THE HOLY GRAIL OF MIND CONTROL

 If someone figures out how to deploy technology that can send out information in frequencies that the human brain will process, then all of us can be subjected to messaging without our consent - advertising, propaganda, etc.

Further, the same technology reverse-engineered would read our thoughts. Access to the minds of the masses is the holy grail. The ability to deliver unwanted content straight into your mind, and to read your thoughts and scan your memories - these are the violations of your inner space, the final frontier. At the point which this access becomes possible, your mind is no longer your own. 

You already surrender your mind a great deal more than you realize or care to admit, to various influences, but even a subconscious choice is still a choice you can become aware of at some point and modify if you choose. When you have no control over what can be delivered to your brain, and no control over who can access your brain, you no longer have privacy of any kind left. Your thoughts could be criminalized. Your memories could be used against you in various ways. In an era where free speech is under attack, the idea of your thoughts being accessible for analysis and possible persecution is beyond alarming. 

The ability to manipulate the minds of the masses for political and financial gain is equally alarming. And this is no longer conspiracy theory. I'm not talking about implants. Yes, the government does want to know what you're thinking, and where you are all the time, and where you've been. Everything "smart" that you use daily, and adopted voluntarily, is collecting information about you constantly and relaying it elsewhere. You can't retrieve or eliminate that information. Your sole remedy would be to go live off-grid in a radio-quiet zone.

The penetration of the minds of the masses began with the internet, and its influence over you has increased over decades of its existence. The world has become a place where you can't function and don't exist without the internet and devices such as smart phones and GPS in vehicles. People use electronic and digital means to pay for things. There is a massive amount of data about the minutiae of every single person's life, and it is constantly updated. Direct access to your mind would just be far more efficient, and would strip you of any choice in the matter.

While a few companies have developed brain implants, these are not in widespread use. Brain-to-computer interfacing is another area of intense research and development right now. In both cases, the stated goals are to improve quality of life for the end user, in particular for people with assorted disabilities. It's important to bear in mind that these pretexts, while truths to some extent, are never the primary goal. 

Agents of disease are collected and sometimes outright manufactured in labs, with the purported goal of understanding them in order to develop vaccines against them and treatments for them. But a huge part of the lab work also involves investigation into the feasibility of weaponization of these viruses and bacteria, and that should scare the shit out of you. The aerosolization of these agents can cause pandemics, or be used to create disease for a specific target group or location.

While legitimate work is done by countless scientists every day in hopes of curing diseases, preventing disasters, and improving quality of life for the disabled, the cold, hard truth is that the dark side of the research and the inventions is always coexistent. Inevitably, the benefit to human health and quality of life is a future marketing ploy and a secondary benefit, something of a useful side effect. 

I mention the dark side of medical research as a more readily understood example of how the necessary and personally beneficial will always be intertwined with the agendas of those in a position to impose their will on the masses. And those agendas do not serve your interests. They serve corporate greed, political power, and the war machine. All through recorded history, there have always been ways to control the masses. Religion is one of the most successful. 

The idea of governance itself is questionable, because it's not really about making sure the people behave or benefit. It's about enriching the elites and furthering political aims of those in power. No matter the political system, those in power are loath to relinquish it, and those with money influence every aspect of life for the average person. While a society needs some kind of structure in order to function, there has yet to be a society that has not ultimately been about the haves versus the have-nots. 

The desire of the few to impose their will on the many is eternal. All that changes is the means of doing so. And in the future, technology that for now seems indistinguishable from magic will be the way it's done. Before that happens, you might want to take a look at how much of your own mind and free will you've already given up without even realizing it, how you do it on a daily basis. For now, your mind is still your own. Reacquaint yourself with using it instead of allowing it to be manipulated.

 So I watched a video by Sabine about transhumanism.  People like Elon Musk say this is the inevitable future of humans and the only way we'll survive.  She did a great job in this video, and dropped a few humor bombs in her usual way.  The video started with examples of some people I found rather disturbing, who had self-implanted things inside their bodies.  They call themselves grinders.  They are the hackers of the realm of implants.

There was a guy who had a magnet inside the tip of his finger.  There were people who had installed RFID chips inside their bodies to allow them to do everything from paying for things by swiping their hand to altering thermostats and other smart home devices.  Just like Sabine, I will mention but not linger on the prospect of serious infections that can happen when people essentially undertake surgical procedures on themselves and install foreign objects inside their bodies.  In the comments, many people asked what happens to the guy with the magnet in his finger if he has to get an MRI.  Indeed.

The disturbing thing about the comments under this video was that the overwhelming majority of people were dismissive of any need for concern about a future involving implants.  There were countless examples given of medical and assistive devices that could be defined as making people transhuman already for decades, from pacemakers to glasses and contacts, to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, knee and hip replacements, dental implants, and then even the prospect of devices that aren't implanted but are with you constantly, such as phones and smart watches, was counted as part of the same.

Many people actually said they thought it would be great or cool or whatever to be able to use the internet by way of an implant in their body, even if the implant was in their brain.  They had no issue with medical implants that would deliver drugs and monitor their health from the inside.  There were comments from people who work in IT and software development who were quick to say that implants are always going to involve code and software and firmware, and that the constant need to update these programs, as well as the pretty much guaranteed glitches and bugs that will happen, and the risk of hackers gaining entry and being able to control or manipulate another person's body, information, or even their mind gave them pause.  But only people who work in fields related to technology expressed any concerns.  The rest sounded like people who drank the Kool-Aid.

I rarely comment on YouTube, but I left commentary to the effect that this is not being done for the good of humanity, though of course that's the spin they put on it, just like everything else with untapped potential and dollar signs.  I said it's an emerging industry that should scare the shit out of you.  People really don't understand that there's a world of difference between the established medical implants and devices they listed and the spectrum of possibilities we're talking about now.  All those conventional devices were dumb.  They don't connect to the internet or to Bluetooth.  They don't share information about the inside of your body with anybody outside you.  They don't collect data at all.  They just serve their purpose.  

It always amazes me that society can continue to be oblivious to the fact that "smart" doesn't mean intelligent, when talking about technology.  SMART is an acronym that stands for self-monitoring and reporting technology.

Your phone collects and shares your location and keeps it up to date.  GPS in vehicles, which was rolled out as helping you find places without paper maps, tracks your location constantly and shares that information.  Your email and social media accounts collect information about your location, your device that you use to log in the account, and adjust what ads and recommendations and feed content you see based on your activity - what you say, what you like, what you share, who you follow.

I really don't think the average person actually realizes that this kind of tracking is done constantly.  The allure of the smart phone and the world on a screen in a portable fashion was too hard to resist.  The GPS in vehicles made it possible to never get lost again and to just go, not have to look up a destination in advance.  There are apps for everything.  People keep track of their health, their fitness, their diets, their periods, their sex lives, their schedules, and their feelings, through myriad apps that have replaced diaries, journals, notebooks - you know, what people always did before, just write it down.  Anything you keep track of using an app is automatically being shared with the app, with its servers, with its owners, with any staff that company has, and with third parties for advertising and for dubious studies on things about the public.

Facebook's infamous "it's free and it always will be" went over people's heads.  Yes, it was free in terms of money.  They pretty much all are.  Some offer tiers, where if you pay for certain perks, you have access to features the basic free account doesn't.  But just to join is usually free.  Same with email.  The reason you don't have to pay money to join is because you pay with the data they collect about you.  You are a commodity.

You don't have to be an Elon stan to know that he wants to implant everybody with brain implants that start out assisting with disabilities and lead to technological telepathy and brain to brain internet.  People really don't have a concept of what that means.  This is the part where the concerns about AI become warranted.  It will not necessarily cause the annihilation of humanity, as some fear, but it will change humans.  It will change society.  It already has.

People have had a couple of decades to get used to the internet, to email, to social media, to having a phone with them 24/7, to apps for everything, to oversharing their personal lives with strangers online, to daily selfies, to 24/7 notifications from apps in the background when they're not using them but never log out, to GPS, to looking everything up on Google instead of having to know or learn or remember anything.  It's beyond them that data collection poses any risk. They hear about data breaches, but until they're personally affected by one, they treat it the same way they treat news about Africa or the Middle East - it happens to others, it happens somewhere else, it doesn't happen to them.

The only people sounding the alarm over AI and the future of technology are people who work in related fields. The unwashed masses think it's all the greatest shit since sliced bread and all they see is how it can make their lives easier, faster, more convenient, and they don't know how anything works and don't want to.  They lose their minds if Twitter or Facebook is down for a while, or their internet is down, but they take bugs and glitches and spam and viruses and bots and hackers in stride.  They have no concept of the business model of Big Tech and refuse to learn.  They're easily impressed with the shiny things and the seemingly magical advancements, where gestures can replace actually touching things, where you can use your face to unlock your phone, where algorithms have learned to suggest exactly what you want or need to see today.  Technology learns all about you, and it's not to give you a better experience.  It's to put money in the pockets of the few.

So everybody's records of any kind are online now, from medical to financial to legal to vital stats, because everything is in databases.  There are constant hacks, constant ransomware attacks, leaving such records exposed.  Beyond your privacy is the realm of identity theft, which doesn't seem to worry people until it happens to them.  It seems like another lifetime when it was big wisdom to not open attachments in emails from people you don't know.

What these tech titans envision is a future where you comply.  There has always been a goal of controlling the masses, and this will never change.  It's done through politics, religion, social norms, mass media, social media, and now they're invading your inner space with devices that monitor your heart rate, your glucose, your blood pressure, your location, your mood, your menstrual cycle, your medication compliance, your politics, and while they're at it, why not get your fingerprints and your voice and your iris involved.  Facial recognition is being rolled out all over the world, so that all the cameras that do surveillance in public can be used to identify anyone who shows up on camera.  The problem with all of this is that this data is all in databases that you don't control, and you have no idea who has access to that data or what they'll do with it.  And then there's hackers.  And then there's system errors.  And then there's disasters where the entire contents of servers are lost forever.  So now you don't even exist in that scenario.

The fundamental issue with all of it is that it will become the norm.  It won't be a two-tier society where some are augmented with technology and some aren't.  Just like the disappearance of pay phones and paper money, just like the phasing out of combustion engine vehicles in favor of electric vehicles, once there is a certain degree of voluntary adoption, it will be forced upon everyone else.

Outer space is not the final frontier.  While the expensive telescopes observe things that are far beyond man's ability to ever visit directly, the plans remain limited to expanding ourselves within this local solar system.  Space is far too vast for man to even think about conquering.  Inner space is the final frontier.  Inner space is accessible.  At the point where you give up dominion over your own inner space, your own body, your own vital processes, your own neurological system, your own brain, you have surrendered to overlords in a way that nothing in all of history can compare to.

In reality, though, people have already done it, haven't they.  They already can't be without their phone or the GPS in their vehicle. They already voluntarily jump at things like using their face or prints or voice to unlock things and to replace passwords.  They already keep track of everything in apps and online instead of writing it down.  Why? Because it's there.  Because the advertising was a success. Because the pitch of how it would make your life easier and better worked.  Because they sold you the idea that everybody else is doing it, and you need to be like everybody else, so you do it.

People don't understand that before they sell you a product, they sell you a concept.  And when it comes to technology, much like yearly fashion trends, they first sell you the idea that everybody else is doing it. They get you to click on news stories because "everybody is talking about this" and they get you to watch new TV shows because the ads make it seem like everybody is watching this show.  Do people even have tastes of their own? Does society really just blindly, obliviously, like sheep, follow whatever they're told everybody else is doing?  That's damn scary.

The more technology advances, the less it seems there's any possibility of free will, and even of freedom of choice.  The majority follow the majority.  And once anything, no matter what its risks and downfalls, has been voluntarily accepted by a majority who just follow everybody else, it becomes mandatory for everyone else. The risks and dangers of anything become part of normal life, part of what "we all" have to worry about, when "all" of us didn't necessarily want this.

The problems that can be solved or eliminated or better managed by technology will only create other new problems.  So you're full of implants and you do social media without the need for external devices.  You're shown ads in your brain.  Spam and robocalls become inescapable because there's a direct line to your brain.  Then someone hacks in and takes control of your neurological system.  Maybe they cause you pain.  Maybe they paralyze you.  Maybe they just mess with you, maybe they take you hostage this way until you pay a ransom.  The new era of ransomware.  Implants connected to financial systems and institutions - what could go wrong there?  Just maybe someone forcing you to pay for something for them at gunpoint.  Just maybe someone chopping your hand off to steal your financial information.  Hey, women cut babies out of other women.  Don't think it won't happen with implants.  It'll become the new face of theft.

Any implant that can regulate something in the body that isn't doing so well on its own can also cause chaos.  The same "smart" implant that isn't just an object in your body anymore - it's connected outside you and others have access to it, and still others have the opportunity to try to gain access to it - that implant can be used to cause disability, dysfunction, disease, chaos, distress, and pain.  It will also cause those problems if there's issues in the system it's connected to.  It's disturbing that so many people don't think there's any cause for concern there.  It's disturbing that so many people are willing to be blindly led and steered into a future where they're connected to external entities they have no reason to trust, and dependent, ever more dependent, on these connections.  And I am disturbed by the idea that their oblivion will lead me into a future where I'm forced to be dependent on these connections and all the risks and problems they'll entail.

 So they've been doing "studies" again on the mind-body connection.  That connection has only been demonstrated successfully for thousands of years across many cultures, but hey, knock yourselves out.  Because, you know, scientists are smarter now than they ever were in the past.  That's why they're having to rewrite the history of the universe.

I watched a great video by a guy talking about how genes are blamed for diseases.  He described how genes produce proteins in response to signals from the brain, and how the signals your brain sends to genes are causing production of proteins that cause disease, and how changing the signals from the brain had been proven to change the proteins produced and reduce and even eliminate disease.

This all was based, yet again, in the attitude, the thought patterns, and the emotional state of the person.  By now, this is becoming a very familiar theme.  It's no secret that when we're stressed or unhappy, we produce cortisol, the stress hormone.  But that's the extent of a lot of people's understanding, and it starts getting into medical-speak, so I'm gonna put it a different way.

Every thought you have creates chemical reactions in your body.  Even thoughts you're not really aware of.  When you're thinking negative, worried, or angry thoughts, you're creating a chemistry that causes your body to produce certain hormones and types of cells that you would need if there was a real threat.  Since the threat is in your mind only, in the past or the future, you don't need all these chemicals and all this adrenaline and cortisol and whatever.  And now that it's there, if you don't use it, it ends up feeling uncomfortable, and if you do this a lot, eventually it can actually do damage.

When you get your thoughts out of the negative, out of the rehashing the past and worrying about the future you can't control anyway, it's calming for the body.  Different chemical reactions happen as soon as you get out of that hamster wheel of negative thoughts.  The more you can stay out of the hamster wheel, the more you can heal yourself.  The body starts making repairs right away.  But you have to do your part.

Your body doesn't know it's only a thought.  There's an immediate reaction in there, and your brain sends information everywhere in your body, telling it to get ready for battle or to run for your life.  As soon as you break the cycle, and break that stream of thoughts, the messages from the brain are different.  Now the brain is telling things to stand down, red alert is over, at ease everybody.  The more you stay out of the past and future and negativity in your mind, the more you get back in balance inside.

CONNECTED BY OUR BRAIN WAVES

 You wonder why there's a mental health crisis?  How thoughts become contagious?  How we can end up with mass insanity?

The human brain is an amazing device that science only wishes it could replicate.  AI may be impressive, but it will always be inferior to the brain.  The brain functions as both a transmitter and a receiver.

The wavelengths of your brain activity are long enough to span the planet.  That's a lot of what the "we're all connected" people are talking about.  That's how.  That's how telepathy works, but of course we lost that eons ago when we starting building societies.

So your brain, awake or asleep, sends out your thoughts and feelings to distances of literally thousands of miles.  This goes out in a field - picture a cone shape getting larger as it goes away from you.  It's not linear.  Meanwhile, everybody else on the face of the Earth does the same, and your brain receives it.

We may have lost the ability to communicate directly via telepathy with specific others upon demand, but we are nonetheless affected by what we receive, and we affect others with what we send out.

There is something called the Law of Attraction, which basically says that what you send out is what you receive in return.  So if your thoughts are all negative, hate, anger, fear, you establish that as sort of your base frequency.  That becomes your resonant frequency, and other people's stuff that's in that frequency is what you'll pick up.  Not necessarily the actual thoughts or any words, but concepts, images, feelings.

If your thoughts are positive, optimistic, caring, kind, empathetic, loving, etc., that's the energy you'll send out, and that becomes your resonant frequency, so that's what you'll pick up in return, of the infinite stuff from other people you're bombarded with all your life.

For me, it's easy to see how this leads to a society full of depression, fear, worry, anger, hate, mistrust, negativity in general, especially after things like the pandemic, and in the midst of so much political division.  People also are exposed constantly to the social media presentations of others, and have their thoughts and feelings about what they see there.

The contagion mechanism isn't actually the social media itself.  You could get to where you walked away and got a life and left the impact of that behind.  Your thinking would shift once you disengaged.

People don't think they can control their thoughts or their feelings.  Your feelings don't just happen.  There's always, always a thought first, however fleeting, and you chose to engage and entertain that thought, whether you're aware of it or not.  You ARE responsible for what you think and feel.

Other people don't "make" you anything - mad, sad, happy, whatever.  YOU do.  Your thoughts about how they act and how they treat you are what creates your feelings about them.  Other people only have the power over you that you give them.

It's not easy to take charge of your thoughts and your feelings.  It's brutal hard work that never ends.  But it's the only way to break negative patterns.  And remember, if you keep waiting for external circumstances to change, or for other people to act better, you'll be waiting forever, and you'll be thinking and feeling the same stuff you are today.  And you'll be putting that negative broadcast out into the world, affecting others who'll never even meet you, adding to the mass negativity.

Yeah, I know, I know.  I hate inspirational quotes and "morning" people, too.  I'm not about that.  I'm not saying you have to get all positive and upbeat and happy.  All I'm saying is stop wallowing in the constant negative, because insanity is doing the same things expecting different results, and years of wallowing in negative thoughts all the time has brought nothing but more negativity, right?  So it just doesn't work.

Start with just not getting involved in the drama in your own mind anymore.  Don't grab onto that thought.  Let it pass by.  Don't fight it off - just don't embrace it and let it take over your day.  Once you start doing this, it'll seem like your mind has a mind of its own and fights back, and in a way it does, because YOU created the normal a long time ago, the energy frequency normal, that produces chemical reactions in your body, with your thought patterns.  When you go to change your chemistry and your frequency, it won't feel right, and your brain will try to restore your "normal" state.

Given time, as you don't get trapped in the negative thoughts, as you stop living in the past and the future, your chemistry will change, and your resonant frequency, and your broadcast frequency. You can't fix the world, but you can fix you.  And stop being part of the larger problem.

Stop rehashing stuff.  Stop the what-ifs and the yeah-buts.  Stop the if only this, if only that.  Enough.  Not only are you keeping yourself and your body chemistry trapped in a certain groove, you're radiating that out into the world.  If you picture the world as a huge invisible web created by all the overlapping thoughts and feelings of all the people alive, you're on the right track.  You're part of that web.

You can only change yourself.  You can't change anybody else.  But the longer you stay negative, the more negativity you add to the collective consciousness - that invisible web of everybody's thoughts.  And because you're negative, well, that's your frequency, and the only thing that can be in harmony with it is more negativity.  If you want to be on a positive frequency, you have to put out thought energy that will be able to be in harmony with positive energy from others in that web.

Again, it's not about an attitude change where you get all positive and inspirational.  This is important, because I'm the one telling you this, and I'm someone who could never get to that kind of attitude shift if my life depended on it.  What I'm capable of is making the conscious effort, daily, to not grab on to the negative thoughts, the broken records in my head.  A lot changes just from not playing those same broken records over and over.

While you'll likely never make out any actual details of somebody else's thoughts, just know that you ARE affected by all that information and emotion passing through you all the time.  None of us can help it - we're built that way - our brains broadcast our thoughts and feelings within a certain frequency range and there's nothing we can do about it. What we CAN do is change what we broadcast.

If your experience is one of being more loving, kind, charitable, forgiving, accepting of others, then you won't find this hard.  Even those people have fears and worries about the future and things from the past they can't let go of and replay in their minds.  We all have bad days.  Some people have dark minds even though they put on a great persona in public.  If only they knew that their minds affect the world more than their public persona ever could.

If there were less people judging, hating, condemning, provoking, creating drama, plotting and scheming, constantly rehashing their grievances in their minds even if they hide it from others, the web of thought and emotion that we're all part of and all contribute to would feel a lot different.  This isn't the 60s - I'm not looking for a "love" vibe - it's not realistic to expect it from human nature.  But we could really shift the feel of things for the majority of people, if the majority of people could learn to stop amplifying the negative.  The balance would automatically shift for so many people if that shared web of energy that connects us all could just be less negative.

It's natural to worry about tomorrow and regret yesterday, but you don't have to live in it. And the fact that you do means you affect others with it, even though you didn't know that until you read this.  People generally aren't good about doing stuff because it's good for others - they're better at doing stuff that benefits them directly.  The point with this is that you directly benefit from getting out of all that negativity, and it's a huge bonus that you also aren't adding that negativity to the invisible web.  By taking better care of yourself, you end up doing something that's good for everybody.

YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS MATTER

 When you create a new account anywhere, it's like a new toy, isn't it?  You have to check out all the things you can and can't do with it.  It won't be the norm for me to post every day, much less multiple posts as I've done today.  

So that question, why call it matter over mind?  

Well, remember I said I'm all into the subatomic and quantum physics and stuff like that.  So my head is always busy in the background with these visual loops of particles and energy fields moving and doing stuff.  It's not an interest.  I didn't ask for it.  It just started at some point in my life and has been there ever since.

So my years of this have led me to understand the world a certain way.   And how I understand it is that everything is connected.  The body and the mind cannot be separated.  It's not about mind over matter, because your mind IS matter.  Your mind is a combination of your physical brain, which is made of cells, which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of subatomic particles, and your external magnetic field, the energy that surrounds you to a certain distance.

Remember, this is just how I perceive things.  Everybody has their own visuals and their own language for things.  I like to understand things, and I seem to need more of a visual to work with than most people.  Having a visual for how things work, for what's going on, is sort of comforting, like a favorite movie you can watch again anytime.

I don't believe our thoughts and memories are stored in our physical brain.  I don't believe they're stored anywhere in us, not even in our external magnetic field.  That has to do with stuff like quantum entanglement, and that's a whole other conversation.  For now, I'll just say that your thoughts and memories are everywhere in the "medium" and are always immediately available to you.  It's kind of like cloud storage, except in this case there's no banks of servers.  All your stuff is somewhere else, possibly in a lot of different locations, but when you need it, it's all right there.

Your thoughts are matter.  They are little particles of information.  So are your memories.  In fact, just like how scientists keep discovering smaller particles make up every particle they say is the smallest possible, your thoughts and memories and other elements of your consciousness are made of all kinds of information packets that are made of a lot of smaller packets of information.  When you retrieve a memory, you're retrieving bits of information that are all over the place, even though you experience the memory as one cohesive thing.  

Another thing I strongly believe, and have for years, is that there is no original thought.  Your thoughts are all pieces of other thoughts that you have had, and you were not the first to have them.  The exact thought you're having right now may seem unique to your day and your experience, but it's actually made of all kinds of pieces of thoughts that others have had long before you even existed.  You either understand that or you don't.

I came to realize at some point that my best thinking and creativity wasn't me, wasn't intelligence per se, wasn't talent or aptitude.  Something in my DNA is coded for me being receptive to information about certain subjects, and I've learned to just go with that.  It isn't me thinking.  It's pieces of other thoughts that weren't mine, that come to me.

No, I'm not talking about hearing voices, or having hallucinations of any type.  Nobody is talking to me.  Nobody is putting thoughts in my head.  The universe is pure energy and pure information.  Energy never dies.  Information never dies.  Everything is connected.  There are people who believe in heaven and hell, or in ghosts, who would dismiss what I'm saying.  Like I said, perceptions vary, and what works for me might not work for you.