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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison

“…the experience that I had in Kathmandu, which I don’t have any explanation for and in The Invisibles I went through every possible one: I read Whitley Strieber, I read Philip K. Dick, I read everyone who’d reported this type of unusual experience and the parameters are all the same, all their nervous systems reported slightly differently and used their own sci-fi language or technological language or mythological language depending on who they are.

But ultimately the thing’s the same and it’s like the shamanic process whereby you appear to be taken out of reality into a higher dimension, the body is stripped and destroyed and then you are put back with extra knowledge which then leads in to weird synchronicities and unusual experiences which began to proliferate as The Invisibles was being written so the whole thing –– I was living that comic as a diary, as it was being written and the occult stuff in it and the martial arts, that’s all real stuff and as it was happening it was going in to the comic so it’s probably about 60% biography in there.

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RM: I’m gonna pry open that last answer a little bit here.  First up, what happened to you in Kathmandu?  What was the alien visitation experience like?

GM: The short version is that I was sitting up on the roof garden of the BajaRat Hotel and this thing happened and –– it’s hard to describe, we’re going into areas that are unusual, so all I remember is getting back downstairs and laying on the bed and –– some unusual things happened, and then it seemed like there were entities in the room, it was like those silver morphing blobs you see in rave videos. It was like computer generated things and they claimed to be cross-sections of fifth-dimensional entities as expressed through four-dimensional spacetime and they claimed that I was one of them and that I had to come back and see what the old homestead was like. And that was when I felt like I was peeled off the surface of spacetime and they took me out of my body and then to what seemed to be the fifth dimension because I could see the entirety of space and time as a dynamic object in which Shakespeare was over here, and I was over here and the dinosaurs were here and we were all in the same object, and time was a thing.

So, I appeared to be in a fifth dimensional fluid, an information space that I could say was maybe kinda bluish, extending out infinitely. These things swam through it and interacted with it and they told me that what the universe was, was a larval form of what they are, which is fifth-dimensional entities. And the only way to grow a fifth-dimensional entity is to plant it in time, henceforth our universe.

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RM: I remember you telling me this story once before and you were saying it was like you could pick lint off of your sweater and then throw it up in the air and it would surround you in a different kind of environment.

GM: I was trying to describe how they make universes and they said they could make them by detaching parts of their substance and plugging them into the surrounding fluid, the medium, the fifth-dimensional information fluid that we’re all swimming through and when you did that, when you plugged in a fractal component of yourself into the universe it would grow around you and become another one of these universes and the idea was that those of us who knew, who had this experience were supposedly midwives for this larva. Because we remembered and you’d go back and you’re constantly trying to encourage the larva forward because it has to go, I mean it could die, it could just as easily die, but this one seems to work, I’ve got a feeling this one works.

RM: So it wasn’t scary.

GM: Not at all, no. It was monumental, it was soul-shaking but it wasn’t scary.

RM: (Grins.) What was the next day like?

GM: The next day was the oddest thing. I was buzzing, I wrote like 200 pages in a notebook to try and get it down. And then tries to explicate it for the next six years. (Laughs.) And now you know I can just dismiss it.

RM: Now you can turn it in to a big Hollywood film and make a couple of million dollars.

GM: Well hopefully!

(Commercial break.)