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Deeper Mysteries - Overview<br />

42<br />

You Can Meet Things that Look and Act Like People<br />

You Know On Lower Levels.<br />

Chessboard One looks, physically, just like Chessboard Zero (reality).<br />

So what’s different? Is it deserted? No. People cast Shadows down from<br />

Chessboard Zero. You do. I do. Yeah, really. Those people you “meet”<br />

are really the Shadows of people on Chessboard Zero.<br />

Your Shadow Acts Like A Crazy Version of You.<br />

Well, more like a caricature. If you walk into your favorite pub on<br />

Chessboard One you’ll see all your friends there—but it isn’t really<br />

them—it’s their Shadows. And if you don’t know what’s going on, you’ll<br />

think they’ve all gone mad.<br />

When You Are Undergoing Descent You Cast A<br />

’Reflection’ Back Up To Chessboard Zero.<br />

When you have an Episode you don’t just vanish. It’d be kind of nice<br />

if you did—‘cause then psychiatrists and doctors and scientists would<br />

believe something was really happen.<br />

No, you get replaced by your Shadow (now called a “Reflection” ‘cause<br />

it’s going up from below to Chessboard Zero. Your Reflection acts kinda<br />

like you (but, you know, a bit loopy and maybe deranged) and it kinda<br />

tries to mimic you as you do things on the lower levels of reality.<br />

So when you walk into that bar on Chessboard One,while you’re having

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