Life is A Movie (And the Mind A Theater)

Life is a movie and the mind a theater.

Listen, I know it's a cliche notion, but it really is true. Life is a movie.

How many times have you found yourself in a moment in time, which feels like something you could have experienced through the eyes of someone else? What odd details keep showing up in repeated coincidences (just another word for plot, by the way) as you continue forward through your life? What strange patterns, numbers, senses do you quietly ponder, wondering if this happens for anyone else?

When you find yourself in that feeling of deep connection you get when a movie scene begins to quicken, it's possible to read the dynamically generating script of your very own life.

You're really allowed to ponder it, you know? You can watch as events play out before you, presenting your mind with the infinite potential it requires to provide you with another miraculous moment of conscious existence.

The world is the divine algorithm that the mind co-creates. In your simply observing anything in the world, you push forward the momentum of change like a body pushes the water in a bath.

When you're really silent, the reality of the story becomes clear. Everyone plays a part in the story of their life that they actively create.

I'm literally doing it right now. By marking thoughts and musings onto this sheet of paper, I release energy into expression. This affords me feelings of gratitude and fulfillment, which then has some effect on my partner Stella, the dogs, a local chipmunk; all living beings with their own effect on me, based on the story they observe playing out all around me.

Story is our aura, leaving long billowing clouds of vapor following us through the vast skies of time.

Unlike a movie, our story never quite ends. After all, you have to be the audience in order to perceive an ending, right? Or maybe I have it switched. Maybe we do persist beyond consciousness, to a realm of quantum stories, all accessible to the infinite cosmic selves beaming their way through eternities.

So, yeah. I've got a story. You've got one. We all do. Even the trees have stories (under- and over-) along with the rest of life on this planet. Each a movie within a movie within a movie within a movie, layered like interdimensional topography, always morphing and molding as change marches on.

And isn't it a pleasure to realize that the mysterious, invisible things within our bodies, our comprehensive, systemic mind, can intake, process, integrate, and generate a meaningful through line that we all call 'I'?

The great and ostentatious theater of the mind has unlimited capability to comprehend, curate, and cultivate a vivid and meaningful experience for all of us. It's how we work, so long as we open our eyes and look.

There's a possibility that this particular theater might be possible to recreate, a proxy that requires the actual mind and it's imagination to successfully operate.

I see this experiential mirror of the mind come to life through an integration of our most cutting edge technologies, wisdom from our oldest selves, and the collective genius of many brilliant humans. This is a highly immersive, incredibly perceptive, and procedurally generative experience that one plays an active role within.

It is a place designed with the safety and privacy of all people as its cornerstone. A place that houses millions of unique stories that go well beyond the experience of movies, really.

Here, we will step into story.

The Mind Theater, our portal to other internal worlds. This place will provide a canvas for anyone to paint on, then will reveal the greater image beyond that. The theater in the mind projecting meaning into real life.

I know this is a wild idea with implications that could be vastly negative, and that I may be out of my depth when it comes to the realities of anyone's mind outside of my own. So much of my time in the last few years has been focused on contemplating this vision, and I've reckoned with all that it could mean as far as I can grasp it.

In the end, I believe it can and will do much more good than bad for our kind. I believe that right now is as good a time as ever to stop thinking and just give it a try.

And that's exactly what I intend to do.