May the Sixth Sense Be With You
May the Sixth Sense Be With You
Can you gamify finding your sixth sense?
Perhaps as it stands, the many possibilities that make up the Sixth Sense are all lumped into one. One of my senses within my Sixth Sense is the way I sense language.
Sometimes I sense a new word by observing a movement. Other times I feel a word while interacting with objects in space. And it doesn’t have to be me. I see words while observing others.
I see words within words and hear words without hearing them at all. The new word or play on word is just there, occupying my consciousness. Words come to me. I’ve made a practice of writing them down.
“The VAK Siddhi is an extraordinary power to create and transmit human language. Those who poses it give birth to mantras, poems, and scriptures that transform life on this planet.” — Michael Murphy.
Yes, I have that. Or, better yet, I am that. The VAK Siddhi (or perhaps I can create a new word) is part of who I am. After all, to have something implies I can just as easily not have it. I have a cold is different than I am a cold. I’m not afraid to say I am bipolar, because it has many gifts.
I was just reading this article by
of The Prism:
Amazing read on GAMIFICATION!
At one point he asks, “What is left but games?”
Suddenly I had to inquiry into to the word GAMIFICATION itself:
Here is what I uncovered.
Think about mania as a game that re-games our whole life.
It shows us our superhuman qualities.
We need to re-own these superhuman qualities if we are going to have any chance at not becoming addicted to the game that are designed to addict us.
Don’t think you’ll get addicted?
Fair enough.
We still need to Re-Uncover our superhuman qualities if we are to be able to play a game outside the matrix of games.
The word GAMIFICATION has within it a clue.
I found that by altering the arrangement of letters, I got FIO MANIC GAIT.
FIO in Latin means “I make.”
The word GAIT means:
: a sequence of foot movements (such as a walk, trot, pace, or canter) by which a horse or a dog moves forward. 3. : a manner or rate of movement or progress. the leisurely gait of summer. (Merriam-Webster)
By including this definition I can go another step I didn’t take in the video.
I make ~ a manner or rate of movement or progress/a sequence of foot movements ~ manic
BOOM. My game, my mission, all derivable from the word GAMIFICATION.
Gurwinder’s article points out we may be doomed to games, seeking rewards from measures that don’t matter at all.
That’s why mania is an antidote.
Why?
Have you ever experienced it?
Suddenly, you can sit and talk to a bunch of flies for an hour. At least I did.
Or you can go around taking photos of local weeds, realizing they aren’t “weeds” but often the medicine needed by the people who live there. There is game to call them weeds so we don’t learn the game of using them to our advantage.
Or you can spark up conversations with multiple friendly strangers in one day.
The biotechnology we are gifted with at birth takes center stage.
Not only is technology largely uninteresting, it often causes an allergic-like reaction.
Mania is pathologized, yet it will be there as a saving grace whether or not it is ever recognized as such.
Madness is to push some of us to the fringes so at least some humans remain when games take us out. It’s an antivirus.
How do you make your steps immeasurable?
Answer for yourself to design your game.
Happy May the 6th (Sense)
I coined this (Thanks VAK Siddhi)