It was Lingo's contention that most of us are using barely a trickle of our frontal lobes but can be taught how to do much, much better. For him, this meant everything from super-genius intelligence to multiple orgasms at will, with or without a partner.
As far as Neil Slade can tell, however, humanity is doing its level best to ignore all of this valuable research. "Drive around Cherry Creek North for three minutes," he suggests. "You'll see nothing but reptile brain. Our culture is saturated with it. Western civilization is ultra-reptilian and switched backward."
The few who've learned to switch forward--to unlock the neurological gateways of their frontal lobes--are the people who interest Neil. "They begin to have increasing amounts of paranormal experience. Precognition, clairvoyance, telepathies. They discover," he says, "that doing something like making a cloud disappear at will is a conscious decision."
While working as a music teacher and recording the occasional original CD, Neil kept wondering how to reach the sort of folks who might be open to his revelations and the teachings he'd learned from Lingo. He finally found his audience late last year through Coast-to-Coast With Art Bell, the show that airs six nights a week--for six hours--on KHOW/630AM and hundreds of other stations across the country.
"To be honest," Neil says, "his show is sort of a circus, although I don't mean that in a derogatory sense. He gets the extremes. People having sex with aliens, a woman who has had dreams that Colorado is going to be the next Pacific coastline. But the show is very popular. It's the X Files connection. There's a huge interest in the unexplainable. And no matter how far out and crazy Art gets, he's always diplomatic and cordial, unlike most other talk-show hosts."
Neil wrote to Bell, proposing himself as a guest. Bell had him on for the first time last December--and his audience seemed to respond. For weeks afterward, Neil says, his homemade "Amazing Brain Music Adventure" Web site was getting a thousand hits a day, and through the Internet he began selling copies of old albums and self-published "brain" books he hadn't dusted off in years. The time was right.
"Oh yes," he says, "TD Lingo could only dream of this. In fact, it was his dream."
Last month Neil sent Art Bell his backyard cloud-busting video, on which he introduces himself, runs through a quick brain tutorial and then concentrates on two small clouds until they dissolve--whether because of the power of Neil's forward-clicked primal lobe or because of prevailing winds remains unclear. In any case, Art Bell liked it enough to book Neil as a return guest and to agree to the experiment he proposed.
And so shortly before midnight on July 7, Neil Slade will teach fifteen million listeners how to click into their primal lobes. Then, as a group, they'll concentrate on some aspect of the weather. "Probably we'll do rain," he says. "We'll find a place that really needs some, like Florida. And this isn't a parlor game. If you do it just for fluffy entertainment, that's no good."
Instead, they'll do it to cure a drought. And will they?
"I don't know," Neil says, "but the ramifications are so important. It has never happened before.
"Think! When Microsoft and GM grok the concept of using 90 percent of the brain, well, they will say: This is good for business. I tell you what, I'd watch the stock market the day after the show. I definitely would. Until now, everything I've done has been little and local. Not this," he concludes. "This is big.
