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“Between two worlds” – portals, doorways and channels in Twin Peaks

“And now we’ve arrived at what the veil is. It’s the ethereal curtain between the everyday illusion of separation and the divine truth of eternity and oneness with all that is. When we meditate or perform ritual, or when we have a mystical experience of any variety, this curtain parts and we are able to gaze into the place of power, the place between the worlds.” Tess Whitehurst, “The Veil Between the Worlds is Thin” The disparate strands of Twin Peaks: The Return appear to be gradually coming together. And it seems they are converging to a single (or perhaps double) point of space and time. The location is identified by Major Briggs’ coordinates, a perfect McGuffin that has cost many lives and caused much intrigue. The time is also named by Briggs in his time capsule message to the Twin Peaks sheriffs – 2:53 on the first and second of October. But why there? And why then? It feels like this time and place might represent an opening – a rare moment where parallel paths unexpect...
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Holding a mirror up to society in Twin Peaks: The Return.

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Split in two - nature and technology in Twin Peaks

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