I am grateful at the moment that this blog has no regular readers, as I have now gone more than a year without writing a post. It's a shame, really, because I love to write, share information, organize my thoughts, record my experiences, and benefit from so many aspects of such journaling.
I recently found a good use for a personal blog, however. My nine-year-old son Avery and I have recently discovered Randonautica, and our first experiences have convinced me that it might be worth documenting our outings to gain a better understanding of how this whole thing works. At the very least, it'll be a good log of our adventures.
Our First Randonauting Adventure
We tried it for the first time a few weeks ago. Although it gave us an enjoyable walk around our neighborhood on a beautiful spring day, the significance of the anomaly was inconclusive. I let Avery set the intention and he chose weird. "I want to see something weird," he said. I would have objected to this intention on the basis that it is subjective, and therefore anything we see could be judged as "weird" by someone. But since it was our first time out on Randonautica, I went along with it.
The first time we tried to generate a point, we chose the smallest possible radius of one mile centered on our home and asked for an attractor. The app said it was unable to locate any anomalies in the area.
So then we increased the radius a little and again asked the app to give us an attractor. This time, it found one after a lengthy delay. The anomaly was centered on a house just slightly more than a mile from ours. We walked to it and circled the block it was on, as much of the block was included in the anomaly's radius. However, we found nothing that jumped out to us as "weird". There was a downspout attached strangely to the corner of one house, and some awkward-looking backyard fences, but these weren't exactly the mind-bending experiences we had expected or hoped for. Still, it was a fun walk and good quality time with my kiddo.
Our Second Randonauting Adventure
Yesterday we decided to take a short break from our work (my job and his school) to enjoy another beautiful spring day. He and I had already been discussing possible intentions, and he had decided that our next intention would be animals. Wildlife is abundant in our area, so this seemed like a sure thing regardless of any quantum random anomalies.
This time, I requested a power anomaly within a five-mile radius from home. It gave me a void anomaly that was nearby, but on a street of which I had never even heard. I didn't know this road nor its neighborhood even existed.
As we drove, Avery said he was hoping to see any animals, but he kept thinking of rabbits and cats. When we arrived in the area, we didn't see any animals other than the plentiful population of birds who are always around everywhere. A nearby house had Easter bunny decorations in its front yard, but we weren't sure if that counted, since Easter is less than a week away at this point and bunny decor is certainly not hard to come by.
Near the exact center of the anomaly, however, was a bank of mailboxes where a flyer about a lost cat was posted. That felt significant to us, partly because it was near the exact center of the anomaly, and partly because we sympathized with the family who lost their beloved pet.
Our Third(?) Randonauting Adventure
After the discovery of the lost cat flyer, we still had a little more time before we needed to be back home, so we decided to set one more intention. Keeping the same five-mile radius, the kiddo set the intention of big. We again asked for a power anomaly, and again, we got a void on a road we didn't recognize.
The point ended up being at the far east edge of a huge and gorgeous cemetery whose existence was completely unknown to us. At this point, there were several things that could be considered "big," such as a big, huge bush behind a big, tall, majestic statue on a big, massive stone slab overlooking this big, sprawling cemetery.
My Thoughts Thus Far
Given my always-on, conscious connection to spirit and the whole field of potentiality, one might think it may be difficult for Randonautica's synchronicities to really impress me. Nevertheless, it certainly appears that the app -- or the quantum random number generator from which it draws its data -- works as advertised. I look forward to gaining more experience and familiarity with it over time.
One final thought that may be worth noting: When the app identified an attractor, it was right on a major street that I traverse frequently. When it identified the two voids, they were both in places that were nearby but completely unfamiliar to me. Both were places that I was extremely unlikely to discover on my own for any reason. One was a dead-end street in a neighborhood I didn't even know existed. The other was the far edge of a cemetery I didn't know about, and I was tempted at several points to turn around since it looked like the roads were about to end. If not for Randonautica and Google Maps, I would never have driven that way on those extremely narrow roads even if I had discovered the cemetery on my own. I am eager to see if these relationships between attractors and voids is repeatable or just an arbitrary coincidence.
We'll be Randonauting many more times and I'll report all about it right here. Stay tuned!
