Artists in the Timeless, Spaceless Place

Everybody is potentially everything in the TSP,  Inquiring Mind.  It's a matter of focus when you come into physical.  What experiences are you going to focus on?  Naturally if you want to experience being an athlete or a dancer you will choose a body designed for those purposes.  On the other hand you may want to be creative with new ways of working with the body so you will explore what you can do as an athlete confined to a wheel chair.

You may know some people who have an endless array of talents.  They seem to be able to do everything.  But they may never achieve noteworthy success at anything.  People like that have trouble choosing what they want to focus on.  

In the TSP everybody can potentially do everything but we need a physical environment in which to do those things.  We need pianos and chess boards and hockey sticks and ice skates and snow covered mountains and concrete sidewalks.   We need a finite number of colors and walls and paper and canvases to apply them to.  

You think of art as being about freedom but it's really about limits. Making your painting fit on a certain size canvas, making your play fit on a certain size stage, making your movie run within a certain number of minutes.  A haiku or a sonnet has to have a certain number of syllables in a certain number of lines.  

If you didn't have lines to stay inside of on the football field or the tennis court or the race track you wouldn't have a game.  Sometimes the object of the game is to escape from the limits imposed by gravity or by your own physical body.  To run faster, to climb higher, to swim in colder water, to dive deeper.  

Some people really love to overcome limits. They might be born with severe physical or mental limitations and spend a lifetime learning to overcome those limits or to create in spite of them.  


In a way, that's what we all do when we come from the TSP to the 3D world.  We are setting up limits for ourselves so the we have something unique and special to focus on. We don't need bridges in the TSP, but damn, don't people get excited when someone builds a new bridge in the 3D world.  They don't just walk across it and drive across it. They sing and dance across it and paint pictures of it and take photos of it and tell stories about it and put it on their lists of places to visit.  

Some people who come into 3D will have a very broad range of experiences. They might start out healthy and strong and athletic and work at a variety of jobs like being a circus performer and a cowboy and a schoolteacher and enjoy a variety of relationships and participate in music and sports and gardening, building things and working on political campaigns.

Another person might come into the world to play music or make scientific discoveries and focus all their attention on that.  Such a person might not seem very well rounded. Might have limited social skills, might not know the names of the plants someone else tends in their garden.  Such a person might actually come back several times to continue the work they started in a previous existence. They might become more and more advanced in that one area of their life and get farther and farther out of touch with things that are important to other people.  They may have no sense of fashion, not know paprika from turmeric and not even know what twerking is.  But they will be brilliant at breaking through the limits in their chosen field.

xo Ben