Morning,
Was a bit jacked up on too much coffee, kundalini energy, inhuman humidity again and…was sitting too close to the mic this morning but i think you’ll get the picture.
I’ll get it right one day.
Didn’t put any background music in this time for Rob’s sake. But you never know when I’ll strike next, Rob, it could be at any moment. It’ll be good for you. Breaking our of your daily trance.
I did this recording because in my opinion if you do this work it’s worth understanding from where you got your self-beliefs and ways of operating, when you got them, why you can’t change the bastards easily even when you need to.
Why also I dislike the commonly touted ideas and appeals to genetic absolutism or determinism, having a moralistic feeling or tinge…I think there’s definitely space for humans to be able to sculpt themselfs in dem owns image…not just at the gym, but psychologically and existentially.
Hope you get something out of my rant.
Chapters:
02:44 - Beginning. Introduction the the Black Box and “Ultimate Human Conspiracy”
09:16 - Genetically immutable vs Environmental influences, Tendency towards Metaphysical Absolutist argument
15:31 - SCIENCE on How Environment Influences the Child Brains & Cognitive Development
23:23 - SCIENCE on How the Brains Mature and When Children Are Most Vulnerable to Environmental Attacks
45:51 - Which Parts of the Brain Hypnosis Works With and How it works
51:00 Finish outro Songz
Transcript
Hello. My friends. Uh, as people who read this substack, uh, know recently I've been engaging with the work in a big way, which I hadn't done this kind of work formally in a long,
probably not since really my early thirties. And then I did it again in my twenties, in my early twenties. And I hadn't really run through it, uh, through it for a while. But it's interesting because as I go through it, various topics are coming to mind, which I think are worth discussing both in a context of practice, in a context of just generally what's happening in, uh, happening in the world, and how many of these outlooks are very relevant. And as, as someone I deeply respect, uh, Calvin Iama once said that there is, uh, an ultimate conspiracy. There is definitely an ultimate conspiracy, right? And, and, uh, it's, it's one of those conspiracies that I found personally confounding my entire life to be honest. Because I came to a lot of these fundamental understandings, probably fairly early on in life when I was given the opportunity to do yoga and various other things. And, and what I noticed is how impactful that was on everything. It was impactful on what I thought the way I, I spoke, uh, the way I felt. And from that point, I really couldn't
stop looking at it because I'm like, well, clearly there is something more to this than just being, you know, what's called in the common parlance a word cell. And indeed there is. And, and Calvin said that the, the ultimate, uh, conspiracy is that of unexamined human nature above all else, which is the idea that the average human has all sorts of ideas and views and opinions and interpretations about things. And this is what I've called on this substack in the past. Flare-ups or eruptions or, or, uh, surface nuisances. And there's a reason I called it that those things are not what lies underneath. Underneath is the black box, uh, which really is, I guess what you could call those things that are subconscious, which is the various brains or parts of the brain and the nervous system more generally, and how all these things interact in a dynamic environment. But absolutely no, in, uh, no one has any real interest in this. They talk about what comes out of these things and try to kind of fix it on by, by trying to model out what comes out of it to model out the flare ups. And they do this by developing words and theories about the flare-ups. But this is for reasons that we're gonna discuss, I think mostly a pointless way of doing things. And really, it's the way that people have tried to do things for a very long time now, and it hasn't led anywhere good. That's why, you know, we're in this situation that we're,
is because we're, we're not getting it. We don't get it. So the, the essential ignorance of the black box is really a species wide problem. So it's not applicable to any one group or any one, uh, movement or political outlook or whatever else, or thinker or philosophy. So in many ways, looking at the surface accoutrements like, oh, what did this old culture do? Or What did this old thinker do? And I, I don't think that's a waste of time. I think it's valuable to do, but it is more or less useless without also understanding what's underneath. And the way that this is typically done in these circles is to just talk about genetics. Okay? That, that's important, don't get me wrong. But it's also completely
incomplete. It's not just genetics, not by any stretch. And there's a ton of evidence we'll go through here of why that is really, I think, a fundamentally self-defeating outlook. So in many ways, I'd say this is what the substack really is really about. And the content I made before that is about, it's kind of like a gateway drug for people to do experiments so they can prove this to themselves. And it is one of those things, for better or worse, sorry guys, for better or worse, that you do need to prove to yourself, uh, because the thing is, and I think this is understandable, and it's right in a way that people tend to have violent reactions, even to the linguistic assertion that you might not be in control. It may not be the case that you're in control in any significant way, and it might be worth looking at. So because of these understandably violent reactions, it is something that you need to test and try for yourself. 'cause otherwise you're not gonna believe it. You're just gonna believe it's a bunch of fucking rambling from some lunatic. In a way, even though I do try to express it in a way that people can understand it is, you know, a lot of these things are pre linguistic. They're not of language. So it's very difficult to describe something that's not o of language, uh, an empirical or experiential realization in language. So anyway, all that being said, the black box. So there, there are some people, I think it's right to say in these spheres who, uh, who will say that they're not determinists, that don't have a deterministic, uh, outlook on life, yet in the same breath, you know, they will cite research or say something that what you are is what you are because of this abstraction called genes. And it doesn't matter what happens to you in your life. You are smart or you, you are, you know, good or bad or useless or useful, whatever binary that they're referring to today to harvest your attention, which is really what they're up to. And that there isn't really any in-between, and it's more or less immutable,
uh, your eugenic or your dys genetic. And I think there is truth, obviously to genetics and genetic arguments for behavior and intelligence and various other things. But there is still a question of how, how much you of that is useful. And there are, uh, studies and evidence to suggest, for example, that I have here actually right in front of me that I was referencing when, when looking and, uh, writing notes for this little rant, for example, that, uh, different behaviors that run, uh, in the brain may in fact switch, uh, genes on and off. So it may, there may be feedback the other way around. Now, again, we can debate for a long time about how much of the human is changeable and how much of behavior is changeable. And I'm certainly not saying, you know, the canvas is blank by any stretch, but I would just like to introduce some subtlety into the discussion because genetic deterministic arguments, uh, are actually from this point of view, incorrect, at least in the way that they're presented online from what I've seen. And I, I realize that I'm, I'm being unfair here, but I'm being unfair for the sake of the discussion. You know, I'm sure not everyone who has a more determinist to go outlook on genes considers it to, to be totally immutable. So throwing my hat in the ring, definitely, I don't, don't think this is the full picture. It's to me, when I read these genetic determinist arguments, and usually it gets used as an insult, it, it comes across more of a moral value statement to me. This seems something, I don't know how to put it a little bit on the nose. It's a little bit, you know, it sounds a little bit moral all the time and a little bit sure of itself. And I, yeah, I do think it's getting used in a pseudoscientific and, and really a metaphysical way. And these days, you know, I can see why that happens. I get it. It has a purpose. But I also think that inculcating younger people with that sort of thinking may have self-defeating outcomes. I think that we all full prey in a very general sense to what someone like Hyatt, for example, would call, uh, metaphysical generalization or metaphysical absolutism. Uh, which of course we're familiar with this in religion where it's a feature, but I think we're less familiar with ideas of metaphysical generalization when it comes to our own personalities and the way we, uh, interpret the world around us. And, uh, from memory, he, uh, refers to it roughly by saying, you know, something like, uh, metaphysical generalizing, uh, is a way of observing and modeling behaviors of yourself and people in the external world, and assigning really what, what amounts to an absolute judgment of value to it, uh, an absolute value judgment. And he says that it is intimately tied up with, uh, this idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy. And we all know that people are self-fulfilling prophecies. And the reason that he says at least that they are is because they interpret the world according to very,
uh, hard to adhere to generalizations about behavior and things which are fundamentally anti-scientific and anti-real. Because we know there's no real consistency to anyone's behavior. And to assign all behavior to an either or category or value, like good or bad or dumb or smart or worthless or whatever, can't possibly account for the subtleties in your behavior or anyone else's. And in this way, it's extremely self-defeating, particularly where we inherit these kinds of metaphysical generalizations from. And I know many of these guys like ancient times, I do wonder if they suffered from the same generalizations. Perhaps they did, perhaps it was just a little bit different. But anyway, I guess you could say that people who gen generalize about behavior and metaphysical terms do so, you know, in the ways that we're all accustomed to. So I, I am fundamentally good. So you can think of the liberal female. I'm good, I'm enough. You know, and she may, and as many people point out, she may not be enough or good, but that's the way she's determining to classify herself in an absolute way. Sometimes she's good. Maybe sometimes she's, she's a hoe. Uh, maybe most of the time she was a hoe. I love hoes, by the way. Uh, so, you know, we see how this works, and then we, of course, then we apply that to other people. So we say that, you know, others are whores or others are fundamentally bad or fundamentally good, and we tend to apply this to everything. And, and the problem is, as, as I point out, is that this makes everything extremely high stakes, almost ridiculously high
stakes, because you are just classifying everything to this like, absolute standard, and you just cannot measure up to this, and no one else can either. And I think it's true to say that the people who suffer the most in life do so because they are the worst metaphysical generalizes. Suffering is commensurate with this as is psychic and bodily tension.
And when you work through psychic and bodily tension, for example, that something very interesting happens, you are less inclined to generalize metaphysically about yourself and the world around you and take taking that more high resolution view on reality, which is the way it is. It's in constant fluxx,
it's constantly changing. There is immense complexity to yourself and, uh, external events. Then why not just rest in uncertainty and relative uncertainty or, uh, just put away the absolute standards? And I think that there is, it, it may sound, you know, very, again, if you're a dissident and you classify everything through a dissident point of view, it sounds like, oh, that's just what liberals think. But again, it's one of these things you gotta test out because you store so much energy in the contraction of holding metaphysical generalizations together. And, and there is a lot of psychic energy and ability to do actual things that are held up in that space. And overcoming them means that that energy is liberated in a very real and tangible way, right? But it is also true that we all do it. I do it. I even after doing this work for years, admittedly not the whole time, but doing it for a couple of years, leaving it, coming back to it, et cetera, you do do it. It's very much a human thing. And it is, uh, interesting to note also. And we're, we're, we're gonna get into this next, that the science, uh, indicates the science, science, Dr. Huberman science
indicates that it is actually a very childish trait to do this. And I'm not saying that as an insult, like, oh, you are just all childish and not enlightened. It is actually literally how children, particularly before the age of seven, this is how they break down the world. Uh, they actually break it down, uh, in this way in binary terms, good or bad, uh, before their brain is fully developed and they're able to, uh, introduce more subtlety into things. So in many ways, what we do then in this way is quite childlike. It's the way that a child kind of does things just without the good bits. So in saying this, I think that this is universally applicable, and I've really never seen anyone that doesn't do it, except for a couple of zen people in my group that are very proficient and long-term meditators. And they don't seem to do it. But they're the only ones I've met that don't, uh, I'm guilty, guilty as charged. Okay, so just some comments on children. And this is all going into the idea of hypnotism and what's going on, hypnosis and how it can be useful. So I think the one thing that repeatedly gets, gets missed and leads to all the flareups, uh, that we're seeing today, is therefore really a mis appraisal of what the, the child is and therefore what the adult is, uh, by extension. And I think the general theme then is that children are children. Uh, children are not adults. And this seems, uh, so obvious as to be retarded, and it kind of is, but it is definitely the case that people don't, don't treat children like their children. They don't treat them like they're children. They treat them like they're, they're adults. One of the reasons I came online is I could see how, uh, this was increasingly happening that I suppose children were having their minds bent just like I did. And I noticed how it's even, uh, institutionalized now to a very large degree, and it's particularly happening, uh, to young men. So the idea was to try and bring some of this useful work out and just try and put it out there a bit more so people would consider it and maybe try it. Particularly young men who have been mind-fuck and online, you know, people talk about college or whatever else all the time. And I agree it's an, an important thing, but I think the real damage is done really prior to age seven. And I think the regime, uh, and I mean regime in a more general sense, but the regime of whatever you want to call it, uh, the last men, uh, you know, decadent, civiliz, whatever it is, you know what I mean? I think they understand that fundamentally they can have someone if they get them before age seven. And it's very, very hard to break this using the usual means, uh, that we engage in typically like talking and speaking and philosophizing. Um, and even memeing, even memeing, although it's probably more effective. Uh, it just can't get to the bottom of it in any real tangible or permanent way. So I'm actually, for this reason, very much against the determines deterministic kind of genetics bro outlook, which I think is, and I think that it's some way for this reason actually fairly self-defeating because it, it misses the very crucial, uh, process of maturation and what happens during that early childhood period. And, and it is actually quite profound for human beings and how their life turns out. And it's actually also fairly well understood. We all remember Molan, you, right? Molan, everyone like gives him a hard time. But he was one of the first people to talk in detail about adverse childhood experiences and try to popularize them on the right. And I think he did an excellent job because it does matter. You're not just a block of genes that just comes out and does what it's gonna do. You are still impacted by your environment in a very significant and measurable way. And I do think we should allow some space for the idea that for some human beings genes, which is so, you know, so unscientific really to use it that way, allow some humans, some degree of self authorship. But it's not easy. And I do think it's also true, and it's something that people should acknowledge, that some people can, could be completely and utterly destroyed by unfortunate circumstances. We've all seen this happen, even to talented people who might have had a drunk parent or whatever else, and they had talents, but it just never happened because of their childhood. And it's for this reason, right? The thing is children, because they're children and they're not adults, they don't have any resistance to negative influences. And, uh, this is really what contributes so much to life's failures, aside from, you know, it's just, it's genics man. It's just, it's genics. It, it often isn't. It's often 'cause they just had a shitty childhood because their parents were idiots or there were no parents, or as we will see, regime, lackeys got to 'em. So
this idea of taking out the predetermined overman kind of outlook, which I don't have any view on, I don't really get it. Uh, and it's not important to this discussion, but I would say that the regime suffers really from no illusions like this. They don't think in those terms, and they're criticized for it. So everyone's like, oh, you think, uh, you're just all environmentalists. And whether they are or not is somewhat irrelevant because what they do understand and whether they understand it explicitly, which I'm sure there are segments of them that do, because they're often psychiatrists or psychologists or academics that do understand these things. I mean, think about why toddler education and whatever else is completely controlled by young women who are usually extreme leftists. Usually think about why they have things like trans story hour. I mean, we, we tend to go, oh, well, it's just, just de degeneracy, it's de degeneracy. And we, and what we do is we come up with a moral argument about why that shouldn't be happening according to this book. But at the end of the day, what they're doing is they know that your child's mind is forming, it's pre rational. So they can't say no to it, and they're filling it up with what they want to be there. It's really that simple.
They're permanently bending the mind of the chi, the child, and consequently what the adult is going to be. And increasingly, this is, uh, put towards excluding powerful young males, I think, and stopping them from rocking the apple cart. And so, aside from the moral arguments that you hear about, if you're a smart boy with a high iq, you'll just do well, like you've heard 'em all before the game is rigged, the game is absolutely rigged against most young men. And this is how it's rigged primarily. So deterministic genes over men, smart boy, genetics, uh, uh, just a gigantic, uh, waste of time limiting, uh, knowledge of what is a very real phenomena and a very real important period of life that can have profound consequences on what happens to the adult. And the powers of bees seem to understand that deeply. You know, we do not, but they understand that all you need to do is to get 'em while they're young. And more or less anything after that in a, you know, a general cultural sense is a waste of, you know, a waste of time. And only the lucky ones are gonna break out of it, you know, break out of being an MPC. So what is the argument for the environment being important? What happens during childhood development? And what I'm gonna give you here is a very general overview.
So this is an exhausted, exhaustive, I'm not saying that this is it. This is the only resource, and I suggest you go out and do your own research. It's a ton of research on this, and it's, it's fascinating and it's enlightening not only about what's happening in the world, but also about yourself. So I'm only just speaking in terms that are relevant to the general discussion that we're having here. So don't chimp out, you know, if I got one theory slightly wrong or whatever else, but in a general sense, until age five, sorry, just one second, until age five, you have no prefrontal cortex to speak of. So you can't reason you can't think things through. Now, this is when they really want to get to your kids, right? At age five, the prefrontal cortex kind of areas in the brain, they start to develop alongside with other parts of the brain, but importantly to this discussion, that part of the brain. But during this period, still, the primitive brains or the lower brains, or whatever you wanna call 'em, are still far more powerful, right? Far more powerful, even in adults. They're powerful. So let's not under,
let's not make it out, like it's just that, that have this, after age seven, the brain starts to concretize and grow, right? The, particularly the frontal cortex areas. And then it starts to impose the inhibitory functions that the cortex imposes. And this is where the child, uh, starts to develop a temporal sense, starts to under understand consequences. Uh, it might be even able to apply words to a situation like maybe rather than the either or
generalized metaphysical beliefs. So we were talking about before, and this
cortex, cortical executive center development, whatever you wanna call it, it continues until you're about the age of 25, as most of you probably know. So what's very important to the argument I'm making here is that the cortical intervention to autonomic reactivity is difficult, but not just difficult. It's actually impossible, more or less before age of seven. It's impossible, which is why treating a child as you would an adult is pretty stupid because they don't get it. They're like, what are, what are you fucking talking about, mate? This pencil is a plane.
Can't you see adult? It's a plane. And then you say, this isn't, isn't a plane, you're a bad child. You're a stupid child. That's not a plane, it's a pen. So what are you doing? You're putting in a program, a pre rational program that the child's going away and it feels like it's stupid because it had a thought, and that's how it's gonna function as an adult. So what this means, then you have no real manner of resistance before age seven, and the damage is done. And this protracted period of vulnerability continues really until you're in your early twenties, which is why I guess younger college kids are also fucking retarded. So this protracted childhood then, is what I'm trying to give to you. It's what I'm trying to paint a picture of, because this shows that we're not blocks of cementitious genes. We're not predetermined necessarily completely.
We all obviously have a huge genetic component of what we're capable for, absolutely. But there's also this incredibly important period in terms of the full expression of what we are as an organism that can be made by people who are not you. So you are in a way, this innocent creature that is completely subject to the chance of your environment. And not everyone is fortunate in how that pans out for them. And particularly, this is increasingly going to be the case because the regime know it. The only people that don't know it are your fucking parents. So as a child's brain develops, the child brain is very rich in synaptic synaptic connections. So this is why the child's brain is very plastic, it has rich synaptic connections and neurons, and this is why a child can learn several languages very easily. It can learn anything very easily. And then as we get old, older, we specialize. And then we have this process of neural pruning that goes on. And as we specialize, basically the things that we don't use get pruned. The biochemical neural bonds that connect the neurons, they break. So it's very much a case of you use it or you lose it. And as you get older, that's increasingly the case. And interestingly, I didn't know this until I was doing a bit of research for this short podcast, but there is evidence to suggest that genes, the genes that are responsible, the genes that are responsible for synaptic pruning can get outta control in some adults. And this may be actually what causes de uh, neurodegenerative, uh, diseases like dementia or other things of this nature, uh, because the pruning just keeps happening and the can't, the gene, uh, that switches it off or regulates it or whatever happens, doesn't work. So prior to age seven, uh, we basically almost entirely classif classify things, as I said, in a binary way, and particularly in terms of pain. And there's no real subtlety to it. There's no models, uh, to regulate it. It's really just pain and pleasure, good and bad, you know, all those things that we know about, uh, children. And this is where the damage is done, basically. Because if you have an incompetent parent, a drunk parent, a stupid teacher, a stupid kindergarten, minor, whatever they call them, uh, even parents who mean well, because children can come to silly conclusions, even if you do everything right,
because they have rich imaginations apparently. And not everyone is malevolent. It could just be the child and the circumstance. And he comes to a weird conclusion, and then he gets a hangup, uh, for the rest of his life. So it's not just a product of malevolence, it's just a maybe a shortcoming of how humans, uh, adapt. Probably in a primitive environment, the space for confusion was significantly less. But now we're in an information rich, uh, culturally confused environment. Uh, all sorts of strange things can happen and are happening as we can see. So I don't think it's necessarily anyone's fault, it's just another case where the human brain is not up to the task that what the executive centers are demanding of it, which is another theme that runs through this blog, including the review I did on the book, the Distracted Mind, which very elegantly argues that the human brain is quite primitive, not particularly well put together, and it essentially just can't handle modern civilization very well. So I wanted to just quickly talk before we get into the bio-individual and technique stuff. Is that what I find most surprising? So the things that we've just run through now with, with that in mind, that if you had children, which I do not, you, you would think that you would be all over this or that, you know, doctors would tell you about it or whoever else, or the people, the women go and see to learn how to raise children. And certainly you would think that people in education would tell parents, but from what I can tell, there is really just complete ignorance, uh, of these processes. He's very important processes. Uh, I have one of my friends, for example, who I caught up with recently. I would say he's a normal fag, really nice guy, but he is a normal fag, and he, uh, sends his kids to kindergarten, uh, partially because one of them's a menace, but also because, you know, they're very busy people, they work, et cetera, and they just can't really stick around for them. So they have to send them to a minding place, a kindergarten, what you call in Australia, a kindergarten. And he, I would say is quite open about his disdain for, shall we say, various movements, because he's strongly Christian. And these various movements, I think that we all know, uh, have hijacked the public mind in recent times.
And they have days at this kindergarten where they're celebrating such things that have hijacked the public mind. And these kids are two or three, four, exactly in that age bracket that I'm talking about. And we had a conversation recently where I asked, why on earth would you send your fucking kid to this kind of environment, giving your beliefs? It doesn't make any sense. So he, uh, said to me, the usual response that you tend to get, he's like, oh, it doesn't matter, man. No, you know, no son of mine, um, is gonna turn out like that no matter what. They try and teach him, you know, the usual Aussie, you know, pseudo masculine. Like, don't worry, fucking no son of mine's gonna be like that, bro. And of course, that's nonsense. There's a very real chance it will be like that. But of course, the thing is, with normal fags, no matter how well you mean, and no matter how much scientific evidence you, you know, whenever you try to explain something like this to them, they go fish eyed, right? Their eyes, uh, look for opposite corners of the room every time you try and explain something to them. So I, I just let it go. I guess you'll find out soon enough. But it, it made me think also about the Jesuits. So the Jesuits were famous for this kind of thing. That's a Loyola's crew, isn't it? So I, I forget who said this, but one of them said, give me a child until he is seven, and I'll give you the man. So think about that for a second. So, so ancient Catholics were able to work out what the brain was doing, and they knew that if I get him before the age of seven, you know, all you motherfuckers can go fuck yourself because we win. We've won the game. I just need him before his seven and his mine. And I guess someone in the global left communist Congress must have read this because they're really good at it as well. And I think the only people that aren't good at it is basically everyone else who hates them and just wants a bit of freedom and a bit of power and a bit of beauty. We're, we're just all hanging around. And then instead of worrying about this, we go and argue with adults, like that's going to do anything. So it's amazing because what the Jesuit said is accurate to a year, like it's accurate to a year. So from ages six to eight, neurologists have detected a growth spurt in the brain that finally allows a child to enter the next phase of cognitive development, which at that age, between six and eight, seven, that's when the frontal lobes begin to take, uh, begin to develop, which is incredible that they just intuited that. And now I'm thinking as well about the Prussian edge system, right? Think about that for a second, which was, in its inception, a mechanism of control by the German emperor, or the, I think it may, may have been the Prussian emperor who, who was a German emperor, wasn't he? So, so he made this system because there were all these competing, uh, Christian denomination schools, which I, I think was called the, uh, what was it, the trivium. And he's like, I can't be having all these people teaching all these people differently and having their own thoughts and shit, man. So I need to shut that shit down. And I also need people to work in my dumb little factories because the world was industrializing. So this is where the Prussian education system, which is the education system we've all gone through, that's where it comes from. And it was designed as a mechanism of, of shaping people, uh, as children and giving them back when they're 18 or 19 or whatever. And by that point, you're more or less cooked. You, you know, you my friend will be doing what I tell you to do, even if you think that you are not. So, yeah, it's incredible to me, uh, looking back from this point of view at many of these historical events and what's going on now, looking at, uh, the way culture is now and how absolutely no attention is given to this very important matter. Very, very important matter. If you look in culture, look at culture in this way, and less in terms of the breeding of the overman, you know, which I'm not against, uh, by the way, but I saw a graph recently that was floating around online where women are becoming more and more extreme in their left wing political outlook. And so we've just been talking about teachers and kindergartens and all the people that have access to your child before the age of seven, but it could just be
women in general, uh, who are subjecting your kids to this kind of thinking, this kind of pop culture, everything that these people consume, right? And as we know, women are agents of the social fabric, and in this case, they are agents of the regime. Fundamentally, that's their role, their biological role. So at every single moment while your kids at home and you're at work and you are being scolded by a HR team, trying to convince yourself that corporate life is a good life, so you don't blow your fucking brains out every time you have a, a realistic appraisal of what you're involved in and your son is at home having every single moment of his life under the supervision of one form or other of communist pinko rat and their sinister designs, you know, again, he may be the one in 10,000 guy that, you know, comes to your side, you know, breaking his MPC programming. I think that the regime truly understands that at some level, it doesn't matter if the individual who's gone through this process lashes out at this or that policy at a very deep limbic emotional level, for all intents and purposes, they got 'em, they got 'em real good. And there's, there's not going to be, they're not gonna be a threat, not a real threat. They may have a little whinge, but you know, they're just gonna want to be a nice little sensible centrist. Why can't we just return to the center? And then even if they have more radical thoughts, shall we say they've still got 'em by the balls? Because they're not gonna do anything at a behavioral level, because that's the level this programming operates on. It's not about ideas, it's about how you've been socialized, which is why in a way, the nothing ever happens crew are kind of right. And it's my personal contention that unless someone breaks this, it's just gonna keep going. It's gonna get exponentially worse until an external circumstance breaks it forcibly. And that's not going to be an easy process. But I think that's the good news. The good news is because it's being done, it means the opposite can be done or something different can be done. I think that soy, soy society could be theoretically reformed in the same way, or was subverted just with the right childhood and physiological education in particular, taking the science into account, the opposite could be the case. And it doesn't me need to be that everyone needs to be the over man. In fact, I think you could still, uh, get some very impressive people out of the right childhood process. And this needs to be looked at more, uh, than the breeding of horses. Perhaps it's more immediate. It's something that's happening now. And for this reason, I, I don't wanna be harsh on anyone, and I know no one really cares what I think. Anyway, that's fine. But I, for all these reasons, I just think that, you know, movements on lineage is largely wasting their time with adults and even older adolescents. You know, if you are really interested, there would be a lot of pressure on young childhood education, a lot of pressure. The, the strategy now, and I really don't mean for this to be a politics insight thing because I, I never talk about that 'cause I really don't give a fuck about it. It seems to me the strategy is a bit like everyone, the same reason everyone loses in the, in the market, right? The strategy for most people who invest is to invest money on today's news, which is why everyone loses money. No good investor does that. Whereas an investment on an early startup or what you, where you think the market is going to be in a year's time, that's where you make money. You don't make money investing on today's news, you lose money that way. And in a same way, I think that the general strategy of people who are against, uh, last man type outcomes, I just think they've got it back to front. They're looking at it the wrong way. Okay, so what does this mean for us as practitioners getting out of that political morass and all that shit? And so, as I said before, the greatest human conspiracy is not understanding how it all works. But now that we do understand it works, this is giving, gonna give us a certain power, it also means that, that what we are is largely shaped before we're able to reason and, and pass it out as being useful or not. And in adulthood, at a very deep fundamental level, we're still running old programs or we've still got the baggage or the consequences of that cultural, uh, generally cultural and parental, usually as a major source, uh, incompetence. And we also accept that plasticity doesn't really ever end, although we do come specialized, there are still ways to de pollute or declutter our minds and bodies. And we can to some extent reshape what we are in a more favorable way in our own image, not just by happenstance chance. And you know, how incompetent parents we didn't choose were, or the culture, how incompetent the culture is. I'm not disputing that predetermined, uh, qualities. Genetic factors are a massive factor. Of course they are.
I really hate the fact that I keep having to say this all the time, but this kind of belief is
greatly limiting the knowledge of what can be done. And also, we're already born, so this deterministic machine shit in the way it's represented, it's not worth a shit. It's fucking pointless. So don't bother with it. Those who struck it lucky and, you know, go around with their carefully cultivated online images about how they're just fantastic Fucking hats off to you. Hats off to you. Well done. Great work. One of the methods I've been looking at, which when I was using it in my youth, I didn't fully comprehend, I don't think, not not in its fullness, but I think that I finally actually understand what it is and how it works, uh, a lot better is hypnosis. So given what we've discussed, most of our problems as adults, even though it feels real in some manner of thinking, the problems that we think we have somewhat imaginary, they're not really real. They're more just outcomes of patterns that were created that are operating in certain parts of our brain. And that's how we interpretate interpret sensory data. It's through these childhood experiences and the, and, and the things that happen to us before the age of seven, a hypnosis or a, a hypnotist or a hypnosis person would say that every behavior, no matter how self-defeating is itself a form of hypnosis. And this hypnosis that we all live in all the time actually still has a useful because the aims of the child were after all to survive to do well. So maybe it developed these beliefs to protect itself from a drunk parent. There are all sorts of reasons why these beliefs that are now self-defeating to us in the past may have served a viable function. Hypnosis then when done properly, is operating on a level that is below the word cell conscious experience that we call ourselves. And that we tend to have day to day, or at least that we think that we have. And it's therefore working on the notion that your programming new beliefs, fundamental beliefs, using emotions and feelings and movement onto lower brain levels. So it's not a philosophical or an intellectual exercise, which is a bit like pissing in the wind. This is operating at a more subtle, more primal level. And through using the integration of language, feeling an emotion and belief, what you are doing is you are accessing what's underneath. And you are in a way, kind of like inception, this isn't strictly true. Planting something new. And if done frequently, this is a way that you can, in the same way as a child kind of does it, I suppose. You are creating new beliefs and new connections and new behaviors. And over time in the same way as when we get specialized and we go through that process of neural pruning, we start developing new connections, new behaviors, and over time we de-energize the ones that no longer service because we, we stop doing those things. Then the process of neural pruning essentially gets rid of them and frees up that energy, that physiological energy to be put into something that is more self-determined. So in this way, hypnosis isn't just hippie nonsense or something that's single mothers in the nineties do. It's, it's a real thing. It's a real phenomenon and it has real psychological and genetic implications as well as behavioral implications and life implications. So what is a hypnotic state? I mean, why call it hypnosis if it's just the way we always go around? Well, I think in a way, at least the practitioners I've worked with, and I've had various sessions with various people in the past, various techniques that all of them agreed on one thing. And that is that we are basically always in hypnosis. And because of what I've discussed, the underlying program that we've been talking about, the things that we pick up during our protracted childhood, then we turn into a automatons effectively. And this automatic behavior is what they refer to as hypnosis. And I think that we all get this, I know, I get it. I know often days or weeks have gone by where I'm just an auto ma on, I'm not really fully there. And it takes an exercise like meditation or breath work or whatever else where I go, fuck, I just totally was going with that the whole time. Like I was just on, on auto mode. And it's, there's nothing wrong with that, I don't think that's just useful in a survival situation, but it just means that things are hard to change. 'cause nature is stingy. It doesn't want you to change, it just wants you to pump out some fucking units before you die. It's all it caress about, it doesn't care about how happy you are, it just cares that you've adapted, you pump out some units, then you can do whatever you fucking want. It doesn't give a shit. Some of you think it does care, but you've given me no evidence for this, so I'm still waiting for your evidence. So in this way, hyp hypnosis techniques are similar to physiological techniques. They interrupt the general hypnotism. So you come closer to the deeper levels of the brain because you are powering down the way that the, the brain is behaving by accessing lower centers of the brain. So the one way that you do this is you rid the body of excess tension, which is connected to the more primitive parts of the brain and the way that the autonomic nervous system is operating and its tous and bodily tension is also associated with the neural patterns and how these emotional centers combined with behaviors play themselves out, which is why physiological practices work and hypnosis works in a similar way. One thing that we know is that with the human brains, I like to say brains now because I'm not convinced there is a brain, the human brains there is fairly poor communication. But also it is definitely the case that from a behavioral point of view as, uh, I wema points out is that the parts of the brain that are closer to the emotional centers, they're always gonna win. Which is why the word cell part always loses is 'cause it's the furtherest part away from the emotional centers of the brain. And that's interesting to think about. We can think about that in terms of the current political context is, is why appeals to emotion are so powerful as a political weapon, right? Is because they're just appealing to pre rational, primitive mammal parts of the brain, emotional parts of the brain, similar to what a cat has. And you know, that that part of the brain quickly overrides any appeals to rationality and particularly in women who have less
frontal cortexes compared to men, uh, compared to men, which makes them even more susceptible to emotional messaging. But in general, we're all susceptible to it unless we've understood what's going on and we've done practices to try and overcome it. So we have a kind of physiological neural map mixed with emotions,
uh, the regulation of the autonomic nervous system. And we tend to think it's real, it's immutable, like I'm me, that's what I am, I'm me and I have free will. But as we're under uncovering here, I mean, free will is just really just a terrible concept. It doesn't make any sense. Just even what I've discussed here in this very basic overview just does, there's no place for it. And this internal map is not what you are. And this is what a lot of spiritual paths we're trying to get at this map, the contraction, that's not you, the you needs to be created by separating yourself out of these things that are being created for you. And it so rarely does these then theoretically, the purpose of hypnosis then is to re reverse engineer this process and to change these internal belief maps and neural maps and to induce self-determined and self-defined hypnotic states that you designed for yourself and you determined are useful for you. And this is important because in talks about free will, this in my opinion is as close as you are ever gonna get. If you've never done any of this work before, forget about it. It's a pointless concept. It doesn't make any sense because what you are in a very real sense is not determined in any way by you. And what we call free will is really just a set of reactions, automated reactions that we just picked up before we were too young to reason it out. And even with our attempts at reason, they, they just come from the same reactivity. Almost always. They just come from the same reactivity. And it's only maybe in things like science, for example, where maybe some science is devoid of that, uh, that, uh, tinge of, you know, primitive humanness, shall we say. But with techniques like hypnosis, because you are doing it yourself and arguably it's just a reaction. I'm not gonna get into that. But you've determined, for example, that the belief that I'm a bad person is no longer serving me. So I'm going to say that I'm gonna do the work. Give yourself a more complex, a more positive operating system that isn't just defined by this metaphysical general assumption. And in this process, you are rather like going to the gym, building yourself, cognitively building yourself. And for me, this is as close as humans are ever gonna get to any sense of self-definition and free will. Even though free will is nonsense. But like anything else, it's something that needs to be done over and over again. You can't just do it once. It's like going to the gym. You need to keep doing it over and over. You need to associate it with certain, and it's hard work, but it is powerful. And I think it is something that people who are being held back by cognitive problems, cognitive beliefs that they inherited from their childhood or culture should start to look at as a technique that they can use. So I think that Kevin and I may do an episode on hypnosis and hypnotic techniques and how it relates to, uh, cognition that we pick up as children in the future in more detail. But for now, I just wanted to talk about it and I wanted to talk about, uh, hypnosis and the way that child's brain develops and the implications for people in our spheres, people who do bio-individual work. Because in a way it's important to understand how what we are comes to be in a scientific way and why we are not just a predetermined block.
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I remember seeing a ted presentation on the stages of development.
There's an experiment where kids watched a short video.
Girl puts her toy on the couch and leaves the room.
Boy comes in the room and takes the toy and puts it behind the couch, hidden. He leaves.
Girl comes in to get the toy....
Then they ask the kids where would the girl look for the toy?
Above some age that I forget (4?), the kids say that the girl looks for the toy on the couch, where she last placed it.
Below some age, the kids would say that the girl looks behind the couch for the toy.
They cannot comprehend that the girl doesn't know that the boy did it.
It's called theory of mind. The ability to know what a person thinks as compared to reality.
Sometimes I feel that a lot of adults are still stuck in that stage. It explains why so many are so gullible when it comes to politicians. They cannot comprehend that politicians do what they do because their minds are NOT in touch with reality. They think it's a honest mistake.
Meanwhile, you can clearly see that not everyone thinks like you do and they can have alterior motives and different logic than you do.