If you care about someone, this should be your aim. To help them set themselves free.

The golden rule is, always go halfway. Build your half of the bridge for interaction. If the other party cannot build their half, there is probably little you can do. Slightly more than halfway is permissible, any further is not. Remember you are striving for the autonomy of intelligence. Don't try to pull or push people through the door; just let them know where it is by going in and out of it yourself. They'll decide whether or not they dare go through it. If someone's consciously trying, by all means help them, but never act to pacify someone's insecurities because if you do you are just making them more dependent, and ultimately, less intelligent. You are reinforcing the bars of the cages of fear that hold them.

You cannot and should not try to 'help' like this until you are no longer stuck in a matrix yourself. It's a razor's edge to walk with no margin for error because you run the risk of harming intelligence unless you are running COMP. Even when you are, you don't go contriving situations where you can 'teach' this kind of thing on purpose. That's interfering without consent. Instead, you recognize the way things are going anyway and you work with that. You do not try to create the opportunities, but when they are there, you take them.

This is why you can really trip up if your values are not based in reality. You have to recognize what is going on, and only COMP can do that. Basically your intelligence recognizes a healthy learning pattern and prompts you to provide whatever input is required from the part of the environment that is you. It makes you be the right person in the right place at the right time, because it can tell what's going on. It provides the correct ideas for triggers of the correct hormonal set; the keys are right there in your hands and you just hand them over...they are keys to mental places the other person has not so far been, and up until now didn't know existed. Suddenly them being handed the key decrypts something that seemed just nonsense before... When you work in synergy with a situation, you are an intelligence communicating with an intelligence, -not with the virus, not with what the infected person thinks is their personality, but with their intelligence; the part of them that you respect as the real McCoy. Your job is to help it repair the person. It can, given a chance. A nudge in the right direction can save years of wasted effort caught in anxiety. But remember: You do not try to push people through doors, you merely point out their existence. And you will only ever do that when the opportunity arises. Without the overview of being outside a matrix, this is an extremely hit-and-miss procedure and should not be approached without sufficient knowledge, much like open-heart surgery. If it's attempted from within a matrix it will backfire on you. If you cannot predict, you should not try to control. You need your ACG running on full whack to pull it off. I insert it here as a glimpse of the goal, a taster of hyperreality. Enjoy the concept; it's where you're headed, sooner than you think.

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15.AL Tutorial (Imagination enhancement)

'Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream'1

Health & Safety Warning:

Imagination control is a difficult matter, unless you have the supportive abilities of memory and emotion control to back it up. It is also a more potentially dangerous matter. Loss of control to sensory-motor drives can lead to some truly dreadful problems, but loss of control to midbrain systems can lead to mental illness which is often irreversible within our current lifespan. We can also waste an awful lot of time chasing nonsense our imagination wants us to believe in with the assistance of other people.

Imagination has at its beck and call, all of your memories, and all of your fears. If you cannot control it, and it gets out of hand, it will most certainly control you. It will drive both your emotion and your intellect. If you're going to enhance it, you obviously need to be in control of it (as Igor said to the good doctor). And to get control of it you need to program it in its own language, Allegorical Language (AL).

...They say a Dark Master sleeps within the Internet...

If you're thinking, "What the hell does that mean?" you don't understand AL and you're probably stuck in matrix 4. If you're thinking "I know, but is it a government conspiracy or the true spontaneous emergence of AI?" you're stuck in matrix 3 and you understand some things about AL but not all of it. If you've just written the next line, I'd have to see it to know how much you know about AL.

Unconsciously, failure to understand AL causes anxiety. If we don't know what it is, if we don't recognize it as a language of code and symbols that represent complex things, situations, and concepts, we cannot decrypt it. Since it feels rather important, we feel a need to. So we either decide it's rubbish and scoff at it (but secretly feel uncomfortable about it, nevertheless), or we think everybody else understands but we just don't get it, which makes us feel inadequate or depressed. Awareness of this can cause stupid people to develop an aggressive reaction to all things 'poetic'. Intelligent people in this situation often wonder why they just 'don't get it' and try to find out why...and they are prepared to pay money or do what they're told to find out why...

Consequently, something really horrible has happened to AL in current society. It has been kidnapped.

All the symbolism of all the religions, mystical/spiritual sects (and political parties) in the world are plagiarized straight from the AL archives. There is no exception. They seem to have such deep meaning only because they are based on our biology as much as our intelligence.

AL imagery maintains its power for all who are stuck in M3. Our current ability with AL, though, could leave a bit to be desired. When we're stuck in a matrix, the intellect takes subliminal information from the midbrain as being reality, as being relevant, and so we believe it is real and we deal with it accordingly. Midbrain language is meant to be an adjunct to PFC cognition, not it's main input. But, without an adequate translator online in the PFC to give us any information to accurately decipher what's out there, we cannot clearly perceive it. Instead of reality we see the mid brain networks' simulation of it, based on it's archetypes and allegorical language. These are strange in that they do not seem to abide by logical rules yet seem to have a very strong meaning and seem to abide by some rules of their own we haven't managed to figure out yet. They invoke strong emotional responses, so they must be real...At this point, superstition jumps in. We cannot explain something, so we stuff it under a rug labeled 'supernatural', and fear it thereafter.

In an insult to intelligent exploration everywhere, in seeking the meaning of allegorical language in mainstream media, people will discover and encounter only religious cults, political parties, elitist groups, patriotism, superstition, mystical/spiritual claptrap and anybody else stuck in Matrix three.

Using archetypes and symbolism because they have noticed how these things have an effect on people, the organizers of such groups (deliberate or accidental neurohackers), play with people's emotions and imaginations to make them obedient, dependent, supportive and servile. Forbidding any 'other' input that might make people realize there are other possibilities for stimulating emotion and imagination (no sex, no drugs, no rock & roll, no men, no women, no dancing, no lewd thoughts, no unholy literature, thou shalt have no other input but me), the victim's only source of input becomes the group/religion/party, which ties its own philosophical value system in with the symbolism and archetypes however it pleases. It doesn't even have to make sense, if they include a meme that claims 'some matters are best understood in some airy-fairy 'intuitive' mystical way and need not make logical sense in order to be true'.

Obviously all this sort of thing could confuse a stupid person, and it does, often for life. Some of the more intelligent folks decide it's all just nonsense; rubbish invented for the gullible masses, or those who never grew up and like to pretend fairy tales are real; cloud-cuckoo-land, space cases and cosmic hippies. Allegorical language comes over in these contexts as garbled rubbish, magic crystals mined by the elves, spiritual cures for all known diseases, and the holy hand-grenade of Antioch.

This is terribly unfortunate as it prevents us from learning AL and stops our midbrain abilities developing as they should, and this in turn affects the quality of our overall intelligence.

AL hasn't received much more coherent treatment from the mainstream of psychology either. All kinds of bizarre ideas and their adherents have cropped up, from the 'Anything pointy represents a penis' brigade, to the 'dream interpreters', to the 'analyze the archetypes and you know the personality' school.

If you are operating from a value system of sentiment, these beliefs will affect your imagination. If you are grounded in fear, that too will affect your imagination, constantly.... And imagination control is where we are going next, so...take responsibility for yourself please, seat belts fastened, smoking is allowed throughout the flight, and we hope you will enjoy traveling with us.

What we need to look at now, is how the mid brain networks act to translate sensation into perception and conceptualization. We need to know this, in order to enhance imagination. We already know these systems use their own kind of memory, eidetic memory, and their own kind of programming language, Allegorical Language (AL). We've had a brief look at what AL does; it's a translator between the sensory motor 'old' brain systems and the 'new' frontal cortex. How does it do this?

The mid brain networks translate information from binary input data into conscious concrete concepts suitable for the application of intellectual logic and creative imagination. They do this using a 'go-between' language I've called AL which is understood in different ways by both sides of the information transfer, even though neither could understand the other without it. AL is not like Esperanto, a language that all comers can understand, it is more like a person who can understand two languages, one spoken and one signed, and it can speak in both at the same time. We often speak to small children instinctively in AL, signing as well as saying the words, especially when we are telling stories. The 'signs' and words that AL uses are a preconstructed set of patterns, which correspond to two groups, objects, and episodes. All of these are 'archetypes'.

We're not meant to have a fully integrated view of the world right away when we're born; it happens in stages.R3 As a child we build our perceptions up much more from the vaults of our imagination than we (should) do as adults, because those networks naturally form a larger percentage of our total cognition. For the first while, the midbrain is the only fully operational cognitive apparatus we have. No wonder we can really believe in Santa, or that there are bears under the bed, or our teacher is really an alien, or that the ghost of Hooflungdung haunts the castle towers...our locus of consciousness is right in those networks of emotion and imagination, busy developing our AL skills...or they should be.

It takes the human brain a minimum of 3 to 4 years to construct enough AL patterns to begin using the language efficiently (and AL is vital to memory, which is why most of our memories before age 3 are very sparse). We practice AL association in dreams first of all.

When we're asleep and dreaming, at any age, the mid brain is in the driving seat. Concepts are shifted from short to long term memory whilst we sleep, and that can only be done through long term potentiation. And that can only be done through the mid brain. When we dream, our memories and imagination combine and cast about for two things: objects that are linked with the new concepts, and patterns or episodes that are linked with the new concepts. And they do so according to allegorical language. Our dreams will always seem to be full of 'archetypes', because the mid brain's language is quite limited in its compressed form and only has certain code lines it can write with. Events in life fall into certain broad categories defined by biology according to what hormones they produced. The objects and episodes of AL are the most strongly recurring patterns of experience in reality, and the most commonly felt emotions. They are based on both biology and intelligence.

Which option your brain chooses, for shaping a dream, will depend on its neurochemistry at the time. If your dopamine is high, for example, a dream about a sexy person could well end up being a damp and happy one, whereas if your serotonin's low you could turn that person, in dream, into a psycho pervert who's trying to rip your genitals off. All of our hormones are constantly shaping the choices our memory makes from its databank, even in sleep. So the nature of your AL access, and hence the contents of your dreams is affected a lot by your personal state of mind. It's also affected immensely by the fact that the midbrain has to use archetypes. We expect certain patterns to emerge, and those expectations change our perception.

Because the amazing thing is, we construct our reality in exactly the same way whether we are awake, or asleep. In dreams, or in waking time, the midbrain unconsciously casts about looking for excuses for its input, and when we find them, we believe it's real. That's the only way intelligence can increase our interest enough to make the item worthy of long term memory. It has to have emotional weighting, and if we believe something is false, it cannot have much. We have to trick ourselves into thinking it is sufficiently real and important to be worth remembering. When the brain thinks it's 'real' it thinks it is coming from 'out there', and the body responds accordingly, as in the sexy wet dream or the sweaty nightmare. (In exactly the same way, people stuck in a matrix cast about for excuses for their mood, and when they find them they think it's real; sufficiently real and important to be worth remembering...)

Of course, it is supposed to correspond to what is real, but this is not often the case...what people are saying does not correspond with what they are doing. This is why the whole of 'real life' and most entertainment for a lot of people is based on subconscious archetypal stories that form the interface between our animal and machine-like natures. We are meant to grow through this fairy tale magical bit of childhood and emerge sane, contemplative, creative, flexible, imaginative, and intelligent. But these 'preset' unconscious patterns now control people's every move on a permanent basis, if they never grew up enough to take over the authorship. Just how many people are out there in the world helplessly acting out archetypal scenarios unbeknown to themselves, remains unknown. I would estimate it at around nine tenths of the Western population, and most of the rest are stuck in matrix four. People do not merely live in a simulation... It has episodes. People live in a soap opera.

Everybody's midbrain works to some extent and everybody's midbrain uses AL, but most have no conscious awareness of it due to lack of exposure to it at the right age, or no ability to decrypt it due to lack of example. It is possible to learn conscious AL at any age, but it might take a lot of effort against resistance because people with little knowledge of it often fear and mistrust it. It is not under conscious control and therefore scary, a little bit too unknown to be faced by some. M4s tend to label it 'cosmic bullshit' or 'superstitious gobbledygook', and that kind of misconception takes a lot of getting past, especially with so much gobbledygook and bullshit around. M3s on the other hand take AL as the end product of input, try to translate it literally, and overreact at the resulting message.

Since AL is predominant in dreaming, that gives you a clue that it is not dependent on conscious thought to begin with, and the fact that the same symbol can have a different meaning to different people but evokes the same hormonal response should give you a further clue as to what AL is really for. Sadly, we continue to mess about interpreting inkblots or designing mystical 'systems' to find the true meaning of the unconscious 'magical symbols'

AL is meant to be a system we become consciously aware of from about age 7.R4 We get a brain growth spurt right then to prepare us for it, because it's a matrix shift, from M3 to M4. From age 7 to 11 is the time when we should begin making up stories and songs instead of just listening to them, painting pictures instead of just looking, designing systems rather than just using the given. We should move in to the locus of the RH, and start using our creativity in every medium. We should become more dexterous and adept at using tools on the outside, and more skilled at using midbrain language consciously, increasing the connections in our Corpus Callosum (CC) and sitting on a rich, already-constructed, thickly wired bus from the RH to the mid brain. These connections increase our creative ability (which is how we can write good stories, make movies, choreograph a dance, invent things, design things, do special effects, get a spaceship to the moon, escape from Alcatraz, and generally have new ideas that haven't been explored before.) And they also increase our ability to interact (which is how we can teach each other things, demonstrate, plan, strategise, work things out, solve problems, repair, predict, and control.)

Here is the process of translation in summary:

· Binary input comes in parallel and each collection of coincident streams is compared to past patterns of coincident streams.

· The input from the event or situation is found to have some familiar patterns.

· The familiar patterns will be represented in eidetic memory as images of objects or episodes. AL examines these and then all the others associated with them, starting with the most similar, popular, or important (emotionally weighted).

· From these the mid brain makes probability calculations about which preset pattern events will turn out to be closest to, and sends messages to trigger any hormones we might require, changing our body language and psychological state.

· Groups of selected objects and episodes are sent as imagery to the frontal lobes together with packets of the chemicals that we used when the last most similar situation arose.

· The PFC translates these into the concepts they represent and processes these accordingly.

Remember that all thought and all input cause micromovements throughout our bodies from before birth.R16 This is a huge part of the old brain's sensory-motor input. It is a summary of every situation encoded in full body subconscious awareness. Every move you make changes that message. If your fists are clenched, or relaxed, you send a different message to the mid brain. If you smile, or frown, you access a different archetype and send a different message. You are so finely tuned, enough to see the wood and/or the trees, but most see only one or the other.