Build Matrix

We have now, and have always had, the complete freedom to choose who we are being. It is true that we have been raised in certain circumstances and in a certain culture and time. It is true that there exist powerful forces to try to sway our decisions in one direction or another about who to be. But those circumstances and forces are now, and always have been, outside of us, incidental, and not causative. The final decision – even down to the finest minutiae of our quality of being – has always been ours alone.

Go to a restaurant, preferably one you have been to before so that you are familiar with what they serve.

Read through the menu a new way. Instead of scanning for something your Box likes, look for something your Box DOES NOT want to eat.

Order it.

Do not explain to anyone you are with what you are doing. If someone notices that you are ordering something you are know to not like and says something such as, "I thought you did not like to eat saurkraut?" just say something like, "Yes. It is amazing, isn't it?"

Your order will arrive.

It might look better than you thought, it might look worse.

However it looks, even if you don't want to eat it, eat it.

Really taste it. Feel the textures in your mouth. Notice what happens as you chew and swallow.

Notice the sensations of this experiment Building Matrix in your Being.

If you have any trouble, slow down, or maybe speed up.

Or maybe ask someone to hold space for you to do an Emotional Healing Process.

Just keep going.

Not because I said so, but because you choose to do an Experiment in Building Matrix.

For 3 months, when you feel any itch, when you start scratching it, scratch for 5 seconds longer than they itch.

Any itch you have.

These might be physical itches like bug bites or the itches that happen for no reason.

These might be non-physical itches.

Become present to your itches.

Notice what happens while you are scratching longer.

For 3 months, when you have an itch, count to 7 before you scratch it.

Don't move automatically to scratch it.

Notice what happens.

Write about this in your BEEP! Book.

This will help with REACTIVITY.

Radically and irrevocably stop saying the word 'Um', especially at the beginning of sentences but also in the middle of sentences.

Carry 10 Euro or Dollar notes on you at all times and give 10 Euros or Dollars to the next person you meet every time you say, "Um," until you stop saying it.

'Um' is the American Mantra that puts people into Zombie Land.

From now until l the rest of your life (or for 3 months which ever is longer), every time you bump you body or you drop something, every time any MISHAP happens, stop and say:

THANK YOU.

Say "thank you," to the universe,

to gravity,

to the person you bumped,

to the tray that was heavier than you realized,

to the bill you found in the mailbox,

to the surprise mouse that got into the kitchen,

to the deer on the road in the dark....

In stead of thinking this happened, and it should not have not happened, say Thank You that it happened.

Say THANK YOU for the WAKE UP moment.

What Next?

Check that you have your Center, Grounding Cord and Bubble.

Find a thing that is clearly part of a costume...

an apron from a diner or

an empty Robin Hood quiver or

aviation goggles or...wait, maybe not aviation goggles during Covid Times...something else that really stands out...

...and wear it for a week.

No matter what else you are wearing, wear this thing also.

If people ask you why, tell them you are doing an experiment to build matrix.

For the whole day, whenever someone asks you something, proposes something, say, "YES and..." to negotiate intimacy.

Notice that it takes anger to say yes just as it takes anger to say no. What does it take to say, "and..."?

What feelings happens during "..."?

First you have to catch yourself saying, "No." When you notice you said no, you can say, "Wait. I want a do-over. YES, and...".

If you don't know what to say, say "Yes, and..." anyways.

For the day say NO ten different times in ten different ways.

One way is for "No" to be a complete sentence. No explaining, no story telling, no reasoning, no justifying, no sliding into something else.

How else can you say no?

Say no with your 5 Bodies.

If you can't say, "no," your "yes" is a lie.

For seven days speak always with a strong Russian accent, no matter who you are talking to. Your boss, your partner, your cat, your kids, your neighbour.

A week after that change to French accent.

I can help to watch movies with characters that speak in these accents.

If you know movies with Russian and French accents that you think also build Matrix, send them to us at clinton (at) nextculture.org and we might add them to our list of Possibilitator Training Films.

If your accents suck at first, take heart from the Map of the Learning Spiral.

For a whole week wear your trousers inside out.

Or, if you are on zoom a lot, wear your t-shirt or jacket inside out.

Go to meetings, go shopping, go for a walk wearing something inside out.

Notice how you feel and what you think when others notice and don't notice and say something and don't say something.

Someone might say, "You are wearing your shirt THE WRONG way."

Tell them you are on the Learning Team, not the Looking Good Team.

Keep your attention for the next week. 

Every time you go out of your house, do not look at any advertisement, posters, billboards.

Ever time you let your attention be hooked and you look at one, give one euro/dollar to Kiva: Loans That Change Lives.

Keep coins or tokens in one pocket and move a token to the other pocket to keep track.

The jingling in one pocket can help remind you to keep your attention.

The jingling in the other pocket can be celebrating that while you learn, you are also part of changing lives.

1. Get a black marker pen and put a big black dot on your cheek or on your forehead.

For three days keep it there and when people ask about it, pretend you don't know it is there.

Notice what happens. Notice your Box. It might freak out, depending on which of the 18 Standard Box designs you built to survive.

2. After that, get someone to wear red lipstick and make a red lipstick kiss mark on you and every time someone asks you about it, create a totally new story about it.

Which part of your Box is activated?

For a whole week when you are walking in the street, do not check someone out.

Notice what happens when you see approaching, out of the corner of your eye, an appealing person of the gender to which you are sexually attracted.

And notice your sexual energy. Keep it.

Still feel the presence of the person, look at their shoulder or the ground next to them, but do not make eye contact.

Wherever you go, go with a string tied to a toy stuffed animal and drag it around behind you.

When someone asks about it invent a new story.

They might use their Bullshit Detector.

Every time you have a problem, ask someone:

"Please give me 3 possibilities about what can I do with this problem."

Whatever they say, pick the craziest possibility and do it.

Once a day talk to someone and say, "I don't have enough problems, can I have one of your problems?"

Then solve the problem in a real way. Become a Problem Hunter.

We met this guy named Mao, we met him on the plane. He was dressed up in hippie clothes, and he goes around and lives in caves. We saw him later in a shop and he said, to the lady in the shop, 'I guess I have to pay, since it probably isn't okay to take stuff out of a store without paying for it,' and then he said, '...yet...'

I could have paid for this things and then said, "see, now it is happening..." I missed that chance to solve his problem.

It might help to learn Possibility Speaking for this.

Build a simple altar in your work space.
Keep it clean and alive.

Stand in the plaza of you town and improvise spontaneous, beautiful, expansive poetry about the people you see passing.

Make each poem two or three sentences, while you move your body, declaring out loud to the world the qualities of their being.

Call upon your Muse to do this.

Go to the natural skin cream shop and get a product like the black toothpaste or the green cream and then use it all up by putting it on, but don't take it off.

Walk around with it on all day.

Use your Attention to look out for the Gap in your Identity,

one of the 9 Gaps.

For a whole week go to the toilet facing the "wrong" way.

For a whole week use a miswak stick to brush your teeth and do it on the subway, the bus, everywhere.

Maybe you will never go back to using a tooth brush.

Maybe this will be a beginning for healing your technopenuriaphobia.

Get a book and read it backwards. The whole thing.

If it is hard, find ways that work for it to happen. Read it out loud? Use your finger to trace the words?

Declare that you will read the book.

Declaring is one of your 3 Powers.

Time how long it takes to read a full page at the beginning (the end), and how long it takes you to read a full page in the middle. And at the end (beginning).

Go to a movie and don't look at the screen.

Notice all the other things there are to watch while the movie plays that you are the only one noticing. Notice how you feel, being the only one NOT watching the movie.

If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them you are doing an Experiment Building Matrix.

Quests come in different sizes.

Go buy a ticket at the movie cinema and give it to the person behind you in line and walk away.

Buy lunch out and give it to someone. Negotiate that they have to give you something. Find 20 hints HERE (scroll down).

The thing they give you can be immaterial.

Negotiate so that Winning is Happening.

In a cafe, scan the room and find someone your Thoughtware tells you you don't like.

Pay cash for their meal.

Carry 500 euros (or the local equivalent) cash in your wallet.

Become money.

In particular, write your reasons for not wanting to do this in your Beep! Book.

Go to a church service and sit in the front row.

Put your hand up and ask the priest several questions during the sermon.

Asking is one of your 3 Powers.

Learn how to make fire without matches.

Wash your clothes in the sink without a washing machine, dry them out side, and iron them somehow, all by hand.

Buy the weirdest fruit or vegetable you can find in a grocery store and grow the seed in a pot on your windowsill.

Once a week for three months buy a vegetable or fruit you never ate before and cook it somehow without seeing any recipe. You can ask the farmer or seller how to eat it.

Go travel now.

Go travel for 3 months in Asia or South America for less that 10 euros a day.

Go only with only the stuff on your back.

No big backpacks allowed. Completing this Experiment please enter Matrix Code

21 matrix points