Dedication & Acknowledgements

Edward dedicates this to his Grandmothers
who were & are inspirations
to his heart & mind.

Wes dedicates this to Shira, always.

A book like this cannot come into existence without very special sets of circumstances connecting two individuals, and the platforms on which these ideas first began to emerge include the web sites Frequency23.net and the now-defunct Loudwire blogging network. We would like to thank Ray Carney for the illustrations that appear throughout the book, as well as the cover image from his painting entitled Group Mind Synergy.

Other noteworthy individuals whose ideas helped us complete some of our thoughts: Ben Mack, Dr. Hyatt, and Robert Anton Wilson, for enhancing speech (twisp), keeping it real (metapuke) and challenging accepted reality tunnels (fnord). Thanks to Chloe Crowson for copy-editing and Don Eglinski for the layout on this first edition, and his incredibly useful comments along the way. We thank Taylor Ellwood for brilliant ideas and the forward that introduces the text and Joseph Matheny for the introduction and support with online promotion. We thank Danny Rafatpanah, Nick Pell, and Klint Finley who organized the Esozone Designer Reality Expo where the authors met each other in person for the first time nearly ten years after they began their conversation under different names.

Special thanks to James Curcio, Jonathan Blake and Angelina Fabbro, the whole of the Irreality syndicate washed up at RealityHackers.ning.com Technoccult.com, and hatch23.com, as well as the borderlands.com site, maintained by the always elusive Chris Titan. A special tip of the hat to Key64.net, Brenico.com, and in particular the mad genius Ikipr of stealthisknowledge.com.

Edward would like to thank Delany's Coffee on Denman for giving him space-time to write; his parents for starting his evolution; Louisa Hadley for keeping him alive over the process; Christina Bock for discussing the bulk of this book with him before he knew that was what he was doing, and the TG3D site that was run by Brian (444) Hydomako.

Wes thanks Ray, Gabe, Freeman, Bo, Winon, Angela, August, Joy, Tracy, Paul, Jay, and Amber for listening to the rants and supporting the ideas before they were fully formed, and his family for the support. He especially thanks Don, David, Ty, and Kitty for helping with the logomancy back in the day and kaRIN + Statik for the Collide cds which have become the soundtrack for writing this book along the way.

To everyone else that we haven't managed to mention--if you think we care and appreciate your help, we do, and if you think we don't, you are wrong.