Document No. 24 (leaseholder’s private entry) – access through SPO guest entry
4th September 451 A.V.
Five Seconds of Darkness – it sounds beautiful, but in essence it doesn’t mean much. No one knows what actually happens: whether it’s dark or light or just inviz. When an ordinary person hears the phrase ‘five seconds of darkness’ he imagines something dreadful. But at the end of the day it’s just a technical term referring to the period of time when the socio dispatcher can’t see the incode of the person who has temporarily ceased to exist in the population control system. In other words the Five Seconds is the ‘pause’ itself. It is then followed by reproduction: the socio dispatcher re-establishes the incode and registers the geographic position and personal data of the newly conceived person.
The Five Seconds of Darkness is a practically unresearched field. As we know, it is this ‘blind alley’ which is the main barrier to us carrying out complete incarnational retrospection and detailed examination of pre-pause conditions in the individual. Hitherto only the Roberts random flare method has been widely practised in pre-pause immersion therapy. We have created a special compound which makes the biological organism more sensitive to Roberts radiation. One injection could be enough to transform the random flashes into a directed ray. In this way, we have reason to believe that our breakthrough will radically alter the current state of the field.
Laboratory experiments on social insects (bees, ants, termites) exposed to the directed Leo-Lot ray have shown that:
a) our hypothesis about the continuity of social insects’ life is correct (if this were not the case, our experiment would not have proved successful);
b) the directed Leo-Lot ray is capable of crossing through the Five Seconds of Darkness and penetrating the pre-pause zone (experiments with Heterotermes indicola termites gave record-breaking results – consecutive immersion to a depth of twenty-six reproductions!).
In the event of a successful experiment on humans the Leo-Lot ray will allow us to move beyond the random flare method, which will open up a broad vista of possibilities in the field of incarnational retrospection and guarantee good penetration depth.
Our method allows us to run a session of simultaneous immersion into the subject’s pre-pause zone for both the subject and the experimenter.
In light of the above, we request that you present us with the following correctees from House of Correction No. 3578 (‘Harmony’) for voluntary participation in our first experiment with the directed Leo-Lot ray:
1. Correctee Butcher’s Son, current physical age – twenty-three years.
Reasons for participation in the experiment:
– incarnational retrospection on the planet’s cruellest criminal is of particular scientific significance for researchers and psychiatrists; our method offers us the possibility of tracing the history of the correctee’s psychic illness not from the dry statements in his personal file, but directly, ‘live’;
– the correctee’s ability to perceive and interpret the immersion in any way appears doubtful; however, we do not see any reason not to demonstrate the immersion to the correctee.
2. Correctee Cracker, current physical age – thirteen years.
Reasons for participation in experiment:
– the correctee’s continually increasing PTC; the correctee lacks any motivation for correction; a session of incarnational retrospection might be exceedingly useful for understanding mistaken and unproductive attitudes of this kind;
– incarnational retrospection on one of the planet’s most famous inventors and criminals would be of particular value to scientists.
3. Correctee Ivanushka, current physical age – forty years.
Reasons for participation in experiment:
– in this instance incarnational retrospection may prove to be an example of a beneficial supplement to the psychotherapy of pre-pausers; a small percentage of people of a pre-pause age experience nervousness tension and alarm in connection with the forthcoming Five Seconds of Darkness. We propose that immersion in previous reproductions will considerably enhance pre-pausers’ sense of immortality, harmony and continuity, and relieve them of many of their neurotic reactions.
4. Correctee Joker, current physical age – thirty-one years.
Reasons for participation in experiment:
– in this instance the subject was selected at random; there are no particular reasons for this correctee to volunteer for this experiment; at the discretion of the management of the House of Correction, he may be replaced by any other volunteer, preferably middle-aged.
5. Correctee Zero, current physical age – eleven years.
Reasons for participation in experiment:
– in light of the absence of in-history an attempt at incarnational retrospection in the case of this correctee is a bold and even desperate step, but one which nevertheless seems to us to be the only appropriate and correct course of action. The directed Leo-Lot ray is the only means currently available to us of shedding light on the ‘Zero problem’. Hitherto we have had no conception of the genesis of this correctee, and the mechanism by which an ‘additional physical person’ appeared is entirely unclear. We do not know whether correctee Zero is a part of the Living, or how serious a threat he presents to the harmony of the Living. If experimental immersion in the ‘pre-life’ period of this correctee is successful to even the slightest extent, any information we receive as a result will be invaluable;
– the correctee is not connected to socio: therefore, in order to visualise his immersion for him, it would be necessary to introduce additional equipment. However, such a measure seems excessive and potentially harmful. In this case the results of retrospection are entirely unpredictable. In order to avoid any psychological trauma for the subject, and as a result of security concerns arising in connection to the threat which the subject may pose, we are planning to carry out a ‘closed immersion’ without demonstration to the correctee. In order to avoid misunderstandings and technical blunders the correctee will be put into an induced sleep.
P.S. Poor Lot is very stressed about the experiment. I played him at wonder-chess. He refused a head start, lost, and heaped abuse on me. We were about to fall out. I had to offer a rematch and lose on purpose.
Sometimes Lot behaves like a child.