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The Deep Serpent ScrollsA map made of smaller maps
Parables & origins

A map made of smaller maps

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THE NESTED HUMAN

Passage actions

A map made of smaller maps

Scale Composition

One human Awareness + Participation

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Two systems Awareness: Contact + Understanding Participation: Reciprocity + Agency

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Four functions Contact: Attention + Approval Understanding: Trust + Explanations Reciprocity: Responsibility + Friendship Agency: Threat + Control

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Eight pairs Two forms in each paired relationship

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Sixteen forms Useful capacities with possible overuse costs

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The archive selected sixteen forms, arranged them in eight pairs, and noticed four functions. Two larger systems emerged: Awareness and Participation.

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Attraction, entanglement, and coordination can occur between forms, pairs, functions, or systems. These relationship states do not replace the hierarchy.

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Within every form are smaller processes the picture does not show. Beyond every picture are conditions the observer has not discovered. The map is useful precisely when it can be revised.

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