{"id":94,"date":"2011-07-22T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-07-19T20:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:31:19","slug":"the-other-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"THE OTHER REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Lida Prypchan<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Something quite wondrous accompanies us through life: this is the other reality, an amorphous mass of chance occurrences which have no basis in Aristotelian law, but which emanate from or are manifest in our thoughts.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We are walking down the street when suddenly, for some strange reason, the thought crosses our mind that we haven\u2019t seen a certain friend for a while, and quite out of the blue, without having called him up or made any arrangements, we run into him right there and then. \u00a0\u201cWhat a coincidence,\u201d we say, \u201cWe were only just thinking of you.\u201d \u00a0One day as we\u2019re lying down taking a rest, we remember another friend. \u00a0Ten minutes later the phone rings and there he is on the line, asking whether we\u2019d called his home today!<\/span><\/div>\n
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From the time he was a small boy, Julio Cortazar had sensed in himself a certain receptiveness, a propensity for attracting coincidences. \u00a0In an interview with Ernesto Gonz\u00e1lez Bermejo, Cortazar relates that once a friend he hadn\u2019t seen in several years, who wasn\u2019t even aware of his whereabouts at the time, though she had a feeling he was in France, sent him a letter suggesting he meet her one Tuesday. \u00a0She sent the letter on Monday. \u00a0He received it the same day and replied saying he wouldn\u2019t be able to meet her because he was leaving on a trip. \u00a0By chance, about four hours after mailing the letter, he went out for a walk and, believe it or not, they ran into each other, right there in some remote corner of Paris. \u00a0Without realizing why, they turned around and recognized each other.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Cortazar also tells about the state he enters when he writes, where he feels as if he is under the influence of a drug, with words flowing freely. \u00a0He says for most of his stories he doesn\u2019t have a set plan, or even know the ending, and everything happens as though someone else is writing it. \u00a0Amazingly, he admits to having been afraid to sign his stories because he couldn\u2019t believe he was the author. \u00a0Sadly, Cortazar is now gone. \u00a0However, his presence remains with those of us who constantly read and admire his work. \u00a0In his stories fantasy, or rather the fantastic, was not something artificially created. \u00a0His approach was to include whatever exists, providing it\u2019s not part of a life governed by the logic of \u201ctwo plus two are four\u201d and \u201cI only believe it if I can see it.\u201d \u00a0His characters were supersensitive mediums, fully aware of this other reality that coexists alongside the logic imposed by Aristotelian law.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Another name for the other reality to which I refer would be destiny. \u00a0I believe that the inevitable and unforeseeable chain of events we call destiny is consonant with the life of the individual who lives it. \u00a0Everything that occurs is intrinsically fitted to the individual it happens to. \u00a0A rational person won\u2019t hesitate to ask dubiously, \u201cIsn\u2019t it true that as a person sees what\u2019s happening, he is able to change or distort events so that they just appear to be fitted to him?\u201d \u00a0This doesn\u2019t alter the fact that two different people can be influenced very differently by the same event. \u00a0How a person molds himself to his destiny is not the issue. \u00a0The real issue is that chain of events that unfolds in such a way as to be experienced by a person who in a general manner fits the situation he has had to undergo. \u00a0This is so much the case, that destiny can not only change a person, but can form his character, too. \u00a0For example, a continuous series of tragic events in the life of a child can shape a destiny in a completely different way from what it would have been. \u00a0Let\u2019s examine the case of Edgar Allan Poe. \u00a0At the age of two he became an orphan. \u00a0It was a very short and painful phase \u2013 just imagine all his hardships as a child. \u00a0Destiny may have been unjust to him but it didn\u2019t allow him to die, for a kindhearted lady adopted him soon afterwards.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Finally, there is something that does generally happen by chance \u2013 and this is love. \u00a0You cannot seek out love. \u00a0It arrives of its own accord without being called, and in my view such a powerful and beautiful attraction to another person cannot belong to reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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One day when out with a friend, you visit a home where you are introduced to another person. You pay little attention to him, yet after you leave, that person\u2019s face remains etched in your memory and suddenly, you find yourself back at that house searching for something you have lost, and when you find it you start fabricating excuses and explanations without any reason. \u00a0You want to leave because there\u2019s something in his look that makes you uncomfortable, yet at the same time it attracts you. \u00a0You are nervous, because you can\u2019t define the feeling it produces in you \u2013 then a few days later you are talking provocatively and making innuendoes as though you expected some remarkable event to join your body with his.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What is important is not our awareness of those events, but rather that our minds should be perceptive and remain open and receptive to them. \u00a0Something quite wondrous accompanies us through life without our being aware of it \u2013 this is the other reality!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 By Lida Prypchan \u00a0 Something quite wondrous accompanies us through life: this is the other reality, an amorphous mass of chance occurrences which have no basis in Aristotelian law, but which emanate from or are manifest in our thoughts. \u00a0 We are walking down the street when suddenly, for some strange reason, the thought … <\/p>\n

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