Chapter 1 

It’s not as if you swallow a pill and your head is suddenly launched into a fast moving domain of sight and sound, an infinite array of surprise. No, it is sublime. It is the reality you fear. It is the reality of being away from home for the first time with no ability to return. And you are doing cartwheels in the presence of blackness. You are disorientated without question. But you are calculating as well. Everything is not as it’s supposed to be. After all, I was taught that human life could not live in the vacuum of space for more than a moment. I was taught that human life could not go fast enough to travel to nearby stars, even with rockets. These were quickly made obsolete and my old mind was made awake by it. All is possible! And I thought of many things that were impossible that were now possible in the state I was in.

David Eide
January 24, 2014