The Other Side, Tuesday 8th March, 2005, around noon:-

McKay who, after only three days has developed a measure of expertise in the manipulation of his opium dreams, has discovered that it is not only the bed which is under his control: on the contrary, the whole dream is at his command. This is the total-immersion virtual world that computer scientists hope to achieve in maybe fifty years time; opium smokers have been visiting it for thousands. His new and favorite trick is to expand until the bed is a structure of stardust and he is as big as the universe.

Today, unaware of Lalita’s strange arrangements, McKay has once again expanded his astral body until he is almost perfectly absorbed by the great, luminous Inner Kingdom. Then something odd starts to happen. A door which stretches from Saturn to Andromeda appears in the sky with the words “Other Side” hanging on a sign above it. McKay notices millions upon millions of people entering this doorway and cannot resist following them.

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