A Time Machine. . . . How to go doubly deep
What is time to us when we have mastered the technology of time itself? Yes, friends, time itself.
It is a little known fact that the physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)––the inventor of hypnotism, mesmerism, then called “animal magnetism"––left behind him a series of plans and drawings for a device that he never had a chance to test. Yes, friends, that he never had a chance to test. So we decided to test it for him. Does it work? Come, come, try it for yourself.
Pray tell, you say. What is this device? A time machine, friends. Using the power of animal magnetism––a.k.a.. hypnosis––this little machine here twists the very fabric of the mind. It undoes our very finitude. It sends us careening through the ages. Past, future, where would you like to go? To the future you say, yes, to the future.
How does it work? Lie back, my friends, and look into an infinite hall of mirrors. Soon you will hear only the sound of my voice, the sound of my voice. You are feeling sleepy. Your body is going to sleep. Look into the spinning vortex, the spinning vortex, the vortex spinning before the infinite hall of mirrors, spinning, my friend, the infinite vortex. You are going to sleep.
Soon you will be asked to tell us what you see. Pray tell, friend, what do you see? Tell us what you see.
Yes, friends, genuine hypnosis. Genuine Mesmer. And you don’t even have to descend the stairs of your mind, no, no, no, you don’t even have to walk down the tunnel and open the door. Time travel yourself, or just listen in on the voice of the beyond.
