First, let me apologize for starting sort of “in the middle” of the topic today. But this is a worthy subject to consider; I trust you’ll agree in due course.
Mind Amplifiers, as you are supposed to have figured out by now, is not just a little electronic which that gets plumbed-in, around the base of your skull, and hooked up to a USB and ported over into the Neurolink zone (or whateve).
Mind amplifiers have been an evolving “class of human activity for literally centuries. Some points alondg the way:
- Ancient religious traditions work on “mind organizing” and in doing so set the stage for what wiould be the Freudian/Jungian constructs of Ego, Super Ego, and Id. In religious work, it’s often a trinity – a father, son, and Holy Accounting Team. The Idea is typically “You are born, you live up to 100-years in a daze, then you die and progress to a “life review experience after Death, and then spend time in “heaven” (between lives spaces) trying to answer the question “What the f*ck was that all about?
- Neither Freud or the religious groups are particularly open to criticism. But there’s a simple topology to how “life seems to work” (at the UX [user experience] level that can be mapped. It’s why my work over on the Hidden Guild website is all about. As good an answer as any? Life is an Escape Room with school courses in such topics as “Learning your way around a strange world” and “How not to be such a dick in Life…”
- Smarter people than me (Chris Langan, for example, but uncountable people are smarter than me) figure the “whole of everything” is called “the Ontology” and the concept is like God, but without the human persona. flowing beard, gender preference, or anything else. Grand Architect of The Universe (GATU works, too.
- The first “division” for mental good housekeeping is what we call Realms. There are exactly two. One is the Waking Realm – which is where you read this – while the other is called non-local Worlds.
- Under this come an unlimited numbers of domains and these exist to provide for the two kinds of being that inhabit Waking Realm on this world. One group keeps track of its thoughts and information collection with direct (limited, simple, non-extensible) indexes. Life Indexers are not the most creative people you’ll meet, but they “:get the job done” and they are certainly not as “flighty” as the ADHD hyper who spend their time indexing the shit out of damn near everything. Mass Indexers will not only index cars (by model year, say) but then in Rainman (movie ref) ..they will know every other conceivable stat on the car. From there, third level indexing goes off into personal [more properly psychographics] of people who buy that kind of car and what it means.
Fortunately, this has absolutely nothing to do with science fiction, except, well, mind amplifiers aren’t as critical to the Life Indexers and they are more so to the Mass Indexers…
“Huh?” “What About Sci-Fi???”
Oh…um…yeah. Just getting to that.
The short version goes “You spend a third of your Life off-planet.” Where you go is anyone’s guess in absolutamente terms. But the data says you go into one of four general slots.
- Dead-to-the-worlds Sleep. No dreams, not waking up amped. Just sound sleep while the body rests. Of course, everyone dreams – every night – and you can see it on an eeg in a sleep lab. It’s just most people don’t remember it.
- Second level of sleep is the “dreams are thought stubs left over from not understood like on the crazy planet (where we all wake up and share things like CNN and Fox – evidence of crazy abounding both places). If you haven’t figured out the game, or if you get sucked into psychodramas of others you land there.
- Third Level of Sleep is Lucidity. This is where you “wake up in your dreams” and these are really cool. Like a free pass to an inside version of iMAX you are the director, actor and audience all wrapped up into one.
- Then the BIGGIE! You leave the commonalities of (xcrazy Planet) and go to other worlds.
See it yet? The “other world’s is my bitch-of-the-day: Sci-Fi has been habitually getting those Other Worlds All Wrong!
“How So?”
Oh – I’ve written a whole book about my earlier adventures as a oneironaut. Which is someone who goes Realm-hopping in their sleep. Here’s just a few things that dream logging reveals about how wrong a lot of sci-fi is.
- Oneironauts know that a 3-4 hour dream (in Crazy Planet time) can live on different worlds as several weeks of time passage. Yeah – that’s one I haven’t baked into a sci-fi novel, but at least my first novel (DreamOver) kinda points to this “Super iMAX and Beyond” when you start world hopping in the non-local Realms.
- What triggered me to write this down was being on a world last night (we’ll get to the trip report in a minute) where not only was there a different “time base” – it was a world of perpetual high clouds and diffused sunlight. Air was way thicker than on this Waking Earth, and for reasons still not clear, the residents in this world were totally into local/regional manufacturing and everything was about railroads and personal flying devices.
I know – sounds odd. But on past Realm explorations, I’ve also been in world where temperature gradients – which as a pilot I know here on Crazy Planet run 2-3 degrees C per thousand feet of elevation. One world I visited had literally 85F poolside ground level temps, while 20 feet up there was a foot of snow melting from the tops of a very sci-fi-looking version of a Doug fir tree.
Takeaways:
Not everyone is going to understand or even give a shit about Mind Amplifiers. Once someone invites you to begin freeform indexing, you will begin to feel your capacity for thought, emotion, invention, experience all begin to bloom.
When that happens, it’s almost a Masonic like “moving up through the chairs.” You start by giving yourself permission to recall your dreams.
Then you learn to clean up your day stub processing demands. You stop engaging with petty people on Crazy Planet because you have better uses of your time than processing bullshit head trips. (We all die, so let’s get the exploring suits warmed up early!)
And finally you make it to oneironaut – you can travel to different Realms and when you are logging your experiences?
It will become very clear that Sci-Fi, in the main, is simplistic fiction by a nice crowd of daydreamers. If your favorite author misses the simple (in-your-face) that the physical sets or all world s are different? They’re tapping out from the experiencer crowd.
And that, my friend is what Sci-Fi gets horribly wrong much of the time.
Oh, it’s also why collecting brain amplifiers is both powerful and fearless-death enabling. But we’ll get to that as we amble through future app notes…
-George