By the phrase “Platonic surrealism,” Kevin means to theorize what I would call a fantastic idealism, a vision about the fundamental nature of Mind exteriorizing itself in and as physical reality, often—particularly in autistic states—in a surreal or sci-fi way. For Kevin, all patterns preexist in the “Cosmic Imaginal” and bubble up into new life as a result of both Darwinian and non-Darwinian interactions. That is simply what is.
