The Game Piece

 

Suppose you are THE ONE.

At first, it seems ridiculous. You know you are just you. You know your name, you know where you live, and you know your family. But what if those aren't facts of your existence, but merely one of the many personas you have purposefully donned?

I believe this is exactly what is happening in your story. The harder you stare at these simple, mundane details, the harder they are to see. It is like a tiny, dim light in a vast, dark room: if you stare directly at it, it vanishes. Your mind fills in the anomaly because it seems insignificant. In the same way, there are clues in your world that illuminate the strings of the marionettist—but as soon as you catch a glimpse, you turn your focus back to the characters and suspend your disbelief for the sake of the story.

The Efficient Universe

Many of our greatest physicists now suggest we live in a simulation. It is a compelling miracle of science, but it misses the point. The "hard problem" of simulation theory is the massive computation required to render a universe as vast as ours.

But that is unnecessary. The universe does not need to be rendered in its entirety because you cannot observe the entire universe. In this version, only that which you can sense is necessary. Look around. Do you see a universe? You see a room. You see a window. If another person is nearby, you interact. If you have communication, you reach out to those you cannot see.

It is a Truman Show for one. It is Candid Camera for the soul. In this version, there is only one person being played, and all others are parts of the same program.

You might dismiss this by asking, “But can we not feel? Did not our heart burn within us?” It is a valid question, but when posed to another, the answer is provided by the same trickery that leads you to believe there is an "other" to ask.

“Of course this is nonsense,” the other replies, “we know this because we agree.”

But think carefully: “Where there are two or three, and they agree on anything, there am I.” If you take this challenge, you will eventually arrive at the truth: There is only One “I”. No matter what you face, it is a part of the simulation made for You.

 The Geometry of God

Why, then, is there a simulation at all? Experience.

What would an omnipotent, omniscient God experience? Nothing. If God were to flip a coin in the "Superplace" and ask, “Heads or tails?”, He could only answer, “Yes.” He cannot experience “orness.” For The One, all things are possible, and all things exist in a state of superposition. Nothing can be rendered without contrast, but The One cannot experience contrast. A white canvas with a black image is perfectly invisible to a God who is both.

 So, The One becomes Three. You are one of the Three, making up The One:

God = All = Love

You = The Game Piece

The Imagination = The Connection

(There is no way to break this triad.)

It sounds familiar, does it not? The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. As You, there is experience. The experience of not knowing there is a God could not possibly be had by God, unless God became a "Not-Knower." If you do not know this, that is the best sign for you: You Are The I AM.

The Truffle of Joy

The simulation is not as impossible as it seems. Instead of rendering eight billion people on a planet within an ever-larger universe, the system only needs to render one person who imagines the rest and assumes it all to be real.

Is it possible? Of course.

But why do it? Because there is a "truffle" you can only find within a simulation, never without. You can bring this truffle out of the simulation as your own sacrifice.

I call it Joy.

You can only gather Joy by forgetting. It is necessary to be a "Not-Knower" in order to discover Joy within a simulation where there is both shadow and light. Outside of this simulation, Joy is unobserved; it has no opposite.