What Is E.C.C.O.?
E.C.C.O. is an abbreviation that stands for Earth Coincidence Control Office.
The name comes from a book written by John C. Lilly, the dolphin communication researcher.
“I was a Prada-suit motherfucker. I was running a limousine company. But when the last financial crisis hit, I lost all my lines of credit and the whole thing came apart. I felt too old to start again. My wife would come home from work and find me still in my pajamas, reading magazines and newspapers. This was in August—when school really starts to crank up. So I kept seeing these articles about underfunded schools: no art, no gym, no music. My kids went to private school, so these conditions were hard for me to imagine. It seemed sensational. So one morning I got on the subway and took it to 135th street in Harlem. I couldn’t have been more arrogant. I walked through the doors of the first elementary school I could find, asked for the principal, and said: ‘I’m here to try to break the cycle of poverty.’ She assigned me to the lunchroom, and that’s where I started volunteering five days a week. I was just going from table to table, talking to the kids. But they gravitated toward me. They listened to me. They called me ‘Mr. Tony.’ At home I was just ‘Dad.’ I was kinda a dick. I was old news. But Mr. Tony was bigger than Barack Obama. These kids loved the shit out of me. I had nothing to give, nothing to promise. But they acted like I was Santa Claus. Each one of them reminded me of my own kids. It was the exact same goofiness. So when I learned that almost half of them were living in homeless shelters, that shit drove me crazy. It tore me up. I was looking for some way to help-- anything. Across the street from the school was an old community garden that had been abandoned. It was full of junk: car over here, engine over there. The kids called it the ‘haunted garden,’ cause it was nothing but cats, rats, and scary old people. So I contacted the Parks Department. I did the paperwork. I got the license and the key. Then I started hauling out the junk, one piece at a time. It took me six weeks. The kids kept asking me what I was planning to do, but I had no idea. Then one morning a little girl tugged on my shoulder. A tiny little thing with glasses so big. Her name was Nevaeh. ‘Heaven’ spelled backwards. And she said: ‘Mr. Tony, why don’t we plant something?
I knew nothing about gardening. But I knew how to google, so I looked up some easy stuff to plant. Turns out it’s hard to mess up herbs. So I went to the clearance rack at Home Depot and got some herbs. All of the soil was contaminated, so I backed up a dump truck full of organic soil. Nevaeh’s kindergarten class came out and planted the first seedlings. There wasn’t much structure in the beginning. A lot of times I’d just sit around with the kids and look at clouds. But over time the garden became a sort of outdoor science classroom. All of us were learning together. If something died, we’d just try a new spot. We learned about worms, and lady bugs, and praying mantises. Then we learned about food systems. I couldn’t help but notice the diets of these kids: all sugar and processed food. Some of them couldn’t name a single vegetable. But how could you blame them? There are 55 fast food restaurants in this community, but not a single supermarket. So we started growing vegetables in our garden. Not all of the kids were into it. But in every class there would be two or three— who were always around, and involved. Nevaeh was one of those kids. She came to all the camps. She came on the nature walks. She just stuck to me. At first her mother was skeptical, but she could see the consistency. And soon she was bringing Nevaeh to work with me in the garden on weekends. In the beginning Nevaeh was sorta quiet, and off to the side. But over time she took ownership of the garden. Those became her plants, not mine. Whenever volunteers came to help with composting-- Nevaeh would take the lead. And if you were doing it wrong, she’d grab that rake right out of your hands. Ten years have passed since we planted that first garden. And Harlem Grown has expanded to 12 different urban farms. 6,000 lbs of organically grown products have been given to the community free of charge. But the plants are just a byproduct. We’re trying to grow healthy children. But not just children. All of us are learning together. Today our most important employee is Nevaeh’s mom. She’s learned more about gardening than any of us. And she’s the Agricultural Director of all our farms.
When you sit in this garden on a summer day—you hear things. There are fourteen homeless shelters within a four-block radius. So when it’s hot outside, and the windows are open, you can hear the stress of poverty. Sometimes mothers will yell at these kids like they’re grown men. They’ll call them names. They’ll tell them: ‘you can’t,’ and ‘you won’t.’ And after awhile the kids start to believe it. When they first come into this garden— they’re so freakin’ happy. Especially the really young ones. But at the end of the day, they’ll say: ‘I’m going home.’ And home means shelter. It’s an epidemic, man. 115,000 kids in this city are living in shelters. It’s a freakin’ epidemic. But it’s invisible. You’d never know these kids are homeless, because they’re so happy. But something happens around 9, 10, 11. I see it all the time. Those eyes dim, man. It’s just life. There’s too much stress around here. And they grow up fast. They lose that light. I just want to slow it down, that’s all. I want them to have a safe place where they can just be them. That’s all any of us want, right? To slow it all down so we can find out who we are? I was such an arrogant motherfucker when I first came here. I was unhealthy. I was 52 lbs heavier. I was depressed. My entire life was about things and money. I was doing it all wrong. Yet I came to this school thinking I knew all the answers. I thought I was going to fix these kids. But they were so fucking happy, and I wasn’t. They didn’t need to become like me. They needed to stay like them. It hurts my heart to say, because it means I’m getting old—but Nevaeh is all grown up now. She’s sixteen. Straight A student. Honor roll up and down. I still do my best to help her whenever I can. Recently she had a C in math, so I said: ‘Let’s find you a private tutor, I’ll pay for it.’ But she wouldn’t let me. She grabbed the rake out of my hand. She said: ‘No Mr. Tony, I got this myself.’ And she got a 93 on that final. She was the tiniest little thing when I met her. With glasses so big. But even back then she had everything she needed. It just required a little protection. And a little time. She just needed some space to grow.”
From Humans Of New York
How To Become An Agent Of E.C.C.O.
The Big Question: What Do You Want To Serve?
How to make yourself light enough, versatile enough, interesting enough, available enough, and liquid enough that when E.C.C.O. has a job for which you fit their specifications, they can snap you up, move you into a different gameworld, and give you work to do that serves the evolution of consciousness.
Light Enough?
Versatile Enough?
Interesting Enough?
Available Enough?
Liquid Enough?
Your Box defends its sovereignty by claiming to know.
Learning anything new challenges your Box’s dominion.
Since Boxes defend their territory with a vengeance, your first step in learning is to unlearn, to dismantle the certainty with which your Box paints its interpretations over your direct experience of the world.
Adopting unlearning as part of your daily practice keeps you liquid enough that E.C.C.O. can move you during the course of your daily life. The Experiments offered below on this website are useful resources for further unlearning.
E.C.C.O. Experiments
Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.01
Come together in your Team (for example, your Study Group, S.P.A.R.K. Experiment Circle, Research Team, Possibility Team, Whole Permaculture Team, Rage Club, Fear Club, 3 Cell, Safe Circle, Riftwalker Team, Edgeworker Team, Growness Team, Trainer Path Team, Whole Permaculture Team, New Refugees Circle, Village Seeds Circle, Earth Guardians Circle, Village Weavers Circle, Evolutionaries Circle, Gameworld Builders Circle, Possibility Coaches Circle, Possibility Mediators Circle, Possibility Psychologists Circle, Memetic Engineers Circle, Magus Training Circle, etc. )
Spend 30 minutes in silence together and write into your Beep! Book as clearly and specifically as you can all of the amazing coincidences that have resulted in you being there at this Team meeting now.
Then ask each person who would like to, to read what they wrote. While you listen to other people's life change points, try to get into contact with the subtle miraculous nature of such coincidences working out:
Try to picture a General Field of Consciousness that is so complex and intelligent that it could cause such incredible coincidences to work out for everyone all over Earth all at the same time...
Try to picture the series of coincidences being worked out for all of your ancestors so that you could be alive now...
What does this do to you? How do you fit this into your worldview?
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This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.02
In your next Team meeting, select a Spaceholder, create an Extraordinary meeting Context, and have a Discovery Speaking conversation to discover and list all the ways human beings can block beneficial coincidences personally, professionally, organizationally, and culturally.
Then invent and list ways to counteract E.C.C.O. and cut the flow between you, your life, your projects, and E.C.C.O.'s intentions for the evolution of consciousness.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.03
In your next Team meeting, select a Spaceholder, create an Extraordinary meeting Context, and have a Discovery Speaking conversation to discover and list all the ways human beings can amplify, stay open to, and receive all of E.C.C.O.'s beneficial coincidences personally, professionally, organizationally, and culturally.
Then invent and list ways to establish rapport and flow between you, your life, your projects, and E.C.C.O.'s intentions for the evolution of consciousness.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.04
In your next Team meeting, select a Spaceholder, create an Extraordinary meeting Context, and have a Discovery Speaking conversation to discover and list all the moves E.C.C.O. makes to work in people's lives. What are the strategies E.C.C.O. uses to get people's attention, the tricks it uses to move people elegantly from here to there, the clues it drops in plain sight to jolt people into wakefulness?
Then, discover the particular ways that E.C.C.O. speaks to you. Use your team to find out which of E.C.C.O.'s moves you are already aware of, and which you probably ignore in your life.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.05
In your next Team meeting, go around your Circle one person at a time and each time have a Scribe for that person. (The Team Scribe is someone volunteering to document what is said in fast, legible handwriting.) Use your full group intelligence to have the Scribe write down the following 3 things in that person's Beep! Book:
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This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.06
Go for an E.C.C.O. walk for one hour. Your starting point is your home in your city or village, not out in a forest or nature.
For an hour, do not let your mind decide where to walk. Let ECCO tell you to turn left, right, knock on a door, talk to different people and walk into shops and buildings that you would not normally enter unless ECCO tells you. Follow the impulses.
Try to look past your Assumptions, Expectations, Beliefs, Conclusions, Positionality, Prejudices, Judgements, and Projections, to see what opportunities are happening. See what you are enabled to be in service of, with what is presented to you. What is E.C.C.O. showing you? Inside of these buildings and shops or during your conversations with people, find out why E.C.C.O. brought you there.
Take notes of what you Notice.
Do not beat yourself up. Just Notice. Let your 5 Bodies integrate. Celebrate. Let the Noticing do its work.
In the following days, let E.C.C.O. tell you the moment to write about this walk. Then, write an article about what the essence was. What stayed with you? Let E.C.C.O. tell you what to do about this.
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This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.
Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.07
In your next Team Meeting, hold space for each person to build their very own, personalized E.C.C.O. Impulse Detector. An E.C.C.O. Impulse Detector is an energetic tool that you fit onto yourself that lets you know when you are receiving an impulse from E.C.C.O.
For this experiment, split up into pairs. One person is the client, the other is the Spaceholder. The Spaceholder walks the client through the following steps:
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.08
The world is abundant in forces and resources that want to support and propel your evolutionary journey forward. One access point for such resources is to take a Journey into the Earth. Before taking a Journey into the Earth, read the entire Journey Into The Earth website so that you get the precise instructions for the process.
Prior to journeying into the Earth, you must have a question that you will carry with you—a genuine, authentic necessity about which you need next steps. For this experiment, your question will be something along the lines of, "How can I become a better agent of E.C.C.O.?" After you ask this question, just listen. What do you need to change? What practices do you need to adopt? What do you have to create? Who do you have to go meet? Where do you need to travel?
Be sure to write down everything exactly as it comes to you.
When the journey is over, start taking next steps immediately. Do not wait.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.09
This experiment requires you to use your Conscious Fear. Do not try to hide or suppress your Conscious Fear as you engage in this experiment.
Scroll down your contact list and ask E.C.C.O. to tell you where to stop it. The person who is under your thumb, call them up and say "E.C.C.O. told me to call you. What do you need to tell me?"
Thank them for their message, whatever it is. Make it a fifteen-minute call.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.10
Go to the downtown area of whatever place you are living in, put out a basket as if you are beginning, and then put up a sign that says, "Begging For Ideas." When people stop to engage with you, say to them, "Please give me ideas about what we can do to..." and then finish the sentence as you speak. For instance, you might finish the sentence with "...improve the city," "...stop climate change," "...help people discover what is possible with transformation," "...get people to quit their day jobs and instead pursue lives of adventure."
Have a notepad, and as people begin to speak, write whatever they say on the notepad. When the finish speaking, tell them, "Thank you," tear out the sheet of paper, and place it in the basket.
At the end of your time on the street, collect all of the ideas together and write them in an article that you publish somewhere online where others can access it.
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This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.
Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.11
For your next project or venture, instead of going the traditional route of asking people to join your team, rely on E.C.C.O. to help with the teambuilding.
To do this, simply say aloud: "Hello E.C.C.O. I am looking for two teammates to build this project [say exactly what the project is]. Please send me two possible collaborators in the next week."
Then, during the next week, tune your E.C.C.O. Impulse Detector to extra-sensitive. Notice new people who show up in your world. When a stranger makes eye-contact with you, rather than letting it go by, check it out. Ask them who they are. Tell them about your experiment. Do not miss the signals.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.12
Whether you know it or not, one of the chief places E.C.C.O. is at work in your life is in your relationships and intimacy. The people who are around you now are the people E.C.C.O. placed around you. Looking more closely at these relationships will give you hints about projects, collaborations, and connections that you might be blocking.
Start by drawing a diagram of the people that E.C.C.O. has arranged for you to be in contact with. To do this, first place a dot in the middle of a blank piece of paper. This dot is you. Then draw a layer of dots around 'you' to represent the people who are closest to you now. Then do another layer and another layer, collecting together and diagramming 20 or 30 of your closest connections.
Next, take a look at three of these connections and notice how you are blocking them. Say to yourself, "E.C.C.O. put this guy close to me because E.C.C.O. is trying to orchestrate situations and interactions for evolution. How am I blocking evolution from happening here? How am I getting in the way? What am I missing? What does this guy have for me?"
When you have discovered what you have to discover, reach out to each of these three connections and start a conversation to discover what E.C.C.O. might have for you and how you might serve evolution together.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.13
Start by going to KIVA, a fantastic microfinance nonprofit organization that connects you with and allows you to lend money to people from all across the globe.
When you arrive at the KIVA site, begin browsing through the different people and different projects, and let E.C.C.O. choose for you who you lend your 25 Euros to. After you lend the money, reach out to the person directly and find out what E.C.C.O. is up to. What message is E.C.C.O. trying to send in connecting you to this person? Why would you be attracted to them?
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.14
For this experiment, you become E.C.C.O.'s scribe. Sit down with a pen and your Beep! Book and begin writing a poem from E.C.C.O. Sense into the heart of E.C.C.O. and let this push your pen. Start with the words, "I am E.C.C.O., and I want to make the world better."
Publish your completed E.C.C.O. poem online in a public platform so that everyone can benefit from the words you have received from E.C.C.O.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.15
Have a potluck dinner dedicated to E.C.C.O. Start by reaching out to between ten and twenty people. Invite them to the potluck dinner, but before they agree to come, encourage them to read through this entire website at least one time. Then, ask them to each ask E.C.C.O. what they should bring, who they should invite, who they should talk to at the potluck, and what they should talk about. Find out what E.C.C.O. cooks up for everybody.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.16
At your next dinner party, conference, or seminar, use E.C.C.O. to scan for who you should talk to next. Your Box will scan for people who your Box is already comfortable talking to. Your Gremlin will scan for people's Gremlins who will get up to the same Gremlin intimacy as your Gremlin does. Suspend these types of scanning completely. Instead, say to yourself, "E.C.C.O., show me who to talk to," and then look around the room.
As soon as you get the impulse, without knowing what is behind it, move toward that person and begin your conversation.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.17
Go to a park and do some unusual activity like flying a kite, practicing cartwheels, juggling two or four different fruits, doing the crab walk across the grass, reading a poem aloud, walking around knitting, etc.
As you do your activity, stay open and see who comes by. Whenever anyone nears you or opens up conversation, assume that E.C.C.O. has just sent them your way, and it is your job to discover why. Find out who this person is, what they are up to, why they came to connect with you, and what it might be that E.C.C.O. wanted to you to know, see, or discover about each other.
Do this activity in the park until you encounter at least one other person.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.18
Let yourself get crazy enough that you dedicate one half a day each week for one month to E.C.C.O. What does this mean? It means that instead of filling that day with plans and activities and scheduled items, you leave half of it for E.C.C.O. to move you wherever E.C.C.O. moves you.
Maybe you lie on the ground somewhere and wait until the impulse to move emerges from you. Or lie on the ground somewhere reading the article "The Difference Between Being and Doing Nothing is Thoughtware" by Anne-Chloé Destremau.
Maybe you go out your front door with a single matchstick, throw it up into the air, and whichever direction the match head points in, you walk that way for 10 minutes, then throw the matchstick again, walk again, through the matchstick again, and walk again, on and on until 4 hours have passed.
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Matrix Code ECCOxxxx.19
Read the Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. Notice the endless stream of E.C.C.O. moments that lead the main character from one person to the next, one place to the next, one insight to the next.
Then, take a look at your own life. Where are you now? How did you get here? See if you can connect the dots backwards. Notice the synchronicities and coincidences that took you from the moment when you started your journey to this moment now with you sitting here reading this experiment.
The next step will take some time: Write your own Celestine Prophecy. What were the key moments, insights, incidents that you could never have planned that caused life to work out in the way it did such that you are where you are right now? You may not have told your story through the lens of E.C.C.O. before. This may be very Box-expanding Experiment. Take your time. Be thorough. Weave yourself a new story about the adventure you have been on.
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