Dorothy... Dorothea...
What are you doing Merry?
Oh, hi Zie. "Dorothy, where are you?"
Who? Who are you looking for Merry? Who the hell's Dorothy?
Ah, there you are. Come on Zie. We're off.
Off? Where? What's going on?
Come on - I'll explain it all later.
Merry and Zie diappear through a fold in the fabric of space of time, vanishing from sight, leaving half a dozen casual observers head scratching... nonplussed. Still, strange things happen all the time, do they not, and the mind has the happy facility of ignoring, overlooking or conveniently forgetting anything that fails to make sense.
Where are we Merry? There shouldn't be a forest here... and certainly not one with trees like that.
Ah, welcome, dear Zie to the back-of-beyond.
But how did we get here? We've not gone anywhere.
True. 3 dimensionally we've gone nowhere at all, but that hasn't prevented us from crossing the vasts of space and time in the blink of an eye, thanks to the magiks of g-nomeportal.
? I thought that was just a website!
Thought - of course you thought, and what could have been more natural to think that while in your right mind, down in merry olde 3D, but here beyond zero point the facts have a habit of switching places with one another in order to conform with the magiks of Is, and thus the rules of physics no longer seem to apply. Think of it as a copy and paste exercise on your clunky computer, or zipping a file over the internet... Failing that - pretend it's all just a dream. Shouldn't be too hard, as we're much closer to what you'd think of as dreamland.
Dreamland? So this is really a dream?
In a manner of speaking yes, in another - no.
Then what?
Work it out for yourself. Investigate. Explore. Experiment. Discover. Learn. Reality will never be the same again - that I assure you.
But how?
How what?
How am I to investigate, explore, experiment, discover and learn?
However you like. You're free to do whatever you please. There really are no limits, bar your imagination and the law of Is.
Suddenly Zie has a kind of panic attack - like an acute sense of vertigo. Merry steps in, accompanied by a lady in a dark blue star spangled veil, and as suddenly as it came, the attack has passed - and the veiled lady vanished with it.
What was that? Where did it go?
Acclimatisation. You're still finding your feet. You'll be fine shortly. If it happens again just sit down on the ground and feel the Earth under-butt, or you could even roll over onto your belly and try wriggling and writhing like a worm. That'll definitely put you right in a matter of seconds.
Er... Ok. If you say so - but are you planning to leave me?
No, not today - but you'll be coming here on your own, now that you know how.
I will?
Yes, of course. Dorothea has seen to that.
She has? Er... who is she?
She's... actually, I'm embarrassed to say I don't really know.
You don't know?
No. Nobody does. Dorothea is Dorothy, or mathematically dot3... But does it really matter who she is? The main thing is you've now met her and if you call she'll come and help you cross the quantum stream.
You mean she's a kind of ferryman?
No Zie. I mean she is she. Why insist on trying to make her into something comprehensible. She's not a number to reduce to the lowest common denominator. She's mysterious and magical. She is mistress of all that lies beyond zero point. She is gatekeeper and guide, confidant and companion, if one you need, midwife of the quantum stream.
Oh. Then she's er... good, is she?
Good?
She's not er... evil or demonic?
Oh, that's what you mean! Merry erupts into tinkling laughter, which rings like a bell all around the chamber Merry and Zie now find themselves in.
Did I say something funny? Zie asks, somewhat awkwardly.
Oh, my apologies Zie. Nothing personal, you know - just the idea of Dorothy being demonic... and again Merry erupts in gay laughter.
A moment later Merry grows calm and strangely serious - almost absurdly so - causing Zie to giggle, somewhat nervously.
No, Zie. Here in Other, the great Beyond, there really is no good or bad dichotomy. To pass through the eye of the needle, the zero point, all that dualistic stuff needs must be left behind.
So only enlightened people can get through?
Oh no - we're not all saints or enlightened masters - we may have unresolved duality back in 3D but that's where we work through our personal issues, whereas here we have other business in hand.
You do? Like what?
That, dear Zie, is what you're here to learn. You've already had a few clues, but...
What?
It's really whatever you make of it. Bear in mind that beyond zero is the other side of 3D, so whatever you do here has an impact on what's happening, going to happen or has already happened in your life back there.
You mean I can even alter my past?
As I said - it's an equation - or a kind of geometration.
Not good Merry - you know how I feel about maths.
That's no problem. Look Zie, it was really my job just to make sure you got here safely. What you actually do with it's your own business, so, er... Zie adjusts his demeanour to one of great gravitas and solemnly proceeds: Welcome to Other...
Other?
or Story...
Story?
Dreamland...
How many names do you have for the place?
As many as there are places, you see, Zie, the difference between the back-of-beyond and 3D is that...
What?
Wait a moment - I'm trying to show you.
Dorothea appears alongside Merry and the two of them lead Zie through a number of different settings, positions, modalities, phases - each of which seems to stimulate or relate to a different part of his body, until he's left tingling all over... and completely bemused. His mind has, as it were, been turned completely inside out. It now feels as if the universe is inside and his reality is on different branches of the tree he's dimly aware of being.
Worlds within worlds - Zie is heard muttering to himself - a vacant, almost imbecilic expression on his face.
Worlds within worlds - he repeats.
That's right! - Merry echoes cheerfully, completely undisconcerted by Zie's obvious circumlocational mind of state... Worlds within worlds - or vice versa if you turn the objective around.
Oh? Zie snaps back, unexpectedly. I can do that?
Yes, of course. Whyever not?
I don't know... I never thought of it.
Beyond-Zero has no fixed reference point - it is I am. Remember?
Oh yes. It is I am. But what was that I've-no-idea-what all about Merry a moment ago? A kind of initiation?
Yes, you might say so. A kind of birth. You've now connected back into your dot dot dot not-what.
My what?
You know that no word can meaningfully describe what you've just experienced. In a sense it was rediscovering your body here in Other, or likewise I could turn that around and say that Other has reconnected with your youness. The relationship between the two is fluid and interchangeable to say the least.
Oh God... how am I meant to find my way through all this beyond sense and reason.
Story has a way of growing you into place - like a tree. The sense of what is and who I be unfolds as you make your way through Story. Bon voyage, dear Zie. May the Force be with you.
The Force?
Yes, the Force.
Oh - I thought that was a symbol of good as opposed to evil.
Thought, you thought, and well you might - but give yourself time and space to join the dots - and I assure you the gates of reason will fly of their hinges and turn into the white flapping wings of wonder and i-magination. In the meantime, I entrust you to Dorothea.
Zie and Merry are joined by Dorothy once again. Now she is as big as the sky and takes them up in her star spangled veil, lifting, transporting them through the allness of Is, until Zie is reconstituted, reborn in 3D with a somewhat shattered sense of continuity.
Ah - there you are Merry... he says, evidently unaware of all that has just passed. I thought you wanted to do some 4D training with me...
As I do, as I do. Now lean back and allow yourself to float into an Other.
An unexpected nudge from Merry and Zie is falling backwards, backwards, backwards - but somehow fails to connect with the ground...
What are you doing Merry?
Oh, hi Zie. "Dorothy, where are you?"
Who? Who are you looking for Merry? Who the hell's Dorothy?
Ah, there you are. Come on Zie. We're off.
Off? Where? What's going on?
Come on - I'll explain it all later.
Merry and Zie diappear through a fold in the fabric of space of time, vanishing from sight, leaving half a dozen casual observers head scratching... nonplussed. Still, strange things happen all the time, do they not, and the mind has the happy facility of ignoring, overlooking or conveniently forgetting anything that fails to make sense.
Where are we Merry? There shouldn't be a forest here... and certainly not one with trees like that.
Ah, welcome, dear Zie to the back-of-beyond.
But how did we get here? We've not gone anywhere.
True. 3 dimensionally we've gone nowhere at all, but that hasn't prevented us from crossing the vasts of space and time in the blink of an eye, thanks to the magiks of g-nomeportal.
? I thought that was just a website!
Thought - of course you thought, and what could have been more natural to think that while in your right mind, down in merry olde 3D, but here beyond zero point the facts have a habit of switching places with one another in order to conform with the magiks of Is, and thus the rules of physics no longer seem to apply. Think of it as a copy and paste exercise on your clunky computer, or zipping a file over the internet... Failing that - pretend it's all just a dream. Shouldn't be too hard, as we're much closer to what you'd think of as dreamland.
Dreamland? So this is really a dream?
In a manner of speaking yes, in another - no.
Then what?
Work it out for yourself. Investigate. Explore. Experiment. Discover. Learn. Reality will never be the same again - that I assure you.
But how?
How what?
How am I to investigate, explore, experiment, discover and learn?
However you like. You're free to do whatever you please. There really are no limits, bar your imagination and the law of Is.
Suddenly Zie has a kind of panic attack - like an acute sense of vertigo. Merry steps in, accompanied by a lady in a dark blue star spangled veil, and as suddenly as it came, the attack has passed - and the veiled lady vanished with it.
What was that? Where did it go?
Acclimatisation. You're still finding your feet. You'll be fine shortly. If it happens again just sit down on the ground and feel the Earth under-butt, or you could even roll over onto your belly and try wriggling and writhing like a worm. That'll definitely put you right in a matter of seconds.
Er... Ok. If you say so - but are you planning to leave me?
No, not today - but you'll be coming here on your own, now that you know how.
I will?
Yes, of course. Dorothea has seen to that.
She has? Er... who is she?
She's... actually, I'm embarrassed to say I don't really know.
You don't know?
No. Nobody does. Dorothea is Dorothy, or mathematically dot3... But does it really matter who she is? The main thing is you've now met her and if you call she'll come and help you cross the quantum stream.
You mean she's a kind of ferryman?
No Zie. I mean she is she. Why insist on trying to make her into something comprehensible. She's not a number to reduce to the lowest common denominator. She's mysterious and magical. She is mistress of all that lies beyond zero point. She is gatekeeper and guide, confidant and companion, if one you need, midwife of the quantum stream.
Oh. Then she's er... good, is she?
Good?
She's not er... evil or demonic?
Oh, that's what you mean! Merry erupts into tinkling laughter, which rings like a bell all around the chamber Merry and Zie now find themselves in.
Did I say something funny? Zie asks, somewhat awkwardly.
Oh, my apologies Zie. Nothing personal, you know - just the idea of Dorothy being demonic... and again Merry erupts in gay laughter.
A moment later Merry grows calm and strangely serious - almost absurdly so - causing Zie to giggle, somewhat nervously.
No, Zie. Here in Other, the great Beyond, there really is no good or bad dichotomy. To pass through the eye of the needle, the zero point, all that dualistic stuff needs must be left behind.
So only enlightened people can get through?
Oh no - we're not all saints or enlightened masters - we may have unresolved duality back in 3D but that's where we work through our personal issues, whereas here we have other business in hand.
You do? Like what?
That, dear Zie, is what you're here to learn. You've already had a few clues, but...
What?
It's really whatever you make of it. Bear in mind that beyond zero is the other side of 3D, so whatever you do here has an impact on what's happening, going to happen or has already happened in your life back there.
You mean I can even alter my past?
As I said - it's an equation - or a kind of geometration.
Not good Merry - you know how I feel about maths.
That's no problem. Look Zie, it was really my job just to make sure you got here safely. What you actually do with it's your own business, so, er... Zie adjusts his demeanour to one of great gravitas and solemnly proceeds: Welcome to Other...
Other?
or Story...
Story?
Dreamland...
How many names do you have for the place?
As many as there are places, you see, Zie, the difference between the back-of-beyond and 3D is that...
What?
Wait a moment - I'm trying to show you.
Dorothea appears alongside Merry and the two of them lead Zie through a number of different settings, positions, modalities, phases - each of which seems to stimulate or relate to a different part of his body, until he's left tingling all over... and completely bemused. His mind has, as it were, been turned completely inside out. It now feels as if the universe is inside and his reality is on different branches of the tree he's dimly aware of being.
Worlds within worlds - Zie is heard muttering to himself - a vacant, almost imbecilic expression on his face.
Worlds within worlds - he repeats.
That's right! - Merry echoes cheerfully, completely undisconcerted by Zie's obvious circumlocational mind of state... Worlds within worlds - or vice versa if you turn the objective around.
Oh? Zie snaps back, unexpectedly. I can do that?
Yes, of course. Whyever not?
I don't know... I never thought of it.
Beyond-Zero has no fixed reference point - it is I am. Remember?
Oh yes. It is I am. But what was that I've-no-idea-what all about Merry a moment ago? A kind of initiation?
Yes, you might say so. A kind of birth. You've now connected back into your dot dot dot not-what.
My what?
You know that no word can meaningfully describe what you've just experienced. In a sense it was rediscovering your body here in Other, or likewise I could turn that around and say that Other has reconnected with your youness. The relationship between the two is fluid and interchangeable to say the least.
Oh God... how am I meant to find my way through all this beyond sense and reason.
Story has a way of growing you into place - like a tree. The sense of what is and who I be unfolds as you make your way through Story. Bon voyage, dear Zie. May the Force be with you.
The Force?
Yes, the Force.
Oh - I thought that was a symbol of good as opposed to evil.
Thought, you thought, and well you might - but give yourself time and space to join the dots - and I assure you the gates of reason will fly of their hinges and turn into the white flapping wings of wonder and i-magination. In the meantime, I entrust you to Dorothea.
Zie and Merry are joined by Dorothy once again. Now she is as big as the sky and takes them up in her star spangled veil, lifting, transporting them through the allness of Is, until Zie is reconstituted, reborn in 3D with a somewhat shattered sense of continuity.
Ah - there you are Merry... he says, evidently unaware of all that has just passed. I thought you wanted to do some 4D training with me...
As I do, as I do. Now lean back and allow yourself to float into an Other.
An unexpected nudge from Merry and Zie is falling backwards, backwards, backwards - but somehow fails to connect with the ground...
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