In Session 16: Rodrigo

The Lay Psychiatrist observes evolution take a jump

I begin my day by lifting down in the basement, where I combine the intention of a more sculpted body with the intention to continually refine my thinking by straining it through increasingly finer mesh. I don’t have big heavy bars and bells because my training is different now. I wear a weight suit that makes me feel like I am being sucked into a black hole, so heavy and slow I can’t move fast enough to escape. But then comes a surge of energy and I remember to move as if it is not there, until I can bear to be that heavy. When the workout ends, I take it off.

That’s why a man of my size is so light on his feet and turns on a dime.

He said his name was Rodrigo and he wanted an appointment. The man was evolving into a camera. I’m trained in neurolinguistic programming, so I can watch the brain working in the eye movements, and hear it in the verbs. I knew right away that he was taking photographs with his eyes because I could hear the shutter click.

“I see what you’re doing there,” I said. “Where are you storing the images?” “They go to a memory file. I go through them and enhance some of them, discard some of them. Do you mind if I sit in this big yellow chair?” “Be my guest.” The story unfolded. He said he’d first liked the camera because it gave him a way to belong where he was, all the time. He was the photographer. I’ve been the photographer so I know you can make yourself invisible with a camera, just like anybody else who’s just doing a job, your presence is anonymous behind the influence of the camera. “Tell me,” I said, “Do you have an installed NeuroLink?” “How did you know that?” “I can hear the shutter click so you’re morphing into something half man half camera. Did you get it from a reputable source? What did the informational pack say about it?” “I don’t know. It was in Chinese.”

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