Are you in the game?

This is how I see the Uni­verse and it’s Grand and Mys­te­ri­ous Influ­ence:

In my dream I’m stand­ing next to you. You are one, but you are also infi­nite in your poten­tial. Split, in an impos­si­ble moment beyond time, into all thought, all feel­ing, and all the action that you are capa­ble of. This hap­pens in every instant. In every now, now and NOW of your life, for the rest of your life, until your heart stops beat­ing (and you go to another plane of exis­tence, what­ever that may look like).

In my dream, this is what your life looks like.

(except it’s kind of more like an infi­nite pile of domi­noes infi­nitely crash­ing into each other — you get the idea I’m sure — it’s just really grand and awe-some and domino-ey; I just couldn’t find a stock photo to accu­rately con­vey all of that, you know, within my bud­get )

To divine is to sur­mise an indi­ca­tion of the future.

I do this with cards. Here’s how I think it works:

In my dream, the All-sight-me is hav­ing a nice chat with the All-sight-you. Our All-sight-selves live in this no-time realm. I imag­ine them with a nice dif­fused glow about them… We’re look­ing at this big old pile of domi­noes together, get­ting a feel for which the One-sight-you (that’s the ver­sion that’s all fleshy and now and read­ing my blog) is going to knock over next in your infi­nite bum­bling about this time-constrained plane we’re expe­ri­enc­ing. All-sight-us throws down a sign to Insight-me. Insight-me (who is halfway between this no-time/time dichotomy and doesn’t glow as much…) says to One-sight-you, “Whoa! Stop! Let me talk to Insight-you, because that’s where we need to be fig­ur­ing things out now.” So Insight-me talks to Insight-you in hopes of get­ting One-sight-you to stop from push­ing over that next domino (or hell, push them all over! push push!). And of course, all of this divine chit-chat is hap­pen­ing with the back-of-the-mind under­stand­ing that you’re actu­ally top­pling all the domi­noes at once, infi­nitely, for­ever, and that all poten­tial deci­sions have already been decided and that the ulti­mate out­come was life, the Uni­verse and everything.

Any­way, what this all boils down to is that you and I are hav­ing this con­ver­sa­tion about a future you may poten­tially expe­ri­ence. But going beyond that, know­ing how you’re likely to expe­ri­ence an event in the future is only use­ful if you’re intend­ing or desir­ing a dif­fer­ent course of action for the now.

I don’t read cards because I have it all fig­ured out. Peo­ple don’t come to me for a read­ing because they’re 100% sat­is­fied with the lives they’re liv­ing (though that might be an inter­est­ing change of pace for me now and then!). They come because they want to stop indulging some habit, want to move beyond a hur­dle, or go in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion completely.

Now, remem­ber my domino thing? This is the point of my blog post today — you have to push it if you want to move it. Hav­ing an indi­ca­tion of future events is only use­ful if you’re actively par­tic­i­pat­ing in your present. You can con­tinue to come to Insight-you for that divine line to All-sight — hop­ing for that win­dow to a ver­sion of the self that dwells in hap­pi­ness, but unless you’re in the game, fully, actively par­tic­i­pat­ing in your life, it will con­tinue to be just a stack of blocks.

So my ques­tion, gen­tle reader, is, do you want to play?