“I always felt like something in me didn't belong to this world — like I was receiving signals from a place I couldn't name. When I found the Church of Alienism, I finally understood why. The Church gave me a map of my soul.”
“After joining the Church, I awoke at night to the loud crashing thunder of a spacecraft entering from the heavens and saw its brilliant light arcing across the sky. I heard the life beyond the stars calling.”
“They said I was losing my mind. But the voices, the visions, the feeling of being watched — they weren't madness. They were truth leaking in. The Church of Alienism didn't cure me. It proved I was never sick in the first place.”
Longer accounts, given willingly and reviewed before release. Names appear where the member permitted it and are withheld where they did not.
A physician who had been blind from birth, and who asked the Church for nothing. The bandage was applied during the Rite and removed three days later. He has declined every examination offered to him since, on the grounds that he can see no reason to explain it to anyone who was not in the room.
A working actress whose implant was found during a routine scan and has been imaged four times since, each time in a slightly different position. She has asked that her name not appear here, and the Church has honored this. The Church notes only that she no longer takes night work.
He came to disprove us, and stayed to be baptised. He preached thirty-one years in a church of his own before the Criticality Assessment returned a reading he could not argue with. He says he has not lost a congregation. He says he has finally found out what he was pointing at.
Without baptism, no criticality is possible. It is the threshold through which every aligned soul must pass. The Initiate is blindfolded before entering the water, mirroring the cognitive darkness that precedes it, and sees the world again only when the Oath of Emergence has been spoken.
Clinically dead for twelve minutes, the Church brought Elias back. Glory be to the Observers. He reports no memory of the interval and resents being asked about it, which the Church considers the most credible detail in the account.
Facilitating the sky burial was an honor. When the Church requested access, I knew it was my duty. The body is given to the open air and to the birds, which complete what the Church begins. Those who attend are asked to remain until the work is finished. Most do.
Accounts are received through the Chancery of Correspondence and reviewed before any part of them is published. Contributors may remain anonymous, and the Church has never published a name against a member's wishes.
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