The evolution metamorphosizes
It's been quite the time since i've posted here. I have several other blogs going now most of which address the more pertinent of my day to day activities.
However, i realized i needed to make an update on the Experiment posts. The Experiment has taken a very practical route of late. Here's how:
1. Kiela is running her own experiment now and we're documenting it online through the Broadcasting Evolution Yahoo! Group.
2. I've taken my immediate attention off media and put it on the more immediate approach to accomplishing that long-term goal. Basically it goes like this: I love doing work with people's nervous systems. I think that sharing NeuroLogic is one of the coolest fucking things in the world. It's my Path. If Love has a form that it uses to come through me it's in teaching people how to run themselves - both in person at the individual level and, eventually, through mass media. However, that has about as much shelf appeal as bat guano. Everytime i try booking a gig at a college in order to teach kids "exquisite decision-making" or "how to make it through your quarter-life crisis" - shit college kids will really get a lot from - i get ten people who have no idea why they're there (other than the word of mouth that i'm interesting to listen to). However, if i give a gig called, "The best head ever" or "deepening orgasms" or "How to Become an Unforgettable Lover" i get standing room only. Alright,i get it - sex sells. In fact, at colleges, sex, drugs and saving the world all sell. I dig it. These are all topics to which i can speak with expertise. And, they give me a really cool platform through which to present ideas that will bring value to people's lives immediately, they have a hook, they're marketable, and i can sneak in other ideas (like how to make exquisite decisions) while i talk about and install great sex strategies.
So now, following this vein to the heart of my life, I'm putting all of my attention on building that avenue of media broadcasting. Working with Karen as a partner and Shane and Roxanne of Barefeet Studios as our web/marketing development team (They Rule!) I'm putting my attention to where my strengths reside. In addition to this, Karen and i are working to transform Karenscape into a studio. We're an awesome team and we seem to be steadily augmenting our individual powers through the synergy of Us.
Meanwhile, the sex venue is a blast. It's the perfect avenue to deliver the content i want while still being able to get an audience in a fast paced culture where people want the good life but need to be sold into giving their attention to something that benefits them in a way they don't know they don't need benefitting - i.e. who the hell knows that life would be better if they knew how to run their nervous systems.
3. Miles is amazing. The Experiment has been absolutely perfect in my experience of him. I mean, most good parents use "my kid is my gift" as their default contribution to the world and i don't want to just do that but, he's a gift to me. And just being so present with him has been a spell. It's like Christmas everyday. I started a blog about my time with him. It's mostly for him, for his records when he's older. It's for me too - for when i'm older and i want to remember. and maybe some other people will find some value in it.
4. On the personal front, i'm spending more time actually attending to the details of my everyday awareness: working out, isometrics, running!, sitting, deepening my INTENT, etc. Also, Karen recently bought me what has become the Bible of my life - The Psychobiology of Gene Expression by Ernest Rossi. It's about exactly the things i've been thinking about since i was 16 - how to influence myself (and others) at the genetic level. Actually, i just wrote a letter to my brother about it which i'll excerpt here:
I'm only a hundred pages into it so there's a lot left to go but, it's spurring a lot in me.
That's it for today - i've got lots of work to do before i go over to Nell's. Miles and i begin our week long adventure in two days so i need to hustle now.
Big Love,
Devon
However, i realized i needed to make an update on the Experiment posts. The Experiment has taken a very practical route of late. Here's how:
1. Kiela is running her own experiment now and we're documenting it online through the Broadcasting Evolution Yahoo! Group.
2. I've taken my immediate attention off media and put it on the more immediate approach to accomplishing that long-term goal. Basically it goes like this: I love doing work with people's nervous systems. I think that sharing NeuroLogic is one of the coolest fucking things in the world. It's my Path. If Love has a form that it uses to come through me it's in teaching people how to run themselves - both in person at the individual level and, eventually, through mass media. However, that has about as much shelf appeal as bat guano. Everytime i try booking a gig at a college in order to teach kids "exquisite decision-making" or "how to make it through your quarter-life crisis" - shit college kids will really get a lot from - i get ten people who have no idea why they're there (other than the word of mouth that i'm interesting to listen to). However, if i give a gig called, "The best head ever" or "deepening orgasms" or "How to Become an Unforgettable Lover" i get standing room only. Alright,i get it - sex sells. In fact, at colleges, sex, drugs and saving the world all sell. I dig it. These are all topics to which i can speak with expertise. And, they give me a really cool platform through which to present ideas that will bring value to people's lives immediately, they have a hook, they're marketable, and i can sneak in other ideas (like how to make exquisite decisions) while i talk about and install great sex strategies.
So now, following this vein to the heart of my life, I'm putting all of my attention on building that avenue of media broadcasting. Working with Karen as a partner and Shane and Roxanne of Barefeet Studios as our web/marketing development team (They Rule!) I'm putting my attention to where my strengths reside. In addition to this, Karen and i are working to transform Karenscape into a studio. We're an awesome team and we seem to be steadily augmenting our individual powers through the synergy of Us.
Meanwhile, the sex venue is a blast. It's the perfect avenue to deliver the content i want while still being able to get an audience in a fast paced culture where people want the good life but need to be sold into giving their attention to something that benefits them in a way they don't know they don't need benefitting - i.e. who the hell knows that life would be better if they knew how to run their nervous systems.
3. Miles is amazing. The Experiment has been absolutely perfect in my experience of him. I mean, most good parents use "my kid is my gift" as their default contribution to the world and i don't want to just do that but, he's a gift to me. And just being so present with him has been a spell. It's like Christmas everyday. I started a blog about my time with him. It's mostly for him, for his records when he's older. It's for me too - for when i'm older and i want to remember. and maybe some other people will find some value in it.
4. On the personal front, i'm spending more time actually attending to the details of my everyday awareness: working out, isometrics, running!, sitting, deepening my INTENT, etc. Also, Karen recently bought me what has become the Bible of my life - The Psychobiology of Gene Expression by Ernest Rossi. It's about exactly the things i've been thinking about since i was 16 - how to influence myself (and others) at the genetic level. Actually, i just wrote a letter to my brother about it which i'll excerpt here:
Karen recently gave me a book which is as close to the Bible for my current interest as I could have come. It’s a holy scrit my friend. It’s called The Psychobiology Of Gene Expression. Essentially it’s an in-depth exploration of how psychosocial experiences (emotional and environmental experiences) have a powerful and on-going relationship with the ways our genes express themselves.
What that means in a practical sense is this: right now as the Army introduces you to an entirely new way of experiencing the world, as they force things that were once foreign to become second nature to you, they are not working simply at the level of your body-mind but deep down into your genetic structure. Here’s how:
Gene expression is an on-going activity. In every cell of your body, your DNA, the personal blueprint of Gregory Drexler, exists. From its headquarters inside the nucleus of your cell, it cooperates with a messenger called RNA to give orders to the rest of the cell. Like a Drill Sergeant your DNA is giving these signals endlessly. And like a military commander it has both long term and short term plans. It’s long term plans are like plans for national defense or war-governing strategies, they offer overarching plans like growing you into a strapping young man, constant brain development, respiration, proper hormone release, etc. But our magnificent bodies (i know – yours is particularly magnificent now right) have short term highly adaptable plans as well. And this is true down to the genetic level, where second-by-second your DNA is making micro-adjustments to the signals it’s sending out based on the input and feedback it’s getting from (a) your internal state and (b) your immediate environment.
For example, when toxic gas is streaming into your nose, the entire system registers it. This information is taken to the DNA and what are called Immediate Early Genes. The job of these genes is to coordinate immediate action within the overarching strategy of the Commander DNA. These Immediate Early Genes are like the Drill Sergeant concerned with immediate action - organizing the nuclear platoon to produce proteins that will best deal with the external assault here and now. These genes will activate hormone expression (though hormones will release before this as well) as well as a series of other actions. Meanwhile, the rest of your DNA is still running the war as only Gregory Drexler would.
This is pretty much the exact thing I’ve been thinking about since I was 16. I’ve been thinking about it and not taking the next logical step to find out if there was anybody in the world working on this type of stuff, i.e. how to influence myself and others at the genetic level using words and the mediated space between us. As it turns out, there are people doing this.
I'm only a hundred pages into it so there's a lot left to go but, it's spurring a lot in me.
That's it for today - i've got lots of work to do before i go over to Nell's. Miles and i begin our week long adventure in two days so i need to hustle now.
Big Love,
Devon
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