I love the whole concept of the Wunderkabinett, not as a container of skulls, curiosities and freaks of nature, but as a magical collection of objects and materials.

This is a readout of the details as they rise to the surface from cellular memory storage. A surfing before death, perhaps. We can’t analyze it further until we get it back to the lab.

In writing about our Wunderkabinett project, I may be revealing more than I should, for we are all sworn to secrecy when we first begin this endeavour. There were others, earlier on, who began very much in earnest who, for reasons of their own, were forced by circumstance or limitation to abandon the effort soon after it began.

One such agent had written an account over a period of several weeks when he suddenly and inexplicably became extremely ill and had to abandon the effort in order to save himself I saw him in the halls of HQ several months later and he still looked haunted and withdrawn.

“There is not need to go into the areas that can cause you this sort of distress,” we were told , and he was the example being used as a warning to the rest of us – keep yourself balanced and healthy before during and after entering the workshops. My own effort has therefore taken these warnings to heart and I put my personal life balance (if I can use such a hackneyed phrase) first before I begin an event or an operation. But I get ahead of myself here, because there is much to tell about the project, its goals, its inception, its way of bringing in exactly what is needed at exactly the right time – and more – the mapping department has the best tools to reveal coordinates inter-dimensionally, and track simultaneously the various project participants and their trajectories as they each explore their particular area of interest.

The idea of a cabinet of curiosities is merely a jumping off point for the development of a new map, an intensive visualization of all the extraordinary events and nodes of conscious awareness that make up all events – whether physical, psych, metaphysical or ultra-violet spectrum-based, scientific neo-scientific or thought-based.

There are also angels and Taoist wizards held with genies in a variety of lamps, containers, bottles, jars and miniature gardens.

Our curiosity museum is where original cabinets are still in storage today, and the historian team works tirelessly to date, catalog, photograph, retain, digitize, restore or otherwise re-examine, categorize and cross reference the purpose and contents of these old gathered materials.

Many were considered truly magical in their day, but now they are merely curios. The forefinger bone of a Celtic saint, hairs from a wild boar woven to create a false moustache, the usual butterfly collection, insect groupings including a whole plate of scarabs, pigments from long ago in old glass bottles, including that brown shade so popular and so rare, called “mummy” for it had been taken directly from the mummies in the museums.

How did indigo first appear on the earth as a dye to be used? How could the combination of piss and fire ash oxidizing with indigo change the colour from green-brown to beautiful blue, the range of blues? These colours from earth to sky, these crushed insects in Peru to turn the wool a brilliant lasting red. And the shellac preserves the black box with its jewel inlays. Shell designs and leaf lace, woven patterns, history and folly, a tapestry tells of battle yet the lady who embroiders has never left her castle. That is the Wunderkabinett.