The previously mentioned pathways lie await, like moss-encrusted circuitous footpaths leading into a dense forest where uncertainty looms but untold treasure awaits. By analogy, an autonomous learner may stray from a pathway at initial departure to become subsumed into dense fog. Then, opting to explore an ulterior route, the learner, guided by a newfound self-determined and private raison d’etre, embarks on a more personal journey into unchartered territory, ‘clipping the map’ as it were, cave diving hyper-reality, and alighting on a new map (when it was understood at the outset that the map is not the territory). Crossing the hidden threshold beyond a given domain (as an enclosed experience) the learner stumbles upon a clearing in the forest and, at the edge of dawn, awakens to a large cluster of perennial berries, an incredible medley of ruby and jasper and sapphire, glossy gems glistening amid the underbrush. Admiring the spectacle, she crouches beside the berries and feasts on the plump flesh, savouring one after another while relaxing in the dappled morning sunlight. Refreshed and sated, she lays down to rest. Falling into slumber the remains of the fruits are nestled in the humic soil where, in seasons to come, their seeds would sprout, run wild and proliferate. Sleeping quietly, and dreaming away, a garden is laid.