Dorothy and the Wizard appears to be in the order of Transformation, Purple Orange Green Red Blue Yellow

Paragnosis is to understanding as understanding is to knowledge.

Dorothy and the Wizard appears to be in the order of Transformation, Purple Orange Green Red Blue Yellow

Paragnosis is to understanding as understanding is to knowledge.

Response of response becomes awareness.
Awareness of awareness becomes knowledge.
Knowledge of knowledge becomes understanding.
Understanding of understanding becomes paragnosis.
Paragnosis of paragnosis becomes paragnosis. It deepens, broadens and becomes more complex but remains paragnosis.

Of all entities, the oriental dragon is the epitome of paragnosis. Baum's dragons are an interesting blend of oriental and occidental. They are oldest and wisest but they also eat people and get away with it. Oriental dragons get punished for that sort of thing.

In the context of Yellow then, the following is a secondary sequence of Transformation.

Yellow / Clear - (paragnosis of transition) doors to rooms, for what? - parallels - new doors of perceptions. False starts.

Yellow / Purple - (paragnosis of void) on up the inclined tunnel - parallels - one path leads away and is quite difficult and unreconstructed. Growing up to have understanding receives the support of the social structure. Very few social structures support the transition from understanding to paragnosis.

Yellow / Orange - (paragnosis of response) rifts and cracks, zigs and zags - parallels - the path to paragnosis is not only difficult but it's not even a path. The path to paragnosis is the voidness of a void.

Yellow / Green - (paragnosis of awareness) lights all around, in pairs - parallels - virtual perception is on the inside, the dragonettes see by light of internal fire. The dragonettes are the beginning of paragnosis.

Yellow / Red - (paragnosis of conflict) invitation to be eaten by the dragonettes - parallels - to those with understanding, others with understanding are people. To the paragnostic, those with understanding but not paragnosis are less than full people though more than a talking animal. They are manipulable for their own good.

Yellow / Blue - (paragnosis of judgment) not a fair question - parallels - paragnosis is self consistent and not wicked at all from its own point of view. It is totally self judgmental, such that if it disapproves of itself, it does not exist. Understanding is judgment. Paragnosis is judgment of judgment. It cannot be anything but self consistent. Not necessarily nice, just self consistent.

Yellow Yellow - (paragnosis of limits / ends) the end of the road and an eventual wish out - parallels - there is nothing beyond paragnosis in the path of transformation. No exit. The only way out is to become a dragon. By digestion. Self annihilation. They will either come out of their final cave as dragons or they won't come out at all. The self that understands is not the self of the paragnostic. Annihilation of the understanding self seems remarkably like self annihilation to the understanding self.
And then something outside of self capability happens. Because the self is recursive in nature, it's as if there were a self beyond the self. A reflective counterpart. A guardian angel of sorts. A shift in view point takes place.