Statement of Faith for the Church of the Salt Way
1. On the Nature of Being and Understanding
We believe that the nature of reality is disclosed to the mind in the form of a fractal whereby every whole of a determined shape contains uncountable parts, each of which encodes within itself a non-identical but recognizable iteration of the shape of the whole, and that such relations of self-similarity and self-difference extend in all directions without bounds (The Salt Way, Book 3).
2. On the Nature of Consciousness and Matter
We believe that within the construct of the 4D observable universe, consciousness is experienced in, through, and as resonant crystal assemblages and that alterations to the media, quantity, and connectivity of these assemblages and their constituent parts correlate to alterations in conscious states (The Salt Way, Book 4).
3. On the Interdependence of Conscious Agents
We believe that enlightenment is a fundamentally collective process, in which all see what is somewhat differently according to their own unique vantage and that if some appear to see more of what is, it is because they depend upon others to lift them to greater heights (The Salt Way, Book 5).
4. On the Nature of Communion
We believe that boundaries of identity, function, and purpose are essential to all acts of communion and as such they demand the deepest respect (The Salt Way, Book 8). No single boundary is absolute unto itself (The Salt Way, Book 14), but there is absolutely no such thing as communion without a set of boundaries (The Salt Way, Book 16).
5. On the Nature of Falsehood
We believe that falsity and contradiction arise only as a result of the timescale differential between the non-terminating multiplication of terms across constructs and the additive series of terms that index one another in the process of defining a given construct; thus, the cardinal virtue of truth-seeking is patience (The Salt Way, Book 1).
