draw to the point where you know functioning at optimal level to be the state desired for a successful synthesis. and the resultant influx of data from your movements through the brine - which you preceive as salts and acids in a chemistry lab beaker under the watchful eye of the seeker after truth, without bothering to define what truth is, believing as he does in such a question posed by his unbelief to hold and to secrete the essence of the journey - and the resultant influx from your movements through the acid lets you see through the acid and into the shrine.