The Philosophy of Latent Sense Development



Expressed Through The SSM Model



As Taught by the Roots and Wings Institute



by



Leon Neihouse



Introduction



Thesis: We are immersed within and surrounded by an objective reality
that is unknowable using only our five senses and their extension with
scientific instruments but life on earth has evolved such that, at the
cutting edge of human experiential ability, latent senses are becoming
activated to directly perceive this greater reality.



This thesis led to The Space-Superspace-Metaspace (SSM) Model, expressed
as follows:



The SSM Model postulates an objective reality of three connected
environments. Space (including our solar system, the billions upon
billions of other solar systems within our galaxy, and the billions upon
billions of other galaxies within the visible universe) contains life as
conventionally defined. A separate Metaspace, a direct emanation from an
Unknown Source hereinafter referred to as Primordial Energy, is the
ground of being for spirits that are the root cause of life in Space.
Superspace, an intermediate environment, contains souls that act as
conduits between spirits in Metaspace and life in Space. A fully
functioning human being operates in these environments through an
immortal spirit in Metaspace, an evolving soul in Superspace, and a
reincarnating personality serving as the prime mover for a body in
Space.



The postulated purpose of a human being is to evolve into a New Man with
the personality becoming aware of the spirit in Metaspace and the spirit
and personality combining so as to experience life in Space to the
fullest.



The Roots and Wings Institute will:



1. Research New Man prospects for humanity.

2. Develop The SSM Model.

3. Teach the philosophy of Latent Sense Development.



Frequently Asked Questions About The SSM Model



1. Can you tell me anything about the genesis of The SSM Model?



The underlying thought was to develop a model that would answer The
Perennial Questions – Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we
going? Within this context, the following elements were crucial in
introducing, on 28 June 2006, the first version of what is termed The
SSM Model.



The initial thought process which eventually evolved into this model
started with Roman Catholic theology. The statements "There are
three persons in one God" and "Man is made in the image and
likeness of God" infer that "There are three persons in one
Man." Taking this as a starting point, it then becomes logical to
inquire as to the manner in which these three persons might exist. Body,
soul, and spirit are the traditional answers calling for a body on
earth, a soul in heaven, and a spirit in eternity. It then becomes
trivial to substitute personality for body, Space for earth, Superspace
for heaven, and Metaspace for eternity and posit these as three separate
and distinct environments. A human being is then defined as having a
personality serving as the prime mover for a body in Space, a soul in
Superspace, and a spirit in Metaspace.



The book Cosmic Consciousness by Dr. R. M. Bucke reinforces the basic
concept by giving examples of people who were aware of different aspects
of the Metaspace environment. It also implies an evolutionary process in
which human life on earth is becoming able to directly perceive the
environments of Superspace and Metaspace.



The work of Gurdjieff, an esoteric pragmatist from the first half of the
twentieth century, supports the Superspace environment by asserting that
the soul evolves or devolves as a result of the impressions received and
actions taken on earth. His stated view that it takes ten thousand years
to grow a soul implies reincarnation, a concept prevalent in Hindu and
Buddhist teachings and a foundational element in the model's
Superspace environment.



The book Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda supports the idea of a soul
in Superspace when Don Juan asserts "we are surrounded by eternity,
have a double which is oneself, and are luminous beings with no
solidity, existing in a luminous world." The same book supports the
concept of a spirit in a Metaspace that is the ground of being in
descriptions of the nagual as "the part of us for which there is no
words, no names, not mind, not soul, not the thoughts of men but it has
consciousness, never ends, has no limit, is only for witnessing, is the
unspeakable. All the possible feelings and beings and selves float in it
like barges, peaceful, unaltered, forever. The glue of life binds some
of those feelings together and a being is created, a being that loses
the sense of its true nature. As soon as the force of life leaves, all
go back again to where they came from, the nagual."



The most recent influence on, and the greatest concurrence with, the
model is found in the work of the English mystic, Richard W. Richardson.
His book, The Mystical Gnosis Event and the Human Situation, is a free
download from www.psychognosis.net <http://www.psychognosis.net/> . The
collected works of Mr. Richardson include a description of the spirit
and personality joining on earth – one of the purposes of life
posited by The SSM Model.



It is to be clearly understood that this is a model only, and as such it
will continuously change and evolve as dictated by experiential results.



2. The model is expressed rather succinctly. Can you elaborate on it a
bit?



Perhaps the model can be better understood through the below hypotheses:



One: We are surrounded by and immersed within an objective reality of
which the overwhelming majority of the human race is unaware



Two: The human biological equipment that has evolved over the last four
billion years on this planet has the latent ability to directly perceive
this greater reality.



Physical objective things in this greater reality directly impinge upon
and physically affect us with signals that are processed through our
brain. We do not have a consensus view on how to interpret these
interactions so they are almost universally repressed or ignored but a
few of the effects could be what some have expressed as mystic visions,
souls of the dead, angels, ghosts, and these types of reports.



In the model, Metaspace is presented as an environment populated with
immortal spirits. Life from Metaspace unfolds through a separate and
distinct environment defined as Superspace into normal everyday life on
this planet, which the model defines as a third separate and distinct
environment called Space.



The model further posits life in Space as trimorphic in nature
consisting of an immortal spirit in Metaspace, an evolving soul in
Superspace, and a reincarnating personality serving as the prime mover
for a body in Space. Human beings have the installed biological
equipment such that our Space-based personality can transcend the
Superspace environment to join the spirit in Metaspace, in what is
called an introverted mystical experience. The reciprocal journey, or an
extroverted mystical experience, is also possible in which the spirit
joins with the personality to experience life on earth to the fullest.
This unfolding of an implicate order through three separate
environments, with an inherent ability for the outer to meld with the
inner and, conversely, for the inner to meld with the outer, is proposed
as the next goal for evolution in which a human being becomes a New Man,
a term including both females and males.



The existence of a soul can be derived from the psychic experiences
reported by many people throughout recorded history as well as near
death experiences, some of which are available for review at
www.iands.org <http://www.iands.org/> , www.near-death.com
<http://www.near-death.com/> , and www.ndrf.com <http://www.ndrf.com/> .



The spirit as a separate and distinct entity is more difficult to
justify but it can be found through a review of mystic experiences, also
reported throughout recorded history. One of the more recent is Dick
Richardson, alive and well in England at this very time. His book, The
Mystical Gnosis Event and the Human Situation, can be downloaded free of
charge from his web site at www.psychognosis.net
<http://www.psychognosis.net/> . In one respect, Mr. Richardson concurs
with the model in a one for one basis in that he reports human beings as
trimorphic entities existing in three separate environments.



3. Metaspace is confusing. Will you explain it in more detail?



Essentially all the writings of mystics down through the ages discuss
this environment but the best description we have read is that of Dick
Richardson. The extensive extract below is from his book The Mystical
Gnosis Event and the Human Situation. What Dick refers to as Paradise,
The SSM Model calls Metaspace, but we encourage you to go to
www.psychognosis.net <http://www.psychognosis.net/> for the full
version.



"No physical eye has ever seen that place, no hand has touched it,
no dreaming mind has thought of it, and its reality has never occurred
to the rational mind, which exists in temporality - other than through
the memory of the Paradise event itself.



Because that place, the transcendent realm, is judged to be perfection,
for simplicity I refer to it as Paradise. Time as we know it does not
move there. Thus it is the beginning of time; hence the womb of
eternity. Moreover, nothing at all of experienced consciousness has
ever known that place and dimension by dwelling there. So it is
pristine, fresh, childlike, virgin of any other experience or memory;
and hence the `Virgin Womb of Eternity.' There are no men or
women there and the word virgin has no connotations of that ilk.



One does not suddenly come into self-consciousness there for one has
always been there and self-conscious within it. That part of ourselves
which exists in that realm has always been there; and the personality
does not exist there; but it is still you; the real you; but the inner
and depth eternal you that only this dimension can reveal. Hence we
have to come to know our true self; that part which IS the real us, and
of which everything else is ultimately objective; the personality, time,
and changing events. In that realm there is no memory of ever having
existed before or elsewhere. There is no before or elsewhere. Thus, we
are not talking about the personality existing in paradise but that of
the person. But nevertheless that person in paradise is `me'...
`I am me.' It is still my consciousness (you in your case).
But not the you of the temporal senses. The person and the personality
are but two parts of our trinity; and the soul is the third part.



In that place there is perfect vision (those who are blind will see). A
vision which is three dimensional. There exists width, breadth, and
depth. The place or realm, goes on as far as one can see, and into a
distance beyond sight itself, for it is everywhere and everything.
There is up, and there is down, there is left and there is right, all
relative to the point of vision. The vision is of darkness and of
infinite jewel-like glowing lights. The lights are like jewels,
diamonds set in a sea of purple glowing darkness; which is not really
dark at all, but somehow pulsating with vitality and being. The lights
are small but more than mere points of light, and they are of various
sizes and distances apart. Some are even kind of wispy and strung out;
but most are roundish. Neither the darkness or the lights can be
described in a way that does them justice, for the beauty transcends
anything known or knowable. It is the original unadulterated essence
and principle of beauty.



The I that exists there (us) has no perceived substance or form, it is
just pure virgin primordial consciousness as far as we are concerned; or
a mysterious substance that can be made conscious: a `spirit stuff
or energy' of some kind. But what it is made of (if anything other
than consciousness) cannot be known. It cannot be seen or touched.



That realm is about the magic: the knowing, the understanding, the
passion, the reality, the knowing the `all,' the love, the
wisdom, the beauty, and above all else, it is about the purpose of
creation and being. In a word it is all about `being there';
taking part in this Divine mystical union of creation at root beyond
time. It seems that the vision itself is a kind of bonus perhaps: a
place in which to do this knowing yet whilst in a repose of divine
peace; the peace that passes all understanding, perfection, and
affirmation of being.



Nevertheless, it is also the beginning as well as the end, for it is
where we come from. It could be described as the cosmological waiting
room of created consciousness before transmigration into the experience
of time, freedom, and activity. The place and the knowledge is all
yours, all mine, all beings from their point of reference and
consciousness; it is the realm where all centres meet beyond space and
time in the primordial Motherload of created consciousness: minds,
spirits, beings, whatever you want to call them. `Motherload'
does not mean female either. It means the main seam, the core, and the
original. It is pure consciousness; beyond time, space, and memory. It
(I AM) is the alpha and omega of all extended minds; the beginning and
the end of all created beings in creation; the first creation and the
home that awaits the return of all created minds, which are but the
children or progeny of creation. Nothing was created before I AM and
paradise: and nothing is created after me; I am the beginning and the
end of creation.



Before the mountains high and wide, before the seas did flow, before the
stars gave forth their light, even then, I said, I know. Before my
personality was, I AM. Before cave men came into being, I AM. Look
deeper than the stones of the earth and the oceans, and there you will
find me; I am the light which is beyond them all; I am the light of life
and the resurrection. Know me, and you will know yourself; for I AM...
and you are I AM. We are there at the beginning, like the observer of
the first act of creation. It (we) is (are) not aware of things as we
are aware of things out here but it is an awareness of what can only be
described as the essences and eternal principles and qualities of
things; truths; depth realities; quality; meaning; purpose; beauty;
wisdom; passion.



That root of our being of eternal consciousness, that part of ourselves
which exists there at the deepest level, the first child of creation, is
totally in absolute love, a passion beyond description. It is filled
with the passion of being to such a degree that if you and I out here
were to have that degree of passion burning inside of our temporal minds
then we would blow up. It is not like the watered-down love we know in
this world. It is more comparable to the heat at the big bang than to
the present cosmic temperature.



That `I AM' knows well enough that something brought it forth
into being; it knows well enough that it does not contain its own
causation. It also knows that the cause of its creation is not
paradise itself (the place) in its origin; and not within paradise
itself in absolute terms. The first cause cannot be seen, it cannot be
directly known independent of essences and created forms, and yet in a
way it knows of nothing else other than its love for its source of
being. And its source of being is that of no created thing; no thing
created. And it is not questionable; it is uncontradictable knowledge
and certain reality. There is no doubt.



The `I AM' of that realm has no knowledge of Earth and incarnate
existence. No knowledge of the universe or universes of space and time.
No knowledge of created forms other than itself and paradise. Thus,
those who claim that they are communicating with the dead may be
communicating with other living beings, but not these beings, not the
totally transcendent. You will not disturb these beings!



In the eternal paradise there is only One, and the one is the all (for
we are all identical in it). It is only from hindsight and on Earth
(with remembrance of paradise) that we can know that all created
consciousness sees it that way, and in the same way; thus, all beings
perceive the oneness in the divine transcendent realm of perfect repose,
perfect love, and perfect wisdom. In there there is no pain, no worry
(no bills to pay), no answering to do; no eating, no sleeping, no
thinking, no memory, no remorse; no hopes or desires, no fears; nothing
negative. All good; no bad. All beauty; no ugliness. All
`now'; no past or future. All understanding and affirmation; no
doubt or unknowing. All answers; no questions. Search yourself then;
for the quest and passion for the knowledge of selfhood and
understanding brings knowledge of the deepest depths of the All.



The mind is not in this universe simply to observe it, but rather to
fulfil it. You and I AM are one. You are I AM. Know thy self."



4. From where I sit, this model seems to be nothing more than a rework
of many theories of others. Am I missing something that gives The SSM
Model a unique viewpoint?



One unique viewpoint of The SSM Model is that it posits a purpose for
life that is not well known to the general public. In fact, it is only
in the work of Dick Richardson that this purpose is clearly stated. His
description of the personality visiting the soul in Paradise (Metaspace)
is a common feature among many mystics but the return visit of the
spirit to the personality on earth (Space) is unique and has been
adopted by The SSM Model as one of the very purposes of life on this
planet. His work is so important to the understanding of The SSM Model
that it is quoted from extensively below but, for the full flavor of his
thought, it will be necessary to read his book, The Mystical Gnosis
Event and the Human Situation, available free of charge at
www.psychognosis.net <http://www.psychognosis.net/> .



"As the stick flew though the air it began to sparkle so it seemed.
Perhaps it was the reflection of the sun. But as the dog was leaping
through the long deep grass as it was at that part of the field the dog
also began to `glow' with a strange inner radiance. As I looked
around me, my wife was also glowing. The grass was glowing, and the
trees. I looked at my hands they were glowing with an inner light of
pure radiance.



I scanned the whole vista around me. Everything was glowing with an
inner light, the world was different than I had ever seen it before.
The lakes way down below us, the sky, the trees, the few puffs of small
white clouds, the grass, my shoes, everything, was shimmering with this
inner light and a wondrous radiance. Then sound turned into a kind of
`hum'. Not a hum as such but a kind of unified `song'
or symphony of sound. I could hear the ants, the bees, insects in the
grass, the dogs breath, it was almost as though I could hear all our own
hearts beating and blood pumping. And yet it was a unified kind of
sound, almost like music in fact. I was dumbstruck and amazed, for I
had never seen anything like this before.



It was as though the physical senses had been liberated from a sleep and
come alive to a greater spectrum of creation itself; the world was
different; and amazing. I was seeing it all and living in it all in a
different way; a different mode of being in the world. And then it
happened! It is indescribable; ineffable; unbelievable. I can describe
what it is like in that totally transcendent paradise, and what it looks
like and feels like. But for the life of me I cannot describe this, and
not even for the love of trying. It was as though a hole had opened up
in creation itself.



There was no `gap' between the transcendent paradise realm and
this earth, for they were `joined', directly connected; a
blockage had become unblocked. That which was within; the divine
implicate order, is now out there, in the world also, and on a new
`wave front' of my own minds interaction with objective reality
itself. Good grief almighty – it is impossible; but happening.



And just at that point I began to be bombarded by what one can only call
chunks of `data', understanding and comprehension. As though a
million pieces of a Jig-saw-puzzle were being tossed up into the air and
putting themselves together in the finished picture of comprehension in
front of my very eyes and in my mind. It pounded and pounded and
pounded with relentless velocity and increasing frequency. It was as
though my I AM part in transcendence and the personality incarnate
become one on earth in a gusher of a union. In transcendence the outer
I had gone to IT: but here and now, on earth, IT, the implicate inner
reality, the child of that divine realm had come out to me. We danced
again in a swoon of unified passion and delight, as it had been in
paradise those long twenty years ago then so too was it again, now, on
earth; the inner had become the outer: the above as the below. The
essence manifest in form.



When I went to IT the outer consciousness had gone to and become as the
inner consciousness. But now the inner child walked upon the face of
the earth - the essential spirit of being was liberated... ON EARTH
through me! I gave myself up and let that consciousness walk in my body
- to see the trees, to feel the breeze, to show it the finished product
of creation in the outer multitude; the synthesis of the vortex of
emanation. I had shared paradise and my love, I give the world to you
now, through me! The person and the personality existed as one, in a
world which was better than paradise itself. But it is more than this,
it is a triplicity of union. The person, the personality, and the
essential nature of the life force and all creation – in ONE. One
dance – on an earth beyond imagination.



Good grief almighty I cannot take much more of this! And yet it kept
coming, more and more, stronger and stronger, I thought I was going to
burst with passion and explode. But not so, I was just engulfed in, and
surrounded by a love, a wisdom; all knowledge, all comprehension, all
affirmation, all beauty; all at the same instant and in ultimate dosage
- and in a physical world unimaginable.



I understood implicitly; and it was the first time in my life that I
wept; and albeit on the inside; for it was the soul that wept. No
rational mind could ever work this out. It has to be simply known and
lived in; seen and loved. That is what it is to live, and to exist.
NOW I know; and NOW I understand. The observer and the observed. It
lives for me, and I live for it. And that is love; and that is life.
And THAT is creation.



Normality slowly began to return. The `music' gradually turned
back into the normal sounds of the bees and the breeze. The inner
lights of the emanation of being slowly dimmed back into the colors of
normal matter and things. The gates of paradise closed again. No
doubts, no questions, no dichotomy, no unfinished song; the last amen
had been sung and danced - ON EARTH. The last chord made whole and
finalized - and this - is creation done; the finished product on earth.
The synthesis of paradise and earth; the purpose and function of
creation and being. And I was never the same child again, for the child
had become a man. Homo Sapiens had moved on a step.



Somebody else walked out of the field that day; somebody very different;
and the twenty year wait was over. Twenty years in the wilderness of
the resolution of the paradise event. But to have waited ten million
years would have been worth it. There is nothing one can say, except
that it is now achieved! And I now Understand.



I dream of a world wherein all incarnate minds could see and know these
things for themselves during their lifetime; and to become what they can
become; for then humankind would bring forth a world of their own
volition and love; a world in which the dignity of man would be
liberated.



A world in which there was no sadness when returning to this world from
the transcendent realm; a world that was equal to it in form, as it is
in essence. For then children could come here from there and enjoy life
incarnate on earth – in a divine freedom.



It would seem to me that there must come a time, in one incarnate
lifetime or another, when a soul must walk these paths for themselves.
It is plain enough that not all human beings on earth undergo such
events during this lifetime; and yet they must do so eventually, for it
is the evolution of the incarnate soul and mind itself. There is no
evolution in paradise, but only in extension of it. We were not made
FOR paradise (we were made IN IT); but we were made for freedom; in a
temporal world - a world which we are given the freedom and power to
make by way of our own desires and efforts.



I try to envisage a physical world like this wherein every life form
here is cognisant of these things and living that life which I only knew
for one hour ... when I come to die from this world, it will be that
which will be on my mind at the time – could it ever be so for an
incarnate world. I would not mind not being there when it happened,
just so long as it happened somewhere and sometime. For it is not I
which I want fulfilled, it is the life force … For it is IT, not I,
which is important."



5. It is comforting to know that I will never die but what about my dog.
Does The SSM Model propose that Rosie is also immortal?



In a word, Yes.



The model posits that all humans who have ever existed in this world,
the six billion plus now living, and all who will be born in the future
are immortal and comprised of a personality, soul, and spirit. This same
trimorphic description applies to all consciousness in the visible
universe. Thus, all life forms in Space, be they ants, oaks, eagles,
Shih-Tzus, elephants, dolphins, or space aliens from Sirius, are posited
to originate from immortal spirits in Metaspace, through evolving souls
in Superspace, to reincarnating personalities in Space.



But please note that Rosie is not characterized as a female in the
ground of being. There is no gender associated with the nature of life
in Metaspace.



6. I do not see the name God mentioned anywhere in descriptions of The
SSM Model. Does this model acknowledge His existence?



The model proposes that a Primordial Energy is totally and completely
responsible for emanating Metaspace, from which Superspace and Space
naturally unfold. It further posits that all life in Space is imbued
with a speck of this Primordial Energy.



Even though this one Primordial Energy is what many people might refer
to by the name God, the model does not use this name simply because
doing so could be construed as placing limits on the Primordial Energy.



Thus Metaspace, Superspace, and Space – three environments vast
almost beyond human comprehension - are perhaps at the limit of human
experiential and conceptual abilities but not of Primordial Energy.



In addition to the nature of life posited by The SSM Model, the
Primordial Energy that emanated Metaspace might simultaneously be
developing 17 trillion and 13 parallel projects that are simply beyond
the ability of humans to understand.



7. I always thought my purpose was to live a good life, then die and be
happy for eternity in Heaven with Jesus. Does the model assign a
different purpose for human life?



Being happy for eternity in Heaven with Jesus is a commonly held
religious belief but the model deals with human experience and not
religious dogma.



Within this constraint, the model does assign a purpose for human life.
The model posits that our spirit will be forever home in its native
environment in the ground of being defined as Metaspace but the
personality is designed to stay right here in its native environment of
Space.



One purpose, then, is for the personality activating the body to grow
the soul such that the soul can act as the intermediary for the earthly
personality to become aware of its immortal spirit in Metaspace and
realize the monumental two way flow of love between Primordial Energy
and a fully functioning Man (an obvious generic term that includes male
and female). This is a purpose that is implicit in the thought of almost
all mystics who have ever expressed themselves in writing. Another
purpose not so well known, stated perhaps for the first time through the
work of Dick Richardson, is for the personality to experience the spirit
through the human biological body.



The SSM Model takes the view that, in the pursuit of this purpose,
Primordial Energy is the antithesis of a micro-manager. We are given the
stuff of creation to make of it as we will.



The model posits that all life in Space originates from Metaspace and
flows through Superspace in an unfolding of the implicate order in a
unique and intrinsically unknowable pattern. The model further posits
that eventually we will all return to our eternal home in Metaspace to
bask in the monumental and unconditional love of Primordial Energy.



We are each, therefore, given carte blanch to flower and unfold through
Superspace and into Space in a manner that is determined by the
collective actions of our Space based personality. The assignment of the
purpose of life to grow such that the personality of a fully functioning
human being can become directly aware of the spirit, both from the
perspective of Metaspace and from Space, is postulated to be the general
direction of the evolution of life on Earth into a New Man.



After virtually all of the human race can respond in this manner, it
might then become directly experienced in an un-contradictable manner by
the collective whole that there is a further purpose to life. If so, The
SSM Model will be adapted to pursue this new purpose.



Thus, to answer The Perennial Questions, the model proposes that our
purpose is to keep reincarnating into this world until the outer can not
only meld with the inner in Metaspace but also meld with the inner while
serving as the prime mover for, and fully aware of, the biological body
in Space.



8. This sounds too good to be true. Exactly how long will it take before
I will be able to experience the things of which The SSM Model speaks?



We do not know.



Our spirits in Metaspace are eternal and unchanging but our souls in
Superspace grow or diminish as a direct result of the actions of the
personality controlling the body in Space. It has taken four billion
years for life on earth to evolve such that this union is now occurring
for a few people. From the human perspective, sooner or later all people
will grow their souls until they can complete the circuit between the
bodily personality in Space and their spirit in Metaspace; it might take
ten years, several thousand years, or even many millions of years before
the tipping point occurs, but this ability will eventually become
commonplace.



You must realize, however, that this is not a race. You and every other
person on the planet will eventually get there, but it is not possible
to tell exactly when this transformation will occur for a given human
being.



9. What is the biggest barrier to fulfilling the purpose of life defined
by The SSM Model?



A failure to remember who we are is at the crux of our problem.



In other words, the biggest obstacle in the path to our destination is
simple ignorance. Soon after we come into this world, we forget our
connection to the Primordial Energy from which we spring. We then act as
if the personality in Space is the ruler and sole source of our
existence and ignore any input from our soul in Superspace and our
spirit in Metaspace.



As a further commentary, we do not know the particular point we are at
in our journey or, to put it another way, we do not know the depth of
our soul. In fact, one school of thought teaches that it takes ten
thousand years to grow a soul to the point that it is mature enough to
support the transformations implicit in The SSM Model. If one's
diligent actions do not result in being able to achieve transformation,
the obvious recourse is to live as good a life as possible now with the
full knowledge that a better result will be attainable in an incarnation
at some time in the future.



10. I just don't get it. If I cannot see it, hear it, touch it,
taste it, or smell it, then how can it possibly exist?



Perhaps it would help if you approached the problem from a slightly
different perspective. It is easy to see that a worm is not aware of the
reality to which a person with five senses is directly and immediately
conscious. Using the same rationale, extra senses in a person would
permit direct and immediate apprehension of more of the
totality-of-what-is. The conceptual difficulty is that it is not
possible to extrapolate from five-sense data to determine what would be
discernible with more than five senses. The only ways that individuals
with only five senses could ever know of the existence of a greater
reality would be to have faith in the descriptions given by those who
have more than five senses or to develop one or more additional senses
of their own. For, just as sight allows direct perception of a reality
that is ineffable to a blind man, so would an extra sense permit
apprehension of a reality unimaginable to a five-sense-limited human
being.



The SSM Model interprets latent sense development as a natural ongoing
process that is a birthright of the human condition, but which is
occurring only in an extremely small percentage of the population at
this time.



The model further posits that physical objective things in Superspace
directly impinge upon and physically affect us with signals that are
processed through our brain. We do not have a consensus view on how to
interpret these interactions so they are almost universally repressed or
ignored but a few of the effects could be what some have expressed as
mystic visions, souls of the dead, angels, ghosts, and reports of that
type.





11. If a latent sense should start to become active within me, how can I
find expert assistance to correctly interpret its effects?



Consider that giving sight to those blind from birth is no simple feat.
A great deal of help is required simply for the newly sighted to
correctly interpret the reality to which this new sense now gives them
direct access. Even with trained and expert assistance it is not easy to
recognize the brain signals that should be interpreted as trees, dogs,
other people, cars, the moon, stop lights, etc. So it is difficult for
the newly sighted to learn to operate independently in what is for them
a New World.



Learning to acclimate oneself after the development of a latent sense
will be several orders of magnitude more difficult. Now we are quite
sure you cannot find what you seek through the Yellow Pages. We also do
not know of any gurus on the scene today that we would recommend.



Since this is our stock in trade, we obviously believe your best course
of action is to read as much as possible about Latent Sense Development
and, if interested, join the Roots and Wings Institute. You might then
find the assistance you seek through interactions with other members
responding to similar effects.



12. How do conventional academia, scientists, philosophers, and
psychologists judge The SSM Model?



We do not know for the simple reason that we do not solicit, nor will we
evaluate, their input.



By definition, all conventional people are not only Superspace and
Metaspace blind but they refuse to even acknowledge that they are
challenged in this manner.



One would not recruit the blind, even if they were the most intelligent
people on the planet, to serve as art critics, set designers for major
motion pictures, or trainers for airline pilots. In the same vein, since
they are unable to even admit to the possibility that Superspace and
Metaspace might have an objective existence, we have no intention of
requesting, or responding to, critical evaluations of The SSM Model from
conventional sources.





Frequently Asked Questions about the Roots and Wings Institute (RWI)



1. Is the Roots and Wings Institute, or RWI as you like to call it, a
cult?



In a word, No.



RWI's stock in trade is providing an alternate answer to The
Perennial Questions (Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?). Such
concerns are hardly ever expressed before the mid to late twenties.
Setting a relatively advanced age limit for admittance helps to ensure
RWI members are united in a common purpose. So, one cannot even join RWI
until reaching the age of 24.



In another area, the first principle of member interaction as stated in
the RWI bylaws is Freedom. We are all trying to maximize benefits to
ourselves, our family, our neighbors, our country, and the planet earth
as guided by our individual philosophy of life. Each and every person
must have full freedom to maximize these benefits as he or she sees fit,
even if it means leaving RWI on a moment's notice to seek answers
elsewhere.



Thus, the combination of an advanced age for membership and full freedom
to leave ensures RWI will never be mistaken for a cult.



2. OK, if not a cult, is RWI a religion?



A No to that question as well.



Religion comes equipped with beliefs and dogmas that promise everlasting
life in Heaven for dedicated service to their religion during a life
time here on Earth. RWI does not have beliefs or dogmas. It, rather,
relies on hypotheses and models which it corrects as dictated by human
experiences garnered during this life time.



RWI is further built upon the foundation that the purpose for life in
the environment of Space is to be found in Space. In other words, human
beings will continue to reincarnate into Space until, as a minimum, the
union of the spirit in Metaspace with the personality in Space is
realized.



3. OK, if not a cult and not a religion, then how exactly does RWI fit
into the larger scheme of things?



RWI occupies a position midway between Religion and Science. RWI does
not have beliefs and dogmas but it does use concepts that traditionally
fall under the purview of Religion. On the other hand, RWI uses the
scientific method in its investigations of a model of objective reality
that extends far beyond the limits of our five senses - a concept that
Science refuses to acknowledge as even being worthy of investigation.



Humanism would be the philosophical classification it most closely
resembles but Latent Sense Development would be a more accurate
description of its content.



This viewpoint hypothesizes that life exists on Earth, at billions upon
billions of different places in our galaxy, and in a similar manner in
billions upon billions of other galaxies in the universe. This
philosophy also acknowledges the possibility that there are billions
upon billions of other universes different in basic design but
coexisting with ours but, from our limited five sense perspective, we
can never know anything about that possible state of affairs.



All things, from the spider climbing up the wall, to Mars, to the Milky
Way, to possible parallel universes are viewed as emanations from a
primordial energy with life evolving to always express itself in a more
and more comprehensive manner. Thus, life on Earth has evolved to its
highest form in the human race with an ability to perceive reality
through its five senses and their extension with scientific instruments.
The hypothesized next stage for evolution will have the most advanced
form of life on Earth able to directly perceive reality in a manner that
cannot be projected from the information available only from our five
senses.



This latent sense development is hypothesized to be a natural ongoing
process now coming to a state of fruition in an extremely small
percentage of the present population. The mystics, both living and dead,
can serve as examples for the direction in which the human race has the
intrinsic ability to go.



The conclusion of this model is that we, as a race, could be on the cusp
of evolving into a higher form, or it might be another million years
before it happens, but this possible end result is not guaranteed. The
final decision on our fate is in our collective hands. If we as a race
develop our propensity to hate, kill, fight, murder, maim, plunder, and
wage war we might never collectively get to this more evolved state but,
rather, could burn to a cinder when the sun expands into a red giant -
that is, providing we do not collectively destroy ourselves long before
then. The primordial energy might shed a figurative tear over this
outcome but we as a species are free to collectively go in that
direction.



On the other hand, we have the collective ability to increase in
population by leaps and bounds, expand throughout the solar system, the
galaxy, and the universe, evolve by activating latent senses, and cause
that primordial energy to figuratively beam with pride over our
accomplishments.



It is the design intent of the Roots and Wings Institute to conduct R&D
into methods and procedures that will activate these latent senses and
thereby act as a midwife in humanity's birth to New Man status (not to
worry, ladies, Man in this context refers to human beings).



4. Why this particular name?



In that the dual goals of the organization are to seek ways and means to
visit our roots in the ground of being and then join with our spirit on
earth and, figuratively speaking, soar with new wings into the great
unknown, the Roots and Wings Institute captures the essence of its
organizational mission.



Note: Comments, questions, or concerns on The SSM Model or the Roots and
Wings Institute can be directed to Leon Neihouse at ljan910@...
<mailto:ljan910@...> .



Draft of 5 October 2007





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