Writing for Organizers: The Infinity Palace

Writing for Organizers is a weekly series on writing for anyone who wants to change the world.

So there’s this New Age meditation podcast I listen to sometimes. 

It’s kind of embarrassing.

The guy, a Joe Rogan white dude kind of guy, is… Embarrassing.

His gradient of New Age is far beyond any level I am comfortable with.

He has episodes like “transcend dimensions — find out if you are a spirit traveler.

But sometimes I listen to one episode of his — against my better judgement.

It’s called: “welcome to the infinity palace.”

The Infinity Palace is a sort of restaurant at the end of the universe for New Age visualization.

The dude walks you through his personal version of eternity, a sort of shopping center of emotions and feelings. 

There’s a room where you can feel what it was like to be any person in history. 

There’s a room filled with dogs — if you pet them, you feel any childhood emotion you want, even if you had previously forgotten them.

There is a room where you can watch the big bang, and another where you can ask a higher power any question you want.

He recommends you “come back later” to experience this room fully.“

Yeah. I know.

It’s a lot. 

But I listen to it every few months or so. 

Not because I have had much luck in the childhood memory dog room, or the higher power room.

Because  of something else.

Because this guy’s voice, even with all of the weird equalizer and interspersed chanting stacked on top of each other without attention to levels, has one characteristic I find charming.

Even with all of his white dude appropriation and unnerving commitment to the concept of extraterrestrial angels.

It’s his passion. 

His passion is very charming.

I don’t mean passion like “evangelist priest who sent your friend to conversion therapy” passion.

Or even “tenant organizer who hasn’t slept in four days and has called eight times about a legal detail no one cares about, even lawyers,” passion.

Those types of passion, while compelling, admirable towards the right causes, are not what I’m talking about.

This guy’s passion is different.

His passion is… giddy.

He sounds like what I can describe only  as “person in Chicago taking you to King spa.”  (RIP king spa).

He is excited, almost conspiratorial as he shows you around all of the dimensional rooms.

He’s having so much fun. 

He’s passionate because yeah, he thinks learning to travel across dimensions will change your life, elevate your consciousness, but also… 

He’s having a blast. 

And he hopes you will too.

As “writing for organizers,” gets going, a lot of people have emailed me because they aren’t sure “what to write about.”

I don’t have an answer to that question.

Everyone is distinct, and these emails can be applied to everything from policy one pagers to your most fucked up trauma memoir poetry. 

But there is one question that can help, even if it sounds pretty basic.

What are you passionate about?

I don’t mean this question in way we typically ask it — 

What gets you fired up? 

What are you driven by? 

What is your cause? 

No. 

 I mean something more low-key. 

What are the things in life you get excited about?

What gets you so giddy when you talk about it, that you can almost guarantee you will have a good time?

What are the things you’re so thrilled when your friends are down to explore, because you know you are all absolutely going to have a good time?

That’s what you should write about.

Because if you find the answer, it will make you a force of nature.