The Shape of Knowing

Name: The Shape of Knowing
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ISBN: 9781949214956

Explorations in the Landscape of Meaning

Elly Flippen

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Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC
23 March 2026

Self-help & personal development; Popular psychology; Memory improvement & thinking techniques; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

Series: You Know More Than You Think

You Know More Than You Think is a five-book experiential series exploring perceptual literacy:

how awareness forms, stabilizes, differentiates, navigates, and ultimately encounters the larger forces shaping reality.

Sometimes something feels wrong... before you know why.

Sometimes something feels right... before there are reasons.

In The Shape of Knowing, Book Three of the You Know More Than You Think series, Elly Flippen turns toward one of the most essential dimensions of perceptual development: how meaning takes shape, and where distortion enters.

If What's Already There focused on noticing, and Where You Sit on stabilizing perception, this book explores how perception becomes understanding.

Perception rarely arrives fully formed. It moves through layers of internal organization before becoming a thought, image, or conclusion. Along the way, memory, emotion, expectation, culture, and personal history shape what reaches awareness.

Through grounded explorations, you encounter:

the deeper structure through which perception becomes meaning five perceptual reference frames: personal, relational, environmental, collective, and symbolic three primary pathways of perception: literal, inferential, and symbolic how symbolic cognition organizes complex information how emotional charge, memory, and assumption distort clarity why confusion often arises when perceptual pathways become mixed

Something can feel off without being catastrophic.

Something can feel right without needing to be inflated.

This book invites you to discover the difference.

By: Elly Flippen
Imprint: Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9781949214956
ISBN 10: 1949214958
Series: You Know More Than You Think
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 23 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elly Flippen is an author and researcher exploring human perception, awareness, and how experience forms in real time. Her work spans experiential, conceptual, and narrative forms, focusing on perceptual literacy-how noticing, meaning, and interpretation take shape before conscious thought. She grew up in close proximity to her uncle, artist and remote viewing pioneer Ingo Swann, where she was immersed in his creative work, perceptual research, and the wider community around it. That experience gave her a first-hand view of how perception operates at the edges of what is usually noticed.