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While most of the Bubbleverse is unconscious, the conscious part of the Bubbleverse can best be described as a hierarchy of universes. Like a Russian doll, the Bubbleverse contains religious, scientific and sociocultural Commonverses inside. In the young child, the fabric of the Bubbleverse is a mixture of primordial phenomena. As the Bubbleverse matures, it becomes a structure that contains the core Bubbleverse (a residue of the original primordial Bubbleverse) in the centre and the commonverses on the periphery. On a different scale, there appear internal divisions between realms, such as between ordinary and extraordinary realities. Ordinary reality is put together by the laws of nature, whereas extraordinary reality is based on the innate properties of phenomena and does not obey the law of physical causality.
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Subbotsky, E. (2020). Structure of the Bubbleverse. In: The Bubble Universe: Psychological Perspectives on Reality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49008-9_7
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