the final piece of this model is its prediction for the way that positions on this length-wise coordinate map onto the viewing and treatment of others. that the few, there near the end of no awareness, grow increasingly irritated with one another, forced to come in contact with more beings like themselves and so to, in some sense, be faced with what amounts to being a mirror. and to escape the pain of this revealing of their natures, they dive further into self denial, nearer to the singularity

whereas those nearing the antipole are drawn to projecting themselves onto others, even those entirely disparate, in hope of some reprieve from self beneath that small oblivion of love