Today is another week, and yet another Monday ticks by. I guess it’s true that time is the inescapable mechanism that eludes us, the metronome of our existence that ticks us towards our inevitable end. As we go towards our conclusions of our lives, I’m reminded of an old saying that the pawn and the queen go back into the same box at the end of the day.
Much like the chess pieces on the board, we all must work together to achieve the goal of protecting the Godhead of our existence. Every piece must move in tandem, and in coordination with each other. Just like time is the metronome for our existence, each piece is on a clock, any delay by the slowest piece uses up the allotments for the other pieces.
The game of chess goes through developing board states through the execution of the game play, and likewise, we go through development with moving in coordination with our family, coworkers, and confidants to protect our Godhead of existence. No piece is expected to move separately upon themselves, but every piece can tie up the resource of time, which pressures the other pieces to make their moves more efficiently. This means that every individual affects the masses more than they think by simply being a participant.
If protecting the Godhead is the goal, then counter action means either dispelling the belief in the Godhead to break up the coordination of the pieces, or to make even one piece of the team refuse to participate. The piece that refuses to move is worse than the absence of a piece, because it ties up space that would otherwise be utilized.
The inconvenient truth about chess is that if a pawn, the lowest ranking piece in the board, reaches the opposite end of the board it can be promoted to the second highest ranking piece on the board, (but can also choose to be promoted to a lower ranking piece if it’s strategically in the interest of the game to do so). However, it can never replace the Godhead, or the central part in which all the pieces revolve around. If all the pawns, however, try to make it their individual goal to reach the opposite end of the board without thinking about the common strategy, the self-interest of each pawn can spell disaster for all involved pieces.
Because of this, we encounter the issue of balancing the dissuasion of the pieces to participate, the individual motivation of each piece striving to reach the end of the board, and the common goal of protecting our Godhead. And behind the delicate balancing act is the underlying tempo of time, the omnipotent force that drives us forward, much like how gravity pulls an object towards the center of the earth. It is commonly accepted that time is the only non-negotiable force in this equation, the common bar to which everything else is beholden to.
What is this wasn’t the case, however? What if time could be altered, bargained with, dissuaded, or encouraged just like all the other variables on the chess board? What if the force that was controlling time had an end goal that superseded even the goals of the established Godheads on both ends of the board? What if this force could even reverse time, only allowing events to move forward if the requisite actions had been met to progress towards this end state.
Now let’s zoom in and pretend that we ourselves our chess pieces on this board. We’re simultaneously being affronted on several parts, either through dissuasion, our motivations to promote ourselves, and identifying and working together to protect the Godhead of our existence. Through this all, the very essence of time is being affected, either through time being reversed to where we must repeat our actions over and over with slight variations which causes perverse moments of reflecting of our clumsiness, or were projected forward through time abruptly, creating gaps in our memory that we our unable to rectify?
Even more so, what if every reversal or fast forwarding of this time causes a branching of the timeline, with a phantom ghost of our slightly altered action emanating from ourselves in a type of tone vortex, which coalesce unto itself in some type of Ethereal time wave with no established beginning or end point? Infinite chess boards, infinite moves, and infinite variations of infinite outcomes, with no more right or wrong than the other. In this state of existence, would it be good or bad?
Now let’s say that armed with this knowledge, we can then go back into this chess board knowing that our actions are influenced by the altering of time. How would we then make our decisions with the actions that we commit? How would we be empowered?
It’s only in the face of this state of being that we realize that the power of propagation is immense. It means that every action that we commit, no matter how banal, is repeated into infinity. The result of your actions pierces it into all directions in this ethereal time wave, like a reverse funnel where you are the narrow point, and the result is the weirdest point.
Your actions, both good and bad, are repeated into infinity. The moment where to hold the door open for the elderly person or you decide to shortchange the homeless person asking for a dollar, don’t just occur once. It infinitely repeats, projecting or in a type of wave what only compounds in its effects the further away it gets from its point of origin. It’s extremely hard to believe, but we could very well be dealing with a situation of whether your decision to give a homeless person a dollar could either empower or collapse an entire civilization in some infinitely far away location in an infinitely far away timeline.
Everybody is both a pawn and a queen. Simultaneously, we are both making the decision to move towards the end of the board, and to refuse to move at the same time. Simultaneously, we are bother frozen in time, and infinitely experiencing all possibilities at the same time.
Where does our current perception come from then? It comes from our own interpretation of the actions that we make, which steer our experiences and perceptions that are influenced by us and outside forces. In this case, we are like a ship unto ourselves, steering ourselves through an endless time vortex of infinite possibilities.
So, the question is not whether we are pawns or queens. The question is: how will we use our understanding of this interconnected, ever-changing, and time-bound existence to move on the board? How will we navigate the countless possibilities that this cosmic chess game presents? Our answers to these questions will shape not just our personal game but, potentially, the infinite games unfolding across infinite realities. And it’s a question we should ask ourselves with every tick of the metronome of existence.
Thank you and have a great Monday!