Think of an Affirmation as a series of actions that you take while standing more or less in one spot, and a Rolling Affirmation as a series of actions that are unlocked by your avatar’s passage through the Orb, sort of a forward-rolling from beginning to end.

The act of running through the Orb produces the Affirmation Effect.

Instead of picking up a book and reading it, you pick up a book and read it, see? And instead of waving a magic wand around, you pick it up at a dead run and it waves itself around as you run, get it???

If you stood still and lit some incense, would it be any different than if you do the same thing on the run? Actually, you do stop and light the incense, but couldn’t resist the attempt at a little humor.

When you pick up the incense, it makes a “lighting” noise. This increases slightly the Immersion Effect of the Orb, along with all the other reinforcements we can bring to bear, and you’ll be responsible to add your own two-cents’ worth in the form of incense, candle, ammy and other atmospheric preparations you’ve made for the journey.

Keep in mind that, although it looks quite like an ordinary video game, you are actually peering directly into another dimension, an alternate reality which really does exist.

Your Avatar has its own life in its own world. You see only a small portion of that life by looking through the Orb-O-Scope into that other world, The World Next Door. Distance is not an obstacle, however — we can look anywhere. Continue reading →