Zero
Point Place
1 In your imagination,
go to a place that hangs in a timeless state. You know it as the place where
you find yourself automatically reset, back to your original state, back to
square one. This is your zero point place. In this zero point place there is a
nest well. What is the nest well and how do you retrieve water from it?
2 After retrieving
water from the nest well, you carry it to a garden where all the plants are
dead. Describe this garden. In this dead garden is a dry birdbath. When you
pour the water into the birdbath, the garden is suddenly restored. New life
springs forth out of the ground. What kind of life appears?
3 Also within this
garden you notice a group of injured surgeons at a pool table. They are playing
a game of pool with balls that are inlaid with images of aquatic life instead
of numbers. As they play the game their injuries begin to heal. What do you do
when you see them? Describe what this healing is like as you observe it.
4 Moving on to the
outer edge of the garden, you find a hammock between two trees. Lay down in the
hammock and sink into a peaceful state. As you lay here in silence, a dark
angel glides down from above and presents you with a crystal ball. Describe
this angel and your encounter with it. Look into the crystal ball and see a vision
of a road. Describe this road and where you think it leads.
5 Suddenly remove
yourself from this scene. From where you are now, imagine that this world is a
dream. Feel the “tug” or whatever indicators you experience when you are about
to wake up from a dream. Now wake up. Where are you? What kind of person are
you really? What is your first instinct now that you are finally awake? Is
there a person you need to talk to? Describe the scenario you wake up into.
6 Upon waking up, you
see that there is someone there, someone who has been waiting patiently for you
to wake up. Who is this person and what is their circumstance for being there?
They listen as you tell them about your dream, which they consider and give
their interpretation of.
7 You remember now that
this person is your partner in what is to be a kind of improv performance. This
is a special style of improv called a Work Performance, where you will attempt
to work at a random job before an audience in a staged setting. You and your
acting group have the goal of trying to make this act of arbitrary labor
somehow interesting to those that are watching. Try to guess what kind of job
you and your partner will be asked to “perform”.
8 As you prepare to get
ready for this, the two of you proceed through a garden and into a greenhouse
that grows volcanos. What is this place? Explain the volcano greenhouse.
9 Inside the volcano
greenhouse there is a makeshift dressing room station set up. Use this station
to prepare a disguise you think will help you to fit into this role. Think
about what you might be asked to do at the work performance.
10 Also in the green
house is a glass centrifuge with feathers in the vials. What happens when you
spin the centrifuge? How do your surroundings change? How do you change?
11This new environment
hangs in position momentarily then “deflates” as if the illusion could not
hold. What caused it to collapse? Did you notice something or someone that
seemed out of place? How do you imagine this deflating?
12 When the new
location collapses, it takes your disguise with it, leaving only the road that
you saw earlier in the crystal ball. What is at the end of the road? Whatever
is at the end of the road reveals what kind of job you will have to perform,
because this is where the work performance is being held. You see the chairs
and accommodations for the audience set up in or around whatever this is at the
end of the road, but no one seems to have arrived yet. What job is this that
you will be giving a performance of?
13 Upon arrival you
discover a notice indicating that the performance has been cancelled. What do
you do now?
14 Take special notice
of the lighting for this area where the work performance was going to be.
Describe the qualities of this lighting. Tracing the light to its source, you
notice that the light source is actually a glass container containing some of
the lifeforms that appeared in the garden. Listen closely and hear they are
whispering something.
Interpretations for
Zero Point Place
1 The nest well in the
zero point place represents your intuitive vision.
2 The new life that
appears when you fill the birdbath in the dead garden represents what you
believe will happen to the things you let go of.
3 How the injuries heal
represents how you respond to the mistakes you make and being wrong.
4 Your interaction with
the dark angel and the road in crystal ball represents how you feel about doing
what is necessary.
5 The place you wake up
in represents the part of yourself you forgot existed.
6 The person who is
there when you wake up and how they interpret your dream represents how you
search for the other parts of yourself that are lost.
7 What job you
anticipate you will have to perform in the work performance represents the
current obstacle you are trying to overcome.
8 The volcano
greenhouse reflects your approach to discovering new ways to connect with
others.
9 The disguise that will
help you fit into the role represents how you think others discover new ways to
connect with you.
10 The changes that
occur in response to spinning the centrifuge represents what you think will
happen once the connection is actually formed.
11How you envision the collapse
of the new environment embodies forgotten priorities
12 What is at the end
of the road and the job you will perform represents the mysteries you create
for others to experience.
13 What you do when you
find out the performance is cancelled represents something you want to know
more about.
14 The lighting of this
space and the whispers of the lifeforms in the glass jar represents the
questions you want to answer for another.
Light
Places
1 Imagine as many
different qualities of light as you can think of and the kinds of environments
they are anchored in. Notice that in each of these unique lighting environments
the sense of time passing seems to be slightly different. Try to think of as
many different qualities of time as you can, such as time passing slowly or
time flowing quickly. In each example you think of, notice the pairings of
quality of light and quality of time. We can refer to this singular quality as lightime. Make a list of as many different
kinds of lightime as you can think of. Just as the Inuit have numerous words to
describe the many different manifestations of ice, assign a name for each kind
of lightime on your list.
2 Now, to add another
layer to this, imagine that each kind of lightime you named corresponds to a
person who is missing, who also has that same name. This is your missing
persons list. Who are these missing persons? What does it mean that a quality
of lightime corresponds to a person? Explain this connection.
3 For each kind of
lightime on your missing persons list, seek out and find places that literally
have those qualities of light and time. Once you find this location, hear the
voice of that missing person speaking in a language of light, telling you how
they can be found. Follow their instructions. What actually happens as a result
of doing what they say?
4 After this is done, make
a mental snapshot of each of these places and what occurred when you went
there. Let these images resonate in your mind until your understanding of the
qualities they represent becomes stabilized. Having this understanding,
translate the subtle qualities of each lightime into a number. Strung together,
these numbers form a lightcode. What
is a lightcode?
5 Now imagine a creation lock. What is the creation
lock? Enter the string of numbers into the creation lock. How do you enter the
lightcode into the lock? What happens as a result?
Interpretations for
Light Places
1 The qualities of
light and time you think of represents why you want to fulfill your purpose in
this world.
2 The missing persons
list and the connection between people and lightime represents what you really believe
will actually happen after you have fulfilled your life purpose as you understand
it to be.
3 The locations that
harbor specific lightimes and what happens when you follow the instructions of
the voices represents an aspect of the effect your work will have that you have
not yet realized.
4 The lightcode
represents how you will respond if you fail to fulfill your purpose.
5 The creation lock and
what happens when you enter the code represents how your life task relates to
the life tasks of others.
Thought Soup
1 Inside the spider’s
kitchen. You and others are sitting at an amber table browsing through a book
of recipes. What is this place? Who are they? Describe.
2 Someone comes across
recipes for thought soup. In order to make this soup they will add an
assortment of ideas and thoughts to someone’s head, then let it stew until a
new substance is formed.
Whose head do they
choose to make the soup in? Is it you? Now the whole group sets out to seek
these ingredients.
3 The first stop is a treehouse
library. This is a library of ideas. The shelves in this library do not hold
books, but instead individual tablets with single phrases or paragraphs. Your
job is to check out individual pages which are assembled together into a single
book, which you check out and leave the library with. When you return the book
it is disassembled and the pages returned to their original shelves. Describe
this treehouse library as you imagine it.
4 Here at this library
you and your friends assemble an idea book uniquely for person whose brain they
are using to make thought soup (if that person is you, then you wait while they
assemble it for you).
When the book is ready,
they read it causing their mind to become fluid and heat up until it becomes a
bubbling liquid. What is their reaction to this?
5 The second stop is a
spice market inside of an ice castle. The spices here are collected by
explorers who travel the universe in search of paradoxical perspectives and beliefs
that should not exist but somehow do. Their work is to capture the pure
essences of these perspectives and convert them into fine substances. Describe
this market. What are the vendors like? What are the buyers like and what do
they use the spices for?
6 As you and your group
browse the vast selection, you speculate as to how the spices are extracted. Explain
how you think this might be done. After you have guessed as best you can, ask
one of the vendors for their explanation. What do they tell you? How close were
you?
7 Finally your group
makes a choice about what spices they want to add to the thought soup. What
spices do they choose and what essences do they encapsulate? What happens when
they are added to the boiling fluid in your head?
8 The third stop for
ingredients takes your group to an illegal printing press inside an empty
warehouse.
This operation is run
by an elusive group known as The Chroniclers who dedicate their lives to
telling the invisible stories that are mundane and not worth telling. Once
recorded, these stories are told and retold and retold more until they start to
shift and change and grow and become richer. Each retelling of the story is
recorded and archived so that its evolution can be tracked.
Describe this operation, specifically the warehouse itself.
9 Once the story has
undergone a specified number of retellings, each version is collected into a
single volume and placed inside an underground cellar where it undergoes a
metaphysical “fermentation”. Once the volume has aged through the process of
fermentation it becomes available for purchase. The more aged the story, the
higher the price. Speculate about what exactly happens during fermentation.
Describe the change the story undergoes.
10 You have the
opportunity to meet some of these chroniclers. Describe what kind of people
they seem to be and why they choose this as a life goal.
11 They lead your group
down into their cellar archives where you can choose a book for purchase.
Describe these cellars
where there are many thick volumes. Describe the book that they choose and its
value.
12 Before the
ingredient of the book can be added, they must first go to the reading room,
which is located deep in the skeleton forest. What is the skeleton forest and
how did it get its name? What is the reading room and why is it located in the
middle of this forest? Why can’t they add the book to soup until they go to the
reading room?
13 As your group is
hiking through the skeleton forest they harvest wild vegetables, herbs,
mushrooms, and assorted curious artifacts they find growing near the path. What
are these additions that are added to the soup? Where are they found growing
within the forest? Is this a fertile or barren environment for growing these
kind of plants? How is the soup turning out?
14 Finally you arrive
at the reading room and go inside. Describe this place. The person whose head
they are making the soup in finds a comfortable chair to sit in and begins
reading the book. Next to the chair is a brass marble works contraption with
tiny marble sized planets rolling through it. Reading the book is the final
step in making the soup. What happens when they start reading? What is the
story about?
15 At last the thought
soup is done. How is this meal served? What happens when they eat the soup?
What are their
reactions to tasting the soup? What happens to the person whose mind the soup
was made in when the soup is removed and served?
Interpretations for Thought Soup
1 The spider’s kitchen
and those who are in there with you represents a mysterious method of guardianship
that involves leading people into the right illusions; the illusions that
enable self-discovery.
2The person whose head
they make the soup in represents the usefulness of anomalies.
3The tree house library
represents the limitations to intellect.
4 The book they assemble
and how you imagine the implications of the designated soup person’s brain
boiling represents the reason for collecting loose ends and what can happen if
they are merged together.
5 The spice market in
the ice castle represents the prayers that the collective consciousness of
humanity perceives as being the most noble and thus most worthy of response.
6 How you imagine the
spices are extracted represents how the routine of a person’s daily life
changes once they choose to end an unhealthy correspondence.
7 The spices your
friends buy and what they encapsulate represents empathy; where we are lead
when we choose to follow the footprints of another down their path.
8 The printing press embodies
how a failed transition into a new scenario can be a good thing.
9 How you explain
fermentation embodies the qualities of people who are able to undergo a long
process, staying locked in conflict for extremely long periods of time, and what
happens when they finally emerge from that.
10 The way you describe
the chroniclers represents a specific side effect of social isolation.
11 The cellars, the
book, and its value embody the nature of the last words that will be spoken on
earth.
12 The skeleton forest
represents what happens when people are forced to look at things that are hard
to face.
13 The things growing
near the path that they choose as the final ingredients represents ways of dissolving
of illusions.
14 The reading room, what
the book is about, and what happens when you read it is reflective of a debate
that is taking place within the human collective consciousness about how to
make their presence known to themselves in the world, and how they will achieve
this.
15 The whole scene
where the soup is finally served represents how the dead make do in the face of
separation; how the dead let go of the living.
The Changing Serpent
1 Imagine that you are
walking through a forest filled with wild hibiscus and many other flowering
plants. What brought you to this forest? Why are you here? As you walk you come
upon a campsite. Explain this setting, the campsite, and its purpose.
2 As you step into the
campsite and look around, you see a serpent slithering across the ground
towards you. What does it look like? As it approaches, you find some means to
stop it from moving, effectively freezing it in place. How do you do this? What
happens as a result?
3 The next thing you
notice on the ground in the campsite is a dreaming starfish. While holding the
image of the starfish in your mind, visualize the following sequence of things:
Wave Labyrinth
Embryos of a Blue Laser
Bubble Fractal Symphony
Now attempt to explain the dream of the
starfish as you understand it.
4 Pick up the star fish
and place it directly in the path of the frozen serpent. Now release the
serpent from whatever is keeping it frozen in place. What happens? You look up
and see that someone else watching this. Who?
5 Look on as this
person who is watching undergoes a transformation, changing into a form where
their true nature is free, and the environment around you and them also changes
to support this. Once the shift has completed this person steps forward to
explore their new habitat but finds themselves contained inside an invisible
box. What is their reaction?
6 Walk over and stand
in front of the box. In response to this person’s situation, you release particles
of encapsulated intention; compassion particles. What are compassion particles?
How do you create these particles and what effect do they have?
7 Now imagine similar
versions of this scene playing about in many different locations with many people,
with one person in an invisible box and the other person producing compassion
particles. Explore a variety of variations and effects.
8 When this has all
played out, the accumulated particles from all these scenes start flowing back
into the scene where you are. These currents are carried downstream through
space following paths of least resistance, curving under and around unseen
obstacles. In areas where the streams have thick concentrations of particles
time and space becomes warped like a funhouse mirror. What kind of sound do
these currents make?
9 Finally, these
streams of particles are deposited into several pools in front of you as you
are facing the person held in the invisible box. These concentrated pools warp
spacetime to an extent that a wormhole is formed. Reach out with your hands and
beat on these wormholes like drums. Describe the sound that issues from these wormhole
drums. What effect does it have? Does anyone else join you in playing these
drums?
10 As you play the
wormhole drums, the leftover particles drift up into the sky like embers and
get carried off by a Jetstream current. You look up into the sky and see this
current passing overhead and are sucked up into it and swept away. As you glide
through the air among these particles, you again encounter the snake and catch
it in your hands. How has its appearance changed since you last saw it?
11 The jetstream
carries you to the Temple of the Changing Serpent. In this temple people gather
to worship and petition the consciousness a specific type of reoccurring event,
as opposed to petitioning the consciousness of a deity. This is an intelligence
that expresses its existence through a reoccurring event is known as the Changing
Serpent. What is the Changing Serpent? Describe the worship that takes place
here and why. Describe the appearance of this temple inside and out.
12 As you walk through
the temple you come upon a chamber called the Chapel of the Dreaming Starfish. Describe
this chamber and the people who come here. Inside the chamber are a series of
monoliths. When you place a hand on the monoliths, it causes you to remember
the times you experienced small, ephemeral moments that brought to bear the
same amount of rewarding energy as the events you consider to be the major moments
of success in your life. These monoliths are memorials to the silent moments
that never receive recognition for their true value. Tell about some of these
moments.
Interpretations for
The Changing Serpent
1 The campsite in the forest
represents an unconscious decision to step into an understanding of wellbeing
that involves ideas that to you still reside in the liminal.
2 The serpent in the
campsite and how you freeze it in place represents yours intentions to
experience release from pain and struggle.
3 The dream of the
starfish represents your intention to release self-doubt
4 What happens when the
snake and the starfish meet represents your intention to give yourself
permission to act.
5 The person who is watching,
the form they change into, and how they react to being trapped in an invisible
box embodies the qualities of the person who is best poised to help you.
6 How you create the
compassion particles and their effect reflects your orientation towards making
the incomprehensible known.
7 The others across the
globe that are doing the same thing and producing compassion particles
represents how you see other’s ability to comprehend the invisible.
8 The flowing currents
of particles and the sound they produce reflects a quality of your personality
that is rarest and most unique to you, but also as a result invisible to
others.
9 The wormhole drums
represent how you validate the unique but invisible qualities of others.
10 How the appearance
of the serpent has changed now it is in the sky represents your willingness to
experience a shared release; whether or not you will experience your moment of
release alone or as a group.
11 The temple of the
Changing Serpent embodies the pressure to form connections with others to
fulfill a need for exchange, and how you behave under this pressure.
12 The chapel of the
starfish and the moments in the monoliths embodies a willingness to find
meaning and belonging in the truly meaningless.
Moon Vault
1 You are walking down
a beach by an ocean on a moon. Who are you and why are you here?
2 As you walk down the
coast you come upon a beached ship that mostly appears rusted and abandoned
except for lights that are coming from inside. The wreckage of this ship has been
repurposed and converted into a bank. Enter the bank. Inside the interior walls
of the bank are glass display cases with ancient pottery. What else do you see
here? What is the interior like? Describe this bank and its purpose.
3 Also inside the bank you
see a majestic elk. Somehow you must communicate with the elk and request
access to your vault. How do you communicate? Describe this exchange. What do
you have to do to be granted access?
4 After this you are
lead to the entrance to the vault, which is nothing more than a curtain. In the
space in front of the curtain a group of green children are playing. In order
to pass through, you must tell them the password. What is the password?
Describe the curtain and your exchange with the green children.
5 Continue onward, passing
through the curtain and into an inner courtyard filled with ancient olive trees
formed of living crystal. Placed in and among the ancient crystal trees are
doors numbered 1-7. Each door opens into a chamber that contains a specific
artifact. Describe the trees and the courtyard.
6 Go through the first
door and describe what you find on the other side. Inside this chamber is a
shell that once contained ancient sound but is silent. There is a sickness that
is spreading inside the vault, causing the artifacts in each of the 7 chambers to
become diseased and dysfunctional. Your purpose in entering the vault is to
mend the ailments of each artifact. Explain what you do to restore sound to the
shell.
7 Enter the second
chamber where glowing bones that explode then reform have lost their glow. What
do you do to restore their glow? What is the glow like? Once they are glowing
again, how does the nature of their explosions change?
8 Enter the third
chamber where archaeologists, each attached to a ball and chain, are excavating
something from the floor of the room but whatever it is they are unearthing
keeps reburying itself. What are
they discovering? How do you cure it so that it no longer keeps reburying
itself?
9 Enter the fourth
chamber where there is an empty prison cell with doors that rattle and shake
violently, as if the cell is inhabited by an angry ghost. On the floor of the
empty cell is a tiger skin.
Why are the bars
shaking and how do you cure it?
10 Enter the fifth
chamber where there is cabinet containing a crystal with polished surfaces.
Reflected on the polished surfaces you normally see reflections of things that
are not really there. But now, because of the sickness, it is just giving off
normal reflections of what is really there. How do you make it go back to
reflecting things that aren’t really there?
11 Enter the sixth
chamber where you find a decomposing math mask. But instead of decomposing the
mask is recomposing itself. You need it to be decomposing again. What is the
math mask? What does it mean for it to be decomposing? What ailment is causing
it be recomposing and how do you fix this?
12 Enter the seventh
chamber where there are assorted fossilized music boxes spread out on a burning
table. The music boxes no longer produce music. How do you fix this?
13 When your work is
done and it is time to leave, choose 2 items to remove from the vault. Explain
this choice and what you intend to do with them.
14 As you walk back
down the beach, you encounter people that are on their way to a party they will
never find. Who are they and what is their story? They ask about the artifacts
you are carrying with you, which you show to them, explaining their purpose.
What does this lead to? Is there a way you can help them, or vice versa?
Interpretations for
Moon Vault
1 Who you are when you
are walking on the beach on the moon reflects how you balance multiple inner
driving forces.
2 The shipwreck bank reflects
how secure you are in your originality.
3 How you communicate
with the elk and what you have to do to be granted access to your vault
reflects what you most value in your communication skills and what you use
those skills for.
4 The curtained entrance
to the vault, your interaction with the green children, and the password
reflects the part of yourself that you are learning to place under scrutiny.
5 The inner courtyard of
crystal olive trees reflects how you view the culmination of your past, present,
and future relationships within this lifetime.
6 How you restore
ancient sound to the shell reflects the kind of parent you are or would be.
7 How you restore glow
to the exploding bones reflects your true bravery.
8 How you help the
chained archeologists reflects the most valuable aspect of your persona that
you keep hidden because you are haunted by it in a way.
9 How you stop the jail
cell doors from shaking reflects the personal qualities of yourself that you
want to explore more. The part of yourself you want to know more about.
10 How you restore
false reflection in the polished crystal and what you see in those reflections
reflects
what you really seek
through friendship.
11 The decomposing math
mask and how you stop it from recomposing reflects where the momentum of all
your current relationships is taking you and how you feel about it.
12 How you restore the
fossilized music boxes on the burning table reflects how you exert your
influence on others.
13 The two items you choose
and what you do with them reflects how you make it up to people you have
wronged.
14 Your exchange with people
on the beach reflects how you use what you have learned from your relationships
to prepare to receive the next the thing.