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wolven7Biofeedback: A set of principles including and involving turning the body's experience of pain into energy and increased capacity for work. Monitoring and internally redirecting the body's functions, for conscious control.
Parkour: "The Art of Moving." Adaptability in motion, redistribution weight and force in the movement of gross bodily motion. Jumping, climbing, running, rolling, and generally moving in the most efficient way possible.
Cybernetics: Understanding and manipulating the structure of regulatory systems, in either living ogranisms, or mechanical and/or social structures. In the popular use, cybernetics is most often understood as the combination of organic and non-organic systems for the purposes of control, healing, and enhancement.
Shamanism: Practices designed to increase connection with the realms of spirit and nature, and to increase awareness of their intesection. Shamanistic practices include chanting, singing, dancing, playing music, and ingesting varying substances to aid in attaining mind altering states of consciousness. A shaman acts as the gatekeeper between the realm of the spirit and the realm of humans.
Werewolves: Literally "Man-Wolves." A subset of the overall class of "Shapeshifter," these are creatures who change between the form of a human and that of a wolf. Often depicted as having intermediate stages combining the features of both natures, and lore differs as to whether these changes can be made at will, orif they only happen involuntarily under the light of the full moon, or some combination of the two. Only able to be killed or controlled by the metal silver.
Now, if we allow for the advent of genetic trait splicing, via nanotechnological intervention (molecular riders, recombining and writing DNA, etc), then we have the means by which to more fully and usefully combine the above, into a new species of creature, a new kind of bodily awareness, being a new kind of awareness of the mutability of physical nature, in conjunction with a new understanding of our "place" in the metaphysical "order." Even without that advent, the practitioner becomes aware of the nature of her feedback loops, as well as the loops in which she is but a stage, and her incresed awareness of these steps and places allow her a wider range of control over them and their outcome and direction.
As the subject stages an increased effort toward control, the awareness of surroundings will become more instinctual, more like intuition, and the reaction to and action within them will simply happen, with awareness, weight, and deliberation occuring at a much greater speed. The consequences of actions and the moral/ethical predispositions of the subject will not be "altered," per se, other than a necessary deepening and enhancement of whatever they happened to be, as a result of a greater overall awareness. The subject may find that they are, at worst, more open to investigating their morality, while not "losing" it. To reduce ethical vertigo, it is suggested that the subject take each decision a step at a time, comparing and contrasting new physical, mental, emotional, and social consequences with old.
Musculature and reflexivity will take some getting used to, in order to fully control, but this is the same as with any new skill or ability, such as a martial art, dance style, or posture and motion correction, as in physical therapy. The sudden alteration of musculature will, eventually, be a litteral second nature, and one with which the subject is equally as comfortable as their first.
Greater ease of altering the mind in terms of its capacity for learning, multitasking, and linguistics will, of course, be a side-effect. In addition, during the first 5 months, the subject should expect a near-constant stream of unending nervous signals generally interpreted by the mind as "pain," in the course of any physical exertion. Some assistance may be required in using the restroom, showering, and sexual activity should at all costs be avoided until all alterations in feedback loops are fully and functionally integrated.
Kind of slipped into a weird "Care And Handling Instructions" mode, there, at the end... Strange. But This? Looking back on it, now, I can say that, as a kid, this is exactly what I wanted to be, when I grew up.
Parkour: "The Art of Moving." Adaptability in motion, redistribution weight and force in the movement of gross bodily motion. Jumping, climbing, running, rolling, and generally moving in the most efficient way possible.
Cybernetics: Understanding and manipulating the structure of regulatory systems, in either living ogranisms, or mechanical and/or social structures. In the popular use, cybernetics is most often understood as the combination of organic and non-organic systems for the purposes of control, healing, and enhancement.
Shamanism: Practices designed to increase connection with the realms of spirit and nature, and to increase awareness of their intesection. Shamanistic practices include chanting, singing, dancing, playing music, and ingesting varying substances to aid in attaining mind altering states of consciousness. A shaman acts as the gatekeeper between the realm of the spirit and the realm of humans.
Werewolves: Literally "Man-Wolves." A subset of the overall class of "Shapeshifter," these are creatures who change between the form of a human and that of a wolf. Often depicted as having intermediate stages combining the features of both natures, and lore differs as to whether these changes can be made at will, orif they only happen involuntarily under the light of the full moon, or some combination of the two. Only able to be killed or controlled by the metal silver.
Now, if we allow for the advent of genetic trait splicing, via nanotechnological intervention (molecular riders, recombining and writing DNA, etc), then we have the means by which to more fully and usefully combine the above, into a new species of creature, a new kind of bodily awareness, being a new kind of awareness of the mutability of physical nature, in conjunction with a new understanding of our "place" in the metaphysical "order." Even without that advent, the practitioner becomes aware of the nature of her feedback loops, as well as the loops in which she is but a stage, and her incresed awareness of these steps and places allow her a wider range of control over them and their outcome and direction.
As the subject stages an increased effort toward control, the awareness of surroundings will become more instinctual, more like intuition, and the reaction to and action within them will simply happen, with awareness, weight, and deliberation occuring at a much greater speed. The consequences of actions and the moral/ethical predispositions of the subject will not be "altered," per se, other than a necessary deepening and enhancement of whatever they happened to be, as a result of a greater overall awareness. The subject may find that they are, at worst, more open to investigating their morality, while not "losing" it. To reduce ethical vertigo, it is suggested that the subject take each decision a step at a time, comparing and contrasting new physical, mental, emotional, and social consequences with old.
Musculature and reflexivity will take some getting used to, in order to fully control, but this is the same as with any new skill or ability, such as a martial art, dance style, or posture and motion correction, as in physical therapy. The sudden alteration of musculature will, eventually, be a litteral second nature, and one with which the subject is equally as comfortable as their first.
Greater ease of altering the mind in terms of its capacity for learning, multitasking, and linguistics will, of course, be a side-effect. In addition, during the first 5 months, the subject should expect a near-constant stream of unending nervous signals generally interpreted by the mind as "pain," in the course of any physical exertion. Some assistance may be required in using the restroom, showering, and sexual activity should at all costs be avoided until all alterations in feedback loops are fully and functionally integrated.
Kind of slipped into a weird "Care And Handling Instructions" mode, there, at the end... Strange. But This? Looking back on it, now, I can say that, as a kid, this is exactly what I wanted to be, when I grew up.
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Date: 2009-09-24 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 05:35 am (UTC)My question is, with the kind of control, awareness, and adaptability detailed, above, who Wouldn't want to be a werewolf?
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Date: 2009-09-24 05:50 am (UTC)it seems much more sensible to take all that good stuff w/o having to change into animals to get it, which seems like the point to me: why shapeshift if I can be modified with animal like reflexes but stay human?
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Date: 2009-09-24 05:56 am (UTC)The point is that the ease of shapeshifting would be greatly increased with the full application and understanding of each of these techniques; that each of these are in some way enhanced by understanding the others of these.
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Date: 2009-09-24 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 05:57 am (UTC)