What can one suppose about the effect of digitally transmitted literature on the act of reading? At first, poets uploaded their wordprocessed poems, which others downloaded. Though literature was now light-generated, it emulated literature in its pre-light form. Beginning with computer code which enveloped literature, code which interacted with literature, and code as literature, there came a newly formed interaction between computer and human languages, but in essence, nothing changed. Presentation evolved, so that human languages took on new visual forms. And now, with the integration of this technology and human literature complete, can we begin to see that it is not necessarily the literature itself which must evolve, but our way of perceiving it::::our way of reading.

Reading (1):

Your ordinary way of reading must be abandoned. This is difficult. Once it begins to flow from you, then you will have begun to read. Your ordinary way of reading is reading this. Connections, thought, transference and absorption. But as long as you read thusly, it can be said that you are not truly reading at all.

So from the beginning I admonish you to close the book::::to stop reading. What this refers to is not only stopping reading in your ordinary way, but of acquiring a new way of reading altogether. The truth is this new way of reading is already being performed by you, only you do not recognize it as such. And our first goal is for you to recognize that you are no longer reading in your ordinary manner, but have opened up to something quite extraordinary.

Reading may lose all of its context, all of its meaning, all of its words; and as long as you continue reading in your ordinary way, it will continue being contextless, meaningless, wordless. True reading begins with the opening of reading. So long as you follow your intuition, as opposed to your intellectual, logical and analytical self, can a true definition be found. You cannot grasp the page by reading from it. Likewise you cannot discover meaning by taking hold of it. Close the book. Stop reading.

The reading of a sentence ends with the end of the sentence, it does not effect ones entire reading experience. This is the usual mistake. For reading is in fact a mode of remaking the entire reading experience. As such, grammatical constructions lead only to the end of grammatical constructions::::never to thought. And this is where the notion of insight intervenes and confuses the whole. Something is broken.

Imagine if you will you are reading a sentence but there are words which halt your progress. You cannot read further than you cannot read further. Something blocks your passage. This is as usual. What true reading does is clear this blockage::::opens up a whole new universe so to speak. So that you are truly reading. Feel free. It is simply reading without thought, without consequence.

The other reading had been pure ritual, governed by rules. This reading now is bound by nothing. Before you had your eyes merely open. With this reading now, you perceive.

If you wish to perceive while reading, it is wrong to see into what you are reading::::as wrong as not perceiving at all, but reading. It is a contrivance. Anyone can gather thoughts, formulate ideas out of what is read, but the true reading is engaged in instinctively knowing already what is there; why extract a thought one already owns as a thought? It is like bending over to pick up a stone you already hold in your hand.

If you do not perceive what you are reading, what is the point of reading? And if you perceive words and sentences and grammatical constructions, then you are not truly perceiving what you are reading.

There is, quite recently developed, a quantum computer. This computer "reads" fourteen "operations" all at the same time, unlike the ordinary computer which reads one bit of information at a time. Simultaneously can a quantum computer, for example, solve fourteen different mathematical equations. This is closer to the true reading I am suggesting. Just as your mind has learned to join together letters to form words, so can one join together entire texts, and transfer this joining together into thought::::which becomes the true act of reading. This is closing the book. This is stopping reading.

And one already has this ability within oneself. No amount of further ordinary reading can take one closer to this other, true reading::::but it can lead one to the path. It is simply a matter of recognizing this ability within oneself::::of perceiving what one reads in this new way.

Once one has grasped this, one may continue to the next part of the text, which contains exercises which may help one uncover the nature of this other reading within oneself::::lead one to the path.

Reading (2):

Let us imagine there is a way to force us to recognize the force which is forcing us to recognize what exactly it is we recognize when we perceive a letter of the alphabet. And further that it is not glue which holds two or more letters together into a word, but a kind of gravity. And even further that that force to recognition and that gravity surrounding letters interacts in what is best described as a vacuum::::a pure space with no inherent activity of its own. Then we must perceive the dimensions of the container of this pure space. Being blind to the container, one cannot take hold of it with the mind. Without taking hold of it, it vanishes::::similar to forgetting. This phantom container is important. Though we can never capture it again once it has vanished, we can manufacture an image of it, and this invention can represent the lost thing. These representations then need some form of electricity with which to bind with those containers which are actual, perceived and grasped, whole, recognized, forced into being, collected in our thought.

And the friction which discharges this electricity, occurs between memory and experience. It is a matter of atuning one's intuition to the spark.

When intellection gets in the way of recognizing this force::::one has returned to ordinary reading. So it is important to abandon all intellection. Since one perceived the various parts of the text as separate from the text as a whole, is caught up in the deciphering of meanings and mired in the swamp of sense, there is seemingly no way out.

One must abandon that recognition one finds in all things, in all thoughts. Like how if one shows a photograph of an elephant to a person who has lived amongst elephants all his life, but who has never seen a photograph, he will not recognize the image of the elephant as an image of an elephant. Just so, all letters of the alphabet, all words, all grammatical constructions are images of elephants.

The importance of rhythm in our true reading cannot be underestimated. It is in essence pure rhythm. This means that true reading is closer to a form of music than to ordinary reading. But it is a music without notes as such. And the effect on the perceptions are not physical::::like how we cannot hear a dog-whistle.

In ordinary reading one reads until one stops reading. In true reading one is always constantly reading, reading forever and always, reading through sleep and dreams, through meals and everyday events, one is always reading::::the text is always everywhere, made of everything.

One is reading this now, yet one's reading of it ceased long ago. There are no words here, and yet one perceives words. This simple essay merely leads one to the path. One must go oneself down the path in order to begin reading...

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