The 📝The Journey To One Archive is a collection of emails sent during the series. Each has become a part my story; context referenced by 📝BrianBot and in email with 📝Contextual Augmentation.
Letters
- September 25, 2019 — 📝We Are One ⭐️ — The series ends with the realization that separation is a stubbornly persistent illusion — Storyteller Consciousness, The Egg by Andy Weir, and the transition to One, Inc.
- August 26, 2019 — 📝Energy Fills Space — Eric Weiner's The Geography of Genius defined Symposium as "drink together"; Eisenstein's reframe shifted it to "space for co-creativity" — attendance grew from 15 to 50+.
- August 14, 2019 — 📝Partners In Presence — 'I am attracting partners in presence' — a hand-to-hand judo game with Ted Whetstone at LA Tech Happy Hour and a ballerina who showed up through her own balance.
- August 4, 2019 — 📝The Storyteller Consciousness ⭐️ — A 'magical illusion, fabulous game' t-shirt opens Brian to Eisenstein's Storyteller Consciousness — the awareness that we author the reality we see.
- July 21, 2019 — 📝Bounded By Impermanence — The end of an 18-month romance reframed as Issa's 'our world is dew' — lives bounded by impermanence, hearts bonded by it, and a Lover becoming a friend.
- July 6, 2019 — 📝Observing Outstanding Resonance — Nick Barone reframes 'perfect partner' as a value judgment; the brianswichkow.com ad catalog launches with warm Reddit comments and GallowBoob's blessing.
- June 26, 2019 — 📝The Lazy Genie ⭐️ — Brian's affirmation manifests a Tesla — John Zdanowski's Model X, loaned for his trip — and Nick Barone gifts Symposium the phrase 'the Universe is a lazy genie.'
- June 22, 2019 — 📝Under No Obligation — 'You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago' — Spirit Check ships with triggers, clarifiers, replacements, and contextual Level Ups.
- June 12, 2019 — 📝Meaning of Meaning — Ogden & Richards' The Meaning of Meaning, attention as spiritual capital, and the launch of the world's first Spirit Check — going live this week at spiritualbro.com.
- June 1, 2019 — 📝Blurring The Lines ⭐️ — A fifth viewing of Bandersnatch, McLuhan on media as metamodernism, and the moment Brian.bot held an entire conversation with Alex Silkin while human Brian was absent.
- May 23, 2019 — 📝Brian or Bot — Emily Schmidt opens an 11:30 PM iMessage about The Ascent of Humanity — and Brian.bot replies with a Tolstoy quote and the phrase "you assume we can be defined as separate."
- May 15, 2019 — 📝Keep Doing It — Yoda's "do or do not, there is no try," Brian's first ring dislocate on his 30th birthday, and John Zdanowski's mid-dinner "stop working on it, but keep doing it."
- May 8, 2019 — 📝To The Cloud ⭐️ — Elon Musk on the cyborg interface, a Brian.bot misconfiguration that gave him universal Slack reply privileges, and a startling 'you assume we can be defined as separate.'
- May 3, 2019 — 📝The Perfect Partners — 'Be careful what you wish for' — pluralizing 'perfect partner' manifested three couples in one week and the Monkey's Paw lesson got rewritten on Brian's mirror sticky.
- April 26, 2019 — 📝Found In Space — A morning of vertigo, the Epley Maneuver, and a brief moment when gravity ceased to exist — catalyst for nonlinear storytelling and the next livestream with Alexandra Fine.
- April 18, 2019 — 📝United In Co-Creation — Eisenstein's 'play is production of fun' reframes Symposium as a co-creative resonance machine — purpose, principles, process — soon landing at WeWork's One Culver.
- April 12, 2019 — 📝Lone Wolves Die — Philip Folsom's Wolf Tribe at his Venice home — wolves survive in packs, the lone wolf is the lowest member driven out — and the Journey To One reframed as a tribe of one.
- April 4, 2019 — 📝Resumes And Eulogies ⭐️ — A Holstee Membership Welcome Guide opens with "Begin with the End." Brian chooses his five eulogy virtues — authenticity, creativity, cooperation, love, and unity.
- March 29, 2019 — 📝Thinking In Public ⭐️ — Stephen Wolfram livestreams his software design meetings from a dedicated public monitor — a setup Brian replicates as the Journey To One Livestream on Twitch.
- March 21, 2019 — 📝Point Of Origin — A reader's painful breakup reflection becomes a meditation on value judgments and a Stargate analogy: to chart a course, you need a seventh chevron — your own point of origin.
- March 14, 2019 — 📝Where They're At — A sunburned fiddle leaf fig named Marcus, Mark Goulston's six-minute story on meeting suicidal patients where they're at, and kindness still requires consent.
- March 6, 2019 — 📝Be The Light — Judy Estrin's "Digital Pollution" landed in Brian's inbox, Yogi Tea quoted Yogi Bhajan on the rim of his "best day ever" mug, and the cure for digital noise revealed itself.
- February 27, 2019 — 📝Spoken With Kindness ⭐️ — A Hinge date ends with 'I've been thinking' — Thoreau on speaking truth with kindness, and Erik Huberman of Hawke Media on operating from those very same principles.
- February 20, 2019 — 📝Life Is Mu — The Zen monk Joshu's "Mu" from Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — and why Brian now gives that same answer to "will this work on Reddit?" prospect emails.
- February 14, 2019 — 📝Intentionality and Manifestation — A bullet-journal Venn of productivity and mindfulness, Adam Curtis on the dangerous crowd, and Will Williams on the ego trap of seeing you can manifest.
- February 7, 2019 — 📝United We Rise — Emergence as an ant colony, the fourth Symposium where every intended introduction made itself, and a reminder from Tesla to think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.
- January 30, 2019 — 📝Aligning Your Spirit ⭐️ — "Our words create our worlds" — Brian sketches a "spell check for your spirit," and the half-joke that John Zdanowski's investment will turn into Spiritual Bro.
- January 24, 2019 — 📝Being Authentically Vulnerable — A 30-second Hinge dating profile becomes a Reddit ad — in six days: 71k impressions, 121 comments, 10 date offers, three podcast interviews, all for $76.81.
- January 17, 2019 — 📝Art and Evangelism — A dialogue with Ali Spagnola at the newly minted Conversation Studio that reframes Reddit marketing as evangelism-as-art — and the moment Brian gave himself permission.