Stile 13

  
Since the now widely reported discovery of Stile 13, speculation has grown as to why the gateway remained unseen for so long. Why was it not found earlier when it was apparently, as one prominent academic put it “hidden in plain view”? And when it was eventually found, how did the phenomenon that is the enigmatic gateway spread so rapidly?

Many theories on this question have been put forward. Opinions can be varied and divided with discussions at times becoming quite fiery, but so far no proof has been offered to back up any particular view.

Of late the hypothesis that’s gaining most support is that the Stile only appeared when it was ready to do so. This argument asserts that as normal rules don’t apply when one is dealing with portals to different dimensions or parallel universes, then the gateway wasn’t necessarily hidden, but just wasn’t there…until it was.

Much has been made of the change and the almost visibly happy aura surrounding those who now lay claim to the title ‘Stile 13ers’. Because of their new found joyful demeanours, many of the major religions of the world have started to feel threatened. Spiritual leaders have even begun to place blame on ‘The Gateway People’ for the fall off in attendance at their holy ceremonies. They see the 13ers as offering a direct challenge to the premise of inherent discontentment, subjugation and subservience that plays a large part in attracting and keeping congregations and followers in tow. When giving an anti-Stile 13 sermon recently, one prominent church leader put it this way:

“A narrow mind can be a happy mind. I mean, what’s wrong with that? Too much of this liberated thinking can lead to changes. Who really wants to do that, huh? It’s uncomfortable. I mean…that’s what we’re here for…to think for you…to allow you to be set in your ways and stop you having to deal with all this freedom of choice nonsense”.

He then led the gathering in a hymn he had written called “the only door we want you knocking at is Heavens”.

But his view is not shared by all in the religious life. Indeed some of the leaders have themselves, as their colleagues describe it, become ‘victims of The Gateway’ and have been reported as smiling broadly as they discarded their vestments and donned their civvies before drifting off into the sunset.

The location of the Stile is said to be ever changing. In the early days of the phenomena, it was thought that ‘The Gateway’, was located solely at Croke Park Gaelic sports ground in Dublin, Ireland. However, reports of similar ‘Passing Through’ experiences soon began to filter in from other locations around the globe and people quickly grasped that they could find their own Stile 13, or Stile 13 would find them, no matter where in the world they were. This realisation engendered fear in some people and excitement in others.

There is a mysterious district in a remote mountain region of southern Peru known locally as ’The Place of the Gods’. It is revered by Peruvians as a site of worship, which really doesn’t do anything to help offset the animosity of the major religions. Known as the “Doorway of Aramu Muru”, it stands near the border with Bolivia on Lake Titicaca where Inca legend says life was first created on Earth. The doorway is surrounded by mystery. Hidden in a land full of Inca ceremonial chulpas and other rock-carved temples, it is purported to be a passageway to another dimension.

Apart from the fact that both Peru and Ireland now claim to be a location for a Gateway or Stile, there are other similarities between the two countries. The Croke Park match day ticket frenzy is often compared to the Inca human sacrifice rituals. “I’d kill my granny for a ticket” is something you’d often hear on All-Ireland final day in Dublin. Some would argue that this is not a good example as the Incas have great respect for their elders and would never harm their grandmothers whom they revere. They tended to go for younger sacrifices.
Some travellers to the Peruvian site have talked about their experiences of falling through the doorway and travelling to another dimension. One such person, whom we’ll call Jerry as that is his name, said, "My experience here has been fantastic! I have actually been through the doorway, and I’ve travelled to another dimension." His first words on his return were, "’I’m back”. Some doubt Jerry’s story, but those who witnessed his disappearance and re-emergence have no such doubts. His wife was one of those witnesses. She described how she had seen her husband vanish.

“One moment he was there and the next he seemed to fade away. I was afraid he might not come back. When he did come back he looked the same…but I knew he was different. It was like he knew things, big things, things he could not tell me of…no matter how much I asked him.”   

It was clear that she had been frightened but also excited by the whole experience.

So should we be actively on the look out for our own Stile 13 opportunity…no matter where in the world we are? Should we welcome the chance to step through and discover for ourselves what Jerry knows?

The debates around these questions have become quite heated. Those against have railed and argued that we should all be content to stay in our own dimension and that those who have stepped across should get back to their own parallel universe. This has been described as the newest trend in racism and has attracted a lot of vocal and enthusiastic right wing attention. Of course the difficulty in identifying who to aim their abuse at has caused an amount of aggravation and frustration for them. Several cities and towns around the world have recently experienced protests and marches by these groups, with attendees carrying banners and placards with slogans such as, “Come out come out wherever you are”, “There’s no parallel like this parallel”, “13, unlucky for some”, and a very common one, “Get back to yer own universe.”

A support group for involuntary dimension travellers called “Accidental Parallelism” has recently produced a best selling pocket book called “That’s the Stile”. This handy volume points out some of the key indicators we should look for that would imply one has already had a passing through event that we may not even be aware of. It encourages people to always be prepared with its central speculation stating: “if we are not open to the possibility of having an Involuntary crossing experience, then this can lead us to a place where we can make little sense of the world we find ourselves in.”

Some of the most common signs this invaluable tome tell us to look out for is a strong feeling of being disconnected, regular feelings of déjà vu, disbelief in some of the things we see going on in the world and an unwillingness to accept the authenticity of the things that surround us. If you find yourself saying things like…”It’s a different world we’re living in today”; “I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d see this day”; “things shouldn’t be like this”; or maybe, “how did that gobshite get to be president”, then there is a very real chance that you are actually living in an alternate reality, where the rules that govern normal society and propriety have been distorted, and in some cases done away with completely.

Of course realisation of the possibility of having an inadvertent crossing over experience can be very frightening for some and can cause huge anxiety. Conventional therapies put in place to deal with this tend to go down the line of trying to convince an affected individual that there is no such thing as Stile 13, and that the world they find themselves in is actually the only one available. This has brought succour to some, but has also upset others, some of whom have gone on to develop a new syndrome called “Single Dimension Claustrophobia”.

The symptoms of this condition include a fear of conventional therapists and also an uncontrollable compulsion to jump through random gateways and doors. This has created a few unforeseen problem for courts and prosecutors with house thieves often claiming that they have the disorder and have no control over their impulse to enter a building once the premises has a door.  

Airlines have also had issues, and have had to resort to placing large stickers over their emergency doors reiterating that their only use is as an entry and exit to their aircraft …preferably when the aircraft is on the ground.

To counter the narrow view of conventional therapists, a confidential telephone service has been recently been set up called “Parallel Lines.” The service has proven to be a huge success, with the organisers saying they are finding it hard to cater for the volume of callers they’re getting.

The CEO of the service, herself a committed paralleler, in a recent interview said: “People tell us the world’s your oyster…but what if you’re hungry? One oyster isn’t going to do it for you…is it? So why should we settle for one world?”

Her arguments have been gaining traction with sales of their “I want more Oysters” tee-shirts proving particularly popular.

Historically philosophers haven’t been great supporters of the multiple dimension theory with the likes of Aristotle rejecting the possibility of multiple worlds. Of course he also said that space itself was not unlimited and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around the earth, a misnomer that tends to undermine his dimension denying pronouncements.

Modern Philosophers have been fairly evenly divided on the matter although a middle ground has emerged of late where many of them find they can agree. The basis of this commonality doesn’t necessarily accept that physical portals exist. It is centred on the theory that we as humans create our own reality and it is within our power to change that view of reality. Since the emergence of Stile 13 as a concept, they say that what amounts to a virtual portal or wormhole may present itself to an individual if that person totally believes in its existence, is ready to accept it, and has completely decided that they want to embrace an alternative reality. They maintain that if one fully adopts this viewpoint then a physical Stile 13-type doorway is not actually needed for one to move into a new dimension. One can step, metaphorically speaking, in a single instant into a new life where things that are causing dissatisfaction and disharmony can be discarded and a new beginning made. This logic concludes that this simple belief in Stile 13 can bypass the whole self development process. Gain without pain, so to speak.  

Unsurprisingly this theory has not gone down too well with counsellors and psychotherapists, especially the unionised ones, who see the philosophers’ pronouncements as crossing the demarcation line and stepping into their realm of expertise. Their anger towards Philosophers has sparked an unusual amount of physical altercations between both groups, with attempts to get them to sit down together to talk and reason out their differences proving largely unsuccessful.

Some of those who claim to have definitely passed through Stile 13 have become quite vocal and public in their defence of the physical existence of the gateways. This has led to a degree of celebrity status with appearances on talk shows, debates and other platforms becoming quite common. Reality television has also gotten in on the act with excitement building in particular about the upcoming shows, “I’m my own parallel person” and “I’m a Stile 13er, get me out of here”, where rumour has it that Jerry from Peru will be one of guests.

A Documentary called “I’ve met myself coming back”, all about the travails of a woman called Mary who claims to have actually met some of her parallel selves, has recently won the academy’s special achievement award. Her acceptance speech largely consisted of her thanking herself and wishing that her other selves could be here to witness this great honour. She accepted the award on her own behalves.

Since the early days of the Stiles emergence prominent scientists and physicists are often called upon to give their opinion on the validity of the Stile 13 phenomenon. Traditional science has been slow in giving its endorsement to the gateways existence - as it has always needed to establish proof before it would fully commit to backing any hypothesis, but they are slowly coming around to the idea. This could be down to the growing number of scientists who claim to have had their own passing through experience and because of their new outlook, no longer felt a need to actually prove that they had passed through anything. When a reporter from a prime time news programme recently asked a prominent physicist why he now supported the Stile 13ers his response was to hold out his hands with his palms upwards and say, “science, smience…I mean, what the hell.”

This sort of response has gone down very well with those involved in the quantum arena, with many of them nodding knowingly at their newly liberated brethren’s pronouncements.

Fossil fuel companies, plastic manufacturers and some governments have also latched on to the Stile 13 phenomena and the choices and possibilities that the portals into different dimensions offer. Put simply, they feel they can now justify actions that lead to global warming. One leader of a world power caused quite a stir whilst addressing the UN general assembly when he said;

“If there is an indefinite amount of parallel universes and worlds out there then what are you getting so uptight and precious about this one for? So there’s a bit of extinction going on…and we’ve heated the earth up a little…but what’s not to like? This is our world… and I for one would like it to be a little roomier and warmer. If you can’t stand the heat…then maybe you should move to one of your alternative kitchens”.

His words were initially met with incredulous silence. In the hullabaloo that followed, some Stile 13ers in the audience could be seen desperately jumping back and forth through any doorway they could find.

In the weeks since his address, reason of a sort seems to have returned, and such openly blatant environmental disregard has once again retreated behind a veil of reasonableness and missed energy efficiency targets.

Veteran Stile 13ers Evangelina and Rebel West, whose names happen to be an anagram of “well it’s been average”, are leading the charge to find what they describe as “The Perfect Parallel”. The premise that they have become spokespeople for rationalises that if infinite possible worlds exist, then a perfect world where everything is harmony and balance has to be out there. The pair have run several well attended seminars on the subject under headings such as, “Dimension Ascension” and “You don’t have to be perfect to be unparalleled”. Their gatherings have been attracting a growing number of people, but the fact that one person’s idea of perfection may not equate to anyone else’s has tended to dominate discussions.

Another view that the pair have been espousing is that it’s possible to live alongside people who are not actually fully living in the same world as you and may in fact have a foot in many dimensions.

Their suggestion has caused degrees of both fascination and confusion amongst those who have taken the time to try to study and understand it.

Efforts to develop methods to identify cases have of late begun to attract interest from some businesses, with team building days that are centred on “cross paralleler hunts” becoming very popular. This involves doing things like stalking unsuspecting day dreamers or anyone who might look lost in contemplation. Once a likely subject is identified, the participants in the exercise creep up on them and startle them with loud noises and shouted conversations. Teams score points if their alarmed victims say something like, “What the…are you crazy...I was in a completely different world there.”

Workplace health and safety organisations have lately begun to voice concerns over this particular team building exercise as there have been reports of victims physically lashing out when accosted.

So is it possible that we ourselves may not be fully living in one universe or world? How can one tell if part of us is actually living in another, or maybe even someone else’s, dimension?

In a recent television interview Evangelina and Rebel were questioned about cross dimensional living; “Look, it’s a simple as this,” answered Rebel - who was wearing an “I want more Oysters” tee shirt - “If you want to live in this world, then live in it. Settle in…commit. I’ve been through many gateways, and you wouldn’t believe the state of some of the dimensions I’ve seen. Who knows, faults and all, this might actually be your perfect dimension.”

“But,” interjected Evangelina, “if you feel that this parallel might not be right for you, and maybe you’ve even been indulging in a bit of crossover behaviour; a foot in many camps so to speak…then I’d suggest it’s time to start looking for your own Stile 13. When you find it, then, if you’re brave enough, all you have to do is take that step.”

So is Stile 13 for you? Would you like to expand beyond your familiar horizons? Does the idea of stepping through a portal to a different dimension excite you? Well… irrespective of whether you believe in it’s existence or not…Stile 13 will present itself to you, possibly on several occasions within your lifetime…maybe not in gate form…but it will present itself. All you have to do is leave yourself open to recognising it, and when you do…well, the choices are yours.