Game: Getting Real with the Play of Life

By Clare Dimond

What would change if we realised that the self we think we are is not and has never been who we are?

 

What would fall away if we realised that reality, as it appears, is a spectacular state-of-the-art virtual reality, formed through the lens of the self?

 

This mini-book, GAME, lightheartedly explores the made up nature of self, the resulting apparent reality and love, freedom, peace and joy that the Game obscures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clare Dimond
• Release date: Sep 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781805174981

Book preview

PART I

INTRODUCING THE GAME

WELCOME

Welcome to The Game.

I say ‘welcome’ but actually you’ve been playing it for a long time. We all have.

We just don’t realise it.

The Game begins from the moment there is a mirror, a reflection and a thought, ‘That’s me!’.

That thought might lead to, ‘I am looking at me in the mirror’.

It might continue with the thought: ‘I am thinking’

And then with thoughts that essentially say, ‘This me, here, is real. Everything ‘out there’ is real. The ‘me, here’ is separate from and experiencing that reality.’

Doesn’t sound like much of a game does it?

It just sounds like life. Like who we are and what is real.

The thing is though, it’s not who we are and it is not what is real.

It just really, really, really, really, really, really looks like it.

And that’s why The Game is so incredibly good.

That’s why the best tech brains, even the twelve year old ones, will NEVER come up with a game as compelling and absorbing as this one.

A game is being played. And it does its job so well, it doesn’t for one moment look like a game.

For example, this book is appearing in The Game of You right now.

It is appearing as information saying:

‘Who you think you are is 100% illusion. The self of you is only the made-up main character in the made-up game of ‘you’.’

Reality is not actually real. It is just a series of appearances created through the lens of this illusory ‘you’ character.

Who you really are is all of it, The illusory Game and everything that is not The Game.

You are the life that gives rise to The Game.

You are the space in which The Game is playing out.

You are the infinite which makes The Game possible.’

(We’ll get on to all that in much more detail.)

For now, the question is what will happen to this information?

Will it be read?

Discarded?

Will it give rise to the enquiry ‘who am I?’ and ‘what is this reality?’

Will it change every aspect of how The Game, the main character, the other characters, the settings, the challenges, the rewards, the goals appear?