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August 10, 2010
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Sex dice
— Aug 11, 2010
A friend just linked me to an online comic. I read it and then flicked through the next couple of episodes and came to this one: http://xkcd.com/708/
Breaking the dice ice...
— Aug 17, 2010
It's been quiet on this topic so I thought it would be ok to get the ball rolling here. First I love the cartoon, it's hilarious, and I play lots of dice games so I can relate.
On the topic. When it was first mentioned somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind I was excited by the dice image because I know I had seen it, but couldn't place it. It has yet to surface clearly enough for me to express here. However, I suppose I have sort of conditioned myself to look for overt images and have neglected to mention on this thread that the theme of dice is all around me. I keep hearing the phrase "rolling the dice" as a means to describe the uncertainty of the immediate future. "It's a crap-shoot" is similar and well embedded in the lexicon, but "rolling the dice" specifically comes up.
This is just my intuition speaking but I feel that "rolling the dice" as I keep hearing it over and over seems to be filled with a certain hopefulness rather than random resignation like "it's a crap shoot" there's a different quality there, but I do have the strong sense that people feel willing to suspend disbelief and roll the dice and hope for the best in this uncertain moment. I know it's not the greatest example of synchronicity but I think we should simply get the die rolling here.
One other brief note is that the rubic's cube crop-circle of a few weeks ago is definitely reminiscent of the dice concept the six-sided object. Also, for myself the dice always somehow remind me of the akashic record as its been described to me and I have seen it displayed in my dreams but he background is black with white pearl-like dots keeping records of the information...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Don't Stop.. Believin' !!
— Aug 19, 2010
As a gangly 7th grader, I choreographed and performed this Journey song in front of the school.. it has always resonated very strongly for me of increasing frequency as the years roll by. Each stanza has multiple references of personal significance, I won't go into them here but I'm sure you know of:
"Working hard to get my fill, Everybody wants a thrill... Payin' anything to roll the dice, Just one more time"
Some people say "6 one way, half a dozen the other" or some other platitude to indicate that it doesn't matter which way you go.. me, I have developed a habit of gesturing a roll of the dice when someone asks me which method I prefer. If I were to analyze it, I think it's because that's my way of saying "just pick one and get going!"
"Streetlights.. People.. living just to find emotion..."
and the streetlight goes out.
~Bella Dani
>~_^<
Willing to Risk it All
— Aug 25, 2010
These are the words I've been hearing and seeing lately in conversations, print, and dreams. I spoke them myself first, in dialogue with my partner while discussing our support of each other.. that I am who and where I am today because I've frequently 'risked it all' in order to break through various restraining programs, thought patterns, etc. Within a half hour someone else stated to me that you have to be willing to risk it all... and the phrase has been popping up ever since.
Further thought on this led me to assess my understanding of winning and losing, for if life is a gamble, it can just as easily be lost as won, right? Maybe. Or perhaps, with each roll of the dice we both win, and lose. We gain, but at a price.
Roll the dice - take the gamble - risk it all - but be aware of (and willing to pay) the price.
Now what 'it all' is.... remains the question! >~_^<
Payin' anything to roll the dice...
— Aug 26, 2010
Really interesting... i thought it synchronous when this song began making a comeback recently as it was the single most important song to me as a young elementary schooler... It's funny too because the themes seem adult now, but I feel like I understood them then. After you posted the comment about the song I heard it the next day while eating lunch and only noticed as that line was being sung!? Funny thing in my life at the moment is that I am not feeling like there's much of a choice, as though the rolling of the dice is happening... I read the marvelous conversation between Andrew Harvey and Richard Grossinger on Reality Sandwich and I feel that this passage was so relevant to me as though I've intuitively felt this but hadn't articulated it:
"And here's the problem with the post-Darwinian scientific worldview: It's certainly not all of the toys and machines and products and laws, although those have their consequences and karma; it's the constant message to humanity that none of this is happening and none of this is real; that you are mere zombies, hallucinations, without consciousness or inner life."
To me this notion of rolling the dice is somehow tied in with this, that rolling the dice is something that this ghost humanity does to try to feel something real, payin' anything to be more real and taking any risk. Right now while I identify a little bit, I feel in some ways that we're doing this with the world on a collective level and we're subsumed in it to some degree... ?
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
I'm really glad
— Aug 26, 2010
That the Harvey article came up here. It's the best def of 'the thing' I've read yet. Maybe we are real? Or maybe we are just dreaming this with the full authority of Barbelith? That is a gamble indeed! Not sure if this makes sense, but I'm posting anyway!
Ahriman...
— Aug 27, 2010
I agree River, that article really moved me when I read it last night...it seemed a poignant articulation of the present to me. Though I miss the Barbelith reference... I'm beginning to wonder is the Dice image more whimsical or, by contrast, connected to the gestalt of "babylon-system" and the banal sort of evil as it was articulated that conversation? I feel it a bit of both ways...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Barbelith
— Aug 27, 2010
Fellow evolver Chris Hopkins helped Barbelith enter my lexicon. Barbelith is the great dreamer in which the characters of Grant Morrison's 'The Invisibles' have their astounding graphic novel adventures. Chris recently established a website to heighten awareness of Barbelith at http://www.barbelithlives.com/
It's funny that as I'm writing this, I just heard an eagle cry. I heard that two days ago here also, but wondered if it was a local catbird who had learned the sound of an eagle. I did see and hear two definitely real eagles while camping with the evolvers at Heartland, and as a self-confessed synchromystic, I take that kind of thing way too seriously.
But back to the point of my reply, it's funny that you mention Babylon. I just finished listening to a great little podcast with the author of this tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhr25XDPFb4
Babble On...
— Aug 27, 2010
Mercury's gone retrograde.. *sigh. Communications have been coming in that just set me OFF, then I remember that I'm highly charged right now and don't want to send any of my energy into these shadows... breathe, smile, stretch, relax and repeat! :^D
I had someone tell me 'no dice' today when I asked if something worked - it caught me off guard, hadn't thought of that variation. Synchronistic perhaps, in that it's the negative, and today is one of the rare days that I find myself being drawn there.
Rolling!
— Sep 01, 2010
CAPTCHA: "prayer.58 didold" Re: RS article: http://www.realitysandwich.com/conversation_andrew_harvey
Dice Synchronicity:
— Sep 03, 2010
I had a dice synch tonight talking with a friend. We were speaking about a mutual friend who had sort of gone off down the rabbit hole of various conspiracies. I said well let's just ignore it and ask him to do something with us anyway. My friend said well if we do that it will be "rolling the dice", and he repeated again, "rolling the dice" without my prompting and I said what? And he said, "rolling the dice" one more time only louder over the sound of the fan... The broader context of our conversation happened to be about how absurd events have been lately and using "both and" thinking for accepting or not judging different or even oppositional outlooks. Very unusual. I knew it was going to happen soon...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Shiva
— Sep 03, 2010
I was just leafing through a new favourite site "totallylookslike.com" where they show things that look like other things (same guys as happychairishappy.com) when I had the thought that it was time to do a "dice" post. As I had that thought I loaded a new page with "My Cheeto Totally Looks Like a Seahorse"
The other day I noticed a poster that went up a couple blocks from my house:
Note the prominent hand - its a few doors down from the hand mural I posted photos of.
Got home and read my book "The Conscious Universe" by Dean Radin. This book was in part what triggered the idea for the dice symbol as it documents some experiments in mentally affecting outcomes of dice rolling. I had already looked over the dice experiments, but just then I read this passage for the first time:
"The interrelated concepts concepts of chance and destiny figured significantly in the beliefs of early peoples, as reflected, for example, in Shiva, the Hindu god who is often portrayed in statues throwing dice to determine humanity's fate."
Birthday Present
— Sep 16, 2010
This came in the mail for me today from a dear friend now out of state... A treasure box - delightful!
Very Nice Dice!
— Sep 16, 2010
So synchrotastic with the hand and the swirly! Happy Birthday!
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
comic coincidence
— Sep 16, 2010
John,
A friend linked me to the same online comic 3 or 4 weeks ago. I flipped through a few and came to this one which reminded me of you and the Dream Team:
(sorry, but I can't figure out how to cut and paste the actual comic into this comment space)
I know that dream!
— Sep 30, 2010
Before I even got to the end I was already thinking ..oh god I have dreams like that all the time! Wonder what it means?
Dice Synchronicity:
— Sep 29, 2010
Well my son's friend came over last weekend and asked if I would play dice with them...It came out of the blue and I wondered...yeah!? What's happened to our group. Anyone out there? Funny how the line has gone down for a while...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Hath our TCUP runneth over?
— Sep 29, 2010
The synchronicities are certainly at play in my universe. I'm here, still rollin'! They're getting more complex, however; and thus, hard to fit to any particular topic.
Also, they're getting intimate. For instance, I took a gamble on renting my new place a couple of months ago. When I paid the rent last month, the Post Office Money Order got mysteriously lost in the mail. It was addressed correctly, mailed from the drop slot of our local post office to a local P.O. Box, yet it has completely disappeared in the system, even after investigation. Post office policy won't allow anyone to cancel a money order for 60 days after issuance. You see where I'm going. All my freelance work dried up mysteriously a couple weeks ago too.
But that's okay, really. I sense that the universe wants me to go back to my parent's house for a while. I don't know why yet, but I've learned to trust these weird things.
Good to hear from you!
runneth over? Or runneth away?
— Sep 30, 2010
Good to hear that you guys, Nathan and "River" are still interested in our group. I took a break from all things computer related for the last few weeks while on a trip to Indonesia. Amazingly synchronistic and beautiful time and have an interesting photo which I will post when I get it sent to me. Back on line now though. Perhaps we need a new symbol to get us all back in the mood.
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Mmm K
— Sep 30, 2010
Nut! Great crenelated symbol! Another possibility that seems increasingly relevant, "quasi-Intelligent Spam?" Evolver seems to be getting a lot of it recently. Spam has always fascinated me from a collective unconscious point of view.
Good to hear from you Nathan and Danielle.
Nice!
— Sep 30, 2010
Well I'm glad to have replaced the sparkplug here. Great to hear from you all too. Interesting River that your experience with the house sounds similar to the experience I've been having with my own home, I won't go into details but your mentioning your situation really resonates with me. In my own experience, briefly, I was at a really high point as with these synchronistic experiences here, with TCUP, and with life in general, and then wham! Getting hit on all sides with consensus reality and obstacles- to be mild about it. In any case, as you have said River, this must be part of the plan... It seemed tied up for me in this dice image too and the unveiling that seems to be taking place in the material realm, in the sense that our systems and constructions that we rely upon and hold faith in are just sort of all being called into question, which seems good in terms of the way things are evolving and expanding. I don't want to be too vague. It sounds like Danielle, you have gone to Indonesia and off to the other extreme. I'd love to hear about the trip and what thoughts you have had after going to such a beautiful place...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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