Jack Black is now officially one of my favorite reality benders.
Devon White blog
Nov
10
10
When training anyone in the basics of neuro-hacking, i always begin by helping them learn to reset to their Default State - how they are when they’ve stopped doing anything other than just Being. Like this, a person is at their best, something i check with the question, “like this, what’s possible?” When the answer is, “anything” or “everything,” i know we’ve arrived. The Default State is what happens when a person effectively shuts down the behavioral viruses they’ve caught through an off-base society, and reboots, bringing themselves back online as they were designed to be.
Last week on Larry King Bill Maher underscored our ability to do this on a cultural scale with a simple and tech-savvy quote on the significance of our country’s monumental presidential election.
“America can reboot. It can do something that a few years ago we didn’t think was possible.”
This track is excerpted from Buck 65’s “woodshop” trilogy, \Dirtbike\.
The trilogy as a whole embodies intelligence in impressive arcs and swerves. Buck 65’s soundscapes and sonic bending press you to bring all systems online and experience his music. Grok:
Here’s an excerpt originally posted on Buck 65’s website.
Lovers,
I have completed the task I had set out for myself to put together three huge album\’s worth of music in three months - what\’s been called the \’Dirtbike\’ project. In these last three months I managed to write and record approximately 70 songs. The three \”albums\” are each around an hour in length…
Right now I think of Dirtbike 1-3 as a woodshed demo project. But I\’ve wanted to share this work, at this stage, with anyone who was interested in hearing it. So I sent copies to a few friends and to the people who contributed and they\’ve floated around a bit from there.
It was just really important for me at this point in my career to act creatively without any consideration for money or press or anything other than art. I refuse to see any of this work as a failure in terms of sales or critical response or whatever. So I guess it could be said that this is just something I had to do for myself.
Finally, these recordings were made at home with crappy gear and were mixed in headphones that are 15 years old and were never very good in the first place. So they are pretty lo-fi. So for the few of you who will hear them, they\’re best heard in headphones. On a stereo and especially in a car, they will probably sound awful.
As of the date of this post, for more Buck 65, you can download albums one and two from this trilogy for free,
Nov
3
3
While i am a neuro-hacker for most of my life, Karen, my partner, and i run a wedding photography studio as well, Karenscape. However, though my pictures are (ahem) righteous, it’s really the dancing i live for. Karen likes to goad me into shakin’ my money-maker after every cake cutting as that’s when i usually end up being molested by a lascivious octogenarian or grinded, choo-choo style, by tipsy bridesmaids. Here’s a little triptych she put together to celebrate one of this summer’s favorites.
A sane society incorporates its knowledge and understanding of archetypal patterns into its fabric as the underlying themes, and makes sure it chooses beneficial ones. - Alex Ramonsky
Perhaps the cruelest thing… we do…to ourselves. We see ourselves as being part of a group or groups and judge ourselves according to their faulty archetypes, altering our lifestyles to “fit in”, believing we are “sinners” or “the chosen” or whatever they want to tell us we are. We see our groups & archetypes as being superior to other groups and their archetypes, and become more hostile to people in other groups. Some social psychologists claim that prejudice is a result of personality. To me this is a little like saying that being fond of too-tight hats is a result of going bald. It is a correlation, not causality. As far as perception is currently concerned, it’s a circle: personality is a result of prejudice (because our personality is built up from our like/dislike response, and then is subject to the prejudice inherent in perception.) Society doesn’t help. Often, ‘conformity’ is a way of gaining social approval (or avoiding rejection) and increasing status. - Alex Ramonsky
I have a site called Pathbreaker.tv. And though i haven’t updated it much since its inception, the site’s main thrust is to promote a message sorely missing in our world - Do what you love. Live your passion and, whenever possible, find or make that perfect combination of making money doing what you love.
About a year back, during a training i gave at Bard college, i called up one of the essential hero myths of our time - Luke Skywalker. Now, the story of every hero follows a basic pattern. Within that pattern, immediately following the call to adventure comes the threshold guardians. The guardians deter the hero from heeding the call. With reason, logic, violence, morality or anything else that works, the guardians keep less worthy heroes from their adventure.
In Star Wars, that guardian came in the form of Luke’s adopted father, his uncle, Owen. “Don’t go off to space school Luke, i need you on the farm for one more season. Just one more season.”
Kiela, one of my best friends, essence of the iconoclast, and pathbreaker elite, has since made this commentary:
and this:
and for the kids:
p.s. for those of you who don’t know, Kiela is also responsible for the original composition and vocals on Installing Inner Game.
Oct
29
29
Years ago, my then-best friend, Jesse, introduced me to the writings of a man who became one of my greatest neurological heroes. Robert Anton Wilson was a chronic optimist, a futurist, a realist, a sarcastic Irishmen, an astounding writer, a voice of sanity in a world gone mad, a loving father, and, i’d wager, one of the brightest men on the planet.
Entirely through books with just one live performance peppered in around ‘99, Wilson was the Velvet Underground to my modern day rock band.
One of the ideas i pirated from him and installed into my own life was Goddess Worship. Inspired by his novels i built a shrine to Eris, Goddess of Chaos, inside my self, my memory palace and my life.
Early this morning i stumbled on a blog that he and then one of his surviving daughters had been updating. On it i found her calling card - the great apple of Discordia. Here it is for you to enjoy.
Oct
27
27
During the early part of the decade i spent a long time working toward creating a media platform that was candidly biased toward futures that work. Toward that end, we elected a Global Vision statement:
In fifty years we hope to have a stable, peaceful, prosperous, diverse global civilization, which honours freedom of personal belief, and in which democratic political processes dominate, with a high level of universal education and health care, and a genuinely impartial and accessible system of justice, and in which both advanced and basic technology is applied in ways that are in balance with the natural environment, and produce an equitable distribution of social benefits. - Hardin Tibbs
That global vision was then divided into several, more manageable categories each with it’s own mission statement and to-do lists so that, as a global community, we would know the things we were working toward on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and millenial basis. Two of those categories were Environmental Sustainability and Space Exploration (which was really a hidden pointer towards space migration).
If we’re going to actually survive and prosper as a species, we need to get beyond the myopic habits and rigid reality tunnels most of us hold so that we can recognize the possibilities for catastrophe and for success.
Howard Bloom, one of the smartest men i know, does both of these things in what is the most astute and sensible assessment of where we need to start sustainability from. Check it out.
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