The other side of the Looking Glass

When one thinks of the world today, the state of reality and its many frustrations, roadblocks, betrayals and dissapointments, it is not difficult to understand the desire to escape from so harsh and cruel a place. Perhaps this desire is not wrong, not unhealthy… but can it become?

When we escape, when we let go of the world around us and delve into a world of our own creation, or even one created by another, we leave the grim reality of our own lives behind. Now and again, this is an appropriate course of action; lost in a book, wasting some time on a game, writing or painting, these things are not bad. Where, then, does the danger lie? The danger lies in delving too far, far too often.

When you tell no one where you are going, no one knows where to look for you when you don’t return. The same is true in these worlds of ours. If we tell no one of our escapists desires, no one will know how to help us when, perhaps, we have gone too far.

What, then, do I suggest, you may ask? A support group. This place is designed as just that, a group providing support to those who often delve much too far into the many fabricated worlds and have no safety line with which to return. Here, I wish to provide a supply of writings and gamings documents, escapist materials that are of my own worlds, as well as a place for others to do the same. A place for escapists of every calibur to meet one another, to make freinds and safety nets. Here is a place of understanding and healing.

Healing an escapist comes not from within, as the damage done is of our own minds. No, such healing comes from without. ‘If we cannot trust our minds, what then can we trust?’, you may ask. One another, is my answer. We can help one another heal, we can help one another escape in a healthy way.

So come one, come all, through the looking glass and into a world where sanity is what you make it, where pain is what you allow and man is his own God. Come and see a world beyond imagining, come and see worlds unlike any before. Come, and witness the begginings of a great healing.