The Layered Effect


from the ABC set Crow Black

The angels said many things to him now. Death, which, in fact, was much like life, simply had different rules. Apparently, there was not one parallel universe, but millions of them. An angel had told him. And then there was the fact of death. Some lives seemed to acknowledge it, in other worlds the person lived on. And as to himself, what did he feel. Well apparently, he had died ten years ago. There would be in the world he left behind, a gravestone. Yet in his new world there was a seamless transition to a new job, a new area, a new way of being. His relations too, they were all part of this multi-layering in this ridiculously complex mind of the Divine. His grandfather had died before he was born, and yet in his grandson's world, he lived to see him go to college, get his first car, his first job. His grandfather had not been denied a grandson. So, with all these layers of reality, a fact of non-reality could be established. Did any of these worlds collide, cross-over ?. Only when it was completely viable, of course. Super complex networks like this transcend anything you can imagine, and yet are just another fact of life, or death, or resurrection. What a tangled web we weave, when we practise to deceive. Endless possibilities become real, as we morph from one level to another, one world to a brilliant prismatic heaven of another !.

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Comments

mjos28 | February 19, 2009 - 20:04

An interesting concept, though it doesn't carry us much further than speculation. It's the kind of idea that Doris Lessing develops in "Shikasta".

hilary west | February 20, 2009 - 18:53

Thanks for the info. I'll try to get a copy.