Build Matrix
Map of Distinctions
Distinctions And Matrix Building
BUILDING MATRIX HAS A SPEED LIMIT
Expanding your kindness and generosity are side effects of expanding your consciousness.
Consciousness is not in your mind. Consciousness is in your being.
If consciousness existed in a person’s mind then we could simply explain the consequences of the corporate strategy of externalizing costs to make 'profit' and people would instantly stop working or investing in any corporation forever.
We could explain the horrors of overpopulation and villagers would instantly and forever stop having more than two children.
But it does not work that way. Adding information to the mind is not enough to create change. Expanded consciousness is required.
Consciousness expands at a certain speed limit. It can only increase as fast as you can build the energetic matrix to support it. Building matrix takes time.
Building Matrix in your Being is like building good soil. Without good soil, plants won’t grow. If you start with rocks, sand or clay, too salty, too acidic, building good soil requires consistent hard work over a long period of time. Pull out the stones, break up chunks of clay, mix in compost, balance the acidity.
Similar time and effort is required to build the energetic matrix upon which consciousness can grow.Just as a good strong trellis supports a vibrantly healthy climbing rosebush, so too a good strong energetic matrix supports a vibrantly healthy growing consciousness.
Diligently practicing the experiments in this website, even if they seem embarrassing or confusing at first, is a proven approach for Building Matrix.
CONSTRUCTIVE STRESSES
Matrix can be built through persistently engaging constructive stresses, such as:
- Living in foreign cultures.
- Eating unfamiliar foods.
- Communicating in foreign languages.
- Adapting to different customs.
- Being in the company of saints.
- Building a consistent practice involving physical exercise, vegetarianism, study, meditation, martial arts, singing, music, etc.
- Exposing yourself to radiations from sacred artifacts, holy tombs and sanctuaries.
- Having integrity, which means doing what you say you will do (e.g., spending time with the kids, being on time to appointments, paying the bills on time, taking out the garbage).
- Giving improvised public talks with feedback and coaching from the audience.
- Being Radically Honest.
- Fasting for one to three days.
- Making a fierce commitment to complete a worthy project by a certain deadline, and doing it.
- Observing periods of silence.
- Staying alert to the responsible or irresponsible purposes of your interpretations about what is happening.
- Cleaning your house of extraneous material possessions.
- Asking for, and listening undefendedly to, feedback from your enemies.
- Changing small habits of behavior (e.g., putting your jacket on starting with the opposite sleeve from usual, clasping your hands with the other thumb on top, not scratching a particular small itch, ordering food you would not normally order at the restaurant, being of service to strangers).
- Working in faster or slower rhythms than are usual for you (e.g., taking twice as long to set the table or make the bed, chewing twice as fast as normal).
- Going to the edge of your comfort zone and staying there by implementing new behaviors while acting as if they are normal (e.g., behaving as if you are from a foreign land, acting as if you are handicapped, being innocently unknowledgeable about common things, being delighted by the ordinary, having a sense of the miraculous in everyday life).
Building matrix through any of these various behaviors amplifies the effect of reading this book.
An additional way of building matrix is the daily use of Tonic Gold, a true alchemical elixir: three drops on the tongue first thing in the morning.
Matrix Building and the Linear Life Plan
NEW TERRITORY OF AWARENESS
Expanded matrix gives you the possibility to navigate new territory of awareness. Modern culture has an extremely limited view on the possibilities of what is possible for a human life. The unique menu offered by modern culture is the linear life plan. The linear life plan goes something like this: you are born in a nucleus family, starting at age five years old you should go to school, and then to a different school, and then to university. You must have good grades, so you can have a good job after school. After exiting university, you get a job as an employee. You find a life-partner at university or at work. You get married, have children, a dog and a house outside the city. You change jobs or start your own business. You get divorce and change your life partner. After a few rounds of that, you get old enough to retire. You are then put in an old people’s home. You die. This is the average linear life plan.
Building matrix enables you to navigate new territory of awareness, including the territory of the nonlinear life plan. If you were not aware that there was a linear life plan then you could not have considered that a nonlinear life plan was possible. Marking a difference between a linear life plan and a nonlinear life plan is making a distinction. Making that particular distinction gives you more options to choose from, the more possibilities for your life.
A human life is a treasure hunt. We dedicated most of our time and energy in finding a treasure. Everybody’s treasure is different: love, happiness, deep friendship, money, a community, a purpose, making an impact in the world, … Whatever it is, it is what we want to achieve.
Logan LaPlant left school (and made a Tedx Talk about it, watch it below) because he realised he was not learning what he was supposed to learn to get to his treasure. If most people are looking for Happiness, how many classes in ‘Happiness’ did we have in school? he asked. How are we supposed to know how to get there? Why on earth are we learning about algebra and greco-roman history when what we really want to know is how to be happy?
How are we going to figure out how to get there? We need an accurate map of how to get from here to there.Before Christopher Columbus went to find India crossing the Pacific, he did not have an accurate map of the world, the maps stopped at the contours of Europe. Christopher Columbus ended up in the Americas thinking he was in India. He did not get to his treasure because his map was not accurate enough. How many times have you wanted to reach a treasure and ended up finding yourself in a totally different place than where you want to be? Probably your inner map of that territory was not accurate enough to navigate yourself to your goal.
Expanding your matrix makes your inner map more accurate. Each new distinction that reorders your energetic body sheds light on new parts of the map that you didn’t know you didn’t know about. StartOver.xyz provides new maps for the known and unknown territories.
The new thoughtmaps comes out of a context that holds more consciousness than modern culture. The matrix of next culture has expanded way beyond that of modern culture.
Distinctions influence our lives whether we are aware of them or not. It is like gravity, whether you are aware of the sensation of gravity or whether you believe in gravity or not, it affects you whether you want it or not. Consciousness works in a similar way. The more distinctions you collect, the more leverage you have about circumstances. A new map opens new rules, new purposes, new possibilities and therefore new possible gameworlds that couldn’t be thought of before. Building new distinctions about gameworld gives you new territories to explore and new experiments to try in the domain of work, play and service.
No one can build matrix for you. And more interestingly, no one can stop you from building matrix.
Exit The Linear Life Plan
Hackschooling Makes Me Happy - Logan LaPlante
Matrix-Building Experiments
Authentic Experimenting builds matrix.
Below are listed specific Matrix-Building Experiments for yourself and others.
Please be aware that Building Matrix adds new Distinctions and therefore new awareness to your Being.
Expanding your awareness can cause Liquid States in your psychological defense strategy (your Box) and also in your 5 Bodies as you start to recognize outdated structures and feel the pain of what these patterns or Parts are causing you. Here it could be wise to expand your skills in Conscious Feelings.
Shift Identity Into: 'I am a Matrix Builder'
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We have now, and have always had, the complete freedom to choose who we are being. It is true that we have been raised in certain circumstances and in a certain culture and time. It is true that there exist powerful forces to try to sway our decisions in one direction or another about who to be. But those circumstances and forces are now, and always have been, outside of us, incidental, and not causative. The final decision – even down to the finest minutiae of our quality of being – has always been ours alone.
Order A Meal Your Box Does Not Like
And Eat It
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Go to a restaurant, preferably one you have been to before so that you are familiar with what they serve.
Read through the menu a new way. Instead of scanning for something your Box likes, look for something your Box DOES NOT want to eat.
Order it.
Do not explain to anyone you are with what you are doing. If someone notices that you are ordering something you are know to not like and says something such as, "I thought you did not like to eat saurkraut?" just say something like, "Yes. It is amazing, isn't it?"
Your order will arrive.
It might look better than you thought, it might look worse.
However it looks, even if you don't want to eat it, eat it.
Really taste it. Feel the textures in your mouth. Notice what happens as you chew and swallow.
Notice the sensations of this experiment Building Matrix in your Being.
If you have any trouble, slow down, or maybe speed up.
Or maybe ask someone to hold space for you to do an Emotional Healing Process.
Not because I said so, but because you choose to do an Experiment in Building Matrix.
Scratch Longer
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For 3 months, when you feel any itch, when you start scratching it, scratch for 5 seconds longer than they itch.
Any itch you have.
These might be physical itches like bug bites or the itches that happen for no reason.
These might be non-physical itches.
Become present to your itches.
Notice what happens while you are scratching longer.
Count Before You React
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For 3 months, when you have an itch, count to 7 before you scratch it.
Don't move automatically to scratch it.
Notice what happens.
Write about this in your BEEP! Book.
This will help with REACTIVITY.
Stop Using the American Mantra, "UM"
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Radically and irrevocably stop saying the word 'Um', especially at the beginning of sentences but also in the middle of sentences.
Carry 10 Euro or Dollar notes on you at all times and give 10 Euros or Dollars to the next person you meet every time you say, "Um," until you stop saying it.
'Um' is the American Mantra that puts people into Zombie Land.
Give Gratitude for Being Bumped Awake
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From now until l the rest of your life (or for 3 months which ever is longer), every time you bump you body or you drop something, every time any MISHAP happens, stop and say:
THANK YOU.
Say "thank you," to the universe,
to gravity,
to the person you bumped,
to the tray that was heavier than you realized,
to the bill you found in the mailbox,
to the surprise mouse that got into the kitchen,
to the deer on the road in the dark....
In stead of thinking this happened, and it should not have not happened, say Thank You that it happened.
Say THANK YOU for the WAKE UP moment.
Check that you have your Center, Grounding Cord and Bubble.
Wear Something That Shows You Are an Experimenter
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Find a thing that is clearly part of a costume...
an apron from a diner or
an empty Robin Hood quiver or
aviation goggles or...wait, maybe not aviation goggles during Covid Times...something else that really stands out...
...and wear it for a week.
No matter what else you are wearing, wear this thing also.
If people ask you why, tell them you are doing an experiment to build matrix.
Say, "Yes, and...."
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For the whole day, whenever someone asks you something, proposes something, say, "YES and..." to negotiate intimacy.
Notice that it takes anger to say yes just as it takes anger to say no. What does it take to say, "and..."?
What feelings happens during "..."?
First you have to catch yourself saying, "No." When you notice you said no, you can say, "Wait. I want a do-over. YES, and...".
If you don't know what to say, say "Yes, and..." anyways.
Say No in Ten Ways
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For the day say NO ten different times in ten different ways.
One way is for "No" to be a complete sentence. No explaining, no story telling, no reasoning, no justifying, no sliding into something else.
How else can you say no?
Say no with your 5 Bodies.
If you can't say, "no," your "yes" is a lie.
Speak Using Foreign Accents
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For seven days speak always with a strong Russian accent, no matter who you are talking to. Your boss, your partner, your cat, your kids, your neighbour.
A week after that change to French accent.
I can help to watch movies with characters that speak in these accents.
If you know movies with Russian and French accents that you think also build Matrix, send them to us at clinton (at) nextculture.org and we might add them to our list of Possibilitator Training Films.
If your accents suck at first, take heart from the Map of the Learning Spiral.
Wear Clothes Inside Out on Purpose
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For a whole week wear your trousers inside out.
Or, if you are on zoom a lot, wear your t-shirt or jacket inside out.
Go to meetings, go shopping, go for a walk wearing something inside out.
Notice how you feel and what you think when others notice and don't notice and say something and don't say something.
Someone might say, "You are wearing your shirt THE WRONG way."
Tell them you are on the Learning Team, not the Looking Good Team.
Keep Your Attention
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Keep your attention for the next week.
Every time you go out of your house, do not look at any advertisement, posters, billboards.
Ever time you let your attention be hooked and you look at one, give one euro/dollar to Kiva: Loans That Change Lives.
Keep coins or tokens in one pocket and move a token to the other pocket to keep track.
The jingling in one pocket can help remind you to keep your attention.
The jingling in the other pocket can be celebrating that while you learn, you are also part of changing lives.
Mark Yourself as a Matrix Builder
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1. Get a black marker pen and put a big black dot on your cheek or on your forehead.
For three days keep it there and when people ask about it, pretend you don't know it is there.
Notice what happens. Notice your Box. It might freak out, depending on which of the 18 Standard Box designs you built to survive.
2. After that, get someone to wear red lipstick and make a red lipstick kiss mark on you and every time someone asks you about it, create a totally new story about it.
Which part of your Box is activated?
Notice Your Sexual Energy
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For a whole week when you are walking in the street, do not check someone out.
Notice what happens when you see approaching, out of the corner of your eye, an appealing person of the gender to which you are sexually attracted.
And notice your sexual energy. Keep it.
Still feel the presence of the person, look at their shoulder or the ground next to them, but do not make eye contact.
Dead Dog
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Wherever you go, go with a string tied to a toy stuffed animal and drag it around behind you.
When someone asks about it invent a new story.
They might use their Bullshit Detector.
Solve Your Problems
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Every time you have a problem, ask someone:
"Please give me 3 possibilities about what can I do with this problem."
Whatever they say, pick the craziest possibility and do it.
Solve Someone Else's Problem
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Once a day talk to someone and say, "I don't have enough problems, can I have one of your problems?"
Then solve the problem in a real way. Become a Problem Hunter.
We met this guy named Mao, we met him on the plane. He was dressed up in hippie clothes, and he goes around and lives in caves. We saw him later in a shop and he said, to the lady in the shop, 'I guess I have to pay, since it probably isn't okay to take stuff out of a store without paying for it,' and then he said, '...yet...'
I could have paid for this things and then said, "see, now it is happening..." I missed that chance to solve his problem.
It might help to learn Possibility Speaking for this.
Wear Your Archetypal Lineage
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Carry a Possibility Stone
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Carry a Watch
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Care For an Altar
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Build a simple altar in your work space.
Keep it clean and alive.
Declare Poetry
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Stand in the plaza of you town and improvise spontaneous, beautiful, expansive poetry about the people you see passing.
Make each poem two or three sentences, while you move your body, declaring out loud to the world the qualities of their being.
Call upon your Muse to do this.
Use Beauty Products Wrong
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Go to the natural skin cream shop and get a product like the black toothpaste or the green cream and then use it all up by putting it on, but don't take it off.
Walk around with it on all day.
Use your Attention to look out for the Gap in your Identity,
one of the 9 Gaps.
Use the Toilet Backwards
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For a whole week go to the toilet facing the "wrong" way.
Use a Tooth Stick
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For a whole week use a miswak stick to brush your teeth and do it on the subway, the bus, everywhere.
Maybe you will never go back to using a tooth brush.
Maybe this will be a beginning for healing your technopenuriaphobia.
Read a Book from Revoc to Recvoc
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Get a book and read it backwards. The whole thing.
If it is hard, find ways that work for it to happen. Read it out loud? Use your finger to trace the words?
Declare that you will read the book.
Declaring is one of your 3 Powers.
Time how long it takes to read a full page at the beginning (the end), and how long it takes you to read a full page in the middle. And at the end (beginning).
Don't Watch the Movie
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Go to a movie and don't look at the screen.
Notice all the other things there are to watch while the movie plays that you are the only one noticing. Notice how you feel, being the only one NOT watching the movie.
If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them you are doing an Experiment Building Matrix.
Quests come in different sizes.
Admit One
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Go buy a ticket at the movie cinema and give it to the person behind you in line and walk away.
Provide Someone a Meal By Negotiation
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Buy lunch out and give it to someone. Negotiate that they have to give you something. Find 20 hints HERE (scroll down).
The thing they give you can be immaterial.
Negotiate so that Winning is Happening.
Treat Someone You Don't Like
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In a cafe, scan the room and find someone your Thoughtware tells you you don't like.
Pay cash for their meal.
Become Money
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Carry 500 euros (or the local equivalent) cash in your wallet.
In particular, write your reasons for not wanting to do this in your Beep! Book.
Attend a Sermon Differently
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Go to a church service and sit in the front row.
Put your hand up and ask the priest several questions during the sermon.
Asking is one of your 3 Powers.
Laundry by Hand
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Wash your clothes in the sink without a washing machine, dry them out side, and iron them somehow, all by hand.
Grow a Seed
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Buy the weirdest fruit or vegetable you can find in a grocery store and grow the seed in a pot on your windowsill.
Eat New Things
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Once a week for three months buy a vegetable or fruit you never ate before and cook it somehow without seeing any recipe. You can ask the farmer or seller how to eat it.
Exit Your Birth Culture And Go Explore South America or South East Asia On A Shoestring Budget For 3 To 12 Months
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Go travel for 3 months in Asia or South America for less that 10 euros a day.
Go only with only the stuff on your back.
No big backpacks allowed. Completing this Experiment please enter Matrix Code
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