I'm guessing we've all read some books on metaprogramming. Some of us have probably experimented with 'metaprogramming' technologies and such. I'm just curious as to what peoples ideas are about what metaprogramming and, more especially, re-imprinting ARE...

After several years of meditation, bodywork, NLP, various ritual experiments, and a relatively small handful of slightly haphazard exogenous chemical ingestions, plus a few other bits and bobs (trying out almost any 'technique' that comes my way, and devoting a large chunk of my thinking to such subjects)... this is still a very puzzling topic to me. My 'experiments' have definitely had a deeply profound impact on my 'brain' and my life. Meditation and bodywork have taught me how to mediate my autonomic nervous system and manage + purify my emotions as well as tune and access my senses. NLP and other stuff has taught me how to shift my perceptions by changing my beliefs and conceptual frameworks and structures. Entheogens, Ritual & Meditation have taught me about evoking, invoking, & exploring various energies, emotions and archetypes. The sum total of the above is far greater perceptual and behavioural flexibility. Yay+.

Perhaps my gripe here is my memory of reading Tim Leary's Info-Psychology. He asserts that theres imprinting and conditioning, and theres a difference between the two... that conditioning takes ages and unless reinforced will eventually crumble back to the previous imprint. Imprinting & Re-Imprinting & Selective Re-Imprinting are instantaneous one-time major shifts in the brain, that are permanent.

This has been the exact opposite of my experience... my most 'permanent' changes seem to have largely resulted from long-terms practises such as meditation. e.g. several years ago i was almost constantly highly anxious and depressed, neophobic, stuck in an intellectual prison with very few friends. Today its a rare thrill to get anxious or depressed or lost deep in abstraction - i.e. years of continuous practice seems to have remoulded my 'brain' on what seems to be a relatively deep and permanent level. In contrast the few experiences i might consider to be 'imprinting' from my techniques seem to be highly situation dependent (much like a few strong interwoven anchors in NLP), that seem to be relatively easy to adjust or to fade over time... not 'one minute i'm a paranoid edgy conspiracy theorist, *BOOM* suddenly i'm a docile ecstatic hare krishna forever until the next boom.' which is the image i get from Leary and some of RAW's articulations of meta-programming & re-imprinting.

I thought maybe I just haven't done enough 'chemicals' to understand where they're coming from there, but talking to some magician-metaprogrammer friends who have done a lot more at much higher doses... they seem to be even more skeptical of Leary's re-imprinting theory.

So tell me friends... is anyone here using their brain in what timothy leary suggested was the most intelligent way - regular selective serial re-imprinting?
Or had even had any experiences that convincingly back up imprint-theory in all its sensational glory?