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For centuries, we have thought that walking and reading belong to different worlds.

Walking seems to be an activity of the body.

Reading, an activity of the mind.

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Yet my lifelong experience as both a reader and a writer has led me to a different conclusion: both are ways of traveling through a landscape.

Those who walk discover places.

Those who read discover ideas.

Those who walk gradually transform the way they see the world.

Those who read gradually transform the way they understand it.

Perhaps that is why, for many years, I have felt that books can also be walked through.

Not simply because we can read while strolling through a park, along a beach, or across a mountain trail, but because every meaningful act of reading is itself an inner journey. No important book leaves us exactly where we were when we opened its first page. By the time we close it, something within us has changed: a new question, an unexpected insight, a relationship between ideas that did not exist before, a case of Achronism (Post # 138 THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF SLACK TIME IN THE DECISION TO WALK), or a Synchronicity (Post 234 WALKING WITHIN BOOKS. PART II: SYNCHRONICITY).

To walk inside a book is to welcome that transformation.

It is to move through its pages as one crosses an unfamiliar landscape, allowing the literary world to enter into dialogue with one’s own experience.

Reading then ceases to be merely an act of gathering information.

It becomes an experience of discovery.

It is precisely this understanding of reading that inspired the creation of the Circle of Readers in Motion Without Borders (CIM).

Since publishing the invitation to our first gathering, several people have expressed genuine interest in the initiative. However, we have not yet reached the number of participants needed to create the dynamic exchange of ideas that we envision.

Far from considering this a setback, I see it as an opportunity.

Cultural communities are not created overnight.

They grow gradually through shared ideas, mutual trust, and the discovery of a common purpose.

For that reason, we have decided to postpone the first CIM meeting until Saturday, September 26.

These additional two months will allow us to continue strengthening the project, deepen its philosophical foundations, welcome new participants, and prepare a reading experience that truly offers something different.

Our goal is not simply to gather people who have read the same book.

Our goal is to create a space where books continue to live through conversation.

With that purpose in mind, I am pleased to introduce today the Manifesto for a New Culture of Reading, the founding document of the Circle of Readers in Motion Without Borders.

This manifesto begins with a simple yet deeply transformative conviction: reading does not end when we finish a book. It continues when its ideas begin to converse with other people, other experiences, and new questions.

For a long time, we regarded books as completed works.

Today, we begin to explore another possibility.

To understand them as living organisms capable of continuing to grow within the minds of those who read them, discuss them, question them, and extend them through new conversations.

The manifesto does not seek to replace the quiet, intimate experience of reading.

Nor does it diminish the unique encounter between a reader and a book.

On the contrary.

It seeks to expand it.

It invites us to discover a second dimension of reading: the one that emerges when different minds come together to think collectively.

For perhaps the true destiny of a great book is not simply to be read.

Perhaps it is also to be discussed.

Over many years I have explored this idea through a variety of literary forms.

Sometimes through novels.

Sometimes through philosophical essays.

At other times through symbolism, experimental fiction, and literary exploration.

The six books presented at the end of this post are part of that long journey.

Although they were written at different moments and belong to different genres, they all share the same underlying question: how does the reader participate in the creation of meaning, and how can reading itself become an act of creation?

Today I look back at those works from a new perspective.

Perhaps each of them was quietly preparing the way for this moment.

The birth of the Circle of Readers in Motion Without Borders.

And the possibility of continuing to walk inside books—not alone, but together with other voices, other perspectives, and other ways of thinking.

For there are books that we read.

There are books that we study.

There are books that we remember.

But there are others—far rarer—that continue speaking with us long after they have been closed.

The purpose of the CIM is to find those books.

And to continue those conversations.

The following pages present the Manifesto for a New Culture of Reading, followed by a brief selection of six books that, from different literary perspectives, explore the reader’s role as an active participant in a living, reflective, and transformative reading experience.

MANIFESTO FOR A NEW CULTURE OF READING

Founding Document of the Circle of Readers in Motion Beyond Borders (CIM)

For centuries, we have understood reading as an essentially solitary act.

One reader.

One book.

One mind moving silently through the pages of a work.

From that tradition emerged libraries, universities, schools, systems of thought, and much of the culture we have inherited.

Yet the twenty-first century invites us to ask a different question:

What new possibilities emerge when reading ceases to be only an encounter between a reader and a book, and also becomes a conversation among minds?

That question marks the beginning of the Circle of Readers in Motion Beyond Borders (CIM).

We were not created to replace traditional reading.

We do not seek to diminish the quiet pleasure of reading alone.

Nor do we question the value of silence.

We seek to expand the possibilities of the reading experience.

We believe that every book possesses more than one life.

Its first life begins when it is written.

Its second begins when it is read.

But there is a third life—far less explored—which begins when the ideas contained in a book enter into dialogue with other people, other experiences, other questions, and other ways of understanding the world.

It is within that living space that conversation is born.

And it is there that a book begins to reveal possibilities that even its author could never have foreseen.

For that reason, we affirm that the central figure of our time is not only the book.

Nor only the author.

Nor even only the reader.

The true protagonist is conversation.

For every genuine conversation brings into existence something that did not exist before.

A new understanding.

A new relationship between ideas.

A new question.

A new possibility.

Whenever several people read the same work, each discovers something different.

Some notice the events.

Others the emotions.

Others the ideas.

Others the silences.

None of these readings is complete on its own.

Yet when they enter into dialogue, the book becomes broader.

Deeper.

More alive.

Conversation does not replace reading.

It extends it.

Enriches it.

Expands it.

For this reason, we believe that reading can also become an act of creation.

Not because readers alter the printed words.

But because every reading establishes new relationships between the work itself and the lived experience of the person who encounters it.

Every reader recreates, in part, the book they read.

And when many readers share that recreation, a form of knowledge emerges that none of them could have created entirely alone.

For a long time, we regarded books as closed structures.

Finished objects.

Completed intellectual monuments.

Today, we begin to explore another possibility.

To understand great works as open cultural organisms.

The words remain.

But their meanings continue to evolve.

The pages do not change.

Yet the conversations they generate continue to grow.

That is why certain books seem to become younger with every passing century.

The text does not change.

Readers do.

Questions do.

Conversations do.

And with them, meaning itself evolves.

From this perspective, reading ceases to be merely an act of reception.

It becomes an act of participation.

Every reader becomes part of a conversation far larger than any individual book.

A conversation that began long before us.

And that will continue long after us.

A conversation that crosses generations, cultures, languages, and borders.

The Circle of Readers in Motion Beyond Borders was created to participate consciously in that ongoing dialogue.

We are not a conventional book club.

We are not an academic institution.

We are not a school.

We are a meeting place for those who wish to explore a more participatory, more reflective, and more creative way of reading.

We believe that books do more than preserve knowledge.

They also generate relationships: of ideas, of questions, of thoughts, of answers, of experiences, of content, …

And very often, it is those relationships that transform the way we understand reality.

For that reason, we affirm the following principles:

We believe that:

• No important book truly ends with its final page.
• Every great work longs to be discussed.
• Reading is also an act of creating meaning.
• Questions are as valuable as answers.
• Conversation is a powerful instrument of knowledge.
• Thinking together allows us to discover relationships invisible to isolated thought.
• Every profound reading transforms the reader.
• Every genuine conversation transforms those who take part in it.
• Knowledge evolves as relationships among ideas evolve.
• Culture flourishes when people learn to think together through books.

Our aspiration is both simple and ambitious.

We seek to contribute to a new culture of reading.

A culture in which books continue to occupy a central place.

But one in which conversation also recovers the essential role it has always played in the construction of human knowledge.

Conversation lived in the public squares of ancient Greece.

In philosophical schools.

In libraries.

In literary salons.

In cafés.

In universities.

In workshops.

In the margins of books.

Today, it can once again become one of the great cultural forces of our communities.

We are not simply looking for readers.

We are looking for people willing to think together.

To listen.

To ask.

To disagree.

To discover.

To build knowledge collectively.

For perhaps the future of reading will not consist merely in understanding books more deeply.

Perhaps it will also consist in learning to converse more profoundly because of them.

And perhaps there lies one of the greatest cultural opportunities of our time.

There are books we read.

There are books we study.

There are books we remember.

But there are others—far rarer—that continue speaking with us long after they have been closed.

The Circle of Readers in Motion Beyond Borders was created to find those books.

And to continue those conversations.

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Reader Peripathenias, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSS9RM2J

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, The Circle of Silent Storytellers, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMKPX5SK

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Time. Circus Engrams, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX5HR6L9

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, The Walker and his Shadow. Myth of a Nomadic Tower, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQ2DS9RY

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, The Six Portals of Being, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGTZ1MY9

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Get me out of here, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4C2LCPJ

See you next Saturday, September 26, 2026.

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In this space, we have explored the human stride from many perspectives. We walk to discover the world, to find ourselves, or to challenge the laws of physics. But today, in Post #1081, we pause to observe someone who, by divine decree, could never stop.

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Related to our future encounters — Posts WALKING ON THE MOON, WALKING AND THE FORCE OF GRAVITY, and -ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND —, the story of Io takes us to the rawest essence of movement: walking as destiny, as escape and, finally, as redemption.

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A Stride Born of Torment

There are steps taken for pleasure and others out of necessity, but Io’s steps were the fruit of a condemnation. Daughter of Inachus and Ismene, this princess of Argos and priestess of Hera found herself caught in the crossfire of Zeus’s desire and his wife’s jealousy.

Transformed into a white heifer to be hidden away, her true tragedy was not the change of form, but the loss of repose. After the death of her hundred-eyed guardian, Argus Panoptes, Hera unleashed an invisible but relentless punishment upon her: the gadfly.

Unlike the wanderer who chooses their path, Io walked because stopping meant succumbing to the sting. Her “eternal walk” was not a stroll, but a desperate flight. Movement became her only form of survival.

A Geography Written with Hooves

Io did not just walk; she mapped the ancient world. Her forced transit left scars on the geography that we still name today:

• She crossed the strait dividing Europe and Asia, naming it for eternity as the Bosphorus (the “Ox-Passage”).
• She bordered the waters we now know as the Ionian Sea, a mirror of water that holds the echo of her wandering steps.

Io teaches us that the path always leaves a trace, even when the walker only seeks to escape. The landscape is, in essence, a reading of the steps that have crossed it.

The Walker of the Firmament

Mythology, in its astronomical wisdom, associates Io with the Moon. Like our satellite, Io is the “horned” figure (due to her heifer form and the crescent moon) that wanders eternally through the celestial vault. She is the walker who never has a fixed abode, escorted by the stars (the hundred eyes of Argus that now shine in the sky).

It is no coincidence that Galileo, centuries later, named one of Jupiter’s moons after her. It is a world that, ironically, is the most volcanically active in the solar system; a reflection of the inner fire and turmoil of a woman who knew no rest until she reached the banks of the Nile.

Walking to Reclaim Oneself

It was in Egypt where Io’s walking finally came to an end. There, at the touch of Zeus’s hand, she recovered her humanity.

Her story is a reminder that sometimes, the most exhausting walk is the prelude to a profound transformation. At WALKREADANDWRITE, we reclaim the stride — whether slow for pleasure or swift out of urgency — as the only way to inhabit the world and write our own history.

Io walked to survive the gods; we walk to read the landscape, to challenge the gravity of our own burdens, and finally, to write who we are.

In Io and Her Eternal Journey there is a very powerful symbolism:

• the Moon as a witness to time;

• Io as the world that never ceases to transform;

• the volcanic landscape as a metaphor for perpetual creation;

• the immense cosmic void as the stage for the infinite journey.

Where are your steps taking you today?

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In the astonishing treatise by Juan Huarte de San Juan, The Examination of Men’s Wits (1575), we find a fascinating reflection on a historical and biblical phenomenon: the pilgrimage of the people of Israel through the desert for forty years and their sustenance on manna fallen from heaven. According to Huarte, this prolonged journey and this peculiar food did not merely sustain the Hebrew people physically; they profoundly transformed their mental capacities, especially their intelligence and creativity. What exactly happened? And what can we learn from it today?

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Huarte first observes that the captivity in Egypt, with its years of suffering and oppression, may have ignited in the Israelites a “burnt-up choler” (cólera requemada)—a product of helplessness and a psychic energy that he links directly to the emergence of cunning, sagacity, and “solercia” (the mental skill for problem-solving). But the true alchemy of the intellect, Huarte argues, occurs during the pilgrimage: forty years of walking through the aridity of the desert, feeding solely on a subtle, light, and celestial delicacy: manna.

Manna, according to both biblical and naturalist descriptions, was white, delicate like coriander seed, tasted like honey, and was warm in nature with extremely fine components. It was a light, almost ethereal food that required little digestion from the body and, therefore, allowed the soul—according to Renaissance physiology—greater freedom to engage in the higher functions of understanding. For Huarte, this dietary regimen notably favored the development of the Jewish people’s intellectual capacities. In his own words: “the Hebrews became of very sharp wit” (Posts WALKING THROUGT THE DESERT; WALKING WITH GENIUS, ACCORDING TO HUARTE).

But it wasn’t just the manna. The geographical environment also played its part. Huarte explains that sterile and arid regions, like the desert where the Israelites wandered, produce more ingenious men, while fertile and abundant lands—like Egypt or the Promised Land—generate robust bodies but duller understandings. This assertion, also held by ancient authors such as Galen or Aristotle, connects the physical environment with mental dispositions in a sort of early epigenetics that still resonates with certain contemporary theories.

And it is here that I wish to add a personal reflection: if we accept that the manna and the environment contributed to elevating the intelligence of the Jews in the desert, we must also consider the role of movement—of walking as a founding experience. Walking for forty years is not just about moving from one place to another; it is a way of thinking with the body. It is rhythm, contemplation, observation of the world, and a continuous flow of ideas to the beat of one’s steps. Perhaps the true miracle of the desert was that perfect confluence of light food, an arid environment, and constant walking. A natural laboratory for mental acuity.

One must wonder then: would that elevation of ingenuity have been possible without the daily walking? Could something similar be repeated today? Is there an epigenetic trace, an inherited memory, that still inhabits certain peoples with long histories of migration, suffering, and displacement?

Perhaps. We have no definitive proof, but we should not dismiss the powerful intuitions that cross history, physiology, spirituality, and culture. What is certain is that the act of walking remains, today as much as yesterday, a path toward a clearer, more creative, and deeper mind.

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION:

In an increasingly sedentary, computerized world fed on heavy diets, remembering the spiritual and intellectual diet of the desert can be more than a literary exercise. Walk every day. Eat lightly. Seek out spaces of austerity where your mind can sharpen rather than grow dull. You don’t need forty years in the desert to elevate your wit. Sometimes, forty minutes a day outdoors, without distractions, letting yourself be guided by your own steps, is enough.

Walking doesn’t just move the body. It moves the soul. And—as Huarte taught—it can also move the wit. So, let’s be “solercios” (skilled, dexterous) and demonstrate that ability and ease of taking our walks every day, for 30 minutes.

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“Every move is a choice, every choice is a destination, and every destination is just a new beginning”.

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On the board of life, as in chess, every step we take brings us closer to a new possibility. We walk between invisible squares, between decisions that seem minor but that, in their accumulation, determine our destiny.

The novel Chaturanga: Ludus Aeternus (1) reminds us that life itself is a game of strategy, movement, and transformation. Inspired by the ancient game of Chaturanga, the precursor of modern chess, this story immerses us in a world where each piece has a role, each move a meaning and each sacrifice a lesson.

But what does this have to do with walking? Everything.

Chess: A Game of Walkers

If we look closely, all the chess pieces walk:

• The Pawn advances with patience and determination, reminding us that the longest journey begins with a single step.

• The Knight teaches us that sometimes moving forward requires moving in zigzags, leaving the straight line and exploring other angles.

• The Queen walks with power and freedom, dominating the board with the confidence of someone who has traveled many roads.

• The Bishop advances diagonally, finding hidden paths that others do not see, like someone who follows less-traveled paths in life.

• Even the King, limited in his movement, continues to advance until the last moment.

• The Rook seems rigid in its walk, but if we look back, in the original Chaturanga it was not a stone tower: it was an elephant, a symbol of strength and endurance in walking.

Just as the pieces move on the board, we advance on the board of life. Every day is a move, every decision a movement, and every step a conquest.

Walking: Strategy and Discovery

The act of walking is a perfect metaphor for chess: it requires attention, strategy, and adaptation. It’s not just about moving, it’s about advancing with intention. Walking forces us to observe our surroundings, to calculate distances, to modify our route according to the terrain or circumstances.

Just like in chess, when we walk we learn to:

✅ Be patient, like the Pawn, moving forward steadily.

✅ Be unpredictable, like the Knight, daring to take alternative paths.

✅ Be strategic, like the Queen, choosing when to speed up and when to stop.

✅ Be resilient, like the King, understanding that the game is not over until the last move.

Ludus Aeternus: The Path Has No End

The novel Chaturanga: Ludus Aeternus shows us that the game never really ends. Each ending is a new beginning. And the same goes for walking: we never stop learning, exploring, moving forward.

Soon, in addition to the book, you will be able to enjoy an animated short film based on this story, which will bring this metaphor to the screen with images and symbolism that invite reflection.

For now, keep moving forward. Because life, like chess, is a game of walkers.

We have already mentioned that walks should be done in a natural and normal way, however, on this occasion I would like to incorporate certain elements of coordination and thought to perform these 6 exercises inspired by the way chess pieces “walk”. Some of them should be done by making some – small – alterations in our natural walk.

I will briefly try to outline, through diagrams, how we should walk following the guidelines and rules of the chess pieces.

GENERAL

All pieces except the knight move in a straight line, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The edge of the chessboard cannot be crossed. No piece except the knight can jump over another piece to move. A move cannot end on a square occupied by a piece of the same color.

PAWN

A pawn moves vertically along the column it is on, without being able to move backwards. On the first move, from the starting point, it can move forward two squares and from there, one square at a time.

To capture a piece, a pawn must move one square diagonally forward, either to the left or to the right. It cannot capture in a straight line, unlike how it moves without capturing.

A pawn cannot move backwards.

BISHOP

The bishop moves diagonally, both up and down, and can move any number of squares in a single move, as long as there are no other pieces blocking its path.

KNIGHT

The knight in chess moves in an “L” shape, advancing two squares in one direction (horizontally or vertically) and then one square perpendicularly, or vice versa, and is the only piece that can jump over other pieces.

ROOK OR TOWER

The rook in chess moves in a straight line, both horizontally and vertically, along any number of unoccupied squares, that is, it can move any number of squares in a single move, as long as there are no other pieces blocking its path. It cannot jump over other pieces.

KING

The king moves one square in any direction (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) and can capture enemy pieces in the same way.

QUEEN

The queen moves any number of squares in a straight line, both horizontally and vertically (like the rook), and diagonally (like the bishop), without jumping over other pieces. It can move any number of squares in a single move, as long as there are no other pieces blocking its path.

This post is closely related to several of the posts dealing with the “physical body”, explaining and applying the concepts of symmetry, rhythm, cadence, beat, and harmony.

All of these chess “sequences” mentioned and illustrated must be performed while walking in a safe and comfortable manner, although some of them have a certain degree of difficulty, which will precisely impact some of the senses, both internal and external, and some alterations regarding body parts, so they must be performed carefully; that is, while these exercises are being performed, the arms, hands and senses – mainly sight (eyes) and orientation – are put into motion, assigning them certain additional efforts, which can affect the proprioceptive capacity of the person performing them.

With these analogical exercises I intend for you to have a renewing experience, which is achieved through the change in attention and the way of walking. We have already mentioned on other occasions that the symbolism of walking is to abstract from external conditioning, to let thoughts flow towards the inner self, achieving this analogy with the 6 chess pieces that have walked for millennia.

In order to underline these benefits in one of our external senses, hearing, and according to my experience, when we make some movements out of the ordinary, as these conformities can be considered, we certainly activate the vestibular system sending signals to the brain to recover (or maintain) balance. With age it becomes more difficult to maintain or recover balance because the small organs of the ear harden. The degree or intensity of this type of movements is what must be taken into account so that these “chess-like” exercises are applied safely and effectively, while we walk.

General procedures for walking in a chess-like manner

The first thing we need to know is that we can do these ways of walking however we like. The results will not vary much. It is not necessary to have a square on which to walk. Each step we take will be equivalent to one square on the board.

“Pawn” Walk

Looking at the diagram above, we see that there are only 3 possibilities. Walking forward with one or two steps. If it is with a single step, with the right foot –for example- you can synchronize it by joining it with the left. Stopping.

Walking to the right or left, results in an identical way: We can do it in 2 ways: Turning our body completely 45 degrees and walking forward. Continuing in the same way as in the first case. The other way is to walk diagonally, forcing our body to do it in an asymmetrical way.

“Rook” Walk

Looking at the diagram above, we see that there are only 4 possibilities. 1) Walking forward with one or more steps; 2) Walking backwards. This can be done in two ways, turning the whole body 180 degrees, and walking forward, and walking backwards; 3) Walk to the right, and this has two possibilities: walk sideways, or turn your whole body 90 degrees, and walk forward; 4) Walk to the left, and this has two possibilities: walk sideways, or turn your whole body 90 degrees, and walk forward.

“Knight” Walk

Looking at the respective diagram we see that there are only 8 possibilities. 1 and 2) “Front” position: it is done in the same way for the left as for the right, maintaining the respective orientation. Two steps forward and one step to the right are taken, turning the body 90 degrees or not, or turning it to the side. 3 and 4) “Right” position: it is done by turning the whole body 90 degrees to the right and repeating the “front” position, or it can be done sideways. 5 and 6) “Left” position: it is done by turning the whole body 90 degrees to the left and repeating the “front” position, or it can be done sideways. 7 and 8) “Back” position: This walk can be done completely backwards, or it can be done by turning the whole body 180 degrees, and repeating the “front” position.

“Bishop” Walk

Looking at the respective diagram we see that there are only 4 possibilities. Walking asymmetrically following a diagonal at 45 degrees, or turning the whole body 45 degrees and walking forward. The other possibilities can be done by walking backwards, or turning the whole body as necessary to walk forward.

“Queen” Walk

This can be done in 8 different ways. Either forward, sideways, diagonally or backwards.

“King” Walk

This can be done in 8 different ways just like the “Queen” Walk but only one step at a time. Either forward, sideways, diagonally or backwards.

All steps can be performed without having to immediately perform the second step. If it is a single step, with the right foot –for example- you can synchronize it by joining it with the left foot. You pause and perform the next step in the same way. Keep in mind that this rhythm is set by our body.

Measure (Compass) 1: Right step, left step, right step, and right step reaches it. And the rhythm restarts.

Measure (Compass) 2: Right step, then left step, and right step reaches it. And the rhythm restarts.

Measure (Compass) 3: Right step, left step, right step, left step, and right step reaches it. And the rhythm restarts.

Measure (Compass) 4: Right step, left step, right step, left step, and right step reaches it. And the rhythm restarts.

And so on. Choose the rhythm that is natural for each of us.

Let’s organize our walks by incorporating some movement of the chess pieces. The results are immediate, because apart from walking we become more interested in what chess is and has been in the history of humanity.

(1) I invite you to take a walk through the pages of my novel, entitled: Chaturanga: Ludus Aeternus. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNLCB6GW

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There are books that find their way into our hands at the exact moment they were meant to appear.

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Sometimes it happens while we are walking.

Other times, while we are going through a difficult stage, an inner transformation, or a silent search that we don’t even know how to explain.

Then, it appears:

A sentence.

An idea.

An author.

A symbol.

A meaningful coincidence impossible to ignore.

And we realize that perhaps books are also walking toward us.

For several years now, at WALKREADANDWRITE.COM, we have begun to observe something very specific among many “walking readers”:

Certain encounters between people, readings, emotions, routes, memories, and decisions seem to form unexpected patterns of meaning.

Carl Gustav Jung called this: SYNCHRONICITY.

But beyond a psychological definition, Synchronicity seems to be becoming an emerging cultural experience today: a different way of connecting knowledge, intuition, human movement, creativity, and consciousness.

Perhaps that is why, within the universe that is slowly beginning to be built around:

• WALKREADANDWRITE.COM
• EMULISA NEOBIBBLOS: https://neobiblos-pn34j63..public.builtwithrocket.new
• And the CIRCLE OF READERS IN MOTION AND WITHOUT BARRIERS (CIM)

Synchronicity has begun to occupy a very special place.

Because walking changes our perception.

And reading transforms our interpretation of the world.

When both experiences unite (SWS), invisible relationships begin to emerge between:

• books,
• people,
• paths,
• ideas,
• imagination,
• and the precise moment when something significant appears before us.

Perhaps the future of reading will be neither solely digital nor solely physical.

Perhaps it will be:

• mobile,
• shared,
• hybrid,
• international,
• free at many levels,
• assisted by Artificial Intelligence (Synchronicity Walk System: SWS),
• and deeply human at the same time.

The books on Synchronicity presented here are the source of this new application, which you can now access: https://elcaminante-sqngk36.public.builtwithrocket.new

That is precisely what we are beginning to explore step by step from this new cultural vision taking shape around EMULISA NEOBIBBLOS: an open platform where walking, reading, writing, imagining, and sharing knowledge can integrate as a single experience.

Curiously, many of the books developed within EMULISA have begun to connect with each other around the phenomenon of Synchronicity.

Some explore:

• depth psychology,
• creativity,
• symbolic architecture,
• Mayan culture,
• Artificial Intelligence,
• consciousness,
• art,
• philosophical fiction,
• and the invisible connections between human events.

Among them are:

• SYNCHRONICITY: A PREDICTABLE PHENOMENON
• SYNCHRONICITY IN THE ANCIENT MAYANS
• ACTIVE ARCHITECTURAL SYNCHRONICITY
• WALKING WITH SYNCHRONICITY STEP BY STEP
• EVANESCENT TALES
• ACRONISM: TIMELY CREATION IN ART
• DIRECTED SYNCHRONICITY IN THE AGE OF TOXIC REALISM AND A.I.
• SYNCHRONICITY AND PROPORTIONALISM
• THE GREAT COLLAPSE OF THE ABSURD
• ON THE WINGS OF THE MOÁN: SYNCHRONISTIC MECHANICS

You can access them below, as they are available on Amazon, Kindle Edition.

EMULISA Publications

Loya opategui, Carlos, On the Wings of the Moán, The Synchronicity Mechanics, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon:

It explains synchronicity as an unconscious force that guides our decisions and reveals internal messages through meaningful coincidences, proposing its understanding as a guide to self-knowledge and destiny.

Loya opategui, Carlos, THE GREAT COLLAPSE OF THE ABSURD, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXS4X5JF

When the universe grows tired of logic, chaos becomes its new order. Two eccentric thinkers—Tina Stein and Cal Young—try to restore sense to the cosmos in crisis. Mixing humor, physics, and metaphysics, this novel celebrates the beauty of nonsense and the creativity born from collapse.

Loya opategui, Carlos, SYNCHRONICITY AND PROPORTIONALISM: COINCIDENCE OR MEANINGFUL PROPORTION?, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GH9CRHYM

A contemporary reinterpretation of synchronicity that expands on Jung’s proposition through the lens of complexity theory and fractality. The essay introduces the concept of proportionality as an organizing principle of meaning, exploring how certain events acquire significance beyond linear causality or mere chance.

Loya opategui, Carlos, DIRECTED SYNCHRONICITY IN THE ERA OF TOXIC REALISM AND A.I., EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQHC63SZ

A groundbreaking exploration of synchronicity as an active and ethically guided practice in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Integrating symbolic psychology, Toxic Realism, and emerging technologies, this essay proposes that meaningful coincidences can be anticipated and consciously cultivated, transforming synchronicity into a tool for creativity, self-knowledge, and responsible personal evolution.

Loya opategui, Carlos, ACRONISM: THE OPPORTUNE CREATION IN ART, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK3XZSY5

Explores the idea of the “right moment” for artistic creation. Merging intuition, synchronicity, and AI, it reveals how time, inspiration, and technology converge to shape the destiny of every artwork.

Loya opategui, Carlos, Evanescent Stories, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B86GMS8W

A collection of twenty-five stories exploring the dialogue between the conscious and unconscious. Through symbolic and poetic language, the author reveals the fragile boundary between dream and reality in the human psyche.

Loya opategui, Carlos, WALKING WITH SYNCHRONICITY STEP BY STEP. WORKBOOK, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQW7FLKD

A practical and experiential companion to the study of synchronicity, designed to transform walking into a conscious, symbolic, and transformative act. Through guided exercises, reflective templates, and symbolic mapping, this workbook invites readers to recognize, facilitate, and ethically activate meaningful coincidences in daily life, turning each step into an opportunity for self-knowledge and inner alignment.

Loya opategui, Carlos, ACTIVE ARCHITECTURAL SYNCHRONICITY, EMULISA, México 2026, Available on Amazon, Kindle Editon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYYHGNF9

This essay proposes that spaces can evoke experiences of meaning and synchronicity in human consciousness. Integrating depth psychology, the philosophy of symbols, and spatial theory, it introduces the concept of Architectural Active Synchronicity (AAS). Architecture ceases to be merely functional and becomes a mediator of meaning. This text redefines design as a catalyst for inner and collective transformation.

Most of these works also exist in Spanish, allowing this cultural exploration to gradually extend to readers in different parts of the world.

Perhaps we are only seeing the beginning of something larger: a new relationship between reading, human mobility, digital communities, collective creativity, and Artificial Intelligence.

And perhaps the CIRCLE OF READERS IN MOTION is not just an initiative for walking readers.

Perhaps, over time, it will become an international human network where people find each other again through:

• books,
• walks,
• ideas,
• meaningful coincidences,
• and the desire to imagine new forms of culture for the future together.

Because sometimes, walking is also a way of reading the world (“The Hidden Language of the Feet”, Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0FNLVXSWP).

And some readings seem to have been waiting for us long before we even opened the book.

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