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If you’re unfamiliar with the art of Randonauting, it is a growing movement of people interested in utilizing the Fatum Bot for various purposes including exploration, creativity, divination, artistry, and self-exploration. The Fatum Bot is a program that generates truly random coordinate locations somewhere in your proximity for you to visit. It creates archetypal adventures allowing participants to explore both their own inner mind and their outer environment in new ways. If you’re intrigued and want to learn more, the website and subreddit contain lots of valuable information.
I’ve been experimenting with Randonauting for several months now and have experienced numerous novel and subjectively mind bending occurances on these random adventures. One time I was led to a meditation garden tucked away in the woods of a small town I was visiting. At the garden sat a journal filled with incredible poems, drawings, and writings from others who stumbled across the garden.
Another time I was led to an obscure back-road where a motorcyclist pulled up just after I arrived and started flying a homemade drone around a mountain in his virtual reality goggles. I and others in the Randonaut community have uncovered thousands of interesting novelties and stories around the world. There are infinitely many approaches to Randonauting as an art…
