Sparky
Mark Wayne Caractacus BarrettSmith-Jones
Howdy doody dudes !
Hope your days are okay and this mad old world isn't proving too troublesome for you.
If you're up with being a multidimensional being then you'll know waking to find the world much as you remembered it the day before is a modicum of stability to be grateful for, even if your current stability isn't so great, because, at the very least, there's the relative assurance of sustainability in the changes we purposefully make.
As an exploratory analyst in conceptual cross dimensional reality I find issues of identity a fascinating playground to understanding our place within the universe.
Our names play an immediate part in helping us recognise our individuality in an intricately complex and all encompassing universal consciousness. Our names are the first of many aspects we identify as our unique selves within it.
In this capacity, as Sparky, I am the comically artistic incarnation of Mark Wayne Caractacus BarrettSmith-Jones. Although nearly Wayne when first born I was christened Mark at nine months - and although initially a Smith at the start I was a Barrett by two. I adopted Caractacus from a much loved spiritual mentor - and married into Jones in one whirlwind wild romantic adventure.
Sparky is the fundamental essence who surfs the myriad sea of consciousness beyond the waves of individuality into a dimension of eternal perpetuity !
Figuring out who we are and why we exist has been a bit of a lifetime quest for me ! I feel it is, to a large extent, one of the most important things we are here to do !
I love being alive - that much I know for certain - I never cease to be in awe and reverence of every single living soul I meet day to day, and I'm in a permanent state of wonder at every little thing I encounter around me - even things I think I don’t like intrigue me !
Certainty is a rare luxury however, and the only certainty I really possess is the certainty it's often a mistake to fall into the trap of being too certain about anything much - which, in itself, is a lovely bit of contradiction that suggests maybe I can - sometimes ! But I usually prefer to err on the side of caution, keep an open mind and be prepared to learn something new every day. That's the great thing about life really - whether viewed through science, philosophy, religion or accumulated experience; keeping an open mind is the best means to keeping an open door to a universe of limitless discoveries and possibilities.
I have a particular interest in the creative impulse - both the purely practical and the wonderfully fanciful - I am drawn to the elusive spark of imagination which brings us art, architecture, literature, medicine, music, engineering, dance, games, drama and so much more. I see all as evidence of a near supernatural ability we have to shape our lives in any way we wish - with positive thinking, strong self belief, imagination and desire.
As individuals we fall into all sorts of unavoidable circumstances, get ill and eventually die - of course - and it seems there is no fair balance to this lottery of life - some have short lives, some long, some good, some bad - but I have this sense that we are all sharing one big life - and the way we treat each other and work together impacts back upon ourselves. To put it bluntly we have to give the world whatever it is we hope to get back.
One lifetime doesn’t seem enough for that to really work for us as individuals. I am in a notoriously constant struggle with time myself, and the prospect of there never being enough time to achieve all the things I'd like to do in this life is an absolute constant. But, ultimately, it doesn’t matter if I don’t do them all if someone else has those experiences instead. If you can be as compassionate and appreciative of other people's lives, accomplishments, joys, hardships and pains, almost as much as if they were your own, you can be happy with your own individual part in the bigger picture without any sense of regret, jealousy or unfulfillment - as I believe we share all our collective experiences in the end.
Afterlife experiences seem to prove there are many more adventures beyond the one single life we appear to get. My own experiences have helped me believe we have many rides in this great cosmic theme park and all our thrills and chills are eventually shared as one. Everything we ever do, every minute of our lives, is ultimately shared with everyone in the developing consciousness of one united being; the living, breathing life-form of the cosmos, growing and exploring through all our own individual experiences like a new born baby trying to learn and understand itself.
Time also seems curiously timeless. The thing we call time seems little more than a vehicle, helping physical reality through a complex map of apparently already existing infinite possibilities. Every action we can ever take seems to already exist - and all of our decisions are crucial to the route we take through that map - unerringly like the programme of a computer game!
I have several times experienced a sort of parallel sensitivity and learned to pay attention to it.
All our words and actions are the instruments that navigate and influence our route through that map. To properly control this process we need to be continually mindful of how and who we want to be, and remember that right now is always the most important moment of our lives. It is our actions right now - not one minute ago - but right now, that matter the most. We can learn from the past and plan for the future but we must always be the people we wish to be right now - and, in that way, we always will be.
It seems as though we are quite literally cells of light dancing in the darkness - some shining brightly with positive energy and others fading from misfortune and illness. Our job is to help each other shine brightly, if we can, and extinguish the darkness to properly see, at last, who we really are.
I love to paint and write and sing and dance - and, when able to exercise it, my imagination feels so strong, glowing so brightly within, that I feel it living, singing and dancing with me. From this comes a great sense of existing within many realities - of which, this is merely one.
It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
That is a sentiment I would wish to keep alive in today’s unfortunately cynical times.
For me the hippie dream lives on - this time with tea and scones rather than the trippy stuff - life tends to be quite trippy enough.
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