Open House Day

Track your path through a typical day. What are your patterns? What activities do you keep going back to? What is your path from point A to point B to point C? Map out a day in the life of you.

Once you have done this, you can hold an open house day where other people shadow you over the course of a day and do all of the things that you do. Or likewise you can shadow someone else. This is very helpful for someone who may become a close friend, someone who will walk your path with you. It allows you to align to each other rhythmically.

In addition, the role of the person shadowing is to give you their unique perspective on your life at the end of the day. But during the day, their job is to listen, observe, and mirror you. It is also an opportunity for them to practice neutrality.

The purpose of the open house day is to gain a better sense of where others fit into your path.

Containers

On this day,

If you were a rock or mineral, what would you be?

If you were a microbe or fungus, what would you be?

If you were a plant, what would you be?

If you were an insect, what would you be?

If you were and animal, what would you be?

If you were a sentient intelligent species, what would you be?

If you were an angel, what would you be?

If you were an empty vessel, what would you be?

These can be imaginary or real. If you choose a real representation, you can seek out where these lifeforms may be in your local surroundings today and commune with them. Later on you can do the activity again, redefining yourself in new forms which you can then go visit. If you imagine fictional creatures, describe them. Create drawings or portraits of them.  

Once you mark your place in each of these evolutionary stages, imagine at least 1 intermediate stage in between each of them. What is the evolutionary intermediate between a rock and a microbe? What is the evolutionary intermediate between a plant and insect, or insect and animal? Once you create a concept of these intermediates, imagine what you would be as each kind of in between lifeform.

On this day,  

If you were a rock or mineral, what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were a microbe or fungus, what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were a plant, what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were an insect what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were an animal what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were a sentient intelligent species what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were an angel what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

If you were an empty vessel, what wisdom would you offer? What is your kingdom like?

Record and attempt to explain the wisdom of these realms.

Describe your kingdoms. You can even go so far as to attempt to recreate them in real life, redressing your surroundings or adopting the cultural practices of these kingdoms.

As before you can explore the intermediate stages as well. 

Expeditions: Exploring and Collecting

Search for and collect unique items which attract your interest. Go on exploration expeditions looking for objects from nature or man made items and give them fictional definitions. Describe them as having fantastical properties and origins. Name them and describe their unique uses. Perhaps they have a certain effect such as healing, protection, or bestowing unique metaphysical abilities. Once you have described what these items do, pretend to use them to navigate a current situation, where they magically have an effect on your state of being.

The idea is to have fun creating placebos, or permission slips to let yourself deviate from your normal courses of action or behavior. There is an art to defining these symbols in a way that will resonate with you on some level, giving you an extra edge. This is how shamanic or religious artifacts work, so the idea is to explore this concept from a creative angle.