PROPERTIES OF SUBCONSCIOUS PATHS

Before moving on to discussing how to actually charge subconscious paths, I’d like to first cover two important properties of paths that I believe are useful to be aware of. Now given that subconscious paths are just an ordered series of subjects or categories, the properties of paths are actually not all that different from subjects and categories themselves, as you may have suspected. However, the first property of subconscious paths I’d like to discuss is actually one that doesn’t really apply to a single subject or category by itself. This is the property of distance or length. In spite of how abstract many of these concepts of the subconscious are, subconscious paths actually do have a sense of distance to them. This represents how long the subconscious path is. For example, your subconscious can be charged to compel you through a dance sequence that has 5 steps or one that has 1000 steps. Clearly the 1000 step path has a much larger "distance" to it than the 5 step path. Similarly your subconscious can be charged to compel you to sing along to a 2 minute song or a 10 minute one. Clearly the subconscious path for the 2 min song is much shorter than the subconscious path for the 10 minute song.

An important property about shorter subconscious paths is that they tend to charge faster than longer subconscious paths. In fact the shorter the path is, the faster you will be able to charge it. And conversely, the longer the path is the longer it will take to charge it. This makes sense since subconscious charging occurs by repeating the same subconscious action, while in a transcendental state and focused on some main subject or category, over and over again. In the case of a subconscious path, you’d want to do this while your mind is, in a sense, traveling that subconscious path over and over again in order to charge it. For example when you charge your subconscious to remember a sequence of dance steps, you would generally do this by performing that sequence over and over again until you’re able to remember the full sequence without even giving much effort from your conscious mind to do so. Reaching this point would indicate that you’ve charged a subconscious path whose compulsions guide you through the dance routine. Now the more dance steps there are in a routine, the longer it will take for you to reach this point of automatic remembering with little conscious effort. For example a dance routine with a 1000 steps would take a lot longer to perform, and therefore a lot longer to repeat over and over again, than a dance routine with only 5 steps.

          Clearly you’d be able to charge the subconscious path for the 5 step routine much faster than you could the path with the 1000 step routine. A similar thing could be said about how long it will take for you to easily memorize a 2 minute song vs a 10 minute song. Thus the shorter the distance of the subconscious path, the faster the subconscious path will charge. In my experience, I haven’t found much use for long subconscious paths and generally charge my subconscious for transcendental performance using many relatively short paths. This will make more sense as we continue our discussion on paths throughout the chapter. One last thing I wanted to mention about paths as it relates to distance is that they can even be thought of as having a kind of shape to them too. Specifically they can have a circular shape in some instances. When a song is stuck in your head, it’s actually because the last subject in the path redirects your attention back to the first subject making up the path, or at least an earlier subject in the sequence making up the path. Thus you will feel a continuous urge to sing in a way that loops itself around over and over again endlessly – which is why the song is stuck in your head. This path is only broken when you either resist the urge to think according to that path’s compulsion or by subconscious entropy – which, of course, does still occur with subconscious paths too.

          The second property of subconscious paths I’d like to discuss has to do with their energy component and involves what happens when these paths become charged up. Again since paths are just a series of subjects or categories, the properties of charging them are going to be very similar to the properties of charging a single subject or category. For example as discussed many times previously, it was mentioned that all of your transcendental mental abilities are used to some degree whenever your subconscious charges at all. This in turn means that you will usually feel some emotion somewhat strongly whenever you’re using your transcendental abilities. Well this principle also applies to subconscious paths. When you’re using a path to perform at a transcendental level, you will usually feel some emotion rather strongly as you do. Furthermore the more charged up the path, the more intensely you’ll be able to express your transcendental mental abilities as your mind traverses this path. One interesting difference though between a single subject or category and a path has do with frequency. The energy component of some positive memory will generally only have one main subconscious frequency charged up in it. Although it can contain more than one, you would normally just focus on charging one at a time if you're charging for the purpose of emotion. This is because charging more than one frequency at the same time would likely just dilute how strongly you experience any one, thus defeating the purpose of the charge.

          This is not necessarily the case with subconscious paths however since your attention does a lot of moving around between different subjects and contexts as it travels through the paths. This traveling tends to create a relatively emergent phenomenon in subconscious memory structure which allows you to experience different frequencies at different points in the path. This is useful for transcendental performance since I may want to quantize my subconscious at different frequencies during some activity. For example if I want to become a conversationalist and perform in engaging conversation at a transcendental level, I may want to be more funny at some points in the conversation, more confident at other points and then simply more excited at others. This last quality is because excitement, like laughter, can be very contagious due to the reflection principle. So if I can demonstrate excitement through my delivery – which relies on transcendental control – then I can cause the listener to also become excited. This in turn means they will be emotionally stimulated, which in turn also means they will be entertained. So it is helpful that subconscious paths allow us to experience different frequencies at different times as we traverse the path. It is even possible to charge a path in a way that allows you to feel a huge amount of emotion at one particular point in the path and then a huge amount of another emotion at a different part of the path. This would be like listening to a song and then feeling a huge amount of the fun emotion early on in the song and then a huge amount of the strength emotion later on in the song. I have never felt the need to charge a path in this particular manner however although I am aware that it can be done.

          Before moving on, one last thing I’d like to look at with paths is what happens when you charge them specifically for the purpose of emotion. So far we’ve been focusing on paths as a means of charging the subconscious to perform at a transcendental level. But what if we wanted to use them to charge emotion instead? Well to understand this let’s first remember that, when we’re charging emotions, we’re usually doing so solely for the purpose of pleasure. This means that we just want to feel some positive emotion as intensely as possible. Well since shorter paths charge the fastest, we’re going to want to use a very short path to charge emotion. Furthermore since we’re going to want to keep our subconscious at relatively the same frequency, we’re going to want to focus on relatively the same scene, or context, in our mind as our attention traverses the path over and over again. This means that we’ll have to keep repeating the same story like scene in our mind over and over again and preferably do so in a way that doesn’t take too long – as we would expect from a relatively short subconscious path. Although we haven’t talked about how to charge subconscious paths yet, you can still see that these instructions mostly resemble the same instructions we already looked at in chapter 11 for charging emotion. Thus if our goal is simply charging for intensity, we don’t really need to use path formalism to talk about charging techniques. Keep in mind our other transcendental mental abilities wouldn't be very useful when charged using a single path that is very short. Thus it really only becomes necessary to discuss things in terms of subconscious paths when we’re talking about transcendental performance, which isn’t exactly based on intensity. Not understanding this and attempting to rely on intensity to perform at a transcendental level caused me a lot of problems for years.

CHARGING SUBCONSCIOUS PATHS

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Let’s now talk about how to actually charge your subconscious paths. Fundamentally the technique is really not all that different than it was for charging emotion. However, the way we approach those fundamentals will be slightly different. The technique mostly starts off the same way, which is to hold an intention until you enter a transcendental state. Now in the case of emotion, you simply held the intention to feel some emotion more strongly since your goal was to feel more emotion. Well the same principle also applies to your other transcendental mental abilities as well. If you want to control your body a certain way, such as in singing or dancing, you’d hold the intention move a certain way until you enter a transcendental state. Similarly if you wanted to charge a belief, you’d hold the intention to believe something until you enter a transcendental state and if you wanted to charge your creativity, you’d hold the intention to create something until you enter a transcendental state. Now it is still true that, regardless of which intention you choose to hold, all of your transcendental mental abilities will still be quantized by that intention and will still charge up as a result. However, the specific intention you hold can help to slightly concentrate your charge on one specific transcendental mental ability more so than the others.

          I should also note that the specific intention you’d use for charging transcendental creativity is a bit trickier than I’ve described here but we’ll discuss that special case in more detail later in the chapter. Now the second part of the charging process is where things start to look a bit different from the emotional case. To charge emotion, you were instructed to hold an intention while telling a story of some kind in your mind. However for transcendental performance, you will want to hold an intention while performing a specific activity of some kind. In fact charging emotion was really just a special case where the activity was storytelling. However, when charging for performance, we will want to make things much more general and be able to charge while performing any kind of activity whether it be one that is real or imagined. For the moment, we’ll simply talk about activities that occur in the real world. For example if you wish to play basketball at a transcendental level, you may attempt to do so by trying to play while also feeling an intense amount of motivation and ambition to win. You could accomplish this by simply holding the intention to win while playing basketball but you could also accomplish this by holding the intention to destroy your opponent while playing as well.

          In this case you’d feel the emotion of “wanting to destroy” very strongly while you’re playing. When it comes to transcendental performance, you’re allowed to be a bit more free with your subconscious frequency so different intentions can be used to reach relatively similar outcomes in performance although the frequency would change somewhat. Part of learning how to perform at a transcendental level involves being aware of how certain intentions will quantize your performance compared to others. In some cases, the transcendental performance I get from an intention that says "I will win" may be better or more suited for the circumstance than the performance I get from an intention that says "I will destroy". Part of learning how to become better at performing transcendentally involves learning what intention best suits the circumstance you're performing transcendentally in and what experience you're hoping to get out of it.  Before moving on, I’d like to mention that the particular activity that you’re engaged in will also play a role in properly quantizing your subconscious. When it came to emotion, you used stories to control your subconscious because they have a natural structure to them that helps your conscious mind command your subconscious mind using intention.

          In the case of transcendental performance, this principle is mostly still in play but you will now be able to use the story like nature of the real world activity you're engaged in to produce intentions that properly command your subconscious. You will not necessarily need to make up a story in your mind like you did with emotion although you can still do this too. As an example, let's say that you’re playing a basketball game against a rival opponent. You think a lot about the history you have with your rival and feel even more determined to win the game so as not to lose bragging rights. The history you think of would actually be expressed by the abstract command component of your intention. Once your subconscious alters your perception to perceive this history, then the context of the game itself changes to you. It will become much more important and meaningful as a result, perhaps even containing a great deal of risk even though there is little chance of physical danger to you. In other words, the conscious mind will think of the basketball game in a manner that's not all that different from when it's telling a story. This way of looking at the activity you're performing in actually helps you to better control your subconscious mind as you're engaged in that activity.

          That being said, because the activity itself will play a large role in quantizing your subconscious, different activities will favor different subconscious frequencies. For example it might be easy to charge my subconscious at the frequency of ambition and determination while playing a basketball game but hard to charge it while making relaxing music. Similarly it would be easy to charge the subconscious at the humor frequency when telling jokes in a conversation but hard to charge it while solving a math problem. Thus different activities will favor different subconscious frequencies and therefore will also favor certain kinds of transcendental performance charges and not others. It should be noted that some activities can favor antithetical subconscious frequencies as well. For example I remember when I used to have to speak in office meetings at work, I noticed that I had a much easier time doing so whenever I focused on having fun and thinking of it as an enjoyable social event. And when I didn’t do this, I would think of it as a form of public speaking and would often feel some anxiety as a result. This shows that the act of meeting with a group of people at work actually favors both the more positive fun and socializing frequencies and yet, at the same time, also favors more negative frequencies associated with fear of public speaking. Which type of frequency charges will depend on how my intentions contextualize the event.

          Moving on to what actually happens when you’re in a transcendental state, well again the process is basically the same as it was for emotion. In this case, you’ll want to try to continue to perform the activity you’re engaged in using your subconscious instinct during the short window of time that you’re in a transcendental state and do so using an excitement burst as opposed to a calm burst.  This essentially means giving a properly timed burst of effort, at the level of instinct, to continue performing the activity in a transcendental state. The excitement burst doesn't necessarily need to be as intense as you can possibly make it in the moment but, if it's too calm, then this may not work for most real world activities as your subconscious instinct may not be active enough to keep up with the real world environment. Thus how intense your burst is will depend on the activity and takes some experience to control properly and perform in a non-straining way. On top of this though, charging in this manner in general is trickier to do while performing a real world activity than it was for telling a story in your mind. We’ll talk more about why that is in the next section. However, when you enter a transcendental state while performing an activity, your subconscious instinct will temporarily involve itself in the activity and attempt to compel you in some manner that’s meant to help you to achieve the goal that you expressed through your intention. This compulsion will act as a kind of guide in how you’re to behave to reach your goal. However, because this compulsion can’t actually override free will, your negative mind must still choose to, in a sense, “go along” with this compulsion. This is generally easy to do when singing along to a song for example but you’re going to have to get used to doing this for interactive real world activities as well.

          For example when in a conversation, your charged subconscious mind may compel you to bring up a certain topic of conversation or inflect your voice in a certain way in order to perform a particular vocal impression. Now in order to actually perform transcendentally, it is not enough to simply feel this compulsion from your subconscious. You must also, in a sense, acquiesce to it with your conscious mind. This means relaxing your conscious mind and letting go somewhat, similarly to what you do when you daydream or enter a transcendental state for storytelling when charging emotion. When you do this, you will successfully be able to enter a transcendental state and perform that activity using your subconscious instinct – which allows you to perform transcendentally. We will talk a bit more about this process shortly. However, while you will want to acquiesce to compulsions from your subconscious to some degree, you obviously can’t acquiesce and go along with all of them otherwise they could cause you to engage in behaviors that get you in to a lot of trouble. This of course is due to the fact that your subconscious mind does not have as much logic and rationality – and particularly inhibition –  as your conscious mind does. So there’s a balancing act between how much acquiescing you do to your instinct and how much resisting you do to it. For example if you enter a transcendental state while holding a conversation and then feel a compulsion to say something mean to the listener while in a transcendental state, you would make sure not to acquiesce to this kind of compulsion.

          Now, as with an emotional charge, these compulsions will start out fairly weak and will be easy to resist. In fact they may even be difficult to notice at all. However, as you keep going in and out of a transcendental state while performing an activity, your subconscious will become more and more volatile relative to this particular activity. This means that you will have an easier and easier time entering a transcendental state while performing that activity and, as you continue to do so, your subconscious will be able to express itself more and more intensely while you perform that activity. This is ultimately the same as saying that your subconscious is charging to help you perform more and more transcendentally while performing that activity. Doing this will also cause a subconscious path to form in your subconscious memory and become more and more charged as well. There is much more to discuss about subconscious paths and what happens when they charge but this is the basic technique for how to charge them.

          Before moving on, it should also be noted that if your attention traverses a subconscious path and you don't continuously enter a transcendental state and switch to performing that activity using your instinct, then subconscious entropy happens and the path then just becomes more and more negative as a result. As the path becomes more and more negative, you will be more and more relegated to a normal performance level as a result. When this occurs, you will just feel the normal ground state compulsions you always feel and so, in essence, it will mostly feel like the compulsion from the path has disappeared. You notice this when you listen to a song that was very emotionally stimulating to you but is getting older and older. As first you felt a great deal of compulsion as you listened to the song. But after a while, it didn't feel like you felt any at all. This is because the path is actually full of negative memory now and just blends in with the rest of your ground state compulsions.

SUBCONSCIOUS ENERGY CATCHING

One thing I’d like to mention about entering a transcendental state while performing a real world activity is that it tends to be more difficult to pull off than entering a transcendental state while focused on an activity in your own imagination. The reason why has to do with the way our attention gets divided up when performing real world activities. I mentioned last chapter that your brain charges your subconscious in a way that compels you to divide your attention up between different aspects of some activity. This allows you to multi-task and ultimately end up performing that activity rationally and smoothly at a normal performance level. While this is ideal for our everyday behaviors, it does tend to get in the way of charging for transcendental performance. Normal activities eat up so much of our total attention that it can be difficult to still leave enough of it left over for the act of trying to charge. For example when I’m in a conversation and hold the intention to say something funny while I’m speaking, I can’t stop the conversation, watch and wait until I notice my awareness entering a transcendental state and then resume the conversation once I have entered this state. I’ve got to still try to hold a conversation normally – using my negative mind and performance level – until I enter a transcendental state. And even then, when I do enter a transcendental state, I have to try to remember to start trying to converse while also using my subconscious instinct, or my positive mind, too.

          If I don’t remember to do this, then my subconscious won’t charge properly for this activity. It’s very important to remember to “switch” to using your positive mind to continue performing the activity once you’re in a transcendental state. The problem is that performing all of these mental activities to charge your subconscious takes up a lot of our attention to pull off. Now when you’re by yourself and can easily tune out the rest of the world – as you normally would be when charging emotion – then it’s easy to dedicate enough of your attention toward the act of charging your subconscious. However, this is a lot harder to do for real world activities. This is made worse by the fact that, earlier on in a charge, a transcendental state of awareness doesn’t come on as strongly and is harder to notice. The only real way that I’m able to still charge while performing some activity is to simply give less of my attention toward the real world activity. For example if I’m in a conversation, I simply have to give less of my attention toward the conversation so that some of it is freed up to monitor my charging efforts. This tends to give me a very “air headed” kind of feeling when I’m in a conversation because I have to tune it out somewhat in order to charge and yet, at the same time, still continue to hold the conversation and engage with the person I’m speaking to.

          This balance between attention that goes into continually performing the activity and into the act of charging can be tricky and is something that you’ll have to get used to for transcendental performance charging. In many cases, because it’s too hard to give enough attention to monitoring how long I’ve been holding an intention and whether or not I’m about to enter a transcendental state, I will simply not do so. This tends to cause the feeling of my awareness entering a transcendental state to catch me by surprise. When this occurs, I have to make sure to still acquiesce to this feeling and allow my mind to drift into a transcendental state even if it does feel sudden and unexpected in this circumstance. Sometimes I may be too caught up in the activity and may not allow my mind to fully enter a transcendental state when I’m able to do so. If I don’t then it will simply be the case that I missed my opportunity and will have to wait for the next time around when I feel my awareness entering a transcendental state again. For this reason, I often like to refer to the process described here as energy catching. This is because when I’m holding an intention until I enter a transcendental state while performing an activity, it will often feel as though I have to catch the moment when my awareness is drifting into a transcendental state and then remember to both allow my mind to drift into that state and to switch to performing that activity using my subconscious instinct while in a transcendental state.

          Now it may seem like it should be rather easy to notice your own awareness drifting but it’s actually rather difficult to do when so much of your attention is going into something else. Sure you’ll always feel it trying to enter a transcendental state no matter what, but it still eats up attention to actually watch it or properly adjust your behavior in response to it. And sometimes you may be too focused on something else to respond in time to take advantage of this state. So in many instances, it will feel like you have to catch a “wave” of energy or awareness as it were. However, if you do successfully manage to keep catching this wave, which means that you’re successfully entering a transcendental state over and over again and using subconscious instinct to continue to perform that activity when you do, then your subconscious will charge a path for that activity more and more. As this path continues to charge, it will actually get easier and easier to notice your awareness drifting into a transcendental state and to continue using subconscious instinct to perform that activity while your awareness is in this state. As this subconscious path continues to charge, eventually my subconscious will become so volatile toward this activity that it will feel relatively effortless to catch myself entering a transcendental state and to perform that activity using my instinct while I’m in it. Eventually it will feel as though I’m able to continuously perform that activity using my instinct with little effort from my conscious mind. This special state of awareness is known as being “in the zone”. We will talk more about this special state again later in the chapter.

PATH CLOSENESS

I'd like to now talk about the concept of "closeness" as it relates to subconscious paths. Recall from chapter 10 that subjects can actually be "close" to each other in subconscious memory by virtue of how similar they appear to your subconscious mind. If there is a main subject in your subconscious memory that carries a charge, then the compulsion stored in that subconscious memory will be recalled whenever you focus on different subject that, to your subconscious mind, looks similar to the main subject. The degree to which this compulsion is felt will be determined by how much the similar subject resembles the main subject to your subconscious. This principle works in pretty much the same way for subconscious paths but now we're going to look at it in a much more complete and generalized way. To understand this more complete view, we must now address a second component of subconscious memory that experiences a quality of "closeness" and is the activity associated with the subconscious memory. Specifically this refers to the actual activity you were performing while the experiences in the subconscious memory were being stored.

          For example if you were playing basketball while focused on some particular subject, then the activity of playing basketball will be stored in the subconscious of memory of that subject. Now the actual activity you were engaged in while some experience is being stored to subconscious memory is not very consequential when it comes to charging emotion but, as you might expect, it is very important when it comes to charging the subconscious for performance. The reason once again has to with recall scalability. This just refers to degree to which you feel a compulsion or association stored in subconscious memory based on the similarity of some minor subject to a main subject that carries the charge. It was already mentioned the more similar some minor subject is to a main subject, the more fully you will feel the compulsion stored in main subject when focused on the minor subject. But the similarity of the subjects themselves is not the only parameter that determines how fully you feel the compulsion stored in the main subject. The similarity in the activity stored in subconscious memory also determines this as well.

          As an example, let's say that I charge a subconscious path that helps me to tell jokes – we will talk more about how to charge this kind of path later in the chapter. I charge this path while focused on person A and in a conversation with them. Well, let's then say that at some later time I decide to hold a conversation with person B while the subconscious path charged for person A still has a charge. Can I use the path charged for person A to help me tell jokes with person B? Well yes but the degree to which the path for A gets called will depend in part on how much person B reminds me of person A or, put another way, how similar they appear to my subconscious mind. Just picking random numbers here, if person B looks 50% similar to person A, then I'll only feel compelled by the path associated with person A at 50% of it's full strength or at 50% of the strength I'd experienced it if I were focused on person A instead. Thus the more similar person B is to person A from the perspective of my subconscious mind, then the more fully the path associated with person A can be used for person B.

          Put more generally, we can say that the more similar some minor subject is to a main subject that makes up a subconscious path, the more fully the subconscious path for the major subject can be used when focusing on the minor subject. This is also true if the subconscious path actually consists of categories and the thing being compared is a minor category to main category. For example if I keep going in and out of a transcendental state while telling jokes in a conversation with a certain type of person, let's say work coworkers, then eventually a subconscious path will form in my subconscious memory that helps me to tell jokes while focused on coworkers. Now if I focus on someone later who is not a coworker and hold a conversation with them, the degree to which I can still use the path associated with the category "coworker" will depend on how much this person reminds my subconscious of someone who is in the coworker category.

          Now, although we've been focused on this concept of recall scalability for similarities in subjects or categories, it is also true that the similarity of the activity itself plays a role in determining how strongly a subconscious path for a main subject gets recalled when focusing on a minor subject. As an example, let's say that I'm focused on person A in the above example but instead of holding a conversation with them in person, I'm now talking to them on the phone. I would notice that I'm still able to tell jokes with this person at a transcendental level but not easily as I could while speaking to them in person. This is because the activity of speaking over the phone looks a bit different to my subconscious from the act of speaking to them in person. Thus the corresponding subconscious path is not as fully called or felt as strongly. Now if I actually chat with this individual over the computer instead, then I would I notice that it's much harder to tell jokes at a transcendental level. This is because the activity of holding a conversation through electronic chat looks extremely different to my subconscious than the act of speaking to them in person. I might notice that very little of the charge that's helps me tell jokes in person actually carries over to telling jokes through chat. This same principle of closeness in activity also applies of course to categories as well.

          Thus we can say that subconscious paths also experience a quality of closeness just like the subjects or categories that make them up. However, in the case of subconscious paths, similarity in activity is also parameter that determines closeness, not just similarity in the subject or category. Putting this another way, we can say that path closeness is determined by how similar the main subject or category is to some minor subject or category and how close the activity you're performing while focused on the main subject or category is to the activity you're performing while focused on the minor subject or category. If you focus on a minor subject that doesn't look to similar to the main subject but the activity looks very similar to your subconscious, then some of that transcendental performance charge will still carry over. However if you focus on a minor subject that looks nothing like the main subject to your subconscious and the activity also looks very different, then likely very little of the charge will carry over and you will have to charge a new subconscious path for this new circumstance.

          Before moving on, it should be noted that there are other parameters that could be considered extensions of the main subject or category that can also affect path closeness such as the environment, time of day, temperature and so on. However, for our purposes, it is enough to simply discuss path closeness in terms of the subject or category and activity being performed. It should also be noted that technically activity closeness plays a role in the techniques we discussed for charging emotion as well. However because the activity was always the same – telling a story in your mind – it was not necessary to discuss it then.

MULTIPLE SUBCONSCIOUS PATHS

So far we’ve mostly been discussing how subconscious paths work by looking at a single path at a time. However, in reality, this is highly unrealistic as a single path would generally not be very useful to us for transcendental performance. The reason why this is the case has to do with the concept of path closeness. In the previous section, it was mentioned that a subconscious path can be close to other paths not only based on similarities in the subjects or categories that make them up, but also based on similarities in the activity you were performing while focused on those subjects or categories. This apparent closeness in activity creates a whole new kind of issue that didn't really apply when charging emotion. This new problem is the fact that activities themselves tend to be much harder for the subconscious to recognize than subjects or categories. Since there tends to be a lot going in an activity that causes it to be much more dynamic in nature, the subconscious tends to have trouble recognizing it well enough to always recall the same subconscious path you charged while performing that activity previously. This includes the main subconscious path that carried the charged too.

          To understand this, I often like to compare it to the way biometric data is often stored in a computer at a work facility. When starting a new job in the past, you probably received an access card to enter the building and were required to store biometric data from your fingerprint into a computer to punch in or access high security areas of the building. When storing biometric data, you probably placed your finger on top of a glass like surface while the device scanned your fingerprint and registered it into the computer. After doing this once, the computer operating the scanning device probably prompted you to remove your finger and then place it back on the scanning device in order to register your print again. You were probably prompted by the device to do this multiple times before your prints were fully registered in to the work database. But then why ask you to remove your finger and place it back on the device to be scanned again when it obviously didn't change within those few seconds of being prompted? Well the reason the device has been programmed to take multiple scans of your fingerprint is because your print might look different to the computer depending on the angle you place it on the scanner.

           It is possible that you could place your finger on the scanning device in the future and the device not recognize you because your print looks too different from the one stored in the database to be considered a match. To avoid this, your prints are scanned from multiple angles to ensure that the computer always recognizes your prints, no matter what angle you place it on the scanner. The more scans from different angles or perspectives the computer retrieves the less a chance there is that the computer won't recognize your print in the future. Although this may sound a bit strange, I believe this is almost exactly how the subconscious mind works too. When you perform some activity and charge a subconscious path for it, it is actually not that easy for your subconscious mind to recognize that same activity again, at a later time, well enough to fully recall the main subconscious path you charged up for it previously. To the conscious mind, the activity would always look exactly the same with no issues. But to the subconscious mind, the activity can actually look different when engaging in it from different perspectives. For example if you're playing basketball against person A one day and then play basketball again against person B another day, then the conscious mind can easily recognize that you're playing basketball in both cases.

          However to the subconscious mind, it won't always be obvious that you're playing basketball even when you actually are. This is important because it means that subconscious paths you charged while playing basketball, which are required to be accessed to help you perform transcendentally, won't always be accessible the entire time that you're actually playing basketball. This is a problem because, in theory, if you're not playing basketball while being compelled by a charged subconscious path, then your performance level will just become normal again. During some of the moments that you're playing, the subconscious mind will successfully recognize that you're playing basketball and will call a subconscious path to help you perform transcendentally. But during other times, when playing basketball from a different perspective or circumstance, the activity will become somewhat unfamiliar to your subconscious and a subconscious path will not be accessible to help your performance. For example when attempting to shoot the ball from the foul line against person B, the subconscious may successfully recognize this activity from the times you did it against person A and will access a subconscious path to help you shoot the ball transcendentally. However if you're on defense and are attempting to steal the ball against person B, then the subconscious may not recognize that you're playing basketball from this perspective and will not access a subconscious path to help you steal the ball at a transcendental level.

          But then how do you ensure that the activity always looks familiar enough to your subconscious to ensure that at a subconscious path is always being called and accessed the entire time that you're playing basketball? In theory, this would ensure that you're performing at a transcendental level at all times as you're playing basketball. Well the key to achieving this is very similar to what the fingerprint scanner did to ensure that it would always recognize your fingerprints. That is to keep charging subconscious paths while performing the activity from different perspectives. For example if I want to play basketball at a transcendental level the entire time that I'm playing, I will want to charge a subconscious path for this activity during its various different perspectives. For example if I charge a path for shooting 2 pointers, one for shooting 3 pointers, one for dunking, one for stealing the ball, one for blocking shots and so on, then eventually I will have a subconscious path available for pretty much every possible circumstance that I might encounter while playing the game.

          In essence, this means that I'll be able to play the basketball game transcendentally the whole time that I'm playing. This is why a single subconscious path is largely insufficient in practice to help you perform transcendentally. In reality, you will generally need multiple subconscious paths for some activity to perform transcendentally in it. Each path would cover some different perspective of the activity from the view of the subconscious mind. But then how to do you actually accomplish this in practice? What would you do to ensure that you're charging a subconscious path from each of the different perspectives that some activity may have from the view of the subconscious mind? Well there's really no way to ensure this from the conscious mind's perspective since the activity always looks the same to it. However the best approach is simply to keep going in and out of a transcendental state while performing the activity in as many different circumstances as possible. This would even include performing that activity in different physical locations and with different people as these parameters would also determine how similar some activity looks to my subconscious.

          As I keep doing this then, in theory, multiple subconscious paths will start charging up more and more. As another example, let's say that I want to always be very confident when I'm in a conversation with others. To achieve this I would hold the intention to be feel confidence until I enter a transcendental state and also while holding a conversation. When I do enter a transcendental state, I would then switch to continuing the conversation using my positive mind. From there I would keep repeating this process for many different topics of conversation, with many different people and in many different environments. As I keep charging subconscious paths in this manner from as many different possible conversational perspectives as possible, I will eventually charge so many paths that at least one of them will always be called and accessed when I'm in any conversation at all. I should also note that it needn't be the case that only one subconscious path be called at a time. It could also be the case that one main path is called when engaging in the activity from some particular perspective and that multiple minor paths are also called when engaging in the activity from that same perspective. This is actually shows that multiple paths can be called at the same time and combine in interesting and sometimes unpredictable ways when compelling you to perform in some manner. This creates a relatively emergent phenomenon in subconscious compulsion that we'll discuss a bit more later on in the chapter.

          From these examples though, it is clear that one hurdle involved in charging the subconscious for the purpose of transcendental performance has to do with continuity. In other words, we'll need to make sure that our subconscious is charged in such a way that it's able to compel us to perform transcendentally the entire time that we're engaged in some particular activity. If we engage in the activity from some perspective that the subconscious does not recognize, then the subconscious will not access a subconscious path and our performance will just go back to normal. In fact this is what caused the drop off problem mentioned at the beginning of the chapter. To talk about this problem more easily, I find it useful to create a new subconscious parameter that I refer to as subconscious universality or simply universality for short. This refers to how many different circumstances your subconscious can recognize an activity from and therefore recall and access a charged subconscious path for. Thus the more universality a transcendental performance charge has, the more easily you'll be able to maintain a transcendental level of performance while engaged in that activity. This also means that your subconscious will be highly volatile in more and more different circumstances relative to some particular activity and will be less likely to experience the drop off problem.

          We still need to talk about the "energy logistics" of managing multiple subconscious paths in order to maintain a high degree universality for some transcendental performance charge. However, an interesting case of subconscious path universality I wanted to mention here has to do with the singing experience that I talked about in chapter 3. I mentioned there that I charged my subconscious to sing at a transcendental level. I did this by holding the intention to feel more emotion, as I sung, until I entered a transcendental state. I also imagined some story in my mind while physically singing during this time as well. Now as I went in and out of a transcendental state and attempted to sing with more of my instinct while in a transcendental state, I actually started to charge paths that helped me to sing transcendentally at different parts of the song. This was especially true for the parts of the song that were very difficult to pull off using normal bodily control. Well as I kept charging in this manner, I eventually built so many paths in my subconscious memory that I could sing the whole song at a transcendental level without experiencing much drop off.

          I should note that when I performed this particular charge, I eventually tried to sing other songs I was practicing at that time too and found that I could not actually sing these songs as transcendentally as I could the original song that I performed the charge for. I did feel though that I could sing these other songs a little bit better than my normal performance level. But I couldn’t sing any of them near the transcendental level of performance that I could with that original song. Thus my charge had a great deal of universality for that particular song but not that much for any other song. I suspect that great singers will have performed a similar kind of charge for so many different kinds of songs that they will have subconscious paths for just about any kind of song there is. In other words they’ll be able to perform transcendentally for almost any song they attempt to sing. To the untrained eye, it would simply look like this was their normal performance level and that this level for them is just that amazing. But in reality it would more than likely be a reflection of the high universality of their transcendental performance charge for singing.

          Another example of subconscious paths that I thought was interesting enough to mention here occurred in the popular 2017 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor Mcgregor. Floyd Mayweather Jr is natural pro boxer while Conor Mcgregor is natural MMA fighter. However both fought each other in a crossover boxing event. During the match, it was clear that Mcgregor kept instinctively trying to get behind Mayweather's back to get into some sort of advantageous position. However being behind someone's back wouldn't have any kind of advantage in boxing at all and is not something that I've ever seen done by pro boxers. However, because Mcgregor is a natural MMA fighter, he kept feeling instinctive urges to do this and had to keep stopping himself from giving into that urge. What was really occurring on a subconscious level was that the activity of boxing looked similar enough to the activity of an MMA fight that Mcgregor's subconscious ended up accessing subconscious paths associated with MMA during the boxing match. Thus whenever his opponent got into a certain position, the first category in one of these MMA paths was accessed and Mcgregory felt a natural compulsion to follow that compulsion toward the end of the path, which was trying to get behind the opponent. Needless to say, Mcgregor had to keep resisting these MMA compulsions the whole fight.

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