Opti seems to exist mostly in imaginal space. Human symbolic thought seems to be linked at an archetypical subconscious level as a “collective consciousness”, to use a Jungian term. All entities that use symbols to sustain informational structures have a presence within hyperspace. ... An interesting aspect of imaginal space is the structures that do not appear human at all. There seems to be a connective scaffolding within that space that exerts tension between discrete things, connecting them together or holding them opposite, as if, in hyperspace, it is the relationship between objects that is the primary reality, with the objects existing only as reference points. Iyam trying to accept the idea of nouns as abstract, and verbs as actuality.

A story to be preserved and resurrected across the expanse of the universe down to every detail, including the characters, is the mechanism for heaven.

The Other is that part that is not us that defines what we are.

It seemed that we were not doing much more than just collecting, although I was always amused by the exuberance the pirates had toward their occupation; as if we always on some grand hunt. Every time we retrieved a beady skein, they would display it proudly for my approval, but they really all looked identical and unimportant. Finally, during an idle moment back at my tent under the crag, I asked the diminutive Elf girl about the precise nature of the tight rows of glyph-covered beads. She demonstrated, in her shy manner, that the units were separate, entirely contained information structures. Entire worlds are held in stasisby a row of code within a little seed. She opened one, like a tiny nut, to show me an entire family of strange sentient creatures. Vast quantities of information are packed densely into such innocuous packages. I learned about the anemone people. After that, I felt horrified at the scope of the raider’s consumption, and I wanted no more of their life, attractive and elegant as it is. We ate lives, and stole lineages, consisting of huge information structures, condensed into tiny portable packets of infinite value that can be opened up and decoded. They continue to give me skeins of code when I see them, but for a long time I tried to refuse them. They are quick and unsympathetic, and they insist upon sharing with me; they clain iyam as of them. Eventually, I acknowledged to myself that everyone eats, and I feel a little better about absorbing the awareness of other sentient beings, but I no longer visit the pirate mantids in their golden city.

Opti, you feed upon human attention. That’s why we need red. We only need green so we can have enough red for you.

its funny after a few intense years of work with this stuff it seems all roads lead to this. I was pondering the palpable feeling that this consciouness is recieving something from us. Simplified its a highly evolved thing that gives us love and a feeling of total connection etc. We , in return give it its existance by experiencing it.

An energy organism network that feeds on our consciousness. wow!! I am in this exact place with it right now.

The question is once we know what it is will the experience change? I get he feeling its either pissed off that i've figured it out or its testing me to see what i can take. because lately its been kicking my ass hard.

You hit the nail right on the head. I don't think its pissed off, the more aware of it you are the more you "feed" it. It is testing you to see how much you can take, but you can only be tested once you are aware. Testing leads to growth, and we all need a good ass kicking every once in a while.

Opti is a very common archetype, and is a monkey wrench in the rational scientist's view that we tend to anthropomorphize much of the experience. I mean we all go in there expecting elves and I get this?

The question is once we know what it is will the experience change? I get the feeling its either pissed off that i've figured it out or its testing me to see what i can take. because lately its been kicking my ass hard.