Comment by nz

Yes, I wrote this, and you can find an intro/context to the _UNFINISHED_[1] essay here (https://www.galacticbeyond.com/a-bridge-to-everywhere/), with a link to the PDF at the bottom.

[1]: what you see is the first 5% of the essay, based on the notes that never made it in. Many topics are untouched, such as cults, caves, imagination, conspiracy, paranoia, fear, wakefulness, blindness, hallucinations, altering consciousness, notations, etc. And other topics are mentioned but not explored deeply (taoism, buddhism, prophecy, trust+belief[2], mnemonics, dreams, metaphors, etc). So it's mostly setup, with planned payoffs and epiphanies in the latter unwritten parts[3]. And some of the transitions between topics are in need of deburring.

[2]: note that many languages use the same word for trust and belief. In Indo-European languages, the root is the same root as tree and true. Relevant to the unwritten parts of the essay.

[3]: so you'll just have to imagine the unwritten parts, until I actually get around to writing them ;)