personally I find a unified approach works better than trying to wrangle a multitude of power centers, which are self regulating, and probably shouldnt be messed with until a firm foundation is established. Centered and elevated is better than fragmented and reaching down, always checking. That why I’d rather praise the ineffable than split up my conciousness.

Watches are Time shackles Still, we are each stamped with an unavoidable expiration date.

Oh, another one I have been trying to do is remove contractions from my writing (like I am Commander Data or something). It is very hard but a nice way to constantly stay aware of what you are really saying.

And man, my juggling has taken a HUGE leap forward too…! I think the juggling has helped me to mentally juggle better: complex groups and patterns of ideas, and hammering them into a nicer rhythm.

Haven’t tried the choppies, but that must be why Mr. Miyagi uses them to catch flies. And the “Wax On Wax Off” is an exercise in conscious pain.

I do notice though in the workings of my brain that I seem to have different characters watching what comes in through my senses and having slightly diffeent reactions and having these reactions at different speeds.

See my new post, and then add in that basically when you have a habit it clusters together with other habits: physical, emotional, mental, etc. Habits are clustered patterns which have become ossified.

You can have a bunch of habits basically that are hooked in together into bigger and bigger complexes, reaching all the way up almost to essentially having sub-personalities which are altogether dependent on the type of sensory input being perceived and filtered out through habitual response complexes (demons, etc) .

Well anyway, I am excited about your project with proprioception.

I mentioned a silly walk and skipping versus walking exercises in a comment a while back. These are largely proprioception (pp) type exercises, using the body in unusual ways for everyday type activities. Gurdjieff used the concept alot in order to foster body awareness for self remembering and observation. A simple beginners exercise is to pick a spot in your body, say the underside of your kneecap, and try and focus on that spot as much as you can during the day. Another is to, as consciously as possible, run through and feel all the joints of your hands and feet, then the bones in between the joints, etc. Do it in a certain order, then the opposite, the randomly, speeding it up as you go.

I have been pretty good about writing left-handed, and yesterday I got my Baoding balls in the mail and started on those. I started to incorporate little movements into everyday activities that are inspired by the Alexander Technique and this has been very interesting, as well as the effects of the writing and already the Baodingers. Today I drove around downtown San Francisco, splitting my attention between traffic and these fine pp kinda Alexander Technique thingies incorporated into regular driving movements and positions. I did this mostly with my hands, head/neck, and legs. Maybe just wishful thinking but it really seemed to add to my overall perception of things. To sort of support this, at lunch we ate at an Asian fusion type place and they gave us chop sticks. I rarely use chopsticks, and when I do I am awkward. I picked up the sticks and to my amazement started using them very fluidly. I could actually pick up rice with them which I usually have great trouble doing. (darn, just realized I didn’t try them also in my left hand)

So ya, the combination of conscious pressuring of my physical mechanism through left handed writing and baoding, and Alexanderish stuff added to my usual pp stuff seems to add new dimension. Maybe it is sort of the next step that I haven’t taken, coarser to finer, so that neuronal pathways for subtler type things are activated.

Thanks for the nudge all. Also very interested to see how Tim’s stew turns out.

Also that Guy on there that does that show, Coffee, Ciggarettes and Gnosis, is interviewing John Lash. There is a thread about it. I know you interviewed him, he was looking for tips on what to ask him. Maybe you can give him some tips.

Well anyway, I am excited about your project with proprioception.

hard to explain. But it could be related to various chakra energy centers and corresponding organs communicating with each other.

I tend to think as well that the reason alcohol is legal and marijuana is not is that alcohol deadens proprioceptive awareness while marijuana heightens it - but I could be just making shit up. I’m prone to doing that…

Guess what I just realized?!?

I used to draw, through my proprioception! I think other artists do too. I accessed my “body matrix” in my brain. It was like I was sensing a “phantom limb” and then I would sketch the phantom limb on the page, or a face, or whatever. Plus I think through this i accessed fossil memories and the body matrixes of my distant ancestors, Cro-magnons, neanderthals. The more recent ancestors, all looked vaguely European, but not like me.

I think this helped me with animal anatomy too and acessed somthing really related to shapeshifting. I would access the body matrixes of animals.

I am really looking forward to your new articles on this stuff Tim.

I lot of the stuff was related to learning balance.

I am not a really precise person though. I usually just half ass everything, guesstimate.

I don’t know how this is related to what Tim is doing. I am doing pilates, strengthening my core, the more advanced you get the more you gain control of your whole body.

I am just curious. I don’t wear watches because they give me a rash.
I would like to live in a world where I don’t need to know what time it is. If anything I have a watch inside my brain, so I am more calibrated than most people to the rat race. I have intenalized it more.
So I was just wondering if there was a way to use this ability I have to my advantage. I look at it as being a response to anxiety. I am anxious about the time so I have come up with a way to keep track of it at all times. I mean, I’m not over burdened with anxiety, but when I am on vacation I try to forget what time it is.

I would also like to forget about time, for me, getting rid of my watch, as well as starting to restructure my life has been very liberating.

Do you think your ability is unique, or do we all have that potential? That is one thing I am looking at by making this change.

I also have a time anxiety, but it is not active all the time, just when certain situations trigger it, and then I feel like I have missed or am late for something. Most of the time I am very laid back about (although I am almost never late for scheduled things).

I’ll come visit if I can, when I can.

Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.