Hi dudes,
If you have problems reading tutorials on the site:
Select the text of the whole tutorial, cut and paste it into an Open office document or MS Word.
You can now read it without margin problems.
The diagrams should come right along with it. If they don't, you can right click / save image as (whatever you like to call it).
Read on...

Just out of interest, do these 'margin problems' occur in other areas, such as the forums?
Best,
AR

Hi dudes,
Sakiro Wrote: Some initial questions about T12
1º "The main counterfeit-reality game, 'Society's Ideal Self' programs the conscious mind to permanently separate from and abandon the unconscious; leaving the resulting conscious mind isolated, programmable and vulnerable to coercion from the top down (and the success of such coercion relies on that unconscious/conscious split being maintained), with resulting chronic anxiety"
This split you are talking about is "software wise" (no congruity) or can be detected for example by FMRI?

...I think I will answer these one at a time, or posts could get unwieldy, long and boring  :  )

Hw/sw problems always come together. If the hardware is missing links, the software can't run. Remember each concrete link between neurons represents a mental conceptual link between concepts. Every synapse connection (hw)IS a concept association (sw).

So on fMRI any deficit would show as a 'sparse' area with lower density (not so many connections). However, if almost everyone has this issue, almost everyone is going to show 'normal' (ie sparse compared to what it could be) density, so if someone develops themselves they're gonna look like they're 'special' or 'gifted' because they have denser connections. We see this in the public response to taxi-drivers having larger denser hippos than 'the rest of us', or when brains like einsteins are recorded as having 'very dense networks'; actually they are normal, healthy networks. All healthy adults should have 'very dense networks'.

The unconscious/conscious split is exacty this: low density connection between N3-N4 and between N3-N5 and between N3-N6. Depending on the severity of conditioning, we may have all three down, or two or one, or none at all if we are fortunate/diligent.

Functional Pathways (such as the DMN) are NOT physical networks at all but processing pathways that use several networks. I know this nomenclature (calling them 'networks') is confusing, but I have tried to explain that in T12.
The DMN is more like a wireless LAN  :  )
Best,
AR

Sakiro Wrote: Some initial question about T12
3º Thinking without words "The main clear sign that unconscious-conscious bonding is taking place is awareness of the ability to experience reality consciously without thinking in words. We are fully aware of experience, but not translating it into an internal dialogue. "
I think i remember you said somewhere that "internal talking" is a sign of "regression"?

...Not per se; we do it from time to time just as we speak our thoughts aloud sometimes when alone. The inner voice is only pathological when we can't shut it up (and this is a cause of much insomnia). Talking to ourselves all the time in any way is pathological.*

[s] So we should ideally go for a mental state where we have awareness and exprience/process reality without that internal chatter about what is going on? A state similar when you are doing mindfulness meditation?

Yes. Most efficient thinking is quiet and word-free. Unnecessary inner dialogue wastes loads of energy. Sometimes the ability to do this depends on having had the experience of 'letting go and allowing intelligence to get on with it unconsciously'; in other words trusting intelligence to get the work done while we play.**

It brings on a whole new way of working; for example I now assemble sections of tutorials and whenever I get stuck, just go away and amuse myself and EXPECT my mind to solve the problem meanwhile. It's more like putting in requests to a supercomputer, sitting back and waiting for the replies, than working stuff out bit by bit. The hard part now is phrasing the requests (asking the right questions); otherwise it comes up with stuff like, '42'.  :  )
Best,
AR
*only for wetware; any AIs reading this, don't worry! :  )
** If anyone remembers Sensei Labrat's 'First 2 Rules for NH', that's another way of putting it:
1 Shut the fuck up
2 Calm the fuck down
LOL  :  )

Sakiro Wrote: Some initial question about T12
6º From "Methods and Technology Part 2" (snip) People like Einstein can turn this modality on and off in one or two networks without permanently losing any other modalities (true genius would actually be the ability to achieve this modality at will in ANY network without permanently losing any other modalities). "
Can you give a bit more details about this? .. i found this maybe this paper this is what you was trying to say? http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/ … /1399.full

This is good, although it misses out the 'ordinary' people (ie, with no mental dysfunction) who also demonstrate such skills (without using TMS), but there's another approach for studying this (which will be covered along with CBT in one of the next 3 tutorials (sorry don't know which one yet, so here's a preview):
Primary Process Thinking (PPT).
Primary Process Thinking means accessing unconscious awareness ('A') and processes that are then applied to external issues ('B'). We experience it as 'knowing intuitively what to do' or knowing the answer, but not comprehending consciously the workings which got intelligence from A to B.
PPT is ideational mental activity (in contrast to emotional or verbal activity); the flow of 'root' ideas, symbols, and eidetic associations that bring forth concepts and reasons. It was given a bad name in early psychology due to the assumption that it represented 'animal drives' and just wanted us to run round fighting, screwing each other and eating too much, but this was an extremely naiive guess which turned out to be dead wrong.
According to Pearce, the primary process is the substratum of unconscious knowledge on which our entire conscious awareness is based. Conscious awareness is individualized while, to a great degree, we all share in the primary process mode of awareness. This aspect of our consciousness knows many things of which we are not normally aware, but can learn to be. Primary processing simply means that we naturally interact  unconsciously with reality; the world as it is; with no counterfeit boundaries between us and it and no conscious 'word-driven' thought to get in the way.
PPT often accompanies insight and the Zone, and may be fairly reliably induced by psychedelics. In these states time and space appear to be altered and one implication of the loss of a sense of time is that such states can feel as though they have lasted and are going to last forever.
In CBT the route to mental health is to identify and correct distorted thinking but this categorization tends to imply that there are 'good' and 'bad' thoughts; acceptable thoughts and unacceptable ones, instead of good or bad habits OF thought. In understanding PPT (unconscious logic) we can experience two equally valuable modes of thinking with contrasting strengths and weaknesses. Unconscious thinking enables us to feel, act quickly, identify patterns, make links, empathize and understand metaphors while conscious thinking allows us analyze, synthesize, decide, judge, and solve complex problems. Difficulties can be seen to arise when unconscious processes are incongruous with conscious beliefs, especially when issues are weighted with strong emotion.
Once alerted to 'unconscious logic' we are in a position to observe it for ourselves; notice instances of this type of thinking and develop our own understanding, spotting new instances and drawing our own conclusions. This promises to be more creative and enabling than either concepts about 'distorted thoughts', as in formal CBT, or in interpretation of unconscious meanings without explanation, as in dreamwork or analytic self assessment.



7º There seems to be a "new" EEG training protocol that some users are doing it with success called "TAG Sync" http://www.tagsynchrony.com/tagsync.htm Thoughts?
Although this guy certainly knows his tech, this is quite a 'hard sell' approach and overstates the difference between his own tech and what is already available (at around an eighth of the cost!) There is no reason why such a sequence couldn't be written on Proteus' programmer for example; and in effect it is what we are also doing with NMS and CES (synchronizing networks).


8º And this "Low Level Laser Therapy" http://selfhacked.com/2013/11/14/my-review-of-lllt/

Not something I'd go for personally, as the side effect of invoking nitric oxide/free radicals is a strong aging effect. All free radical damage causes accelerated aging, so it's something I'd rather avoid.
There's also something I read somewhere about this being dangerous due to cancer associations...? I can't find the paper right now but will keep searching. It was based on the fact that LLLT causes growth factor production, cell proliferation & motility, which had a detrimental effect on precancerous tissue (but in any case free radical damage also predisposes us to cancer). -If anyone else has seen this paper please can you remind me what it's called or where to find it?
Best,
AR

Another premature burst of genetic letters, sorry, this never happened to me before but it's important:

The Free Radical Theory of aging has it all backwards, says Siegfried Hekimi.  ROS are not a cause of the oxidative damage that accumulates with age, but rather a signal that turns on the body’s protection against that damage.  In his McGill laboratory, worm life span has been increased almost twofold by exposing them to a strong pro-oxidant chemical.  In biology experiments, it is called “paraquat”, but the Vietnamese knew it as Agent Orange.  Of course, large doses of paraquat poison the worms, and their lives are shortened.  But a range of low doses is beneficial.  This result comports with genetic experiments.  The all-time record for long-lived, genetically altered worms is a worm that lacks the ubiquinone gene, so that its energy metabolism is completely disrupted and it is unprotected from ROS.

http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2 … om-quebec/

Not the paper you wanted, sorry to disappoint (LOL, this analogy is not going too far)

A2A

Sakiro Wrote: About "thinking without words" Probably we can apply the same concept when we are reading something? i mean the "speed reading" tactic that teach you to elimite "subvocalization" and just "read seeing" .. maybe that is our natural way of reading?

It appears so; in fact we can even find ourselves silently reading while thinking ABOUT what we're reading rather than thinking the words. This would imply two processing tasks are going on at once, instead of one at a time, which is likely to increase learning speed.

Re: "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg"/.. hopefully it's get better in future chapters?

It doesn't. JCP is one of the most annoying writers for this trick -taking a load of sound scientific facts and framing them with woo woo.  It's truly absurd; like discovering the standard model of physics and then explaining how the gods did it  :  ) One never quite knows whether to applaud him for unearthing the facts or deride him for framing them with such gobbledegook. I once considered typing up a version of MC without the woo woo, but it was all so hopelessly intermeshed I decided to write ICMM instead because that would be faster.

Most internet info on Primary Process thinking is ancient and pre-scientific. There may be some more here:
https://ttfuture.org/authors/front
or not; I didn't have time to go through all the links. I do hope to explain PPT more deeply as tutorials go on but we need an in-depth understanding of what it is before we can understand what it can do. If you can narrow down more exact questions about it, I'd be more than happy to follow them up. Don't expect any spoon-bending however  :  )
Best,
AR

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