Otherside #8

Briefing

So, gentlemen, that's all the intelligence we've got on them for now. From what we know, the Yan-Do Initiative never intended to be terrorists in any sense of the word ⌥ .While the pamphlet isn't very specific about their disposition and intentions, the Titan team's language deciphering and verification plus the background of the first unfounded accusations are giving us enough reason to believe that Yan-Do is an entirely peaceful group, and alarmingly effective at what they do.

And what they do, from what the team could collect from testimonials of alleged ex-members, is... hard to believe from the first look. First of all, they do advise everyone involved, again and again, that "reality engineering" is not magic, or some kind of occult training, but it might as well be categorized as such at first glance by ignorant observers.

We're quite sure they are not phishing on the conspiracy and gnostic crowds, because the character of their ethos and message as gathered from interactions with their current members was perceived as much more refined and subtle, with understated but intense focus, than what we usually encounter in typical cult-like channels like Esoteric Order of Dagon, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Russian Terran Fleet and similar.

Yan-Do insist on cooperation with complexity as opposed to struggling and willpower approaches. They actively reject the use of the paradigm of "beating the system" or questioning the Deceiver. Anyone who withholds awareness of something already know, as a tool of influence, is a liar. Liars feed on and evolve with complexity, but also decay very rapidly because of it. Yan-Do adamantly advise against wasting energy in attempts of revealing truths against what everyone else tries to gloss over. Liars fail against complexity all the time; the opposite of the liar is enabler, according to Yan-Do. Enabler lives alongside complexity, without trying to hide or highlight anything about anything, but experimenting and playing with possibilities, taking risks and following new pathways. That's why the thing with all the maps mentioned in the Synchropoiesis is so critical in their view.

The purpose of symbology used by them, Yan-Do convincingly claim, is to keep questions fresh and perspectives open, and right here they start getting ominous. While everything above was distilled to be the most understandable, this part is certainly won't be.

According to our sources, what exactly Yan-Do are investigating are methods of reality dreaming, carving vision into reality, and taking reality along with them depending on what kinds of domains were brought into conjunction. It's not that they refuse the Cartesian framing of existence. It's like they overlap many more such maps on the top of it, and then keep replacing them as they go along, possibly tracking and cataloging terrains and shifting coordinates. Lately, they allowed increasingly more interactions with the public, so we were able to piece together more than the general context. Impressively enough, the majority of their announcements, claims and updates that go public could be verified.

On one occasion they announced the opening of what is identified in the "map" as the Chimerogenesis Institute. Two months later our team discovered several postgraduates of Cambridge, Brown, Delft, Kyoto and Bilkent universities, all well-established synthetic biologists and biomimetics, biology engineers and chemo-informaticians, now working, citing the Institute as their affiliation. The Yan-Do contact explained that they decided to link the fourth industrial revolution with the next step on another map and delegated authority to researchers to follow their instincts and whatever methods and protocols they would find necessary, aiming to introduce to the neural substrate of the brain a new life form, designed by Yan-Do to produce a multiverse detection organ with access to other maps. They call it Metamind now.

Their interest in the Deceiver doesn't seem high or even persistent, from what we observe. Our current understanding of him as their contact doesn't overlap fully with their descriptions on any particular level, which is the common state of affairs especially for conspiracy and esoterics movements in regard to the Deceiver, so that's normal. Yan-Do dismissed our tongue-in-cheek notes on both their "maps" as a rudimentary precursor to the Deceiver's Fields. They politely insist that anything dealing with primordial chaos, including the Deceiver, is fully and completely irrelevant.

Thank you, gentlemen. You are now dismissed.