There are models for extending your field of understanding, say to add some new heterogeneous view to an already developed system of views and then to allow the consequences to propagate through prior beliefs as far as its credibility will carry it, following the logic already present in the system. But then there are the kinds of new understanding that are only roughly conceivable of the original basis, the attaining of which requires not only new contents but substantial modifications to the structure of the targeted systems and which are meant to modify the self-structure at the core of those systems. This is the paradigm of 'consciousness-raising', one in which all rules of credibility weighing are suspended. More radical still would be the engineering of new attitudes that extend to the transcendental grounds of the self-system, such as would seem to be called for by utopian revolutionary changes. There is no hierarchy among these models, but that of being driven by an ever keener sense of deficiency. None of these shed any light on awakening except to show how far a distorted image of its ideal pervades our anthropo-ornitho-tho-tho-logies. And more of the same, squeezed from the same tube.