The New Extreme Individual Institute

Everyone wants to know how my month offline was. They ask it casually, like “How’s work going?” or “What’d you do this weekend?” But it’s not a casual question. It was a huge, incredible, transformative experience. Those 30 days felt like six months. My habits changed, my relationships changed, my identity changed, my personality changed — hell, the physical shape of my body changed dramatically. I went through four legal pads trying to describe what it was like. I’m still not sure I really know.

One thing is clear, though: my normal life style isn’t healthy. This doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that requires a break to learn. I imagine people with unhealthy lifestyles know they’re unhealthy. They come home after work and say “I can’t go on like this,” they cry randomly in elevators. But I didn’t know. Life online is practically the only life I know. Sure, I guess things were different when I was very young — I remember, after getting my first email account, wishing someone would email me so I’d have an email to answer (even then I knew I’d soon be missing those empty-inbox days) — but for most of my life, this has been it: a jumble of interruptions and requests and jobs and people, largely carried out alone. It never let up, so I never saw anything different. How was I to know there was anything wrong? Read more

Radical Yoga starts on Thursday April 1, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Ahahra in Portland, Oregon. New Eii aspirants are encouraged to attend for a taste of what some of us are up to….We hope to see you there.

Explore the mysteries of life in a body. This week’s class is loaded with exercises, concepts, and thought experiments to leave you energized, electric, and feeling deep appreciation and love for your own body.

Radical Yoga will get you in touch with your body, mind, and the inner workings of your brain and consciousness. Each week, we will explore an organic blend of exercises, movements, techniques, concepts, and experiments. Our purpose: to gain strength, to increase appreciation for all that is, to exude and witness more beauty, and to expand the spirit of love, adventure, and creativity in our lives and yours.

Experience the fullness and joy of tuning in to your body-electric and all that surrounds it within and without. Warning: Radical Yoga contains extremely powerful techniques that invite sudden powerful changes in your life. The concepts and experiments, while light-hearted and joyous, can lead to serious changes in your life, outlook, and perspective on everything, especially ideas you have about yourself.

Drop in for a class and find yourself coming back to life…the adventurous, bold, and beautiful life you have always dreamed of.

$10-$20 drop in rates.

RSVP to: garrett@creative-deconstruction.com

“The rumors you hear about new EII material coming out soon is true. Hang tight. 2010 is going to be an epic year for us and you.”

Who wrote that?

I know not what clever character posted the first sentence, but I will admit that it has some truth to it. Grammatical clumsiness notwithstanding, the next rendezvous around the sun holds immense potential. FuckYourBrain has gone live in the early stages of its development. You still have time to submit a few Gems for consideration in the first FuckYourBrain release in 2010. FuckYourBrain steals/cuts and pastes from all and any memetic scripts to deliver Only The Finest Brainfucks to explore the wonder, delight, pleasure, magic, and glory of Neurogenesis. (Find out more here.)

Who decided to impersonate ?me? and announce publication of new material? Perhaps another version of me in the future gave me a hint. Perhaps my “It” has something in store.

Take what you need, throw away the rest. FuckYourBrain and enjoy the results.

Enjoy!

-Agent333–New Eii