Reaching Escape Velocity

A Proposal for an Alternative Way of Being

Introduction

Reaching Escape Velocity is an empathetic cry for action, to transform our lives and become our authentic selves. Through stories, spells and occasional poetry, Joppe takes us through an extended diary of his thinking and creative works to inspire us to take a leap of faith and have the courage to follow those instincts that lurk in the back of our minds.

The writings in this book are more than words - they are spells. Joppe’s deepest and most personal thoughts and incantations spilled out onto paper. There’s a fine line between writing and spells. They both paint pictures with syllables and weave them into your imagination. But when writing is intended to manifest reality - it is magic.

Spells are the kind of writings that pull you into your very own mind’s eye, and can help you experience a real moment in its highest definition, a thought in all it’s complexity, or make you experience all of existence in an instance.

These spells… the metaphors, shapes of thought and lore encoded within them… they help us see new ways we can choose to experiencing reality…

These spells can help us...
to reach escape velocity.

The audience of the universe (Excerpt from Reaching Escape Velocity)

Sometimes, when I am totally relaxed, when I’m not wondering about tomorrow and not delving into the past, when my limbs are hanging and my breath comes from my belly, I can feel my whole body vibrate.  And when that happens I feel a sense of absolute peace and belonging. I no longer have needs nor desires. As if I am in resonance with the universe.

I never know when this happens, and I have not figured out how to make it happen on purpose but it has happened.

Also, sometimes when I sing, especially In front of an audience and the audience is being moved I get so in the moment it's like that I close my eyes and I cease to exist and all that is left is resonation. I get pulled into a swirling singularity, broken down into a billion pieces, run through it, get rebuilt. I land back on the ground with my feet and snap out of it and find myself looking, gazing at a microphone and audience. I am back where I started. 

This is one of the most pleasant experiences I can possibly have.

Lately I’ve felt really strongly that the meaning of life is to create beauty and to create beauty is to give meaning to life. This to me means to express ourselves and send out resonations into the universe that before did not exist. That by making new combinations of reality in song, painting, children, building, crafting and such we send out more vibration, more songs into the universe growing the universe, growing reality and creating meaning for existence.

In the end it feels like music and living life is like playing our song for the audience of the universe.

Joppe