Practical Techniques Vol 1 [There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles)]

There Is Nothing Left to Say On The Invisibles
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Practical Techniques Vol 1

Alright class! You got homework! The link right above this, is where you should click.

I feel like I should offer a prize to anyone who nails the crossword puzzle from a few weeks back. I know some of you are on it.

One of the best parts of the comic, The Invisibles, was when Grant Morrison (or anyone else) would use the letters pages to give instruction sets or make requests for participation. Big try stuff energy.

I did not want to take up There is Nothing Left to Say doing, “This is magick xyz,” “This is neurolinguistic programming al-qasam,” or, “Ajackasssayswhatabrahadabadabado?” I mimic traits of educative writing and instruction, self-help and histories, and this is an informational book, but there is no expertise.

It’s hard enough to know when to use contractions or be cavalier with you. I am not going to make you feel like after a chapter you may do lines or clap erasers.

It was difficult, though, not to load up these “homework” chapters. The number of exercises in them will only increase, as we go along, but they draw from courses I have taught, from hosting or guesting in groups, and from one on one creative interactions. They are all exercises I have, myself, used. And, some of them have worked so well, I get excited at sharing them.

The chapter shows some of my university students engaging in the exercises. I would sometimes hear that someone fell in love, became less suicidal, dealt with guilt, or got an A in another course with an exercise.

The poetry workshop series I hosted for adult entertainers went wild with gematrial rumination, opening poems and discussions in a huge, flourishing way.

A friend of a friend needed something to free up creativity, and when I passed along one of the exercises from this chapter, that music producer said it worked but made him unpleased because the meditations made him have “mind-movies.” He had image and story unfolding semi-visually in a vague space before him and did not care for that no sir.

So, it is not always a gain you want or an effect you like.

It is important to try things to find out. You do not find out things without trying. You just decide.

And, why not expand what criticism can be? AI and hacks and hack AI could flood the entire field with enough fluff and dangerous but conceivably believed lies to not just knock hard-working earnest folks out of the job but kill people. There are AI mushroom hunting books and con artists selling easy manipulative sex right now that will probably get somebody dead.

I can suggest you stand on a chair seat or that you talk the yourself in a mirror and even if it goes poorly, surely it is better for me and for you than if you ate a poison mushroom and died.

All the psychic real estate shell games.

Being honest with yourself with your eyes open for five minutes is hard. It is a long time. Time gets longer the more you cannot check a timer or distract yourself with something soothing. But, when you critique yourself, maybe it is good to think about when you are criticized by other people, and how much or how little you actually listen to or commit to their opinions and advice.