To Change Your Destiny - Remember A Different Story That Got You There.

starfishevolution
Sep 18, 2016
4 min read

As you read the following blog post, I have provided some inspirational music to play to elevate the experience you have. So click on the music first and then read the post. Enjoy.

A lot today is available online about jumping timelines. An introductory article on Jumping Timelines in this reality by Kim Hutchinson can be found at the title link. But there are many more that can be found by typing jumping timelines into Google. A major theme in the trilogy eBook StarFish: The Evolution of People At Work is the rewriting your story. The original inspiration of this was drawn from the work of Jim Loehr entitled "The Power of Story". Jim has run the Human Performance Institute in Florida for a number of years where he has trained groups of athletes, corporate officers, law enforcement personnel and more. I highly recommend his book and a visit to his website.

From a pure science perspective, both quantum physics and astrophysics play a role. Dr. Max Tegmark's work and writings at MIT are well worth reading. In his article in Scientific American "The Case for Parallel Universes" Max describes the hard sciences behind the reality of multiverses and how they work here in 3 and 4 dimensions. There is much more that could be discussed in this blog post, however I want to break it down and simplify.

Many of the readers may remember the book Don Quixote written by Cervantes during the Inquisition. If not the book you may remember the musical Man of La Mancha. A brief recitation of this storyline is given below with appreciation to the author of the synopsis.

A Timeless Story About Changing Your Destiny by Rewriting Your Own Story.

"Miguel de Cervantes, aging and an utter failure as playwright, poet and tax collector, has been thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Inquisition for an offense against the Church. There he is dragged before a kangaroo court of his fellow prisoners, who plan to confiscate his few possessions—including the uncompleted manuscript of a novel, Don Quixote.

Cervantes, seeking to save the manuscript, proposes his defense in the form of a play. The "court" agrees, and Cervantes and his manservant don make-up and costumes, transforming themselves into Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. They then play out the story with the prisoners taking the roles of other characters. Quixote and Sancho take to the road in a quest to restore the age of chivalry, battle all evil, and right all wrongs.

The famous battle with the windmill follows, with Quixote blaming his defeat on his enemy, the Great Enchanter. In a roadside inn—which Quixote insists is really a castle—Aldonza, the inn's serving girl and part-time prostitute, is being propositioned by a gang of muleteers. Quixote sees her as the dream-ideal whom he will serve forever and insists her name is Dulcinea.

Aldonza is confused and angered by Quixote's refusal to see her as she really is. The padre and Dr. Carrasco arrive at the inn and are frustrated by Quixote's lunatic logic. They are interrupted by the arrival of an itinerant barber, and Quixote confiscates his shaving basin, believing it is the "Golden Helmet" of Mambrino. Later Aldonza encounters Quixote in the courtyard where he is holding vigil, in preparation for being knighted by the innkeeper. She questions him on his seemingly irrational ways , and Quixote answers her with a statement of his credo, The Impossible Dream.

Aldonza catches the fever of Quixote's idealism but, attempting to put it into practice, is cruelly beaten and ravaged by the muleteers. Not knowing Aldonza's plight, Quixote and Sancho leave the inn, encounter a band of Gypsies, and are robbed. They return to the inn, only to encounter the disillusioned Aldonza who sings her denunciation of Quixote's dream in the dramatic Aldonza.

The Knight of the Mirrors enters and defeats Quixote by forcing him to see himself as "naught but an aging fool." The knight reveals himself as Dr. Carrasco, sent by Quixote's family to bring him to his senses. At home again, the old man who once called himself Don Quixote is dying. Aldonza, having followed, forces her way into the room and pleads with him to restore the vision of glory she held so briefly. Quixote, remembering, rises from his bed to reaffirm the stirring Man of La Mancha, but collapses, dying. Aldonza, having glimpsed the vision once more, refuses to acknowledge his death, saying, "My name is Dulcinea."

Back in Cervantes's dungeon the prisoners have been deeply affected by his story and restore to him his precious manuscript. Cervantes is summoned to his real trial by the Inquisition. The prisoners unite to sing him on his way with The Impossible Dream.

So another brief note is warranted about Why Don Quixote is an inspiration for StarFish: The Evolution of People At Work. It is rather simple actually. To change the old story which oppressed the characters, Don Quixote gives himself, Sancho, Aldonza, and all other characters new names and new roles in the storyline of life. He gives them each a heroic role and a new name for their journey and the mission. The Why of their lives is changed forever because their memory pegs and reference points are changed. As actors sometimes do in method acting, they take on every aspect of that new role or character as their personal story and it transforms their lives and those around them. The Why of their lives is changed and in doing so ... their destiny transforms into a heroic and epic tale of the new story.

So think of how this would change the face of retail businesses alone if the employees changed the Why of the meaning they each spend, or rather invest, 8-12 hours each day of their lives into work. What would happen if the job was no longer something for a paycheck, but transformed into a heroic mission of helping others?

As the author StarFish, I live in a world where that is possible ... even if it means jumping timelines.

Have a great day. Make it a Masterpiece.