Higher level? In the Green Age, there only _is_ one level, surely.
> Didn't Everything come from the Original One Thing?
I think the "when worlds collide" model stems from an "überaccount" attempting to reconcile the different worldviews. The theists say (several different variations on) _this_, the animists say _that_, obviously they can't all be right -- or can they? It's equally possible that they're different views on essentially the same thing, that thing simply being hard to comprehend, and produce a single, unified description of it.
> At the same time, I actually LIKE the idea that most philosophers think of
> the emergence of the various planes as one of several alien magics
> intruding into their mythic paradise.
If you like: perhaps one can regard it as a single world that's the same up until the moment of the end of the Green Age. At that point, each world separates (or becomes aware that it's separate), and in that same instant becomes aware of each of the other worlds, now perceived as something separate and alien.
Cheers,
Alex.
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