‘Albeit tangential’ — Albigensian?

Yes, these are the people, who admonished, ‘You are living in the land of Topsy Turvy; Everything is the opposite of what it purports to be!’, and throughout history they, and their ideas have been systematically expunged, often in the most brutal fashion. Take a look at the crusade and inquisition against the Cathars.

If that which is ‘above’ turns out to be facsimile then our lot becomes ‘facsimile of facsimile’

and the labyrinthine metaphor really takes on power. There is a way through, but in the land of ‘the upside down’ it might well be that a certain counter intuitiveness coupled with a contrary nature is a real boon.