Do Something That Makes No Sense

{A Written Practice}

Do Something That Makes no sense

Like- You don't even know why you are doing this.

And I'm talking about with gusto. I'm talking about doing something that you know quite well doesn't make any sense. This could be dancing with a broom in the middle of the desert. It could be writing a story backwards. It could be taking up unicycling as a hobby (not to pick on unicycling). It could be arbitrarily changing the way you drive to work. Or picking your kids up from school in a clown suit. What are we getting at here? Something that your thinking mind finds absurd, possibly objectionable (not dangerous, not illegal, of course). We're talking about stripping power away from the hegemony of the mind. The key is finding something that doesn't make any sense to you. Maybe it is taking a day off of work for no reason. Maybe it is painting your mailbox blue. Have fun.

Related Practices:

See Ways of Knowing. See Think with Your Feet. See Sit Spot.

Who taught us this?

This is something Gabriel discovered along the way...he's certainly not the first person to have noticed this.

Who taught us this?

This is probably the practice that launched this model, for its convener. He dropped out of thinking, then dropped out of Yale. Learning that this was possible, that you could drop out of thinking and still exist, was the doorway that gave birth to this model. It has taken 25 years. Ilarion Merculieff speaks about learning how to do this at age 6.

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