Experimental Updates
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. Every time 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.
Shit! I just lost the majority of this post. Now i need to try and recapture a bit of it before it's gone but - that sucks.
Anyway, I'm helping Karen transform her company into a studio. We're an awesome team - augmenting our powers through the Synergy of Us. Soon we'll both be in the position to have the majority of our attention where we want it completely.
3. My time with Miles has been amazing. The Experiment's greatest rewards come through him. I have no idea what he'll contribute to the world and i have no idea how deeply he'll enjoy himself in it but we're having a blast so far. I know that most good parents ultimately feel that their gift to the world is their child but i want more. I want to demonstrate to him that he's my gift along with other major contributions. I've started a whole blog dedicated to out time together. It's really a blog for his records when he's older. And for mine. And for anyone else that gets some benefit from it.
4. The Experiment proper - while the experiment is a 4th path gig (in the world, not in a cave or in my head) there is a significant part of it that has to do with a.) me spending time actually doing the work alone because i like doing it that way and b.) researching and studying. I recently got a new book that is like the Bible for the core of what i've been thinking about since i was 16. In fact, i just wrote a letter to my brother who's in boot camp, earlier today. Here's an excerpt:
Alright, that's it for now. The Experiment continues only now with some measurable movement forward. I'm starting to gain traction. Whew!
Watch out world - here we come! Full body style.
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. Every time 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.
Shit! I just lost the majority of this post. Now i need to try and recapture a bit of it before it's gone but - that sucks.
Anyway, I'm helping Karen transform her company into a studio. We're an awesome team - augmenting our powers through the Synergy of Us. Soon we'll both be in the position to have the majority of our attention where we want it completely.
3. My time with Miles has been amazing. The Experiment's greatest rewards come through him. I have no idea what he'll contribute to the world and i have no idea how deeply he'll enjoy himself in it but we're having a blast so far. I know that most good parents ultimately feel that their gift to the world is their child but i want more. I want to demonstrate to him that he's my gift along with other major contributions. I've started a whole blog dedicated to out time together. It's really a blog for his records when he's older. And for mine. And for anyone else that gets some benefit from it.
4. The Experiment proper - while the experiment is a 4th path gig (in the world, not in a cave or in my head) there is a significant part of it that has to do with a.) me spending time actually doing the work alone because i like doing it that way and b.) researching and studying. I recently got a new book that is like the Bible for the core of what i've been thinking about since i was 16. In fact, i just wrote a letter to my brother who's in boot camp, earlier today. Here's an excerpt:
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.
Alright, that's it for now. The Experiment continues only now with some measurable movement forward. I'm starting to gain traction. Whew!
Watch out world - here we come! Full body style.
Big Love,
Devon
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