The Perils of Routine

The Perils of Routine
If you recognize that calendars and clocks are imposed referents for imposing order, you may begin to wonder about the subtle effects of continuing to accept such imposition. There are the blatant facts that in the West the Roman Empire decreed early calendars and the Gregorian calendar was adopted at the insistence of the Roman Catholic Church for the purposes of societal control as well as to obscure and occupy the dates of pagan celebrations. Later it was enforced by all the empire builders of the early colonial period for the purposes of trade and commerce. Modern weight, spring and gear clocks we first pursued by astrologers, alchemists and astronomers, who needed precise time to complete precise measurements. Again this was later adopted to aid trade and commerce. Now these are used primarily to regulate human behavior for the profit of corporate entities.
So, what are the subtle effects of whole societies of people behaving like clockwork devices? Well, there is a marked decrease in Chaos and most people still consider this to be a good sign of progress. Indeed there is a existent school of thought that holds that all energetic systems evolve into more ordered and less chaotic forms as they increase in size or scope.
Allow me to disagree with this observation as it comes from observing systems already damaged by the imposition of order on natural chaotic systems. With a decrease in Chaos comes a decrease in the range of the probability of possibilities. What might occur becomes a smaller set of what can occur. I belive this has been referred to as decrease in "novelty" or the rate at which new things can occur. Seems to me that since a large number of people are sitting and waiting for "miracles" external to their selves to occur, they will be disappointed as the regulation of their own lives by measured time decreases the likelihood of such manifestation.
So, what can you do ? Break your routine, be early, be late, change what, when, how or why you do things. Be creative, be spontaneous, use your imagination to create possibilities, engage in random acts of art, music or kindness. Stay up all night. Gather,disperse, run around in spirals, watch something grow, look at the sky, look at some moving water.
It has been suggested that one can increase novelty simply by making lots of small inconsequential decisions. Live in the moment, smile at strangers, sit under trees, dance where you are. Laugh out loud, breathe, sing, become aware of everything around you all at once. Focus all your attention down to the smallest visible single thing and then back out to everything larger around you. Hear as much as you can. Taste the wind. Feel what you're not yet touching. Smell your food, tickle someone.
One of the reported experiences most common to all mystical, transcendental, psychedelic and magikal events in peoples lives is that of perceiving time in a non-ordinal way. The rate of perception of time speeds, stretches, twists, varies or slows. Is there a clue here ?

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