Labyrinth walking impressions.
Avatar has walked the newly installed labyrinth in Blue Noru, a retaliation for Red Hector’s original insertion. Blue’s is out in the open, which it considers an improvement. I agree. Red’s is in a temple situation. But let’s not delve too deep into Red vs Blue, however fascinating that is in a very transitory way.
Avatar walks counterclockwise to begin around the blue edges – edge. Avatar must walk one complete cycle before entering the labyrinth proper. The outer blue, although partially covered with virtual green grass, is a part but also not a part. One has a choice only to walk this blue circumference. You must walk at least once, perhaps starting at the entrance but certainly circling back to it. Then when you enter, this circumference becomes part of the labyrinth, not before. You have a choice to make here. You enter the labyrinth and the outer becomes the 8. Before it is, let’s say, the “(8)”, not fully manifested. And you have a choice when you circle all the way through the spinning labyrinth back to this entrance whether to begin the cycle again or exit, and to make the (8) an 8 once again. When you are “in” the labyrinth you are part of something else. Detached from this virtual world, detached from the real world. Mobius strip.
When I (Avatar) walked the whole thing tonight, I realized there is a part of you that is perpetually trapped in the labyrinth, looping again and again ad infinitum. The you that chooses to end the experience must detached from the you that walks it again. And perhaps again and again. Perhaps forever. You could teleport in from elsewhere and see this trapped variant from beyond the circle, theoretically.
The labyrinth pattern with this entrance and exit becomes 8-5-6-7-4-1-2-3-(0)-3-2-1-4-7-6-5-(8). (8) can become 8 again to repeat. I’m confused about the 0 at the White center, where one must pause before reversing back out. When walking before I always stopped here. Tonight, inspired by Blue, I did the complete loop to return to true beginning/end. So I suppose there are 2 nodal choices, one at the 8 point and one at the 0 point.
Why is the Blue (Big B) virtual setting the same color as the labyrinth’s blue (small b) circumference. Just chance?
The virtually outdoor labyrinth and its use of a single prim may be Noru’s trump card, a win over Rubi/Hector. Unless Rubi/Hector reacts by trumping back (which it probably will). Yin yang.
— with April May Flowers.
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Footnote:
I asked R. Pine Ridge to walk the labyrinth as well through my Avatar and he came away with the impression of something coded both front to back and back to front simultaneously. Like life itself. We start at birth and work forward but also at death to play backwards. Interesting.
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