Amy’s Hyperspaces: Creativity, the Bird of Paradise, and the Doorway to Parallel Worlds
by Amy Mindell
Introduction
Am I dead or alive? Awake or asleep? Is this happening now or in the past? Am I a reincarnation from an earlier time or is it a reincarnation of me? Questions like these preoccupied me as a child. They especially haunted me as a teenager when just about everything about the world stopped making any real sense. Why can’t the world just stay still for a moment? Why can’t my experiences be simple and clear?
I tried to put these questions aside and simply do my life. Wasn’t that what everyone else did? People went to work. They drove their cars or took busses. They went to school or to their job, went home, ate, went to sleep, and got up again. So, what was wrong with me? Why all of the extra stuff in my head? Why couldn’t I be an ordinary kid growing up without all these unruly thoughts?
