it's just me and you bubbah

Never mind that.

Look at the flowers. Water the plants.

I'm no more "real" than anything else.

I'd say I qualify as a "metaprogrammer", so far as it means what I think it means:

- challenging ones tendencies by playing opposite polarities, earning what NLP buffs terms as more "requisite variety" in their behaviors and allowing themselves more choice and "freedom" in their waking lives on a moment to moment basis. Therefore, the entity one recognizes as "themself" doesn't get typecasted into the same old boring roles day after day.

The theory/model says that on the five preceding circuits there are imprints that most people remain robotically fixed into from their initial imprinting experiences.

I know I've loosened up my 2nd circuit. I used to be the classic "underdog", and now I can respond much more assertively if need be. I'm currently forcing myself to step further outside some second circuit blockages week by week by making passes at women more.

My 1st circuit is pretty well balanced; I don't find myself attached to "home" surroundings so much and exercise a lot of "explorer" tendencies.

My third circuit is pretty open. I'm intelligent enough and am currently getting further into General Semantics in order to redefine and undefine any symbolic fallacies that may exist in my model creations and everyday speech.

My fourth circuit is a solid heterosexual parent, and over the course of numerous orgies I have challenged it enough to know it's the solid cap to my terrestrial brain; I'm a certified breeder through and through.

My fifth circuit used to be THC-dependent until about a month ago. I just quit smoking weed and I found that things that are irritating like traffic jams and working on Monday mornings can be neutralized with humor, conscious breathing, or a simple self-assessment. I used to do this anyway, but there was always a thing in the back in my head telling me everything would be all better once I hit the ol' bongaroosky. I don't need marijuana, and I feel much better without it these days. I've been clean as a whistle since August 24, and now I socially drink on the weekends and don't miss it if I don't. I'm currently getting into doing pranayama as well which seems to create a larger distance between point events and the emotional response. For years now I've been able to turn off and/or regulate physical pain very well. I'm setting myself up for a big metaprogramming this week - quitting cigarettes on October 1st and replacing the neurologicval dependency with jogging and the aforementioned pranayama.

So yes, I'd consider myself a bona fide metaprogrammer. I'm certainly not the master metaprogammer of the universe, but my 6th metaprogramming circuit is in use, again going along with the Leary model that coined these terms.

I've even had a few 7th circuit experiences, but these came with chemical assistance and so no matter how valid they seemed, I'm more interested in creating them organically with Samadhi, and that's going to take some time in my own case me thinks.

Yeah, I mean how can you quantify it?

--np -- esozone.com

I am a FAKE metaprogrammer.