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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Sympathies, Condolences, Comfort And Support - Opportunities In Sorrow

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When someone about whom you care experiences the loss of a loved one, it is indeed a sad thing. But you can gain by it (in the most positive sense, and not as a sociopathic opportunist or as an emotionless manipulator) in two ways: 1) you can offer comfort to the bereaved person; and, 2) you can show your qualities of empathy, compassion, devotion and friendship to somebody who may be, in some form or fashion, important to you -- either now or in the future. There is occasionally a reward for good acts and deeds in Sending Signals beyond the trite old "Virtue is its own reward."

Beyond this, there is the fact is that people like the company and the opportunity to forge relationships with people who care about them. But that caring must be sincere. Don't miss a chance to communicate during a trying time or a crucial moment in someone else's life.

Recently a dear friend and colleague of mine lost a good friend and a professional colleague of hers, and I took the time (because I care very much about her) to write a long text message -- even though my text message was a colossally long one, I needed for her to immediately have it in her hands right then; I couldn't waste time writing an email which might not be read for several days. And so I wrote to this wonderful friend:

"I am so profoundly sorry for your loss, and for your deep sadness. I wish I could help to ease your pain. When people whom we are privileged to love are taken from us, we are never prepared.... we feel incomplete. We second-guess ourselves about the last words we said, and the last words said to us. In all truth, child, we will all have regrets and doubts in the self-deprecating distorted vision that is hindsight - but the sum, upon reflection, of the best moments, of sharing, of laughing, of just leaning on each other a bit from time to time, of just being intertwined will far outweigh our laments. And the best memories of that magic will be like sunlight through the leaves on the trees that form a canopy over the forest we wander through in the uncertain span of time we call "life." And life will indeed continue - but chastened by the inevitability of mortality, and touched by an unforgettable void, we take ever greater care to hold those we love a little bit tighter, and to tell those who are precious to us how much they mean to us. We invariably find ourselves being more generous with our love, and giving it its deserved but pent-up voice more often, with greater ease, with greater abandon, and with less fear of the consequences. We become braver in bringing our affection out into the open, where there is no mistaking it. If there is anything which I can do to bridge the distance between you and a smile, you have only to ask. You are a sensitive and beautiful soul - no need to hide it - and I'm certain that you gave your friend much to be happy about and thankful for during your time together. Love, Douglas"

Nothing else really needs to be said. You know what to do. The two links below are designed to throw you off balance. Let's see if they do.

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Sunday, May 05, 2013

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

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synesthesia, plasticity, adaptability, sensorial substitutions, out-of-body experiences, unexplored senses, human interconnectedness, cell biology, sending and receiving information, channeling, premonition, precognition, other realms, reality, intuition, anticipation, instinct, altered states, alternative universes, educating cells to new purposes, de-coding messages, new modes of connection, Douglas E. Castle, CFI

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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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sexual Signals - The Art Of Gazing.

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When you are in face-to-face one-on-one situation (or in what can be manipulated into one), you happen to male, and are just becoming acquainted with a woman, her imagination can be stimulated by your eye movements and focal placement ("The Art Of Gazing") with shocking simplicity and effectiveness.

No, this doesn't involve pheromones, hypnosis or anything more arcane than simply knowing where to look, how to look and for how long. This makes sense because the eyes interact to stimulate various parts of the brains of both parties. It is simply a matter of who takes the lead. And, most wonderfully, it can be done with a couple of yards distance between the two of you, provided that you are fully facing each other -- the effect is more powerful as the distance between the two of you is reduced or closed, but sometimes behaving in a socially appropriate way, you cannot close distance by walking up closer or possibly invading someone else's personal space.

Our subject male must spend most of this potentially brief time (you two might be stopping just to chat for a moment, or one of you may be called away (hopefully not to testify before a congressional committee) doing precisely this:

1) Make initial eye contact, open your mouth as if to say "hello" -- you can even mouth the words -- and briefly nod your head in the affirmative as if agreeing to something that she has said;

2) Re-establish the eye-to-eye contact while you speak about anything (company picnic, budget review, your upcoming endoscopy; it doesn't matter, because your body is having a separate conversation with her, and her subconscious is keenly aware of it, while she might not be consciously aware of it) for at least twenty seconds. Lock it in:

3) Let your gaze drop to her lips and hold it there for at least twenty seconds -- it's as if you love watching her speak;

4) Gaze back up and make eye contact again, as if you had been temporarily distracted by her lips, and their beauty and grace in forming words;

5) Alternate the spotlight of your gaze (sounds like a Cole Porter tune) between her eyes and her lips, until the encounter is concluded. Exchange pleasantries.

Your new female acquaintance will find herself (perhaps despite herself) thinking about you in a sexually-oriented context. The world is your laboratory. If this experiment suits your purposes, I would strongly suggest that you try it.

Good luck to you, and thank you as always for reading me and sharing me across your social media.

Douglas E. Castle for The Sending Signals Blog

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