Red:  I definitely have questions...but oh where to start?

Percy:  Let me narrow the focus to two key elements from the Capability.  Acute Energy Perception, or multi-sensory scanning of an environment's energy for patterns, anomalies, changes, etc.  And Tool Integration: that meshing of Capability with Mind.  See Sidebar: Cavemen, Sports & Combat

​Red:  Makes sense, at least for physical HyperFlow. 

Percy:  Now look on the Big Screen at the back of this room, where I've visualized this sensation within our nested circuits.  See how Physical HyperFlow is like peering through the point of a cone, while Abstract HyperFlow is reversed: you are looking through the cone's mouth. 

​Red:  I guess I see that.  And the lower graphics in each?  There's an additional blue band in them.

Percy:  The upper graphics show the HyperFlow platform, where the Mind meshes seamlessly with its Capability, which in turn meshes seamlessly with the Setting.  The lower graphics show what happens when pure HyperFlow is triggered off this platform: the Mind reaches through the Capability to integrate directly with the energy flows of the Setting. 

Red:  And you can never be sure when this will happen?

Percy:  I've learned how to prompt it, as long as I don't try too consciously...The most predictable way to tap its pure, exhilarating form is a tool that accelerates physical velocity.  Like motorcycles.  Your tablet has some visuals for reference.  See how Mind, Capability & Setting work together for a motorcycle? 

​Red:  Interesting...so this craving for spinning circuits is why you think Outsiders gravitate to motorcycles?

Percy:  At least some of us.  It is quite the integrated package of spinning circuits perceived and controlled by the Mind.  We straddle an internal combustion engine propelled by mechanical and fluid circuits, attached to the road surface by two rubber toruses -- and swing through gravity on smooth centrifugal waves.  Just search for the physics of motorcycles on the Internet.  Your tablet has pictures worth the proverbial thousand.

Red:  And what exactly does HyperFlow do on a motorcycle?

Percy:  Well, I drop in and out of it all the time on hilly rural roads -- my favorite riding medium.  But the only place I get into lengthy flow-like states is on a crowded -- but not jammed -- motorway.  When I start to slalom everything integrates into one dynamic scene.  My bike fully meshes with body.  I don't think about it.  Don't look at the speedo, not even the side mirrors.  My body tilts and thrusts and (engine) brakes the bike by "reading" the tension of the gear ratios and vibrations of the road.  My mind floats above the four-dimensional scene: the three-dimensional space is the width and length of the bike, the dimension of time an envelope of around thirty seconds (ten seconds behind/twenty ahead.)  The vehicles around me extend through it:  I “see” their past, current and possible future trajectories.  In waves. 

Red:   But...I mean, you are basically saying that you predict their future movements based on their past actions.  Kinda obvious...

Percy:  Red, no offense.  But that's a simplistic linear interpretation of a much more complex visualization.  I find the sensation similar to skiing on Alaskan glaciers.  So if slaloming through M-25 traffic and dropping 5000-vert powder lines above Valdez created the exact same sensation.  Well, does this indicate HyperFlow transcends environments?

Red:   Yeah.  Sure.  You're just like all those Red Bull nutters addicted to adrenaline surges...

Percy:  Adrenaline?  That's fight or flight.   When it kicks in, I am kicked out of HyperFlow...My heart leaps, my stomach knots and my hands shake...on that note, let's turn to solo backcountry skiing, where the spinning circuits explode across the space and time of Mind, Capability & Setting.

Red:  Yeah.  I've been meaning to ask, why solo?

Percy:  I experience HyperFlow alone, but the key factors that attract me to this form of skiing are the same whether solo or in a group.  Your tablet has the observational write-up from The ADHD Torus, Room 9.

Red:  Yeah.  It made me think about how much, well, thinking that takes.  When I go skiing I just need to look at the snow report and remember to bring my equipment, sunscreen and lift pass.

Percy:  Resort and backcountry skiing are a classic Outside-Inside divide within the same Setting.  Literally in the case of North American resorts, where ropes mark the In/Out boundary. 

Red:  Oh yeah?  So what's the In/Out for motorcycles? 

Percy:  That's defined by the Capability.  In short: Harley-riding Insiders versus just about everything else. 

Red:  I see that!  Ironic, given the rebel outsider reputation...

Percy:  That, my friend, is an abstraction inverting on you.  Expect many, many more...back to the backcountry, which is an excellent bridge into Abstract HyperFlow.  The parallels are very clear -- starting with a 2D surface that we extend into three-dimensions with the depth of time. 

Red:  You mean the flat surfaces of screen and snow?

Percy:  Yep.  You continually "read" them for risks and opportunities based on environmental feedback loops.  Backcountry skiing also highlights a crucial component of the experiment.  Decoding alphabetic text must be balanced with physical activities in the natural flows of reality.  Not only does this ensure the Outsider brain retains its normal cognitive rotations.  During these journeys I gain tremendous insights into my earlier decoding work.  A classic virtuous cycle.  Did I tell you that I am integrating observations from backcountry skiing into this site's podcast?  Compare and contrast what I see in petroleum's current events with the current conditions on the Continental Divide. 

Red:  Seriously?  Are you actually going to create, within your podcast, like a...a dialectic...a dialect between abstract and physical HyperFlow. 

Percy:  Of course...the podcast will have numerous dialectics spinning through it.  My entire thought process is dialectical, which I believe stems from the cognitive mechanics of vision -- the integrator of the senses.  See Sidebar: Visual Cognition, HyperFlow & Info Warfare.
Red:  So you really are serious.  About turning HyperFlow -- both physical and abstract -- into some magic formula for decoding this so-called Illusion?

Percy:   This isn’t magical or mystical.  Perhaps there’s no formula.  But I know what I experienced.  Over a two-decade period I was immersed in several dozen conflicts – both real and abstract -- that triggered the same mental state I feel on two (moto) wheels and two (ski) planks.  And every touch of the state’s high-voltage information cables illuminated one sector in the fabric of Abstract Space.  And I figure that if this fabric follows the laws of nature, then the twenty-odd swatches I sensed should be part of a larger pattern stretching across the spacetime of the Illusion. 

Red:  I still don't see how you can perceive this abstract energy -- which lest I remind you does not exist.

Percy:  This, Red, is the fundamental question that frames the experiment!  Why can I -- and others like me -- perceive abstract energy like the physical energy of reality?  One thing is clear: everything pivots on the Capability.  You may have an Outside Mind and you may find yourself in a fluid Setting.  But without the right tool – something that allows you to perceive and project energy -- you won’t trigger HyperFlow. 

Red:  How will you even know if it works?  Maybe you're chasing an illusion of an illusion, shadows of shadows?

Percy:  By making predictions and adjusting to the results.  We will be monitoring the abstract energy spinning off petroleum, the most valuable commodity trade today.  The focus is on the Anglo-American Empire, which controls the financialization of this trade.  Of particular interest is Vladimir Putin, a masterful Outside Mind who is playing a very sophisticated, very long game that appears to be reaching a culmination...

Red:  Predictions and Putin.  Pretty bold.  Putting the proverbial money where the mouth is…

Percy:  Literally.  If we can anticipate changes in Abstract Space created by structural changes in commodity trade, then why not make bets in the securities markets?

Red:  Oh.  Now I get it.  The podcast is the front-end of a stock-picking site, with its very own proprietary special sauce?  "Hi.  I'm Percy.  Founder of Killing Medusa.  We promise market-beating returns with our proven investment strategy.  HyperFlow!"  Yeah...you're dancing down the yellow brick road, just like everyone else.  Wanna give an insider some inside tips?

Percy:  You're not nearly as funny as you think you are Red.  No, I won’t.  Our bets are a confidential measurement tool.  But they are based on the public predictions that frame our monitoring of the petroleum game.  Anyone can see those in the live monitoring track, The HyperScreen of the Present. 

Red:  Fair enough.  I just thought that, you know, since we are old friends...

Percy:  Let's conclude with this visual on your tablet, which cycles us back to the entry view...it shows where we are headed.  Into exercises designed to remove the linear maze from our cyclical brains, and then unleash HyperFlow on the abstractions that have long confounded us.  Let's jump over to Room 2 for the scientific basis of this experiment.