052635 by MTM I In the beginning-practice the mind piles stones into a dwelling: layered-being-parallel-strata under a roof of shelter-bracing-torment-storm, smoke-split-frame-mantled-speech-root-twisting a late flame. Propositional claims hold the torchlight; procedural truth keeps the careful footwork; the imaginal is the hearth where perspectival stories coagulate. PITK says presence is less a proposition than an inhabited chamber - ritual as architectural engineering, rehearsal as masonry, a place you can live inside. II Ritual and play are the archaeologist's trowel: slow-old-anthropology-thread, work-perforated-individuals, curious-discoveries-shovel-assortment. Serious play is a graded experiment: pet-care-week, staged-oath-pretend-parent - imaginal scaffolding like synaptic-tagging-capture-in-miniature. Procedural rehearsal tests participatory-implacement: does the body accept this fit? does the place answer? Unteachable truths surface not as claims but as changed dispositions - small, reversible commitments that reveal whether a new habit will weather time. III Insight sits like a rare mineral in a chaotic field: chaotic-orbit-meta-learning, product-expanded-stochastic-resonance, attractor-destined-experiential-lattice. When imaginal simulation nudges circuits beyond subthreshold-detection-hidden-constraints, micro-thermodynamic-attention flips the lattice - perspectival clash collapses and an attractor of meaning forms. This is not deduction but phase change: the body re-tunes, procedural readiness realigns, and what was merely thinkable becomes lived knowledge. IV Commitment-as-epistemic-shift is an economy-rewrite: autopilot-burial-throat-label, working-find-met-significance, famous-names-human-evolution. Acting re-weights evidence - procedural truth can outrank propositional certainty because doing reorganizes incentives, salience, and memory. Vows and low-cost rehearsals are affordance-calibration devices: small, staged exposures that test whether a participatory fit will survive the slow corrosion of habit and moral weather. V For distant presence the imaginal becomes portable hearth: headphones-fractured-straight-reminder, long-full-stories, winding-down-for-sleep, out-there-still, quiet-faced-progress. Synchronized micro-rituals - shared-playlists, matched-gestures, time-stamped-tokens - act like chronobiological entrainment for attachment. These artifacts are not mere symbols but procedural anchors: they scaffold perspectival coherence across space and restore participatory fit when propositional knowledge falls hollow. VI At the ridge where myth and model braid: being-as-algorithm, observer-entangled-thought-affecting-thought, morphic-resonance-semantic-flow, chrono-synesthetic-temporal-color. Treat thought as studio practice - propositional frames are palettes, procedural skills the brush, the imaginal the apprenticeship that teaches the hand to trust a new line. PITK's workability test is creative: a belief proves itself by increasing agency across modes - by changing how you act, what you feel, and where you belong. The cave you build with layered-being-parallel-strata is also a laboratory: small rituals, careful simulations, reversible commitments tell you whether the myth you can live by is the truth that helps you live. Epilogue Lean, excavatory, and willing to be surprised: take a trowel to your cognitive strata. Treat ritual like experiment, rehearsal like calibration, and let the imaginal do the heavy lifting where propositions come up short. Knowing is a craft - a hearth, a studio, a laboratory - and that presence is something we build together, block by block, story by rehearsal.