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Click to view ariadne's profile   57 posts since
Feb 29, 2008

Apr 15, 2008 1:09 PM

Parallel Selves and Personal Labyrinths? Chapter 19

Wow. I can still only understand a little Esperanto, but just looking at Chapter 19, I feel like it's speaking directly to me. Especially the second page, with the illustration...

YES.

NO.

So, which is it? Yes or No? And who gets to decide?

I've been thinking about this YES/NO thing a lot lately. I mean, how did I wind up on THIS branch of the multiverse? Was it my choice?

Did I sign up voluntarily for this mission? Did I CHOOSE to come to this world as a labyrinth traveler?

If so, then there must be other branches of the multiverse where I chose NOT to come to this world. Other branches where I'm home with my family, and it's another girl who woke up in the labyrinth. But for some reason, this version of me is here. I'm the Ariadne who wanted to save the worlds, even if it meant risking never going home again.

And then I wonder. Are there worlds where YOU decided not to help me?

Well, I'm so glad I'm in the world where you did decide to join the agonothetia

Anyway, I can't wait until we have Chapter 19 officially translated so we can talk about this more. (Download it from the omphaputer.) And thank you for safely recovering it, Paris!

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Click to view Vlad's profile   19 posts since
Mar 10, 2008

This "Yes"-"No"-thing reminds me on that book Eli Hunt found in Athen Library. There also were these "Yes"-"No" systems and schemes.

I also think, these are the various ways of multiversal genesis. Every your decision can change the universe.

Click to view jasper's profile   79 posts since
Mar 12, 2008

From the beginning, I thought it wasn't a choice that brought you here, but an accident. It seemed like something had gone wrong with your labyrinth run and stranded you here without your memory. After reading what Eli Hunt revealed in the Secret Artifact, from that scroll, we know it happened by design.

Here is the translation Chid wrote, so you can see the Codex writers had the same questions:

We did not meet some people from our own parallel selves in this Gaea world. None of us would do, except Jorge, who remembers his own home as a Gaea world.

Even if this is so, it is extremely improbable that some human being exists in some specific world. We could travel to billions of other worlds before meeting another version of ourselves.

But we know, that our parallel selves do indeed exist somewhere. We are certain, that in at least one other world, the six of us have other selves who chose not to undertake this trip, who never abandoned their home world.

On our most difficult days, we often are crazy that we aren’t those other six. On the days when we progress, we are glad that we are these six, the six who risked. And on the days when we feel in our hearts the importance of our mission to the multiverse, when we feel the honour of our serving the many worlds, we knows that we six could never even be the other six. We six would always choose to travel, occasion after occasion after occasion.

It is a rite to find, and comunicate with, nasty (sham) parallel selves.

It is called the Personal Labyrinth, and one says, that this rite allows a personal a co-ordination across many worlds.

In the great plan of the many worlds, the parallel selves of oneself become an infinitesimally small part of the multiverse. A personal co-ordination cannot save the world from change.

Nevertheless many personal co-ordinations in one world indeed make that world more open to co-ordinations and synchronisations from other worlds. When many individuals finish the rite of the Personal Labyrinth, the world is prepared for a much bigger co-ordination, and a much bigger synchronisation.

Therefore, every four years during the twelve weeks before the opening ceremonies of the Multiversal Olimpiad, everyone from the different cultures across the many worlds gathers to finish their personal labyrinths.

Click to view jasper's profile   79 posts since
Mar 12, 2008

and the second page:

The rite is simple. There are five stages:

First, you must choose a labyrinth.

Some labyrinths cans be chosen – a painted labyrinth, a stone labyrinth, a planted labyrinth (labyrinth made from plants), even a temporary labyrinth made for the event. The sole exception is, that you must not create a human labyrinth for this personal rite. (in many worlds, the human labyrinth is still secret, and must not be part of this public tradition.)

Secondly, you must sign the labyrinth register.

You must show to the many worlds your intentions to finish the rite beforehand, by signing the labyrinth register.

In the register, you must write your name, your location, your chosen place for the labyrinth, and the date that you intend to finish the rite. You must write this information at least one a day beforehand.

The labyrinth register must be kept in the omphaloi. Typically, each main city has its own register.

Thirdly, you must identify your world-creating moment.

A world-creating moment is the life-changing personal decision which you made during the last four years, since the preceding ritualistic period. You must draw a diagram of your world-creating moment.

At the top of the diagram, write the decision which faced you, and the date when you decided, to your best recollection! Use arrows in order to indicate the possible choices! Under the left-hand arrow, you should write the choice which you made in this world. Moving to the right, write under other arrows the other one, two, three or more choices which you perhaps would already have finished making in parallel worlds.

Fourthly, you must prepare your scroll.

On the scroll, draw the diagram of the recent world-creating decision which you made.

You will carry your scroll while you finish the running of your personal labyrinth.

Fifthly, and finally, you will run the labyrinth.

On the day you chose, you should go to the labyrinth and should walk it from the outside in, then towards the outside again. Carry your scroll.

While you’re finishing the walk, you should imagine that you are a parallel self. You must imagine, in as much in detail as possible, what kind of other world you created with your decision, and what kind of other life.

If you have some perceptions or visions of people during your run, you should write to them afterwards and share them with friends and family-members. Is a tradition that friends and familial should unite after they have finished their personal labyrinths to discuss their experiences and share their visions.

Click to view dreamerblue's profile   59 posts since
Mar 15, 2008
Ok, I know the personal labyrinth is, well, a personal
labyrinth...but do you think it could still be a group thing? Like
maybe a group of people would like to get together at, oh, the Toronto
Public Labyrinth, talk about the whole personal labyrinth idea (and
even their own world-creating moments and diagrams, if they felt
comfortable), do the labyrinth walk (starting going into the labyrinth
at separate times, spread out, so it's still a personal thing), then
share experiences afterwards?
Click to view Shadow's profile   11 posts since
Mar 16, 2008

Everything is a choice.


I've been thinking.


Most of what we're going on here is based on the pieces of the Codex that we've been recovering. We've been told that these were left behind by a group of your predecessors, who somehow found out all this stuff over many years of research and then left this message for future Multiverse Olympiads like yourself, so that you would have a chance to succeed where they failed.


But we know this only because that's what they told us. Because that's what they wanted us to think.


We have no independent corroboration that anything in the Codex is true.


We don't actually know that they're trying to get us to save the world.


For all we know, following their instructions will destroy it.


I've been thinking.


Everything is a choice.

Click to view amaretto01's profile   10 posts since
Apr 10, 2008

I didn't exactly know where to post this, but this forum seemed the closet... I wanted to let you guys know I came across a bit of really interesting news:

Check this story out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080416/sc_livescience/earthshumsoundsmoremysteriousthanever

OK, so I don't know how useful this is... except that it's also quite interesting the the Earth "hums" in the pattern of rings... reminds me of this humming of labyrinth walls, and of how the labyrinth runners are supposed to connect with other multiverses. Could this bit of news help to see if other worlds "hum" as well, and if this could be a way of finding the lost ring?

Please let me know what you think... I'm not exactly sure on this, but I love reading news articles... http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Click to view dreamerblue's profile   59 posts since
Mar 15, 2008

Hmm...I don't see any discussion thread here related to the mission to build the Personal Labyrinth Register, so I thought I'd raise that topic here. Personally, what it makes me think of is one of those guest books that I've seen left at weddings and various historic places, where you sign to say "I was here" in a way, and to let the person running the wedding/historic site know who's been there, how often people come, where they come from, etc. The difference here is that this register is to say not "I was in this place" but "I will be in such-and-such a place"...to let your parallel selves know where and when to be in order to make the event a synchronized one, allowing for the unifying of your memories across the parallel worlds.

I'm not really sure how signing this register lets your parallel selves know, though...wouldn't they have to be doing a personal labyrinth with you at the same time for them to get the memory of you signing the register? Doesn't that form somewhat of a vicious cycle, a catch-22 as it were? Hmm, maybe when the codex page says, "You must show to the many worlds your intentions to finish the rite beforehand, by signing the labyrinth register," it doesn't mean you are showing your many selves, but somehow informing the many worlds...in some way and for some reason that I don't understand.

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