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The Subconscious Changes What You See and Feel

How You See and Experience Reality Depends on Your Programming
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The Power of the Subconscious

If you believe that you are a rational person, then you may automatically believe that your biases are logical without going through the trouble of fully verifying the arguments and/or evidence for yourself. If you consider yourself well researched (as though that relates to logic in some way), then you may recite some texts instead of going through the logical process of an argument for yourself, or if you can't remember the texts then you might say that you're well researched and then cite your credentials. And if you feel right about something, then it is extremely easy to say that you are logical about it. And the one that seems to get a lot of smarter people: on issues that are not within your area of expertise, you instead listen attentively for a brief moment or two to a couple arguments from an expert in the field, and if those arguments hold up to the over generalizations that you already have about the issue then you are likely to immediately adopt these as your own. In each case logic is skipped, and you are generally unwilling to review it again when asked. And in each case emotion powered your thoughts - your beliefs - that you were rational.

A scientist is challenged with the requirement to be unbiased. Yet most of them are biased: project objectives that weren't first "trimmed" to the bare essentials using a process I call "context-normalization", words that include inadvertent assumption, words that over generalize, and words that generalize in the wrong way. And the big one: incorrectly applying the research of other scientists.

However, their bias is not all subconscious. Some of these scientists have word skills that are on par with "uncanny", and some of these scientists have given into the temptation to abuse these skills purposely.

Some of these scientists GLADLY sign off on statements that should NOT be signed off on. Using their word skills and credentials to unjustly gain grant money, and to move to the top of their respective fields. And worse yet, they use these word skills, manipulating subconscious bias in others, even other scientists, to move mainstream opinion in the wrong direction. The scientists that get to this point are truly powerful people doing a great misdeed for mankind.

For example: they receive a tip, or a hunch, that a scientific argument for the safety of a substance or product will result in grant money. So they use their extremely high word skills and credentials, writing articles that expound on the total safety of the substance or product through arguments that are not fully logical, yet sound beyond any reasonable doubt to be true, while skillfully evading arguments to the contrary, and wording everything in a way that once the truth is discovered later, it will look like an innocent mistake, a reasonable oversight given the then current information. I have read articles that are so convincing that they had me convinced, until I would reread and look objectively for how they dealt with existing and available arguments to the contrary - just to find that they did not even address them. Skillful words + professional appearance + high credentials = direct programing of subconscious bias. This results in seriously dangerous mainstream misinformation.

Entire industries are manipulated through the dynamic interactions of mainstream misinformation, legal substantiation, and liability.

Any situation involving liability forces an expert (not necessarily a doctor) to act on the mainstream information (including misinformation), so that legally substantiated "scientific fact" (or misinformation inappropriately deemed as such) will keep them out of hot water in their liability-intense profession (mainly medical professions, however, any profession where liability is a strong issue).

In other words, the actions of experts within liability intense professions, are manipulated by mainstream misinformation, potentially hurting or killing people for profit, without knowledge of this (because it appears to be some other more innocent cause), and while making it all deniable.

Subconscious bias is EASILY manipulated by word experts. Master manipulators posing as scientists, people involved in law enforcement or court who participate in the use of railroading tactics, authors who use Psychological Mind Control, salesmen, con artists, preachers, politicians, Hollywood - you'll find a lot of word experts in these areas, and many of them are happy to abuse their skill for profit, and/or for other reasons.

And generally, if one gets into trouble, he/she can get right back out of trouble by using his/her word skills. While the rest of us walk on egg shells around all the rules, these people navigate them like a pro hockey player navigates the ice.

The masses do not see it because of their emotional involvement with bias. This protects the bias, and blinds them to reason. Emotional involvement is the key that locks the bias in place. Emotional involvement can come from pride, love, hate, or just about any other emotion that potentially triggers what I call "the subconscious fixation switch".

The "subconscious fixation switch", very simply, is a switch that all humans switch on whenever they take something personally. Or that triggers an emotion (any emotion) that serves as an "energy source to feed their psyche". Once switched on, this person naturally forms a very strong bias to protect the source. Lovers become protective. Sports viewers defend their team. Teens will say how good the manufacturer of their car is. Etc.

Anyone who puts a lot of time into something will also likely switch it on for that thing.

It can be positive or negative. Destructive or constructive. Bad or good.

This is automatic, and by association, with every rule imprinted previously through inadvertent assumption. ONCE switched on, subconscious bias is full tilt, to automatically play up some information, and to automatically play down other information, where the information played down will simply not look valid, and is therefore not a part of their consideration.

It is much harder to see bias in one's self than in others. This is because subconscious bias forms inadvertently. Our conscious minds are not focused on our subconscious bias. Instead, they are focused on the thoughts believed to be true, that are instead causing the bias as a side-effect to over generalizing or assuming.

With practice it is easy to fix subconscious bias. First do your best to treat it as NOT personal. Think of it in the 3rd person if you have to. This will help to reduce the natural compulsion to defend it. Then ask yourself what at least might be wrong with those words. It helps to write all this down. Then systematically identify the illogical notions, and correctly label them.

Asking yourself questions about something is not the same thing as telling yourself that the thing is all out wrong. The trick is to instead ask yourself how to make the wording of that thought more accurate and more honest. This way you can let go of the natural compulsion to defend it to start a logical process of questioning, which should over time result in greater levels of understanding. And if the thought IS completely wrong, you are more likely to see this for yourself through that method, and in your own time when you are ready.

No matter how accurate/honest you think your new wording is, always consider the possibility that you missed something (i.e. keep the door open for more questioning later).

After you go through the logical process to make what you tell yourself about it accurate you can then imprint the corrections by revisiting the same process that made the previous thoughts so convincing, this time using the corrected words at each step of that process. However, if you do not feel that the new way is correct, then start over, sometimes mistakes show up in the form of intuition. However, other times mind control will interfere with intuition. (The reason intuition is of potential value is because it connects with nonlinear thought, which has access to a lot more variables. Just the same, the value it has is generally in the form of an arrow pointing towards some clue - not necessarily a conclusion - depending of course on the programming of your subconscious. If it is programmed correctly, then it is capable of giving you a correct answer instantly.)

Emotions usually take time to change fully to reflect the new imprinting, just let the emotional changes occur on their own and in their own time. As long as you did this right the emotions will change as a result of rewording your thoughts to make them more accurate. And, if they don't, it probably means a step was missed. Try again. Look carefully for the oversight. Put the new wording to use more. Or, wait longer before expecting change.

Subconscious imprinting is natural, it happens to you all day every day. Everytime you have a thought you are imprinting. Taking control of this process to program your thoughts in an organized logical manner isn't something that goes against nature, the mechanism that makes this work functions the same either way. The difference is whether you choose to be haphazard about how your subconscious is programmed (which as a side-effect allows Psychological Mind Control to affect you), or accurate/honest with yourself (which as a side-effect shields your mind from Psychological Mind Control).

The process to really clean this up may take years. This is because subconscious bias is often in a format that produces psychological walls. These walls interlock with each other, strengthening the bias inside those walls, and blinding the mind to what's outside. Imagine dozens of illogical notions buried in the subconscious, each one contributing in some way to the "subconscious momentum" to see an issue a certain way. This is why the cleanup process will seem very slow at first. Each individual "repair" is likely ineffective against the many additional illogical notions that are still there, reinforcing the same wall even after the single repair was made.

However, as you fix each illogical notion, reimprinting with accurate words and visualizations, the interlocking walls of your "mind box" start to come down, and there is a point where it gets easier and easier to see and fix the rest.

Another angle in finding these walls is to ask yourself what you consider obvious. It is easy to point out the obvious when it appears simple and straight forward. However, there are two kinds of "obvious" conclusions:

  1. Where the issue is so simple that the correct logical conclusion can be seen through a simple visualization.
  2. Where the issue seems so familiar that the mind directly produces an answer without going through the full logical process.
The problem is that #2 can look exactly the same as #1 to the person making the mistake. This kind of "obvious" is not a logical conclusion, instead it may easily be the result of catchy yet inaccurate wording, stereotypes, or popular misconception, which all serve to form bias (or to reinforce it).

Bias is manifested by the subconscious in the form of psychological walls that unnecessarily restrict perspective. These psychological walls are in the form of "living pictures" full of color, imagery, notions, emotions, conclusions, and sometimes even sound. Because these pictures feel so real, it is very easy to believe that they are real.

Examples:

  1. Most movies make the bad guy look ugly and act impolite, while the good guy is well dressed and acts polite. This has caused a bias in a lot of people. As a test, try dressing ugly and dirty, then walk to a street corner - you'll see people locking their doors as they wait for the light. Then later dress up and look clean, go to the same street corner, and in every way act like a well mannered business person or all around good natured person who's minding their own business. You may see people rolling down their windows or just going on their way - not locking their doors.
  2. Then individuals in law enforcement who participate in railroading tactics will feed on the above bias through the art of taking ugly mug shots - just one more piece to the puzzle to convince everyone that the guy is guilty.
  3. A young person pauses a real long time before walking through the door, everyone thinks he is trying to act funny. Then an old man pauses in exactly the same way, and everyone thinks he is getting old and doesn't know where he's at. Most likely they both had other reasons for their actions.
  4. You and your friend are outside, its very cold, and you have a coat yet your friend does not. You feel warm so you give your coat to your friend. However, just then you arrive at a heated building. You walk inside, just to discover that your friend is unwilling to take off your coat. The reason: subconscious bias triggerered by the over generalization that a coat's only function is to keep someone warm, when in this scenario the coat was doing the opposite: it was keeping your friend cold.

Now, I would like to point out that I'm not saying that the subconscious cannot produce the correct answer. In some things where the subconscious was programmed correctly, or where the subconscious processed additional details vital to forming the correct conclusion, or where luck put it in line with reality, THEN a subconscious "picture" of the correct (or similar to correct) answer can form. AND, the subconscious is very efficient at this because it processes in parallel (non-linear thought). However, I AM saying that the subconscious can and does transfigure all that is perceived, prior to reaching the conscious mind, through every transfiguration rule put there by every inadvertent assumption that is both currently imprinted and activated by association.

The perception of reality is filtered through the subconscious, so that the conscious mind experiences and interacts with a transfigured virtual reality, rather than real reality. Real reality is experienced indirectly. And when I say "experienced", I mean the experience of your senses, notions, and emotions, this dynamic psychological interplay that makes us feel human, is transfigured through programming, and therefore indirect. You can ask a person with acute glaucoma what they "see" in their periferal vision. They don't see emptiness or blackness, they "see" continuations of what is in front of them, or of what their mind is convinced is there. They see the colors and shapes that they expect to see. These "sights" are transfigurations programmed by the subconscious. It includes not only notions and emotions, but also perception.

And this is not an ability that only people with acute glaucoma have, we all have it, which means we all "see" things that aren't really there, intermixed with things that are really there. Some things that are there will be invisible due to subconscious bias, and some things that aren't there will be visible due to subconscious bias.

A large portion of your experience of reality can be altered by subconscious programming.

The phrase, "I'll believe it when I see it", may be the opposite of the truth. In my experience people don't see something unless they first accept the possibility that its there.

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