If indeed awareness, with rare and unique exception, is vibrant and continuous, as only we can imagine it must be, then the surface is the only thing able to support such a requirement.

At this point, I am asking you to make a connection and a departure, a departure from the vague theological comprehension of the Almighty, a departure from Eastern mysticism, a departure from the "New Age" spiritualism, and a bunch of other stuff which explains nothing, and a connection to good sense, without institutional encumbrances and mythology, along with all that other insupportable and virtually meaningless gobbligook.

The epicenter of all this is you.  How you view yourself.  Are you just flesh and bone, atoms and molecules, and biological thought, or are you something more?

How do you equate yourself to dreams, visions and feelings.  Are they generated within you, or do they sometimes come from deep or from afar?

Who or what would you believe about yourself, if only you can know those experiences only you can know?  What teacher would you ask, and what guru would you follow?  And thus you have come to your ultimate test, yourself.

No one can tell you what you are, your purpose, your destiny, or how you might fit in.  There is no blueprint for this.  As a biological animal, which you are, you have emerged accidentally from an accidental world, and have been molded by incidence, on most count.  As their is no blueprint, there are exceptions even to this.  But what you are not, is not like me, and I know what I am!  Let me tell you, then you might understand what is the Functional Domain.

More than anything else, I know that I am speeding through the Random Field at an incredible 200-300 km per second.  Sometimes, when a brief feeling enters my consciousness, when I become cognitive to it, I know that I have passed through a region of the Cosmos, where and when the vibrations of the surfaces are in a collective or singular harmony corresponding to this feeling.  If it were in my power to seek out this feeling by diverting my direction, it would be the purpose of my desire, hence my will to go forth.  But I cannot, because I must stay with the earth.  This is my bondage to the Inertial Domain.  But all are not of this bondage.  There are of course aliens, who may travel with their spaceships.  But they too are confined to the Inertial Domain.

There are spirits residing in hollows, cellars and cool dark places.  But they too travel with the earth.  There are lessor gods, such as Pele, King Neptune, Terra, the Gods of the Mists, the Wind Gods, and the Sun God, who are also confined in travel, none having this freedom of will.  Perhaps that is why they are sometimes perceived, or known to be, intolerant, tempestuous and angry.

On the other hand, demons and angels are unbounded, but of course not everywhere at once.  They may move freely, not only through the Cosmos, but through the awareness' residing in the Cosmos, such as you and I.  Perhaps by now, you are getting glimpse of what the Functional Domain is.  The Functional Domain is a three-dimensional place whose presence and behavior is wholly dependent by those elements delineated by the Fundamental Domain, where without, the Functional Domain could not otherwise exist (inclusive all of its personalities, such as the gods).

The Functional Domain is no more or less different than music traveling through a copper wire, or any conduit, such as a nerve, from one transducer such as a record player or microphone, to another, such as a speaker.  It is a domain of activity, meaningful or otherwise.  It is not existence in itself, such as Being in the Fundamental Domain, nor is it simple motion and interaction such as between surfaces, but it is rather activity (of surfaces) which can assume cognition to awareness', where without such activity, the potential for awareness remains dormant.

For example, a pure awareness asleep, will not waken without priorii.  Since awareness is a wake state;  asleep, it does not exist.  If it hears music, via the copper wire, it comes into existence.  Of course in this example, I can only imagine that you are imagining a human asleep, who is awoken by the radio, and I can only imagine that you consider this person's awareness to find its epicenter inside their physiological boundaries, such as their brain.  If though, you imagine this awareness to be inside the copper wire leading to the speakers, you have well defined the intrinsic aspect of the Functional Domain.  Extending this domain beyond the copper wire, without yourself as principal example, spatially outward to the extent that our Milky Way Galaxy is framed by it, and you have percieved, in principal aspect, Lord Jehovah, creator of the Milky Way Galaxy, or what Carl Yung might refer to as a cosmic consciousness.

Understanding this simple notion about the Functional Domain belays not only the meaning of its name in the clarification that it is not principally based upon existence or supreme fundamentally, but merely the dynamics of its activity, which at times proves functional, though not purposely so, and that it is the ascendant residence of dreams and will.  As such, when your awareness transcends and leaves the Inertial Domain and goes into the Functional Domain, though as real as real can be, it is in comparison to the innate restrictions and limitations imposed upon our awareness' by the Inertial Domain, which we are all most familiar, dangerously unlimited and surreal.

So, the next time someone asks you if dreams are at all real, ask them if they might think being in jail is real, after they have been released and it becomes only a memory.

For you to better understand these things, follow and understand the teachings of Buddha, who can only remind us repeatedly, that all we experience, see, hear, smell, touch and know, happens not outside ourselves, but within.  When you read this on your monitor, though these words in phosphor occur upon this flat surface a foot or more away from you, its appreciation by your awareness is geometrically unbounded and indeterminate, but all happening now, and is little different than a dream, a thought, a feeling, or a vision.

Also understand that your vibrations extending within and without, are no more or less than any energy form, even though not clinically measurable, nor particularly spatially bounded, do occur in the NOW, just like the apple Sir Isaac Newton saw fall from an apple tree in his NOW, and are therefor unquestionably real and dynamic.

I have now put you in touch with the third domain, envisioned and defined by the philosopher Plato, yet not fully understood by Western culture, not just as a condition or place, but as an active and verdant field of will, closely corresponding the the Cosmic Consciousness defined by Carl Jung, it is yours to pursue more than ever before.  You have a great task before you, oh savage, creature of the wilderness, child of the heavens.

A word of advice.  Always seek beauty around and within you, for in doing, other creatures both large and small, will find you, and this you will discover in them.  In other words, as anger begets anger, hate begets hate, beauty begets beauty, and it is your choice of which of these many possibilities you wish to prevail around you and nurture your destiny, and travel with you along your infinite path through the Cosmos.