"My story unfolds with me as
a spearhead infantry scout for
General Patton's army in World War
II. The war was horrible on the front
lines. My group was one of the first
to arrive at Hitler's death camps to
liberate the remaining survivors.
After I got back home to the U.S. I
went to the University of Chicago,
and earned my bachelor and masters
degrees in behavioral science, and
almost completed my Ph.D. My
experiences during the war drove me
to ask but one question: "Why must I
kill my brother?" To this, my school
and professors had no answer. But one
professor's advice was "If there is
an answer to this question, it's up
here," pointing to his own gray head.
"The answer has got to be in the
human brain, but the research hasn't
yet been done in academe. You're
going to have to build your own
research center if you are going to
solve that riddle."
"So, I dropped out of my
Ph.D. program and started to figure
out how to put my own research
facility together. I didn't have any
money, but I could tell a good story!
So, I figured, if there was a fortune
to be made in a hurry, maybe I could
do it in show business...Turns out I
was right...I bought this mountain
and built this place with a guitar,
three chords, and nine folk
songs."
"I started out playing the
local joints around Denver, and
eventually I landed a spot on Groucho
Marx's You Bet Your Life TV show in
Hollywood. I wore these old buckskins
and I played the part of a backwoods
mountain man to perfection. It was
during that appearance that a New
York producer spotted me. He must
have said "I know a good phony when I
see one, and that son of a bitch is a
great one!" They flew me out to New
York City and signed me to do a
summer replacement show on NBC. My
show was a weekly one where the "new"
fad of folk singing (in the late
50's) was featured. People like Burl
Ives and Woody Guthrie showed up as
guests, and performed with me. What a
time we had...and I got paid $2000 an
hour to do it!
On the last show, I looked
straight into the camera and asked
the million viewers who were
watching, "If anybody out there has a
mountain to sell, call me." And sure
enough, somebody called me up right
from Colorado. At the end of the
summer, I took my money, two grocery
sacks full, and ran! I gave one to
the IRS and I bought this place,
Laughing Coyote Mountain, with the
other. I started to axe timber and
build log cabin labs. That was in
1957. No sterile formaldehyde bleak
lab walls for me...give me fresh air
and the beautiful sounds of the
forest to think
clearly!"
Brain
Revolutionary Sarah in front
of Lingo's
Home.
"For the next 30 years I
dedicated myself totally to exploring
behavior from the perspective of the
human brain. My staff and I looked at
every available bit of scientific
research and philosophic/religious
literature on the subject. We ran our
own short and long term experiments
with 309 test subjects. Now, up here,
this environment of rugged mountain
wilderness provides a total focus
into the self that never can be
replicated in any city, with all the
noise and distractions. Up here,
there's no electricity, no TV, or
movies, no four lane highways to get
away from it all. You ARE away from
it all!
Up here, you face
yourself, your mind, and your brain.
The brain lab still doesn't have
electrical power lines, or even
running water. It's just you, the
hand water pump, a wood stove, and
your central nervous system. Our
lab's records grew voluminous. These
log structures were crammed full of
file cabinets. The books line the
walls from the stone floors to the
ceiling rafters, 18 feet up. In the
end, we discovered the mechanisms to
release startling new intelligence,
creativity, and pleasure, inside each
and every human brain. And all our
findings are supported and
corroborated with foundation findings
by scientists elsewhere." as told by
T.D. Lingo, 1989
Some people are curious as to
my connection with Lingo, and why his
biographical material and work was
found almost exclusively at my site
from 1997-2007, and to this day is the principal
site dedicated to TD Lingo's work. Here's the scoop and
the story:
During the 1970's at the
height of flower power and
self-exploration, Lingo drew a large
audience from seekers across the
nation, drawing people who were
looking beyond the mere materialism
of the 1950's and 1960's. The brain
lab was a busy busy place, with
students and staff continually
flowing through, enthusiasm blooming.
Along comes the 1980's, and out went
self-exploration and in came disco
dancing. Alas, I was of the later
generation, but not a
dancer.
By the time I began
frequenting the lab in 1982, most of
the former staff had dropped out and
instead gone back to "business as
usual". Clear evidence of this is the
complete lack of color photographs
published by anyone, save myself and
the photos TD Lingo took of me helping
him collect firewood around 1987 See
Brain Lab Photo Tour. The few
other black and white photos of Lingo
that exist were taken from the mid
1970's and earlier, showing TD Lingo as
a much younger fellow. Surprisingly,
when we did the photo shoot above,
Lingo refused to have his picture
taken, and instead insisted on
documenting my own work and taking
the photos himself using my camera. I
attribute this to his generosity in
passing on the "baton of brain fame"
to me, rather than stepping into the
spotlight again
himself.
I saw little if any of the
former brain lab participants through
the 1980's, and instead worked with
TD Lingo to get city folk involved to
start their own brain communities and
support groups on the flat lands, and
I worked to promote the lab's work
through the mass
media.
Each year form 1983 onward I
helped TD Lingo collect firewood each
winter, as shown by the photos above,
and recruited friends as I could to
help, such as Sky and Eileen W.,
Glenda H., Fred P., Broz R. (privacy
respected online, although these are
some of my best friends), and others
who can testify to this
work.
From 1983 onward, TD Lingo and I
did ongoing numerous public
appearances together. These are a
matter of public record as are the
press releases and media stories
covering the public events that I did
highlighting Brain Self-Control and
Education. Westword Newspaper alone
eventually ran four separate full
page stories on my work over a period
of several years, in addition to full
page stories in the Denver Post,
Rocky Mountain News, as well as
appearances on each of Denver's major
television stations with Brain
Self-Control as the
focus.
There is no evidence of
anyone else working with TD Lingo in
this consistent and actualized manner
from 1983-1993. Our sole efforts
together to this degree are reflected
in the public record and in written
and dated correspondence from this
period, of which I retain the
originals as well as samples of
TD Lingo's correspondence with others
from the last decade of his
life.
Let's
look at the actual public record-
here is a small sample:
AUTHOR'S BIO: Neil Slade- is an author
of ten books on brain and behavior
including The Frontal Lobes
Supercharge, Tickle Your
Amygdala, Brain Magic 2/Creativity From
Another Dimension, Brain Tuning, and Secret of The
Dormant Brain Lab and The Book of Wands (Vol. 1,
2, 3, and 4), and Cosmic Conversations. He is also a
lifelong musical composer, seasoned
concert performer, and teacher.
Slade was assistant to Brain and
Behavior Researcher T.D.A. Lingo,
Ph.B., B.Sci. M.A., for 11 years at
Colorado's Brain Research and
Development Laboratory, established
by director Lingo in 1957.
Since December 1997, Neil has been a
regular guest on Coast To Coast AM
with George Noory and Art Bell, the
world's most popular night time
syndicated radio show.
Slade has also been a repeat guest of
national PBS television and radio
host Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
(Thinking Allowed), and has
appeared on countless other radio,
television, and internet broadcasts
across the globe.
His educational books are easy to
understand explorations of how the
human brain works, and how to access
creativity and problem solving.
The Frontal Lobes Supercharge has
been translated and published by major European
publisher Rowohlt Verlag*, and has remained in
print in the U.S. for twenty-nine consecutive
years. *Rowohlt lists Neil Slade among its
translated and published Pulitzer Prize winning
authors, among these: Albert Camus, Jonathan
Franzen, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Toni
Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Harold Pinter,
Philip Roth, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, and
many others.
His most recent title, Secret Of
The Dormant Brain Lab (2011) is
an account of his work with brain
researcher T.D.A. Lingo at his
wilderness research facility.
Slade's 1111 page quadrilogy, The
Book of Wands (2010), is a
recollection of his thirty years
experience as a music teacher and
brain educator.
Slade has ten original albums of
music to his credit, and he has
produced and directed two feature
length films.
Specifically, my work with
TD Lingo for the last eleven years of
the lab's existence was to take the
brain lab's findings, which had
previously been mostly done on the
facility, and to take it into the
schools, hospitals, and set up study
groups in town (Denver), as well as
to refine the written materials, and
make them more accessible to the
mainstream.
It was my goal to become an
independent brain education entity
using the vast experience and
knowledge that Lingo imparted to me.
I further understood the need to
evolve and fine tune to my own
experience, adding my own special
abilities and knowledge in music
along with my college education and
post graduate
experience.
Throughout the 1980's I
worked in the public schools and all
of Denver's major psychiatric
facilities teaching basic brain
self-control methods defined at the
lab but taught in my own customized
way. I regularly ran therapeutic
workshops at West Pines Psychiatric
Hospital, Ft. Logan Mental Health
Center, Denver General Psychiatric
Ward, Mt. Airy Psychiatric Hospital,
Children's Hospital of Denver, Denver
Head Injury Clinic, and other
public and private
facilities.
In an unprecedented original
"Mind Music" program, I was employed
by the principal of a Denver Public
Elementary School to teach all 600
students and their teachers how to
self-activate advanced levels of
creativity, intelligence, and
cooperative trust behavior by
learning "brain basics". We had the
kids learn, illustrate, and teach
each other brain anatomy and
function. The program eventually led
to teachers singing to their students
and students dancing in the
classroom.
In 1989 I published my
Frontal Lobes Handbook (later revised
into the
Frontal Lobes Supercharge), which
has found its way into public
libraries and university and
hospital libraries. TD Lingo took an
active part in helping edit portions
of this book, and I give him full
credit for helping me to learn an
effective writing
style.
In October 1992, on my last
physical visit to the mountain, TD Lingo
was at hand when Sarah R. and I
discussed the future of our brain
rock band, "The
Brain Revolutionaries". We spoke
and planned the possibilities of a
traveling brain "medicine show" for
which TD Lingo had written and submitted
pages and pages of scripts for my
consideration previously. Soon
thereafter in the mail I received
correspondence that included this
amusing theme song for our
group:
All the while, TD Lingo and I
planned and presented radio and
television appearances, wrote
scripts, as well as continued to
court the media. Although Lingo had
corresponded with thousands of
individuals across the globe, as well
as had vast numbers of students and
subjects come through his brain and
behavior facility, his concepts and
discoveries had as yet escaped
widespread acceptance.
TD Lingo had a cancer scare
requiring hospital tests and a cab
ride from a student, but this was
seventeen years earlier in 1978. He
had shown no major health problems
since then, but suddenly, in 1993,
Lingo died of an apparent heart
defect, a major burst blood vessel in
the chest.
This came as a surprise to me
since he had shown no illness or
premonition of coming health problems
whatsoever. No one had seen TD Lingo for
months, including any of the old
former staff, and my visit the
previous late fall may have very well
been the last one from an outsider up
to the lab. (And no one presented
such obvious information such as a
recent visit for any reason at his
funeral service held soon after). My
last physical contact with him had
been the previous October with Sarah
and Nathan R. (shown above), as these
friends and I helped with wood
gathering as was the yearly
tradition.
His mind remained strikingly
observant and totally lucid to the
end, as testified in his last
correspondence to me, as well to
another former
student.
In Sept. 2009 one letter was
shared that suggested that he had
felt abandoned by other older staff
members. He shared this in a single
terse and unambiguous statement as
little as a week after sending me a
ten page glowing and optimistic
letter of thanks looking towards the
future. It should be clear that such
sentiments were not expressed or sent
to any other individuals at this
time. Such a statement may have well
been only intended for the eyes of
this one person in whom TD Lingo may
have felt particularly disappointed
at the end of his
life.
Several times I recall Lingo
being asked, "What happens after
staff and students "transcend" and
pop their frontal lobes?" His answer,
"They disappear. I never see them
again."
This wasn't always literally
true, and I have had contact
even to this day with many former
students and staff who have fond
memories of their experience, and I
have many letters in my basement from
TD Lingo expressing his positive
outlook.
In my case, in his final
days, he did not share any of
his personal health concerns with me,
perhaps not to distract me from the
ongoing positive thrust of my work in
the public domain, perhaps not to
disturb the lasting optimistic and
positive image that I had kept in my
mind all of the years, especially
during the winter and early spring of
1993.
He mostly spared me of
general negative feelings about
others, but eventually mailed me copies of
correspondence to warn me of the potential
negative actions of other former students, such
as this shown in the letter
below. None the less, in this
correspondence, originally only meant
for R's eyes, he states that as a
whole, he felt (at least at this
moment) that the old BINC (Brain In
Nature Course) staff had abandoned
and failed their life mission to
continue The Brain
Revolution.
(It should be noted that I
was never a part of the earlier
generation 1970's BINC (Brain In Nature
Course), and I worked totally
independently with TD Lingo during the
last decade, 1982 through to
1993.)
In regards to poverty, TD Lingo
willingly took a vow of poverty so as
to continue his work. He was not
attached to material things and lived
simply, remarkably in the wilderness
even without running water and
electricity. Throughout his life was
proud that he did not get caught up
in the accumulation of property and
the debt generated by such, and that
he spent his energies
elsewhere.
QUESTIONABLE and NEGATIVE SOURCES OF INFORMATION
about LINGO (and MYSELF)
A very
few other references to Lingo may be found
online, most of them respectable and legitimate- but
one in particular that is far from being a respectable and
reliable source.
It may be helpful to see where this came from,
to keep proper perspective, in the case that you
stumble upon that waste product... The
page starts out plagiarizing directly from my
own book, The Frontal Lobes Supercharge:
"..The ability
of persons to control their amygdala and
experience limitless frontal lobes pleasure
responses was proven by a 30 year controlled
study by brain and behavior researcher T.D.A.
Lingo at the Dormant Brain Research and
Development Laboratory in Blackhawk, Colorado.
Between 1957 and 1987 over three hundred and
nine students and test subjects along with
hundreds of additional part time participants
were involved in long and short term brain
education, behavioral, and thought modification
programs. The resultant increases in
intelligence, creativity, and positive emotions
were demonstrated and measured by a variety of
objective and subjective means, standardized
tests and analysis methods."
As for
the rest, it is an absurd web page, full
of outright lies and innuendo built by
self-help wanna-be guru N.R. in 2010-an expression in sheer vitriol
and frustration from that author, with help from
Lion. G and "Thunderhawk" directed at yours'
truly. Filled with misinformation and lies, it goes so far as to
discount Lingo's own opinion of the real author
of the page, writing for N.R., (indeed, much of
the page written by one "Thunderhawk", i.e
real name Ron M.- "R").
"...Does
it matter to Slade’s work what Lingo said about
someone 20-30 years ago? .... So what? It is
time to move on, but for some reason Slade feels
that he must air his dirty laundry in public..."
Is
Lingo's opinion of his students written 20 years
ago relevant? Of course it is, especially if one
is praising the intelligence and genius of Lingo
himself. What could be more relevant?!
And to be
clear, it's
not MY dirty laundry- it's
theirs.
When we're
talking brain- TRUTH- that matters, infinity so.
Below, a portion of a letter
from Feb 1993 to "R", (Ron M.) also shown as "Thunderhawk"
the former Brain In Nature Course student, in
letters from Lingo himself further down the
page, and known
anonymously as "Yoder" elsewhere online,
after resigning from "The Brain
Revolution" (see Dec. 92 below on this page). He
conspired with another individual, another
former student, "Lion" G. (I refuse to give
these individuals more web publicity by
publishing their full names), years later to
obtain missing portions of an original Lingo
manuscript that they did not have a complete
copy of, to which they
then claimed they owned the copyright (patently
false). Details about that escapade further down
this page as well.
To "R",
(Thunderhawk, Yoder), Dec. 1992 letter-
CC to me from Lingo-
Further
email communications were
intercepted from "R" ("Yoder"
"Thunderhawk") in
2008 and 2009, admitting on attempts
to hack and sabotage my email, such as
these two below- evidence of failure
to "transcend" the reptile brain, so
obviously, and in fact, evidence of
hyper-energizing it. This is
absolutely shocking, as the man had
a job teaching math and computer
science in his local public school
system.
It should be
noted that R. refuses to actually
use his real name ANYWHERE on pages
that feature information about
Lingo- this alone speaks
volumes about his claims. No wonder,
given his online shenanigans:
From: r---------@msn.com
[This is
Thunderhawk/Yoder]
To:
emotions_er@hotmail.com
[This is N.R.]
Subject: RE: SNAKEEEEE
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:50:35
-0600
Hey, I loaded about 15 mega bytes of
files and sent them to slade fifty
times or more.
I tried to sent to you, but they did
not go through.
Do the same,
send him huge files.....it will clog
his account.
Have your friends do the same. I
also blocked him from my account.
r--------@msn.com
[street address hidden here]
and
From: R---------- < r---------@msn.com>
(Yoder)
To: N-------< infinity_er@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
3:54:01 AM
Subject: RE: [Your Great Brain
Adventure Interspecies InTELLigence
...I didn't mean to imply that you
were lying. Sometimes you say things
about Slade, and I am not sure if
you are joking and being
sarcastic....I do the same...we all
do. That is one of the problems with
the digital domain...it is
hard...impossible...to pick up on
things like sarcasm, jokes, etc. I
know there is a way to snag a BBC,
and I will slowly start looking for
the way.
He uses Winblows, so his
box is open to hacking...I just want
his address book.
Idea...let's come up with a bogus
account and user name. I will write
him and do some lobbying. I will use
a program that will block my IP
address, and I will try to do it
this Christmas.
Adios my friend,
r--------@msn.com (Yoder)
(street address hidden here)
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
719.xxx.xxxxx (phone hidden here)
Homepage
These and a significant number of
other email communications were a
surprising revelation to see from an
adult in a position of
responsibility who taught computer
use in a public high school.
After he got caught red handed, this
was followed by a series of fact
twisting, guilt releasing,
accusatory anonymous online posts by
"R". ("Yoder" "Thunderhawk")
in 2010 which may be regarded as strong
evidence that Lingo's analysis of
R's "non-transcendence" in the last
year of his life, as shown in
Lingo's letter immediately above, was not only accurate for that
period, but indicated a long term
prognosis.
***
That highly fictionalized
account, of my
relationship with Lingo and the
brain lab work may be found online published by
N. R., a wanna-be Croatian self-help
guru who regularly
posts semi-pornographic photos
(that's all they'll allow) on his Facebook page. That account is
neither true nor vaguely accurate,
and in fact is highly slanderous. N.R. never knew or
worked with Lingo, but only became
aware of him through myself and my
work. His bogus accusations are of
course not backed up by any kind of
proof or references, because they
are entirely fictitious. This was
done because I refused to hand over
Lingo manuscripts that were in my
possession collected by myself and
legal heir to the Lingo papers,
Harmony A. after Lingo's death. I
refused to share materials with
anyone who might use them only for
personal self-gain, as I suspected
was exactly the case here.
The fact is, if any of that baloney
bull-only was true as claimed,
neither the family, nor the lawyers,
nor the legal heir to Lingo's
intellectual property would have
allowed me to be awarded Lingo's
guitar, nor his brain-in-a-jar, nor
allowed the exclusive permission to
post Lingo's 1970's documentary on
my Youtube site, nor given copies of
every single one of Lingo's
intellectual papers and given
permission to continue my work using
any and all of the above to my
discretion.
Thus, in reptilian brain rage, N.R.
teamed up and asked "R" to write
a fictionalized slam including such
patent lies as:
"Consequently,
it would be safe to say that Slade
does not represent the Estate of
Lingo.
..then
it seems highly unlikely that they
would put Slade in charge of any
intellectual or real property of TD
Lingo.
1) A. Do I claim to represent the Lingo
Estate? Nope, never have, never had
the need to- why would I? Because-
B. The family, i.e. Lingo's Estate
(his brother),
surrendered ALL intellectual
property to Harmony A. after Lingo's
death, and kept all his personal
property and the deed to the
mountain property for themselves. I
was legally awarded Lingo's Martin
guitar and the brain in the jar by
none other than the family lawyer,
Richard Hipp. And, yes, I have the
documents to prove it.
Harmony A. (Lingo's established corporate legal
heir) further made sure I had
copies of all of Lingo's papers,
plus other documents which only I
have, given my long standing educational
work directly with Lingo, nearly
exclusively, for the last 10 years
of his life. She was deemed the
legal owner of all of Lingo's
writings, and she decided what to do
with his archives, not the family,
from whom Lingo had little interest
or involvement during the last
couple decades of his life.
2) "R" (under the anonymous auspices of N.R.'s page) says of the family,
"they found statements in Lingo’s
journal that Slade had provided
Lingo with very young women, women
that Lingo had sex with."
Oh good grief. Only in R's
demented brain. Nowhere on the planet
did Lingo ever claim such a thing.
Good god. Absolutely ridiculous. I
wouldn't even know where to find
such women- and no less, women who
would have sex with a 65 year old neuro-scientist hermit!
We are to believe Lingo, "one of the
world's great geniuses", according
to N.R., was simultaneously a
pedophile? Sigh- talk
about self-contradictions.
2)
"They accused Slade of: supplying TD
with copious amounts of Vodka, which
one family member swears lead to
the death of Lingo." Good
lord, a true hallucination. Lingo bought his
own vodka, routinely, he didn't need
any from me. The only alcohol I ever
supplied Lingo with was that on one
X-mas I marched through a mile of
foot-deep snow to give him a bottle
of Wild Turkey. Lingo
died of a burst blood vessel in his
chest,
a heart defect he didn't know about,
not gallons of booze from me or
anyone else.
4) And this is
the biggest lie of all- "...Slade
has adopted the amygdala gimmick..."
Gimmick? GIMMICK?
This is the very foundation, the
keystone, the penultimate focus of
everything Lingo ever talked about.
It was the first and last thing that
Lingo emphasized for 30 years at his
brain lab. Nothing was ever more
important, and everything else took
a back seat to this one process:
The idea of direct brain
self-control, specifically of
consciously controlling the
amygdala, and "clicking" and
"tickling the amygdala" forward to
turn on advanced frontal lobes
thinking and intelligence. "Master
the master click switch..", as Lingo
put it, "...and EVERYTHING else
falls into place."
My work from 1983 until the present,
35 years, has been to show
people, in 10 books, in countless
interviews, hundreds if not
thousands of web pages, and with
innumerable techniques, how to
tickle and click the amygdala
forward and turn on one's own
infinite brain potential. That's
what it's all about. It's no
gimmick, it's a real process
highlighted by recent fMRI and PET
brain scans* that occurs on a
molecular level in the brain. It's
the keystone.
*Sara
W. Lazar, G, Gollub Bush, G.L.
Fricchione, G. Khalsa G, Herbert
Benson, “Functional brain mapping of
the relaxation response and
meditation”, NeuroReport, 11:
1581-1585, (2000).
When N.R.
didn't get copies of all of Lingo's
life work- to do god knows what
with- he then set out to
sabotage my own work in partnership
with Ron M. as shown above.
He failed utterly. And in fact, in
his attempt has only fueled more
interest in the legitimate story of
Lingo and the brain lab, and in the
work I've done for the past 35
years.
N.R.
then
tried to set himself up as a
self-help expert online but quickly
abandoned the idea, primarily
because no one was buying into his
claims of self-enlightenment.
Soooooo.... N.R. went on
in 2010 to publish Ron M.'s and Lion. G.'s
utterly ugly and fictitious accounts
of things.
MORE FALSE FACTS AND
CLAIMS BY LION G.
The former student (known
by his adopted name "Lion" G.)
spent a total of six weeks in TD Lingo's BINC course and was given the
harmless job as camp cook. The worst
he could do would be to burn the
potatoes. Now in the self-help
business, he notoriously
claimed copyright to one of Lingo's
later manuscripts while nobody was
looking, but was eventually
discovered. He claimed owning
"The only known copy of this
workbook". This was a complete, and
knowingly false statement-
Turns out, key missing parts
of this manuscript which he never had
himself, came directly from me at his
request. ("R" told him I had what he needed,
"but don't tell him I sent you") He then very conveniently
"forgot" that it was in fact myself
who supplied him with missing
chapters to the
manuscript. Both myself and Harmony A. had always
had complete copies of the book.
The correct history is that
TD Lingo himself had refused a
partnership with L.G. in
his previous attempt to gain control
of the manuscript. He had tried to make a deal
with Lingo to exchange being named the
benefactor of the Brain Lab property in exchange
for typesetting the book. Of course, Lingo
absolutely refused such an arrangement. The posthumous
publishing attempt- once discovered- was halted
by the Lingo estate as being
undesirable and was completely
refused.
Of course, once this
character was caught red handed claiming copyright
and secretly trying to acquire a publishing deal
behind everyone's back,
well, you can imagine vitriol he
concocted with his reptile brain.
Although you might find these
comments in a dank online sewer
someplace (such as the page posted by N.R.) no legitimate webmaster
will post it.
Any mention of
L.G. in any of Lingo's letters or
writings? None- except this one
notorious metal plaque that Lingo
had nailed to a tree. You see, Lingo
made a lot of these metal strips
when he wanted to remember something
of note, and had them nailed up in
various places around the lab. (See
Brain Lab Photo Tour.) This
one, he made after L. G. betrayed
him, in April of 1978, when G. was
caught "screwing" around with
another brain lab participant-
"April Fool 78 Goodman/Giurado
Syndrome" Draw
your own conclusions about the
veracity of L. Goodman's statements
online regarding the brain lab and
your's truly.
In my archives I have more
amusing and enlightening
personal letters from TD Lingo
expressing his opinion of such former
students, but alas, we see enough
dirt in pop culture these days and I
see no point in dipping much deeper into the
mud of others, besides the few
references on this
page.
Is there evidence anywhere of
a single other person besides myself
working with TD Lingo from 1979 onward?
Helping him with classes? Publicity?
Publishing? Press
clips?
Nope. Zero. It can't
be found because it doesn't exist. Make your
own frontal lobes call.
No such negative feelings were ever
expressed towards me from Lingo, but rather the
opposite, from which he never
strayed. I submit these letters here, not to
brag, but to set the record straight beyond any
shadow of a doubt about the trustworthiness of
my involvement with Lingo and the Brain Lab, and
about the information I share-
This letter to me, Jan. 1993, written near
the end of Lingo's life (The entire
letter is shown at the bottom of this
page):
(The complete 10 page letter
of above can be seen at the bottom of
this page)
When the Rocky Mountain News
ran the multiple page story about
TD Lingo and his work, they asked me to
take the reporter and photographer
and give them the guided tour of the
brain lab.
My picture can be seen
sitting on Lingo's bunk bed in the
news spread, and to no surprise,
there is no mention nor proof of any
former staff or students- because
they had all left TD Lingo on his own
for the most part, years before. I
did not have to suggest or convince
anyone at the Rocky Mountain News
about who to call for TD Lingo's
eulogy.
In the presence of two
witnesses, Sarah and Nathan R., TD Lingo
had in October of 1992 expressed his
intention that I carry on his work in
addition to inheriting the physical
property of the lab upon his
retirement or death. Unfortunately,
his demise was so sudden, he had
never filled out the proper paper
work nor a proper will. The funny
thing was, one of my best friends
Rachel M., had a VERY strange
premonition about this, and
repeatedly told me in November, "Get
it in writing, now."
I never pressed him for this,
and it may have been a mistake, or it
may have spared me legal battles with
his surviving blood relatives. I will
choose to believe it the
latter.
Although absolutely absurd claims of a
"living will" were made by none other than "Thunderhawk"-
yes the very same person responsible for
attempts at hacking my email and computer shown
above-
the only document referred to was
written in distress by TD Lingo in 1978
when he believed he had cancer. This
was never pursued because in
actuality, it was an impossible claim
given the delivered article of
evidence: A casual mention of an idea
in a letter never followed up on,
despite given another fifteen
years to do so! It had zero legal bearing,
and was completely dismissed by all the lawyers
involved as not even worth following up upon.
Lingo, in fact, never
willed anything to anyone at any
time, and the do-it-yourself will kit found after
his death was left completely blank.
Thus, when
TD Lingo died, his brother obtained
rights to the property per default.
(Many years later, Lingo's biological
son was discovered living in a
hospital and under the care of
TD Lingo's stepson. It wasn't long
before the biological son died, at
which point all of the land was put
up for sale by developers, and
parceled into a half dozen lots, all
intersected by a new dirt road that
cut through the pristine 250 acre
wilderness after the turn of the
century.)
Named in the only
surviving legal and relevant legal
document was Harmony A. (name
omitted here for privacy), a former
staff member from the early 1970's,
who was named officially the brain
lab's corporate vice president.
Hence, she rose the legal position of
president of the non-profit Adventure
Trails School, TD Lingo's legal
educational entity, upon his
death.
Harmony and I returned to
the mountain together after the
funeral services, and collected all
of Lingo's papers from the lab
together. She insured that I retain
originals of everything for my own
continuing work, besides her own
copies.
In additional to TD Lingo's
library of original manuscripts, I
was awarded a couple of personal
items through the family's lawyer,
Richard Hipp. This included one of
Lingo's guitars and his famous brain
in a jar. I never obtained by any means any other
personal effects of Lingo. Period. The papers were the
important stuff.
Shortly thereafter, Harmony
appointed additional corporate
officers (post Lingo's death) who had
been for the most part absent from
the scene for over a decade.
Together, this spanking new
self-formed legal establishment
finally came to an arrangement with
TD Lingo's estate in their attempt to
gain custody of all of his
intellectual property, i.e. his
writings. It should be noted that I
had already had a great percentage of
these in my possession from ten years
of work with TD Lingo.
Although invited, I declined
to become a corporate board member,
and preferred to continue working
independently without ties or
constraints to any other participants
(truly as Lingo himself had done) and
as I had done all along. The new
corporate board members hadn't really
been on the scene during all of the
years I had been working with TD Lingo
at least since 1982, and I
didn't see any point in creating an
artificial partnership in Lingo's
absence. Any legal entitlement
to any of TD Lingo's works ended
abruptly when the corporation failed
to fulfill the legal requirements of
their corporate status. (It was easy
enough to do- but this newly created
group didn't manage one meeting a
year together on a consistent
basis.)
Within only a couple of short
years, the newly formed corporate
board disintegrated. Poof. So much for "dedicated"
former students- again. In
contrast, my own work grew in
momentum, as it had been while Lingo
was alive and while we worked
together over the previous 11
years.
I do not downplay the
unquestionably significant role that
others played in the Brain Lab before
I arrived, but rather clarify that my
role beginning in 1982 was to fill a
more or less permanent void left as
others departed the mountain for the
most part, never to return again in
any significant role.
In 1995 I created a web site
dedicated to my brain and music work,
"The Amazing Brain Adventure", and it
has now reached millions across the
globe with an average of between
2500-3500 visitors a day which
continues to the present (2019). I've
written and published an additional 10
books, along with 20 audio and music
CDs, and two films- one of which has
inspired an another autobiographical
film produced by an independent Irish
film company.
I've been a guest on internationally
broadcast radio and TV news and talk
shows (link for list) , including
CBS news (Canadian), noted PBS host
Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove's program, as
well as Art Bell and George Noory's Coast To Coast
program discussing brain self-control
and new ideas and methods which I
developed in my own work since
1993.
There was no presence on the
web speaking of the Brain Lab and
TD Lingo besides my own web site until
December 2005, nine full years
after I had created my own site in
1996 dedicated to The Brain Lab,
Lingo, and Brain Self-Control-
and this is borne out by the Internet
Archive records.
No one really cared enough to
even mention his name on their site-
until I started popularizing TD Lingo
and the Brain Lab on an international
stage via my regular appearances on
Art Bell's Coast To Coast Radio show
in 1997. And then- it still took
another 8 years for even one
other person to start catching on
that maybe Lingo and the Lab were
worth writing about online. Of
course- everyone wants to join in on
a winning formula, and take credit
for being a part. Jump on
folks!
THE
SELF-TRANSCENDENCE WORKBOOK
It should, most importantly
be noted, that TD Lingo consciously and
deliberately ABANDONED the
publication of both earlier works as
being obsolete (pre- Self
Transcendence Workbook I papers and
books), as well as the later STW II.
I repeat, Lingo rejected
his own early creative works and
found that manuscripts BEFORE and
AFTER the 1980 Self-Transcended
Workbook Version One HINDERED, rather than helped
the general public in regards to
learning Brain Self Control. So be
it.
I agree with TD Lingo 100%:
These less than perfect papers easily
take people away from what we both
found WORKS BEST. Lewis Carroll
wrote two great books- Alice
and Through the Looking
Glass. His long winded
Meant-To-Be-Opus Sylvie and
Bruno (i.e. STW II and others),
is universally regarded as not worth
one's time.
For the last decade of his
life, Lingo made only one book
available, and that was the 42 lesson
STW Version I, that I continue
to release with permission of his
estate, and with previous knowledge
of the single person to which TD Lingo
granted legal custody of his work,
Harmony A. I consider this to
be his absolute best written work,
concise, to the point, and relatively
simple to grasp (though certainly NOT
the first book I recommend reading on
the subject of Brain Self Control-
for that, I've created other books
that I feel work far better). As for
TD Lingo's own manuscripts, nothing else
outside the STW-I works nearly
as well, and in fact, the other
material can confuse people, and make
matters worse.
Lingo got it as right as he
ever would in STW-I and in a
few choice essays that I've
reproduced and annotated in Cosmic
Conversations. For me,
these are the cream of the crop,
these are his magnum opus. The rest--
passing interest, and at this point
in history, less than useful, viewed
from my 40 years of
teaching.
Although of historical
interest, I (as do others) always
found that TD Lingo's other writings
were hard to interpret and were not
as effective in conveying his
personal core teachings, methods and
direct one-on-one vibe, as it were.
This was exactly the reason I wrote,
with his blessing and help, The
Frontal Lobes Handbook- expanded
with additional original material in
1997 into The Frontal Lobes
Supercharge.
TD Lingo had 35 years to make
his books a success, including STW I.
They did not accomplish or achieve
his goals of widespread Brain
Self-Control Education. In
Lingo's own words, I "stand on the
shoulders, of those who came before
me". I've worked hard to complete the
mission that he set as a goal- making
Brain Self-Control a concept that
vast numbers people can understand
and utilize. These days, roughly
100,000 people a month visit my web
sites.
I do not try to polish a
piece of coal into a mirror, and I do
not try to make something work that
did not work for the general public
for 35 years. I tried to learned from
Lingo's mistakes, and I believe I've
improved upon a method of
communication of these basic concepts
of brain function, brain behavior,
brain education, and brain
self-control.
Never the less, although I
owe a debt of gratitude to TD Lingo for
a decade of friendship and work
together, the bulk of my work is
original, and I make no attempt to
solely capitalize (financially or
otherwise) on the work of
others.
I continue the educational
aspect of Lingo's work which I did in
partnership with him from 1982-1993,
continued distribution of the
original Self-Transcendence Workbook
with the full knowledge and with
permission of the TD Lingo Estate, who
further left in my legal possession
both T.D. Lingo's guitar, his brain
in a jar, and the Lingo Library
archives.
No other papers have been
granted permission of publication by
the Lingo Estate. Any other
manuscripts that may turn up
elsewhere have been released against
the express wishes of the family. Such claims of "Creative
Commons" in regards to such are
patently false and misleading.
The motivation for re-writing
history, for re-writing one's place
in history, is self-evident in the
documents provided
here. And most importantly, most people do
not find these other writings particularly
helpful for a variety of reasons.
There is only one truth, and
that is obtained by examining all of
the evidence, the public record, and
all of the documented
testimony.
In time if others lay claim
to their own self-importance in the
story of TD Lingo and the Brain Lab,
regardless of the inaccuracy of their
reporting and their convenient
amnesia, well, success is always
Xeroxed and siphoned. There will
always be those who hallucinate. To
see my efforts of promoting Lingo's
work alongside my own - copycatted
after so long a time, riding upon
some convenient fibs and twisting of
history- comes as absolutely no
surprise to me at all. I will not be
the last to speak of T.D. Lingo, or
to claim to be a part of this
story.
WHO did what is not nearly as
important as what WAS, what IS, and
what YOU are doing
now.
Names are not terribly
important in the end.
We all will play our own
role, and we all will play different
roles, each important to the
play.
As Lingo himself put it many
times... "Your way is not my way, and
my way is certainly not your
way..."
That's why this stuff is
called Brain
SELF-Control.
Take what you can from the
story-- and make it work for you as
my friends and I have so delightfully
done.
Please continue by examining
photos of a few more examples of
actual correspondence shown
below:
Neil Slade
Updated, January 2019 www.NeilSlade.com
The Amazing Brain Adventure
Typical Business
Correspondence regarding media
relations:
1987 Discussion of Brain Study Group
dropout rate, and media
strategy:
Three letters to "R" (nickname Thunder[hawk]) by
Lingo in 1992 (June, August, and December) , to which he
sent me a copy, so that I would be aware of what was
going on with this particular brain lab failure student,
Lingo heads the third letter with, "Neil, Just to keep
you informed". This may have been precognition on
Lingo's part, because in 2008, "R" was discovered to
have attempted hacking and sabotage of my email, etc as
shown above on this page. (Actually, Lingo uses
his real name in this letter after writing "...little
ronnie's ...infantile narcissistic stuck basic
personality structure..." )
Shortly after that,
"R" partnered with Lion G., using portions of the Self
Transcendence Workbook II that I had supplied him with,
and L.G. was found out trying to claim copyright of that
manuscript in order to gain a publishing deal on the
book, a book which of course he never owned the
copyright to. L.G. went on to fabricate lies
online as revenge for having his plans foiled. Of
course, none of R's, N's, or L.G.'s dishonest
online escapades made any difference to the work I did
then, or since, and likely only fueled more interest in
my web site or otherwise. That's all their own self-made
bad karma to deal with.
Copy
to me, from Lingo to "R", Christmas 1992
regarding his resignation from the
program:
Below is the last letter I ever wrote
to Lingo dated 5/5/93, and discusses wrapping
up production for my Brain Revolutionaries CD
project, to continue to promote via music, my
brain education for the masses via music and
public performances. See his
enthusiastic and positive outlook January
1993 letters to me above.
When
I met others on the mountain for his funeral
service, I was given back the letter and told
it was found next to his bed in the cabin
where he had been found.
By
1989, I had fully integrated the idea of the
Brain Revolution into my own life, and my own
career- the two were one and the
same.
In
1993,
The Brain Revolutionaries was the next
step in sharing Brain Self-Control with the
waiting public at large, and released our
album shortly there after.
Your Amazing Brain Adventure
is a web site all about Tickling Your Amygdala-
i.e. turning on the best part of your brain as easy as clicking on a light
switch. This is done as easily as imagining a feather inside of your head
stimulating a compass, the amygdala. The amygdala is a set of twin organs, a
part of your brain that sits right in between the most advance part of your
brain- the frontal lobes and pre-frontal cortex- and the most primitive part
of your brain- your "reptile brain" and brain stem. By tickling your
amygdala you instantly and directly increase creativity, intelligence,
pleasure, and also make possible a spontaneous natural processes known as
"paranormal abilities", although such things as telepathy and ESP are really
as natural as breathing, or as easy doing simple math in your head. The
ability to self stimulate the amygdala by something as simple as thought has
been proven in laboratory experiments, such as those conducted at Harvard
University research labs, 1999-2009, and can be tracked with modern brain
scanning machines such as fMRI and PET... Indeed, thought is faster than
light.
Other sites of interest:
EasyPaintYourCar.comis a painting site dedicated
to learning how to paint a car yourself, even if you've never painted a car
before. You can refinish your car to professional standards at home, better
than if you take it to someone else, and enjoy doing it at a fraction of the
cost of having it done in an expensive shop. You can repair dents, rust, and
use the most durable real automotive paint, and even learn to apply it
without any special or expensive gear, in a safe and enjoyable manner. Paint
your car in your garage, car port, or even driveway. You can spray, use an
HVLP gun, or even use a roller.
Easy Make A Kindle
and
Your
Own Publishing
are sites about self-publishing and writing, and how any person can publish
materials, print, online, and electronic books. You can drop out of the
corporate slave labor rat race and own your own life by writing and
distributing your own books on the subject that you know best.
InkJetHelper.comis a web site about escaping from
the ridiculous cost of ink jet printer ink refilling- and refilling your
printer for pennies instead of $70 a shot. It also has useful tips about
maintaining ink jet printers, especially Canon brand printers.
Julia Lu
Paintingis
all about the creative works of Chinese painter Julia Lu, a modern master of
oil and water color painting. Julia shares her creative secrets, ideas, as
well as her art work.
