Now that you’ve gotten your feet wet with a basic intro to the connection between the body and the subconscious, we’re ready to go into even more detail with it. In the previous chapters, we’ve talked a lot about the positive and negative mind when discussing how your subconscious works. I believe this polarity-based formalism makes it a bit easier to perceive the true nature of the subconscious mind, especially as it relates to controlling it in practice. However, we have not really discussed this nature too much in terms of the role the body plays in it. In this chapter, I’d like to elaborate on this formalism and talk about it in a more complete and unfortunately slightly more complex manner. This more complete formalism takes into account how the body helps to establish this polarizing two-mind dynamic that we’ve been working with thus far. We will also explore a new concept that I like to refer to as your “performance level” and look at the role your body plays in it from a subconscious perspective as well.

 

 

DUAL MIND FORMALISM REVISITED

 

In the previous chapter, we looked at circumstances where your body rapidly charges your subconscious in relatively quick and powerful bursts initially. This is done in an effort to get you to make certain choices that help to increase your survival as well as that of our species. We referred to these kinds of subconscious charges from the body by their associated emotional feeling and called them primal emotions. Well, it should be noted that this is not the only way in which the body charges your subconscious mind. In fact, your body charges your subconscious in another way that is actually somewhat opposite in nature to that of primal emotions. This new charge from the body is actually much less emotionally intense and is a lot more mild in comparison. It also has more of an ambient background kind of feel to it and is slightly emotionally positive in nature too. Your body also maintains this charge much longer than that of primal emotions. In fact your body generally maintains this charge almost continuously across the whole day rather than only initiating it in short periods of time as a means of responding to the environment.

          To understand this new charge from the body, we must first revisit a concept that has been at the very core of pretty much all of our discussions up till now. We must take another look at the idea of a negative mind and a positive mind. So far we’ve been working from the theory that you have a conscious mind that has the properties of awareness, free will and is capable of using normal actions. In contrast, you also have a subconscious mind that has the properties of quantization, frequency, and energy, all of which are incorporated into the nature of its actions which are transcendental actions. For the most part, this formalism has seemed to work out pretty well for us in terms of providing a theoretical framework for the nature of our mental capabilities. For this reason, I wanted you to think in terms of this clear dichotomy to get a sense of how your subconscious works. However, now that we’re also talking about the way in which the body is involved in subconscious activity, we must expand this formalism to a bit of more complex form that can get a bit messy.

          When I first began postulating this whole theory, I started off thinking that you only have one mind and that it controls your subconscious. Back then, I didn’t necessarily consider the subconscious to be a “mind” so to speak but rather thought of it as being more like a kind of artificial intelligence. But there were some holes in that way of thinking that caused it to not quite convince me. Eventually, I came to adopt this two-mind formalism that we’ve been discussing. However, there is still one mystery here that I’ve never quite been able to completely, or convincingly, resolve. That mystery is, where do the properties of the negative mind come from? I think I do understand the subconscious mind pretty well but not so much the conscious mind. Now you might say that the properties of the conscious mind are simply innate. In other words, they’re sort of built-in properties of our consciousness and don’t necessarily come from anywhere in particular. Well, this line of thinking does seem to work most of the time and won’t really get you into too much trouble by adopting it. However, there is one main circumstance where this theoretical approach doesn’t seem to be adequate and that is when we’re engaged in the act of dreaming. The conscious mind clearly works very differently when we’re asleep than it does when we’re awake and this creates a bit a problem for us theory-wise.

          Although we still have awareness when we’re sleeping as well as the ability to think and even use free will, we don’t necessarily have these qualities in the same fashion that we do when awake. Put another way, our conscious mind no longer has the ability to use normal non-transcendental actions in the way that we’ve been attributing to the “negative mind”. For example, our ability to exercise logic and experience a somewhat uninhibited state of free will tends to go out the window during a dream. This tells me that these properties are not actually innate to the conscious mind. Rather they’re sort of “given” to your conscious mind at some point. But if that’s true, then where do these negative mind qualities actually come from? Well after thinking about this for some time, the only place that I can think of is our body. I believe that our conscious mind is technically always in the kind of free state that it’s in while we’re dreaming but the body is the one that sort of tames it and allows our awareness to exist in the negative mind state of awareness that we experience while awake. It does this by continually charging the subconscious in a way that compels the conscious mind to think and behave in a highly specific way. This extraordinarily specific compulsion gives the conscious mind the properties of logic and rationality as well as all of the normal abilities we have when it comes to creativity, bodily control, perception, and so on.

          The body essentially maintains this negative mind property creating charge throughout the day, at least for the entire time that you’re actually awake. This charge allows you to have a certain baseline of conscious mind functionality which is meant to help you make logical and rational choices that ensure your survival. Leaving your conscious mind in the same state of awareness it has when you’re dreaming, presumably its natural state, would be completely incompatible with life. It should be noted that this baseline charge from the body also even has an emotional feeling to it. If your brain is healthy, then this feeling should be slightly positive in nature. This means that as you go about your day, you’ll have a slightly positive but ambient emotional feeling for most of the time that you're awake. For example, even if you’re bored and are just sitting around watching paint dry, this experience isn’t necessarily emotionally painful. This is because the baseline charge from the body is keeping you in a fairly ok mood. It’s not exactly an emotionally intense positive state but it does leave your mood slightly above what you might call a neutral or non-emotional state. At least that’s how I’d describe this feeling.

          We’ll talk more about this baseline charge and discuss negative mind and positive mind formalism in terms of it in the next section. However, going back to our dilemma regarding the origin of the negative mind’s properties, I feel like when I think about things through the lens of this new approach – with the body being responsible for giving the conscious mind its negative properties through subconscious charging – then everything seems to work out. When we dream, our normal level of logic and creativity goes haywire because our body is no longer charging our subconscious in the same way that it does while we’re awake. Our conscious mind gets its normal level of capability back when we wake up because our body is now charging our subconscious at that baseline level again.

          However, while this approach does seem to work most of the time, and it is the formalism that we’ll be using for the remainder of this book, there is still one hole in even this approach that I’ve yet to resolve. Being that I’m so painstakingly pedantic when it comes to theory, I constantly try to find holes in my own theories to see where they either completely break down or where they’re simply not as convincing. Well, after engaging in this theory-destroying activity, I’ve considered that if our body is responsible for our conscious mind thinking in the nice stable and rational way that it does when we’re awake and if our minds tend to go all over the place while we’re dreaming due to the absence of that influence from the body, then what happens when we die and no longer having a physical body but only exists in spirit form? Does our conscious mind go back to this dream-like state and then go all over the place again? Of course, there really is no way to know what happens in this case for sure but there are some experiences we have even in life that tell us that the conscious mind might still be able to function in a logically coherent and rational way even without the normal influence from the body.

          For example, in near-death experiences, people often describe these experiences from the perspective of having the same kind of logical awareness and rationality they have when awake. Their mind is not incoherent and all over the place like it is while dreaming. Similarly, when people, including myself, have out-of-body experiences, our conscious mind also seems to revert back to the coherent state it’s in when we’re awake. Presumably the body is not influencing the conscious mind here any more than it is during a regular dream. But then where did the negative mind properties of logic and rationality come from in these cases if not from the body? That is what I’ve not been able to convincingly resolve. There seems to be some innate ability for our conscious mind to become coherent and rational without influence from our body but this ability does not seem to work while we’re awake or dreaming normally. Instead, it only seems to activate when we’re having an out-of-body experience of some kind. Outside of that, our conscious mind relies on the body for its negative mind properties. That being said, I’ve decided to leave the particular question of where our conscious mind’s negative properties come from, during these more supernatural instances, to mystery for now. For the remainder of this book, when I refer to the negative mind, I’m referring to the properties your conscious mind has while awake and not the ones it has during an out-of-body experience.

 

 

SUBCONSCIOUS GROUND STATE AND EXCITED STATE

 

One question we haven’t quite answered with this newly expanded formalism of a positive and negative mind is where your transcendental mental abilities come from. If your body is keeping your subconscious charged up, while you’re awake, and this enables your conscious mind to use what we’ve been referring to as your normal mental abilities, then how do you ever go transcendental? Well, the answer goes back to the fact that your subconscious actually has to follow two commanders, your body and your conscious mind. Even if your conscious mind is heavily affected by compulsions from the subconscious as a result of commands that come from your body, this still doesn’t change the fact that your subconscious has to also listen to commands coming from your conscious mind as well. It is from these commands that your subconscious is able to charge in a way that allows you to use your transcendental mental abilities. This will make more sense when we discuss how the mind charges the subconscious in more detail in chapters 8 and 11. But suffice it to say that, in this new paradigm of positive and negative, the conscious mind and subconscious mind both play a role in your normal and transcendental mental abilities.

          We will still continue to make references to a negative and positive mind for convenience but we’ll need to clean things up a bit first. To streamline our discussion, I find it useful to use a sort of blanket term for describing the baseline subconscious state that your body likes to charge and maintain for most of the day while you’re awake. I refer to this subconscious state simply as your subconscious ground state or just ground state for short. I call it this because it reminds me of an atom whose electrons also have a kind of baseline energy level that reflects what is said to be that atom's ground state. For the sake of clarity, we can now use this terminology and say that the ground state charge – which is induced by the body – is responsible for the normal non-transcendental mental abilities that your conscious mind has while you’re awake and does not have while you’re asleep. It is because of this ground state charge that you’re able to think logically, rationally, and with a clear mind when you’re awake. The normal ability you have to move your body and perceive reality, both in the real world and in your mind, as well as your non-transcendental creative and intellectual capabilities all occur as a result of your ground state charge.

          In contrast to your subconscious ground state charge, is another subconscious state that could be described by the term “excited”. If we’re continuing to use the same naming convention that describes an atom’s energy state, then we could call this other subconscious state your subconscious excited state or simply excited state for short. What’s interesting about this analogy though is that it really does describe what happens to your subconscious when it enters its excited state. When an electron gains enough energy to jump up an energy level within an atom’s energy shells, then the atom is said to become excited. In this case, the electron has energy to lose and will do so by emitting light. As it does so, it will eventually lose the very energy it gained and fall back to the lowest possible energy state where it is the most stable. When that happens, the atom will then go back to what is called its ground state again. A similar thing actually occurs with your subconscious too. When your conscious mind charges your subconscious, then your subconscious would no longer be considered to be in its ground state. Rather it is now in a less stable excited state. The term “less stable” just means that your subconscious has a hard time staying in this state. However, when your subconscious is in this excited state, it is then able to compel you in a much more powerful way and for a much wider array of purposes than would normally be the case if just being commanded by your body.

          The compulsions and subconscious activity that occur when your subconscious is in its excited state is where your transcendental mental abilities come from and is mainly when you’re able to use them. As your subconscious charges more and more, it could be thought of as becoming more and more excited. As it gets more and more excited, it ends up compelling you more and more powerfully and enables you to perform some transcendental mental ability with greater and greater intensity. However, as the energy from this charge starts to discharge, our subconscious will also begin to lose some of the excitement it gained as well. Eventually, our subconscious will lose so much excitement that it essentially falls back to its ground state again and stays there – just like an excited electron. When this occurs, we’ll have essentially lost the ability to use our transcendental mental abilities and will be limited to mostly just using our normal abilities. For example, when you’re in the zone with conversation, this indicates that your subconscious is in its excited state. When you lose that zone a few days later and can now only converse at a non-transcendental level, then this indicates that your subconscious is back in its ground state and is mostly staying there.  That is a bit of an oversimplification of the process but that is essentially what is happening here.

          Before moving on to the next section, I’d like to clean things up a bit regarding some of the terms we use. Now that we’ve gone over this annoyingly more complex formalism for the conscious and subconscious mind, it may now be a bit confusing to still use the negative and positive mind dichotomy that has been established. Since these two minds are so intricately connected by the body, it may be a bit confusing to think of normal mental abilities as coming exclusively from the conscious mind and transcendental mental abilities as coming exclusively from the subconscious mind. In reality, both minds work together to pull off both normal and transcendental abilities. When the subconscious is mostly being commanded by the body, it works with the conscious mind to perform normal mental abilities. When the subconscious is mostly being commanded by the conscious mind, it works with the conscious mind to pull off transcendental mental abilities. So their relationship is probably not quite as mutually exclusive as what I’ve been portraying in previous chapters. However, for the sake of convenience and going forward, I will still use the term “negative mind” to refer to the conscious mind when your subconscious is in its ground state and the term “positive mind” to refer to your subconscious mind when it is in its excited state. I will follow these meanings unless otherwise specified.

 

 

NATURAL PERFORMANCE LEVEL

 

The next topic I’d like to cover has to do with what you might call your “performance level”. Throughout the book, we’ve been comparing how well the negative mind is at performing some task vs how well the positive mind is at performing that same task. In general, your negative mind can usually perform some task with a base level of skill that doesn’t really change all that much with time. This is because your brain is pretty much always charging your subconscious at the ground-state level without you having to do much of anything. The advantage to this is that it will always be relatively easy for you to reach the level of performance that your negative mind affords you. However, the downside to this is that this particular level of performance is usually not all that impressive, at least when compared to your positive mind. When your subconscious is charged up and you’re able to perform some task using your transcendental mental abilities, then you’re usually able to perform some task much more impressively than you could with your negative mind. The downside, of course, is that you’re not always able to perform at that high level at any time that you’d like to. But, in a nutshell, it’s fair to say that your transcendental performance level is generally always higher and more impressive than your normal performance level.

          Whether we’re talking about singing, telling jokes, making music, or playing sports, you will pretty much always be able to perform better when your subconscious is charged up by your conscious mind to perform that particular task vs when it is primarily only charged up by your body at the ground state level. Now an important fact about this rule worth discussing is how it changes from person to person. While it is true that our transcendental performance is generally always higher and more impressive than our normal one, it is not necessarily true that our normal level of performance is the same from person to person. For example, what constitutes a transcendental level of performance for person A may be a normal level of performance for person B relative to some particular activity. Furthermore, person B would be able to reach that same impressive level of performance any time they want to without needing to charge their subconscious first. Person A on the other hand would have to always charge their subconscious first, using their mind, before they could reach the same level of performance as person B for some activity. But then why does this occur? Why do some people have a different performance level from others even though each person’s subconscious mind is in its ground state?

          Well, the reason has to do with our physical differences. Although all people have the same basic physical makeup, we all still have physical differences too. For example, some people are very tall or very short while others are very dark or very light. Some people have brown eyes while others have green and some have brunette hair while others have blonde and so on. In the same way our DNA expresses little differences in our physical makeup, so too does our brain in the way it charges our subconscious. To understand this, recall that our brain keeps our subconscious charged at the ground state level and that this results in our normal level of performance for various tasks. Well, a useful question to ask might be why the body bothers to do this charging at all when your mind can just charge your subconscious to perform some task instead. Well, this approach wouldn’t really work out too well for a couple of reasons. For one, your conscious mind has free will and could simply choose not to charge your subconscious in the needed way to perform some particular task well. Furthermore charging the subconscious with your mind generally takes much more time than charging through the body. If you need to perform a basic task quickly, such as adding 2 + 2, your body doesn’t really want to wait for your mind to have to charge your subconscious first. Having such a weakened ability to perform such a basic task quickly could be disastrous for your survival. This same line of thinking is also true for many of the various tasks you perform throughout the day.

          I like to think of our brain as having evolved to charge our subconscious in a way that gives us a basic minimum level of performance capability in many of the generic tasks that we perform daily. Sure we can always use our conscious mind to charge our subconscious even more and perform certain tasks extraordinarily well. But just in case we didn’t want to do that, or didn’t have the proper time to, our body makes sure that we’re always still able to perform those tasks at some basic level of skill anyway. This includes just about any task that we’re able to perform using our negative mind such as singing, dancing, telling jokes, writing stories, playing sports or simply imagining things. Our ability to perform all of these tasks at some minimum level occurs as a result of our ground state charge. However, what constitutes that minimum level of performance is different for each person. This again occurs as a result of the slight differences in our physiological makeup – particularly in our brain – that occur from person to person. Thus what is a transcendental level of performance for one person may not be for another person.

 

 

GIFTS AND CURSES

 

One of the interesting consequences of this difference in performance level that occurs from person to person is the way it varies for different tasks we perform. Just as human DNA occurs on a spectrum or range of expression, so too does our ground state charge with respect to various activities. To understand this, let us rewind a bit and take another look at primal emotions. While all people have primal emotions to some degree, I believe that these degrees vary from person to person as well. For example some people’s brain probably over charges the anxiety emotion and causes them to go into fight or flight too often or too intensely while other people’s brain probably doesn’t charge it enough – although it's probably not that big a deal that it doesn’t in the modern world. Some people probably have a brain that overcharges the sexual emotion and causes them to think about sex too much while for others it charges too little and causes them to have little interest in sex. Just as this variation in charging occurs from person to person with primal emotions, so too does it occur with our ground state charge for different activities.

          I believe that different parts of our brain are responsible for charging our subconscious in a particular way and ensuring that we have a basic minimum level of performance relative to some task. However, some parts of our brain may charge our subconscious too much for one kind of task while other parts of our brain don’t charge our subconscious enough for another kind of task. This results in different levels of performance for different activities. For example, the part of my brain responsible for charging my subconscious to help me solve math problems may charge my subconscious very strongly while the part of my brain that helps me to draw and create visual art charges my subconscious very weakly. The overall result would be that I’m naturally pretty good at solving math problems while naturally not being so good at art. In a certain sense, one might say that I’m naturally gifted at mathematics but naturally cursed when it comes to art.

          Thus the performance level that each person is capable of with their negative mind varies from activity to activity. Some people are naturally gifted at science, language, music or storytelling. Other people may be more gifted in the way they’re able to control their bodies and may be great singers, dancers, or athletes. Some people may even be gifted with certain personality traits such as being a natural-born leader or being very socially gregarious or highly ethical and so on. I believe that all people have certain gifts that make them naturally very good at certain tasks and certain curses that make them naturally very bad at certain tasks.

          In some cases, a person’s brain can overcharge the subconscious for some activity so much that it pushes them into the top performance percentile of the entire population. Bear in mind that this doesn’t necessarily mean that they will always perform better than the rest of the population in that particular area. Any other person could still charge their subconscious to perform at a transcendental level and keep charging their subconscious to perform more and more transcendentally until they surpass the gifted individual’s negative mind performance level. However, the gifted individual could also charge their subconscious to perform transcendentally and would likely have a much easier time reaching extraordinary levels of performance capability than the non-gifted person could.

          Thus when these gifted individuals in the top percentile really focus on their craft and reach transcendental levels of performance for them, they reach a state of performance that we usually refer to as “genius”. I believe Einstein was gifted in this way and reached genius levels with regard to science and his understanding of spacetime. Carl Friedrich Gauss was a famous mathematician who I believe was a genius when it came to mathematics. I actually also believe that Mariah Carey is a “genius” in a sense when it comes to vocal control and singing ability.  I’d have to do an insane amount of charging for example to reach the same or similar level of vocal control that she has. In fact it is really unclear if I’d ever even be able to charge my subconscious for transcendental control that far. She was just that amazing a singer in her prime in my opinion. In fact, honestly, I think she might just be the greatest singer to have ever existed.

 

 

DISABILITIES

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In the same way some people end up in the very high percentile of negative mind performance, some can also end up in the very low percentile as well. This can occur due to certain genetic mutations that occurred when the individual was born or due to injury or a neurological disease the individual may have obtained at some point in their life. In these cases, the individual's negative mind performance level may be too low to have the same performance expectations as the rest of the population. When this is the case, the individual may be considered to have a disability. For example, when the part of a person’s brain responsible for charging their subconscious to help them solve math problems is charging the subconscious too weakly, they may have a disability called dyscalculia.  Similarly, when the part of the brain that helps us to read is charging our subconscious too weakly, we may have dyslexia.

          Our bodies also charge our subconscious to stabilize our thoughts and attention so that our mind isn’t wandering around all over the place like it does when we’re dreaming. However, when the body doesn’t charge this stabilization function strongly enough, we may have a disability called ADHD and so on. It could also be the case that the body is charging some mental function too strongly and this causes a mental disability as well. This may be what happens when a person has obsessive-compulsive disorder or certain kinds of autism for example. It should be noted that while disabilities can be severely limiting for a person's basic level of performance, it should not be assumed that they represent an absolute limit on what that person is capable of. This is because the term “disability” generally refers to the nature of the performance level of a person’s negative mind. It doesn’t necessarily apply to a person’s transcendental level of performance, which has no clear ceiling as far as I can tell. In theory, a person can always just keep charging their subconscious more and more to reach a higher and higher level of performance.

          One last comment I'd like to make about disabilities has to do with the rather lifelong nature that they tend to have. Because they’re charged by your brain and your brain changes very little over time, it tends to be the case that disabilities last for your entire life. Now it is true that you can always charge your subconscious to go transcendental and reach a higher level of performance that goes beyond your disability, however, this charge won’t be permanent. Unlike your ground state charge, your subconscious doesn’t remain in its excited state automatically. Your mind must keep charging your subconscious in order to keep it excited and allow you to perform at a transcendental level. However, the moment you stop charging your subconscious in this manner, your subconscious will naturally start to discharge and your performance level will eventually just revert back to your normal level of performance which is considered to be at the disability level. This makes disabilities a lifelong struggle that can never be truly overcome although you can have better days than others.