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Twin Peaks Introduction Thread.

Ultima_Reality

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So, this happened. I am not really going to waste time doing introductions and get straight to the point here.

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Basically, the cosmology of Twin Peaks is structured roughly like this:

  • Reality as a whole is in fact, a Dream, but not a normal one: It is basically an actual, multi-layered structure compromised of multiple, nested realities and greater planes. It is divided into:
    • The Universe where the town of Twin Peaks resides. It is comprised of infinite higher vibrational planes of existence, which can be accessed by shifting one's own "density" along the frequencies of reality, identified here as part of the "Fifth Dimension", although it has nothing to do with actual spatial axes. Considering that those universal planes are explicitly referred to as "higher" and ordinal positions are given to the densities denoted by them, it is pretty clear that they are indeed greater spaces of existence.
    • The White and Black Lodges, extradimensional, metaphysical planes which exist beyond, and underlie the physical universe and its space-time, residing in the nothingness outside of reality. The Black Lodge appears as a seemingly infinite series of hallways separated by red curtains known as the Red Room, behind which is a void of darkness.
    • "Odessa", an artificial dream-world which exists in a higher layer of the dream, trivializing the reality of Twin Peaks as fiction and being accessed once said reality's narrative was over and all was revealed as a dream, through a highway 430 miles away from an unknown origin point.
  • "Above" all that is the "Real World" of the verse, to which the above realities are just part of a dream. Above it, in turn, is:
    • A starry void of nonexistence which seemingly encompasses reality and its higher planes (Including the Black Lodge), serving as a gateway of sorts to even greater realms.
    • The Room Above the Convenience Store, the "real" form of the Black Lodge, outside of the dream in a state which lacks such monikers. It manifests as an old motel demolished in 1965, called "The Dutchman's Lodge", and is implied to be where the spirits associated with the Black Lodge truly reside, with the Red Room being more of a by-product of the Dream than anything.
    • The Mauve Zone, a transcendental plane of existence, occupied by the primal forms of the Lodges which appear as giant mansions amidst an endless sea. Its inhabitants perceive all of the above as fiction, and can actually create static, archetypal concepts which can be actualized within the physical plane.
More details about the cosmology can be found in this video.

Hence, I propose:

Spirits of the Lodges: At least High 1-B

Inhabitants of the Mauve Sea: 1-A

You can see some examples in the following profile drafts I made:

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2

3
 
One complaint:

Are we absolutely sure that the articles on the website "Grant Chronicles", linked through the in-universe "Searching for the Zone" website, are truly meant to be taken seriously? I mean, I'm not sure if that site is just a real website that's being linked, such as the Tesla Article or the Science Magazine / Website Articles, but it seems to be the actual homepage of a pseudo-science conspiracy theorist... And yet the whole talk about vibrational frequencies and higher dimensions seems to match with the show.

Like, it has shit about Nibiru and Ancient Aliens and whatnot. It sounds far-fetched even by Twin Peaks standards.

I mention this because it is the sole source for the High 1-B / 1-A stuff.
 
Yes, the show itself makes it deliberate to name and reference the website multiple times within the third season when going into the nature of the Lodges. An essential character within the show by the name of Major Briggs even has his statements corroborated by the site itself when speaking of the nature of what's beyond their reality as said prior.

Much the show itself delves into conspiracy and the topic of aliens has been touched on by the plot when going into the existence of Project Blue Book as a focal part of the story. The site itself, while on the fringe and seemingly crackpot, is even made by a character in the story who encountered the entities in the Lodges to gain the knowledge of them to make the site to begin with.
 
An irl friend and the twin peaks wiki people wanted me to check this show out, I suppose I should at some point
 
Matthew Schroeder said:
One complaint:

Are we absolutely sure that the articles on the website "Grant Chronicles", linked through the in-universe "Searching for the Zone" website, are truly meant to be taken seriously? I mean, I'm not sure if that site is just a real website that's being linked, such as the Tesla Article or the Science Magazine / Website Articles, but it seems to be the actual homepage of a pseudo-science conspiracy theorist... And yet the whole talk about vibrational frequencies and higher dimensions seems to match with the show.

Like, it has shit about Nibiru and Ancient Aliens and whatnot. It sounds far-fetched even by Twin Peaks standards.

I mention this because it is the sole source for the High 1-B / 1-A stuff.
TBH I actually agree it's a bit... suspicious. If there is other High 1-B stuff (Ultima said there is in a book) then it fine, but if not then Low 1-C I geuss
 
What Aku said: It is valid because the whole context behind those articles is that a guy, Bill Hastings, used the information in them to travel to an alternate, metaphysical dimension, where he found Major Briggs, the guy who actually described higher planes in the exact same way Grant Chronicles does: Higher vibrational densities.

My memories of the event, to this day, remain a hazy jumble: blinding white light issuing from a suggestion of some object or mass above me, a silent dark-robed figure beckoning. Paralyzed with terror, I seemed to move without volition to some other space. Alone but in the presence of some immense, overwhelming force, as if gravity had increased a thousandfold. A flood of words sliced through my mind, words not my own, nor in any language known to me, a voice metallic, ringing, bitter. This was my knowledge, I sensed through my terror, from some unknown order, of a higher vibrational quality beyond my ability to process, uncanny, perhaps electromagnetic in nature and not in the remotest way human.
Yeah, the site is mostly a guy spinning kooky, pseudo-scientific theories, but those very same kooky theories allowed an actual character to reach another plane of existence. They are very much in-universe information, specially since the site itself also links to an article by Tesla regarding electricity, which we already know is a fundamental element of the verse's setting, so that is another proof they are clearly supposed to be taken seriously.
 
I had some uncertainties, as most of the feats seem to hinge on the website, as Matt pointed out. But if the website is a part of the narrative and is used to explain the cosmology, I suppose it's fine.
 
I'm still VERY uncertain on rating it as High 1-B based on a single statement on a conspiracy website about "infinite higher-vibrational worlds". I think that's going with the highest possible interpretation and we should be more conservative here. Even without it the Cosmology seems 1-C so it's okay?
 
I personally feel like that's too much nitpicking for a pretty direct quote in-of-itself. It being a Conspiracy Website doesn't really have any impact on its validity, specially when the verse itself demonstrably takes huge influence from pseudo-scientifical ideas and conspiracy theories - In fact the latter are a pretty vital part of the third book, which is the one that references Grant Chronicles in the first place.

Not to mention that the copyright of this site has most likely expired by now, given how it is mostly defunct links at this point, and the fact it's internet domain was created in 2000 and expires this year. So even if the guy behind it still exists, it being a real site also isn't really a problem.

Furthermore, the articles linked in The Search for the Zone are pretty clearly being used to reference elements of the verse itself, like the essay by Tesla talking about electricity, which I already mentioned here.

But, if people are this warry of it, I could settle for "At least 1-C, possibly High 1-B" or something along those lines.
 
They would probably be all High 1-C (1-B for the God-Tiers) as a low-end actually, given all of the layers they transcend:

Twin Peaks World (High 2-A) < Red Room (Low 1-C) < "Odessa" (1-C) < Real World (1-C?) < Starry Void (1-C) < Dutchman's Lodge/The Convenience Store (High 1-C - Most Lodge Spirits end up here) < The Experiment's Void (At least High 1-C) < Mauve Zone (1-B) < MOM/"God Energy" (1-B)
 
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