Reality Checkpoint — Attraction in Cambridge

On my visit to Cambridge this quirky lamp post was the first place where I felt I had now really entered the academic center. The name is just mysterious enough and then there is that neat little dinky door at the bottom of the post. Not really much else to see but if you are coming from the station you could as well make the detour through...

I first came across the Reality Checkpoint while walking across Parkers Piece in freezing fog way back in 1978. It was just a lamppost then, with a door that only appeared at the strangest times. It helped me anchor myself at a time when that was difficult, and since then it has been so...

Really pretty hopeless. I frequently deal with individuals who have negotiated Reality Checkpoint dozens of times, and I must report with disappointment that in many cases their grasp on reality remains tenuous at best. The Checkpoint is evidently not performing its...