The deep freeze lifts away from Eugene, Oregon. Raindrops fall outside my window and melt away the layer of verglas that had settled on the surface of everything. Now I return to Escape Plans Unlimited…my mission far from accomplished.
Today I have for you a very short video of the neck technique I demonstrated a few [...] Read more »
Continue reading about How to Stop The Raging Tempest of Thought
Have you ever caught yourself wondering how you got where you are right now? Have you ever had the thought that you don’t really know yourself? Has it ever occurred to you that the body underneath all of your thoughts is something different and impossible to contain in words and thoughts?
The exercise I will do [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Staring Into the Eyes of a Stranger…Looking For The Man in the Mirror.
For the rest of the next 31 days, I will not completely repeat the instructions for the various exercises and experiments I have prescribed as I go through them one by one and share with you the results.
Instead I will simply record a video and include relevant notes and fun things like pictures and lists [...] Read more »
Continue reading about How to Construct A Meta-Vomitorium In Your Inner Temple…
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 [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Jack Wilde vs. Garrett Daun: Using Personae to Escape Your False Selves
My very handy computer dictionary defines altar and temple in the following manner:
altar
noun
the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.
• a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, esp. for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.
temple
noun
a building devoted to the [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Your Life and Surroundings as an Altar or a Temple
Thanks to everyone for your excellent comments over the past month of Creative Deconstruction 31 Tool Giveaway! I appreciate all of the comments, visits to the blog, and kind feedback on your experiences. If any of you reading this have tried one or more of the exercises and secret tools, I would love to hear [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Creative Deconstruction Secret Tools 28, 29, 30, and 31…
Ok, over the next couple days I will wrap up the 31-tool-giveaway. It will remain up here on the blog indefinitely. I may record a DVD and PDF available for purchase/download from this blog and my other site very soon. Would it be useful to have these tools recorded in video format? Let me know [...] Read more »
Continue reading about A Barrage of Mindbody Hacking Tools: 24, 25, 26, and 27.
What the hell is going on here?
You can now cut through all confusion, ignorance, frustration, and conflict to the bare facts. Whenever you find yourself anywhere, ask yourself, “What the Hell is Going on Here?”
Look, listen, smell, taste and feel the ever-changing answer for yourself.
You might find over time that this exercise allows you to [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Secret 23: How to Become a Secret Agent: What the Hell is Going on Here?
20. Cognitive Endgame:
I learned this technique from Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt at the Descendance: The Clear Observer workshop in Arizona in June of 2007. It keeps coming to mind as a powerful example of using the awesome power of the cognitive brain to shut down and deconstruct patterns of inauthenticity, human game playing, manipulation, and [...] Read more »
Today’s post will be brief, as I am also doing a guest post for 30pov.com. It won’t be up until around the 30th, but take a look at the site, and if you find yourself in your thirties, go ahead and get signed up to do posts with them.
18. Blind Spot Meditation: Werner Erhard once [...] Read more »
Greetings fellow travelers upon our fine Urth! Today I have concocted a little something different. The first exercise is something that just popped into my brain after a few months of strenuous work on deconstructing my brain patterns. The second one is inspired by Dr. Claude Needham and his beautiful book, The Just Because Club.
16. [...] Read more »
Hey folks. This post is meant as a Great Big:
THANKS!
to the Ginger Ninjas and Little j for rocking my world and the greater Eugene area, where I currently locate said world.
j and Ninjas: follow the link below to your special page of exercises for this and future tours. Be sure to let me know [...] Read more »
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Greetings folks.
Today I have a couple more simple exercises for you to experiment with.
I offer these bodymind exercises in the spirit of experiment. Try them out a few (hundred) times and see how they effect you. After doing so, your body will remember the effects, and will remind you to do them when they will [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Techniques 14 and 15: Human Tuning Fork and Barbaric Yawp
Happy August 13th! While it is not exactly as spooky asFriday the 13th, Thursday the 13th still holds a lot of potential for spooky awakenings and the dawning of profound bodily awareness.
The first exercise can be found in many different traditions and formats, the most readily available being Dr. Alexander Lowen’s works:
Here Dr. Lowen explains [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Techniques 12 and 13: Grounding and Focusing; Earthquake and Laserbeam.
I asked a close friend of mine if she had any suggestions for today’s post. I told her I am in the middle of a month-long giveaway for this blog and that I want to offer a huge amount of value for all of you beloved and beautiful readers out there. This month is all [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Secret 11: What You Don’t Know Could Be Ecstasy
