I stand in the dimly lit church, surrounded by my newly deceased companions. The altar glows a foreboding red, and an unseen chorus sings “Amazing Grace.” Robed figures sit in the pews, turned from us. Then slowly, ever so slowly, they turn in unison to face us. The figures are otherworldly, their faces skeletal, neon […]
Only in retrospect did I realize when I died. It was during a VR experience. My demise, perhaps my murder, was neither painful nor personal. It was abstracted and colossal, on a planetary, or perhaps a cosmic scale. Yet this death was not an end, but rather a beginning. I died during Second […]
Haunting had an opportunity to chat with Scott Shigeoka, Melinda Lauw, and Treigh Love, members of LavaSaga, a new Bay Area theater collective. Their show “Second Chance” used a safe experiential evocation of death to guide guests to a greater appreciation of their own lives. Lauw is co-producer of Second Chance along with Shigeoka, who […]
Below is a Recollection–this is not a review, but rather a full spoiler walkthrough of the author’s experience in The Parallel/Heretic’s V A N II S H Part Two (Death). This is only one experience out of many that can occur when you flat-line, so all Deaths are expected to be different. Death is also one […]
Two parallel doors stand in front of you. While one offers you the comfort of a safe-word, the other strips you of the right. The first offers a beautiful narrative that lets you out at a specific time, and the second offers you the unknown, fear, death: you do not know the running-time of this […]
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