Opening Statement

Our minds are ancient and depthless lakes. Our consciousness is no more than our own frail selves bobbing on each surface, safe in the life-boat of the consensus. All around us, beneath us, ripple the black waters of mystery. Initiation means diving deep, choosing to jump overboard or being thrown out by fate, sucking air into the lungs and cleaving bare skin through the icy and alien waters of our own being.

There is no going back -- the life-boat is far above, nothing but a tiny wafer now in the vast luminosity slowly dimming, leaving us suspended, alone in the black abysses of soul. There is no going back, only deeper and deeper, down and through, for there are tunnels in these waters, subterranean byways carved through the bones of the earth, linking lake to lake, lake to ocean...

And down here, whenever you feel the sudden tug of an unknown current, as if some great unseen form were passing you by, remember: we are not alone in these highways of the soul...

Welcome. This is the Subterranean Lake, where we will plumb the depths of the paranormal mind. For what is the mind if not paranormal?