'Found In Space' was sent as part of 📝The Journey To One on April 26, 2019.
Newsletter
Hey Legend,
"The universe breathes in order and breathes out chaos."
Yesterday, for the first few hours of the morning, I felt dizzy. I added some extra self-care to 📝My Boot Sequence and, yet, continued to feel... floaty.
As it turns out, that dizziness feeling was my second experience with 📝Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV); a spinning sensation caused by a crystal in the inner ear, called an Otolith, being out of place. These organs allow us, and other vertebrates, to "perceive linear acceleration (gravity)."
The treatment for this, called the Epley Maneuver, involves a sequence of head rotations that's akin to solving a puzzle box. And, just like that, no more vertigo.
It happened, like last time, a few days after experiencing bit of a "rough landing" off the 📝Flying Rings. I'm back to normal today, but yesterday...
There was a brief moment when gravity ceased to exist.
Unlike the last time, this moment of physical disorientation was the catalyst for a kind of metaphysical re-orientation; a deeper connection to the feeling that my mental model has been shifting towards the nonlinear. The closest comparison would be the mental shift the protagonist experiences in the movie 📝Arrival.
To date, I've been sharing linear stories; those which have a beginning and an end. This email is going to experiment with a different format that's a bit more congruent with the natural, nonlinear nature of the human mind.
The first experiment with this adapted 📝The Bullet Journal Method to create my 📝Bro's Log; a kind of short-form, public journal of the day's activities.
Here are a few nonlinear "doings" you might enjoy...
- I was introduced to 📝Alexandra Fine who is "making this world a happier place, one vulva at a time" and our 45-minute chat turned into a four-hour dinner. On 5/1, she'll be on the 📝Journey To One: Livestream to share her story and the genesis of 📝Dame Products. We will also discuss ways to collaborate and support her 📝Artful Advocacy.
- 📝Justin Lane and I synced over Zoom and discussed the possibility of using a book to train a conversational AI; the aim of which would be to allow you to ask questions of the book as if it were a person. Also on 5/1, we'll be discussing this on the 📝Journey To One: Livestream.
- Finished the scaffolding of 📝BrianBot such that the domain, brian.bot, is now a portal into a live chat with me and I use the conversations to train him. Our design team is working on his website and you'll soon be able to chat with him outside of Facebook Messenger (and anonymously).
- The 📝Spiritual Bro Extension is also coming together; we'll have s shiny website and functional product by the end of May! So excited for this.
Starting next week, I'll be furthering my practice of this bulleted format by writing in 📝The Manifest. If you ask Brian.bot a question like, "what have you been up to lately?" a link to that 📝memo is likely to be his answer, 😉.
📝Build cool shit and change the world.
📝Brian Swichkow, Chief 📝Manifestor at 📝One, Inc.
Let's 📝Elevate The Human Frequency, join the 📝Journey To One.
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P.S. Your responses to these emails and your reflections of their ideas mean the world to me. I am so happy and grateful for every word (and emoji) shared.