The Infinite Patterns of Infinite Play

Everyday IN the world, egos are at ‘play.’ But they rarely experience it that way, and so life has become very serious business indeed.

They rush from one project to the next, causing time to be experienced as a consistent series of finite completed outcomes, which seem to require the completion of even more finite outcomes. The ego believes that the more outcomes completed, or the more ‘wins’ accrued in the games you play, the more existence must be a factual reality.

This is a finite definition of “happiness,” in which you self-actualize based on winning (or diminish through losing) the games of the world.

This a pattern that can be easily observed on the surface. Finite players actualize, or increase awareness of the self, by playing on the surface to win. Infinite players actualize through an awareness of the deeper patterns of playing.

Infinite players are very aware of patterns, because they have NO need to control the conditions of play (rules). Finite players fail to see patterns, because they are fixated on manipulating the conditions necessary for winning, achieving a goal or completing an outcome.

The experience of ’life’ is replete with patterns. There are patterns to the sun, moon and stars, leading to seasonal patterns and patterns of nature. There are patterns to growth and transitional patterns, developmental patterns, evolutionary patterns, cultural patterns,  etc, etc, etc. Infinite players are aware of these patterns, but are also aware of even more deeper patterns. Infinite players are aware of the patterns of consciousness and love to play IN those patterns. Yet, infinite players recognize that to play IN those patterns means to resist controlling them.

Patterns of consciousness include emotions, thoughts, moods, perceptions, and infinitely more, although finite players have yet to experience the ‘more’ part. Finite players experience consciousness as capricious and serendipitous and this is why they often feel victimized by their own experiences. They’re constantly seeking to find the means to control what they experience, either through manipulating physical reality or employing various thought-control techniques. The psychological sciences are an organized attempt to control the patterns of consciousness and it’s this application of control that results in psychology’s failure to understand consciousness and to help others play in the patterns of consciousness. Psychology merely reinforces victimization by advocating greater control upon the surface, thereby, failing to increase awareness of the deeper levels. The world, and thoughts that rely on the world, are merely surface representations or symbolic facsimiles.

Nevertheless, infinite players have no need to control the surface contours of consciousness. They realize that nothing really happens on the surface (although they are excellent observers of those patterns as well), while everything happens in the depths.

Infinite players play IN the deeper patterns, because they have learned to play WITH the rules that keep finite players fixated on the ego-games of the surface. Therefore, infinite players tend to display a pronounced lack of seriousness with the ego-games of the world, which is always confusing to the finite player who plays with serious egocentric intent.

To be aware of the deeper patterns is to no longer fear the consequences OF the world, since consequences on the surface effect nothing at all. This helps infinite players to ultimately realize the unified nature of all patterns. Because infinite players recognize that the ego plays only in the shallows, they do not trust their own best intentions in the world, but allow the deeper patterns to guide them.

Yet, more importantly, because infinite players are aware of the infinite patterns of consciousness, they have NO reason to interfere in it.

Artwork by Vincent Castiglia - “Stings of the Lash”