Book | Subconscious Energy Mechanics

Chapter 8: Transcendental Mental States

In the last chapter, we discussed in great detail the connection between your intention and the subconscious mind. In a sense, we spent a lot of time looking at what's going on with our negative mind during the subconscious charging process. Well now we're going to switch things up and look much more closely at what's going on with your positive mind during the charging process. We will explore how the subconscious actually charges up as a result of what the negative mind does. Although we will not necessarily go over the main techniques for charging in this chapter, we will cover the very basics of how the charging process works. There's still one main area of the subconscious that we have to cover before we can more fully discuss the main techniques for charging subconscious energy. We will cover this additional area in the next two chapters after this. In this chapter, we’ll primarily go over a special state of awareness that is normally referred to as a “trance” state. We will analyze this state of mind from the perspective of the subconscious and gain a deeper understanding of the role this state plays when it comes to using your transcendental mental abilities.

STATES OF AWARENESS

The first topic I’d like to cover in this chapter has to do with what we might normally think of as a “state of awareness”. Specifically, what is a state of awareness and why does it seem that such a state seems to change from one moment to the next? For example during meditation or simply when we’re sleeping. Well to understand the answer to these questions, let’s first acknowledge the fact the your conscious mind is intricately connected to your subconscious mind. It is as if they’re metaphysically glued together and can never be separated. An important consequence of this inseparable nature between the conscious and subconscious minds has to do with how the very nature of your own awareness feels to you. This is because your conscious mind is always highly aware of what your subconscious mind is doing. In fact, I largely believe that the mental experience we call “awareness” solely comes from your conscious mind and that it is the subconscious mind that dictates how our conscious mind experiences reality. Thus what we’re “aware” of at any given moment will always be dependent on the activity of our subconscious. We don’t ever have to worry that our subconscious won’t be around to enable us to experience reality because it is always connected to our conscious mind and cannot be separated from it.

That being said, it should be noted that the actual activity going on in your subconscious mind is relatively stable and doesn’t change in some drastic way very often. This fact is important to us because it also means that our awareness is largely going to feel the same and won’t feel like it changes drastically very often either. When we go to work every day, the environment at our job doesn’t radically change from day to day. You don’t normally have to perform new tasks, work with new people and work in new locations every time you show up to work. Rather, it’s usually the same old same old. This causes work to have a very familiar feel to you after a while, even when there are minor changes in your work environment and routine.

Well a similar phenomenon can be attributed to your awareness as a result of the activity of your subconscious mind. When you wake up every day, your subconscious mind goes back to its ground state charge and your conscious mind is compelled accordingly. Since your brain is pretty much the same every day, your ground state is mostly the same as well. This in turn means that your awareness of reality is mostly going to feel the same also. However, while this is true, it should be recognized that there are still times when your subconscious activity does radically change from your normal ground state charge. A good example of this occurs when you’re dreaming. In this case, your body is no longer charging your subconscious at the ground-state level. Because of this, your subconscious activity changes in a rather extreme way compared to how it behaves when you’re awake. This radical change causes our awareness in a dream state to feel very different from our awareness in a waking state.

Of course, the conscious mind itself isn’t actually doing anything differently. All it’s doing is being aware and allowing itself to be compelled by the subconscious mind. What’s actually changing is the body and the activity of the subconscious mind. However, because our subconscious behaves so differently when we dream vs when we’re awake, we often find it useful to classify these two occurrences as different states of awareness. This is not unlike how we feel the need to classify different states of matter. The physical properties of ice for example seem drastically different enough from water that we feel the need to call it something else even though it really isn’t. Thus in a nutshell, a “state of awareness” is a term that generally refers to a particular classification or category of subconscious activity. When we’re awake, that describes one kind of state of awareness as a result of the way of our subconscious behaves when we’re awake. When we’re dreaming that is another kind of state of awareness as a result of the way our subconscious behaves when we’re dreaming.

An interesting question to ask here is whether or not there are other kinds of states of awareness. Of course, a state of awareness as we’ve defined it here is just a classification of subconscious activity. Technically there could be thousands of states of awareness depending on how specific we want to get. For example, watching sports could be thought of as a state of awareness that’s different from working out or exercising since our subconscious behaves a little differently in each case. But still, even though it’s largely a matter of opinion, let’s ask the question anyway. What other kind of states of awareness exists out there? Are there states that most of us would agree on as far as finding it necessary to classify them as another kind of state of awareness? Well, most people might agree that we experience different states of awareness when we meditate, have out-of-body experiences or get “in the zone” when engaged in some particular activity. The reason the concept of a state of awareness is so important is that charging the subconscious actually does require us to enter another state of awareness that is different from our normal ground state. Because our conscious mind needs to be in this special to state to charge up in a controlled way, this state will be extremely important to our discussions on the subconscious for the remainder of the book.

TRANSCENDENTAL MENTAL STATE

A very important state of awareness that is central to the practice of controlling your subconscious energy is a state that I refer to as a transcendental mental state or simply a transcendental state for short. It is actually in this state that your mind gains access to the ability to both charge your subconscious and use the transcendental mental abilities we mentioned in chapter 1 through 3 – this includes emotion, transcendental control, transcendental perception and transcendental creativity. In chapter 4 it was mentioned that your body charges your subconscious at the ground state level and that it is at this level that your conscious mind has a normal performance level and has the abilities prescribed to the negative mind. It was also mentioned that your intention can be used to command your subconscious in a way that causes it to leave the ground state and enter an excited state. It is in this excited state that you’re able to use your positive mind to perform different functions and achieve a transcendental level of performance. This excited state I mentioned actually corresponds to a transcendental state of awareness.

Before going straight into how to enter a transcendental state, I’d like to first talk a little bit about what a transcendental state feels like and how you know when you’re in one. Simply put, and as you might have suspected, a transcendental state feels very similar to when you’re in a dream. This makes sense since, in theory, your subconscious is leaving the ground state charge both when dreaming and when entering a transcendental state of awareness. When your subconscious goes really far away from its ground state, your subconscious is no longer compelling your conscious mind to function at a normal performance level and things tend to feel all over the place. This is what happens when we’re dreaming. However, when you enter a transcendental state, your subconscious does go away from the ground state charge here too but not as much as it does when you’re dreaming. Consequentially your state of awareness doesn’t feel exactly like it does when you’re dreaming but it does feel very similar to it and it is this dream-like feeling in your awareness that enables you to know that you’re in a transcendental mental state.

It should be noted that, just as you feel very strong compulsions to do certain things in your dreams, you will also feel very strong compulsions to carry out certain actions when in a transcendental state as well. You may recall that when dreaming, you will often feel relatively random urges to go certain places and do certain things, even things that you might not normally do while awake. Furthermore, you will often just know certain things like what your mission or objective is for some task you’re carrying out as well as the background story and history behind that task while in a dream. This is all in spite of the fact that none of these events or any of the history related to them has ever been experienced by you before. These urges, both in action and perception, come from the way your subconscious is compelling you while dreaming. A similar phenomena occurs when in a transcendental state. You will generally feel a very strong compulsion to perform some action that is based on your subconscious charge. For example if you charge your subconscious to be creative at telling jokes, you will generally feel a strong compulsion in a transcendental state that sort of guides you in both constructing a joke and delivering it using transcendental control as well.

It should also be noted that this transcendental mental state that I’m describing here is certainly not a new concept either. While you may not have heard of it being referred to by the term “transcendental mental state”, you’ve likely heard of another term that I believe is actually meant to describe it. Colloquially this state of awareness is often referred to as a “trance state” or being in a trance. You’ve likely heard the term trance being used in the context of other phenomena such as hypnosis, meditation or even being in the zone with some activity. One common misconception about trance states is the thought that you generally have to be in a state that’s kind of half asleep in order to enter it. Thus people will often try to enter a trance state by becoming extremely relaxed and getting into a posture where they can almost fall asleep but not quite.

In fact, this actually used to be the main way in which I charged my subconscious. For a long time, I used to believe that you had to enter this half-asleep state in order to both charge the subconscious and reach a transcendental performance level. I used to even try to enter this half-asleep state while performing activities such as conversing with others. However, as I became more experienced in controlling my subconscious, I eventually came to realize that this belief was incorrect. You don’t actually need to be half asleep to enter a trance state. On the contrary, you both can and often do enter this state while you’re wide awake and performing highly alert activities such as working, hanging out with others, playing video games or playing sports. We especially enter this state often while watching movies or listening to music. So it is generally incorrect to presume that trance states require you to be half asleep. When I started charging my subconscious in this state without trying be half asleep, I was able to achieve much better control over my subconscious. We will talk about how to enter this state without being half asleep shortly. However, going forward, we will not use the term “trance” to refer to this state of awareness and will instead call it a transcendental state.

SUBTLETY OF TRANSCENDENTAL STATES

The next important property of transcendental states I’d like to mention has to do with their initial subtle nature. Recall that your conscious mind is always aware of your subconscious mind’s behavior and will feel like it has entered an altered state of awareness whenever your subconscious activity changes in some drastic way from its usual waking state activity. Well it is important to recognize that this change in awareness does not usually occur instantaneously but rather will often occur gradually. This is because a radical change in your subconscious mind’s behavior usually occurs gradually as well. For example, when you go to sleep, your body stops charging the ground state and you slip into a dream state. This causes a radical change in your subconscious mind’s behavior resulting in an altered state of awareness compared to when you’re awake. However, it is not generally the case that you’re wide awake one second and then suddenly find yourself in a random dream the next second. Rather the change in awareness from awake to dreaming occurs as a slow and gradual process. Similarly, when people take drugs to change how their body charges their ground state, the change in their state of awareness also occurs gradually as their body gradually changes in how it commands their subconscious.

This tendency toward graduality also applies to transcendental states. But what’s even more interesting about these states is that this graduality not only applies to timing but also to intensity. By this I mean that your consciousness takes a certain amount of time to enter a transcendental state, it does not occur instantaneously. But even when it does, it is not necessarily very intense. Unlike when you’re dreaming, your body is still charging your subconscious very strongly when you enter a transcendental state – at least if you’re entering one while wide awake. This creates a condition where the part of your subconscious behavior that’s caused directly by your intention and is excited, or transcendental, in nature, is hard to notice. It is too overpowered by the charge of the subconscious ground state that your body is inducing. We will talk more about this later. But the overall result is that it is actually somewhat difficult to notice when you’re in a transcendental state at the beginning of the charge. It is very subtle in nature and you might not even notice that it’s happening if you’re not paying attention to it and don’t know what to look for to confirm you’ve entered it.

However, as your subconscious charges up, it becomes more and more excited and the corresponding transcendental state of awareness becomes more and more pronounced. At this point, it starts to actually overpower the charge coming from the body. As this occurs more and more, it will become easier and easier to notice that you’re in a transcendental state and it will become less and less subtle. Eventually, it will reach a point where it is so extremely in your face that you can’t possibly miss it. This time you will notice that your overall state of awareness has changed from the normal relaxed and awake state of mind you’re used to. Before giving some examples of this, there are still a few more properties of transcendental states that we must cover.

HOW TO ENTER A TRANSCENDENTAL STATE

Let’s now start approaching things more heuristically and discuss how you actually go about entering a transcendental state. Now there are some important parameters that govern this process which we will discuss in more detail in the next chapter. However, we can discuss the technique in its most basic form here. In a nutshell, the key to entering a transcendental state is largely to simply hold an intention until you end up in one and that’s pretty much it. I know, probably not the “big reveal” you were expecting. But entering a transcendental state really is that simple. For years I’ve been trying to retrace my steps mentally to try to determine exactly what it was that was allowing me to enter a transcendental state. I came up with many different theories regarding this, including the one I mentioned previously which involved trying to be half asleep. Well after a few years, I finally realized that the key to how I was achieving this was the deceptively simple act of just holding an intention for a short period of time. This was something I’d actually always done every time I entered a transcendental state without realizing it on a conscious level.

I won’t pretend to fully understand why this works but I would like to present a theoretical framework that I think nicely models what’s happening when you hold an intention in this manner. Previously it was mentioned that your body charges your subconscious in its ground state. Well, I often like to think of your body as being like a force of gravity that’s basically pulling your subconscious toward the ground. When you hold an intention, it seems to be creating a kind of pressure that pushes up against your subconscious and tries to launch it off the ground. After a while of holding an intention, you do successfully catapult your subconscious off the ground and into the air. And once in the air, your subconscious has much more freedom to move around since it’s no longer limited by the friction of the ground. Now this is all symbolic and metaphorical of course but what it means is that your intention has the ability to push your subconscious away from its ground state and into its excited state. During this time away from the ground state, your subconscious has much more freedom to be commanded by your conscious mind instead of your body.

Another nice analogy for this phenomenon involves one that we’ve already used – atoms. When your subconscious is in its ground state, that is not unlike an atom that is in its ground state. This means that all of the electrons of the atom are at their lowest possible energy level. However, when you hold an intention, this is like an electromagnetic wave giving energy to the electrons in the atom and causing them to jump to a higher energy level. In this case, the atom is now in an excited state. While an electron is hanging around at this higher energy level, it has a bit more freedom to move around because the attractive pull of the atom’s nucleus is a bit weaker at this energy level. In other words, the further the electron gets from the atom’s nucleus, the weaker the voltage that’s trying to pull it toward the nucleus. With this weakness of force, the electron temporarily has more freedom. It will eventually lose that freedom once it has lost the energy it gained and falls back into its ground state though.

This is exactly how your subconscious functions too. And what’s even more is that your subconscious also will eventually fall out of its excited state and back into its ground state after a few seconds. We will talk more about this in the next section. However, another important principle about transcendental states involves quantization. Recall that throughout this book I’ve mentioned that your subconscious is quantized by your intention. Well, it is actually the intention that you hold in order to enter a transcendental state that will determine what you’re actually able to do while in a transcendental state. The new intentions you produce while you’re already in a transcendental state don’t seem to affect your subconscious too much in terms of quantization. This is important to understand because there is a loss of a kind of syncopation that exists between your conscious mind and subconscious mind when your subconscious is in its excited state.

At the ground state level, your subconscious responds almost instantly to your intention and compels you in a way that allows you to use it to perform at the normal negative mind level. This response is so instantaneous, it generally just feels like it’s the conscious mind that’s doing all of the work and there is no subconscious doing much of anything at all. However, this apparent synchronization that exists between the two minds changes whenever you enter a transcendental state. At this point, you now have more freedom to think more directly with your subconscious mind, as opposed to your conscious one. We will also talk more about this later in the chapter.

Although there is still much more to discuss about transcendental states, you can now start to get your feet wet and practice entering this state to control your subconscious. I recommend practicing using your subconscious to feel more emotion first. I believe that it is largely the easiest transcendental mental ability to use. Thus you want to first pick an emotion that you want to feel more strongly. Let’s say that you choose the love emotion. You would then focus on someone that’s pretty easy for you to love and then simply hold the intention to love that person. That’s pretty much all there is to it for the moment. You’d simply hold this intention and wait for a moment. For the first roughly 7 seconds or so, it will feel mostly like nothing is happening and that there’s largely no point in this activity. However, right around the period of time from 7 - 10 seconds or so, at least that’s the usual time I notice it, you should feel your state of awareness start to change. It will suddenly feel like a kind of emotional pressure is building up and getting stronger. You will then notice that this feeling peaks and suddenly you’re in a very slight dream-like state.

Now at the beginning of a charge, this state of awareness is very subtle and may be difficult to notice. However, as your subconscious charges up, this state becomes more and more intense and easier to notice. When you first start performing this exercise, it will likely be difficult to notice the switch in your awareness to this dream-like state but I believe that if you pay attention and look out for it, you should be able to notice it occurring. As you feel your mind entering this transcendental state, you will notice that your attention starts to wander from its fixed nature on the person that you were focused on while holding the intention to love them. You will notice that your mind naturally wants to start wandering into a somewhat random day dream. This is your subconscious compelling you based on the intention that you held before entering the transcendental state. If you try to mentally go with the flow of this compulsion or urge to wander, you will notice that what you imagine in this temporary dream like state is not completely random.

Instead, you will feel compelled to daydream about something that is related to loving the person you were focused on. It will actually be hard not to do so – this is the quantization effect. You will likely also notice that when you enter this dream state, you will naturally start using your transcendental mental abilities. The first and most obvious one will likely be emotion. You should notice that you tend to feel the love emotion more strongly while you’re in this transcendental state. You will also notice that your imagination becomes much more vivid and feels more real and intense than usual. Eventually, you will notice yourself fall out of a transcendental state and, in doing so, will also notice that this stronger feeling of the love emotion gets weaker and your vivid and intense imagination feels more flat and normal again. We will continue to talk about the important properties and characteristics of this transcendental state of awareness throughout the chapter. However, you can now begin practicing to enter this state to get the hang of it.

TRANSCENDENTAL STATE INTERMITTENCY

The next property of transcendental states that we’ll discuss is perhaps the most consequential after understanding how to actually enter this state. In fact a good chunk of all the trouble I had for years when it came to understanding how transcendental states work has to do with the fact that I didn’t understand this particular principle. But in a nutshell, I’ve learned that transcendental states are pretty much always intermittent in nature. This means that you can’t actually stay in a transcendental state of awareness. When I first started getting into controlling my subconscious on a conscious level, it didn’t take very long for me to realize that my mind was entering an altered state of awareness and that it was in this state that I was most capable of controlling my subconscious. However, it took years for me to more fully understand exactly how this state works. At first, since I knew that I gained better subconscious control while in this state, I kept trying to stay in a transcendental state for as long as I could. And sometimes when I was really in the zone, it did seem like I was successfully able to stay in this state indefinitely. However, at the start of a charge, there didn’t seem to be anything that I could do to stay in a transcendental state.

Eventually, after trying to do a countless number of different things with my intention to stay in this state longer, I came to a rather powerful conclusion. The reason I couldn’t figure out how stay in a transcendental state was because there wasn’t really any way to do it, it was, and is, basically impossible. There seems to be an inherent property in transcendental states of awareness that prevents you from staying in them for a prolonged period of time. It isn’t a question of technique but rather it is simply the nature of transcendental states. Again I won’t pretend to fully understand where this property comes from or why it’s in effect, but I only can say that, based on my observations, transcendental states are inherently intermittent. Once again, this means that you can’t stay in them for a prolonged period of time. Just as a ball gets thrown in the air and must come back down or an atom enters an excited state and then eventually goes back to its ground state, so too does your subconscious enter an excited state, when you’re in a transcendental state, and then must go back to its ground state, where you’re back to a normal state of awareness.

So how long are you are able to stay in a transcendental state? Well there are actually different parameters that affect it – both how quickly you’re able to enter this state and how long you’re able to stay in it when you do. However, in my experience, it’s never really longer than a few seconds at a time. At the beginning of a charge, I find that I can only enter this state for about 3 – 4 seconds. But, once my subconscious is supercharged up, it feels like I may be able to sometimes stay in it for a second or two longer. But honestly, that might just be in my head since my perception is so strongly altered in this state that it’s rather difficult to notice the passage of time – just like it is in a regular dream. So, no matter what the subconscious conditions are when you’re going into a transcendental state, an expectation of roughly 3 – 4 seconds is generally a good approximation for how long you can expect to stay in this state.

SUBCONSCIOUS ACTION AND INSTINCT

Let’s now talk more deeply about the nature of subconscious thought and what’s going on with it when you’re in a transcendental state. In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that your intention expresses a command and that your subconscious becomes quantized to carry out this command. But then what exactly does subconscious thought "express" in this interaction? Well, I like to think of subconscious thought as expressing “action”. This means that your subconscious executes or carries out the commands that come from your conscious mind and body. For example when you hold the intention to imagine an apple in your mind, it’s actually your subconscious that responds to this intention and carries it out. It alters your imaginary sensory perception so that you’re able to perceive an apple in your mind. Just as the term “intention” refers to the command-like nature of your conscious mind, I often like to refer to the executing nature of subconscious thought by the term subconscious action. This simply refers to the particular action that your subconscious thought is expressing. For example if your intention is to imagine an apple, than the corresponding subconscious action is the altering of your perception to perceive an apple in your mind.

Of course altering your perception, both imaginatively and through your physical 5 senses, is only one kind of expression of subconscious thought. It can also express itself in the form of emotion, bodily control and creativity. Now one of the most important aspects of subconscious action to understand is that this mental function is not necessarily in perfect sync with your intention. When I first got into controlling my subconscious, I knew that my intent “commanded” my subconscious but that alone never truly got me the level of control that I knew was possible and could occasionally reach every so often. I knew that there was still some piece of understanding that I was missing. Whenever I tried to control my subconscious purely through intent, there was always some aspect of subconscious thought that seemed to be outside of my control. It seemed that whenever I entered a transcendental state, a part of my mind was always just kind of doing its own thing, similar to what happens when we’re dreaming. I could never fully control it using intention alone.

Eventually, I realized that the part of my mind that controls my subconscious is actually different from the part of my mind that controls my intention. A good way of thinking about this has to do with the way you move and control your body. When you decide to move your arm, would you say that the thought that you use to achieve this is the same type of thought that you use to imaginatively think about things in your mind? For example, could you move your arm simply by willing it to move hard enough or imagining over and over again that it moves a certain way? The answer of course is no. You cannot move your arm simply by wanting for it to move or by intending that it move very strongly and forcefully. No amount of effort in this regard will make any difference. The only way to actually move your arm is by mentally using a very special kind of thought your consciousness has access to and uses solely for the purpose of “moving”. No one had to train you on how to use this special kind of thought to move your body, you’ve always sort of “just did it” instinctively from the time that you were a baby.

Well, this principle is exactly how subconscious action works. Subconscious action isn’t something you can actually control by simply “willing” your subconscious to do something – like produce emotion – with your conscious mind. Although your subconscious does respond to your intention, it is not necessarily being controlled by it. This is a very important distinction to make when it comes to subconscious control. But then if your conscious mind isn’t actually “controlling” your subconscious, then what is? Well it is actually another part of your awareness that is much deeper and is much more subterranean in nature. I like to call this part of your awareness subconscious instinct or just instinct for short, it’s difficult to say if this level of awareness is actually a secondary form of awareness that exists in your conscious mind or if it is actually a part of your subconscious mind. Since the two minds are never separate, it’s difficult to know for sure. However, going forward, we will simply assume that it is native to the subconscious mind – hence the two minds mentioned in chapter 1. Your instinct is actually a very mysterious part of awareness that doesn’t seem to be capable of the properties of logic, reason and free will that we’ve been attributing to the negative mind.

Thought expressed at the level of instinct seems to occur at the very inception point of thought itself. This means that there’s no filter of any kind for these kinds of thoughts and you can’t express them with any kind of planning or premeditation – at least not without the influence of the conscious mind. Thoughts that occur at the level of instinct just sort of pop into your mind out of pure nothingness in a sense. However, the reason these thoughts are not all over the place is because thoughts expressed at the level of instinct still must follow the parameters that all transcendental abilities must follow – such as subconscious quantization. Thus what your subconscious instinct is allowed to express is limited by the intention of your conscious mind and also commands to it that come from your body. But even after your subconscious has become quantized, your instinct is still allowed to sort of run wild within the confined area of expression that your mind and body have placed it in. This is why I never felt like I could truly control my subconscious using intention alone. Even after the conscious mind quantizes subconscious action, you still have a limited ability to “think” using your instinct. It doesn’t quite feel like the same kind of thinking that goes on with your conscious mind but it is still a form of thinking nonetheless.

The thought expressed at the level of instinct generally has a very “just do it” kind of feeling to it. For example whenever you produce an emotion, you sort of just do it. You don’t think about it in some highly premeditated or planned out way with your conscious mind first. When conditions are right, you just seem to generate emotion. The “just right” conditions actually represent the times when your conscious mind, or body, quantizes your subconscious and confines the general area your subconscious is allowed to express itself in. However, when producing emotion, you're still “thinking” at the level of instinct in that particular moment. It wasn't something that occurred automatically. This is true for all of your transcendental mental abilities. You always perform them by thinking with your subconscious or, put another way, your subconscious instinct. For example when you generate a very strong belief about something, you generally “just do it” instinctively. You don’t have to consciously plan it or make sense of it first. Nor can your conscious mind fully control it at times either. When highly creative ideas enter your mind, again you often just think of them instinctively. When you try to think of them consciously, they’re usually quite terrible and correspond to a normal level of performance. Similarly when you laugh or cry and sometimes even when you dance, you “just do it” using your instinct and don’t necessarily control the process on an entirely conscious level.

Now an important understanding to have about your subconscious instinct is that it doesn’t quite function in the same way when you’re in a normal state of awareness as it does when you’re in a transcendental state of awareness. When you’re in a normal state of awareness, your subconscious is also in its ground state and is being heavily commanded by your body. What’s interesting about this state is that your subconscious instinct is still “there” so to speak but it is being so well programmed or commanded by your body that it essentially functions almost synonymously with your conscious mind. In other words, your body is giving your subconscious so much instruction, that your instinct is effectively quite tamed and simply does whatever your conscious mind tells it to do and does it quite accurately too. This will give you the sense that the actions executed by your subconscious are actually abilities that come from your conscious mind. For example when your conscious mind is in a normal state of awareness and you decide to hold the image of an apple in your mind, it is actually your subconscious that executes this command. Although you’re able to hold this image in your mind using your normal mental abilities – meaning you can do it any time you want, for anything you want, and as much as you want to – it is actually not your conscious mind that’s performing the “action” of manifesting this image in your mind.

As mentioned earlier, the action part belongs to your subconscious mind. Thus your subconscious is actually using subconscious action to produce an image in your mind at the command of your conscious mind. When your subconscious is in its ground state, subconscious action functions in the manner that we’ve been attributing to the abilities of your negative mind. However, when your subconscious goes into its excited state, it is no longer listening to the body quite as much. This makes a big difference for your subconscious instinct because it was only due to all of this instruction from your body that your instinct was tamed and listened very obediently to your conscious mind. When your subconscious is in an excited state, your subconscious instinct is much more free to do its own thing. At this point, you actually have to try to think with your subconscious instinct instead of just your intention. That is not to say that your conscious mind isn’t still commanding your subconscious but there is a clear loss of the kind of “syncopation” that existed between them when your subconscious was in its ground state and your conscious mind was in a normal state of awareness. For example, when you produce an intention while your awareness is in a transcendental state, you’ll notice that your subconscious action doesn’t respond quite as sharply or as quickly.

Let’s say that I enter a transcendental state and fantasize about having fun at the club. This means that I’m using transcendental imagination to have an extremely vivid fantasy about the club. When my conscious mind produces the intention to now imagine myself at work instead, my imagination won’t quite manifest this setting in my mind as quickly as it would if my mind were in a normal state of awareness. There’s a bit of delay to it when my mind is in a transcendental state. This is because my subconscious instinct, which is responsible for the action of manifesting my imagination, is not quite listening to my conscious mind as much as it was when it was in its ground state. However, my subconscious instinct still isn’t completely free when I’m in a transcendental state either. The subconscious actions that it’s allowed to express will be quantized by the intention that I held to enter a transcendental state in the first place. For example if I hold the intention to feel more of the peace emotion, then my subconscious instinct will only be allowed to produce emotion at the peace frequency while I’m in a transcendental state of awareness.

Now although you tend to just do things out of instinct when using transcendental mental abilities, this does not necessarily mean that you can't "think" with your instinct in a slightly more aware way. This was something that I eventually learned was possible as I got better at controlling my subconscious mind. I got a little bit better at thinking with my instinct as opposed to my conscious mind. Describing how to actually think with your instinct in a slightly more aware way however is a bit difficult to describe in words. To me, it feels very similar to using the part of my mind that I use to move my body, such as my arm or leg. However, when in a transcendental state, that same part of your mind can also be used to transcendentally move your body, produce emotion, perceive things such as your imagination or a belief and create. It also has a much looser feel to it than intention does. When you express a subconscious action with your instinct, while in a transcendental state, everything feels more indirect and less clear or focused. I think the best way to get used to thinking with your instinct in a slightly more aware way is to practice holding an intention to feel some emotion until you enter a transcendental state and then, when you enter a dream-like state, try to produce emotion without using your intention. Of course, you can’t actually stop thinking with your intention whether you’re in a transcendental state or not but it still helps to at least try to control your emotion without using intention. In doing so you should start to get a natural sense of what it means to think with your instinct instead of intention.

I recommend practicing this technique in order to get used to controlling your instinct. Overall it is important to remember that, like intention, you can’t actually turn off your subconscious instinct or stop thinking with it. However, you also don’t just want to leave it in a kind of autopilot mode either. When you enter a transcendental state, you want to practice being able to control to it a certain degree so that you’re able to charge your subconscious properly and more accurately. You’ll never be able to control your instinct as well as your intention since it doesn’t quite have free will but you can control it to a limited degree that goes beyond the effect of quantization. I should also mention that, for the sake of clarity, when I mention subconscious instinct and subconscious action going forward I will be referring to the case that your awareness is in a transcendental state and not a normal one unless otherwise specified. I will also used the terms instinct and positive mind interchangeably as well.

HOW THE SUBCONSCIOUS CHARGES

Now we’re finally ready to go over a basic overview for how the subconscious actually charges up. Granted we are still not quite in the position to cover the main techniques you’ll actually be using to charge your subconscious in practice. There’s still a great deal more information to cover before we’re ready for that. However, for now, we can try to get a general idea for how the process works. And, in my opinion, it really is quite simple in nature as well. To better understand how your subconscious charges, I often like to compare it to a child’s swing. When you were a kid and used to play on a swing at the park, you probably weren’t sure at first how exactly you were supposed to get the swing to go back and forth as you’ve probably seen it do when used by other kids. Eventually, you learned that the technique is to build up momentum. You try to push your body back a little and then, at just the right moment, you push your body forward. As the swing moves forward, you try to keep pushing your body forward with it. But then as the swing begins to move backward again, you stop pushing forward and now try to push your body backward along with the swing and then push it forward again when it starts moving forward again.

You keep repeating this process over and over again until the swing gains more and more momentum. A very similar process is in effect when it comes to charging your subconscious. To understand this, let’s focus for a moment on the goal of charging the subconscious to feel some emotion more and more intensely. To accomplish this, you’d focus on some subject and simply hold the intention to feel some emotion more strongly until you enter a transcendental state. To be clear that is not exactly the best kind of intention to use for charging emotion due to the absolute nature of the way the subconscious responds to intention. However, for now, we’ll simply focus on this kind of intention for charging emotion. As you hold this intention, you should feel your awareness starting to shift to into a dream-like state after about 7 – 10 seconds or so. It is important to sort of relax your mind at this point and allow your mind to drift into the mini-dream-like state that ensues. As you do so, you will notice that you instinctively begin to mini-dream about something related to the intention you were holding, including the subject of that intention.

Once in this transcendental state, you should notice that you do feel the emotion you wanted to feel more intensely and that your imagination feels much more real and vivid. You should also notice that you're using these abilities in a more clearly instinctive way compared to when you're in a normal state of awareness. After being in this state for a few seconds, you will then notice your awareness fall out of this transcendental state and back to a normal one. Once that occurs, you should then notice that you no longer feel this emotion quite as intensely and that your imagination feels more flat and less vivid. Well, after deciding that you want feel this emotion more intensely again, you choose to repeat the process. Once again you focus on the same particular subject and hold the intention to feel the same particular emotion more strongly until you enter a transcendental state again. As you do, you will notice your mind wander into a mini-dream again and you begin to instinctively dream about things related to the intention that you held again. During this time, you will once again notice that your imagination is much more vivid and that you’re able to feel the desired emotion more strongly. However, this second time around, you should notice two things that have changed. The first is that it’s actually a little bit easier for you to generate this emotion than it was before. And the second is that you’re able to feel this particular emotion even more strongly than you did before.

Of course, your mind will fall out of this transcendental state again after a few seconds and you will feel the emotion less strongly and the vividness of your imagination will go flat again. However, as you keep repeating this process of focusing on the same subject and holding the same intention until you enter a transcendental state and have a similar kind of mini-dream as a result, you will notice that your ability to feel the emotion you’re attempting to feel becomes stronger and stronger. In other words, this emotion is charging up. In a nutshell, charging works by repeating this same back-and-forth behavior between your negative mind and your positive mind over and over again. Recall that your subconscious has an energy component to it that takes time to build. Well just as it takes time to build up, it also takes time to discharge. And each time you enter a transcendental state and produce a little bit of emotion, some of it tends to stick around for a while. Thus when you enter a transcendental state and try to produce a little bit of emotion again, your subconscious seems to naturally piggyback off the little bit of emotion that’s still lingering around from the last time you were in a transcendental state producing that emotion and adds to it. And each time you enter a transcendental state to produce a little more emotion, some of the energy that’s still left behind from all of your previous sessions gets added to the new one.

Eventually, so much emotion has accumulated from each of your sessions that your subconscious is able to produce emotion very strongly and with great intensity. This of course, once again, is not unlike how a swing works. As you go back and forth on the swing, you’re adding a little bit of kinetic energy to it each time. However, because you’re adding this energy before the swing has fully lost the original amount of energy you added, the total kinetic energy of the swing simply grows and keeps growing so as long as you keep adding energy to it in this manner. This results in you swinging back and forth further and further from the swing’s rest position, with more and more speed and momentum as you do so. In the case of charging the subconscious, the more you keep repeating some particular subconscious action while in a transcendental state, the more you keep adding energy to that action and the more your subconscious charges up as a result. However, I should mention that you will technically be performing subconscious actions with all of your transcendental mental abilities – during this back-and-forth activity between your positive and negative minds – and therefore all of your transcendental mental abilities will get charged up to an extent. However, again, it is still true that you can focus the energy gained from this charge on one of your transcendental mental abilities more so than the others.

It should be noted that, while this is the general process for how the subconscious charges, the actual process in practice is a bit more messy than this and isn’t quite as neat. What we’ve not yet discussed is a very important and highly consequential dampening effect that occurs and acts to try to prevent this charging process from occurring. When you build lots of momentum on a swing, the kinetic energy of the swing doesn’t just wildly grow out of control forever, even after you’ve gotten off of it. There’s a dampening effect from gravity and friction, or viscosity, that works to reduce the swing’s energy. Similarly your body actually also works to dampen your subconscious charge in an effort to prevent it from charging endlessly out of control. If it didn’t do this, you could end up charging so much subconscious energy that it would make you kind of go crazy. The corresponding subconscious compulsions at that point would be so strong that it would be almost impossible to function normally. We will talk more about this dampening effect in the next chapter. In chapter 11, we learn how to still engage in this back-and-forth charging behavior in spite of this dampening effect on the body.

CHARGING THE SUBCONSCIOUS AND ENTERTAINMENT

In this section, I’d like to take a moment to look at how this charging process works in common everyday circumstances that we often come across. It should be understood that this charging process doesn’t only apply to some remote circumstance where you’re making a conscious effort to follow the back-and-forth process I’ve outlined in the previous section. On the contrary, the repetitious action involved in subconscious charging usually occurs any time you use your transcendental mental abilities at all. This is especially easy to see in the case of our emotions when it comes to being entertained. For example, when you’re watching a movie, you’re attention is constantly fixed on the movie. As your attention is fixed in this manner, you’re constantly holding the intention to follow the movie and make sense of what’s going on. And in the process of doing that, you’re actually going in and out of a transcendental state over and over again. Each time you’re in a transcendental state, you instinctively use subconscious thought to express the actions of transcendental perception and emotion over and over again. This causes your subconscious to charge up in a way that makes your attention become more and more drawn to the movie. You also gain the transcendental ability to more powerfully alter your perception to perceive the underlying storyline in the movie including all of its complex context.

A similar process occurs when listening to music, playing video games, watching sports, hanging out with friends and basically just about any form of entertainment you can think of. But even outside of entertainment, this same basic process also occurs when you’re engaged in acts of creativity and problem-solving. When you’ve gone through enough of these back-and-forth cycles between a normal and transcendental state, your subconscious will eventually charge in a way that allows you to get in the zone and start creating or problem-solving on a transcendental level of performance. In this case, you’ll now be able to create things or solve problems using your subconscious instinct as opposed to just conscious thought. When your subconscious charges for this purpose, it is actually your instinct, or intuition, that you’re training to become more creative or better at solving certain problems. A notable exception to this back-and-forth action when it comes to your emotion has to do with your primal emotions. In this case, your body will just charge your subconscious up rather quickly and you don’t really need to go through this back-and-forth rigmarole.

CONSCIOUSNESS WAVE FORMALISM (FOR PHYSICS ENTHUSIASTS)

This is a more extra-curricular section which will not be referred to in any of our future discussions on the subconscious. So please feel free to skip this section to continue learning about the subconscious. However, if you’re a physics aficionado, you may have appreciated how similar all of this talk about back and forth motion sounds to discussions having to do with waves. Simple harmonic motion is a term that refers to an object that is continuously moving back and forth through some equilibrium point while sustaining the same rate of change in its position. This kind of motion is generally represented mathematically by a sine wave which is good for describing motion that’s repeating. And wave motion in physics is generally represented by the wave equation whose solution is also a sine function. So in many ways this back and forth behavioral activity between our negative mind and our positive mind can be thought of as wave like behavior. For this reason, I sometimes like to think of the charging process as creating and sustaining an activity I call a consciousness wave. The longer this wave is sustained, the more your subconscious charges up.

We can even break up this wave into the normal components all waves have. For example, the amplitude of the wave describes the magnitude of the subconscious energy charge or how intensely the subconscious is expressing some subconscious action. This value will grow as the subconscious charges up or as the wave is sustained longer and longer. The frequency component of the wave would describe where you currently are in the back-and-forth motion of the wave. We can even talk about a phase angle which would describe other factors that affect your subconscious charge such as if you were already emotionally excited in some way when beginning a new subconscious charge. This existing emotional excitement constitutes an existing charge and so would affect the new charge you start. And if we really want to go further, we can even incorporate different subconscious frequencies in this formalism. Although a single wave equation in physics couldn’t incorporate information from different subconscious frequencies in a clear and distinct way, you could still accomplish this by upgrading to a vector space. We could create a vector wave function that is a linear combination of other wave functions, all of which are treated as being orthogonal to each other. In this way, each vector component could represent the wave-like activity of each subconscious frequency. This would be useful because it is possible for your subconscious to charge two or more different emotions, or frequencies, at once. So every other wave function in the vector wouldn't necessarily be zero whenever at least one wave function has a non-zero value.

This new vector-based subconscious wave function would look an awful lot like the Schrodinger wave equation in quantum mechanics. It would also contain all the important information about your subconscious as it charges up, including what frequencies are charging, how intensely charged they are and where they are in their back-forth motion at particular moments in time. That being said, this of course is all pretty silly to think about in terms of pure mathematics like this. You obviously can’t do any kind of realistic math on your own mind and subconscious activity. So we won’t use this formalism at all going forward as it would just needlessly convolute explanations. However, if you’re a physics enthusiast like I am, I wanted to mention this here just as a completely pointless but still very interesting way that it’s possible to think about your subconscious mind.

Footnotes

1. If you’re a physics buff then you know that general relativity is the more accepted theory of gravity today and that this theory suggests that there is no such thing as a “force” of gravity per se. I’m aware of this but for the sake of simplicity, I’d like to still appeal to the classical concept of gravity for analogies that I make here and throughout the book.

2. This effect is much more extreme when you try to use intention to change the setting of the environment in your dreams after you’ve become lucid in them