Sensory Substitution: Human Advancement Potential - Communicating In New Ways!

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The potential to expand our senses, to utilize cellular functional plasticity in order to engage in sensory substitution, organic or full body re-creation (related to cloning and regeneration done in a proper medical environment outside of the body), as well as the regrowth of severed limbs and ravaged visceral or brain components is fascinating, but largely unexplored. 

Think about this: "Each of our body's individual cells carries within it the entire genetic code and blueprint for the replication of our entire body, and of any body part." This would seem to contain the subtle inference that any one cell, given the right "instructions" or "stimuli" or "environment" could grow a whole new you, or any spare parts or replacements that you might need at any given time.

We experience small hints of this potential for vast sensorial expansion, identification and cultivation of unacknowledged "sixth senses," through various experiences, exercises and scientific (principally medical) innovations. For example:

1) Intuition and instinct as intelligence beyond our conscious knowledge;

2) "Sensing" when someone is staring at you;

3) Knowing that someone has entered a room and is standing behind you, even if there were no sounds or other sensorial clues prior to or during his secretive entrance. [one theory is that your body can "feel" the displacement or compression of air molecules due to the person's presence];

4) Getting a "feeling" that someone closely connected to you yet many miles away has been hurt or killed;

5) Thinking about a particular song, and then turning on the radio only to hear that very song playing...

Most of us, during the course of our lives, have experienced more than one of the above occurrences multiple times. It may be sensory. It may be signalling or messaging. It remains a mystery, but it is a well-documented part of the Human Dance Of Life. It dates as far back as written communication, and is referenced in virtually every culture.

Many tribal rituals engaged in by the more "primitive" (a poorly judgmental term meaning "unperturbed by the distractions and preoccupations of excessive stimuli, sensorial overload and screaming technology) produce, through the integration of natural chemicals (botanicals, usually, but occasionally more refined drugs produced synthetically) have produced synesthesia, or even glimpses at other realms of existence.

Here is a thought-provoking predictive article from BigThink, an excellent, fertile source of topics for investigation for The Global Futurist Blog and The Braintenance Blog:

Hearing Through Your Skin And Other Adventures In Sensory Substitution

I believe that we are sending and receiving signals through various mechanisms that we are  failing to acknowledge and failing to develop or cultivate. Perhaps these special communications are far more intimate and profound -- requiring less explanation -- than those verbal and non-verbal signals which we acknowledge so readily. And perhaps, we are more connected to each other, and to whole of us, than we even dare to think.

Douglas E. Castle

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Brilliant Introductions - You Become Indispensable!

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Note:This article was originally published on this blog under the title "Making Brilliant Introductions -- For Fun And Profit!"

There is both an art and a science to making brilliant introductions between two individuals whom you know, but who haven't yet met. If your do it properly, you'll have make some serious credibility, competence and social stature points with both parties, very much to your benefit. If you do it improperly (as most ordinary people are inclined to do -- these people are probably not readers of The Sending Signals Blog), you stand a good chance of ruining your relationships or at least reducing your stature in the eyes of two people.

Dos And Dont's:

1) Do not ever send an email to both parties wherein you quickly say something trite and obviously thoughtless (in the interest of expediency because you had more important things to do) like "I thought it would be great if you two got together. John is a baker and Jack owns the La Merde Grille. You've got each other's emails. John's phone number is 555-4343, and Jack's is 555-1090. You could both make a fortune working together." [they always use the 555 exchange on television]

2) Do not ever introduce two parties if you have not first asked for each party's permission and received it. This is true of all introductions. And while discreetly asking for each party's permission, briefly explain the relevance of the introduction by offering a quick summary of how the other person could "fit" in satisfying some interest or agenda objective of the person with whom you're speaking. I find it best to do this either in person, or by telephone. A good introduction, in most cases is worth getting both parties properly aligned and each feeling respected and honored at your thoughtfulness. If either party seems reluctant at all, do not pres the issue. Simply dismiss it by saying something along the lines of "That's perfectly fine. I was thinking of you, and I thought that ________ might be a good candidate for ______ with you. Should you change your mind, please let me know. Thanks. I'll speak with you soon." Never, ever push an introduction which either party is not at all enthused about pursuing.

3) If you are going to make the introduction by telephone, orchestrate a time, confirm with both parties, and set up a 3-way dial-in conference call, with an email confirmation to each party re-stating the time, the phone number and the access code. When you get on the call, make a polite introduction. For example, "Jack and John, I'm so glad that you were both able to find time for this conference. Jack; John is someone whom I've known ____________(etc). He's always been an excellent_______________. John: Jack is someone whom I've had the privilege of knowing for ______________years, and he has always been _______________________." After this, let the two parties converse, and just stay on the sidelines.  Before the call is terminated, thank each party for making the time to participate in your conference. Don't force or press any issue, or give out phone numbers.

4) After making an introduction, wait several hours or a day, and phone each party to ask if the introduction was of help to him/her. Your role is over. If either party wants further information, they'll ask you. Never pester.

5) If you are introducing two people to each other in person (after you gotten the proper "go ahead" from both parties, bring them together, face-to-face, with one of your hands on each of the parties' shoulder or back as you face them sideways. It's a subtle gesture of uniting them, and it is a wonderfully implanted subconscious anchor. Make the same introductory speech as you would have made on the telephone call. Stay for a few moments and if the two appear to be hitting it off well, politely excuse yourself and go somewhere out of earshot. Later, thank each individually for being open to the introduction.

If you do this properly, you will be perceived (with credit to author Malcolm Gladwell who wrote "The Tipping Point") as an important connector, and as a "go-to" person. And you want to be a "go-to" person for introductions and for the development of your personal brand and your business. Don't take introductions or make introductions casually. They are important in making you important.

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Email Subject Lines That Hook The Recipient (And Make Your Letter Seem More Important Than Any Others)

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In my personal opinion, speaking just as Douglas E. Castle, for himself -- "Every Email Subject Line Should Be A Hooker." Amen. Please allow me to explain.

An unexciting, irrelevant email subject line, without either a confirmation of an appointment or a call to action will be received with less impact than its exciting, relevant and timely alternative. Make your email subject lines relevant (to the topic of the email correspondence), strong (the first five words are the most important by far -- the same as applies to news headlines, slogans and in blog posting) and with a call to action or a confirmation of some matter between sender and recipient.

By the way, the two things that annoy this author the most regarding email protocol are these and they are incredibly common:

1) An ever-growing list of copied parties to an email correspondence that no longer involves them. Please minimize the number of cc'd parties on any email to the minimal, and even then, only to the parties it applies to. You can bcc all you'd like if you want a party to see the content of the letter without revealing his/her identity and without having them added to a chain of perpetual parties to the correspondence which follows; and

2) Emails between two or among more parties which re-cycle the same subject line for days, months (or even years) after the subject has long become irrelevant. In fact, people mistakenly delete these quite frequently as if they were duplicates.

Following is a copy of an email [edited to avoid disclosing the identity of the offending party] Where my subject line (as the sender) was: "Change Your Email Subject Lines When Writing To Me."
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Bernie:

I will ring you up on Skype at 4:30 pm my local time (Eastern).

In the future, you might consider changing the subject line headings in your email correspondence to avoid confusion. Most people prefer when the subject line is relevant to the new correspondence instead of a sender's perpetual re-cycling of a subject line from some earlier correspondence which is no longer appropriate.

Constant replication of historic subject lines in a series of emails back and forth (despite the change of subject) makes it difficult for the recipient to categorize them for prioritization, filing, and deletion.

Thank you.

Douglas

Douglas E. Castle
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Sincerely, friends, followers and colleagues - what else could I say to this offender, who (I might add) has an incredibly high rate of recidivism, either because he is attempting to irk me, or because he is suffering from a deteriorating mental condition. If it's the former, I will continue my barrage of corrective assaults; if the latter, then [Man! Do I feel guilty even thinking this possible!] no amount of corrective emails or blog postings on the subject of communications would ever help.

As always, thank you for reading me (or for having my articles read to you), and for sharing my articles with your friends, associates and colleagues through you social media channels.

Boo-Rah!

Douglas E. Castle

for The Sending Signals Blog, The Taking Command Blog, The Global Futurist Blog and others beyond my ability to count.

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