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Retroactive Event Determination (RED) and Open Interpretations Journal
Feb 21 2011, 9:22 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 21 2011, 9:22 PM EST
This is a simple exercise. Some might consider it an experiment but I prefer to call it an exercise in awareness.
Start a journal of daily activities and events. It can be as detailed or as simple as you want.
After a couple days of keeping this journal. Find an illustrated dictionary.
Randomly open the dictionary a few times. Skim through the pages that you randomly open to and look for a few topics that genuinely interest you. Note these down in your journal. Think about the time/space context of these topics for a moment and reflect upon how everything is in some way or another connected to everything else.
Now comes the interesting part. As you go about documenting your journal of daily activities and events you will begin to notice what you may consider to be coincidences of encountering your topics. But after a few days you may begin to feel that something entirely beyond coincidence is occurring. This may be subtle at first. But gradually you will begin to notice an astonishing amount of connectivity in events, activities, and topics that you 'randomly' chose from the dictionary.
Part of what I feel allows this to take place is what I call Open Interpretation. If we open our mind to multiple interpretations of everyday events and activities we begin to sense the connectedness of time and place and events. For some this may seem like rubbish. For me, it is undeniably real, and as symbolic as the acronym RED. Take time to reflect upon the micro and the macro and all that in between. 3  out of 3 found this valuable. Do you?    

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1. RE: Retroactive Event Determination (RED) and Open Interpretations Journal
May 22 2011, 4:19 PM EDT | Post edited: May 22 2011, 4:19 PM EDT
checking a dictionary,keeping topics in mind, would be the same as keeping in mind a daily affirmation, a quote, or just "coming across" a news item but every one would "work" in your ex. because of one reason: openness; openness to that inter-relatedness of universality. Does make one wonder how the stray electron will bounce, doesn't it? Do you find this valuable?