The Carnival is Coming!!!

Life is a continuing carnival that entices us to keep living it fully. Here we are in this space/time incarnation. We inhabit it as part of the space time in which we exist, limited by it and subject to it. We spontaneously happen here; we react to everything around us and relish the experience of it. We experience the pain of it that occurs often, experience loss, failure, heartbreak, but continue on booking through this dimension feverishly in the time allotted to us.

Then we die leaving it all behind us. The only thing we take out as we die is our success and our failure in the way we lived this life.

Our lives are defined by “There is so much to get done, so little time to do it!” It is this way with all of us. It lasts this way through two of the three phases of our life. In the last stage the need to be part of the carnival subsides as does the urge.

A sense of no longer having to serve this carnival master occurs as we enter the third stage, our senior years. We no longer need to serve the master nor do we really care to. We begin to see the futility in gathering all we have of being who we became. We have time to think and often think we do.

Not everyone follows this course, many live from event to event without giving it a great deal of thought.

Many others of us do give this thought doing it in a whole variety of ways. The most obvious way is realizing the futility of so much of what we have done, recognizing each bauble we have sought was empty when we attained it. It gave us a chase in acquiring it; it did nothing for us on the acquisition of it.

This is what so many religious groups talk about, what theology seeks to understand. Most of them deal with life’s tension between the material and the spiritual. What has struck me as awesome is that living my life took me to the realization, then an understanding of what the religious speak of.

This is the way things are supposed to be. Life involves getting all the baubles we can. On doing this we then see their emptiness and start looking for more. This can take us to seeking out Transcendence.

It is all of the living we have experienced, along with the design brought into this life that takes us through this endeavor. We need to test the material baubles made available to us, recognize their emptiness and then to turn to seek what has value. We find this in evoking Transcendence as we encounter it. We encounter it when we have the time and the willingness to think and evaluate. 

To me I see it as one hell of a deal. More than this I see the design we carry, the makeup in the world, the similarity of all of us in dealing with it, and realize that it is all an Algorithm which produces this presentation of a virtual like reality that is in fact a real reality that has been given us.

Seeing it in this way I am able to apprehend the sacred nature of it, the hand of a power greater than myself involved with me in mapping a plan for me while I am here. It is mine to grasp it or reject it. This three act play in which I am my own protagonist has purpose. Seen in the light of its purpose I recognize it as subservient to a greater life of the Cosmos which is our reality.

Our life’s design is to find our way back to this reality.

I cover this concept in a more detailed essay I posted some time ago, have rewritten and posted it again. To read it click on FREEDOM OFNOW Part 4 “Carnival !” to go to my Archive to read it.