Making it measurable: Body alchemy trial, update

Here is a post from a blogger I enjoy:

Alchemically Brain Damaged

This post is centered around a clip of Ken Wilber relating the link between Science and Metaphysics.

First you need an injunction.

Then you have an experience.

Then you have some sort of confirmation.

The injunction is basically "If you want this to happen-you have to do this."

So then you follow the directions, have the desired experience. Later you confirm it, by peer review, repeatibility, falsifiability etc.

These three steps are the link between Science and Magic.

I am attempting to do magic. This whole blog is centered around an expiriment I am conducting to reprogram my nervous system. So far I have created a Sigil of how I want to transform my body into that of Frazetta's rendition of Conan the Barbarian. Also I have experimented with reprograming my nervous system using techniques I picked up reading "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson and the eight circuit model of consciousness. The part I am interested in is what Wilson called the "metareprogramming circuit, wherby you can reprogram all the other circuits.

I took from this, that if I could become aware of my nervous system, that is make my nervous system "self aware" then I can reprogram it the way I want it to be.

So that is my injunction. I have been studying the mind body connection of various somatypes, endomorph, ectomorph, mesomorph, and studying the intersection between personality and build. The intersection is the endocrine system.

I have been attempting to train my nervous system to behave in the way it would for a classic mesomorph, which should manifest a mesomorphic body.

That is the expiriment. The thing is though, I am more interested in getting big muscles than I am in creating this clearly defined repeatable expiriment. If it works for my selfish goal, I will be happy. But it is such a cool thing to try and do, that it would be great for it to be as scientific and measurable as possible. If I can demonstrate that it works, it can be something really valuable.

I am a few weeks into it and have been having some positive results. I have a photo record. Here are some things I could have done. I could have measured my body fat, and I could have measured my testosterone level. I could still do it, but I am kind of broke, having these things done would cost money and take time. Plus I am part way into it, so the results wouldn't be as dramatic now, as they would have tested out as from the beginning.

I mean I sense my bodyfat is going down and my testosterone level is going up. My belt is in a loop, I feel stonger and more muscular, I have developed a slight acne problem, my countenance has changed, my voice has more base and socially I am more dominant and assertive, less engratiating and people pleasing. And, to be frank,I am thinking about sex more, waking up with an erection and getting erections at odd times not associated with thinking about sex. These are all consistent with an increase in testosterone.

But these are somewhat intangible things. It would be better to be able to point to real numbers like an accurate body fat percentage and serum testosterone level.

This would be even more accurate than somthing I could do, which is measure my weight. Because more dramatic changes can take place than mere weight loss. In fact that is my goal. To look like Conan, I do not simply want to lose weight. I want to change my body composition. I have lost about five lbs. I will probably lose more, but being lightweight like an ectomorph is not the goal. I have a sense that if I got down to 185 with 5% bodyfat, I would be pretty close to the goal. But if I got down to say 165 with that same percentage I would be off the mark.

Another thing is though, that appearance is not the most measurable thing.But maybe that is good because it narrows things down.

One complication I have run into though is that I have this flue like bug that has been going around and I can't shake it.