“Outside of our space-time continuum is the metaphysical universe. How many dimensions it occupies – more or less than four – I haven’t a clue. Liberated from time, space has no meaning. However many dimensions exist, they’re not in another universe, they’re not out there beyond Pythagoras’s celestial spheres. The metaphysical world is all around us, all the time. It’s in another dimension we can’t see until the kernel of our consciousness is liberated from the husk of our brains. It’s right here, in the eternal now, less than a millimetre away at the end of my fingertip. Just through the plaster ceiling in the hospital ward.”