As our front page tells you (if you took the time to read it and not just search for the link to the "real" page), we believe in the existence of alternate dimensions and realities, Elsewhere places that can interact with this "earth" world through human bodies. This is how multiplicity manifests for us (and for others that we know). One earth body is a portal to this dimension for many people who come from other worlds, dimensions, realities, planets, whatever you want to call them. Just don't call them made up, because they most certainly are not.

Certain common "laws" of physics remain though, and it is difficult for people to be physically in two places at once. Hence, when someone takes over the "front" (control of the earth body), they generally are losing physical contact with the world they are coming from. Just like beaming up to take over the controls of a starship, you can't stay wandering around among the flowers of a garden at the same time. A certain amount of concentration and focus is demanded of inter-dimensional interactions.

At the same time, however, it is possible to maintain awareness (visual or aural) of the world you came from. It is difficult, and it requires both, as I said, concentration and focus, and a freeing of the mind and suspension of disbelief. It's not a perfect system; we can't always see what we want to see elsewhere when we're running the body. And that's to be expected. If you're too busy checking out goldfish in a pond somewhere in Kayo, you're gonna have trouble walking down the street in Ontario. Sight comes and goes in glimpses, generally.

The more you fight for seeing and knowing, the less you are able. And when frontrunners say they can't see, it is, in our experience, as much because they are afraid of what they will see as that they are unable. They are afraid that seeing will prove them liars somehow, will threaten the very fact of their existence. And this is why it happens most often to those who are unsure of themselves; they can't see because they are afraid of what it will mean if they do see. Perhaps they are not who they think they are after all. Long-term frontrunners seem to suffer the worst from this, for having to cover up for so many years. They've spent so much time trying to be in control, and maintain a "consistent" front regardless of who comes out, that they forget how to relax and be themselves. They forget how to see, because it was not allowed.

The Truth is still there, glimpsed sideways or backwards or however. (The broccoli is out there, Mulder. Err.. in-joke, there is a Mulder in our cat's household who is fascinated by broccoli.)

People here want all or nothing vision. They want to be able to see everything whether it is important to them or not, or else they think they can't see at all. So maybe there was a party going on somewhere last night. When you think about it, really, across three planets, with unknown populations, there must pretty much always be something going on somewhere.

The problem is that people at the surface too often want to "snoop" ... they want to be kept in on things, or else they feel like they're missing something, when, in reality, all they have to do is go elsewhere and join in if they want. But they don't want to go elsewhere, they want to stay "in control" at the surface. They just want to be aware of everything, or else none of it is real and the surface is boring. They get ... addicted almost to the sensation of the double vision at surface; of being almost omnipresent in a way, because they can know what's going on elsewhere, and still be in control at the front.

Logical? not at all, but it's the trap that some frontrunners fall into because they think they have no life elsewhere.

Others argue that they can't go Elsewhere, because they don't know how, they get involuntarily stuck at the surface. Certainly it happens sometimes but, in our household at least, no-one is perma-stuck to the front. Everyone has, at some point or other, been able to step back, or been hauled back, and gone Elsewhere.

It can be as easy as deciding, "I am going to "x" location." and stepping back and sending yourself there, by whatever means you have at your disposal. Sometimes it takes asking the local "sysadmin" (whoever's in charge of communications and transportation) to help send you elsewhere. But again, it comes back to trusting that you can go and can come back when you want, and that you won't be missing anything either way. What you're "missing" you can catch up on from common knowledge/gossip.

The other big hang up, is getting past the niggling sense of "well, maybe I'm just imagining it because I want to." The earth world spends so much time conditioning people that other realities are fantasies, delusions, imaginings, not real that it is very very hard to de-condition yourself and regain the ability to see and be elsewhere. Children do it best, of course, and so you will often find that children in households are the most able to jump back and forth between dimensions, to go visit their friends in other households on other planets.

Where children accept things at face value, adults run on association and memory. They're constantly checking against what they remember to see if it matches, or if they're "making it up." This makes it extremely hard to allow for glimpses of other realities because there is always a feeling of "well maybe I just saw that somewhere else some time and I'm remembering it," or "maybe somebody told me about that one time, and I'm just imagining it."

So how do you tell a "true" seeing from memory or imagining? Watch for the things that come into your mind unbidden, the images that arise as someone is describing something, when you're not actively thinking "I can imagine what that's like." The glimpses and snatches and things that catch you off guard, those are most often the true seeings, at least at first. The other thing to watch for is things that impact on you very powerfully, things that make you go "wow," and give you a sense of depth and truth. These are not things that you are going to imagine for yourself (although, you can remember such things, it's not likely that such memories will take you off guard. Remembering is an active process, generally).

With practice, you can choose to look elsewhere, and see, and know it's real, but the unbidden seeings are a first step, especially for those who have been stuck in the earth world for too long.

And all of the above adds up to why it is easier not to ask someone "oh what were you doing yesterday when you weren't at the front?" because then they feel like they have to remember, and may grab at the first thing that comes to mind (which is usually what other people speculated about them doing) rather than just letting the memories come back as they will, in the flow of other things.

Another problem is that other dimensions are not "consistent" by earth world standards. Time, in particular, does not flow in the same way from one dimension to the next. You could spend a few weeks in another world, and only a few hours pass in earth time (or vice versa). Just like in all the old "fairy tales" (did you really think they were just made up?). Usually, it's not that extreme, but it's part of why people have such trouble communicating what they've been doing elsewhere when they come to the surface. The time frames don't always line up, so the earth brain rebels.

Regardless of what the earth world would enforce as reality, life elsewhere is as it is. The earth world tries to teach "critical thinking," and values it very highly. But it is when you stop critiquing, stop trying to fit Elsewhere into a mould that the earth world says is "acceptable" and "real," and just accept alternate realities, that you truly start seeing.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.... There is no spoon.... Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." ~ Boy candidate, from The Matrix.