The REAL
Story:
T.D.A. Lingo
and
The Dormant
Brain Research
and
Development Laboratory
by Neil
Slade, Assistant to Lingo 1982-1993
BIO: Neil
Slade- is an author of seven books on brain and
behavior including The Frontal Lobes
Supercharge, Tickle Your Amygdala,
and Secret of The Dormant Brain Lab. 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
published by Rowohlt Verlag, and has remained
in print for twenty-one consecutive years.
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.
LINGO'S STORY:
"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!"
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Brain Revolutionary Sarah in
front of Lingo's Home.
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"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
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Addendum 2007-2009 by Neil
Slade
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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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
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 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:
http://www.westword.com/1994-06-01/news/off-limits/
Best Living Tribute to
T.D. Lingo- Neil Slade & the Brain
Revolutionaries:
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2007/12/best_of_denver_winners_from_19_1.php
Newspaper
Cover Story Clip 1 (1999)
Newspaper
Clip 2 (1995)
Newspaper
Clip 3 (1988)
Newspaper
Clip 4 (1990)
Newspaper
Clip 5 (1990)
http://www.westword.com/1998-07-02/news/think/1
( 1998) "Think!" Page
1
http://www.westword.com/1998-07-02/news/think/2 Page
2
Specifically, my work with 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. 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, 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 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, 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.
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 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 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 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
completely spared me of general negative
feelings about others shown in the single
letter show below. None the less, in this
correspondence, perhaps 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 BINC (Brain In Nature
Course), and I worked totally independently
with Lingo during the last decade through to
1993.)
In
regards to poverty, 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.
Below,
a portion of a letter from Feb 1993 to "R"
(BINC student) after resigning from "The Brain
Revolution" because of school sports program
coaching (see Dec. 92 letter bottom of
page):
No
such feelings were ever expressed towards me,
but rather the opposite, from which he never
strayed.
This
letter to me, from the same period, Jan. 1993
(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 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 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
Lingo's eulogy.
In the
presence of two witnesses, Sarah and Nathan R.,
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 absurd claims of a "living
will" continue to be made, the only document
referred to was written in distress by 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! He in
fact never willed anything to anyone at any
time. Although he had ample time to create a
will, all letters and correspondence indicate
he was thoroughly disappointed with the
original staff by 1993. The only note left on
the cover of his Do-It-Yourself Will Kit was
this:
"(blank) em all."
You fill in the blank.
Thus, when 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 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, 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
Lingo's library of original manuscripts, I was
awarded a couple of personal items through the
family's lawyer, Richard H.. This included one
of Lingo's guitars and his famous brain in a
jar.)***
Shortly thereafter, she 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 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
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 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
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 and lost
all of its legal status. 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.
http://www.westword.com/1998-07-02/news/think/2
"Think!"
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
(2011). I've written and published an
additional 8 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'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 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 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!
Another former student (L.G.) spent a
total of six weeks in 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, at one
point he notoriously claimed copyright to one
of Lingo's later manuscripts while nobody was
looking, but was eventually discovered. He once
claimed owning "The only known copy of this
workbook".
Turns
out, key missing parts of this manuscript which
he never had himself, came directly from me at
his request. He very conveniently "forgot" that
it was in fact myself who supplied him with
missing chapters to the
manuscript.
The
correct history is that Lingo himself had
refused a partnership with this individual in
his previous attempt to gain control of the
manuscript. The posthumous publishing attempt
was later halted by the Lingo estate as being
undesirable and was completely
refused.
Of
course, once this character was caught red
handed-- well, you can imagine vitriol he
concocted with his reptile brain. Although you
might find these comments in a dank online
sewer someplace, no legitimate webmaster will
post it.
In my
archives I have some amusing and
enlightening personal letters from
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 deep 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 Lingo from
1979 onward? Helping him with classes?
Publicity? Publishing? Press
clips?
Nope. Zero. Make your own
call.
It
should, most importantly be noted, that 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 HINDERED, rather than
helped the general public in regards to
learning Brain Self Control. So be
it.
I
agree with 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 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 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 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.
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
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 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
sole legal copyright holders, i.e. The Lingo
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.
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 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.
I was
certainly only a little tiny piece of the
pie.
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
2011
www.NeilSlade.com
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Music Adventure
From
Oct. 1992 Meeting regarding youth oriented
Brain Music which I had begun with two of my
advanced students:
Lingo's Own Press Release
Sent Fall 1989:
Typical Business Correspondence
regarding media relations:
1987 Discussion of Brain Study Group dropout
rate, and media strategy:
Self-Explanatory- Typical Ongoing
Problems Motivating Others Into Action, to "R"
(nickname Thunder---"):
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.
The
Amazing Brain Music Adventure went online
in 1996- and all those dedicated and
involved have kept looking forward ever
since.
Lingo's last correspondence to me,
late January 1993, complete, shown
below.
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