Advertisement. Abridged from ‘A Fish Doesn’t Know He’s Wet’. NEAF Online Press. September 2007. Vol. 5, Issue 2. Reprinted with permission. The New England Alphabiotic Foundation.
Professionals In Focus
(The Sequel. The Remarkable New Findings. Answering The Critics.)
Dr. Neal Robert Smookler
“It takes just a few minutes to complete and can be only
described as breathtaking”, says Dr. Neal Smookler. What
Smookler is so enthusiastic about is the concept that the brain
can somehow ‘refresh’ itself in much the same way as one would
‘refresh’ a page in your web browser.
“Inside your head is a physical triggering mechanism that enables
the brain to reboot itself as you’d reboot your home computer. I want
to be very clear; it’s not there by accident. You’re hard wired by Mother
Nature that way. I was trained fifteen years ago to know where the
mechanism is located, and exactly how to activate it.”
There is an adulation you hear in Smookler’s voice for the profes-
sion he so adores — Alphabiotics, that onomatopoetically constructed
word that reflects the actual process.
“I’m more excited today — as the message is now pregnant with
possibility. It’s a message that I adore with all my heart and soul (as
it’s a bit of my soul.)”
If words like adoration and love seem a bit strange in discussing
one’s profession, we need only take a few steps back to understand.
Smookler has spent the better part of the last decade-and-a-half
helping Dr. Virgil Chrane bring forth a remarkable new profession.
Smookler’s work is cutting edge and old fashioned. Profound, yet
essentially simple. Complete and still evolving. This is the dichotomy
Alphabiotics presents upon even the most casual of observation.
Alphabiotics is not widely known by virtue of its radical simplicity. The core of the process continues to elude definition. Many have
studied it, but no one has managed to pin down it’s remarkable essence.
As long as the world adores complexity and revels in figuring out the
secrets of the universe, this message will be dismissed as pedestrian by
many and only heard by a few.
“It’s also incredibly easy to do — as there are no rigid protocols
nor special rules to follow. That’s a refreshing new wrinkle for most”,
quips Smookler.
“I once overheard an acquaintance state that the entire profession
is nothing more than another ‘California fad’. To this very day that
observation befuddles me. When the cover story of the May 7, 2001
Newsweek is ‘God And The Brain. How We’re Wired For Spirituality’
— we can be relatively certain the phenomenon isn’t just another
burgeoning fad.”
This is a message that comes out of a mystery. But there’s no
need to flower up the mystery — it’s a mystery that works. So I’ll state
the core message to those who will hear it. “Alphabiotics is a simple
way to liberate volumes of latent resource in order to address any
limitation. The Alphabiotic method triggers a fundamental shift which
results in an major and massive release of unconscious cumulative
shock — and in the process frees up reserves to resolve vastly complex
problems with stunning simplicity.”
My first time. A huge grin spreads ear to ear as Smookler
recalls a symposium he attended almost two decades ago. “Before
breaking for the evening, the instructor invited anyone who wanted
the experience of the ‘refresh’; the opportunity to receive just that ... it
was kismet.”
“I lay down while nervously awaiting my turn, all the while
trying not to knock over the bowls of hard candy and pitchers of ice
water. (We were in a hotel conference room). Then, without so much
as an explanation, the instructor performed the ‘refresh’. No warning.
No preparation. No primer. It was very brief, so brief in fact that I
wasn’t sure what to make of it.”
“I got up and I was, uh ... humming. Not musically mind you.
Vibrationally. I was literally resonating at a different frequency — what
I can only describe as an insulated cocoon of warmth, openness and
peace. It was as if my personal light switch had been flipped back on.”
“My body literally unwound from the full body ‘corkscrew’ of
worry and tension it had been in. It was the only time in my life where
I actually felt as if I was growing younger; that was dumbfounding
(still is) ... but very cool.”
“I felt like my brain, my entire body had been somehow re-set,
providing me with a clean slate and an instantly recognizable sense
that I was safe, that everything was okay.”
“I went from a state of absolute chaos to one of order. The dark
cloud, the heaviness lifted.”
“It was kind of like shaking up a snow-globe that then re-settles
more orderly; a welcome breather from the unyielding daily grind (we
were in a dismal recession back in ‘91.) It was escapism; metaphoric
Valium, Xanax and Prozac — but without all the bad. It felt quite
freeing within seconds; like nothing I had ever known — an immediate and tangible shift in awareness.”
“To reference that pop culture personage, Austin Powers; I got
my ‘Mojo’ back. In fact, I have a photo in my office with a reference
to same.
“This is different. This is different. This is different. That’s all I
could think. I couldn’t wrap my educated mind around the depth of
what had just transpired.”
“It was only years later that I understood that very depth. Today, I
believe this to be the safest and easiest way for the average person in an
busy world to achieve a respite, a welcome suspension from the drivel
and blather of contemporary living. To know at the deepest place they
are still, present and consequential. What more could a person want?”
One participant said it best; ‘This feels like true help. It cuts
right to the chase.’
A world first. In 1971 Dr. Chrane made history. With a simple
hands-on process he was able to restore whole-brain function. He
found that a specific movement of the head could do more good for
a person in ninety seconds than just about any other single act. His
discovery has to rank amongst the most important of this century.
“Quite a statement, I know.”
“It’s based upon the same fundamental principle as rebooting a
computer, explains Smookler. With the participant lying face up on a
specially designed table, a trained facilitator (alphabioticist) performs
a unique movement of the head, alternately from each side of the table
(to address both hemispheres).”
“Gently, the participant receives a high level, but non-threatening
(that’s key) sensory input. Think metaphorically along the lines of
hitting a re-set button. It sounds dramatic, but there aren’t any jolts or
