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Changes occur at the edge, but not without you there. This is because you are the Change Agent.
For change to happen, you must find your way to the Edge. There is no escaping this.
What is the path to the Edge? Who do you need to be, to go to the Edge first and Hold Space there for others to join you?
Welcome to the Edge.
There Is An Edge?
EDGES
There is an Edge that exists between having so much to do, and there being actually nothing to do.
You have so many friends, but who actually really knows you?
So many things are so important, but who holds the values that make them important?
There is an Edge of reality, a place between Bullshit and Nothing, a place where you can sit and dangle your feet over sensing the void below you.
How often do you hang out there?
What actually drives you away from that special and precious Edge?
Why is it that whenever the Edge resolves itself in front of you – suddenly appearing out of the fog – you quickly dodge it, using anything and everything to move back away from the Edge?
Why is nothing scarier than this Edge?
What are the ways you distract yourself from the Edge?
How do you muffle the sense of crispness and brilliance that can occur at the Edge?
How do you convince yourself that the Edge does not exist?
How do you distract yourself into thinking the Edge is so far away that it cannot possibly matter to you, when actually it is present in your very next breath?
The reason we ask these questions is that when a new Possibility arrives, or an old Possibility vanishes, this can generate a bright enough illumination that the Edge becomes visible.
The newly visible Edge is a Flux Point where you choose either to continue doing the same old thing, or you choose to try something completely different from what is happening right now.
If the Edge is too scary for you to experience, suppressing your fear does not make the Edge go away. But it could make the Possibility go away.
To test your Edginess Affinity Factor, we invite you to visit spaceport.mystrikingly.com and slowly scroll through the invitation to explore that each website represents. Each website is an Edge from where you are now to something else entirely. The test works by experimentally Noticing what comes up in you as you read each invitation.
Can you sense the Edge in each offer?
Can you Self Observe your visceral or emotive or intellectual reaction to the Edge?
Is your reaction to move towards that Edge, or to retreat away from that Edge?
Neither response, of course, is right or wrong, good or bad.
However, noticing your Edginess Affinity responses can be very useful for managing Possibility in this particular area!
One Experiment is to move towards - rather than away from - an Edge for which your Edginess Affinity has the most resistance... Then see what you find there.
Which Edge?
5-BODY EDGES
Edges can be physical, intellectual, emotional, energetic and archetypal.
There are new concepts, intellectual distinctions and words that your mind does not comprehend yet. Intellectual edges have to do with new concepts, distinctions, assumptions and stories that are outside of your current understanding.
Physical edges.
Emotional edges have to do with feelings and emotions. Being at the edge of your emotional territory might be, for example, experiencing and expressing feelings in front of somebody. Another emotional edge might be to let your heart speak to your partner and experience your heart get bigger consequently.
Energetic edges have to do with energetic spaces and the purpose of thoughts, words and actions. Getting to an energetic edge can happen by asking an authentic question you’ve never asked before and really wanting an answer, like “what is really the point of life?” or “what do I really want?” or “why do I keep repeating the same patterns?”
Archetypal edges have to do with your identity as a space through which archetypal forces and characters can come through you. An archetypal edge is speaking as the representative of Love in the world, or for the future of next-generations, or taking a stand for the stand that you take.
MODERN CULTURE'S EDGES
What? Modern culture has an edge?
Yes!
The gameworld of modern culture, its constructs, its rules of engagement, its beliefs have an edge. They are not omnipresent and omnipotent because they are, as any gameworld, only a game, only one possible interpretation of the world. It is dangerous and shocking to say such things. It might very may well be considered heretical in the eyes of the believer of modern culture.
Modern culture does not consider itself as one of the cultures. No, the others, out there, those who live in the forest and drink from the rivers, those are the cultures. Modern culture is the ultimate civilisation that other culture should aim at becoming. Only in its own eyes, modernisation is the best thing that human beings have ever invented and the logical evolution of any culture. Suggesting that modern culture is just one of the cultures and therefore is not omnipotent will make you look crazy in the eyes of most.
The one who reach the edge of modern culture and stayed there are Edgeworkers. Edgeworkers breathing, living and working at the edge of modern culture, one step inside of modern culture and one step out.
THE EDGE OF YOURSELF
What?! I have an edge too?
Yes.
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient.
One must improvise as well."
Isaac Asimov
Fear of The Edge?
FEAR OF THE MARSHMALLOW ZONE
Before encountering the possibility of authentic adulthood and archetypal initiatory processes, you live in the comfortable space of the ‘marshmallow zone’. A smooth, warm, cosy, safe space where things are predictable and in our control. You tell ourselves “I go to school, I have good grades, I will have a good job, I will find somebody who loves me, we will have beautiful children, who will also go to school and have good grades and have a good job when they grow up. We will have a beautiful house and money to go on vacations. I have it all planned out.” The marshmallow zone has the ability to make us believe that life can be secure, predictable, controllable and safe.
The marshmallow zone is protection against life’s greatest paradox: death. The marshmallow zone gives us the illusion that death does not exist, or at least “does not apply to me.” Life in the marshmallow zone is a life in a cage that we barbed wire with our own fear. Incapable of approaching the door to freedom without feeling terrified, you run around in circles convincing ourselves that this (whatever this is) is the best way to live. Edges are constant reminders that the possibility of death surrounds us at any instant. Therefore, we avoid edges like the plague because why? Because what is the experience of approaching an edge? Fear.
Think of the experience of walking on the edge of a mountain, on one side is a steep mountain wall, on the other the infinite descent to the valley. Your heart is beating, your hands are sweating, your attention focuses on where you are putting your feet. This is the common experience of walking on a physical edge. The experience of finding and walking an intellectual, emotional or energetic edge elicits similar emotions to walking a physical edge. It is the feeling of fear, a natural response from our system warning us about the danger of falling off the deep end and dying.
Do you remember the last time you reached an Edge?
- Perhaps you accidentally found yourself in a homosexual apparatus shop (intellectual and energetic edge).
- Or your boss asked you to give a speech to the Board of Directors (intellectual edge).
- Or your partner accused you of having an affair (emotional and energetic edge).
- Or an ill friend asked you to accompany her as she approached death (emotional and energetic edge).
- Or you turned a corner and were suddenly face to face with a rough looking gang of teenagers (emotional edge).
- Or you clicked on the wrong icon and found yourself in a triple-X sex website (intellectual and energetic edge).
- Or you got a tax bill from the government for several zeros more than the balance of your bank account (intellectual and emotional edge).
- Or you got a flat tire in a ghetto neighborhood alone at night (emotional and energetic edge).
- Or someone misinterpreted what you said, considering it to be seriously flirting (intellectual and energetic edge).
- Or you thought your lottery ticket contained winning numbers (intellectual and energetic edge).
- Or someone at the train station tried to sell you heroin (energetic edge).
- Or you travelled to a foreign countries where they speak a different language and maintain a difficulture culture than your own (intellectual and energetic edge).
FEAR OF BEING 'OUT THERE'
Out 'there' beyond the edge of your 'Marshmallow Zone' is the scary unknown. Finding yourself at the Edge is risky! Control slips through your fingers. Mysterious and unending nameless dangers await you.
Long ago, perhaps out of your awareness, you decided that the best place to be was far away from those scary Edges, in the safety of your Marshmallow Zone.
After all, could modern culture be wrong? What has modern culture taught you about feeling fear? It is okay to feel fear? Are leaders allowed to feel fear?
You have been hammered from an early age to believe that feeling fear is bad. In kindergarten, other kids might have made fun of you “Ha ha he is afraid, he is a pussy!”
Your own parents might have punished you or rejected you for feeling fear. Perhaps they told you, “There is nothing to be afraid of.” What a lie that is.
Advertisements promote hip sports as: 'not for the faint hearted'.
In modern culture, it is clearly not allowed to feel fear, short of being publicly ridiculed with contemptful insults.
So what do you usually do when you feel fear? Perhaps you put as much distance as fast as possible between you and the scary thing. You jump like a cat in water straight back into your dry Marshmallow Zone.
Isn't it crazy that you by remaining in denial about feeling fear you cannot even question it as one of the reasons for your days are so lifeless?
If you are honest, you must admit that the Marshmallow Zone is restrictive, boring, frustrating, and in some ways dead.
The Marshmallow Zone represents the insane paradox of choosing to play dead because of your fear of death!
You might think of yourself as clever, thinking that you have outsmarted death. But at what cost? Unless you are aware that at some point all life inevitably comes to an end, you are not really living.
Life thrives at the Edge where the old dies and the new is born, the intersection between what is and what could be. In other words, life thrives at the Edge because it is at the Edge that evolution happens.
An Edge is a Doorway, a Possibility to look in two directions at the same time.
Look ‘in’, and see the Construct, the Thoughtware, the Conclusion, the Storyworld you were just a moment ago walking in.
Look ‘out’ and notice the vast endless ocean of Possibilities.
Looking ‘in’ at modern-culture gameworlds has the immediate evolutionary effect that the certainty of the Linear Life Plan that you were standing on for your entire previous life dissolves, leaving nothing under your feet but the void of the unknown, overflowing with amazing new options to choose from, options that a moment before were not even on the menu.
Reports From The Edge
REPORT FROM A BRIDGE-HOUSE
October 2023
On Monday I opened up space during dinner with everyone about wanting to make new offers for authenticity. Eventually, I said, “I can feel how I am too afraid to give time in my life to loving others.” One of the men agreed with me and said that he felt angry about that. He said that he has always felt how I am too busy to love him. Whether it was his clarity, his resentments, or his Gremlin, I don’t know. But I stood there in my sadness and heard him say basically, “Not good enough.” It was not a problem to be with him. I let my head get chopped off and opened up to the possibility that it could actually be this awful. That even for a man who I treasure in my life, my ability to love could be this limited. I was sad and afraid that it could really be like this.
In that moment, my partner was hooked. Eventually, with spaceholding from the rest of the Bridge House, she was able to say to me, “It is so brutal to love you.” I told her how much I wanted and needed to hear what she had to say. She could not believe it. I think a lifetime of living with abusive partners and within the patriarchy made it nearly impossible for her to believe that someone would want to hear what her heart had to say.
A couple months ago, I pulled the rug out from our relationship completely by saying, “I don’t love you.” It was an attempt by me to authentically explain that I felt our ability to source Archetypal Love was limited and that I wanted something different. We navigated it and had a mini-Frying Pan between ourselves. In the next couple days after that, my ability to love her shifted completely. Suddenly, I had access to incredible amounts of space to love her, to really love her and let love in. That space has persisted and my love for her keeps growing.
The shock of this rug-pulling-out stayed with her. She started talking about how angry she was about me saying that I don't love her, and it took some work to let it be and not need to defend the nuance of that conversation or my purposes in saying it.
Eventually she shifted into stepping completely outside of the Patriarchal ways in which we have been relating. She stopped talking about this conversation from the past and started delivering that she was done with being in any sort of Patriarchy space with me. She said that getting glimpses of the man I could be, and then seeing me slide back into Patriarchy, was so painful that it hurt to try to love me and have it be so rare that I let it through. Her communication was very clear.
I sensed the agony of how hard it is for others to love me, a man who cannot let love in, who makes constant moves to limit the love available in the space. As a result of my painful new awarenesses, I could feel a more Archetypal channel opening up. She was standing outside the Patriarchy and making an opening for me to join her over there. I could feel how much I want to explore making that leap with her, how much my Being really wants that, and how little I know about getting there. The Archetypalness of what she proposed totally removed any need for me to defend myself.
I was liquid for a couple days after that, just to stand at the Edge and not know what to do to meet what this woman has proposed.
Experimenting At Your Edges
Having no plans requires a change of behaviors
NOTICE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EDGES
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There are many different types of edges. Become an expert at finding all sorts of different edges.
1. Take a walk outside with your Beep!Book and see if you can find 10 different edges.
2. Go to the edge of town and stand there.
3. Stand on the edge of shade and light, .
4. Make eye contact with someone you do not know, notice the edge of your Box in making contact with another.
5. Greet another person, place one part of Your Attention on the qualities of being at the edge of your box in contact. (eg the sensations in your physical, emotional or energetic Bodies.)
6. Walk or run up a hill, until you discover an edge inside yourself, what sort of edge is this?
7. Make notes in Beep Book on all the sorts of edges you discovered.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.01 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one edge. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
NOTICE QUALITIES OF AN EDGE
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- Start a timer for 10 minutes
- Ask for a Spaceholder
- Tell them you are going to explore the qualities of an edge.
- Choose one thing your Box normally does not do (e.g make eye contact for a long time, or wear something that you would not normally wear, be witnessed lowering your numbness to your Fear and instead of numbing it, let your fear be in your body instead, use your Intention to send it into your nervous system).
- Whilst you are experiencing feeling your fear while doing something outside of your Box, let yourself have the inside experience of what is happening for you, the emotions that come up, the thoughts you have, your memetic constructs, ideas, Notice the sensations in your physical body.
- Simply Notice what you are experiencing and name your experience outloud to the spaceholder, while they take notes for you and Askes you questions such as “say more about that…” or “yes and what else?” These are questions that open you up to explore more about what you are experiencing.
- After 10 minutes the spaceholder closes the space and gives you the notes they have written.
- Swap roles.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.02 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one thing that you noticed.This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
NOTICE THE WAYS YOU NUMB YOURSELF TO EDGES
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1. Before doing this experiment first do the above experiment, GOTOEDGE.02. You will need a snapshot in your 5 Bodies, of what the Experience of being on an edge is like.
2. Use this snap shot to Notice how you Numb yourself to an edge.
3. For a whole day, your job is to carry around your BeepBook, noticing first when an Edge is apporaching, and second how you Numb yourself to your experience of being on the edge.
4. For example you might notice you are Feeling scared and instead of feeling your Fear and discovering something new, you start planning, controling, blaming , resenting , complaining, telling stories etc...
5. Do not change anything , just Notice and take notes in your BeepBook.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.03 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one way that you numb yourself to Edges.This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
NOTICE HOW YOU LEAVE THE EDGE
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Now that you know what an edge is. How do you leave the experience of an edge? Make sure you have your BeepBook with you for this experiment.
1. Go somewhere that requires you to stand in a cue, such as a supermarket. Once you are there Center, Ground and Bubble yourself.
2. Choose to do one thing that Your Box does not want you to do. For example, stand closer to people than usual. Or stand one meter to the side of the cue. Or stand backwards. You are consciously stepping into an Edge.
3. If any one asks, simply say you are experimenting doing something different.
4. Split your Attention and place part of it on your Energetic Centre while you place the other part on what you are Feeling, what thoughts are happening in your Mental Body and what is happening in your Energetic Body.
5. Immeadiatly note down what you notice in your BeepBook. You might notice your Gremlin enjoys breaking the rules and being "weird". Write that down too, if so.
6. Now listen to your Box, and leave the Edge.
7. Write 2 or 3 sentences on how exactly you left the edge and entered the realm of "no edges".
Answer these: Was is even possible to re-enter, "no edge" realm after being at an edge? Do you want to encounter edges more? or leave edges more?
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.04 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section write one word for your experiment. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
STAND UP AT THE EDGE
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1.You can do this experiment in a Possibility Team, at a café or alone.
2. Stand up at the edge of your chair (make sure there is nothing edgy or sharp right in front of it).
3. Lean forward, do not fall off the chair.
4. Find this point of balance right at before you would fall.
5. Stay there and start speaking.
6. Let what you've never said before speak.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.05 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section write one thing you said whilst standing on the Edge. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
SPEAK FROM THE UNKNOWN
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The Unknown is a resource, you can only find it by going to the Edge and in the unknown you can experince the Edge.
1. Find a partner to practise speaking from the Unknown.
2. One will go first, set a timer for 3 minutes.
3. Find the unknown by starting to speak, use your Conscious Fear to navigate to a space where you do not know what you will say.
4. Let the unknown speak through you.
5. The other person uses their Five Bodies to Scan for if it is actually the Unknown speaking and when it is something else (such as just filling the space with words...)
6. After 3 minutes swap so the other person gets a go of speaking fomr the Unknown.
7. Then set the timer for 7 minutes and the first person goes again. While the other coaches, listens and lets the unknown land in their 5 Bodies.
8. Swap a final time, for the other to practise for 7 minutes.
9. Practise speaking from the Unknown for 3 minutes every day for the next 7 days.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.06 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section write one thing that the unknown had for you to say. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
GO TO THE EDGE OF YOUR BOX
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To go to the Edge of Your Box , first you need to know what your Box is.
1. For a whole day you are to be a Box explorer.
2. Carry your BeepBook everywhere you go, on a fresh page in your BeepBook write the title "My Box Likes".
3. Every time you Notice something that your Box does for you (eg how it greets people, dresses, what things it likes to do and what things it does not like to do...) write it down in your BeepBook.
4. Also ask a someone to give you Feedback on your box. "Please will you give me feedback on my Box" (choose someone who is actively working with the Distinction of Box, Being, Gremlin, such as someone who has done and ETB, or any Possibilitator or Possibility Manager. Ask three different people.
5. Write down everything they say in your BeepBook.
6. Then with a spaceholder, CHOOSE one box thing. For example "my box likes to wear comfortable clothes that look similar to everyone else".
7. You now create one experiment you will do within the next seven days that will take you right to the edge of your Box with that specific thing.
8. Do that experiment.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.07 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section write what you did. This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Point.
EDGEWORK EXPERIMENT FOR OBSERVING YOURSELF AND OTHERS
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Self Observation is the skill of noticing from a neutral perspective with out needing to change or judge yourself or others.
The purpose of this experiment is to introduce to an edge inside yourself of what it means to be human. You will need to prepare and plan for this experiment and it is 100% worth it. Your job is to go somewhere that the way life is lived is very different to Your Box.
1. Start a list of the sorts of professionals that work with a different 'compartments' of humanity. These sorts of people include:
- Nurses, midwives, youth workers, concillors, police, firefighters, doctors, community workers, caregivers, cleaners, social support workers, teacher support....
2. Start asking for possibilties on how you could go for a day with any of these people.
There are a number of ways you could do this: 1 - ask out of interest, 2 - volunteer for a programme 3 - You want to interview someone from this profession on their work 4 - you are writing an article, 5 - Simply start talking to people and let it be known that you are keen to go and see the reality of other people's lives.
2. At your Possibilty Team ask "I need possibilties on how I can go and spend sometime with...."
3. Write down all possibilities.
4. Once you have made contact with someone who is willing to have you there, organise a date and length of time for your visit.
5. Before going Center, Ground and Bubble yourself. Lower your Numbness Bar.
6. Take your BeepBook and write only simple notes with a few words.
7. Mostly simple be there, observing, keep your center, Ask questions, stay Present.
8. After the visit, take out your BeepBook and write for 10-15minutes on everything you Noticed about yourself and about the other people you encountered. Make notes on what you noticed about their Box, Survial Strategies, their Being and anything that touched your Being.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.08 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name where you went. This Experiment is worth 5 Matrix Point.
FOLLOW YOUR FEAR TO FIND YOUR WITH ANOTHER PERSON
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1. Ask for someone to Holdspace for you to research your Fear, you will need about 15minutes
2. Lower your Numbness Bar to your conscious Fear, turn it away from you to Scan outward.
3. The spaceholder then asks you: Who is on your Team?
4. Trust your fear to bring you the people and their names. You speak out loud the names.
5. Have the spaceholder take notes for you in your BeepBook.
6. Next the spaceholder asks you: what do you need to speak to ... about? They name each person on the list one at a time.
7. Keep scanning with your Fear on the outside bring you the information to answer this question.
7. Have the spaceholder hand you your list, close the space.
8. Next Choose the first person on the list and make contact with them.
9. Follow your fear to ask them: Please tell me if there is anything I need to hear from you right now.
10. Radically trust that what they say to you is exactly what you need to hear.
11. Rather than writing it down let it land in your heart, feel what you feel and go Liquid around it.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.09 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one conversation that came out of this experiment. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
GO ON AN EDGE WALK
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- Give yourself two hours.
- Take a clock, some water and start walking.
- Do not take a map,
- Choose to walk somewhere you have never been before.
- During this time your edge will be what you use to guide yourself, start walking in that direction. For example, your edge will most likely be in the direction you walk the least often.
- This is not about being silly, reckless, it is about expanding your capacity to stay at your edge and unfolding your aliveness there.
- Notice the sensations in your body, notice the quality of your Fear, the voices in your head and anything else that is happening in your body.
- Notice the qualities of being at the Edge.
- Walk constantly at your edge of not knowing, not knowing what is up head, not knowing what you will encounter, not knowing who you will see, not knowing the exact way back.
- Notice that the edge does not go away, it just becomes a different edge.
- Do this experiment once a week for 4 weeks. So that you build mass on your capacity to spend time at the edge. You would have spent 8 hours being on an edge.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.10 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one place you arrived at. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
HAVE A RECORDED CONVERSATION WHERE YOU FOLLOW THE EDGE THE WHOLE WAY
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- Choose someone you would like to interview, ask them, if the would be willing to have a conversation on the edge with you.
- Set up the time, date and place.
- Set the space by Centering, Grounding and Bubbling yourself. Declare a golden cube, with its own grounding cord. Call in Bright Principles.
- Consciously raise your Fear, by Lowering your Numbness Bar to your fear and coming into connection with the Being of the other person.
- Allow your fear to guide you to the edge, by asking the next question.
- Use your fear to navigate to the Edge by sensing what direction to go with the conversation.
- Let your Conscious fear show you the Edge by using it also to navigate the pace and timing of the space.
- Publish your recorded conversation.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.11 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. Link to the recording of your conversation as proof. This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Point.
FIND ONE EDGE AND STAY THERE FOR 3 MINUTES
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The purpose of this experiment is to refine your "edge compass", to discover an authetic edge and do not leave it for 3 whole minutes. Do each of the four experiments in order on different days. All of them will require that you set a timer for 3 minutes first.
DAY 1. Emmerse your whole body in cold water (less than 10 degrees C/50 F), with everything except head covered, stay there until the timer goes off.
DAY 2. Place a towel in your mouth, lay on a matress and get Angry for no reason, scream, shout, swear, say anything, until the timer goes off.
DAY 3. Write unfiltered about your deepest, darkest secreats, things you do, think, dream of all your secreats, until the timer goes off.
DAY 4. Go outside in the early morning just before the sun comes up, (check what time that is and set your alarm accordingly). Put one less layer of clothing on that you would usually and no shoes. Walk around until the timer goes off. What you do after that is up to you.
DAY 5. Find another edge to your comfort zone, set the timer and stay there until the timer goes off. Let us know in the proof section what this Edge was that you discovered.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.12 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section, name the edge you found. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY TO STAY AT THE EDGE BY BEING IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS
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One way your Box can go into Crystiline mode is by being in the same place doing the same thing, day after day.
1. Go to your Possibility team or your Three Cell. (If you are not yet meeting with a regular team, join one as part of this experiment and attend for 3 months, every week for 1-2hours).
2. Whilst there, take out your Beepbook and pen and write the title Environment Edge Experiment.
3. As your team to give you possibilties for different environments to go to that your Box would usely stop you from being in. Ask them to be wild and extraordinary with their proposals.
4. Write down everything they say, even if you do not know how or it seems wildly unlikely... actually especially if it seems wildly unlikely.
5. If someone says something you do not understand, pause them and ask them to clarify, say more or say it in a different way. Then kepe going.
6. Go until the possibilities run out.
7. Choose 7-10 possibilities circle them. Everyday for the next 7-10 days place yourself in one of those environments.
8. Whilst there, Notice what you are Feeling, what stories do you have in you about this place, what is like to be inside of you as you experience this environment?
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.13 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one Edgy environment you stayed in. This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Point.
FIND A PHYSICAL EDGE, STAY THERE
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Edges are everywhere. Our human designed Thought Maps of what is "real", keep us away from being on Edges.
1. Take about a 3 hour period of time where you will go out into the world and discover then experince staying at as many physical Edges as you can.
2. Find the edge of the where a footpath meets the road or gutter, do not stand on the road or the foot path, stand on the edge of both. What do you Notice inside of you?
3. Find an edge where inside becomes outside. Do not go inside, do not go outside, stand on the edge of both.
4. Go the edge of a town or city, where the city or town ends, explore the edge, let your Energetic Body guide you to the exact spot where the edge of the city/town is. Stay there and experience being on this physcial "twilight zone", what is is like? What do you notice?
5. Remove your shoes and socks, stand still, with your feet flat on the ground, close your eyes. Experince your skin, slowly start desensitizing yourself to where your physical body ends and the rest of the world begins.
6. Place your Attention of the edge of your physical body. What qualities/sensations do you notice at different places of your body?
7. Go to the edge of land, such as a shore line, walk on the edge of land and water, what is your experience of being at this physical edge? do you notice you want to leave it, or stay, do you notice you have more clarity or less clarity in you?
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.14 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section name one physical edge you explored. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
DISCOVER AN ENERGETIC EDGE
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Make a time to have an authentic conversation, with someone that will speak to Your Being, not your Box, Gremlin or Survial Strategy. Find this person by scanning with your Conscious Fear, or, (if you have been through a Gremlin transformation training), giving your Gremlin the job of sniffing out a person with a Gremlin that is big enough to handle your Gremlin and speak to your Being. Or simply ask yourself this question: If anyone could give me my next steps on my authetic Quest, right now, who would it be? Call that person.
1. Declare a time to speak with this person either face to face or on a call.
2. Before the meeting be sure to Center, Ground and Bubble yourself, declare a Golden Cube and call in Bright Principles.
3. The purpose of this conversation is for you to experience being on an energetic edge, make sure you either record the conversation or take plenty of notes, in your BeepBook.
4. Ask Questions to this person such as: What is the meaning of life? What does Authentic Initation in Adulthood really mean? If you Scan me, what would my next step be in my Quest?
5. Keep your energetic center and experience what happens in you when you ask these questions, let the answers land in your being not your Mental Body, pay particular attention to what is happening in your Energetic Body. Experience being on this energetic edge.
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DISCOVER AN EMOTIONAL EDGE, STAY THERE
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.16
1. Call together an Emotional Edge Team of 3-5 people.
2. Each day for the next Seven days, call one person up every day and for 10 - 20minutes, have them Holdspace for you to Feel what you are feeling. Ideal have them on a screen so you can be seen and witnessed while you are feeling your feelings.
3. Whilst you are doing this, also participate in at least one Heart Gym.
3. If you are relating with a partner, tell them that you want to let them hear your heart speak.
4. Lower your Numbness Bar to what you are Feeling and let the sensations of what you are Feeling come up, let the information of the feelings in your heart pour out of your mouth in words.
5. Experience being on an Emotional Edge every day for the next week.
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DISCOVER AN INTELLECTUAL EDGE
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.17
An intellectual edge begins with "I dont know". It can also be a question. Your Intellectual body is excellent at generating Questions. Let it do that.
1. Get together with your three cell (or two other people).
2. One person is the "Question Asker", another is the "Spaceholder for Questions" and the third person is the "Recorder".
3. Center, Ground and Bubble together and also declare a golden cube of workspace.
4. Set a timer for 10minutes.
5. The question asker (experimenting with discovering the intellectual edge), make a connection with the "Spaceholder".
6. Let your intellectual body bring you the questions you want to ask the person in front of you. you may discover that your intellectual body wants to run fast as a survial mechanism, navigate away from that by moving into your heart, breathing and consciously raising your sadness. Let your fear run in your nervous system.
7. Let your Authentic intellectual curiousity guide you to each question you want to ask.
8. Experience staying at the intellectual edge.
9. Spaceholder does not need to answer any of the questions, or respond, their role is to give you coaching or hints on finding your authentic question. eg "slow down,let yourself feel.. make eye contact..."
10. The Recorder's role is to take notes of every question you ask, after 10 minutes they give you your notes.
11. Swap roles so everyone gets a turn.
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DISVOVER AN ARCHETYPAL EDGE
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.18
1. Go to a natural place and place your back against a tree. Take your pen and paper.
2. Centre, Ground and Bubble yourself, Declare a Golden Cube around you and the tree. Declare a grounding cord, from the golden cube into the center of Gaia, notice what colour it is. Call in your Bright Principles.
3. Set a timer for 30 minutes - this is to give you a time frame to relax into. It could be that you decide to be there longer.
4. Close your eyes and breath. Notice the texture of the tree, the sensations in your Physical body.
5. Connect with your Mental body to Notice stories, thoughts or ideas, notice if there are any patterns. Then connect with your Emotional body, noticing where your Numbness Bar is and what your are Feeling. Connect with your Energetic body, notice the size of it, what sensations are alive in it and what you are picking up on and sensing.
6. Connect with your Archetypal body and notice how it communicates with you, how it is in conneciton with the environment around you. Connect with the tree through your Archetypal body. By placing part of your Attention on the Archetypal body of the tree.
7. Pick up your pen and paper, start writing a letter to the future generations of human beig on planet earth.
8. Write until the timer goes off.
9. Close the space by declaring it the end and create a Black Hole to vanish any excess energy and make sure you vanish the black hole also.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.18 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the proof section write one word to describe your experience of being on an Archetypal Edge.This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Point.
INTRODUCE OTHERS TO THEIR EDGE
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.19
1. Create a poster for an Edgework Team, be creative with what you name it. For 1.5 - 2 hours.
2. Declare a time, date, and place. Invite 3 or more people together.
3. The purpose of the meeting is to discover each other's edges.
4. Start with a short round of introductions and why each person is here, and ask "what do you already know about your edge?"
4. Each person finds a partner, set a timer for 10minutes.
5. One person goes first while the other asks "what are you most scared of right now?"
6. The first person keeps speaking of what they are most scared of.
7. Next ask what are you too afraid to handle which you know needs handling?
8. The partner takes notes.
9. Swap roles.
10. Continue to invite the people to invent experiments for themselves and each other that are right at their edges.
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WRITE FROM YOUR EDGE - CREATE AN EDGE REPORT
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.20
You probably learnt alot of rules about how writing should go. This experiment is for you to go the Edge and write from there. A positively painful and enthrilling experience.
1. Take out your rage towel, set a timer for 3 minutes.
2. Raise your Anger with your intention, go as high as you can for the full 3 minutes, do not stop until the timer goes off.
3. Stop, put own your rage towel, start the timer for 20minutes.
4. Pick up your pen and peice of paper,
5. Write with everything that you have do not censor yourself or try to get it. Write with clarity, from your experience be specific, let all your Feelings flow through you.
6. Let your self write in colours, shapes, up and down, in circles. Do not try to keep your writing constrainted. Your job is to find an ecstatic edge. This means you are not trying to be a messy writer for the purpose of being a messy writer. Instead you are looking for that ALIVENESS in writing that is only found in being in complete freefall off the edge of the the map.
7. Write to discover the sensation of unleashing yourself from any preconceived ideas of how writing should go or look like.
8. Write to discover the edge yourself.
9. Publish one Edge- Report on Medium, giving a live record of what is happening on the Edge right now.
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SPEND A LONG TIME AT THE EDGE
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.21
The Edge can be anywhere. And a long time depends on who you are. However, over night seems like an excellent start.
1. Choose something that you would not normally do.
2. Here are some examples: Spend a night at your partners parents house, sleep outside with no tent, walk to the next city instead of driving, go to a country you have never been to before, spend a shift at a homeless shelter, stand in frount of a crowd of strangers and speak for at least 20minutes....
3. If you have done all of the above recently (as in the last 10 days), then call up someone from your Possibility Team or Three Cell and ask for them to give you possibilities of something you could do for at least 24 hours that will introduce you to your Edge.
4. Decide on the one thing you will do and Commit to it. Give your partner a "by when" date and end the call.
5. Go and do the thing, experience what happens when you increase your capacity to stay at the Edge.
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FIND THE EDGE BETWEEN NOTHING TO DO AND SO MUCH TO DO
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.23
1. Set a timer for 10 minutes.
2. Write down everything you think you should be doing, all the jobs, people to talk to, things to handle… Keep writing for the entire 10 minutes. Hint: Start with things in your immediate environment, the obvious things, then start moving wider, in your family, to your community, in your country, then to the things you should be doing with your life, all the massive projects, ideas. Write them all down on a peice of paper.
3. Ask for a Space holder to Hold space for you to let your Gremlin speak. Step into the energy of your gremlin and let it speak, for 10 minutes go into the full ecstasy of your gremlin. Make all the voices, sounds, sentences, inhabit the terrain of your gremlin in all of its energy. Have your spaceholder take notes of sentences or record your Gremlin speaking.
4. Now you have two recorded experiences of parts of you that create intense experiences of aliveness that are NOT actually the edge. The parts that help you avoid the Reality of the Edge.
5. Spend a whole hour doing Nothing. Sit somewhere and do not do anything. Do not meditate, read, write, check your phone, watch anything, try to fix anything, or count anything, do nothing. Notice that the world is still turning, notice what happens.
6. At the end of the hour write down a few sentences of your experience, in your BeepBook, write down sentences "shoulds" any stories running, especially write down any mantras you invented to tell yourself such as "just breathe... nothing matters... do nothing... everything is meaningless... it does not matter .... life is bliss..."
7. The next day set your timer to go off every hour. When it goes off, Minimise your Now by, lowering your Numbness Bar and noticing what you are Feeling right here right now. Ask yourself where is the Edge? Move towards it, do not numb yourself with either "there is so much I need to do!" or "Nothing matters, fuck it all..." instead through being RIGHT NOW, with exactly what you are Feeling, navigate to the Edge... the tension of being alive...
8. Do this at least 8 times during the day.
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GO THROUGH ONE EMOTIONAL HEALING PROCESS EVERYDAY FOR 7 CONSEQUETIVE DAYS
Matrix Code GOTOEDGE.24
To increase the amount of aliveness your system can handle, drop ecess emotional Baggage by going through 7 healing processes. This will make your Box expansive rather than crystaline and give you greater affinity for staying at the Edge.
1. Call up 7-10 people to be on your EHP space holding team.
2. Create a telegram group, where you will check in after each process and what you are experincing.
3. Organise logistics for time, date and spaceholder, directly with each person (not in the telegram group).
4. Go through your emotional healing processes.
5. Write a summary of each process into the telegram group.
6. Welcome to an increased capacity to be with Edges!
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Most new things are discovered at an Edge.
If you wait around for someone else to do the discovering, you may be waiting a very long time.
If you are an Edgeworker, you have work to do at the Edge that is no one else's work but yours.