The chapter opens with a description of the world of Lemuria, which is described as a unique place in the universe because it is inhabited by humans. After 11 years of failed interactions between humans and animals, the world faces a "glitch" . The result is a kind of "proprassination for the future" , in which the human body proves to be a perfect vessel for the nonphysical world to return home with a new perspective. Lemuria's head of the "global media bureau" tells the audience that the entire show is a "play" and that the people of the island are "scaremongers" who are "bathed in despair" by the "predation" of the clergy. He tells them that he is going to show them how to "penetrate the minds" of their fellow human beings with the smallest possible number of people. He says that the only problem with the island is that the Grand Clergy is destroying it. He reminds them that they are trying to "improve" the island, but they are destroying themselves by doing so. He asks them to "try and grow up" a little before their next meeting. He wants them to remember that he can always offer them "a shortcut to heaven to touch her again" and he will send them to the opposite side of heaven himself . They agree to meet in twenty minutes.