How does it work
Otherworlds is a bulletin. What makes it unusual is where the stories come from: none of them were reported. Every one was received.
The short answer
A group of people enter the same quiet state at the same time, direct their attention at one place, and write down what arrives. What they bring back is edited into the stories you see on the front page. That is the whole method.
The longer answer
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A session is called
A time is set and announced. Anyone can join, free, from anywhere. Sessions run inside the æntenna app, which is where the audio that carries the group into a theta state lives.
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Everyone drops into the same state
A guided descent takes the group into theta — the slow, loose, half-asleep band of brain activity you pass through on the way down each night. It is the state most people report their clearest intuitions from. Nothing is asked of you but attention.
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Attention is pointed somewhere specific
Not "anywhere". A single place, a single question, held by everyone at once. The specificity is what makes the results comparable afterwards.
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Everyone writes down what came
Immediately, before discussion, before anyone has heard what anyone else got. This ordering matters more than anything else in the method — once people talk, the accounts start converging for entirely ordinary reasons.
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The overlaps become a story
Where many people independently returned the same image, the same phrase or the same warning, that convergence is written up as a transmission and filed here, attributed to the being it appeared to come from and to the æntenna contributor who recorded it.
What we are not claiming
We are not telling you this is true. We are telling you it was received — that a number of people, separately, in the same state, at the same hour, came back with the same thing, and that we found that interesting enough to print.
Nothing in this bulletin is journalism, and nothing in it is a verified account of events in this world. Every page says so. Read it as what it is.
Why the stories read like news
Because that is the most honest container we could find. A transmission that arrives as an image and a certainty is not a poem and it is not a scientific result — but it does have a shape news understands: something is going to happen, here is what, here is who says so, here is when it came in. The newspaper form keeps us specific and keeps us accountable, because a dated prediction can be checked later.
Try it yourself
The sessions are free and there is nothing to prepare. The next one is always on the first screen of the app.