Figure 1 – The black hole that is the Axis Mundi, Natick, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2019.
The axis mundi is the tree at the center of the universe. It is everywhere. You just need to tune your mind to its presence. Today I found it in the most mundane of places, in a department store. And this particular tree, I believe, is a wooden log long soaked in water – soaked so long in water that the wood becomes dense and the wood ceases to float. What strikes me here is the way that it evokes the sense of a gravitational black hole – ever distant but compelling. And it is this singularity of space-time that beckons us to the possibilities of an infinity of strange, even frightening, parallel universes that is the multiverse.
“To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!”