Episode 12: Experimentation: A Jealous God?

Episode 12: Experimentation: A Jealous God?

Oh dearest God of Play, I must confess – there is another God in my heart. I am not a fully devoted play worshipper. Who and what is this God, you ask? Are we related? I’m not quite sure, for this God doesn’t yet have a name. This God has initially appeared in my heart as a voice that says, “Play, you are not enough for me.” In many moments of my life I feel as though play, in all its grandeur, is still not enough. The beautiful, graceful, spontaneous immediacy of play, without fear or aversion – this is not enough. Sometimes play is there before me, or present right beside me with my friends, I have the possibility to engage in it, and I could will an engagement with it, but there is a stumbling block in front of my will. And this stumbling block is not just a loose puff of air, or some childhood trauma, or some power play. This stumbling block is a God. Some force that I worship deeply. The best name I can give for now is to call this God “experimentation.”

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Episode 24: Finding Divine Play: A Vipassana Story

Episode 24: Finding Divine Play: A Vipassana Story

At first it may seem unclear how Vipassana meditation is connected to divine play. However, upon arriving at the conclusion of this story its connection becomes quite clear. This manuscript represents...

8 Syys 202348min

Episode 23: Infinite and Finite Games, An Exegesis

Episode 23: Infinite and Finite Games, An Exegesis

James Carse wrote a definitive book on play called, “Finite and Infinite Games.” The book explains how life is composed of two differ- ent kinds of games – finite and infinite. The basic difference be...

8 Syys 202351min

Episode 22: A Meditation for Thinking with Others

Episode 22: A Meditation for Thinking with Others

The following is an extract taken from a meditative play manual. In the complete manuscript, this manual describes meditations for various forms of play: musical, imagistic, felt, embodied. This parti...

8 Syys 202314min

Episode 21: Amidah for Divine Play

Episode 21: Amidah for Divine Play

The Amidah (Hebrew: העמידה) is one of the most important prayers in Jewish liturgy. It is sometimes simply called hatefila (התפילה) or the prayer. This text represents a highly revised version of the ...

8 Syys 202314min

Episode 20: Resistances: The Darkest Darkness

Episode 20: Resistances: The Darkest Darkness

Inside of you lies your darkest darkness – a darkness even greater than fear. Fear is typically some sort of external threat, some- thing that may end your life, or a thing that brings about great tor...

8 Syys 202317min

Episode 19: Resistances: Darkness

Episode 19: Resistances: Darkness

Darkness is upon me. It is here, in the room. Everything is weighty and hard. So weighty, so hard, so challenging. Such weight and heaviness. Heavy heavy heavy. Oh God of Play, where are you? Where ha...

8 Syys 202315min

Episode 18: Resistances: Combat

Episode 18: Resistances: Combat

Say I enter into play with a plan – to win, to prove that capitalism is evil, to play in A minor, to eliminate a disease, to cut down a tree. In each of these, divine play is cut off, negated, and not...

8 Syys 202314min

Episode 17: Resistances: Certainty

Episode 17: Resistances: Certainty

You are certain. You say something and what you say has a tone of absolute finality. “Oh actually this is the way things are.” How can one play with such certainty? Play is responsiveness. So then wha...

8 Syys 20235min

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