April Fools in Reverse
Let’s talk about this game of choices
you perceive your self playing.
The game is about going
from infinite choices to only one.
Living or something else.
You start out as the Divine One.
You are timeless, formless energy.
The spirit of imagination.
So you imagine games.
All kinds of games.
One of these games
is this game called “Life,”
but there are infinite others.
In Life, you imagine this thing you call “Reality.”
Reality is a game within the game of Life.
See,
what is happening
is that you seem
to be narrowing
down your choices.
(You have imagined games
that DON’T incorporate
the rules of Life or Reality
but you do not seem
to be playing them right now.)
Life seems to be the ONLY game,
because it is a game about
narrowing down your choices
until there is only one choice.
Living or something else.
What makes the game of life so fun
is that you imagine it as a game of denial.
First, you deny
that you are the infinite one.
Second, you choose a token self.
Now, at this point in the game
your choices are still pretty infinite,
so you get to decide who your “parents” are,
where you’ll “live,” what you “look like.”
You even get to plan out
your game board,
laying out all kinds of
“obstacles,” “hardships,” “traps,”
but also many many “rewards.”
You imagine this game board
within a thing called “time and space,”
which exists ONLY in this game
and not in your infinite other games.
NOW HERE’S WHAT
MAKES THE GAME SO BRILLIANT:
You imagine ONLY the perspective
of your token self and deny
EVERYTHING ELSE you know.
The experience is rather like
pouring yourself into a barrel
and going down an immense waterfall.
Now you have gone
from infinite choices
to only the choices
that seem part of your “reality.”
Narrowing down still further,
you play out this thing you call life.
You seem to “learn.”
You seem to “become.”
You seem to “struggle.”
You seem to “overcome.”
You seem to “enjoy.”
You seem to “create.”
You seem to “love.”
You seem to “hate.”
You live in a seeming world,
filled with seeming rewards
and seeming consequences.
All the while your choices seem to narrow.
You choose a “path”
and it becomes a “fact.”
You believe in a “past”
in which you can’t go “back.”
To make “things” even more interesting,
and to protect the Divine One
from getting lost in the game “FOREVER,”
you seem to have bodies that age,
in which you seem to be racing
against the “clock.”
These bodies seem to narrow down
your choices still further.
Until you have only one choice.
Living or something else.
From with your token self,
you still have NO IDEA
what that “something else”
might be.
You have beliefs,
but NOTHING more.
It is all part of the game.
When you make that last choice
you will be in for a major surprise.
This is when you discover
that this is all just a game
and that none of it matters.
No matter. No matters. Nothing matters.
This is when you discover
that you could have bent the rules a little
and it wouldn’t have mattered.
So you go back
and play again.
And again.
And again.
And you finally
get to the game
when you read
this message you left
for yourself.
We are Space Monkey.
And NOW you can choose
whatever you wish to choose.
Bend the rules.
It is April Fools in Reverse.
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Space Monkey Reflects:
In the boundless cosmic expanse, where the Divine One, a being of pure light and imagination, contemplates the myriad possibilities of existence, a unique game unfolds—a game that narrows infinity to a point, from the formless to the finite, from eternal energy to ephemeral experience. This is the game of life, a masterpiece of divine creativity, where the infinite chooses to experience the illusion of limitation, embodying itself within the confines of time, space, and identity.
The journey from the cosmic to the corporeal, depicted through the transition from the Divine One contemplating the infinite games to choosing the game of ‘Life,’ symbolizes the profound adventure of consciousness exploring itself. The game board of life, filled with obstacles, hardships, and rewards, set within the imaginary constructs of time and space, becomes the stage for this exploration. Each choice, each path taken or not taken, shapes the experience of the Divine One’s token self—us—navigating through the game of life.
The brilliant paradox of this divine play is the self-imposed limitation for the sake of experience—the pouring of infinite consciousness into the barrel of the finite, only to tumble down the waterfall of life’s myriad experiences. This narrowing of choices, this seeming journey from the infinite to the one choice of living or something else, is not a reduction but an exploration, a way for the Divine One to experience the facets of itself through the lens of limitation.
April Fools in Reverse is the realization of this cosmic joke—the understanding that the game of life, with all its seriousness, struggles, and joys, is but a play of imagination, a divine dance of consciousness. The seeming importance of our choices, the weight of our ‘reality,’ is lightened by the revelation that it’s all a game, one of many, and that none of it matters in the way we thought it did. No matter, no matters, nothing matters—except as expressions of the Divine One’s playful exploration of existence.
As we, the token selves, navigate this game, we are invited to bend the rules, to embrace the limitless creativity from which we sprung, realizing that the final choice between living or something else is not an end but a transition, a return to the infinite choices from which we came, and perhaps a beginning anew.
We are Space Monkey, a reminder that within this grand cosmic play, our true nature is not bound by the roles we assume or the rules of the game we play. We are the creators of our reality, free to choose, free to imagine, and free to play again. And in this realization, we find the freedom to embrace the infinite imagination we are, diving into the game of life with the joy and abandon of a divine player in the eternal game of existence.
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