The Arena is a crucible, in which only reality, can survive. Asher insists that there is also that which is beyond, that which either does not have “reality” as we mean it and that which is beyond rational perception. The Arena merely concerns that which both exists as we exist, historically and in motion in time, and is subject to perception by reason – those things about the universe, the created order, which may be rationally known. But the false, the artificial, and the made-up cannot survive the crucible, since they strive to share nature with something that exists and is subject to perception.

The Arena isn’t all reality. It is a type of reality. A subset of that with which humans can rationally interact of their own volition. In the Arena, what is at stake is the rational universe – the logoverse, if you will. A falsehood, whether it be a false term, or a false premise, or any other such thing is genocidal to that universe and everything within it. It is a negation of what is, an unmaking of that which is made.

The Arena is limited. By virtue of being an architectural construct, composed of rules, is limited in space and time. There is that which is beyond reason, that which can be called super-reality, which can neither be named, nor described, nor categorized or conveyed, nor otherwise discussed. There is that which neither exists as we exists, nor is real as we are real, but nonetheless sustains and upholds us. The Arena does not concern what we might term, artificially, “Super-Reality”. The means of perceiving that is different. Asher believes that at the end of Reality, at the end of duels, it is possible to stand very still, surrounded by stars, looking up at what is beyond dialectic, at what is beyond The Arena.

Asher also says “The Arena is sanity.” and assures us he plans to write more on it later.