Insightful and thought-provoking like always! And your metaphor of the invisible man suddenly coming into view, naked and absurd-looking, for lots of people is perfect. Incredibly (and hilariously), these naked men still act as if they are invisible and fooling everyone.
Thanks for another great post - I'm really enjoying this series. I read this piece right before a 4 hour flight, so my train of thought has probably traveled longer than it should have. But here's where it ended up:
A) As you note, certain people seem to be able to decode messages relatively effortlessly. (For what it's worth, I am not one of them; it took me a long time to decode your Disney example and frankly I'm still not sure I understand it.) The exact mechanism behind this ability isn't important, but for simplicity's sake I'll call it a "trait".
B) Assuming A is true, my question is: why do only certain people (seemingly a tiny minority) have this trait? Not just from an evolutionary standpoint (though the utility/lack thereof of such a trait is worth pondering), but a spiritual one: why are some humans gifted/cursed with this ability, but not others? Selfishly, what does it mean that I'm not one who has the gift/curse? What does it mean that you are gifted/cursed?
The concepts we're dealing with seem too important for these things to be left to chance.
A) It might be a "trait", but that still leaves us clueless about mechanism, right? After all, if I'm born double-jointed, club-footed, or with a 200 IQ those are all traits. But if I lucked into a top notch education or got crippled in a car wreck, those are also traits.
B) Good question. And again, I don't know the answer. But if it's fully or mostly spiritual (meaning it flows from an immeasurable source) then I wouldn't think it was a sign of any problem if you didn't have the trait, any more than if you weren't eight feet tall or couldn't perform complex trigonometry in your head. I don't think it's left to chance (because I think almost nothing is), and my suspicion is that isn't Red Auerbach situation either. My thinking is that we "can teach height" in this scenario. But that means the people who are like that already need to figure out what it is they're doing, to some extent.
Well, you've already learned one thing, John: that it's a penis Mickey's holding in his hand. By Jove, how can you not see that, Man?!?! (Researchers believe - okay, a "researcher" as long as you count me as a researcher - believe it may be tied to the not-so-well known "little boys who vandalize by drawing penises on things" gene, btw. Not nearly as well-covered in the academic literature as it should be.)
I’ve put a little thought into that phenomenon that I did not know had a name SR in my brief kind of thinking about it? The reasoning was trauma of a unique type.
The basic trauma that comes from parents splitting up my father, leaving when I was three,
however when I was seven, and I lived with my mother and my anywhere from 5 to 7 older sisters living in the house at any given time. 1970s
Some people decided to make it a pastime to break into our house or jump on the roof and run across the roof during the night try to open front and back doors by shaking them once they pick the lock, but the chains held the door.
So I was looking for clues for their presence when we were away from the house all kind of different things I would look for the subtle I would track along the side and back of the house for foot prints For things moved and out of place inside the house etc…We lived in the middle class neighborhood in Houston, thought I’d develop another sense but only could’ve been grasped through developed feeling and looking deeper at my surroundings.
It lasted three years until we moved…..
My wife thinks I just see penises everywhere ….lol
The reactions from the non-seers are interesting in their own right. Ranging from the griller "I don't know if that's true" to the smug redditor "um akshully" to the full apoplectic rage of the true believers.
Are you familiar with Charles Stross's _Laundry Files_ series? His central conceit is that sufficiently concentrated computation (via brains or machines) pierces the veil between realities.
They're written as spy novels, but he (correctly) points out in a separate essay that spy novels and occult novels are very closely related.
The first 3-4 books are quite good; the subsequent ones less so, as he lets his socialist politics override his observational powers.
I'm not familiar with it, but you aren't the first one to recommend them. What's interesting about this to me is that the alternate connotation of "spook" (which I'll be tackling in a future chapter) is that of the covert operative or spy. In incentives, motives, allegiance, and operation, it turns out there isn't much of a difference between the material and "immaterial" versions of these agents.
My poor brain is spinning. But I perceive the spinning is useful, so thanks for that.
Two comments:
“… but its brutality is also the artist’s way of explaining how painful it can be to see through an illusion, and why most people will go to great lengths to avoid it.”
Me thinks this is as elegant an explanation of the dogged persistence of TDS as I have yet heard.
Also: “But I think we can tease out many clues, when we take into account certain unintended consequences of both Techno Babel and the Data Flood.”
One thing I have sensed for 3-4 years now, maybe a bit longer, is one of several fatal mistakes The Machine has made recently. Perhaps from over-confidence, arrogance, hubris (call it what you will), they’ve over-ratcheted their Reset timeline. As a consequence, they are over-heating the global pot that the frogs are in, and many of the frogs have begun jumping the fuck out. …and It is probably accurate to say that the SR frogs never got into that pot to begin with.
The “conspiracy” mindset becoming the mainstream has happened once before in world history, actually. It occurred in soviet russia before its inevitable collapse.
Only a fool trusts the official government publications and statistics. Even a monkey could figure out they are wrong after being lied to enough.
I don’t think its stupidity though, as you yourself explain. What makes a normie a normie is the need for things to be explained to them, the need to believe trusted authority, whomever that authority is. When all “trusted authority” becomes demonic… well…
Edit:
After reading a few of the linked articles, I had an absolutely sickening eureka moment:
Gnosticism is about escaping the physical imperfect world controlled by the demiurge, while satanism is about inverting the good and true into the evil and false, at its core. Well, what is the current era except the ultimate act of inversion ever performed? The gnostics haven’t escaped reality, they have BECOME the demiurge. Hiding reality from everyone via the narratives they concoct.
I’ll freely admit this is just my schizoid rambling but I think I am onto something here. We are fighting against the synthesis of gnosticism and satanism.
"I don’t think its stupidity though, as you yourself explain. What makes a normie a normie is the need for things to be explained to them, the need to believe trusted authority, whomever that authority is. When all “trusted authority” becomes demonic… well…"
Right, I agree with this. And in the absence of God's ultimate authority, well.. Chesterton probably put it best. There are plenty of evil people and/or entities ready and willing to step into that void.
"The gnostics haven’t escaped reality, they have BECOME the demiurge. Hiding reality from everyone via the narratives they concoct... We are fighting against the synthesis of gnosticism and satanism."
I have also detected a kind of syncretic (evil) religion that's evolved over time. This might be a good way to put it, in the sense that the jailer demiurge/prison universe gnostics were already on at least a parallel road with the Lucifarian Satanists. Secret societies, esoteric circles, the desire to escape the "shackles" of Creation, the consorting with daemons for material gains, etc.
The outlines of a shared religious expression are definitely visible, even if the its internal factions will battle for supremacy within it. As a matter of fact, we'd expect no less from a fully matured Church of the Beast, in which the seven cardinal sins become the virtues.
Going a step further, this “demiurge” taint hints at how the woke refuse to see their own beliefs as a religion in the same way that a christian, jew, or islamist would. Hiding the true nature of things grants them power over reality, even if it always causes horrible side effects, being black magic. Hiding the fact you are even a part of a cult is quite the trick.
Essentially, this combination of inverted gnosticism and satanism gains power by hiding a part of reality, then substituting an inverted thing into its place.
It’s something that has been observed for a very long time but I think I’ve just cracked its underpinnings wide open.
I am enjoying the original thought experiment encoded in this series. I do have a question:
If your theory is true, and the SR has increased to the “Goldilocks” level for the average observer, then for those few who could already observe the weak/encrypted signals (such as yourself), wouldn’t the increase in environmental SR result in a loss of coherence for them? Essentially, the volume would be dialed too high making it more difficult (or impossible) to observe those signals that you previously were attuned to. This is where I’m getting hung up.
I know what you mean, and it's been on my mind as well. There may come a point where I lose the signal entirely (and maybe my mind as well).
I think the solution is partly to develop a zone of inner quietude, like a Faraday cage for the soul's eyes. The next step is to outfit it with a lens that can add or subtract noise as necessary. The "magic sunglasses", so to speak. But I don't think this work can be done without belief in the ultimate truth of God. Without that as the foundation, seeing through certain illusions would indeed eventually drive someone crazy, or eventually blind them to signals altogether because they have no method of subtracting noise once the SR threshold is crossed.
Thanks, Mark. This paints a clearer picture on what we've been enduring lately. "They may even kill to avoid seeing through certain illusions." - that's the scary part as we saw it in action during lockdowns and beyond. Wouldn't armed police be an example of the use of force to maintain illusions? You go on to say it could be the history of the 20th century in all its wars. The mind control runs deep, and yet it seems there is an increasing awakening from it and those living in recursive noise of clownworld become more and more unstable. Unstable enough to castrate themselves or inject poison into their children.
"Wouldn't armed police be an example of the use of force to maintain illusions? You go on to say it could be the history of the 20th century in all its wars."
Absolutely, on both counts. And because the (largely subliminal, suggestive) signals remained weak and unnoisy enough during the pre-Internet mass communications era (print, radio, TV), we didn't really notice how crazy it had gotten.
At first I just skimmed this because I have such a long reading list already, but it hit some nerves even in a quick overview so I went back and read it closely. It corresponds well to my own experiences. Really good material.
I thought this find was interesting. While still contemplating your explanation of SR and Reading Ted Gioia this morning. Following links led me to: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness. "how do micro-conscious entities combine into a higher-level macro-consciousness? The proposed solution in the context of mammalian consciousness suggests that a shared resonance is what allows different parts of the brain to achieve a phase transition in the speed and bandwidth of information flows between the constituent parts."
I'm not someone who recognizes illusion/deception easily on my own, but I am able to see it when it's pointed out to me, and don't fight against the uncomfortable truth. It took documentaries about 911 like Loose Change to wake me up, and then down the "rabbit hole" I went. I spotted the dick in the Disney gift card because I was already aware that Disney has been hiding dicks in its animation since the beginning. Thanks to the glitch in the internet matrix people like me can now see what was unthinkable before.
"(B)ut I am able to see it when it's pointed out to me, and don't fight against the uncomfortable truth. It took documentaries about 911 like Loose Change to wake me up..."
But here's the interesting thing, Annette: you had to first make the choice to watch those documentaries, and be open to any truths they conveyed. That's what I mean by SR beginning with a choice, but one that hovers somewhere between the liminal and subliminal states of mind. So, in essence, you still fit the category.
Insightful and thought-provoking like always! And your metaphor of the invisible man suddenly coming into view, naked and absurd-looking, for lots of people is perfect. Incredibly (and hilariously), these naked men still act as if they are invisible and fooling everyone.
Thanks for another great post - I'm really enjoying this series. I read this piece right before a 4 hour flight, so my train of thought has probably traveled longer than it should have. But here's where it ended up:
A) As you note, certain people seem to be able to decode messages relatively effortlessly. (For what it's worth, I am not one of them; it took me a long time to decode your Disney example and frankly I'm still not sure I understand it.) The exact mechanism behind this ability isn't important, but for simplicity's sake I'll call it a "trait".
B) Assuming A is true, my question is: why do only certain people (seemingly a tiny minority) have this trait? Not just from an evolutionary standpoint (though the utility/lack thereof of such a trait is worth pondering), but a spiritual one: why are some humans gifted/cursed with this ability, but not others? Selfishly, what does it mean that I'm not one who has the gift/curse? What does it mean that you are gifted/cursed?
The concepts we're dealing with seem too important for these things to be left to chance.
Or maybe they're too important to be left to human control. ;-)
Amen.
Thanks, John.
A) It might be a "trait", but that still leaves us clueless about mechanism, right? After all, if I'm born double-jointed, club-footed, or with a 200 IQ those are all traits. But if I lucked into a top notch education or got crippled in a car wreck, those are also traits.
B) Good question. And again, I don't know the answer. But if it's fully or mostly spiritual (meaning it flows from an immeasurable source) then I wouldn't think it was a sign of any problem if you didn't have the trait, any more than if you weren't eight feet tall or couldn't perform complex trigonometry in your head. I don't think it's left to chance (because I think almost nothing is), and my suspicion is that isn't Red Auerbach situation either. My thinking is that we "can teach height" in this scenario. But that means the people who are like that already need to figure out what it is they're doing, to some extent.
Well, here's hoping I can learn a few things - that's why I'm here on Substack, after all!
Well, you've already learned one thing, John: that it's a penis Mickey's holding in his hand. By Jove, how can you not see that, Man?!?! (Researchers believe - okay, a "researcher" as long as you count me as a researcher - believe it may be tied to the not-so-well known "little boys who vandalize by drawing penises on things" gene, btw. Not nearly as well-covered in the academic literature as it should be.)
It took me awhile but now I can't unsee it, for whatever that's worth.
Huzzah! Another “trait” unlocked.🔓 You’re definitely leveling-up in XP, John.
I’ve put a little thought into that phenomenon that I did not know had a name SR in my brief kind of thinking about it? The reasoning was trauma of a unique type.
The basic trauma that comes from parents splitting up my father, leaving when I was three,
however when I was seven, and I lived with my mother and my anywhere from 5 to 7 older sisters living in the house at any given time. 1970s
Some people decided to make it a pastime to break into our house or jump on the roof and run across the roof during the night try to open front and back doors by shaking them once they pick the lock, but the chains held the door.
So I was looking for clues for their presence when we were away from the house all kind of different things I would look for the subtle I would track along the side and back of the house for foot prints For things moved and out of place inside the house etc…We lived in the middle class neighborhood in Houston, thought I’d develop another sense but only could’ve been grasped through developed feeling and looking deeper at my surroundings.
It lasted three years until we moved…..
My wife thinks I just see penises everywhere ….lol
It’s a shark, if anyone wants to know 😎.
This series has been really thought provoking so far. I’m very much looking forward to the next installment!
anybody got any bubble gum?
Sorry, I'm fresh out.
☹️
The reactions from the non-seers are interesting in their own right. Ranging from the griller "I don't know if that's true" to the smug redditor "um akshully" to the full apoplectic rage of the true believers.
Yeah, the rage is a signal in itself, in my opinion. It's the rat in the Skinner cage getting a shock when it expected a treat.
Are you familiar with Charles Stross's _Laundry Files_ series? His central conceit is that sufficiently concentrated computation (via brains or machines) pierces the veil between realities.
They're written as spy novels, but he (correctly) points out in a separate essay that spy novels and occult novels are very closely related.
The first 3-4 books are quite good; the subsequent ones less so, as he lets his socialist politics override his observational powers.
I'm not familiar with it, but you aren't the first one to recommend them. What's interesting about this to me is that the alternate connotation of "spook" (which I'll be tackling in a future chapter) is that of the covert operative or spy. In incentives, motives, allegiance, and operation, it turns out there isn't much of a difference between the material and "immaterial" versions of these agents.
Stross makes that explicit in a short essay in one of his Laundry Files books.
As an INFJ this is very INFJ-ish!
Had to look that one up, lol. I don't know enough about these models to know if it fits.
My poor brain is spinning. But I perceive the spinning is useful, so thanks for that.
Two comments:
“… but its brutality is also the artist’s way of explaining how painful it can be to see through an illusion, and why most people will go to great lengths to avoid it.”
Me thinks this is as elegant an explanation of the dogged persistence of TDS as I have yet heard.
Also: “But I think we can tease out many clues, when we take into account certain unintended consequences of both Techno Babel and the Data Flood.”
One thing I have sensed for 3-4 years now, maybe a bit longer, is one of several fatal mistakes The Machine has made recently. Perhaps from over-confidence, arrogance, hubris (call it what you will), they’ve over-ratcheted their Reset timeline. As a consequence, they are over-heating the global pot that the frogs are in, and many of the frogs have begun jumping the fuck out. …and It is probably accurate to say that the SR frogs never got into that pot to begin with.
The “conspiracy” mindset becoming the mainstream has happened once before in world history, actually. It occurred in soviet russia before its inevitable collapse.
Only a fool trusts the official government publications and statistics. Even a monkey could figure out they are wrong after being lied to enough.
I don’t think its stupidity though, as you yourself explain. What makes a normie a normie is the need for things to be explained to them, the need to believe trusted authority, whomever that authority is. When all “trusted authority” becomes demonic… well…
Edit:
After reading a few of the linked articles, I had an absolutely sickening eureka moment:
Gnosticism is about escaping the physical imperfect world controlled by the demiurge, while satanism is about inverting the good and true into the evil and false, at its core. Well, what is the current era except the ultimate act of inversion ever performed? The gnostics haven’t escaped reality, they have BECOME the demiurge. Hiding reality from everyone via the narratives they concoct.
I’ll freely admit this is just my schizoid rambling but I think I am onto something here. We are fighting against the synthesis of gnosticism and satanism.
"I don’t think its stupidity though, as you yourself explain. What makes a normie a normie is the need for things to be explained to them, the need to believe trusted authority, whomever that authority is. When all “trusted authority” becomes demonic… well…"
Right, I agree with this. And in the absence of God's ultimate authority, well.. Chesterton probably put it best. There are plenty of evil people and/or entities ready and willing to step into that void.
"The gnostics haven’t escaped reality, they have BECOME the demiurge. Hiding reality from everyone via the narratives they concoct... We are fighting against the synthesis of gnosticism and satanism."
I have also detected a kind of syncretic (evil) religion that's evolved over time. This might be a good way to put it, in the sense that the jailer demiurge/prison universe gnostics were already on at least a parallel road with the Lucifarian Satanists. Secret societies, esoteric circles, the desire to escape the "shackles" of Creation, the consorting with daemons for material gains, etc.
The outlines of a shared religious expression are definitely visible, even if the its internal factions will battle for supremacy within it. As a matter of fact, we'd expect no less from a fully matured Church of the Beast, in which the seven cardinal sins become the virtues.
Going a step further, this “demiurge” taint hints at how the woke refuse to see their own beliefs as a religion in the same way that a christian, jew, or islamist would. Hiding the true nature of things grants them power over reality, even if it always causes horrible side effects, being black magic. Hiding the fact you are even a part of a cult is quite the trick.
Essentially, this combination of inverted gnosticism and satanism gains power by hiding a part of reality, then substituting an inverted thing into its place.
It’s something that has been observed for a very long time but I think I’ve just cracked its underpinnings wide open.
I am enjoying the original thought experiment encoded in this series. I do have a question:
If your theory is true, and the SR has increased to the “Goldilocks” level for the average observer, then for those few who could already observe the weak/encrypted signals (such as yourself), wouldn’t the increase in environmental SR result in a loss of coherence for them? Essentially, the volume would be dialed too high making it more difficult (or impossible) to observe those signals that you previously were attuned to. This is where I’m getting hung up.
I know what you mean, and it's been on my mind as well. There may come a point where I lose the signal entirely (and maybe my mind as well).
I think the solution is partly to develop a zone of inner quietude, like a Faraday cage for the soul's eyes. The next step is to outfit it with a lens that can add or subtract noise as necessary. The "magic sunglasses", so to speak. But I don't think this work can be done without belief in the ultimate truth of God. Without that as the foundation, seeing through certain illusions would indeed eventually drive someone crazy, or eventually blind them to signals altogether because they have no method of subtracting noise once the SR threshold is crossed.
Thanks, Mark. This paints a clearer picture on what we've been enduring lately. "They may even kill to avoid seeing through certain illusions." - that's the scary part as we saw it in action during lockdowns and beyond. Wouldn't armed police be an example of the use of force to maintain illusions? You go on to say it could be the history of the 20th century in all its wars. The mind control runs deep, and yet it seems there is an increasing awakening from it and those living in recursive noise of clownworld become more and more unstable. Unstable enough to castrate themselves or inject poison into their children.
"Wouldn't armed police be an example of the use of force to maintain illusions? You go on to say it could be the history of the 20th century in all its wars."
Absolutely, on both counts. And because the (largely subliminal, suggestive) signals remained weak and unnoisy enough during the pre-Internet mass communications era (print, radio, TV), we didn't really notice how crazy it had gotten.
Are you left-handed?
No. Righty.
At first I just skimmed this because I have such a long reading list already, but it hit some nerves even in a quick overview so I went back and read it closely. It corresponds well to my own experiences. Really good material.
Thanks, patrick. Feel free to share those, if you like.
I thought this find was interesting. While still contemplating your explanation of SR and Reading Ted Gioia this morning. Following links led me to: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness. "how do micro-conscious entities combine into a higher-level macro-consciousness? The proposed solution in the context of mammalian consciousness suggests that a shared resonance is what allows different parts of the brain to achieve a phase transition in the speed and bandwidth of information flows between the constituent parts."
Thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out.
I'm not someone who recognizes illusion/deception easily on my own, but I am able to see it when it's pointed out to me, and don't fight against the uncomfortable truth. It took documentaries about 911 like Loose Change to wake me up, and then down the "rabbit hole" I went. I spotted the dick in the Disney gift card because I was already aware that Disney has been hiding dicks in its animation since the beginning. Thanks to the glitch in the internet matrix people like me can now see what was unthinkable before.
Its a bit like the programming updates we often clown on the left for, actually. You had a programming update and viola, dicks.
"(B)ut I am able to see it when it's pointed out to me, and don't fight against the uncomfortable truth. It took documentaries about 911 like Loose Change to wake me up..."
But here's the interesting thing, Annette: you had to first make the choice to watch those documentaries, and be open to any truths they conveyed. That's what I mean by SR beginning with a choice, but one that hovers somewhere between the liminal and subliminal states of mind. So, in essence, you still fit the category.