The Membrane / Veil

✦What happens there

The pivotal transition — a felt rupture or push 'through' a surface, after which the perceptual world changes wholesale. McKenna: 'I was pushed from behind and I fell through the chrysanthemum into another place.'

✦Description

The boundary surface one passes through to break through — often the chrysanthemum itself, 'a permeable membrane of initial hyperspace that either must be passed through or will be a wall locking you out.'

✦Further notes from the corpus

The Hyperspace Lexicon's 'Chrysanthemum' specifies the membrane's most-reported form: 'a gigantic, often spinning, kaleidoscopic fractal flower with a domelike appearance that turns into a doorway,' which either welcomes the traveler through or blocks access to breakthrough hyperspace — the veil as a living floral gate. A Nexus locations account adds 'The Red Lotus Flower': the interior of an enormous red flower with unfurling petals, reported as a place in itself on the near side of the crossing.

✦What the sources say

22% reported the distinct sensation of breaking through a veil/membrane; 58% a distinct arrival into a different environment.

'pushed from behind and I fell through the chrysanthemum into another place.'

The chrysanthemum/waiting-room boundary as 'a permeable membrane... pass through or be walled out.'

Lexicon: the Chrysanthemum as spinning fractal-flower dome/doorway that admits or blocks; locations thread: the Red Lotus Flower interior.