Multlayer nature of god

Serial Experiments Lain

[Layer 01: Weird]

Why you should do that...
is something you should figure out for yourself.

I...
don't need to stay in a place like this.

If you stay in a place like this...
you might not be able to connect.

Everybody hurry...

What's it like when you die?
It really hurts. :)

[Layer 02: Girls]

Cyberia?
I don't come here because I want to.

10,000 yen?! What a ripoff!
The going price is only around 4,000!

We call it Accela.
It's not exactly a drug.
But you have to jumpo though the same kind of hoops to get it.

I feel...
accelerated.

Hurry up, come to me.

Everyone is connected.

Why wont' you come?

[Layer 03: Psyche]

[Layer 04: Religion]

[Layer 05: Distortion]

- One theory says that man is a neoteny, and is no longer able to evolve. If this is true, then what an absurd creature man has evolved into. Not knowing what it is that drives them, they keep their bodies merely to satisfy the desires of the flesh. They're worthless, don't you think? That's all mankind is. But it is no longer necessary to remain a wretched human being. Manking has finally created an exit whereby it may escape.
- What do you mean?
- The network. The Wired, Lain.
- Who are you?
- I am God.

[Layer 06: Kids]

[Layer 07: Society] 

[Layer 08: Rumors]

[Layer 09: Protocol]

[Layer 10: Love]

[Layer 11: Infornography]

No, it's nothing as ambiguous as memory.

[Layer 12: Landscape]

- Humans were originally connected at uncounscious level. I reconnected them. That's all.
- Lain, you?
- I don't do anything. It doesn't matter which is real, this side or the other. I was in both. I'm a program designed to destroy the barrier between the Wired and the real world.
- You're a program, Lain?
- You and everyone else, Arisu, you're just applications.
- The truth is, you don't need bodies.

[Layer 13: Ego]

- But where is the real me? Oh, right. There is no real me. I only exist inside those people who are aware of my existence.

-If you don't remember something, it never happened.
- Don't remember?
- If you aren't remembered, you never existed.
- Who are you talking about?
- Like I said. Nobody.

What isnt' remembered never happened.
Memory is merely a record.
You just need to rewrite that record.