MANIFESTO
THE
JOURNAL OF PAN-DIMENSIONAL LITERATURE is founded
on the premise that a new, pan-dimensionalist literature
is emerging, one which portrays man in all his
multidimensional aspects: as the simultaneous experiencer
of a multitude of past and future lives; as the possessor
of an astral body, and other ethereal bodies; as a
creature of possible lives, probable lives and parallel
lives; as a being somehow linked with alien,
extraterrestrial selves; and much more--and all of these
emerging and re-emerging one into the other (it being
recognized that the above are only approximate
descriptions, in the limited language of unidimensionalism, of greater realities).
THE
JOURNAL notes that unidimensionalist literature,
and mainstreamism in general, were the creation of a
world fast coming under the domination of science and
technology; that these cultural factors fashioned a
'reality' antithetical to the notion that man was more
than a single personality; that this 'reality' inevitably
produced a "politically-correct"
unidimensionalist literature the dominance of which was
reinforced by a politically-correct educational system;
and that that political system, as well as its
concomitant economic and religious subsystems, is fast
collapsing, facilitating the reemergence of man in all
his multidimensional nature and of a pan-dimensionalist
literature which reflects and describes that nature.
THE
JOURNAL aims, through its publications, to
subvert the power of mainsteamism in whatever way it can,
and principally by bringing to the attention of the
reading public current works which express, describe and
affirm Pan-Dimensional Literature, and previous works
which express, describe and affirm Pan-Dimensional
Literature but which have not yet been recognized as
such.
THE
JOURNAL is also planning several
pan-dimensionalist guerilla acts which will serve to
promote the reality of this new kind of literature, which
has been emerging over the past decades and will one day
replace unidimensionalist literature.
The
ideas behind THE JOURNAL OF PAN-DIMENSIONAL
LITERATURE are in a state of formation. All are
open to modification and innovation by the journal's
readers. The editors actively solicit comments and
suggestions. E-mail should be addressed to the JOURNAL
at <darbyc@earthlink.net>.
Since THE
JOURNAL OF PAN-DIMENSIONAL LITERATURE
reaches
out to other lands, to other languages, to other stars
and to other dimensions, stories are posted in more than
one language, whenever possible. Chapter One of THE MAN WHO
LAUGHS, by
Victor Hugo, for example--a classic of pan-dimensional
literature--is posted in both French and English.
