In this, the first of two issues, Mr. Gold talks about his early experiments with mazes and his subsequent work within the `Great Maze' or `Labyrinth'. He details the problems involved with getting someone to experiment with maze travel in the first place, to recognize that they are in a maze at all, or to remember where they had been. He introduces the concepts of maze brightness and maze innocence, talks about the hallucinations of the ordinary that occur while in the maze, and explains the necessity of `unlearning' in order to see what is actually occurring rather than to see only that which one has been trained to see.