The twilight labyrinth

[laughing] Now we get into some contemporary stuff, and I-- there is some fascinating, fascinating material here.

So in The Twilight Labyrinth by this gentleman, George Otis Jr., we read the following: "Even so, Eden was not the creator's primary abode.

When he appeared to walk with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day, he came from somewhere else.

And since God is a spirit, the fact that he was manifest in a material context can mean only that he descended from a higher realm.

If we wanna move to the next one, we'll, we'll see some more motivated reasoning.

Yay, motivated reasoning.

So what do we, what do we start to get? Well, the idea, the idea is kind of like mid-1800s when it first emerges, but, um, the sort of '80s forward sees increasingly people thinking about this idea of the heavenlies, right? And on some level, this is what The Twilight Labyrinth is trying to, to get across, this idea that there's a kind of dimension that sits next to ours, and that angels, demons, and God occupy this other kind of dimension, right? And there's a kind of conspiratorial element to this because one of the things Otis wants us to believe is that things that happen in the heavenlies directly impact the earth physically.

So the kind of body of the demonic lands impacts the kind of body of the earth, right? What happens in the heavenlies sees a reflection in the material plane, if you will.