Essence 01

The Experience:

......Temperature:
............The Space Needle
............Rice
............Georgian Architecture
............The Cyrillic Alphabet
............A 1700s Shipyard
............Ring Wielders
............Multnomah Falls
............The Founding Era
............A Coil of Wire
............Eiffel Tower
............Patina Roofs
............The Ropes of a Tall Ship
............The Peak of a High Mountain
............A Sickle and Sythe
............A Book of Old Fashioned Poetry
............An Avalanche of Rocks

......Light:
............Brandenburg Concertos
............The Latin Alphabet
............Grand Canyon
............Lace
............A Lamprey with White Wings
............A Quille Pen
............A White Ceramic Cup
............A Powdered Wig
............An Ancient Coin
............The Art of Chess Playing
............The Bitter end of a Needle
............All the Waters in the World

......As a Whole:
............Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
............The Architecture of Florence
............A Mosque
............A Roman Phalanx
............Plastic Wrap
............A Large Atlas
............A Globe of the World
............Spanish Trumpet Music
............A Long Bridge
............Trident
............A Worn, Gray, Stone Statue
............Pale, Desert Sand Hills
............A Long Sand Storm
............A Great Lake
............An Antique Book of Philosophy
............The Reflecting Pool before the Lincoln Memorial
............Numerals

......Pain:
............Salt lake City Mormon Temple
............Morse Code
............High Education
............A Corridor
............Smell of the Spice Market
............A Switchboard
............A Spray of Icy Water
............Royal Tea
............A Crowd of People Talking
............The Sting of a Switch
............A Very Diluted Drink
............The Potential of an Egg
............Worms Moving Underground

......Monotony:
............Huge, hanging, crocheted wire structures
............A Paper Factory
............Slot Canyon
............Mount Rushmore
............A Long Article
............A Blemish on your Arm
............Strata Layers
............Tracing the Branches and Twigs of a Tree
............Quarrying Rocks
............Ground Black Pepper
............Searching for a Hidden Bomb
............Trying to Remember a Thing of Importance

Research and Realization:

......Surface of Thought:
............A Waiting Room
............A Museum
............High Colleges
............A Long Sunny Day
............Swans
............The Sunlit, Scanty Clues of a Crime
............A Standard of Measurment
............An Ancient Battery
............The Writing on the Axe Head
............A Tense Friendship
............A Lance
............A Package Bomb
............Yams
............Mandrakes

......Thought:
............The Greek Alphabet
............A Distant, Quiet Thunderstorm
............Cuneiform Script
............The Shadow of a Pointed Beard
............Ancient Paintings on Stone Walls Fading and Crumbling
............A Moonlit Row of Ionic Columns
............The Secret of the Teasel Head
............Salt
............An Oil Lamp
............Apollyon

Please critique.
What do you think? What are your favorite parts? Do you have any questions? Is there anything I could change to make it better?

I might expand it sometime. What are some ideas to add?

Ooh, this is neat. Sadly, I'm not very great at essence-mapping, so I'm not sure how helpful I could be.

My favorites are 'a book of old fashioned poetry', 'the art of chess playing', and 'swans'.

Thank you for your post Maiden Elly Mimetes!

Do you like them alone, or as part of the essence?

Do you like:

'the art of chess playing'

Or:

......Light:
............The Art of Chess Playing

?

I found

"Pain: The potential of an egg" Rather... odd. Is this person having an unexpected child? (Eh... Maybe I should just drop it there)
Then there's references to different alphabets. I have to be completely honest, I don't see how they represent anything like temperature. I don't know. I turn to nature for my xmaps.

But just a question overall: What is this an essence to? It say's "The Experience" but is it an event in a story? It would be easier to critique if I knew what this represents.

This looks like you put a lot of effort though! You get a cookie for effort.

Thank you for posting Seabird Mimetes!

I had a post answering your questions all written out, then the tab got closed before I saved it, so I am working on rewriting it. Just so you know I actually did see your post.

To answer the last question first...

It is the essence of a theme, so I just called it Essence 01 because there will be (and already are) other essence maps of themes. "The Experience" is the title of the first part of the map, sorry about that confusion. *edits out ambiguity *

This is actually the essence map of a Birthday theme I thought of for my eighteenth birthday.


Part of the idea of the Pain of the essence is like the idea of the potential of an egg. They are not connected by association, but by comparison of ideas. It is a very specific element (how many ideas of pain are like the potential of an egg?).

A keystone principal of essence is:

A disconnect in association powerfully clarifies the aesthetic connection.

For example:
"Courage like a rock"
=courage that is hard to break like a rock is hard to break
But
....Courage
........A rock
=an idea of courage that is like the idea of a rock

The first statement uses association, and it basically says "great courage." That is all fine, but great courage is general, an amount, not descriptive. Far more specific is an essence with a part that is like an idea of pain with a part that is like the idea of the potential of an egg.

Me, Jay, and Juliet developed essence mapping. Jay and Juliet developed all kinds of interesting things you can do with essence mapping, but I developed mostly the conceptual end. I had a good idea what I was aiming for, then it was developed enough for me to use it (but not explain it), and now I am starting to be able to explain it.

Jay wanted me to expose ye Holy Worlders to what I was working on, and specifically requested that I post this map. I have it posted in X+, but I also posted it here because it does not use anything more than what first X has.

I also posted this Riddle with the same goal in mind:
http://www.holyworlds.org/fantasy/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5659

A very good idea. But do you mean that you use things from nature for your maps, or that you make maps of essences from nature?

That depends on what you mean by effort. It was rather hastily done because it needed to be finished in time to be used for my birthday. The ones I have put more effort into, in the sense of time and thought, are larger, and of more significant subject matter.

Thank you! *eats cookie, in the manner befitting a connoisseur of cyber-cookies * I am looking forward to your critique!