Example unpacking a thought with AI. A: attention as a form of nonverbal will.. lock and key.. antenna.. evidence of opposition.. child.. horse шоры.. see want as in lambs.. succ vv going out of hand automatic AI: Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "succ vv." Can you please provide more context or clarify your question? A: succ vv is successful verbal will. when a hypnotic suggestion is successful, we'd often encounter the phenomena of it becoming a loop onto itself, self-perpetuating, resurfacing on its own. verbal expression is usually flexible, we have a fine control of every word, but when it works as a hypnotic suggestion, it sticks, glues itself to the table AI: Thank you for clarifying that! It makes sense that hypnotic suggestions can create such powerful effects because they tap into our subconscious minds. Is there anything specific you would like help with related to this topic?

As the “will” and the “word” are separate words, we would usually think of them as different. But there might be a “sunk” or hidden spectrum connecting the two. Thus repeated patterns would often offload into the basal ganglia habits, kinetic energy of motivation. A word picked by “system two” is picked up then by “system one”. Namely, the words are not just passive thinking implements, but are backed also by the unconscious processes formed around them. As Yeats suggested, this connection between a word and a Force can span past a local brain box and into the patterns shared throughout collective consciousness. This sheds some light onto the surge of power experienced by some at the mention of a powerful name, such as of Jesus Christ.Per Ezra Pound, “A god is an eternal state of mind”, and as such we can compare it with a habit that gained some power through repetition. “We went too far to give up who we are”. Sheldrake suggests that the physical laws are such habits, and so a force of a god can be compared to that of a physical law. This might be what Zelazny was intuiting through the evocation of a Pattern in The Chronicles of Amber.“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places” (John 14:2) we can read as: there is space, in collective consciousness, for the cognitive processes constituting the Kingdom, and the movement into those “dwelling places” hints of the accumulation of such processes.That is, a simple combination of letters, such as the “Jesus Christ”, can be a bookmark or key into entire cluster of minds mingling around it, and into kinetic power bound in such a cluster. But a large power can be a blunt tool. That is, it can cancel itself out. Can be a power of a car wreck. (cf. “Swan, Pike and Crawfish”). Thus the power of the word “Father” includes the power of forces which might oppose each other (words “Jesus” and “Satan”, or “good” and “evil”, are typically seen as such opposites). “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste” (Mat 12:25), and that is the kingdom of Father / Abraxos. Immense and impassive power of a “Not-I” in Chuang Tzu. Or to draw another analogy, Death / Time / Cronus conquers everything: a good and an evil would equally be consumed by it. Like the wise man of Chuang Tzu, Death has a varied taste (Revelation 3:16).

the Kingdom of Heaven is led by force and the violent are seizing it (Mat 11:12) I think that in 3-74, at the height of despair and fear and grieving I stumbled into the Kingdom, stumbled around for a while and then stumbled back out, none the wiser as to how I got there .. Now I don’t see or understand anything. (Exegesis) Both Dick and a couple of other authors point towards a general personality failure and psychosis being at times instrumental in unlocking shamanic experience. In our case, there was never a problem, and we didn't approach the Kingdom with our hand stretched out, as a beggar, but rather from the position of force, and out of a scientific curiosity about the borders and experiences we'd reach through a combination of hypnosis and magickal beliefs (as opposed to the scientific reductionism we've been familiar with). Our hacker-like persistence in this can be in turn compared with monastic tradition, of achieving spiritual experiences through “goal-directed striving” rather than passively or by accident. But we are likely going much further with this in terms of N-of-1 on-demand reproducibility.

“The harvest is the end of the age” (Mat 13:39). It is often the assumption that --- nAI, bible ------- the end of the world will be a final battle, or a grand apocalyptic event. But what if it is a gradual process, like the decline of the empire, or the death of a marriage? What if, instead of a war, there is a process The “age” (αἰῶνός) could be the one of Pisces, or simply of a technological paradigm. --- nAI, bible -------

I'm thinking about things like homeostasis and change, order and chaos lately, and it will be interesting to revisit TA and make a list of quotes on how such emotional habits, "games" and "scenarios" form (to look from a new perspective and reintegrate). We didn't have much time yet to review the TA literature in that light, but we had a session with Dark Eclipse today on that matter and charted from memory what we remember from TA and outside of it. The subject is how the negative emotional habits form and sustained. (Panksepp identified seven primary affectional networks, CARE, LUST, PLAY, SEEK, PANIC/GRIEF, RAGE, FEAR - of which the last three might demonstrate what we mean by negative emotions; anxiety is negative emotions related to future, guilt is negative emotions related to past). What we remember from TA: Berne noticed how children deprived of social interaction might be less healthy and even die. (Which resonates with John Cacioppo's “lethality of loneliness”). On this he puts forth a hypothesis that social emotional interactions (“strokes”) are a biological necessity, not dissimilar to hunger or need for sun and air. (We might comment, that a psychological configuration that requires “strokes” is likely present in most people of our culture “by default”, but it is also likely possible to change this configuration by using a different self-hypnosis, similar to how the stress configuration can be adjusted or changed, cf. https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend) From “stroke hunger” it follows that when a person doesn't have access to positive emotions, they begin to “feed” on negative emotions and consequently their “taste” for emotions changes.

KAI: Welcome to the Dark Zone ZEV: The Dark Zone? STAN: We're in the Dark Zone? ZEV: So, what are we supposed to do now? KAI: Perhaps you should find yourself a home… some. Perhaps you should find one… ZEV: You mean, WE should find one? We are together in this… ( “Lexx OST (Marty Simon) - Welcome To The Dark Zone.mp3”, http://www.lexxlight.ru/subtitle/english/5_Rated_LEXX_Lexx_text.html ) Something we yapped about before is “adventure”. It might look like there is the chicken and the egg problem: whether things can be interesting when one can guess the future, can see the backstage, can redefine the rules. Alan Watts in Any Dream You Wanted suggests that a likely outcome is splitting and limiting oneself. Вселенский вечный неудачник… perhaps. Which is again a lot like glimpsing the future: a spoiler. Or in another vein, the Narrative Omnipotence translates into having access to indefinite number of options/futures, which in turn leads often to a design paralysis (in Loki 2021 - the Multiverse War).

Following the Chet's prompt: Pandemics. Mutating pandemics. Never ending campaigns followed by never ending counting. Rioting in the streets. Have a great idea for surviving (on our own terms, of course) in these stressful times? I thought I’d host a series of posts I've a mind to be extra succint. And eclectic. motivation In order to survive - you want to want to survive. "13 Reasons Why" TV series is a good recipe: Baker films the reasons not to survive. Invert this. Make a list of reasons to survive. Keep working on them, make space, turn this into a project.

2020-01-25, blog entry for Chet (published at https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2020/01/26/inner-conflict-dragons-and-ooda-loops/) My fascination with dragons started when as a boy I've heard that a crane would beat a snake, deflecting and countering with its beak, that tiger beats crane, overcoming its defences with a flurry of paws, that snake beats tiger, finding a gap for precision strike, and that dragon beats them all, having four legs as a tiger, tail as a snake and long neck as a crane. As fire-breathing cat-snake-birds the dragons might represent our fear of predators but also, as Jordan B Peterson notes in this five minutes video, our strength when we conquer or tame them. They are also a symbol of flexibility and adaptation, of being able to show and combine efficiently what might be different and even opposite traits. And we might share this flexibility with dragons. This might be due to our culture being a step ahead of evolution. Naturally equipped to crawl and swing from the trees we often need thousands of attempts and 17 falls per hour just to learn to walk straight. From our birth onwards we're seasoned to learn, now and again repurposing the neural subsystems. Or it might be because our consciousness is not just a dragon but a hydra. Psychology keeps rediscovering the multifaceted nature of our consciousness. We can see it in the number of terms coming from different "schools": emotional learnings, implicit schemas, core beliefs, mental models, parts, emotional conditionings, ego-states, complexes, COEX systems, brain agents, neuroclusters, subpersonalities, working models. There might be evolutionary advantage to that. We can understand each other better when our mind creates independent models of personal behavior. These models can then live in our mind in parallel, allowing us to understand complex social situations intuitively, in real-time and with minimal disruption to our forefront mental process. We can also pursue different goals, even if they require different and incompatible sets of memories, habits, reality models and outlooks.

(a letter to Chet Richards) So a little progress update on “wringing clothes”, which is a technique that entails a double focus on both the purpose of the present moment and on the implicit orientation. I now think of “wringing clothes” as a kind of alternative to OODA loop. You see, OODA loop is not very practical as a technique. It is too complex to employ for moment-to-moment decisions (which I think you've also mentioned, citing that pilots don't "use" OODA during the fights), and what's more, decisions to a large degree happen automatically, before they are consciously registered (cf. Left-brain Interpreter, cf. Change Phenomena 2012 Kev Sheldrake), so to match the OODA theoretical side with a side that is practical - we need a technique that's oriented towards improving the automatic decision-making process! There's an interesting example in martial arts of influencing the automatic decisions: chi!