The Wired

In the Serial Experiments Lain, the "Wired" can be described as an alternate consciousness analogous with reality; all forms of networking: internet, telecommunications, but mostly through the use of computers. The theme of the series is the thought that the "Wired" can be entered without to use of physical interface using Protocol 7. The theory was to create a new level of consciousness, not bound to genetic make-up or species; to become a global living brain. In the beginning episodes, the series alludes to all of humanity being connected. Then the true themes begin to surface. Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, the Neurogenetic Circuit of Timothy Leary and the Phylogenetic Unconscious of Grof and Ring. They all are striving for one thing, immortality through advanced understanding and uniting our realities as one.

-Chantz Compton