the looking glass

by Monsieur Seymore Planettes

In 1994, one of the walk-ins at Starbilderss brought through a technology of consciousness that he called The Looking Glass. You activate this technology by using a simple verbal sequence or code. When you "do the code," you "walk through the looking glass" into a parallel world. This sounds like the idea behind the TV program "Sliders" (first aired in March 1995) and I don't expect you to believe it. But here's the story anyway.

My partner and I were the first to use this tool. At first, we were skeptical — who wouldn't be. Nonetheless, we flipped the switch. We landed in a parallel earth that, not surprisingly, looked a lot like the one we just left. Frankly, it looked exactly the same. There was, however, one difference. It felt completely different; the psychological texture had radically changed. We soon jumped again to another reality, and over time, were jumping often from world to world. Each time the energy was different. In one world, the keyword was sensual. In another, we felt primitive. Still others were so negative that we couldn't wait to leave.

We tried to explain these feelings within a purely psychological context. Yet, that model wasn't big enough. The changes we experienced were much too comprehensive for it to be our imagination. (Unless, of course, we were delusional, which from a third-dimensional perspective, we were.)

What puzzled us was why everything looked the same. The obvious reason was that we didn't go anywhere; we were playing hallucination duets on our brain bongos. However, pretend that we did jump. Plato said that when you're born, all pre-birth memories are erased. In our case, when we jumped, we were "born" into the bodies of fully grown people. Their memories were already in place, and we inherited them. Leaping, though, didn't purge *everything*. How else could we have known that something was different, unless we had another frame of reference to compare it to?