We’re now almost ready to start talking about the main techniques involved in charging your subconscious in practice. However, before I think it makes sense to do this, there is still one more major topic we must cover regarding the subconscious. This new topic has to do with the way your subconscious essentially organizes all of the information that it ends up saving and recalling at a later time. In other words, we will be looking at the way your subconscious manages its memory and will explore the regulatory role your memory plays in subconscious activity. As you will see, this topic allows us to explore in more detail the dampening effect that goes on at the subconscious level and prevents your subconscious from overcharging all the time. We will also gain a better understanding of many questions related to timing when it comes to the subconscious which we have not discussed in much detail yet. I often like to refer to this particular branch of subconscious knowledge as “memory mechanics” as it will feel very much like we’re looking more deeply at the nature of the subconscious from an almost mechanical like perspective but related specifically to the metaphysical device we call memory.

 

 

THE QUESTION OF TIMING CONSTRAINTS

 

In the last chapter, we learned that your subconscious charges up as a result of a kind of oscillatory pattern of back-and-forth behavior between your negative and positive minds. As your positive mind goes through these cycles over and over again, a little bit of subconscious energy gets stored each time and then adds to the intensity of your subconscious actions later on. This increasing intensity with each iteration is specifically what it means for your subconscious to charge up. However, there are some important questions that arise in this phenomenon which we’ve not addressed.

          The first has to do with the nature of timing, namely how long this energy that keeps getting saved with each iteration actually lasts. For example, let’s say that I complete one of these back-and-forth cycles between holding an intention and expressing some subconscious action while in a transcendental state. I then wait another year before completing another one of these cycles again. Will the subconscious energy stored during the first iteration still be available after all this time? If so, will it still add to the intensity of my new subconscious action, a whole year later, by the same amount that it would have if I’d completed the second iteration only a few seconds after the first? These questions require us to look more deeply at the timing constraints of subconscious charging. For example how fast can we actually charge our subconscious energy? And how long will we be able to maintain that charge before our subconscious energy begins to discharge? Furthermore, if I were to charge, stop charging, and then start charging again, what effect does time have on my ability to piggyback off my last charge? To answers these questions we must first have a better understanding of the role your memory plays in the charging process. This is what we will explore in this chapter and the next.

 

 

THE “OLDNESS” PROBLEM

 

To begin our discussion about the connection between your memory and subconscious charging, I’d like to first revisit the way your subconscious charges up when you’re being entertained. As an example, let’s look again at what’s happening on a subconscious level when you’re watching a movie you like. In this case, you’re constantly holding an intention to more deeply focus on the movie and make sense of the story as you watch it. In this process, the intentions that you hold also reflect the context of what’s being observed. Eventually you will then switch to a transcendental state of awareness where you use subconscious instinct to alter your perception to more deeply perceive the movie and produce some emotion in response to watching the movie. As you continue to go in and out of a transcendental state in this fashion, your subconscious will charge up to become more tuned into the movie and produce more emotion as a result. This is, in a nutshell, what is going on between your negative and positive minds as you’re watching the movie and are enjoying the experience of being entertained by it.

          As far as explanations go, this probably seems pretty adequate in terms of describing the way entertainment works. However, there is a bit of a hiccup we run into as we continue to move forward with this process in time. For example, let’s say that you’ve finished watching the movie and decide that you’ve enjoyed it so much that you will watch it again for a second time. You hope to feel just as emotionally stimulated the second time around as you did the first time. And when you do actually watch this movie for the second time, you notice that you do feel a great deal of emotional stimulation from the movie again but not necessarily as much as you did the first time around. But you’ve felt enough emotional stimulation to decide to watch it a 3rd time as well. Well based on your own past experiences, what do you think will happen on a subconscious level as you continue to watch this exciting movie over and over again for a 4th, 5th and 6th time and so on. Would you continue to keep feeling more and more emotional excitement as you keep watching this movie over and over again or would something change? According to the basic theoretical premise for how entertainment works described earlier, you should be able to keep going in and out of a transcendental state while watching the movie and your subconscious should keep on charging up as a result. In theory, your subconscious should be able to charge endlessly as you keep watching the movie over and over again. Of course, experience alone should tell you that this is definitely not actually the case.

          In fact to the contrary, it’s quite the opposite. As you keep watching this movie over and over again, you will find that you actually become less and less emotionally excited by it as time goes on. But there’s really no rational reason or explanation for why this should be occurring if we are to accept the current theory for entertainment suggested thus far. And yet, it is pretty clear that this loss of emotional excitement is what would happen as we continue to keep watching the movie. And it should be understood that this apparent "dampening" phenomenon doesn’t just apply to movies of course. Rather it seems to occur indiscriminately for pretty much all forms of entertainment. When you listen to a song for the first few times and feel a great deal of emotional stimulation from it as you do, you would most likely decide to continue to keep listening to this song over and over again as a result. You would do this with the hope of continuing to feel that same level of emotional stimulation. And for a time this will actually work. You may notice that you not only feel the same level of emotional excitement as before, but you’re actually able to feel even more emotional excitement as you continue to listen to the song. However, at some point, something about this process will seem to have changed. You will begin to notice that you’re no longer feeling more emotional excitement as you listen to the song although you do still feel some. It will be as if you’ve reached an equilibrium point of sorts. As you continue to listen to the song over and over again still, you notice that now you’re actually feeling less and less emotional stimulation. Eventually, you reach a point where you feel so little excitement as you listen to the song that it’s practically not even worth listening to anymore. At this point you simply move on to another song, where the cycle will, no doubt, repeat itself again.

          It would seem that the rules for entertainment explained previously only apply at the beginning of your experience with some form of entertainment. In other words, when something is new to you. And if you really think about it, you might agree that your most emotionally intense experiences in being entertained likely occurred when some particular aspect of the experience still felt new to you. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about a new movie, a new song, a new romantic relationship, a new social activity, a new book, or otherwise, the result is the same. You will generally be the most entertained and feel the most amount of emotional stimulation when the thing that’s entertaining you is still new. However, as you continue to have more and more experiences with this particular form of entertainment, something seems to be occurring that is disrupting the normal charging process that was occurring quite freely initially. And as this interferingly-natured phenomenon continues to occur, it seems to actually accumulate somehow and get stronger and stronger over time. In doing so, it seems to prevent you from experiencing emotional stimulation from this particular form of entertainment more and more staunchly as time goes on. And since this phenomenon occurs relatively ubiquitously for all forms of entertainment, it is clear that the current theory of entertainment described so far isn’t quite adequate to properly describe how entertainment actually works in the real world. There’s still something we that we seem to be missing that’s not allowing us to account for this “aging” problem that occurs in the process of being entertained.

          However, from this discussion, there’s one property about “things that entertain us” that seems to be unavoidable. For whatever reason, entertaining things always get “old” to us eventually. This means that they will reach a state where our subconscious just doesn’t respond to them all that strongly anymore. Whenever we produce an intention that has one of these “old” things as its subject, our subconscious response seems to be rather tepid and low energy. The dampening effect that causes this prevents us from charging a lot of emotion while we’re focused on this thing that is now old to us. But this doesn’t just apply to our emotions, this dampening effect actually prevents our subconscious from charging all of our other transcendental mental abilities too. In sports, a phenomenon that athletes sometimes experience that’s similar to physically over training, is mentally over training. In this case, they tend to keep repeating the same behaviors and activities in training over and over again until the activity actually reaches a point of “oldness”. And once this point is reached, that same dampening phenomenon goes into effect and the player is virtually unable to perform at a transcendental level. In other words, more training actually hurts them instead of helps them but not necessarily in a purely physical sense. Instead, it occurs on a mental level. I’ve seen this phenomenon occur in boxing many times. I actually believe that I can now just look at a fighter and judge how mentally over trained he is based on how he’s moving in the ring. I feel like I can always differentiate between normal control and transcendental control.

          An important question to then ask is what exactly is it that’s causing this dampening effect to occur? Why is it that things seem to always get old to us and cause our subconscious not to react so strongly to them anymore? Clearly, if we’re going to become proficient at charging our subconscious, we’re going to have to learn how to control our subconscious even while this dampening effect is constantly trying to get in the way of our efforts. The first step in achieving this level of control is to understand how it occurs in the first place. And to understand this, we must focus more deeply on the memory aspect of our subconscious. As you will see, this plays a very central role in this dampening effect and the reason the why things get old to us.

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ENTERTAINMENT AFFINITY IN KIDS VS ADULTS

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Before moving on to our discussion on why the aging problem occurs, I’d like to mention another interesting application of it that I’ve theorized to occur based on my observations. Something I’ve noticed, since becoming an old man, is that kids generally tend to have a much easier time having fun than us adults do. Simple activities like coloring and using their imagination tend to be very exciting and enjoyable experiences for them. Children also have the ability to be highly entertained by songs or movies that would be far too simple for an adult to find interesting. Adults require far more complex activities and situations to feel that same level of entertainment and emotional stimulation. But what is the cause of this difference in affinity for being entertained between the two age groups? Well you could say that that there is a difference in brain development between these two groups and that this must be causing the difference in our affinities in some way. And I’m sure that is certainly some of the answer. But I think the main part of the answer actually has to do with the aging problem discussed earlier.

          For a kid, the whole world is still very new to them. This actually makes it very easy for them to enter transcendental state in most circumstances compared to an adult. This is because there are so few forms of entertainment or activities they engage in that have gotten old to them. This therefore means they will generally experience much less of a dampening effect that would act to prevent their subconscious from charging up. Because of this, not only are they able to be entertained very easily, but this also allows them to more easily access heightened levels of creativity and intelligence. An adult would naturally have a higher level of base level intelligence as a result of experience and brain development but a child would actually have an easier time reaching a transcendental performance level for just about any activity, including intellectual ones, compared to an adult. I believe this is demonstrated by how quickly children are able to learn and absorb new information compared to adults. This is especially the case when it comes to learning a new language.

          Because of this heightened affinity for entering a transcendental state, I actually don’t think it would be all that necessary for a younger person to learn how to control their subconscious. Although still, I wouldn’t recommend this either way since it can be dangerous to control your subconscious if you don’t know what you’re doing. I gave an example of this from my own experience in chapter 4 in our discussion on primal emotions. That being said, us adults have much more experience and thus there are lots and lots of things that have in fact become old to us. Because of this, our subconscious is much less easily stimulated and has a much harder time entering a transcendental state in general. Of course we will learn how to get around this dampening problem that plagues us adults so much but I thought that this observation was interesting enough to be worth mentioning here.

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SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORY

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Earlier it was mentioned that something seems to build up and accumulate over time as you continue have more and more experiences with a particular thing. Well this thing that’s building up and seems to make it harder for your subconscious to enter a transcendental state is actually a piece of information that we generally refer to as “memory”. To understand why more and more memories tend to disrupt the charging process, I’d like to focus on a new element of your subconscious that’s related to your memories. Recall from chapter 2 that your mind has an automatic recall-like ability called association. This phenomenon describes the tendency for your subconscious to compel your conscious mind to experience the same thoughts and feelings that you had during a previous time in which you were focused on a particular subject. Well I’d like to now look at this phenomenon in a bit more detail. First, to make things easier to discuss, we will say that the place in your mind where all of these associations are stored is your subconscious memory. Thus every memory in your subconscious memory is actually an association that’s waiting to be accessed by your intent. Your intention accesses these associations whenever it has, embedded in it, the same subject, or point of focus, as the one the association is linked to. This is a fancy way of saying that you access one of these associations whenever you focus on the particular subject attached to the association and stored in your subconscious memory. This in turn means that your subconscious memory is largely organized according to the identity of all of the subjects that are stored in it. So in order in to access a particular subconscious memory and then access the association stored within it, you'd simply focus on the subject attached to it. When you do, you'd feel the same past thoughts and feelings that you had when you were last focused on that subject.

          I’d like to now go a little deeper into what associations actually are. When you focus on a particular subject and access the corresponding subconscious memory for it, it’s not just past thoughts and feelings that you’re stimulated to feel again when you do. To be more specific, it’s the entire state your subconscious was in at the time of the memory that is being recalled. So you when access a subconscious memory by focusing on the subject stored in that memory, your subconscious tries to revert back to the configuration it was in at the time the event in the memory was occurring. This means that your subconscious will try to become quantized in the same way it was during the memory and will try to produce a particular subconscious action at the same level of intensity that it did during the memory. For example, if I experience a traumatic event such as getting robbed in a dark alley, my brain will respond by charging the anxiety emotion. Because of this response from the body, I’m able to charge this emotion rather quickly and feel it at a relatively high level of intensity while this traumatic event is happening and even for a short time after it has occurred. Now when I’m no longer in the dark alley but focus my attention on it again at a later time, association occurs and my subconscious automatically responds by switching back to the high anxiety state it was in at the time of the traumatic event. Needless to say, this will not only affect my emotions but also the way perceive things and the way I transcendentally move my body. Now the idea of associations recalling past subconscious states vs past thoughts and feelings might seem like an unnecessary distinction but I believe it will be an important one for our discussions later on.

          Lastly, I’d like to mention that it is also the case that subconscious memory builds up and grows when your subconscious charges. Recall that it was previously mentioned that when your mind goes through these back-and-forth cycles between states of awareness described in chapter 8, some of the energy from the prior subconscious action, expressed in a transcendental state, gets saved. Well, this saved energy is actually stored in the corresponding subconscious memory. When you focus on some particular subject, enter a transcendental state and express some particular subconscious action directed toward that subject, then focus on that same subject again a later time, your subconscious will revert back to the state it was in when you first performed that initial subconscious action. This reverted state will also include information about just how intense the subconscious action was at the time. From here, it’s relatively easy to add energy to your subconscious and perform that same subconscious action with even more intensity.

          For example, let’s say that I’m trying to intentionally feel more of the anxiety emotion. Well, it would be a lot easier to do this while focusing on the dark alley that I got robbed in than it would be if I were focusing on a relatively safe environment like a grocery store. This is because the dark alley causes my subconscious to revert to a state where it is already naturally primed to express the anxiety emotion at a decent level of intensity – the amount it did during the traumatic event. All I have to do is piggyback off this subconscious state if I want to feel the anxiety emotion even more strongly. I would achieve this by entering a transcendental state while focusing on the dark alley and then performing the subconscious action of expressing the anxiety emotion. And each time I go through these back-and-forth cycles while focused on the dark alley – expressing the anxiety emotion in a transcendental state – the corresponding subconscious memory that stored the initial amount of energy, would gain even more energy. It would also contain the memories of what I was specifically thinking during each session that I was in a transcendental state. Thus as your subconscious charges up, your subconscious memory actually grows more and more in a sense.

          But then this would seem to create something of a contradiction. If subconscious memory grows and accumulates energy as we charge the subconscious more and more, how can it also be responsible for this “something” mentioned earlier that grows and accumulates in a way that dampens our ability to enter a transcendental state and prevents us from charging our subconscious too? Clearly one of these characteristics of subconscious memory can be true but certainly not both at the same time. Either a lot of subconscious memory has an additive effect which makes subconscious action more intense or it has a dampening effect which weakens it and makes it less intense. Well, as it turns out, both cases actually are true. Either effect can occur as subconscious memory grows but the particular effect that manifests will depend on a new property that your subconscious memory has which we will now discuss.

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MEMORY POLARITY

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In all my time studying the subconscious mind, I would say that one of the kookiest and strangest properties I’ve come across has to do with the polarity-based nature of subconscious memory. Based on my experience, I’ve come to believe that the subconscious actually has the ability to store two different kinds of subconscious memory rather than just one. Each kind of memory contains an association that will cause the subconscious to switch to a specific type of state that has very specific properties. And as you might have guessed, the properties of both states tend to be very much opposite or polar to each other. For this reason, I find it rather useful to categorize these two kinds of memory according to the same plus and minus parity that we used to talk about the conscious and subconscious minds. This gives a quality of polarity to your subconscious memory which I believe makes it much easier to understand and work with on a conscious level. Thus using this parity based formalism, we will refer to one kind of subconscious memory as negative memory and the other kind as positive memory.

          To understand where this memory polarity comes from, first I’d like you to understand that your mind tends to save everything you’re experiencing to memory. This mental feature seems to work automatically at all times and cannot be turned off, similarly to how you can’t actually stop your conscious or subconscious minds from thinking. Whatever you’re doing at any giving moment, your mind is always storing the experience to your subconscious memory for safe keeping. Now recall that I said that subconscious memories don’t just cause you to recall past thoughts and feelings whenever you access them using your intent, rather they actually cause your subconscious to try to revert back to the same state it was in at the time the event in the memory was occurring. Well this principle is very important when it comes to the specific state of awareness your mind was in when your subconscious was storing the subconscious memory. Memories created while you’re in a transcendental state tend to have much different properties to them from memories created while you’re in normal awareness state. These different properties will cause radically different behaviors in your subconscious as each kind of memory builds up more and more.

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NEGATIVE MEMORY

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The first memory type I’d like to discuss is negative memory. This kind of memory accumulates whenever your mind is focused on a particular subject while in a normal state of awareness. In this case, any subconscious action you express occurs while your subconscious is still in its ground state. And the longer you’re focused a particular subject while your awareness is in its ground state, the more negative memory automatically gets stored by your subconscious over time. This causes negative memory to build up and accumulate relative to this particular subject that you’re focused on. So when I focus on that same subject at a later time, all of that negative memory gets accessed and causes my subconscious to try to revert back to the ground state that it was in when I was initially focused on this particular subject. The more negative memory there is from this accumulation process, the more strongly my subconscious is stimulated to try to stay in its ground state.

          So in the simplest sense, the main property of negative memory is that it stimulates your subconscious to behave according to your ground state charge. And needless to say, this will very much act like a form of resistance at it relates to your ability to enter a transcendental state. In physics, we learn that mass is a characteristic of matter that describes its affinity for resisting motion. Well negative memory acts like a form of subconscious mass that has the characteristic of decreasing your subconscious’ ability to leave its ground state and enter an excited state. And the more negative memory there is, the more mass that negative memory has. Thus whenever you focus on things that have a lot of associated negative memory stored in your subconscious, it will generally be very difficult to enter a transcendental state. And this brings up a property about the negative mind that I’ve largely tried to avoid for the sake of clarity. But because negative memory can build up and cause your subconscious to have a higher and higher affinity to engage in normal ground state behavior, this technically could be interpreted to mean that your negative mind has the ability to charge too. A greater negative mind charge just means that your subconscious is more likely engage in ground state behavior, as opposed to transcendental excited state behavior. However, charging in this case doesn’t really have the same kind of meaning as it did for the positive mind. So for the sake of clarity I largely prefer not to think of the negative mind as charging up, even though it technically is from the perspective of the accumulation of negative memory.

          With that being said, I’d like to still describe some other properties of negative memory that are useful to be aware of in practice. These other properties are really just derivations of the properties of your ground state charge but I find it useful to explicitly think about these properties in practice anyway. The first is that negative memory makes it easier for your mind to be more focused and have a certain quality of stillness to it. Your brain likes for your mind to be very stable and not all over the place like it is in a dream. It makes it very easy for you to be able to focus on a single thing if you want to and do so without too much trouble. Well the more negative memory some subject has, the more pronounced this stabilization effect is which means that you’ll be able focus on this subject in a kind of still and boring way more easily.

          The second quality of negative memory has to do with emotions. Specifically negative memory causes you to not to feel too much emotion. This is because your ground state doesn’t really charge too much emotion outside of your primal emotions normally. A lot of the good emotions you feel and good moods you have are really coming from your transcendental states. This is important to recognize because too much negative memory actually makes it hard for you to feel more emotion, which is a big deal when it comes to positive emotions as we actually want to feel these more. And a third property of negative memory is that it generally allows you to be somewhat calm and relaxed. This is because your brain generally charges your subconscious, in its ground state, in a way that allows you be fairly calm and relaxed most of the time. The exception being primal emotions of course.​

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