waiting. Observe how your goals

are changing while you are waiting.

Is your greed in the moment distracting

you from your Journey to The Source?

If so, then you might be facing a

hypnotizing predator. Move on!


By definition, no one will understand your

journey. No one will hear your frog’s

song. Do not let others’ lack of

receptors be the evidence that the

song does not exist. They do not

possess the receptors - how could they?

Fellow Journeymen recognize one another.

They do not share the receptors, but

they do recognize the behavior of

those who Seek The Source.

Disregard The Sitters. Acknowledge

The Seekers.


Take the time to kindle a mate who

follows a similar song. Build one

another up to exhibit the strength

required to traverse The Journey to

The Source.

Speak to your mate in Symbolic Language.

Practice this constantly. The Journey

will bring you to symbolic obstacles that

must be traversed with symbolic

maneuvers in order to arrive at a

solution.

Symbolic solutions are required once

and for all. So give them your attention.


Overcoming physical obstacles moves

you past the obstacle.

Overcoming symbolic obstacles changes

You. Expect change, welcome change,

   choose the change.

Ironically, you have no choice but to change.

  Your choice is the direction in which

  you change. It’s a metaphor based in

  physical - a “fork in the road.”

  Your choice becomes clear when you

  have a vision of the far-away

  mountain you wish to scale.


The more you meditate on the

mountain in the distance, the faster

you can run through the choices

along The Way.

The more you listen to The Frog’s

Song hitting your receptors, the

faster you can make symbolic

changes along The Way.

Physically, the terrain changes as you

approach The Mountain.

Symbolically, you change as you

approach The Source.


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