Eewm, one of the walkthrough says that you have to "avoid letting that pink electricity touch you. It always moves in the same repeating pattern; so just look for the pattern, and then step where the pink electricity is not. So, from the way you are facing, look for the pattern, and when the timing is appropriate, step all the way forward to the end. Then start going towards the left a little, but then go down those set of steps in the middle. Then, move to the right a little bit, and go down the next set of steps. At the bottom of these set of steps, move to the left a little bit, and then go behind the set of steps. Behind the set of steps, then you go to the right, come forward a little bit, right again, and then left and then go up the short flight of steps."
Getting back from the control panel is just a matter of retracing your steps along the same path that you used to get there...