Anyone reading this who knows the organic creature typing these words can tell you that my name is either Jack Wilde or Garrett Daun. Myself, I do not propose to tell you who I am. You can discern that through reading this blog, emailing me, buying services from me at Creative Deconstruction, and sharing experiences with me.
Jack
If you have trained yourself to do such things, you could look at the picture of me below and determine a hell of a lot about me. Perhaps you might even discern some things about me I have not yet discovered. If so, leave me a useful comment to that effect.
Go to the Original Falcon website by clicking on the Original Falcon words earlier in this sentence. On the site, look at the Radical Undoing DVDs # 5 and 6. They are called the Legs and Pelvis and the Grand Tour. In those DVDs, you will experience a man named Jack Wilde.
Of course, the guy writing this blog is Garrett Daun.
Garrett
The two men are one and the same.
What began for me as a nickname developed into a quest of moving beyond limiting labels to discover a little more about my own true nature. It took many years for the two names to coalesce into a creature far greater than both names, or any name, can encompass. The names, and your name, are tools for you and other people to communicate with.
Many opposites arose between Jack Wilde and Garrett Daun. Jack Wilde is a roaming, hitchhiking, wild anarchist type. Garrett Daun is a Gnostic Bishop, ULC minister, businessman, massage therapist, and he has a BA in religious studies and creative writing. Jack Wilde used to train hop and hitchhike all over the continent looking for adventure. Garrett Daun has had jobs and responsibilities. He trained in martial arts, rock climbing, snow camping, and mountaineering. These latter tasks brought Garrett a lot closer to Jack.
Today, the two have fused. My friend Little j now calls me “Jiggediah,” a combination of Jack and Garrett Daun (JGD). You can find Little j’s excellent website, No Where Love, and his other site, Now Here Love, by clicking on either or both of the words I just typed.
Little j, also known as James, Jamie Jameson, and JMKom, needs you to click on over to his site and leave tons of encouraging comments. Why? Because he has been considering not doing as much with his website. I encourage him to continue with it, and I encourage you to assist him in this.
Have you ever noticed the presence of different moods in your experience of life? If so, you are like many humans. Scientists have identified something called Mood Modules. The basic idea behind mood modules is that the human brain can access certain information in certain moods. The mood you are in determines the memories your brain can access. This explains some reasons behind test anxiety.
If you apply some of the techniques presented in this blog effort, you can destroy some of the boundaries between various mood modules in the operating structure of your brain. For example, if you stretch out your face when you are in various different moods, you are asserting a different part of yourself–let’s honor G. W. Bush and call it the decider–that operates above and beyond your various moods. Since the actions of the face muscles assist in the creation and maitenance of mood states, when you break up the structure of the face, you also allow your brain access to far more memories and data than when trapped in any give mood. Give it a try.
So what does all of this have to do with Using Personae to Escape False Selves, you ask? Everything. When you develop a persona opposite of the one you currently understand as yourself, you will expand your understanding of yourself to include far more than the two personalities. For example, the new personality and its traits will reveal to you that you are more than either of the two personae you have developed. This will liberate you in many ways.
Good luck. Jack and Garrett are on your side.
-Garrett and Jack.
Nice to meet you, Jack….somehow I knew there was an alter ego in that pretty head of yours.