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Some say that the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. In my case, the quest for a single answer must start with a thousand apologies. In my zealousness for my own experiment. I’ve forgotten and/or neglected to report my incremental findings. These two primary findings which I which to discuss are hypersleep and post-passive comprehension.

Hypersleep is easily my favorite aspect of Energy Cultivation. In my experience, it is only possible after an entire month of cultivation. Also, it requires some sort of uncomfortable mental training almost everyday. In my case I’ve chosen computer programming to be my mental training…coupled with some 3D wood sculpture.

Unlike regular torpor and sleep, hypersleep requires that I am in nearly complete darkness and that my fans are off. My room gets hot and it seems for a moment uncomfortable…but eventually, the entire room feels like a blanket. During this time, getting to sleep is the hardest part. I try not to focus on breathing or meditation or anything special. I think that’s the trap…”trying” to do something. The hypersleep occurs after all the ego and all the inhibitions are confronted and bored to death. The sleep feels so restful, I get this strange urge during the dreaming or deep-sleep phase that I’ve overslept for something. This can even be if I don’t even have work on the day of the hypersleep. It’s the strangest feeling…as if being late for one’s own birthday of sorts.

When I wake from hypersleep, I really don’t know if there’s been changes to the world. In all honesty, with what I know about the possibility of parallel universes…there’s no guarantee I awaken into the same world at all. That’s almost the beauty of it, not knowing. Not knowing and both caring enough and not caring enough to enjoy the process…no matter how warped it may seem.

The first few moments out of hypersleep are usually accompanied by the realization that I’ve been sweating a great deal. NE’s are no longer an issue now. I have them so infrequently that they don’t even concern me or the cultivation experiment in the slightest. Also, exercise and the balance between diet and work either for money or for enrichment are self-editing. I no longer even keep track of outflows, NE’s or anything else really, backsliding has become completely ridiculous…as if it’s like intentionally shaving one’s potential for happiness.

When I wake up I feel much more rested than during normal sleep with the fans on, normal sleep without the fans and with music on, or with normal sleep with both the fans and music on. The problem is that sometimes I’m just not straight up ready for hypersleep. I don’t want to go through it. Sometimes taking breaks from awareness…no matter how small, can be a blessing in disguise. Is this putting one’s head in the sand? Probably. But having something to work on is never a bad thing.

If one can only build a bridge out of found twigs and no string…one should practice on a small river first.

I’ve already discussed post-passive comprehension on this site elsewhere. But now the hypothesis has transcended the experiment. It is now self-evident by my work in codecademy and other tangible sciences. I’ll probably be done with the Javascript introduction of Codecademy by the end of the week…months ahead of my schedule.

Here are some foods which I’ve found help the process:

Blackberries

Kiwis

Strawberries

Protein-rich beverages

Pine nuts

Almonds

Macadamia Nuts

Whole milk

Water

Tea

occasional coffee but not too much…(it detracts from hypersleep)

Oatmeal without milk and without sugar (as plain as possible)

Chili – (it has a lot of salt and can assist with some cravings such as meat etc)

Also I try to eat meat only 0 – 1 times per day. This counts for fish, poultry, red meat, pork etc…

Another thing that I’ve found interesting is the ability to match one’s mood to music. It’s strange but I’ve found music affects my digestion and my digestion affects how music sounds and it’s pleasurable effects. So as one can probably expect, I’ve been experimenting with using music to adjust my mood before coding and going to work. It’s as if certain tempos and melodies can pull one emotional state across the proverbial river to another emotional state. I’ve found music is not able to directly change one’s emotion state from one to another when one is experiencing the “crest” of an emotion. It’s more like as one emotion enters into that neutral “limbo” of mood voiditude, music can direct which emotional state will be experienced next. It’s as if you have the choice of which emotions you want to experience…if and only if you are able to catch the frog while it is on the ground…trying to snatch at flies. But while the frog is jumping, you can’t control the emotion without frustrating one’s self. The emotion must be ridden out until its completion before a new melody can be inserted.

This cycle has already been going on for longer than one month. I have no idea where it’s going but if it anywhere resembles getting through my actionscript book anytime soon…I’m all for it.

-Tyler

I’m back and I finally have something of value to report.

I’ve been looking for a trick to make things work. I hate the feeling of the ancy-mcfraggledoc so I needed to come up with a system.

This new system is working out quite well. I’m nine days into this cycle and I got a feeling this one is going to be the one.

The supplies required are:

1. A 24 hour gym with a pool that is within walking distance

2. that’s it

When I say 24 hour gym I don’t mean one of those that are 24 hours monday-friday but on the weekends they close at 10. That’s not good.

I want the real prog rock.

I figured out that headaches, lethargy and tons of other stuff have to do with nutrients not being able to get to the brain fast enough. And conversely, the brain creates nutrients that don’t get to the rest of the body fast enough.

The ancy-mcdonglepeeps feeling comes from stagnant energy and nutrients staying in lower areas too long. Walking is great, but then it just moves it around. The whole thing needs to be moving around. That way when you sleep, you’re able to get tons of work done.

I mean actual work.

A few days ago. I was sleeping and in the middle of the dream I felt myself say, “Wait a minute…why am I dreaming about violence right now….oheyeah! I played an hour of Fallout 3 before bed. No wonder.”

But a week before that, I was sleeping and when I woke up I realized that in my actual dream I was still doing work. But the strange thing is that when I woke up I had a handle on my work day. It was as if I was organizing everything in my dream or perhaps on a subconscious level. It was very strange.

So here’s what I do. I walk to the gym whenever I have excess lower chakra energy. Then I do a little bit of eliptical cardio, then some triple sit-ups. The ones where you go on an incline and then do one in the middle and then one to the side then one to the middle again then one to the other side and then repeat until you don’t want to do that anymore.

Oops. Actually I do some basic yoga stretching before the situps.

Then after the situps I’ll go do either assisted pull ups or assisted dips depending on what I did the day before. After the assisted dips or pull ups I either do another basic exercise of my choice or I change and then hit the jacuzzi.

After the jacuzzi I’ll do some swimming and then go into the wet steam room.

Then during the walk home I just feel great. I can easily breathe and the next day seems like it will be chump change.

Sleep is excellent and if I’m still not tired after that I’ll read a spiritual book for a while. Then I’m good.

And that’s how things have been going for the past 9 days.

I think the jacuzzi really helps add some energy to the lower back. I know for men we keep a lot of stress energy in the lower back and in the neck/shoulders. But of course this depends on the person. My main areas easily are the ones just mentioned.

One thing that is excellent is that there are some forms of stimulus that can create tears of joy or sudden realization. Those are superb. I was listening to a new song that I had never heard before the other day, and I got those that are kind of combination of surprise, joy, laughter, deep spiritual feelings, and also connection. That’s when I knew that things were going really well.

That doesn’t happen unless the brain is overloaded with energy and it wants to create new pathways. I just let the tears just get out and then laugh the whole thing off. That’s what the gym is great for. You can’t let the energy stay in your head. You need to move it back into the body so the nutrients from the brain can send the signals and information of bliss and happiness back into the extremities of the body.

All these people are freaking out about nanotechnology and what it has to offer. I completely agree, it will be good for doing serious repair-work. But one’s own cells are the most advanced technology that anyone could ever make.

Your cells each have their own sensory technology and energy creation facilities and countless other faculties within them. When you have a moment of good vibes, you can harness that, let the nerve toxins flow out the tear ducts and sweat glands…and then begin to send new instructions to even the farthest reaches of the body.

-Tyler

It’s about three and a half months into this cultivation cycle. One thing that I’m noticing is that risks don’t seem as risky. They’re still risks of course. But there’s stuff to support the outcome whichever way things go. So I’m not as concerned with second-guessing.

I’m moving to Pasadena this week. There’s risks involved with that for sure. Lots of unknowns. But I know its better for my productivity and development than staying in my Dad’s literal closet-room. I say literal because there’s so many books in there.

I’m actually looking forward to packing. I’ll get some boxes on my way home. The idea of wrapping things up in such a visceral way…it feels good.

A strange thing about the cultivation is that the focus comes in cycles. It seems like everything is a cycle these days. There will be a couple weeks of wanting to read a lot of actual physical book stuff. Then there’s a transition to wanting to exercise a lot. Now I’m in the phase where I want to watch interesting videos. I’m sure when I move it will all just cycle again.

Nauticaboy  has been talking about Valuetown all the time. That’s interesting because I feel like I’m getting more “value” out of life. This is from a sheer time-existence point of view. There are days where not a single minute goes by that didn’t have a place. Everything has a spot to go into. It’s obvious that I’m going to take this as far as it goes.

My car is getting maintenance right now. It is going to cost me over 600 dollars to have a 3 year maintenance. That is a lot of money to me. But the cultivation helped me think with some foresight. I saw the letter come in the mail that said I needed to do the 30k maintenance or else 3 years…whichever comes first.

It has been a little less than 3 years so I’m like, “OK whatever dude.”

But a little foresight says that I’ve already had the letter in the back of my mind for the past 3 days. I know getting the maintenance will decrease my stress and keep my focus on work and productivity…but there’s the financial sting.

So here I am…at Starbucks. I’m not at home because I’m getting the maintenance done. I’d rather just do it and not have to think about it, than second guess myself later down the line while commuting between Pasadena and Newport Beach for work. I don’t need to double check to see if it’s the right call. I know it is. That’s what cultivation is doing at this stage in the cycle. Risks aren’t really the same as they used to be. There’s still variables, there’s still unknowns, but the constant is that I’ll have the energy to deal with the future.

Creatively, things are going well. There is a new story I’ve been working on that takes place in Iraq of 2003. It’s exciting but the characters are just about to enter a deep hole in the desert into an unknown area. This entering the unknown has been a barrier because there haven’t been a lot of unknowns from me to draw from. But moving to a new place which is a basement room is kind of like entering the subterranean depths…hopefully it comes across in the writing.

-Tyler

boxes in boxes

This cycle is turning into a monster one. It’s almost two and a half months into this one. I haven’t gotten sick or even had a cold in over two months. I can’t remember the last time I experienced any serious discomfort. Work is manageable and I’ve been hitting my work goals.

One of the strange benefits to the energy cultivation has been reading. I’ve been reading, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and also Euclid’s, “Elements Book I and II.” These books have been great and normally I would have a tough time with them. But Zarathustra has been casual reading on my phone.

The comprehension is phenomenal and my memory is without a doubt improving as a result of the cultivation.

The over-the-head back exercises used to be my bottleneck barometer for strength at the gym. I seemed to be capped at 125 lbs which was going in an out with 110 lbs in conjunction with each energy cycle. But the last few days, 125lbs has been the norm and it doesn’t feel like a barrier anymore. Maybe the tendons are getting stronger, I’m not really sure.

The stupid part about all this is that the deeper into the celibate cultivation, the easier it’s been talking to girls. Maybe it’s because I’m not worried about the physical side of things anymore.

I’m considering saving up some money and eventually going back to school in 5 years. But this time I want to get a hardcore science degree in Math. My International Relations degree is great and it’s gotten me some work. But now that I’m reading Euclid, I’m realizing that this geometry and math stuff is a ton of fun.

Who would have thought that there’d be jokes in the introduction of a geometry book? Some of them involving Epicurean ideas were hilarious.

The one thing I learned from going back to school and finishing my degree, was that walking into a class already prepared makes the whole process much more enjoyable. That’s why I don’t want to do the math degree for five years or so. I want to have all the books already partially assimilated so that I’m not running into the class blind.

I was talking with my Dad and I said that some people are gifted with a photographic memory, but everyone is built in with a holographic one.

When we look at the sidewalk and see the walkway get more narrow a block or so away…that is an illusion. It is an illusion of depth perception that our brains decode from sensory information in order to increase our chances for survival. When we walk a block further into the next area, we do not see the a more narrow piece of sidewalk. We see it in a normal size. The world is an illusion and our perception of the world is an illusion that helps to make sense of an illusion.

Honestly, I have little confidence that the world is the same after deep sleep.

I think that deep sleep is a form of teleportation/nexus-traveling between illusory worlds. When I say illusory worlds, I’m including myself in that as well. I think I am an illusion just as much as anyone or anything else is. That doesn’t mean that there can’t be fun and enjoyable relationships between friends and family. It just means that I’m comfortable with the idea. That’s all.

Anyways, back to sleeping. I’ve been able to identify two different types of sleep. There’s the kind of sleep where my mind gets to rest and my body somewhat rests. And there’s a type of sleep where something serious is going on. I had a dream the other night that I’m not going to talk about or write down in any journal. I think it may have been a pocket somewhere. A form of communication if you will. It didn’t seem like I was sleeping and having a dream. I was actually in a place, that even in the dream, I knew the place was totally unreal and could not exist. But even in knowing that, I did not exit the dream in any way. It actually got more interesting and strange at that point.

I have a feeling that dreams like that are when serious transportation between realities takes place. The interesting thing, is that I don’t know if my body is what is traveling…or if it is my consciousness/mind/soul. But that actually is a moot point because regardless of if it is the body or mind that travels, if the receptacle is the mind or the body, it will always appear that the body has traveled. That is because the body is what remains in front of the mirror after traveling.

Meditation to music has been excellent. It is like take a mini-wormhole by just sitting in my chair. I’ve been listening to Steve Hillage’s album called Rainbow Dome Musick. It is phenomenal. I picked it up at random when I was at Amoeba last time. It wasn’t completely random because I was on a budget and wanted a new Steve Hillage album. But I had never heard of it before, so it was at least impromptu.

I’ve found that losing consciousness during music is actually quite beneficial. It’s strange, because the Zen masters I’ve been reading seem to talk about drowsiness and say that in meditation one should not lose consciousness. But then I’ve read about other Zen masters who do a sort of lucid dreaming. I’m not sure how what I’m doing fits into any of this but I don’t really care either.

-Tyler