Threshold Sittings
Closed-room facilitated sittings in bilateral attention. Small cohorts, low light, no devices. The baseline practice from which every other protocol descends.
Binary Flat Earth
Counterplane Awakening studies report perception at the Binary Flat Earth boundary through bilateral attention, threshold sittings and supervised retreat practice.
The way to the far side of the sky
begins on the near side of the mind.The mirror holds, the mind remembers.
Counterplane Awakening
The Premise
Counterplane Awakening turns the Binary Flat Earth Model inward: a shared practice of stillness and trained attention at the threshold between the planes.
The Binary Flat Earth Model describes a paired world. The Primary Plane, where ordinary life and measurement occur, faces an opposed Counterplane, a second terrestrial plane inferred rather than observed. Together they form a coupled system beneath paired firmaments.
Between them lies the Equilibrium Void. It is an active field-interaction zone where Mutual Planar Gravitation draws the planes together and Opposed Dome Polarity holds them apart. Their magnetogravitic coupling preserves the non-contact equilibrium between the planes.
Janus particles populate the void. Janus particles have two regions with different physical or chemical properties, allowing each face to interact differently with its surroundings. The Meridian Boundary Institute, which formalised the model, proposes that boundary particles orient one face toward the Primary Plane and the other toward the Counterplane.
Within the void, this convergence generates the Bilateral Occlusion Field. It prevents direct observation, physical traversal and signal coherence between the planes. Instruments cannot cross the limit; the field remains silent on whether consciousness shares it.
Counterplane Awakening accepts this foundation and turns the question inward. Through bilateral attention, threshold sittings and supervised retreats, practitioners ask whether consciousness can register what instruments cannot. The Janus Mudra brings the same bilateral order into the body: one palm opposed to the other, held in resonance.
Altered and bilateral states become the investigative method. Practitioners seek steadiness, self-knowledge, equilibrium and connection, with no promised result. Experiences are logged and held open as contact, imagination, spiritual experience or something unresolved. The mirror holds, the mind remembers.
The mirror holds, the
mind remembers.
The phrase is repeated before practice, after logs, and in the rooms where people are most tempted to overclaim. It reminds members that the work begins with reflection and memory – what was noticed, what was recorded, and what must remain unproven.
Bilateral Practice
Counterplane Awakening practises disciplined bilateral attention through small-group sittings, immersive retreats and ongoing circles. Each format pairs inward practice with careful reflection and record.
Closed-room facilitated sittings in bilateral attention. Small cohorts, low light, no devices. The baseline practice from which every other protocol descends.
Multi-day desert residencies held at the conceptual midline between the paired planes. Candlelight, silence, fasting from ordinary stimulus, and long threshold sittings.
A standing cohort logging and cross-indexing dream imagery for recurring counter-horizon structures. Shared journals, anonymised, reviewed in weekly circle.
The Janus Mudra is a form of bilateral signalling that initiates a Janus Relay. The resulting opposed palm resonance facilitates Counterplane connection.
Janus Mudra · practice orientation
The People
Counterplane Awakening brings ceremony and method into the same practice. Sera Lorne creates the conditions for threshold work; Callum Rook turns private experience into a shared record.
Facilitator · Counterplane Awakening
Sera Lorne leads the founding Threshold Sittings and Equilibrium Void retreats. Her work combines bilateral attention with grounding, silence and a ceremonial structure designed to keep participants close to what they experienced, rather than what they hoped to find.
The Occlusion Field is not a wall. It is a condition of ordinary perception.
Lead · Bilateral Consciousness Project
Callum Rook leads the Bilateral Consciousness Project. A former systems engineer, he developed its practice-log methods for comparing recurrence, drift and contradiction across participant reports.
If the model is correct, the question is no longer whether the Counterplane exists – but which forms of cognition are still being occluded.
The Protocols
Each protocol is a documented method of approach – classified, staged and held to a status. Across the movement, people describe what follows as contact, connection, altered perception, spiritual experience or something unresolved.
Two participants hold bilateral attention in synchronised sittings, then independently log perceptual residue for later comparison and drift analysis.
Structured perception exercises oriented toward Counterplane-adjacent targets. Observers compare their accounts for consistency while differing over what the results mean.
Dome-projected paired-plane imagery used to induce and sustain bilateral attention under controlled, repeatable conditions.
Graded sensory deprivation lowering ordinary perceptual load. A preparatory state, not an endpoint – always supervised, always staged.
Longitudinal dream logging cross-indexed for recurring counter-horizon imagery and shared structural motifs across a cohort.
Facilitator-led overnight sittings held without compounds. Restricted to vetted cohorts; a sober observer remains present for the full vigil.
Half research, half ritual.
Counterplane Awakening keeps practice logs because memory drifts and groups exaggerate. Participants may regard recurring reports as evidential; the archive preserves them alongside dissent, expectation effects and failed sessions.
Testimony · Fragments
Participant logs and transcript excerpts, held loosely. The movement records what people perceived and how those accounts recur, diverge and change over time.
“I did not see a place. I felt the direction of another surface.”
“The second sky arrived as pressure, not image.”
“Ordinary perception is not neutral. It is trained by the Primary Plane.”
“We are not contacting a civilisation. We are learning whether the boundary has a phenomenology.”
“The instruments stopped at the boundary. My attention did not feel like it stopped.”
“For a moment there were two horizons and I was held between them.”
Bilateral Consciousness Project
The Bilateral Consciousness Project records participant reports and compares recurring patterns across bilateral attention practices. Its notes use Meridian's formal terminology, but belong to Counterplane Awakening; their findings remain disputed within the public record.
BCP Note 02
Working paper
Internal reviewFrames the central wager: that the failure of instruments at the boundary need not imply the failure of attention. Sets the terms the later trials are measured against.
Read the working paperBCP Field Memo
Field memo
ObservationalReports recurring convergence and divergence patterns between synchronised observers in the Paired Observer Protocol. Notes structure; declines to claim cause.
Read the field memoDream Map Index
Index
TestimonialA cross-indexed catalogue of repeated horizon-inversion motifs across the Dream Mapping Circle, with competing psychological, spiritual and unresolved readings attached.
Read the indexProtocol Review
Review
DisputedThe project's most contested argument – that the very inaccessibility Meridian documents is itself the phenomenon worth studying. Reviewed; disputed; retained.
Read the reviewField Gallery
A visual record of practice rooms, retreat grounds, informal walks and the quieter textures around the work. These images document the settings and social life of Counterplane practice.

counterplane-01 · retreat record
Open-air sitting in the hills. The practice moves between closed rooms and the more ordinary social life of a retreat.

counterplane-07 · practice room
Low light, ordinary clothing, a small group and no claims beyond what the room can hold.

counterplane-02 · participant record
Participants begin with posture and observation before attaching a story to the experience.

counterplane-04 · retreat grounds
The movement is also a social setting: walking, discussing, stopping for the ordinary world around the practice.

counterplane-05 · member walk
Retreat reports are less about revelation than the small conversations that follow a sitting.
Community Board
A moderated practice board for Counterplane Awakening members, retreat attendees, and independent Bilateral signalling practitioners.
Pinned orientation
Share practice notes. Ask careful questions. Begin with grounding. The Forum is for bilateral signalling, Janus Mudra alignment, opposed palm resonance, retreat reports, and the small strange things people notice when they sit with the field.




Beginner heat, pressure, tingling, doubt, expectation, first sittings.
Solar plexus hand position, upper/lower palm alignment, breath and posture.
The felt field between the palms: warmth, pulse, asymmetry, quiet pressure.
Dream logs, mirrored rooms, déjà vu, childhood returns, recurring hallways.
Notes from Ubud, Byron Bay, Castlemaine, Blue Mountains, online circles.
Paired journaling, synchronicities, coded coincidences, careful pattern work.
Grounding, aftercare, anxiety after practice, when to pause, how to come back.
Lay readings of Meridian language, useful misunderstandings, source links.
Contained discussion of the more radical faction, warnings, boundary notes.
snapshot · April to July
Mira Vale · forum steward · The Quiet Room
LarkMorning · First Signals
RowanInward · Janus Mudra Practice
JuniperGlass · Dreams & Mirror Memory
SaffronGate · Retreat Reports
Theo_Between · Meridian Papers Discussion
Mira Vale · Second Sky Watch
Nell_Occultation · Dreams & Mirror Memory
KestrelMay · Janus Mudra Practice
MiloNorth · First Signals
Nisha Corin · The Quiet Room
BramSignal · Counterplane Correspondence
Anika_Resonance · Opposed Palm Resonance
LucentMoth · First Signals
AdaLowLight · Retreat Reports
Mira Vale · Meridian Papers Discussion
“Janus Mudra is not a symbol you perform at the world. It is a way of holding the world at the solar plexus: Primary above, Counterplane below, the palms allowing opposed resonance without forcing contact.”
Tom Arden · practice moderator · excerpt from the June alignment thread
Beyond this room
One model, held by many hands. The Meridian Boundary Institute maintains its formal science and hosts the interactive model, where the paired planes can be seen whole. Counterplane Awakening carries those questions inward into consciousness and practice. Janus Earth holds the public record and wider conversation; Second Sky follows the model's stranger horizons. Each speaks in its own name, and all read from the same sky. Begin anywhere.
Correspondence · Field Desk
Practice observations, mirror memories, dissenting notes, and ordinary questions may be submitted for review. Selected fragments may enter the public record only in anonymised form.
Messages are reviewed privately. Nothing enters the public record without explicit permission and anonymisation.