There’s an old saying in radio circles: you can’t hear a weak signal if the noise floor is too high. For the Hidden Guild, this isn’t just a matter of electronics—it’s a map of human cognition in the age of mental overcrowding.
In the analog days of shortwave and ham radio, seasoned operators knew that certain bands behaved differently depending on time of day, solar flux, antenna quality, and—most critically—the sensitivity of their receivers. A low-noise receiver could dig out weak whispers from across the globe, while a noisy one might miss everything but local chatter. And so it is with human minds in the modern world.
The Mind as a Receiver
Every person is, in essence, a kind of cognitive radio. Each brain, each consciousness, is tuned to a specific domain or set of domains. Some are more sensitive than others, some more tuned for depth, some for immediacy. But all are bound by one fundamental truth: signal clarity depends on the local noise floor.
Most people, surrounded by the constant psychic hum of urban life—advertising, screens, to-do lists, and social pressure—retreat into a single dominant domain. It’s their comfort zone, the cognitive equivalent of the 75-meter band around 3.8 MHz—where even a simple single-conversion receiver with -130 dBm sensitivity is good enough. The signals there are strong and local. Easy to decode. Not much effort required.
But those who seek to stride beyond that—who aim to walk between domains—face a different challenge. As they reach into higher, subtler bands of awareness (the equivalent of 20 meters, or 14 MHz, trying to pick up marginal DX from across the world), the noise floor becomes their greatest adversary. The average mind, like an average receiver, is not built to pick up that kind of faint signal. But the exceptional ones—like a Collins 75S-3B, sensitive to -146 dBm—can do it. That’s where the real magic happens.
Escaping the Noise
This is why, in 2003, we left the city. The noise floor wasn’t metaphorical—it was palpable. It pressed in on the soul, muting our ability to hear that deeper signal, that inner essence that only comes through in the quiet.
We didn’t just seek solitude. We sought lower noise. We sought clarity. And in doing so, we began to recover something nearly lost in the modern mind: the ability to hear, truly hear, across domains.
Over twenty years of living apart—deliberately lowering our cognitive and emotional noise floor—has yielded a different kind of awareness. A sensitivity to weak but meaningful signals. The capacity to think clearly. And most importantly, the ability to detect and reside within multiple domains at once. This is where true domain-walking begins—not just shifting attention, but becoming a transceiver across mental geographies.
The Psychosocial Roll-Off
But it’s not easy. As one expands domain access—striding not between two or three, but dozens—another force asserts itself: the psychosocial roll-off. The more domains one attempts to access, the more likely it is that systemic noise from culture, media, peer pressure, and emotional echo chambers will begin to interfere. Like the Gaussian edges of a bell curve, those rare, high-bandwidth minds get clipped by the limitations of the environment around them.
This is why the Guild exists.
Not to give answers. But to hold space. To be a quiet zone where the sensitive, the striders, the domain-walkers, and the signal-seekers can find resonance.
Living Apart, Listening Within
In retrospect, the decision to leave the city was a form of early Guild thinking. We just didn’t have a name for it yet. We were building a life that reduced internal noise so that the weak signals—the truths, the patterns, the glimpses of what lies beyond ordinary cognition—could finally come through.
You don’t need to be a Collins receiver to start. But as the psychosocial spectrum grows more saturated, as the Signal-to-Noise ratio of modern life worsens, there is wisdom in training yourself to listen deeply. To cultivate silence. To upgrade the internal receiver.
And What Is “The Hill”? Origination research credits Ky Dickens’ podcast with exploration of this new domain.
You’ll hear references in Guild discussions to something she desribes – arising in her research – called “The Hill.” This is not a place on any map. Rather, it’s a recurring vision among limited humans, but a kind of reailty gathering sport for non domain-bound non-speakers — where these highly sensitive individuals— enoy a kind of mental or telepathic gathering ground.
In their descriptions, it’s a serene space, often on a literal hilltop, a top of pile above noise, where beings or minds gather not with words, but with shared awareness. A place where the signal is pure, where intention communicates directly, and where presence is enough. They teach, share, consider – to planetarr benefit.
Whether this is a symbolic construct of the collective unconscious, or a reducible reality domain accessed by minds freed from the tyranny of noise, remains an open question. But it shows up independently across hundreds of individuals who have no contact with one another. That’s worth noting.
We include it here as a kind of waypoint for the journey. A place to orient toward. Maybe it’s something real, maybe it’s a metaphor, or maybe it’s both. What matters is that it keeps appearing, quietly, across the minds of those listening deeply.
In similar fashion, our work in Dreams and leading to map those domains, is also critically important. Because once you understand how waking consciousness can be siloed, then increase non-verbal (telepathic) and “knowing at a distance in waking”, and have experienced the soul-level impact of “future-knowning” and you’re ego is thus checked, then the real work begins.
Until Death – where we each go on to a new sequence of domains. Heaven, hell, or the new realities reported by many Near Death Exerpiencers.
In each case, the critical variable comes down to signal strength and being able to recognize meaning deep in the noise. “Can’t hear myself think” in the desperate scurry of sprawling urban psychocartography; unable to “make the phone ring” with a long-lost friend by simply holding the thought, or blocking your memory access to Dream Realms in order to shelter a frightened ego from rising to a bigger-than-life challenge…
Signal, Noise, and Domain-Walking: A Quick Guide for the Newly Tuned
Signal: Any meaningful pattern or insight that arises from beyond the default thought stream. In the Guild context, this can be intuitive data, inter-domain resonance, or quiet awareness that carries weight and clarity.
Noise: The clutter—mental, emotional, social, informational—that interferes with one’s ability to perceive signal. This includes overstimulation, media saturation, internal doubt, and the general chaos of modern environments.
Domain: A cognitive or perceptual state with its own rules, logic, and sensory framework. Most people operate primarily in one domain (rational waking life), but there are many: dreamspace, mythic symbolic thinking, intuitive processing, meditative quiet, etc.
Domain-Walking: The conscious shifting between two or more cognitive domains. In early stages, this might be lucid dreaming or deep meditative insight. With practice, it becomes an ability to operate across and between multiple modes of perception simultaneously.
Psychosocial Roll-Off: The effect of systemic cultural or environmental noise pushing individuals back toward a narrower band of cognitive operation. It’s why sensitive thinkers may feel dulled or muffled in certain spaces.
The Hill: A symbol (or real domain) frequently accessed by non-speaking children and sensitive individuals, described as a telepathic gathering place beyond words. Possibly a field resonance structure shared across awakened minds.
We call this section of the Guild’s work the Orientation because it’s not a doctrine. It’s direction.
This may explain why meditation may be so effective: learning to enjoy the absence of noise, realizing from there are more important signals in our lives, can be a life expanding experience.
It comes faintly at first, but with rising clarity as the inner You learns to “tune in.”
Keep listening and tuning with your heart.
~The Anti-Dave
April 2025 Hidden Guild